Our Journey to a Simple Life
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Swamp Cooler gone during this heat wave...
This is just a video of how I changed my swamp cooler's pump. It would intermittently blow cold air and then warm air and sometimes go back to cold air. Anyway I remove the pump from the cooler itself and give it one last test outside of the cooler to make sure that it did go out. This summer has been brutal here in Joshua Tree so our swamp cooler has been on 24-7 for months. The little pump, after 3 years finally called it quits. I am sure a professional would have done a much better job, but I spent 50 bucks to buy the pump and now it's fixed. Hope this video helps you out when your pump goes out.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Confessions of an Aswang in Joshua Tree: Episode 2 | A Campfire Story
He thought becoming an aswang meant turning into a monster overnight.
Instead...
he found himself working for an old desert butcher, living in a run-down trailer in Joshua Tree, eating ham sandwiches, and trying to convince himself he was still human.
But the hunger never really leaves.
As he settles into life in the high desert, an unexpected friendship with a mysterious blind woman named Bryn begins to change the way he sees himself... and what he has become.
Then the desert answers back.
Confessions of an Aswang in Joshua Tree is an original serialized supernatural story set in the Mojave Desert, blending Philippine folklore with the strange landscapes and hidden corners of Joshua Tree.
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
The Joshua Tree Hitchhiker | A Campfire Story
There are some stories that refuse to stay buried.
A solo day hike through Joshua Tree National Park turns into a mystery that no one—not the police, not the search teams, not even the man who lived through it—can fully explain.
Three missing days.
A vanished hitchhiker.
And a notebook that should have been impossible for anyone else to know about.
So pull up a chair, settle in by the fire...and decide for yourself what really happened in the desert.
If you enjoy original horror, desert folklore, UFO mysteries, and high strangeness, you're in the right place.
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