Sometimes things conspire against us nomads and we end up stuck somewhere much longer than we wanted. Even nice places can turn tiring. Su...

Why is there condensation on the windshield but not on the side windows? Because the windshield is thicker?

I was dreaming Christian Slater was staging a Dadaist musical in a storefront theatre. Knock knock knock police department. There were c...

Eric is a mechanic. He doesn't like his smile. His wife, Christine, disagrees. This is not Christine

I awoke this morning to a clickity-clackity noise. I was groggy, plus my partial hearing loss made it difficult for me to locate the directi...

I research potential campsites, routes, points of interest, discounts and whatnot online. "There's this quiet, out-of-the-way loc...

An ill wind blows good for someone one, right? But if there's no wind, then no one is benefitting. Particularly me. There were nice wi...

The plan had been to cross the Sierras via Yosemite. From there I'd see a friend in Stockton and another in San Francisco. Then I'd ...

Today is head-for-home day for most of the people who've been in the Sierras the past week. I'm ready to move on as well. But I'...

I headed out on the road a year ago today. There was a little anxiety and second guessing about the big picture, some concerns about details...

Claire is a hiker. So is her dog, Jeffery. When on the road they camp in her Suzuki SX4.

The last of the well known hot springs in the Mammoth area is the Crab Cooker—so named because it gets exceptionally hot. At least sometimes...

Today I visited Crowley Hot Spring, also called Wild Willy's. While all the other hot springs have been on the west side of Benton Cro...

First, let me get the correct route out of the way: Take Benton Crossing Road from the little green church at the junction of US395 to Wh...

The cow in the previous post was just one of a herd of a hundred or so that spent the evening grazing around the Tub. That led to a damn-I-...