Life happens. I'm about a week away from FINALLY getting back out into the middle of nowhere. Currently sitting in a spot booth making the money that will sustain my van's gas addiction for the next few months😬
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It's not ALL desert. Sometimes I wind up where it's green😬
Waiting for the snow that never came😐
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#AlabamaHills #AdventureVan #Quigley4x4 #VanLife
Just another dry lake bed😬
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I haven't poked around there really. But it's probably going to become more of a ghost town now that they routed 395 around it instead of through it.
12-5-2025
#ProofOfLucky #SelfPortrait
There was definitely more than should have been in Inscription Canyon as well but my overall feeling was there was way more in Black Canyon. Maybe the actual spray painted graffiti skewed my feelings.
12-3-2025
#ProofOfLucky #SelfPortrait
Black Canyon Petroglyph Site
Way too easy to get to coming from the Barstow side. The result is a lot of new vandalism mixed in with the old rock art. People are stupid😐 For a less stupified experience I'd suggest Inscription Canyon on the other side of the mountain.
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Sometimes things look bigger on the satellite view:) Like this spot. It wasn't until I got to the top of this steep, off-camber trail that I realized there was no way I was going to be able to level the van to camp here OR turn around to get back down.
Back roads from Manzanar to Alabama Hills yesterday.
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Scouts Cove, the site of an old opal mine, was a fun place to get to. The trail in from the North was a lot sketchy in a big top heavy van but the South entrance is easy. The old mining cabin carved out of a tufa dome is probably the best looking manmade cave I've ever seen.
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#ScoutsCove
I looked because I thought he might, but there's soo many things there I couldn't spot it.
Finally made it out to the Husky Memorial after having it pinned on my map for a couple of years. I love how stuff like this starts from one small thing and then grows organically into something even bigger.
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#HuskyMemorial #HuskyMonument
Dry lake beds will always be my favorite. They may not be as crazy looking as someplace like Alabama Hills or Trona Pinnacles but there's just something special and weirdly safe feeling about being on one, especially at night.
#homeiswhereyouparkit #travelphotographer #adventurephotographer
A new song and a hyperlapse of the roughly(and rough) 17 mile road from Inscription Canyon to the Husky Memorial.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJXi...
Lo-Gas. I actually got stuck here with some friends for a couple of hours back in the 90s when the car we were in broke down coming up the hill. It was even creepier when it was open😱
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#LoGas #HalloranSprings #RoadsideAmerica #AbandonedPlaces
Silence:)
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New song, new video:)
youtu.be/C9kvKWhmpj8?...
While camped at Whitney Pocket we took a little day trip out to Little Finland. Such a wild place!
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Stayed at Whitney Pocket with the girl for a few days. Got treated to AMAZING sunsets every evening and even a rainbow:)
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That one time over a decade ago when I happened to drive by the Very Large Array(I didn't even know it was there😂) right as a massive storm rolled through. That's why they call me Lucky I guess😉
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What is going on? I've now seen triple the amount of tarantulas in the wild in the last month than I have in the rest of my life total.
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#tarantula #CreepyCrawly #DryLake #Rainbow #PublicLandOwner
#StarTrails at Rainbow Basin
