– BFT instead of a team of horses
– 38′ fifth wheel instead of a covered wagon
– Mini cooler full of fruit, chips and granola bars instead of saddle bags stocked with hard tack
– California Highway Patrol instead of a sheriff’s posse
– Yoga pants instead of a prairie skirt
– Ball cap instead of a cowboy hat
– Water in Nalgene bottles instead of canteens
– Gimpy, over-indulged black lab instead of a good huntin’ dog
– NPR’s Weekend Edition instead of the Bonanza theme song playing in the background
– Blogging on a cell phone instead of scrawling in a journal
– And blacktop instead of a dusty trail through the Mojave, which means hours instead of days on the road
Trying to make Phoenix by sundown, 21st century style