Month: August 2007

I’ve seen so much of this in the past few days, I can’t help but write something here. If you, like me, are not from near the U.S.-Mexico border, you probably have no idea that all this was going on. The border is a police state. And I don’t say that lightly, and I don’t…

The latest memorable events from the road: More beautiful Arizona highways and lush desert. (“Lush desert” is an odd combination of words, but, believe me, it’s the only thing that remotely applies here.) With apologies to the Montana readership, Arizona and New Mexico are, well, at least “really rather large sky” country. ;-) Montana is…

And onwards, always onwards: It was at least as wonderful waking up at Organ Pipe as it was falling asleep there. And getting up at 5 AM, while painful back home, seems very, very…natural, out here. You fall asleep with the sun and wake up with the sun. Lukeville, Arizona: my first border town. Border…

Memories from the third day…apologies for the length, but it’s hard enough trying to cram all the memories into this small of a space. Waking up to your alarm at 5 AM may be painful, but stepping outside to find the moon has risen over Joshua Tree and you’re alone with the desert makes it…well,…

The second day brought… A night in Lompoc (second “o” is long), right next to Vandenberg Air Force Base…and a trip around the base. It is huge, like half-the-Bay-Area-sized huge, and since Lompoc is a military town, it is very, very different from, you know…Berkeley. Lots of Wal-Marts and chain stores, not so much tie-dye,…

Wait — this time I found it for real… Originally uploaded by gewekean From Quartzsite, AZ: