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May 4, 2012, He’s Baaaaack!!
After not having a website since 2007, and effectively not even updating that turkey since 1997, I come bounding back onto the Innerwebz. I went through a period of wanting to reduce my web presence, with limited success. Once Google gets hold of you, that’s it. You’re either all out or all in. So screw it, I’m all in. Besides, I have tales to tell. You think I haven’t been up to anything all this time? Au contraire…..
So take your shoes off, make yourself comfy and have a look around the site. It’s a pretty simple layout, nothing fancy. Lots of reading as I’m terribly verbose. Words are free, so why use only 20 words when it costs the same to use 40? Direct links to new additions will be listed below on this home page as I add them, so stop by every so often. If you want to go to specific areas of the site (say, my old Bluefire website or the story of finding the Death Valley Germans), use the category menu to the left. There’s a lotta crap stashed on this website…..
Tom
April 17, 2013: Added not one, but two searches for Bill Ewasko, numbers 51 and 52. The numbering is becoming disturbingly high.
April 7, 2013: FINALLY got around to rewriting my Drones section. Hey, why do you think I’ve been so quiet for a while? I must be up to something, right? Up to drones, man!
April 7, 2013: A depressing milestone….Added the 50th friggin’ trip to look for Bill Ewasko in Joshua Tree. My only consolation is that I wasn’t the poor soul who did it. Although I am due….
March 14, 2013: Added a report of a touristy-type hike in Joshua Tree. Well, touristy from my twisted perspective. Normal folks might cringe, and well they should.
March 3, 2013: Aaaaaand another trip to Joshua Tree looking for Bill, but hey, it’s not by me! I like this! If we can start a trend here, maybe I’ll retire from the hunt.
February 27, 2013: Wow, same day writeup. That almost never happens as I pretty much can always find something I’d rather do than web work. But here’s today’s (!) trip to Joshua Tree for yet another in the ongoing searches for Bill.
February 23, 2013: I have been woefully distracted by actual fun stuff and have been neglecting updating all this crap. I can go out and do things, or, you know, write about doing things. What would you do?? But I now have for your reading pleasure, not just one, but two more trips out to Joshua Tree looking for Bill. There, now go away. I see something shiny to play with.
January 24, 2013: And now for something completely different, “How to make cheap, butt-ugly, energy absorbing landing struts for multirotors“. Yeah, you saw that one coming, didn’t you?
January 23, 2013: Finally wrote up the stinkin’ 45th trip to Joshua Tree looking for Bill Ewasko. This felt like it should have been the one but Fate enjoys scoffing at us. Fate has a nasty sense of humor….
January 15, 2013: Added in a new trip looking for Bill Ewasko and also a page containing my updated thoughts as to where he might be based upon more recent search results and cell phone data. Now not only do I get to be wrong, I get to be wrong publicly.
December 23, 2012: Did a substantial rewrite on our earlier trip report to Cary’s Castle in Joshua Tree. I was able to acquire a lot of new background information for the site and merged it into the writeup. Read it if you wanna know who Cary was. I, for one, say Welcome Stranger!
December 14, 2012: And yet another stinkin’ trip out to Joshua Tree looking for Bill. Still, it’s a good excuse for a nice hike in the desert so I shouldn’t whine so much. But the whining is satisfying.
December 1, 2012: A rainy day in Orange County means a sunny day at Joshua Tree. Good an excuse as any to go on another search for Bill. But 42??!
November 22, 2012: Getting caught up with the paperwork. Added the documentation for three new trips looking for Bill Ewasko. Sadly, still no Bill.
November 14, 2012: With the chores resulting from our return from New Mexico, I’ve fallen well behind in my adventure documentation. So this “fun” (bad choice of words) hike in Joshua Tree to Cary’s Castle is a start on the backlog.
October 30, 2012: We finish out our stay in New Mexico with a trip to some very scenic ruins in the Santa Fe National Forest, which goes by the unpronounceable name of Tsi-p’in-owinge’.
October 14, 2012: Since it’s not yet practical to get to the Moon, the next best thing is a hike across the El Malpais lava flow on the Zuni-Acoma Trail. El Malpais is Spanish for “bad country”. And it is. It really is.
October 5, 2012: The story of looking for what would seem to be a modest Chacoan-style ruin on a mesa top in the Red Mesa Valley, but maybe isn’t. Look, I’m like a dog chasing a car…The chase is a lot of fun, but I don’t know what to do with it when I catch it.
October 1, 2012: And the archaeo-goodness continues with a writeup on a trip spanning from the driest desert to the wettest mountains, looking for Chaco crap. And all the food in between.
September 25, 2012: Added a couple more trip reports to two Jemez ruins, Wahajhamka and Pejunkwa. I needed to cross them off the list before the snows come. Too many ruins and a finite amount of time.
September 23, 2012: Crap! I’m falling behind in my adventure documentation. If the choice is between writing and doing, guess which one I’m going to pick? Anyway, here’s something I added about a trip we made to the wingnut state of Arizona to look at all sorts of stuff, Rock Art Ranch, Homolovi and Hopi Pueblos…oh, and Pottery
September 12, 2012: Actually added an unexpected addendum to the old Bluefire website. Specifically, just how mobile was the McDonnell Douglas Gray Butte RCS facility’s Mobile Shelter building? You might be surprised….
September 4, 2012: It’s full-on Chaco season! So that must mean it’s time for a visit to the Bis sa’ani ruins. What? Never heard of it? I thought not. But I have….
September 1, 2012: So much weird shit in the desert to hunt for and so little time! Added reports on site visits to the Jemez ruins of Amoxiumqua and FS 3. What, you want Chaco? Soon. Very soon.
August 24, 2012: Write up added for our visit to the Twin Angels ruin, a Chacoan structure located near the northern end of Chaco’s Great North Road, the Highway 66 of its day. Why I do believe Chaco Season has begun!
August 19, 2012: Added a write up of the field tour Jeri and I took as part of the Pecos Conference. Ruins, archaeologists, graves and old cars. Fun times were had.
August 16, 2012: I attended a real archaeology conference, The Pecos Conference. Sadly, I am strange enough to fit in with these people. Here’s my report back to the normal people of the world so you may take appropriate precautions.
August 4, 2012: Been busy! Three more trips out to ruin sites. FS 18, Wabakwa and The Ridge Road of Ruins. Remind me to look up the difference between “interest” and “obsession”
August 1, 2012: Added a couple of trip reports to more obscure archaeological sites, the Chacoan Halfway House and the Gallina Rattlesnake Ridge ruins. So much weird crap out in the desert and so little time…..
July 27, 2012: A writeup on a Chaco Canyon outlier ruin, that in fact, doesn’t exist. Casa Morena, the outlier you’ve never heard of.
July 12, 2012: Added a significant update to possible implications of the single cell phone ping received from Bill Ewasko’s phone. Yeah, I know it’s wordy, but it’s important and suggests new search areas to focus on.
July 6, 2012: Added another Bill Ewasko search, now up to JT38. In Joshua Tree, in July. Sorta stupid, eh?
July 4, 2012: A strangely appropriate date for this addition. A disturbingly true story of some computer shenanigans I experienced that may or may not be Area 51 related. You decide. The joy of having a website is that I have a lot of stories like these that have never seen the light of day. But check in occasionally, as they will….
June 29, 2012: A trip report to the Jemez’s Kwastiyukwa ruins in the Santa Fe National Forest. This one sort of blew our socks off. Hard to hike without socks, not recommended.
June 19, 2012: Added a trip report of our adventure to the Tovakwa ruins, the largest Jemez Pueblo Indian ruins in the Santa Fe National Forest. Yeah, big….real big. And way deep in the forest.
June 15, 2012: Added a trip report for the Spring (Nogales) Canyon Cliff Dwellings. Something different from the old piles of tumbled rocks on the ground we have been used to seeing.
June 14, 2012: Added a trip report of a very cool visit to the Folsom Site, an extremely important archaeological site in northeastern New Mexico.
May 31, 2012: My archaeological dabbling continues with three new trip reports to Jemez Pueblo ruins, Boletsakwa, Unshagi and Seshukwa.
May 18, 2012: Added new trip report in the Searching for Bill Ewasko section in Joshua Tree NP, covering a canyon running from the Covington Flats area, northeasterly towards Quail Wash. This would be JT37.
May 10, 2012: Added new trip report in the Searching for Bill Ewasko section in Joshua Tree NP, covering the easterly off-trail portions of the Stubbe Spring loop. This would be JT36.