Tag Archives: desert

Baker to Barstow (almost)

Confession time: We are kind of getting sick of the desert. We have been walking through the sandy, rocky, shadeless wastes for hundreds of miles and nearly 2 months. Enough is enough. We are tired of no shade, no respite … Continue reading

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through the valley of Joshua

We walked up and out of Sandy Valley, deep into the Mojave desert of southeast California. Up and over a pass, we came down into a wide and sweeping desert valley, 20 miles north of I-15. The sun glowed golden … Continue reading

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walking to the end of the world

Nevada, what can I say? You’re a very strange state of time and space. We walked west through Mesquite, out into nothing and more nothing. The Nevada desert stretches on and on, punctuated by mountains and rock forms off in … Continue reading

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mental health day in Moab

We are three days into the Utah desert. Our route thus far has paralleled I-70, through the most barren and empty expanses we have seen yet. Far off in all directions, mountains and canyon walls loom beyond the empty vastness … Continue reading

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