RICHARD AND I ON THE MORNING OF MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 AT THE MOTHER OF GAME PANEL NEAR THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER IN ARIZONA. Working On My Wish List —  A Rock Art Trip Prologue… I had some great travels planned for 2024, but my little tussle with prostate cancer put a serious kink in most of them.  To keep my spirits up, I began to envision a rock art trip based on my “wish list”  that would include several targets that had eluded me over the years —  The Storyteller Woman Site, The Mother of Game at Woodruff Butte, and The Golden Disk, The Checkerboard Man, and ..read more

This little hodgepodge of a blog post covers the Photo Safari and rock art portions of a trip to California that I took in January of 2024.  Much of my time on this trip was spent visiting Frank Lloyd Wright sites in the Phoenix and Los Angeles areas ..read more

Over the years I have been on a number of SHUMLA Treks, and have visited many of the rock art sites in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas. In December of 2022 I noticed that SHUMLA was planning a trek to two sites on the Devil's River that I had never heard of, much less visited:  Sunburst and Los Vientos Shelters.  ..read more

For several years I have wanted to return to Petrified Forest National Park (PFNP) and visit some of the back country rock art sites.  My first visit to PFNP was in December of 2017 on an impromptu rock art trip I made after the death of my sister Molly.  ..read more

Several years ago I had seen a photo of a pictograph in Loy Canyon and I made up my mind to see the site someday.  Well, that someday was today!  I left my motel in Flagstaff very early and headed south to the Sedona area on Highway 89A.  ..read more

The Great Covid Pandemic of 2019  and Dorothy's breast cancer diagnosis in July of 2021 really cut into my travels, especially when it came to rock art.  ..read more

For quite some time I have entertained the notion that someday I would take a raft trip down the San Juan River and see some of the rock art and archaeology along that corridor, including sites south of the river on Navajo Reservation land ..read more

I left Farmington in the rear view mirror on Saturday, April 23, 2022 and headed north to spend the day exploring Montezuma Canyon ..read more

I met up with Cody Little of Tse Kooh Outfitters on the evening of Monday, April 25, 2022 at his building in Bluff, which happens to be located right next to the Bears Ears Information Center run by Friends of Cedar Mesa.  ..read more

Originally I had planned to stick around Bluff and the Four Corners area for about five days after the rafting trip was over.  That changed when my daughter Liz and her husband David invited us to spend several days with them at a resort in Round Rock, Texas the end of the first week in May, 2022.  ..read more