Atomic Agriculture on the Rio Grande
Road trip to the Hatch Chili Festival in Southern New Mexico.
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Paddling and Driving the Los Angeles River
Exploring the LA River by road and kayak, with notes on my 14 years living in the city.
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Barren Anza Borrego Desert
Notes on the rich desert tapestry of Anza-Borrego in Southern California.
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Panamint Valley Roach Motel
You want to hear about a hotel nightmare? Notes from Panamint Valley, California.
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Four Seasons of the Western Mojave
Notes on my travels to Joshua Tree National Park and the Western Mojave of Southern California.
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Trona and the Unusual Lake Searles
Notes from a desert California outpost, and the weird rocky world of the Searles lakebed.
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Reefs of Pollen on the Carrizo Plain
Exploring the idea of travel and limitations during some of the amazing wildflower blooms in California history.
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Longboarding Las Vegas
A few years ago, I decided to cross Las Vegas by skateboard, and then write about it.
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Valley of Fire and Thorns
We are walking on a hard, sandy soil when suddenly my boy shrieks in pain.
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Sierra del Pinacate Range
It is North America's last frontier, a barren, hundred-mile stretch of blackness and inhospitability. It is The Pinacate, named after its primary inhabitant; a rather insignificant beetle which stands on its head and lets out a rather putrid odor...
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Desert Roads of Baja California Norte
Under our feet was a giant hole in the earth. The sea had cut an underground cave and settled here: a stretch of beach underneath the earth. Four seals were in the water. One had no head. Sharks.
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Bahia Coyote and Baja California Sur
Notes on an overland trek From Los Angeles to Mulegé in the Baja Peninsula's southern state.
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