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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, [...]
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 [...]
So this guy asked me whether I played golf. I had no idea why he asked me this. He probably learned at some expensive networking class to open-up a business-mixer conversation with a non-business related question. That was what they taught me at the class I had to go to. I said, “not regularly, “ [...]
Borrego Springs, CA: It has been reported that a little black truck has made it safely out of the very large Split Mountain Canyon. The truck was spotted as far south as Oyster Shell Wash before being seen turning around and returning to Split Mountain Road via Fish Creek Wash. The driver of the truck [...]
…ain’t as completely miserable as some say. Horseback Riding on the beach above Fort Bragg, CA May 2006 Time really flies…
It was the day after Thanksgiving (2010). My wife and I were driving back from Mt. Baldy in the Angeles National Forest. We thought there would be more snow up there then there was and so as quickly as we had gotten up there, we were on our way down. As a side-note, the road [...]
For those desert treckers that are familiar with Roy’s in Amboy, CA, it appears in a very recently released movie called Beneath the Dark. I saw the movie “On Demand” on the “IFC Channel.” Roy’s also appeared in The original Hitcher (1986) and Kalifornia (1993).
“Taylor Lake” – First in a series of articles about Picacho State Recreation Area in southeastern, California. Taylor Lake has a boat launch but few boats. This Taylor Lake is not even listed among common places named Taylor Lake. This Taylor Lake is close to the California/Arizona border about 25 miles north of Yuma, AZ [...]
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