So on the way back from Arizona, I thought it would be fun to take pictures to show you some of the different kinds of desert. I know, some of you may have seen pictures like this from other trips. I tried to time it so that I would catch the sun setting over San Diego from the same mountain pass that I took the sunrise pictures from when I was leaving San Diego… but I was a little behind schedule… I did end up driving whilst staring right into the sun once again…
It is only a 5 and a half hour drive from San Diego to Scottsdale in Arizona or back, but you learn about deserts. There is the sandy, scrub brushy, saguaro cactus kind…
I did a lot of one-handed driving to get these pictures. I like clouds, and if you look carefully in the center of that picture, I swear you can see cloud sex…
There are places where they have made the desert green, fields stretching away to sun-scorched mountain ranges.
But there are many more miles of scrub brush…
In a few places… including right beside a convenient rest area, there are miles of scattered volcanic rock.
There are also big hills made of the same stuff…
Because that is what most deserts need more of… volcanoes…
There are miles of tumble weeds… stretching away to… wait… is that a pyramid???
There are rocks and hills and mountains of all sizes and shapes and colors…
And places where the highway vanishes in the distance, covered with shimmering mirage water… and the mountains are so far away in all directions that it seems like you can never reach them… Seriously, can you imagine doing this in a covered wagon drawn by oxen moving less than five miles a day?
Wait… are those tumble weeds growing in straight lines??? Is the government growing tumble weeds … for some top secret purpose??? Are we running out of tumble weeds???
Sand… lots of sand…
And even huge sand dunes…
I was trying so hard to get to the last mountain range for the sunset…
I risked speeding tickets and maybe my life…
But I just couldn’t make it.
Pouring My Art Out 
So, what you really are saying–is you’ve been through the desert in a steel horse with no name?
I need somebody to tell me what I am really saying…
Me too–I need a spin doctor, or maybe just a doctor.
HA!!!
Cloud sex!!
oh my
Wait, I came here for sex… and all I got was clouds! Whaaaaaat…
That was some pretty steamy cloud action…
Somewhere, God is like… hey, I know, I think I’ll create some wonderful earthly panorama for my little bitty creations to look upon and feel inspired – and you know, maybe in the form of some wild clouds or something like that. And what does Art do? He makes it about sex. Take that, God!
He needs to take some responsibility for horny clouds…
Imagine changing sand to gold,
now that would be stupid!
aH…..
It would…. because then it wouldn’t be worth anything… too much of it
Yeah!
haey
ahey
ahoy
hA…….
wheeee
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gessundheit…
hA, german?
well, we say it here too
you mean say too
I do?
Married again!
whoops
Yeah, like whoops will fix everything?
hA!
no… hoops will fix everything
You mean, i can’t jump through the necessary hoops?
you will hurt yourself
i always do!
Liking putting your hand in hot flame? i never learn that i get burned everytime…
that’s not good
Hell, no….
no hell
Damn, we’re on the same page!
It’s a short book
Cover, index, back cover, story of my life!
ha
naaaaaaaa…
na na na na na na
lol
olo
lol
…ooo000ooo…
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Wrong…..
fine
Fucked up, insecure, neurotic an emotional…
no need to get personal
Awe touched your feeling…
I have feelings???
Really, i didn’t know, you felt that way?
ha
hA……….
haw
aWh
No heaven, either!
bummer
Whoops…
… a…daisy
pocket full of lazy…
and a head full of crazy…
Yeah!
that too
Me too?
maybe
maybe you’re wrong!
had to happen sooner or later
You mean most of the time!
that too
An me too!
I don’t doubt it
Doubt is my middle name..
is that hyphenated???
i don’t know is it?
that is the question
What you mean, the question is
“that is?”
it it?
is is!