Monthly Archives: March 2012
Sign in Yucca.
24-Mar-12Yucca, Arizona.
24-Mar-12Jalgaon Jamod Along I-40 I had to pull off to the side of the road to get a glimpse of a plant. I was fairly sure it was Yucca brevifolia, a Joshua Tree. It is a signature plant of the Mojave Desert, and is as far as I know naturally absent from the Sonoran Desert area around […]
Road Music.
24-Mar-12buy Lyrica in ireland Hard not to think of the quiet parts of this song staring out into the desert as the sun begins to slant into the horizon. See the sun rise over her skin Don’t change it. See the sun rise over her skin Dawn changes everything. Mississippi and the cotton wool heat Sixty-six – a highway […]
Route 66, Yucca, Arizona.
24-Mar-12Onto Route 66.
24-Mar-12When at El Capitan in Yosemite, the largest cliff face in the world, my geology professor stated that granite was the rock best suited for forming large cliff faces. When I asked him how we knew that, he said, “Because if there were a better one, there’d be a larger cliff face somewhere else made […]
The Summum Absurditatis.
24-Mar-12Just in case you were looking at London Bridge in Lake Havasu City and thought to yourself, “All very well, but where the deuce is the St. Magnus the Martyr Parish Boundary Mark? That should surely be on the bridge, shouldn’t it?” Well, here it is. St. Magnus was apparently an Orkney warlord who, being […]
Best Pizza in Northern Arizona.
24-Mar-12The thing that’s frightening about the sign is that it might be true. My general conclusion is that it’s not even worth trying the stuff to find out. Unlike Southern Arizona, which does have some good pizzerias.
The River.
23-Mar-12I woke up the next morning and headed north along the river. I saw the Parker Dam, visually uninspiring though an important piece of American infrastructure: the dam was built by the notorious William Mulholland to supply water for Los Angeles. I had recently read Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert and found myself generally unsympathetic; the […]
Desert Bloom.
23-Mar-12Opuntia on the banks of Lake Havasu.
To the River.
23-Mar-12I took I-10 away from Phoenix for awhile, and then turned off it onto Salome Road, which headed straight for the small town of Salome, a railroad town where US-60 runs. Most of the housing was temporary or seasonal; large numbers of retirees spend winters here, in RV parks or small cottages. Almost everyone I […]