Category: Journeys
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Bunk House Blues
Guale 2 is considered the most beautiful, most remote and most challenging to get to campground in the Ranch, so of course we had to go there. With Eric still full blown sick, winds gusting at 45 mph and temps in the mid 50s, we’d need to keep a positive attitude in the face of…
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Vista Del Bofecillos
Big Bend Ranch State Park is not so much an attraction as it is an enormously sprawling expanse of desert beginning at a mountain range and dropping into the Colorado River. Attractions and accessibility are what they have at National Parks. The interior of the Ranch has “roads” cut into the rocky soil with a…
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Deep in the Art of Texas
The most inconvenient thing about remote places is that they are really hard to get to. West Texas makes headlines every now and then when mainstream media needs to a tasty travel morsel to titillate the imaginations of their big-city audiences with tales of eccentric artists finding inspiration in remote Marfa, TX. The latest news…
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Hi-line Byline
It all began with an article in the NYT about a legendary road running across the northernmost U.S., a yearning for another encounter with the barren Badlands and a cold-war Air Force Base that we just had to buy to shelter from the coming apocalypse. In thirty days we drove the Hi-Line, passed on the…
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There’s no I in NE-KS-AR, OK!
We were a grungy hot mess when we walked into the Sunset Grill, but cheery Brianna greeted us with hot coffee like we were regulars. Taking her advice on the off-menu breakfast order of 2 eggs over medium with sausage on Texas toast, we charged our phones and planned the Next Dest that would get…
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On the Wall of Wind and Rain
The Badlands are exactly what they say they are. Bad Lands. The American desert will punish you for doing nothing wrong. All we wanted to do was pass through and pay our respects. Instead we got walloped. It’s rare that we stay in one place for 4 nights, but the Buffalo called and said they…
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FaceTime at Rushmore
No visit to the Black Hills of South Dakota would be complete without a stop at the granddaddy of outdoor sculptures, Mount Rushmore. The great thing about Mount Rushmore is that it is such an “in-your-face” monument. There is no way to avoid its presence as it is approached. Technically, it is a National Memorial,…
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Buffalo Roundup
A few hundred years ago, there were 50 million buffalo on the American plains. Through a few decades of questionably hard work in the 1800’s, and unquestionably good aim, government sanctioned hunters were able to reduce that number to less than 90. Custer State Park became the last vestige of 30 wild buffalo by 1900,…
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Deadwood, Season 4
As far as streaming series go, The HBO series Deadwood, which ran just 3 seasons from 2004 to 2006, would easily stream for 9 or 10 seasons today. But in 2005 when the decision was made to axe it, HBO had The Sopranos and The Wire. It was a time when Netflix mailed you a…
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Miles To Go
The fog has been thick the past few days. Mornings are wet. A clear, starry, 3am sky turned thick gray at dawn. The tent floor and walls were soaked from the heavy condensation on the fly sagging on the bent tent poles. The zippers are not so zippy anymore and the beds, bedding and bags…