Ozark National Scenic Riverways

My Homer Simpson moment behind the control room chair at X-10, the world’s first nuclear reactor.

Free tours, you say? Hmmm…

In case you missed it, I stopped by Castle Mountains National Monument this weekend, my 282nd national park unit.

Hey batta batta batta #forksup

Trail beer.

The tomb of Charles Poston, the Father of Arizona, on Statehood Day.

Looks like I’m going to need a new book. #thanksobama #monumentsforall

Lava River Cave, Mojave National Preserve

View from the (hot spring) bath house ruins at Zzyzx in Mojave National Preserve

Human figure at the Blythe Intaglios

LOCKED UP. Here are the dilapidated ruins of an adobe elementary school in the Poston War Relocation Camp (Unit 1), the largest Japanese internment camp in WWII, located along the western Arizona border.

Finally made it to the infamous Desert Bar

The Cup lives here.

Desert Dude

Sunset over Agua Caliente Road near Yellow Medicine Butte west of Phoenix.