Mar 5, 2016 | Ranger Doug Roadtrips
After Balmorhea Springs State park (where I get a great soak, albeit in 40F weather), I head south again through Fort Davis where there is this Snake Museum. I don’t want to pay to see a rattlesnake–I stepped on one once and that was enough. Alpine, Texas...Mar 3, 2016 | Ranger Doug Roadtrips
Lots of Cowboy Churches here in the North Panhandle of Texas….and lots of wind, which I guess, go hand in hand. I can’t say I’m warming up to the Texas Panhandle–it’s windy, cold and…. …..kind of desolate. Where are all the...Mar 3, 2016 | Ranger Doug Roadtrips
After Santa Fe, I head out east to Tucumcari in the NE corner of New Mexico. The geologist is coming back to me, so I’m heading to the Alibates Flint Quarry just north of Amarilo, Texas. This is one of the 410 National Park units and well worth the visit....Feb 14, 2016 | Ranger Doug Roadtrips
Phoenix is next on my world travels–enroute to Tucson actually–and I stop to visit Rich and his son Chris who take me four-wheeling. I’ve never been four-wheeling and it’s kind of like race-walking or seeing who can whisper the loudest. And...Jan 28, 2016 | Ranger Doug Roadtrips
Palm Springs is not for me, but the open road is. The drive out of the LA basin takes one northward to a granitic uplifted and very weathered area we call Joshua Tree National Park. Last time I cruised by this road it was 114F so I kept going. This week, I spent...Jan 22, 2016 | Ranger Doug Roadtrips
Morrow Bay, California on Christmas eve. And right on the beach. I’m heading down the coast from Seattle after house-sitting my house-sitter in Alaska. It’s nice to be back in the sun. There are huge fires raging around Ventura so my route takes me east...