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Southwest 2025-5: Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Rio Grande River Gorge, Taos, Angel Fire

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Southwest 2025-4: New Mexico: Las Cruces, Aguirre Springs, White Sands, Valley of Fires, Carrizozo

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Southwest 2025-3: New Mexico: Chaco Canyon, Bisti/De-Na-Zin, El Malpais, Aldo Leopold Wilderness

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November 2021: Thanksgiving among the Giant Sequoias

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2025-2: UTAH: Goblin Valley, Glen Canyon, Moki Dugway, Goosenecks SP, Mexican Hat. ARIZONA: Monument Valley. NEW MEXICO: Ship Rock.

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Southwest 2025-1: VanWorks, Fort Collins CO; the Loneliest Hwy in the US, John Wesley Powell

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US-Canada 2024-17: Family, Friends, & Doug's Final Meander

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US-Canada 2024-2: Doug Continues His Eastward Meandering

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US-Canada 2024-16: Au revoir, Canada

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US-Canada 2024-4: New England

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We Pause Our 2024 Trip Posting for Our San Joaquin Valley Spring

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US-Canada 2024-3: Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts

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February 22, 2025

US-Canada 2024-15: A Friend from the Road—Sierra Nevadas, Granby, Montreal

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January 02, 2025

A Winter Drive Down the Pacific Coast: December 2024

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December 07, 2024

US-Canada 2024-14: La Québec—Le Québec

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October 10, 2024

US-Canada 2024-13: Québec—Saquenay Fjord & Friends

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September 12, 2024

US-Canada 2024-10: Nova Scotia—Louisbourg, Louisbrick, & the Big Fiddle

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August 28, 2024

Klamath River Redux: Dam Removal Complete

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August 24, 2024

US-Canada 2024-9: Nova Scotia—Cape Breton Island: Continuing the Cabot Trail & Bras d'Or Lake

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August 17, 2024

March 2024: Santa Cruz, Redwoods, & Banana Slugs

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Blue Highways

What is the blue road anyways but an opportunity to poke into the unknown and a hoping the unknown will poke back? William Least Heat-Moon, BLUE HIGHWAYS: A JOURNEY INTO AMERICA (1999)

California

Alabama Hills8
Amboy Crater2
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park4
Bodega Bay3
California48
California Central Coast5
California Coast2
Death Valley10
Death Valley Junction1
Fort Bragg1

Hume Lake1
Joshua Tree National Park11
Kings Canyon National Park6
Klamath River1
Lava Beds National Monument1
Lost Coast2
Mojave National Preserve3
Muley Point1
Pacific Coast19
Painted Canyon1
Rhyolite1
Salton Sea2
San Joaquin Valley26
Santa Cruz1
Sequoia National Park5
Sierra Nevadas19
Slab City CA1
Yosemite1

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Alaska

AlCan5
Alaska18
Alaska Marine Hwy2
Anchorage1
Chena Hot Springs1
Chicken2
Chitina1
Dalton Hwy1
Denali Hwy1
Denali National Park2

Dyea2
Fairbanks1
Haines2
Hyder AK2
Kenai Peninsula4
Mat-Su Valley2
Matanuska Glacier2
McCarthy-Kennicott3
Nenana2
North Pole1
Seward2
Skagway2
Talkeetna1
Teklanika Campground1
Top of the World Hwy2
Turnagain Arm1
Valdez2

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Canada

AlCan5
Alaska Marine Hwy2
Alberta1
Arctic Circle2
Boondocking1
British Columbia4
Canada28
Carcross2
Carmacks1
Cassiar Hwy2

Columbia Icefields1
Columbia River1
Dalton Hwy1
Dawson City6
Golden1
Haines Junction1
Jasper National Park1
Kaslo1
Kootenay Bay1
Lake Louise1
Montreal1
New Brunswick1
Nova Scotia7
Quebec6
Revelstoke1
Robert Service1
Saguenay Fjord1
Saskatchewan3
Stewart BC2
Tombstone Mt Park1
Top of the World Hwy2
Vancouver Island1
Whitehorse5
Yoho National Park1
Yukon8
Yukon Southern Lakes Dist1

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Pacific Northwest

Astoria1
Columbia River1
Montana3
North Cascades Hwy1
Oregon10
Pacific Coast19
Pacific Northwest19
Port Townsend2
Washington17

Southwest

Aguirre Springs Campground1
Aldo Leopold1
Arches National Park1
Arizona18
Ash Meadows1
Bisti Badlands1
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park1
Boondocking1
Bryce Canyon National Park2
Cedar Breaks National Monument1

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Midwest

Devils Tower National Monument1
Kansas2
MidWest2
Montana3
Mountain States1
Nebraska3
South Dakota2
Wyoming1

Eastern US

Broadway1
Connecticut1
Eastern US3
Florida3
Georgia1
Maine1
Massachusetts2
NYC1
New York1
North Carolina2

Virginia1

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Latin America

Panama2
Peru1

May all your trails be crooked...

May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you. —Edward Abbey

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Hooptedoodle

Flora2
Hooptedoodle24
Kayaking11
Lighthouses2
Our Vans13
Wildlife3

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Mack & Hoopetedoodle

One night Mack lay back on his bed in the Palace Flop house and he said, “I ain’t never been satisfied with that book CANNERY ROW. I would of went about it different....guess I’m just a critic. But if I ever come across the guy that wrote that book I could tell him a few things.... Sometimes I want a book to break loose with a bunch of hooptedoodle.... Spin up some pretty words maybe, or sing a little song with language.... But I wish it was set aside so I don’t have to read it. I don’t want hooptedoodle to get mixed up in the story. So if the guy that’s writing it wants hooptedoodle, he ought to put it right at first. Then I can skip it if I want to, or maybe go back to it after I know how the story come out." John Steinbeck, SWEET THURSDAY (1954)

2015

My methods of navigation...

My methods of navigation have their advantage. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams, THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL, CH 13 (1988)

Travels with a Donkey

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson, TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES (1879)

2003 PleasureWay Traverse Ford Poptop Mz Agnes

1987 VW Westy Weekender

2019 Promaster Van Uncle Robert, aka Conchita