This photo taken in the Salton Sea area by NWS #Skywarn Spotter Steve.For those who occasionally hike or camp in deserts, I’d like to share a recent weather event we had in our lovely desert on Oct 6, 2022. Should you happen to experience one of these this post will explain what happened.
It is called a Haboob, which is an Arabic name. This is what it looked like down by the Salton Sea, which is about 60 miles from our house.
Earlier this month we spent a few days at beach to cool off from the summer heat.
Today I received a message that this website’s software needed to be updated with a couple new versions.
Typical stuff. Software updates are supposed fix bugs, and more importantly to me, patch security vulnerabilities. So I installed the updates. As I usually do, I took a quick tour to ensure everything was working. At the bottom of the sidebar, I saw the Page View statistics.
With the advent of the Internet and online shopping, the potential to become more informed buyers has lost its promise.
Instead, product reviews have mostly become a for-profit enterprise that only benefits manufacturers and those who make a living reviewing products.
So the title of this site is “Nick’s Excellent Camping and Backpacking Adventures.”
But there haven’t been many adventures to write about in the past year, and zero since Joyce broke her ankle last September.
That is about to change.
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