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It's the same thing with how they can't keep roads straight, from your experience as a flatlander, Butch. It's much less work to follow the contours of the land than bulldoze, cut and fill, to get straight lines. Especially if you're trying to make it hard to get under or over the fence.

Organ Pipe NP...only 2 miles from the border with Mexico. Lots of Border Patrol activity, checkpoints, many cameras and other detection devices, and frequent warnings posted. A big fence, 18 feet tall, which doesn't seem to do much to deter illegal crossings if what we were told by locals is...

That's a fun picture of a cool tree, for sure. A Ponderosa pine, usually they are only found at much higher elevations down there...but that is the north facing side of Ice Box Canyon :). I'd guess it was something less that 100', but so much bigger than anything else around, and way up there...

Next pics will be from Organ Pipe NP. Beautiful place, and a really weird vibe...right on the border, and a major trafficking route for drugs and humans. I'll get to those pictures soon.

You are of course correct, my friend. Thrasher, not thrush. My mistake, just not paying proper attention to my own typing :). And also correct...ocotillo just beginning, in a few warm and wet washes some chuparosa, and here and there some brittlebush.

Jim, those are a pair of curve-billed thrushes. They seem to lead a very similar lifestyle to the cactus wrens...we saw lots of those, too. Plenty of interesting birding down there, stuff I never see at home. Phainopepla, northern cardinals, Gambel's quail, Gila woodpecker, roadrunners, elf owl.

Steer very wide of that stuff. Just about everything that lives out there in the Sonoran desert bites, stings, or sticks.

Spent some very nice days camping down south of Tucson near the border, and then a week in Saguaro NP. Pics from the latter.

:lol: Not much, Bob.

No physical check for petrified wood, just a question or two Stig. I suppose they must suspect Danes far more than the run of the mill visitor, don't you?? :D And we saw no wild horses or burros at RRC, but were informed they are still there. Wonderful picture, btw. Nice looking ride, and...

From RRC, we drove east into Arizona. These shots are from Petrified Forest NP. Certainly a "wow" place. None of these pictures are of "displays". All in situ natural. I haven't given even the barest shade of a real impression of the scope...my skills as a photog fall way too short...

OK, here's some pics to start with. Plenty still to organize yet. These are at Red Rock Canyon, a BLM site a little west of Las Vegas. Apparently it's one of the top five rock climbing areas in the US. Over 2000 identified routes. We camped here for just shy of a week, had some very nice...

You, too Bermy?? I must have gotten in a rut. :D

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;) No worries, Jim. I laughed.

Rolled in to the home place yesterday mid-afternoon. Got the water system charged up, water heater on line, wood stove cranking out the btu's. Today we're unpacking gear, washing clothes, packing stuff away for the next go. No varmits got into the Jag engine bay this year, happily :). We had...

There is no good way to dress for rainy weather that is between 34 and 40 degrees F., ...just no good way. It's much "colder" than really freezing weather, snow or dry. Fleece or polypropylene, under wool, under waterproofs is your best bet, but you'll sweat up the under layers as soon as you...

Saturday 0'dark thirty is the current etd. I'll take pictures :).

We expect to leave in a few days, be gone until the first week in March, give or take. Don't y'all get in too much trouble while I'm gone ;).