Have you ever thought about what makes up your personality? I have to believe that it is the sum total of the experiences you have had to date in your lifetime. These, of course, are filtered through your senses, and tempered by your own reaction to them. Continue reading Sum Total:
Category Archives: Travels
A Day in the Desert
We are back in the Sonoran Desert in the Southwest again. This is called the low desert as opposed to the high desert, the Mohave Desert, just north of here. Just to make this perfectly clear, Death Valley at minus 282 feet is part of the “high desert.” The low desert is also the hotter desert but once again Death Valley sets the records in this department. Now today we are in the boondockers mecca, Quartzite, and we are camped right out in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. They figure something like a million people take advantage of the free BLM camping around Quartzite. Continue reading A Day in the Desert
2007 in Review
I guess I have been told. My daughter seems to think that I just live to create statistics, and indicated that she was waiting for the 2007 version.
Railroading
My hat doesn’t fit at all well. My head is so puffed up from the adulations. I have heard back from over half of you and I have been enthusiastically received by my reading audience. I will continue these episodes into 2008.
Boy Scouts
My grandson, Patrick, is a Boy Scout. When we arrived in Gilroy I made plans to join the troop on a weekend camp-out and hike with Glen and Patrick. Now I won’t accuse Glen of any skullduggery, but it does seem suspicious that as soon as the weather channel started predicting near freezing temperatures in Gilroy for this weekend, Glen was suddenly called to warm Montgomery, Alabama.