I always stop by Jackson Hole now on my biannual drives both north and south from Tucson to Seattle’s here seeking the late summer storms–and I am not disappointed. For two weeks the skies rumble and an occasional lightening bolt strikes a peak. Forest...
(*PLA is Public Lands Alliance) (**Picking up where I left off in Tucson.) My last roadtrip is San Francisco. The National Park Service holds an annual trade-show and I wasn’t able to attend last year…..because Amtrak broke down in the Arizona desert. ...
The maps: Let’s start with the large Yosemite wall map, which I discovered during my research, and which is now safely stored in 8 sections at Castle Air Force Base in a large warehouse. Each panel is now on a wheel system which allows the staff to find out...
These roadtrips are getting onerous but I’m traveling with Abercrombies Camp….. (explanations to follow). This one is a three week odyssey of 6000 miles from Tucson to Washington DC, New England and back–and all points in between. And I’ve...
Very conveniently located on my new back-roads route from the Ranger Doug Intergalactic Headquarters in Seattle (my warehouse) to Tucson is Hood River, Oregon. And conveniently located in that town are two good friends whom I’ve known most of my adult...
“Competition for Elegance” in loose translation–this time in boats. After my arrival in Seattle from Alaska, I have several orders of business in California, chiefly observing the Yosemite maps–now laid out on an airport hangar floor....
