I’m pretty certain none of the advice about buying good fish recommends Dollar Tree, but what the hell, it was only a buck.  I had the choic...

This jacket was deeply discounted because the apparel industry has proclaimed the middle of winter to be spring. Since it was cheap and in a...

Dad would turn down the radio whenever he started the car. It didn’t matter what the station was. It didn’t matter how loud it was—or wasn’t...

A storm system rolled into the desert this past week. We really needed the rain, but since every silver lining has a cloud, I have reason to...

Speed limits can serve several purposes. One is safety, right? Speed kills. Slow down, save lives. School zone. So on. Sometimes it’s simply...

Unlike many places that have neatly arranged geologic layers, Death Valley has lumps and clumps and piles. It’s as if Nature used the place ...

It had been a few years since I was last in Death Valley. I had been antsy to travel, and the forecast looked like the overnight temperature...

As seen from my room at the Edgewater Hotel & Casino, Laughlin, Nevada. I'm on my way to Death Valley and didn’t want to camp in fre...

Many times electrical savvy nomads have asked me how many Amps my solar setup puts out. I could only answer that I didn’t know. One reason i...

Packages had arrived at my mail forwarder in Quartzsite, so I headed up there. No hurry, since they’re not open on Sundays, so I braved the ...

At least it wasn’t a dog and porcupine situation

Lately my mind has been wandering around a lot of place the rest of me hasn’t been. And none of those places was worthy of a blog post. Or a...

No, it’s not real winter here in southern Arizona, but it’s chilly enough at night and early morning that I can’t go around in sandals, shor...