Winter 2014 Rubber Tramp Rendezvous in Quartzsite, AZ is officially over (thanks, Bob!). In the bag. Finito. Over for another year. Completo. Only the memories remain. And what memories they are! New friends. For some: old friends. Nightly campfires under
Sunshine Sunshine Everywhere!
I’m lovin’ being in the sunshine and warm air of the Southwest deserts. It’s not only physically very therapeutic (the pneumonia that set into my lungs over Christmas is on the run) but being out in the wide open spaces
Thoughts From an Airport
I’m sitting in McCarren International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, getting ready to fly up to Portland, Oregon, to spend the next couple of weeks over the Christmas holidays with my son and his family. Although I dearly love to
Fall is Brilliantly Beautiful in Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
My first real road trip without my traveling buddy, Dinah Dog, was three days in Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. Dinah and I camped out here last year, along with Mark and Nick and their dog, Isabelle Pug. Going back
How It Is…
How It Is with Us, and How It Is with Them by Mary Oliver We become religious, then we turn from it, then we are in need and maybe we turn back. We turn to making money, then we turn
Nothing to it but to do it…
I’ve lived an entire lifetime in the last three weeks. Maybe even two lifetimes. I don't rightly know. I've lost track of the days; they all run together. Seems like every time I do something for the first time without
Honoring Dinah Dog
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it