I heard echoes of car doors slamming shut and voices carried by the wind during the storm last night…this parched and arid desert aching with thirst while the thunder rumbles through the rock-bound cliffs and the magnetic night... electricified by the unquenched sky…
....thunder and lightning all night long but barely a drop of rain. This merciless desert wind whipped blazing intensity through the campsite like the cruel pranksters in A Clockwork Orange, overturning crates with whirling dust-devils that hurl cold ashes into the cholla cactus…
The first thing you realize when you become a desert dweller is that time is indeed a relative matter; the heat is non-negotiable. The body has a natural response to unrelenting one hundred ten degrees and naturally regulates it’s metabolism by switching into the energy-conservation mode.
When water is in short supply or is of a questionable source, it becomes even more critical to conserve…conserve water…conserve energy. Take a nap in the van in the sweltering heat, in the shadeless desert sun.....and you will be transformed
....thunder and lightning all night long but barely a drop of rain. This merciless desert wind whipped blazing intensity through the campsite like the cruel pranksters in A Clockwork Orange, overturning crates with whirling dust-devils that hurl cold ashes into the cholla cactus…
The first thing you realize when you become a desert dweller is that time is indeed a relative matter; the heat is non-negotiable. The body has a natural response to unrelenting one hundred ten degrees and naturally regulates it’s metabolism by switching into the energy-conservation mode.
When water is in short supply or is of a questionable source, it becomes even more critical to conserve…conserve water…conserve energy. Take a nap in the van in the sweltering heat, in the shadeless desert sun.....and you will be transformed