Southern Arizona's Ranching Heritage

Great Sand Dunes National Park

In Colorado, the elemental forces of the desert and mountains meet: wind, dominant in the scoured aridlands, here locked in struggle with the water of the alpine mountains. There is a line above which precipitation outweighs evaporation and it is from these lands that all rivers flow.

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Wind picks up the sand and deposits it in a crook of the mountains arrayed about, who in turn let down the flow of the headwaters of the Rio Grande, great snake that cuts through a thousand miles of canyonlands to reach the Sea. The flow smooths the land incessantly like an overprotective mother.

Here is my high water mark, from whence I, too, will flow back to the desert. I have found the headwaters.

England Tourism

Good old food in London

Sculpture Park on the Isle of Portland

Opportunities

www.caretaker.org
www.coolworks.com
www.housesitter.com
www.organicvolunteers.com

Tucson Tourism

Retreats
Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center
Holy Trinitiy Monastery

Patagonia Wine Country
Mount Graham Telescope Tours
Arcosanti
Fire Lookout Towers: Weird people, good views.
--Atascosa Lookout, a restored fire tower on a well-worn trail

Public Skate times at Polar Ice



Places to Stay:
Peppertree B&B
Canelo B&BWest of Sierra Vista
La Posada in Winslow, AZ

Places to Go

TREKING

• English or Scottish Coast (B&B Inns)
• Japanese Shinto Meditation Trails
• Switzerland Alps
• Kauai North (and west) Coast

LOCAL

• Bisbee: Cafe Roka five-star eating in abandoned cobblestone town-come-artist colony in SE Arizona
  
• Picacho del Diablo: San Jacinto visible 200 miles N?

ISLANDS

• New Caledonia (makes a triangle with Australia and New Zealand)
• Vanuatu: Cargo cult and volcanoes
  
• Of course, the opposite spot on the world: Heard and McDonald Island

SPECIAL INTEREST

• Dornach, Switzerland: Goetheanum