Every beach has its own character, its own personality. Montara Beach, the beach at the edge of the town where…

Back in February, months before we picked up our Noovo Plus, I was thinking through all of the ways that…

You can spend your thousands on bushwhacking bumpers, you can mate your traction board’s magnets to the metal, you can…

(This is a long post. It is worth it.) Nuclear weapons never went away, as any day’s headlines will attest.…

Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, is talking with Don Draper, in season 3, episode 9 of Mad Men. It’s the…

When we picked up our Noovo in April, we were ready. No one had yet made an inspection checklist, so…

Convict Lake has a trail that runs all the way around it. It’s not a long walk and the views…

We you don’t have much, the small things matter.  The driver of a Ram Promaster doesn’t get a heated seat,…

Mono Vista RV Park is right on the road that wraps around the west side of Mono Lake, in Lee…

The Rixen screen on our Noovo Plus controls the heater, both the furnace and the water heater. Ours worked great…

The waters of Mono Lake, with an extraordinarily high pH of 9.8, and two or three times saltier than ocean…