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 […]
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Praying for Rain on St. John’s Day.
24-Jun-12The River.
23-Mar-12clomid 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-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 […]