the Surfer Hotel in Pacific Beach, Christmas Eve, 2019
Jacumba Hot Springs:
driving with Jakob, it was an interesting night
in the clothing optional resort outside of Jacumba hot springs. Jakob soaked, I
spun in the gym with the lights. Jakob
left his wallet and we drove on in the dark. And Ajo, where a community of
indigenous farmers and others had created a network of urban gardens supplying
a little market food place. The white observatory towers against the ski on
Kitts peak were spectacular, as were the tamales and pistole soup from Ajo.
Ajo Cathedral
Why and Kitts Peak Observatory
The Cochise Stronghold
a vagabond climber researcher artist wanderer
Writing a field guide to the border, a guide to
food, recipes, hopeful communities, climbing spots, petroglyphs, culture. It would make our simplified views of
American Anglo against Mexican Latino culture more nuanced, like the 31
dialects of the sand people of southern Arizona, we might have a little café
somewhere
The Wasteland Dome
Superstition Mountains
painted rocks petroglyph site, stones, piled up
like a southwest Stonehenge.
San Diego, going to the botanical garden,
staying in the Surfer Hotel in Pacific Beach, going to the farmer’s market,
picking up Jakob late that night...I was deeply touched by the collages in the
Athenium, fhe sea
lions, the beautiful red sunset from the
Surfer Hotel, the shape of the seals
Border at Jacumba Springs
Sand Dunes
Border at Jacumba
Mission Gorge San Diego
