Fall 11, get myself going…
You’d think I’d know better by now, but … I got so excited about leaving tomorrow that I partied way too hard tonight. With the sad result that I was shockingly hung over on Tuesday morning … a self-inflicted bad … Continued
San Diego and snow
Today I finally caught up with the wildflowers! I decamped from Oak Grove and headed for Anza Borrego State Park. The high valley (3,500′) around Warner Springs was covered in little yellow flowers. That turned out to be the most … Continued
Spring Break!
Well, I’m traveling again, and here on the first night out I find myself parked at a cold and very windy pull-off 40 feet off of California 120, about 3 steep miles from US 395 and Lee Vining. It’s dark … Continued
101215 – weather comin’
Well, the six day forecast from three days ago was pretty much wrong about its second half. It appears that I am going to meet up with weather by the end of today. I have driven this thing in snow … Continued
101212 – Mountain Time
So, after a lovely interlude in the Davis Mountains, back to another 40 miles of I-10 to the un-lovely town of Van Horn (Nevadans think Battle Mountain level of unattractive-ness), where I needed to find diesel and hoped to find … Continued
101210 – West Texas
My Austin experience wasn’t as epic as I had hoped for it to be. This was entirely my fault and not Austin’s, I think. I’m still kinda sick and low-energy, and I arrived at just the wrong time in terms … Continued
101205 – East Texas
My walmart wasn’t much to look at, but it had the most important ingredient, an edge looking out on nature. So I am able to angle the van into a nice view of scrub oaks and grass and pretend I’m … Continued
101203 – Louisiana, home of the drive-thru daiquiri stand
I followed the road right next the Gulf until I ran out of Mississippi. As usual I angled around on the side roads trying to avoid the interstate, and I got the good and the bad of it today. On … Continued
101201 – Gulfport
Big Biloxi was rather pedestrian as campgrounds go. There was a mandatory $6 surcharge for electrical hookup, to pay for having the whole place re-wired after Hurricane Katrina. I think the point of this place is to provide old folks … Continued
101130 – Florida Panhandle
I loved this stretch of country last time I was through here and I loved it again this time! My friend Dan called it the Redneck Riviera, and I can’t argue with that either. It’s called the Big Bend around … Continued