Reis Valley and Mudville

#WithoutTheRoar Quiz: Where in California am I? You walk up a dirt road, entering the bottom of a canyon next to a sycamore-lined creek. Y...

You can't. Well, with current technology and conventional firefighting equipment, under certain conditions, you just can't stop a wi...

This is the second question in the new quiz category on my blog and on Twitter: #WithoutTheRoar , where I give information about a place and...

Wow, I've never had a tweet go viral before. This photo I tweeted got over 18,000 views, hundreds of likes, and over a hundred ret...

Soda Lake, April 14, 2017 Looking southeast toward snowcapped Mt. Pinos from Soda Lake Overlook, April 14, 2017 Meadowlark, G...

In April 2017 we were on our way to Carrizo Plain National Monument, and we stayed a night in Taft at a relatively new Best Western with toi...