The kids and I were headed to Walmart yesterday to do groceries and pick up a few items.  We'd just settled into our new campground and Scott had some work to do.  The Walmart is literally 5 miles away and...

This is how you pull off Thanksgiving on the road: Pull out of your cherry spot in the dry lake bed in Joshua Tree around 10 am.  Head due east.  Drive through some of the most desolate territory in the...

Ker-thump.  I was off the bed, scooping Jack up from the cement floor in less than a heartbeat. Even though he's a monkey, Jack was in a little bit too much of a hurry to climb the ladder to the...