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A dead sea lion washed up on the beach. Old age, disease... I don't know. The tide brought it in—maybe to remind us that life is tempo...

I don't have more than that to say, except that I'm at Carpinteria State Beach for a few days.

I keep a Google map of all my camping sites. I was doing the entry for my spot at Belle Campground in Joshua Tree National Park when the sat...

I had already planned on leaving Joshua Tree this morning, but when nasty winds kept the Rolling Steel Tent swaying and shaking all night,...

Spring is a great time to experience J oshua Tree National Park . Not too hot, hot too cold. That means it can be hard getting a campsite....

It makes me very happy to see women on motorcycles out on their own. Bold and independent. Add solo camping to that and my heart flutters....

There are only a few ways to go east-west in Arizona. If you're in the southern part of the state, you pretty much end up going throug...

Found next to campground dumpster

Having wrapped up my southeast Arizona tour, I had to go somewhere . So I went to Roosevelt Lake , in the Tonto National Forest (I'm sti...

Just toss in the mattress, have a high speed Internet line run in, and I'm good to go

I got some groceries in Willcox, tossed the bags in the back of the Rolling Steel Tent, and headed off for Roosevelt Lake. Three hours later...

I'd driven past the Chiricahua Mountains a couple of times on state highway 80, but I'd never checked them out. "Next time,...

Having wandered about the Southwest all his life, Cochise knew where the nice places were, like a certain canyon in the Dragoon Mountains...