No looking back

Salome - where she danced

Who danced in Salome? I finally found out, and Arizona welcomed me home with it's glorious skies.

Arizona!

I realize now that whether I'm wandering the globe or even living somewhere else this is the only place I can ever really call home!



The grave of Hi Jolly in Quartzsite. Haji Ali a camel driver from Syria was hired by the US Army to lead it's Camel Corps experiment, bringing camels to the deserts of the southwest. It didn't work, and no one could pronounce his Arabic name, but "Hi Jolly" became a local legend.

Mojave Desert

I've driven through the Mojave Desert more times than I could ever remember, and even though this time I was more aware of it, I still need to make a trip out here not simply passing through, but with the desert itself as my destination. I stopped at these tanks in Vidal Jct for a picnic lunch in the car.



Geoglyphs near Blythe

The Great Basin Desert

From California I cut across to Nevada. I had been missing the desert something awful and so I plotted my course to take me straight through three of the largest deserts in the world. The Great Basin Desert didn't let me down; I saw petroglyphs, sand mountains, shoe trees, lonely highways, had apple pie and ice cream at roadside diners, and learned about Nevada's mining, wagon train, and railroad history

California!

The first milestone on my way home was Good Ol' California and I made a beeline from Seattle to get to here to see Redwood National Park. My meager pictures aren't going to do anything for these majestic trees (the tallest in the world), but just to give you an idea I've got two up here anyway.