High Chaparral / Casa Codorniz: Living by Lake Mohave in the Mohave Desert

High Chaparral / Casa Codorniz: Living by Lake Mohave in the Mohave Desert

Wintering in the Desert: The Snowbirds Return to Casa Codorniz Above Lake Mohave

Wintering in the Desert: The Snowbirds Return to Casa Codorniz Above Lake Mohave

Back in the Saddle Again: Exploring Old Mines by OHV in Arizona’s Black Mountains

Back in the Saddle Again: Exploring Old Mines by OHV in Arizona’s Black Mountains

Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Getting in An Afternoon On Lake Mohave Before Chilly Weather in Mid November 2025

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Back in the Saddle: A Desert Adventure to the Tyro Mine Overlook

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Smallmouth Bass Spawning: A Late April Adventure on Lake Mohave

Mid-April 2025 Lake Mohave Bass Fishing

The desert morning greeted us with that peculiar stillness that only those who've spent time in the Southwest truly understand. As I sipped my coffee on the porch of our modest desert retreat in the foothills above Lake Mohave, I watched the sun crawl above the...

The Sonoran Desert in Bloom

There's something about the desert that speaks to my soul. Perhaps it's the stark contrast to my Kansas upbringing, where the rolling Flint Hills offered a different kind of beauty altogether. Out here in the Sonoran Desert during springtime, though... well, that's a...

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Chasing Ghosts: A Mid-March Smallmouth Bass Adventure on Lake Mohave

Sunset on Mohave Lake View Ranchos

There's something about the way the light changes in the desert that reminds me of my childhood on the Kansas prairie. Different landscapes entirely, but that same vast sky, that same feeling of being small beneath an endless canvas of blue that slowly transforms into...

Jefe Blogs

Red Lighthouse Lake Havasu

Red Lighthouse Lake Havasu

Replicas of real lighthouses line the shore of Lake Havasu, Arizona. This beautiful scene unfolded one sunset evening in December 2019. Each of Lake Havasu’s lighthouses is a 1/3 scale replica of a famous American lighthouses, and is not a true lighthouse but instead...

Bass Fishing Jade Green Clear Water of Lake Mohave

Bass Fishing Jade Green Clear Water of Lake Mohave

The best time of the year to fish for striped bass is April through November with the peak in October. For largemouth bass March through June is generally best and for rainbow trout anytime they are stocked (November through March) At 647-foot elevation, the Lake...

Progressive Socialism

Love Your Servitude – Aldous Huxley & George Orwell

Aldous Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final...

Progressive Socialism

5 Socialism Myths

Socialism is now as popular as capitalism among young people. That’s because they are being told nonsense. “Myth 1”. Whenever socialism fails people always say, “but that wasn’t ‘real’ socialism.” https://youtu.be/RVBPgvY3TbU

Rainy Day Campfire

Rainy Day Campfire

Celebating the first significant rain at Casa Codorniz in almost two years we enjoyed a campfire. Lake Mohave in the background. Lake Mohave is located south of the Hoover Dam along the Colorado River in the southern end of Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It's...

Colorado River Laughlin, Nevada Christmas Night 2020 FZ2500

Colorado River Laughlin, Nevada Christmas Night 2020

Christmas Night fireworks over the Colorado River. Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, roughly 90 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, whose casinos...

Fireworks Over the Colorado Christmas Night 2020

Fireworks Over the Colorado Christmas Night 2020

Christmas Night fireworks over the Colorado River between Bullhead City, Arizona and Laughlin, Nevada. Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, roughly 90 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the...

Colorado River Christmas Eve 2020

Colorado River Christmas Eve 2020

Merry Christmas from the Colorado River Bullhead City, Arizona to Laughlin, Nevada. Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, roughly 90 mi south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from...