isotretinoin without prescription I 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 […]
Tag Archives: Arizona
To the River.
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North – the Gila River.
22-Mar-12Heading north from Ajo I had to go through one more checkpoint – almost old hat by now. My plan was to head north, but as there had been a large snowstorm in the northern part of the state and the roads were supposedly messy, I figured I could follow the Colorado River and enter […]
Unintentional.
20-Mar-12On my first full day on the road I got up early, went to the supermarket and stocked up things necessary for a few days in the desert – water mostly, some food, firewood, and the like. My plan was to drive to Yuma along the old road, the “Camino del Diablo,” a nearly waterless […]
Why.
19-Mar-12The Usual, Symbolic Beginning.
19-Mar-12Driving out of Tucson on the Ajo highway last night, I received a call from a friend in the middle of nowhere, about ten miles outside Why, Arizona. I pulled over to the side of the road to take the call. The phone’s records indicate that I had been talking to him for eleven minutes […]
Adaptation.
05-Feb-12I’m really no good at adapting – “no one changes you” being the way my ex-wife summed it up – so it’s not a surprise that I’m having some difficulty living in Arizona. I went to a pizza place on Saturday without any cash, and asked for a nearby ATM. The voice of the guy […]
Blessing of New Parents.
22-Jan-12This is from the “never saw that before” department: while at mass at San Augustin cathedral in Tucson, I was going up to communion behind a couple with a newborn infant. They were very cute: they were supposed to go up to communion in single file, but walked up half side-by-side as if unable to […]
Probing Contemplation of Place.
28-Dec-11I’ve been flirting with the idea of pulling up the roots and heading out West – an idea which maybe all Americans entertain at some point or other – and Arizona has been particularly on my mind. The Boston Globe has a curiosity-provoking review of my friend Tom Zoellner’s book A Safeway in Arizona – […]