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By about 12:15 on Monday, November 18th, we were back on Highway 95, headed south to Quartzsite, 79 miles away. We made a couple of interesting detours on the way, though. See an interactive map here. I suppose this drive could get boring and that’s why so many people...

Although we didn’t put a lot of miles on the car on Monday, November 18th, I shot a lot of photos so am breaking the day into two posts, Kingman to Lake Havasu City, then on to Quartzsite where we overnighted. See an interactive map of the first part...

On November 18th, I posted on Facebook: “I expect that yesterday’s Route 66 afternoon will be the highlight of the trip. An excellent museum, mind-boggling scenery, and a quirky and charming little village in the middle of nowhere.” As it turned out we had another day that equalled it,...

On Sunday, November 17, we drove 195 miles from Phoenix to Kingman, arriving at about 1:45. Kingman is one of the places that anyone with an interest in Route 66 must visit, being in the heart of the longest remaining stretch of Route 66 (158 miles). Starting in Chicago...

Sunday, November 17th – the stress of getting to Arizona was past. In my current state it’s hard to believe that I used to travel, and arrange and coordinate travel, for a living. But for the next week we’d be on the road in a particularly beautiful car, so...

There wasn’t anything important to tell you about for 6 weeks, but I just returned last night from a wonderful road trip in Arizona with my daughter, and now I have lots to tell you about and show you. This was pretty much a spur-of-the-moment trip – after decided...

This is the fourth post in a row about photographing the aurora borealis, but it will be the last one for quite a while. The posts have been about progressively better displays, but there’s nowhere to go after this one. I haven’t seen any reports from scientists yet, but...

We’ve had some extremely optimistic aurora forecasts that turned out to be duds lately, but the night of October 7th-8th was very good, and the aurora was seen way down into the States. I was out shooting it twice. I wasn’t feeling well on the 7th so went to...

Yesterday morning, the aurora put on a good show for several hours, and I went out for two hours of shooting that really felt good. My internal aurora alarm got me up at 01:10. I looked outside and was soon out with my gear. The first photo was shot...

I haven’t been aurora-ing much yet this season, but need to get to work on it, because we’re nearing the solar maximum and it could be a very good season. Last night the forecast showed pretty much no chance of a show but it turned out to be quite...