Manzanar provides an emotionally powerful history lesson
I’ve struggled writing about Manzanar, but I have much to say. Not only an inspiring history lesson but a look into my own soul. Manzanar National Historic Site took me by surprise. I was prepared...
View ArticleIndependence Creek Campground with a view
March 15-16, 2017 Independence Creek campground provided a convenient overnight less than 10 miles from Manzanar National Historic Site with magnificent Eastern Sierra views and nice trails. Located...
View ArticleTuttle Creek campground near Alabama Hills
March 16-21, 2017 If you want to visit the Alabama Hills without camping there with no signal try out the nearby Tuttle Creek Campground about 5 miles from Lone Pine, California. Managed by BLM...
View ArticleMuseum of Western Film History–Hi-yo Silver away
March 22, 2017 While exploring the Alabama Hills I kept expecting to see the Lone Ranger and finally did at the Museum of Western Film History along main street in Lone Pine, California. I remember...
View ArticleFlowers at Fossil Falls
March 23-28, 2017 There are no fossils, or currently any waterfalls either at Fossil Falls, but there were flowers growing in cracks and crevices of jagged basalt carved smooth by the ancient flow of...
View ArticleLava and flowers at Mojave Trails National Monument Amboy Crater
March 28-29, 2017 The Southwest spring wind blew me from one lava flow at Fossil Falls to another at Amboy Crater in Mojave Trails National Monument. Although I’d driven in the area before this was my...
View ArticleWinter travel wrap up: a love affair with the land
If somebody would pay me to travel and explore I’d just keep on going because no matter what natural area visited I enjoy a love affair with the land. Since mid-January the wind blew me to numerous...
View ArticleCamping at Kelso Dunes Mojave National Preserve
November 9 & 10, 2017 Thursday afternoon I pulled into a quiet Kelso Dunes camp area about 10 miles off I40 in Mojave National Preserve. One SUV parked under the “big” (read only) trees taller...
View ArticleChasing the light at Alabama Hills Lone Pine California
November 12-16, 2017 My last visit to Alabama Hills during late winter, the Sierras wore a blanket of white providing a stark backdrop to the ever changing light and colors of the sculptural granite...
View ArticleA brief and windy visit to Death Valley National Park
November 16-18, 2017 Artists Drive Death Valley National Park As the weather deteriorated at Alabama Hills, in other words snow on the Sierras, it was time to get to warmer climate like Death Valley at...
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