At the end of the Civil War, countless veterans found themselves dispossessed and began hopping freight trains to look for work on the American frontier. These migrant workers came to be known as hoboes. Like the cowboys of the old west, hoboes embodied qualities of resilience, ingenuity and transcendent freedoms. Their stories still inspire many […]
These days there are snow storms in Northern New Mexico with sub-freezing and sub-zero temps. After living most of my life in Southern California, I moved to Taos, New Mexico a dozen years ago. But after a few winters there, I began to leave the area during the colder months. A lot of people do […]
In December, when I finished the initial build of the Gypsywagen, I wanted to take it on a shakedown cruise to climates warmer than northern New Mexico. For more than 100 days now, I’ve been traveling and camping all over western and southern Arizona, staying in places along the Colorado River, the Gila and Verde […]
Over the past couple of months I’ve been traveling with my Gypsywagen in southern and central Arizona, camping in the high mountains, sheltered valleys, deep canyons and deserts that were once the homelands of the Apaches. Traveling is an excellent form of education, and I’ve learned a little about the history of the peoples who […]
Tombstone, Arizona. The iconic “Gunfight at the OK Corral” lasted all of 30 seconds and occurred here on an October day in 1881. The mythic struggle between good and evil found high expression in this event and will be forever embedded in the collective psyche of countless generations. It’s been nearly 20 years since I […]