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Praying for Rain on St. John’s Day.

24-Jun-12

Castel Volturno It supposedly rained all of May, but there’s been very little precipitation in June.  I had about fifty or so gallons of water stored in a cistern when I arrived.  I can go down to the spring for drinking water, which is no trouble, but lugging water a few hundred feet uphill to water the […]

The River.

23-Mar-12

clomid clomiphene citrate buy I 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 […]

To the River.

23-Mar-12

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 […]