After a brief blog boycott, I'm back due to an overwhelming reader demand (can you call 2 people an 'overwhelming' demand?). In much the same way Carol C is always pointing out my protruding gut in photos any time the lights and shadows create an optical illusion, I'm sure Bonnie D just didn't realize how sensitive any new age male like myself can be.We're into the last couple of days of the 65 Years Young Birthday Tour and Dusty Dave has ...

A lot of very cool things happened to us on the way to the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley but Bonnie D, in a private email to DH that I was able to obtain via the Freedom of Information Act (also known as the DH Can't Keep A Secret Act), suggested that reading my blog was like doing homework. I am sulking. Enjoy the photos.

After the unspeakable damage Dusty Dave did to Puffy The Pillow during our ATV adventure it was time for a couple of groin- friendly (but still 65th birthday worthy) events. To that end we made the relatively long drive to Lake Havasu to visit London Bridge (without telling Dave). London Bridge?? In Arizona??In 1896 the bridge was the busiest point in London, England, and one of its most congested; 8,000 pedestrians (including Dusty Dave?) and 900 vehicles crosse...

So what do you do with a legendary cowboy (in his own mind) who has severely bruised his manhood and pride (but mainly his manhood) in an ill-advised attempt to tame an equally legendary mechanical bull?? You sign him up for a day of rough ATVing in a cacti paradise near Black Canyon AZ. Ever the good sport, Dusty Dave B popped a couple of Advil's, shoved a pillow down the front of his pants (I suspect that the tight elastics around his Depends worked to hold...

The Sixty Five Years Young Birthday Tour continued after a series of second-childhood adventures that included chasing aliens, sand tobogganing, and, most recently, stomping through an old western town playing out cowboy gunslinger fantasies. Shady Lady was starting to get a little weak-kneed every time Dusty Dave B tied his imaginary horse to the railings outside of our hotel, and now Dusty Dave almost always walks with his thumbs hooked in his belt loops- part ...