Cactus – Make Like An Ape Man

Plunge in the Ironwood Forest

Posted by Duwan Posted on February 8, 2021 32 Comments

Posted in Arizona, Birding, Travel On The Dirt, United States Tagged birding, Birds, boondocking, Cactus, Camping, Celebration, desert, Free Camping, friends, hiking, Sonoran Desert

November 25 – December 1, 2020. Towards the end of November three couples and the lovely canine, Maya, converged in Tucson. All ex sailors (except for Maya). All now wandering around on the hard. We had met one of the…

The Desert Around Ajo Part 1

Posted by Duwan Posted on May 1, 2020 12 Comments

Posted in Arizona, Travel On The Dirt, United States Tagged Arizona, birding, Birds, blooming cactus, boondocking, Cactus, Camping, desert, reptiles, Wildflowers, Wildlife, Wildlife Refuge

April 16 – April 20. It was around 3 years ago when we were driving from Gila Bend south to visit Organ Pipe National Monument. The terrain was flat scraggly fields with a few creosote bushes here and there and…

Many Moons Ago Monday – Staying on the Grid

Posted by Duwan Posted on April 9, 2018 2 Comments

Posted in Arizona, Travel On The Dirt Tagged Arizona, BLM, boondocking, Buckeye Hill Regional Park, Cacti, Cactus, Cholla, Deanna's Driveway, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Mt. Lemmon, National Monument, Sabino Canyon, Saguaro, Tucson, Wildflowers

This post is a Many Moons Ago Monday — which means the events that we are presenting here today are not current, they actually happened many moons ago. In this post we pick up after we left The Petrified Forest,…

Desert Whales

Posted by Greg Posted on March 26, 2018 10 Comments

Posted in Baja California, Baja California Sur, Mexico, The World, Travel On The Dirt, Unesco World Heritage Site Tagged Baja California, Baja California Sur, Beach, Cacti, Cactus, Cave Paintings, Cielito LIndo, Cirios, desert, Guerrero Negro, Mexico, Ojo de Liebre, Pacific Ocean, Saguaro, Whales

March 9 – March 20, 2018. On March 9th we left La Bufadora and drove south, along the Pacific coast to San Quintín. We turned off the main highway Mex1 onto a dirt road, and drove to Cielito Lindo (pretty…

Tucson

Posted by Duwan and Greg Posted on March 17, 2017 0 Comments

Posted in Arizona, National Park Service, Travel On The Dirt Tagged Arizona, Cacti, Cactus, Deanna's Driveway, friends, hiking, NPS, Saguaro, Saguaro National Park, Tucson

Duwan As we left White Sands we were on target to reach The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous in Quartzsite, AZ by January 10. But first we made a little stop in Tucson to visit a friend, Deanna. Deanna just moved back…