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I’m glad I’m not this fish.
I caught the osprey flying off with his catch. A minute later a bald eagle started to chase the osprey, presumably to force it to drop the fish. An easy meal for the eagle, if it works. Later that day I caught the bald eagle chasing after an osprey again, with what appears to be…
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Lava Flows and Dinosaur Tracks
One of the ways I prep for trips is to use My Places in Google maps to keep lists of things we might want to see someday. Somewhere along the line I marked El Malpais National Monument. I don’t remember why – I only know that sometime in the last few years I thought it…
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Point of Rocks
After spending a few days in a BLM campground in the Lake Mead recreation area, we looked into heading north to the part of the Great Basin that’s in central Nevada. Unfortunately it looked like the weather would be below freezing at night at the places we wanted to visit. So instead we’re heading a…
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Hate for Profit
As we were leaving a campground the other day we were alongside a group of people with a rented camper. They were attempting to fill the camper with water and dump the tanks. Pretty routine for travelers with RV’s. Those of you with campers know that there’s a pretty specific way of dumping and filling.…
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We Went To The Zoo The Other Day…
…or what’s otherwise know as Horseshoe Bend. It’s a popular stop off for tourists (by the thousand) and Instagram selfie queens (by the dozens). Hard to appreciate it when you can barely see it. Some places – though very beautiful – are simply too popular to enjoy. Compared to Goosenecks State Park – which is…
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Camping Style, A, B, C and T
We spent a few days on the bluff above the San Juan and at Gooseneck. The weather was good, the view was spectacular. It’s a place where you can find the whole gamut of camping styles, short of the backpackers. In a few days we saw high end A’s – the kind that cost more…
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