Life in the Mojave Desert.
UPDATE Out of the blue a friend of mine told me that he had a old police photograph of the Gram Parsons crime scene in the Joshua Tree National Park from the day of the incident. He soon emailed me a scanned copy of the 1973 photo which seems to be authentic and I have […]
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Gram Theft Burrito or Gram Theft Byrd – You Decide? Gram Parsons was considered a pioneer of the country rock movement of the late 1960’s into the 1970’s until his death on September 19, 1973 at the age of 26. Though Gram achieved some success in his lifetime, he was never a superstar — but
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Mojave Meets Phil Kaufman UPDATE: This particular blog about Gram Parsons has been interesting to say the least, intended to only be one story has now turned into three. After I first wrote the first leg of this story about a year later I got the crime-scene-photo from a friend, then I updated this blog with
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Timing is everything and it seems that the Right Stuff happened in The Right Place at the Right Time to create a very historical location in the Mojave Desert. This blog is mostly about the recent history of the Edwards Air Force Base with an accompanying map of points of interest. Some of these places
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===== Â Â All Aboard….. In the Mojave Desert, on the south side of Joshua Tree, just a half-mile or so from the main road that leads to the Joshua Tree National Park, tucked away in a canyon, almost hidden from the one million plus visitors that drive by every year sits a very interesting, inconspicuous
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Imagine trying to make a name for yourself when your uncle is referred to as the Father of our Country. Colonel Henry Washington did a pretty good job of making a name for himself and also for naming many places in California. I guess you could call him the father of our County, actually many
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Let’s Trek Across The Mojave And Find Out About Their “Harmony” This blog, The Mojo on the Mojave is about things that are located or happening in the Mojave Desert, part of this story lies outside the Mojave’s reaches but we will touch on the entire bus trip that the Irish rock band U2 took
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It is spring time in the Mojave Desert and it is time to plant trees and bushes. In my almost 40 years living in the upper reaches of the Mojave Desert above 3500 feet, I have tried to plant many things. The biggest obstacle to my success of my non-native vegetation was planting a tree
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This blog entry might seem a bit unusual even for me but the subject hit me as I sometimes drive around the southwest, so here we go, hometown food establishments in the Mojave Desert that made it big. Del Taco: I have always noticed that there are lots of Del Taco fast food restaurants around
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Waking up the other morning to the smell of rain, well actually the smell of Larrea-Tridentata was so invigorating. After my lifelong obsession with this botanical wonder I think that it is time to blog about it. Being that this bush, commonly known as the Creosote Bush is one of the most common plants of
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