Weep Not: Cemetery visitors celebrate life not death - Are cemeteries haunted by the dead or the living? Do marble angels watch over the souls who search among silvery tombstones for names, dates and stone flowers? Call them grave hunters, genealogists or historians, gravers, tombstone tenders, stone strollers or death hags. Just don't call them morbid. Or ghouls. Or heaven forbid, necrophiliacs. Technically they are called taphophiles - people who love cemeteries and funerals. And they are just like you and me. They could even be your neighbors.

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Big Bend Ranch State Park - Big Bend Ranch State Park is hugged by the Big Bend of the Rio Grande elbowing a narrow green ribbon through the harsh grandeur of the Great Chihuahuan Desert. The area covers some 400 square miles of spectacular rock formations, unique plants and animals and a record of over 10,000 years of human occupation. More...

Road Trip: Laughlin - Chloride - Route 66 - Oatman - If the whirlwind of slot machines, gaming tables and shows grinds you down during a trip to Las Vegas or Laughlin, Nevada, you might want to take an easy day’s drive over into Arizona for a change of pace. Within a few hours, you can visit two quaint old towns – Chloride and Oatman – from the mining days, and you can drive a spectacular stretch of Historic Route 66.  More...

General George S. Patton Memorial Museum - General George S. Patton Memorial Museum was established to honor the late General George S. Patton and the thousands of men who served with him at the Desert Training Center and overseas. The museum, is located off Interstate 10, about 30 miles east of Indio at Chiriaco Summit, which was the entrance to Camp Young, command post for the DTC during World War II. The site was donated by Joseph Chiriaco, one of the first area residents General Patton met when he arrived to set up the center. More...

Treasure Hunting: Dating the Peralta Stone Maps - Some people think that dating the stone maps would be a simple procedure of modern science that would determine how old they are. Dating the stones themselves would in fact be quite simple using the Potassium-Argon method described below. But the results would only indicate how long ago mother earth formed the rocks that the stone maps were made from. Millions or Billions of years ago. The Radiocarbon dating method cannot be used because the stone maps are not composed of Organic Materials. (Editor's Note - lots of reader's comments weighing in on this issue!) More...