13 March: We left Avi Casino this afternoon, heading into the wilds of Bullhead City. There are two strip cities either side of the Colorado River, and in one of them you can gamble, the other, you can’t.
Crossing into Arizona


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10 March: There was no more snarfage for the next 90 miles, so we got on the road and made good time.
A lot of people overtook us


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05 June: While researching intaglios-which are more rightfully called rock art-I discovered that there were hundreds of these rock art designs in the Colorado River area, not to mention across the southwest.

I then suddenly remembered the mysterious “cultural resource” that I’d found in Quartzsite; I first spotted it on the descent from Q Mountain ( Read more... )

09 March: Our great big flashlights are here. I wanted a red one but it was more than $10 more and that was stupid. To avoid “that’s MY flashlight” conversations, I settled for a blue one at $2 more.

These puppies take three D-cells and have LEDs. They’re bright enough to wake a cat up with and severely annoy it, and also can be rested on the ( Read more... )

06 March: Helen knocked on the door this morning. It was nice to see her and we went for a short walk together, catching up and finding wildflowers. We had to turn around when it got too hot. In fact, I was too hot for much of the day.

I had hoped to get some programming in, but I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that the current, intense session ( Read more... )

March 05 We’ve been trying to get out of here for a few days now, but upside-down body clocks and poor weather-it rained rather heavily over the weekend-kept us here. Still, our planets aligned today, I reached a suitable stopping-point in the programming, and we got on the road to Blythe.

There’s something odd about Blythe. It is feeling home-like ( Read more... )

27 February: I’ve been reading a lot of business writing lately. Some of it is really high quality, such as the stuff at Copyblogger (I’m a fan, and it inspires me). But I’ve also read some truly self-serving stuff, writing that’s bandied about as informational but is really just promotional.

One of these was a guide to getting started with email ( Read more... )

February 25:I’m wrapped up in my work. I’ve been following the Social Media Examiner for a few weeks, and recently he published a really nifty method to combine three tools, i.e. If This, Then That and Feedly, to speed up getting information for podcasts and newsletters. If it works, it should really save me a bunch of time. Fingers crossed.

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February 24: We went into town today. We’d run out of, like, everything. So we shopped. And on the way back, we gunned it past a semi-truck. And then we ran out of gas. So there was enough momentum to coast into the LTVA, but also the same semi-truck gunned past us. Touché.

The bike made it to the entrance station, but we pushed it a bit further ( Read more... )

February 21: Days like today are why, in our household, the P-word (planning) is a little like the F-word. I got out of bed this fine, sunny morning ready to rumble and do a bunch of programming, but first I had to do a few admin tasks.

I started off applying for a volunteer job, then found a page where I had to ask DH something and he wasn’t ( Read more... )