Slippery Slopes

Imagine this; ice in the desert. Somewhat unexpected, and surely a sight to see. Even in the winter, residents of Tucson and Phoenix make the drive up winding mountain roads, their sole motivation being a snowball fight. A lesson can be learned here, that things many of us take for granted are sought and envied by others.

Don't dive

Album cover for the 4K's first record, release date yet to be determined. A word of advice; for those of you who have ever considered frolicking through a field of wheat, don't.

Never have, Never will

Once thriving metropolises, now bypassed by superhighways and thus cut off from sustenance, crumble into insignificance. These, the bygone towns that shrug at plastic and move only to the beat of their lifeless ruin.

Nebraska

Memories remain only as long as they retain meaning. Even those deemed useless or vague. They linger, often for years and in vacant minds, until summoned.

Pie in the Sky

A slice of heaven at the locally-renowned Mt. Lemmon Cafe, elev. 7,795 ft. I figure the calories I burned on the way up were negated by my 1.5lb slice of strawberry rhubarb. Whatever it takes, I guess, for an excuse to get in the saddle again.

Rimmed

To some it's just a big hole in he ground. I like to think otherwise. I like to think of what still waits to be discovered within. What curiosities and splendor remain uncovered.

Dying Breed

What was once the destination of the West, takes its place among others as just another destination.

West of Winslow

In the 1920s, someone had a great idea. Connect Chicago to Los Angeles with a ribbon of asphalt. Route 66 was born, and with it so too was America's latest incarnation of Manifest Destiny. Long, lonesome stretches of highway, void of the bland of eastern living. Tourist traps soon lit up the golden highway. As such, cities grew and decayed by its path. What a great idea it was, at least for a while. Just as the towns, those bypassed by its rich stream of traffic, were swallowed up yet again by the plains, so too did this once grand idea vanish. It survives, now, only as a memory. A testament to our nation's will to tame the land, to inch ever closer to ambition.