Tag: desert

• A Tale of Very Old Water Tunnels, Dying Palms & A Police Citation

  [One of the many towns we encountered on our way west…toward Marrakesh. Photo is mine.] Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ~~ Ibn Battuta The Great Dunes are behind us. My dream of riding into the largest desert in the world has been fulfilled. I have no regrets, except for the…

  patrickjegan

  September 22, 2024

  death, Deserts, Dreams, Melancholy Thoughts, Mountains and Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History, seniors, Travel Writing, Travels

  #datepalmsburnedonpurpose, #moroccandatepalmtrees, #morocco, #oldaqueductsinmorocco, #recentrainsinmorocco, #watertunnelsinmorocco, Africa, desert, namibia, Travel

• Joshua Tree Diary: The First Days

  I looked in the mirror late this morning and decided I would need a haircut sometime in the next few weeks.  Trouble is, we’re a few miles from the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base (the largest U.S. military base in the world, I’m told) and nearly all the haircut places offer a “military cut”.  Well,…

  patrickjegan

  December 5, 2017

  Blogging, California, Deserts, humor, Nature, non-fiction, Public Parks, Real Personal History, seniors, Travels, Uncategorized

  California, desert, Joshua Tree National Park, super moon, winter

• 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