Our first morning after arriving at Slab City was a Saturday. We knew one of the main attractions we wanted to experience was The Range that night but that was hours away and so we had time to take a more thorough look around the area. After the morning coffee ritual we took a walk and found one of …
Category: The Dog
It is almost impossible to talk or think about Slab City without Salvation Mountain as well. They are attached at the hip in both physical proximity and urban lore. If you enter Slab City by the main route you cannot help but drive right by the Mountain. Willow and I, both being fervent believers in Dog, do not …
Near the main Post Office in downtown Quartzite stands a sign that says Hi Jolly Monument. It is one of those brown signs with white lettering that Willow and I find ourselves drawn to and so we took a right and head thataway. Of course, the signage from there is non-existent and so we punched “Hi …
Willow is my proxy. She is far more gregarious, outgoing and friendly than I am. This sometimes comes in handy as a way to force me out of my shell and make human connections while on the road. Once such occasion happened along the banks of the Colorado River in Ehrenburg recently. Across from the place …
We are hanging out South of Quartzite again for a few days waiting for some packages to arrive at Quiet Times in town. The last item is showing up today and then we will be decamping to Slab City to meet up with some folks we met at the RTR and to see that “art …
About 10 miles from downtown Tonopah at the base of Saddle Mountain there sits some BLM land that has been meeting our needs for a bit of desert camping. On Hwy 10 on our way to the destination we can see the Saddle in the distance. Once we turn off the Highway and towards the mountain we …
We have family (Willow’s Auntie and Grandpa – my sister and dad) in the San Francisco Bay Area and so regularly find ourselves spending time in the area while heading from one adventure to the next. This is also when Willow gets to hang out with some of her doggie friends and I usually take …
After our adventures within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge we extended that adventure when we left by not really knowing how to get out and having no accurate maps to guide us. Since our definition of adventure is partially “not knowing what the outcome will be” we just got back out on the trail and headed …
After the crowds and the complete lack of AT&T signal at the Kofa Cabin we decided to see if any of the other cabins in the Refuge would be less crowded, have a cell signal and be as nice. We made the decision to head south, stay on the road the Kofa cabin is on and …
Just south of Quartzite and east of Highway 95 lies the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. We know this because we can see this large green area on the map below Scaddon Wash where we stayed during this year’s RTR. I thought that wildlife refuges would not allow camping but I was wrong. In fact this one …