Just north of the Mexican border and south of the town of Ajo, Arizona lies a remote wilderness in the Sonoran Desert. This is my fourth winter in these parts and it’s where I have camped for the past four and a half months. The nearest U.S. cities, Phoenix and Tucson, are each over a […]
Five months have come and gone since last I wrote in this journal. Time just gets away from us. In the Rio Grande Valley, the awfully hot weather of summer extended well into autumn. It wasn’t until the end of October when conditions made it possible to work out in the direct sun. That’s when […]
There’s history now, in the life of the Gypsywagen. Nearly a year ago I arrived at the windswept mesa in Northern New Mexico where my old friend Mose provided a space for me to construct this coach. That episode is chronicled in many of the earlier posts of this blog. Having completed the initial build […]
After a nine day stay at the Bell Trail camp (on US Forest land) near Sedona, I’ve returned to the Flowing Springs campground (also US Forest land) on the Verde River. Both of these campgrounds are in wilderness settings along the Mogollon Rim in Central Arizona. Like thousands of other US Forest and Bureau of […]
It was a wild place out in the open and exposed to the elements. Working at 8,000 feet in sub freezing winds was a rugged experience. It was a test of endurance, but those days are done now. It all seemed fitting as the Gypsywagen and I were destined for the wild and rugged places […]