James D. Best

My sister lives in Long Beach, California and my brother in Kailua, Hawaii. I live mostly in Omaha, Nebraska, but spend winters in Sa...

Last night we arrived back in Arizona safe and sound. It was a great road trip through Nevada and none of us played a single slot machine....

There is nothing as invigorating as an early morning hike. Probably should have done one yesterday. Instead, we got off about mid-morning ...

Yesterday, I visited a high school friend I had not seen for at least thirty years. Before diverting north, the trip started through the...

We started the day with a visit to Genoa, which is situated just below the Sierras at the edge of the Carson Valley. (Everything in thi...

After a healthy breakfast, we took a morning walk in a residential area of Gardnerville. The air was brisk, sky clear, and the surroundi...

We left Beatty, Nevada fairly early in the morning yesterday and stopped for breakfast in Tonopah, Nevada. This was a nostalgic stop. A f...

We spent the first night of our road trip in Beatty, Nevada, the Gateway to Death Valley. Pretty area — in a desolate kind of way. When ...

Mostly not. We returned to our home in Arizona late last night, and have been lazing about trying to recover from a week with all of our gra...

About a month ago, my wife and I took a road trip with some good friends through many of the Westerns states.  We visited Nevada, Utah, ...

A Friend with a gas station horse. He couldn't find the quarter slot. The first time I drove across the country, I was ten years o...