Thanks, all for the kind words -- I do enjoy the creative act of making an illustrated Report of my trips!
I envision you coming out of retirement in a new career: Travel writer/photojournalist/minimalist truck camping scout.
Foy, I'd love to get paid for this...but then it might become like work...meeting somebody else's expectations...pressure...stress -- OMG! I need to retire again!
But...I don't know -- maybe.
How many miles was that, Mark? How many days and nights?
How many exposures? How many keepers?
How few people?
Or . . . how much terrain (sq. miles or hectares or whatever) did you see?
I hope WTW will archive these A+ reports in a way they are preserved.
Lighthawk, I guess I did get around a lot...but it all felt like I was in my own territory (compared to the eastern Sierra, for example). I don't usually camp a different place every night. If the Alvord playa had been dry and drivable and if I'd gone there first I might have ended up driving out there and staying put for the whole time.
Regarding archiving, here's what I've started doing: Near the bottom of each forum-thread page is "Share this topic". I choose "Download", then "Printer Friendly Version", then (depending on the browser) Save as "Web Page Complete", which puts all the images in a folder that is referenced by the HTML. This saves the entire "topic", not just that page.
I always wondered what they'd be like in winter. Now I know.
Generubin, We've been having several weeks of chilly sunshine...which makes for good camping, but may not be typical in other years. The Alvord is accessible just about any time, any year -- at least the main road...but some higher areas -- while desert -- may have drifts making access more difficult than I had.
But you've been around and know how to get around.
- Mark