“The mountains are calling and I must go.” — John Muir, Letter to his sister, Sarah Muir Galloway, September 3, 1873 Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – The mountains were calling this weekend, so our amazing journey continues as the artist Walter Simon joins us in…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So you may agree with me that social media sux in many ways. But it is good for a thing or two, like finding out when someone dies. It has come to my attention, thanks to Facebook, that my old friend and…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – People have been naming vehicles, animals and storms for a very long time. Dating back at least 15,000 years to the Mesolithic Age, perhaps, when the oldest known boat on the planet was named the “Pesse Canoe” after it was discovered in…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – In spite of everything you hear on sensational news channels about climate change, the draught in the West and packed national parks in summer, the waterfalls and rivers are flowing in the Sierras and the crowd was light on Monday…
By Glynn Wilson – Tales From the MoJo Road – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – We were somewhere around Sunnyvale headed north at high speed on 101 in the Forest Green Gwyneth Ford, a media camper van, when the sun finally burned through the fog, just in time to reveal the view of South Bay. The…
“Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” – Sam Elliott as The Stranger in “The Big Lebowski.” Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Sometimes in this crazy, mixed up world, the written word can make all the difference. Yet sometimes, no matter…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San…
You said a road trip would do us some good Despite every instinct I said that I would It’s been six years since you put on that ring Maybe the road will fix everything When all that remains is the gas in the tank The tread on the tires and what’s left in the bank…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As international travel and tourism has dropped significantly in the United States over the past year due to Trump administration trade and other unpopular policies, the administration just announced a major hike in fees for foreign travelers at America’s most visited National Parks that could cause another economic…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The most awesome scene in nature and American national parks, at least in my traveling experience, is still Bear Tooth Pass into Yellowstone from the Northeast. For sheer jaw dropping wow, give me the snow capped Rocky Mountains over azure blue lakes, clear as…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Ca. – Never in my wildest dreams of making the move nearly 3,000 miles across the country to the Golden State of California did I imagine landing in the nicest small town in America. But due to preparation, opportunity, timing, good friends and little luck, it’s…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Ca. – It’s been the dream trip of a lifetime. Making it was never guaranteed, like all those souls who set out by horse and wagon to go west in the 19th century after President Thomas Jefferson negotiated a treaty with France in 1803…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Co. – So I crossed another river today, the Colorado River, about a dozen times along the MoJo Road. Discovered and camped by the headwaters in the national park. After seeing it for myself, it’s difficult to imagine anyone crossing the…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – TOPEKA, Ks. – Oh, to have the patience of the great white egret I can see fishing outside the media camper van window as I sip the morning coffee, read the New York Times and post on Facebook. It stealthily moves along the bank of…
“Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – ST. LOUIS, Mo. – As a writer and traveler it’s near impossible to cross over the Mississippi River without thinking of Mark Twain, and back…
Greenbelt National Park and Washington, D.C. – A Decade of Experience, With Photographs – EDITOR’S NOTE – This essay with links was developed to guide an interpretive ranger talk delivered on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025 at 4 p.m. outside the Greenbelt National Park Ranger Station. It was not designed as a public program, but a…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – When the noise of the city becomes just too much to take, especially the political noise from blowhard politicians in Washington who have no idea what they are talking about, head for the mountains and find a babbling brook, a place…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH, Va. – Niagara Falls on the border of New York State and Canada has the Iroquois legend about a young Seneca girl who was swept over the falls in a canoe, but was rescued by Hinum “the Thunder God” who shows how her people…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s a different kind of spring here in and around the great capital city of the United States. Yes, the Japanese cherry trees blossomed this year by the Jefferson Memorial and around the Tidal Basin, along with the redbuds, dogwoods and mountain…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHILDERSBURG, Ala. – If you find yourself traveling in Alabama looking for a hidden place to camp that is not too crowded, maybe on a fast moving stream where you can float in a canoe or kayak with lots of wildlife to see, you might…
