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Now Where’d That Mule Go? A Story About Shorty Harris.

Now Where’d That Mule Go?
The Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein
(the dog who blogs)

Bullfrog Cemetary

Did ya ever wonder how much that 1968 Camaro ya drove around and abused as a kid is worth today?  Or why ya attached a rookie Henry Aaron card to yur rear spokes just ta hear that cool noise?  [...]

Calico Ghost Town

Where the Past Comes Alive
Text and Photos By Len Wilcox

When he was a young man, Walter Knott worked the mines in Calico, an experience that stayed with him all his life. Some 40 years later he went back — and bought the town. Some of the buildings he moved to Buena Park, [...]

Rhyolite . . . A Ghost Town With A Story.

The Travelin’ Misadventures of Mitch Kumstein
What Happened to Hungry Johnny?
Guest Blogger Mitch Kumstein (written from a dogs perspective) on Desert Road Trippin

Headin’ out of my new digs at the El Portal Motel, and thinkin’ about pointin’ the 660 towards Rhyolite, a famous ghost town located about 5 miles southwest of Beatty.  The [...]

Death Valley National Park

Featured Destination: Death Valley

By L. Bremner of DesertRoadTrippin

Death Valley is recorded as the second hottest place on Earth.  It also contains the second lowest point in the Western Hemisphere at Badwater , which is 282 feet below sea level.  The park area is dusty, desolate and known for its extreme temperatures.  Death Valley is [...]