After days of biking through the Mojave desert, a couple of days at Joshua Tree National Park, biking through the Colorado desert for days (we did 67 miles on Thanksgiving day!), yesterday we finally reached the Colorado River, and crossed into Arizona! Now we are in the Sonora Desert, and a measly 36 miles from our home for the next couple of months: Quartzite. The desert's harsh beauty is hard not to admire. One begins to grasp the vastness of this earth while biking endless miles in a place that reminds one of one's insignificance and frailty. When there are huge, HUGE sweeps of a land with only small tokens of life that hardly block the view, surrounded in the far distance with rocky, jagged thrusts of mountains rising out of the flat sea of land like remote islands, and the only thing saving you from perishing in the endless dry earth is you pedaling your bike to water, you definitely develop an appreciation of humanity's ingenuity and will to survive. And a faucet with water pouring out of it on demand is a miracle...
5 comments:
man that WARM sun looks real nice.....Miss you kids, glad your havin fun....and lovin the story/pictures!
loves! -jeni
Love you. I long to be able to cast all this work of mine aside and take off across the country or across the world. Then again I do have final in two weeks so I might just be stressed to the brink.
I'm enjoying following your blog! Glad you're getting some sunny weather (and lots of excercise!) I was so sorry to hear about Missing Myrtle Marie. Enjoy a sunny winter!
Liz
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Cathy! Holly tipped me off on your blog, and I've invested the past half hour in vicarious enjoyment of your adventures. :) It's so good to see you well and happy, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the voyage.
Quartzite? I think you should travel on to Tucson! Hotel Congress has cheap hostel rooms, a cool tap room, and an 80's dance night. Cheap 24 hour diner food at The Grill, and cheap drinks at many bars. Also Poca Cosa has amazing mexi-food. There's a Coop, and lots of great thrift stores. Also, there used to be a great DIY bike place called Bikace(sp?).
Meow meow
-Jason
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