Once again I lucked out with a free shower at the Flying J in Ehrenberg AZ. If the tall guy with glasses and light brown hair and beard wai...

Pleasant temperature, clear sky, almost no wind, and total silence (except for the ever-present whining in my head). The ocotillos are als...

Fortunately, the Rolling Steel Tent is inedible My money is on the scorpion I ain't afraid of no dragon

As the graphic says, a dip in the Jet Stream is causing lower temperatures here in the West. That means the shorts get packed away, except...

Near Borrego Springs, California

Bob Dylan said the answers are blowing in the wind. Despite today's van-rocking, dirt-drifting, just-stay-inside winds in the 30 miles p...

As I’ve mentioned before, I suspected my old ties were out of round. It might have been the steering, but that would’ve been a side-to-side ...

Tomorrow my friend Swankie has an early medical appointment in Yuma, a city she's not very familiar with. She left this evening so she...

As you can see in the picture above, misalignment of the steering had caused one side of my tires to wear much more than the other. There ...