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Fire Insurance, Flood Insurance…

23-Mar-12

http://rodneymills.com/cbnypkr6/the-100-fanfiction-male-oc-grounder.html You can even get insurance against whole countries!

North – the Gila River.

22-Mar-12

buy isotretinoin cream Heading 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 […]

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

20-Mar-12

Unvisited, but seen from this distance.

Unintentional.

20-Mar-12

On 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-12

The Usual, Symbolic Beginning.

19-Mar-12

Driving 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 […]

City.

16-Mar-12

I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry Every black’ning […]

The Worst Cause Men Ever Fought For.

07-Mar-12

A brilliant, brief post by one of the very best writers on the Internet.  One has this feeling all over the South but Savage actually captures it, in a hundred words and four pictures.

Adaptation.

05-Feb-12

I’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 […]

Saguaro.

05-Feb-12