Day 1 | 11/07/01 | Email From A Pennsylvania Bar. |
Day 14 | 11/20/01 | Arrival In Joshua Tree. |
Day 17 | 11/23/01 | Thanksgiving In Palm Springs. Whip-Lash Tent. |
Day 21 | 11/27/01 | Desert Downpour. First Shower. |
Day 23 | 11/29/01 | Class In The Sky. Man Of LaMancia. To The Dump. |
Day 34 | 12/10/01 | Van's Rock Theory. Cutting The Slot. |
Day 35 | 12/11/01 | Snow. Moving The Tank. Visiting Coyotes. Capistrano Hats. |
Day 42 | 12/18/01 | Territorial Rights. |
Day 60 | 01/05/02 | The Rock. Water Collection. Laguna Beach Christmas. |
Day 70 | 01/15/02 | The Visitor. |
Day 77 | 01/22/02 | The Waterman Cometh. |
Day 84 | 01/29/02 | Laguna R & R. |
Day 106 | 02/20/02 | How We Live. |
Day 121 | 03/07/02 | Pain! Eileen's Party. Working On The Trailer. |
Day 131 | 03/17/02 | Eileen Escapes. The Trailer. The Filter. Cold Rain. |
Day 148 | 04/03/02 | Music. |
Day 168 | 04/23/02 | Canvas. Door. Awning. Cactus Flower. Rock Covered Hole. |
Day 187 | 05/12/02 | Painted! The Big Move. Nikki & Kyle. Dehydration. |
Day 200 | 05/25/02 | Done! The 3000 Mile Transition. |
Year 2: | | To the journal of our return in 2003. |
This collection began as a series of off-the-cuff emails sent to friends and family back east during our unexpectedly nomadic stay on my land in Joshua Tree, California. They evolved into what is now “The Journal”. Enough interest was shown that I decided to put it on our web site, throw in some clickable pictures, and add pertinent parts of email received in response.
If you would like to see some of the history and the ideas that predated this trip, go to
the main Joshua Tree page and look around; click on any image that interests you.
To navigate out of this journal, click on any of the four icons, according to your preference, provided at the top and bottom of this document. The journal is broken into a series of pages to minimize the loading time of each. At the bottom of each page is a “NEXT” button. A click on it will take you to the next page in the series. The “BACK” button will take you in reverse.
Clicking on the Day entry of any item in the above list will take you to its relative page.
The first meaningful email that we received actually predated the trip and the journal, so the journal will begin with that email.
Click the NEXT button to proceed.