Category Archives: Camping

Caverns of Sonora

If I hadn’t set an alarm, we’d have been woken up by the AMBER Alert in San Antonio of two kids under five years old. This “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response” program was named after Amber, a nine-year-old, who was abducted … Continue reading

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It’s Been Awhile

THURSDAYIt has been over a year since we took a roadtrip, the March and September ones of 2022 perhaps adding up to the distance we planned to cover in two weeks. Our friends, since 2016, just bought a home in … Continue reading

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Dreams: July to November 2023

July 7 – I get into a theme park, very early, and am given access through the kids’ hole on a ride that starts with my legs like they’re strapped into a hospital bed, which has bears on some of … Continue reading

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Crater to Chollas and Pie

Getting to sleep was easy, but once dawn was near it grew harder to stay that way. We’re waking up at Amboy Crater, designated a National Natural Landmark in 1973. In 2016, BLM expanded the protected area to 5,700 acres … Continue reading

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Lake Manly to Amboy Crater

It’s around 2am when I awake in Texas Springs Campground, in the middle of quiet hours, in a dark sky park. I’m grateful I acquainted myself with the location of the toilet earlier so I can stumble there quietly, and … Continue reading

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