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Steve Reiss (www.dalmdad.com) is a patent attorney and landscape photographer living in Orange County, California. He did all the historical research, photography, and text for his first self-published book, Travel Guide to Inland Monterey County, CA. He also revised his second self-published book, A Kid's Guide to Some Critters of California (3d Ed) and has other child-focused books on animals. Steve is on flickr (www.flickr.com/dalmdad) and also has his own Photo and Travel blog (dalmdad.blogspot.com) and blog about his experiences in China and Taiwan (dalmsworld.blogspot.com).
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It was interesting to recently see that the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) picked up and published on-line a story dated June 22, 2012 about a Yuma, AZ man who was crushed by a falling saguaro cactus in the Yuma, Arizona area. The story must have originated from a wire report or the local Yuma papers [...]
Names have been changed to protect the innocent and anonymous. I have a one track mind. Lately, all I did was think about sleep and getting ready for sleep. I was moving slowly, feeling a chill, and noticing the sun setting a little earlier each day, telling me the clock-changing time was soon here. Oh, [...]
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: Summer, 2011: – There was a faint but growing orange glow on the horizon. The glow added an orange tint to the eastern facing layered sedimentary rocks of the Borrego Badlands. If I was a little taller, I probably would have been able to see the Salton Sea from here. Sunrise [...]
September 2, 2011: If getting though Cajon Pass and up to the California high desert is a challenge on the average Friday; you can imagine how much more of a challenge the trip is on the last three-day weekend of the summer. Any traffic going northwards towards Vegas, Death Valley, or Lake Havasu must snake [...]
I’m no bowler, but I do know that a 7-10 split usually sucks. I’ve recently noticed this split. Pin #7, @Trona National Monument, CA Photo taken 8/31/2008 Conditions: 115F with 100% chance of sandstorm… *** Pin #10, @ Christmas Tree Pass Road, NV (near Laughlin, Nevada) Photo taken 9/2/2011 Conditions: 95F with 100% chance of [...]
The Strive to Survive About 8 months after arriving on the central coast of California from the eastern US, we decided on a day-trip to Parkfield, California, the self-labeled “Earthquake Capitol of the World” (though bragging about that sounds weird in view of the earthquake tragedy of Japan in 2011). Parkfield asks you to [...]
Roy’s Cafe and Motel in Amboy, California, is legendary. First, it was the place to stop on Route 66 between Kingman, Arizona and Los Angeles. In the 70′s, Interstate 40 through the Mojave Desert was finished and Amboy went from being a roadside stop to being 12 miles, each way, out of the way. Amboy [...]
Everybody loves the wild burros in and around Oatman, AZ. Those burros have practically free reign of the town, are given controlled and regulated diets, and can always find shade from the summer sun. They are also lavished with affection from tourist kids. People drive to little, out-of-the-way, Oatman just to see the town’s burros. [...]
continued… I squeezed my way in between two barstools occupied by women because that usually prevented some freak from sideling up next to me and making some lame move. I ordered my usual Kettle One over ice. The bartender said they did not have Kettle One. “I guess I still live in the late [...]
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