Sunrise series, part 1
Today, heading west on 290 Thought… “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it… including you.” – Anne Lamott
Category: Travelogue
Trip journals, photographs, musings, and campfire conversations … from the left and right side of the road.
Back on the Road
I know I know it has been a long time since you last heard from the Tortuga. The time since the last trip up the New Mexico section of the continental divide has been spent making improvements to the Tortuga Truck and chasing the electrical gremlins out of the dash. A new spare tire rack,[…]
BTB 35375K100+D First Trail Fix
On Day 1, the rally point was the Wall Mart parking lot in Douglas, AZ, all to meet there at 0700 hours and roll by 0800 hours for the first leg. The Tortuga was the first one there and the panic set in. Wrong place? Did I miss them? Did I miss an instruction that[…]
BTB 35099K103D: The long stretch of Texas
More than two days of travel at an average speed of 51 miles an hour, but we are here. The Tortuga was greeted with 101-degree temperatures as we rolled into Douglas, Arizona. Why Douglas? Douglas sits right on the Arizona/Mexico border, no more than 50 miles away from New Mexico. If you look on the map[…]