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Sierra del Pinacate Range
Desert Mexico | May
"It is North America's last frontier, a barren, hundred-mile stretch of blackness and inhospitability. It is The Pinacate, named after its primary inhabitant; a rather insignificant beetle which stands on its head and lets out a rather putrid odor..."
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Tijuana and El Rosario
Desert Mexico | April
Under
our feet was a giant hole in the earth. The sea had cut an underground
cave and settled here: a stretch of beach underneath the earth. Four seals
were in the water. One had no head. Sharks.
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Bahia de Los Angeles
Desert Mexico | April
From
here I could see the white lights and flickering neon of Bahìa de Los
Angeles - reportedly named for the white islands in the distance which
resemble angels, but the city itself hasn't grown since Steinbeck griped
about too many new buildings in 1940.
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San Felipe
Desert Mexico | April
Two
hours later and twenty miles along the road to Puertocitas, we passed
out of a canyon and onto a saline flat. This was the lowest, hottest,
dreariest flat: white sand, ocotillo, not even a creosote. We saw a flash
of silver in the distance - a building maybe.
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Mountains of Baja Norte
Desert Mexico | April
"But I wanted to find this out for myself, so I shoved Sonora through the marsh and circled the bouldery islands near the northern shore. No fish, but the view of the granite peaks at night from these islands was stunning; and the Milky Way was bright enough to lead me around the islands and onto them; between the pines and under uneven boulders."
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Canyons of Baja Norte
Desert Mexico | April
"These
palms are oddly the only major species endemic to the Californias. But
the fan palms are magnificent in their natural state; forming dark, cool
canopies of mosque-like interiors, '.and a giant rattlesnake too', Vance
would say later."
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Mulegé
Desert Mexico | June
"I like the idea of being where I am now, in a place where roosters are crooning about, and people are selling used hack-saws and post-hole diggers and air-compressors. Actually, I am beneath that place, at the bank of the clammy-green Rio Mulegé.
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The Islets of Bahia Coyote
Desert Mexico | June
What
in light-muddled night assumes an eerie bioluminescence, is in complete
darkness, magic. Hans and I understood little about the flagellate plankton
that glow bright green when slightly agitated as a way of scaring predators.
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Guerrero Negro
Desert Mexico | June
"In
the morning, Father and I made coffee and looked at the sifters, examining
their simplicity - the way the larger stones would separate from the smaller
pebbles. A pair pulled up to the cliff and greeted us. "You have any beer?"
they said.
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 | Isla Espiritu Santo
Micro Update | Desert Mexico | May
"Elephants, too, were once aquatic animals; their skin is testament to this. Fossils found on both sides of the Pacific indicate they were actually deepwater creatures who swam the entire ocean..."
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