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Mini Vacation to Death Valley and Pinnacles

We’ve visited Death Valley several times…it’s one of our favorite places. In fact, we were married there in April 2001. So it’s not unusual for us to get the bug to return in April. Of course, it’s not all that unusual at all, given that everyone is doing it these days. [...]

April 27th, 2008 | Posted in Outdoors, Photos and Videos, Travel | 3 Comments

Hawk Watch 2007 Begins

Saturday was the first day of our hawk watch season. I really enjoying seeing our teammates after the long break (click on the photo of Steve to see more photos from the day)! And we saw some good birds.
We also got to review landmarks. Here’s the outline of Elvis we made a [...]

August 20th, 2007 | Posted in Birding and Hawk Watch, Outdoors | Comments Off

Checklist for Car Camping

Justin asks, So this seems to be the core set of things one needs to get started (car camping) without going overboard. Am I missing anything obvious?
I don’t see anything obvious in the way of major equipment, but it makes me think that our detailed car camping checklist might be helpful to someone. Here’s [...]

August 7th, 2007 | Posted in Outdoors, Travel | 13 Comments