There was one more piece of New Mexico that we wanted to visit before Mom and I made a mad dash across Colorado (which we’d heard was...

Only two things I know about Albuquerque – Bugs Bunny should’ve taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I’ll never be able...

Do you ever wonder what’s wrong with some trails? You show up and you’re the same Oscar you’ve always been, but this trail is all wrong...

Right before you reach the white dooms in New Mexico you have to cross fan of mountains that grabs your eyes and won’t let them go....

If there’s one thing that I have learned after all these years of adventuring, it’s that Mother nature don’t give a cat’s butt about...

Today we planned our last Unfinished Business hike of the trip. After today everything is going to be new… but first, we had to climb Mt...

You know how I said it always rains in Las Vegas, well Sedona is even worse. It always SNOWS in Sedona. Mom planned this stop in Sedona...

Mom and I had been to Mule Canyon before, but some adventures you just need to have more than once. If you’re coming to Mule Canyon to...

The story of my sixth birthday started when I was still 5 for another day and we were driving down the 55 mile dirt torture-road, getting...

When we planned this trip there was one hike that made Mom nervous more than the others, and not just because it started 55 miles down a...

Mom and I had unfinished business with our next trail. We had planned to visit this trail on Christmas day, but then The Weather Jinx...

A wilder-ness storm messes up a whole lot more than city storms do. They make dirt roads hard for humble Covered Wagons to drive on. They...

Since the Utah part of our trip was the part we were most excited about, The Curse of the Weather Jinx picked the day we crossed into...

If you don’t know already, Mom is the Weather Jinx and she brings unlucky and out-of-season weather wherever she goes. The last time we...

Mom and I were happy to be back on the back roads in the back country of the back of beyond. That’s a place in Nevada, if you didn’t...

Edit: before the comments get too crazy, I would like to point out that this is a story not about breaking rules, but about going to some...

“What are we going to see today?!” I asked Mom when she stopped the Covered Wagon at the side of a 10-mile-long dirt wagon trail. Dirt...

Once we left the harrowing dooms, Mom and I had planned to spend one more day in Oregon and visit my good friend Tami. But Tami’s...

Before Mom and I leave the left of the world, we had one adventure planned. You see, I like dooms, which is what happens when sand piles...