I always toss my wallet, key and pocket change on the counter after I’ve parked the Rolling Steel Tent at a camping spot. Almost always. No...

It’s 6:30, the sun is about to drop below the horizon, and it’s still shorts temperature. This is why being able to follow the weather is ...

Maidenhair Falls Anza-Borrego Desert State Park was calling from the other side of the Imperial Valley. “Psst, Al. Al . Come on over. T...

I went to Los Algodones, Baja California, for shrimp tacos and meds. Decided I needed to add another hat to my collection.

Through most of my middle-aged years my waist size fluctuated between 36 and 40 inches. With my gut hanging over my belt. If I had worn my p...

I have a headlamp. In fact, I briefly had two of them. I didn’t like the first one so much and gave it away shortly after getting one I like...

(it’s plastic)

Sometimes you find trash at a campsite. Sometimes you find treasure. This 4-way screwdriver was just sitting there, wondering when its own...

Having scored an inexpensive stockpile of canned and packaged food, I had to make room for it somewhere in the Rolling Steel Tent. My stora...

There are a couple of vendors during Quartzsite's high season that sell deeply discounted grocery items. Canned and packaged foods, toil...

I met Atli six years ago. Each winter she takes a break from the dismal weather in Vancouver and hangs out with us dismal nomads in Arizon...

The forecast was for overnight lows near freezing, and it was certainly feeling like that shortly after sundown. Grumble moan whine. I could...

An ancient spirit came to visit but couldn’t sit still.