I diverged from the usual and expected routes and routines and explored a part of Yuma I had never seen: their riverside parks. Gatew...

It’s not much snow, but still, brrrrrr! Toasty inside, though.

Is there a 5-gallon bucket handy for a test fit?

This time of year, with shorter daylight hours and occasional overcast, is a challenge for my solar power system. Nine months a year my 20...

A mile-long train is traveling from southeast to northwest at 62 miles per hour. Some old guy is driving a van south to north at 57 miles ...

...and I were sufficiently nice, maybe he’d bring me one or two of these candle lanterns/heaters, all converted to work with lamp oil (as de...

Doing what I can about SAD

I ended the stay-in-one-spot experiment today. I think I could have continued, but I had reached the point where I no longer enjoyed it. The...

Tomorrow is the annual Somerton Tamale Festival and I’m usually excited. I was severely disappointed when I missed it last year, and I wa...

I guess mainstream folks would consider my entire nomad life an experiment (if not plain insanity). If so, then I’m conducting an experime...

Sometimes I don’t know why I make the choices I do. Sometimes I don’t know I going to be making a choice until the instant I do. And sometim...

I drove from Yuma to Quartzsite today with the intent of meeting some new people. Sort of like self-prescribed therapy for the socially awkw...

Fred Garvitz was poking around eBay one day when he saw a collection of banana memorabilia for sale. He thought it was fun, so he bought it....