Category: Travel
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Thoughts on the Desert Southwest
Driving the one hundred miles of uninterrupted Mojave Desert from 29 Palms to Parker I spun up a few thoughts about the southwest. I’m a cheesehead who graduated to Minnesota, so I have no ‘born-with’ knowledge or notions about the desert. I first traveled the southwest a couple of decades ago, and at the time…
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Tuzigoot National Monument
Note to self. Highway 89A from Prescott to Clarkdale is not a shortcut if you’re driving a nine-thousand pound dually campervan. The hint we missed was when Google maps said it was 20 miles and one hour to Cottonwood. And yep, it took an hour to go up and over that mountain. A bunch of…
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Joshua Trees
Hint: They aren’t actually trees. They’re a species of yucca. Joshua Tree National Park straddles the boundary between the Colorado and Mojave deserts. The east half is Colorado desert & much like southern Arizona. The west half, where the famous Joshua trees reside, is Mojave desert. You can see the transition as you drive north-south…
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Quartzsite, Arizona
Shortly after getting my first camper I started hearing about Quartzsite, a small town on the Arizona-California border where RV’ers spend the winter. I wasn’t sure why they came to Quartzsite so I asked Bing AI: Hi, this is Bing. I found some information about why RVers go to Quartzsite Arizona every winter. Quartzsite is…
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White Sand, Tularosa Basin
White Sands National Monument Park. A gigantic pile of white sand in the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico. The National Park Service says: In addition to containing the world’s largest gypsum dunefield, including gypsum hearthmounds found nowhere else on earth, the park is home to the globe’s largest collection of Ice-Age fossilized footprints and…
Michael Janke 