Category: Deserts

• The Snow Moon Over The Mojave

  Last night the Snow Moon rose over the Coxcomb Mountains of the Mojave Desert.  It’s the fifth full moon we have watched since our journey began There will be one more to witness before we are home again.  Will we see the Warm Moon from where ever we will be in the third week of…

  patrickjegan

  February 23, 2016

  Blogging, California, Creativity, Deserts, Fables & Folklore, Holding onto the Past, Love, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, moon, Nature, Real Personal History, Religion

  Coxcomb mtns CA, full moon, Luna, lunar cycles, Selene

• The Existential Questions Of A Cactus

  One afternoon in a desert full of Joshua trees… A vulture makes lazy circles in the warm air, riding the thermals and keeping an eye on the slow-moving Bighorn sheep, hoping in his vulture heart that the animal was sick and would soon die in the maze of weathered rocks far below A rattlesnake moved…

  patrickjegan

  February 22, 2016

  Blogging, California, Creativity, Deserts, Everyday Events, Food, Memories, Nature, Things of Bauty

  desert rats, Mojave Desert, rattlesnakes, red barrel cactus, Twentynine palms CA, vultures

• Room # 8

  There was an old man, kind and wise with age And he read me just like a book and he never missed a page And I loved him like my father and I loved him like my friend And, I knew his time would shortly come but I did not know just when… –Gram Parsons…

  patrickjegan

  February 20, 2016

  Blogging, California, Creativity, Deserts, Fables & Folklore, Ghosts, History, Melancholy Thoughts, non-fiction, Paris, Public Parks, Real Personal History, Travels

  Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Joshua National Park, Joshua Tree CA, Joshua Tree Inn, Keith Richards, morphine, overdose, Rolling Stones

• The End Of The Line

  Like, wow…I can’t believe we’re in California. What a magical and special state this is.  It’s no wonder that all the famous people live here.  It’s the “land of opportunity”, where an anybody like me can become a somebody like…George Clooney.  We weren’t here an hour when I drove to a service station to get…

  patrickjegan

  February 16, 2016

  Blogging, California, Creativity, Deserts, Dreams, Everyday Events, Fables & Folklore, Ghosts, History, Memories, Myth and Mythology, Nature, non-fiction, Public Parks, Real Personal History, Religion, seniors, The RV Life, Travels

  carrots, Imperial Sand Dunes, lottery winnings, migrant workers, rodeo, spas, Yuma

• Unfortunate Souls

  One afternoon, in the late 19th Century, the fifteen year old brother of Maria Moreno complained about the way she was dancing.  She got angry.  His response was to say: “So, shoot me.”  Maria, who was sixteen went into her house and brought her father’s rifle.  She shot and killed her brother.  He should have…

  patrickjegan

  February 14, 2016

  Blogging, Childhood, Creativity, Deserts, Fables & Folklore, Family, History, Melancholy Thoughts, non-fiction, parents, Religion, The RV Life, Time, Travels

  Arizonia, Colorado River, Frank Leslie, Pearl Hart, prison cemeteries, prisons, Yuma Territorial Prison

• The Big Empty: Where Nothing Is Everything

  If you have a mind to go someplace where you can think without distraction, pray without a preacher, sin without a society to judge, see the night sky in its true black star-filled glory, see a snake, an ant, a spider or a bird…then come to The Big Empty.  One thing you may not see,…

  patrickjegan

  February 10, 2016

  Blogging, Deserts, Fables & Folklore, Ghosts, History, Myth and Mythology, Nature, Real Personal History, The RV Life, Travels, Uncategorized

  barry Goldwater Air Force Reserve, chocolate mountains, Colorado River, desert, I-8, southwest Arizona, The Big Empty, Yuma

• Reality Check: 66% Of The Road Trip Is Behind Us

  [Organ Pipe Cactus] We are roughly two-thirds of the way through our long and event-filled road trip.  As I write this, I’m sitting in a Starbucks, about 263 dusty, windy and empty miles from Tucson.  According to my four weather apps on my iPhone, it’s going to be nearly 80 F today. We need warmth.…

  patrickjegan

  February 8, 2016

  Blogging, Deserts, Everyday Events, Nature, Objects of Beauty, Real Personal History, seniors, The RV Life, Travels, Uncategorized

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