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Summary graphic: A helmeted motorcycle rider takes a photo of a rainbow arcing over a vista of red rocks and buttes.

Behind The Photo: The Rider and The Rainbow (Torrey, UT)

2022-11-06
On: 11/06/2022
In: The West

We stopped to look up at the last remnant of the storm that had just hit Torrey, UT: a rainbow arcing above the road to Capitol Reef.

Summary graphic: The coal elevator of Peabody Energy's Kayenta Mine at night.

Channeling Hayduke’s Ghost At Arizona’s Kayenta Mine

2021-04-17
On: 04/17/2021
In: The West

You don’t need any signs to explain what you’re looking at when you’re near Arizona’s Kayenta Mine. All you need is a copy of Ed Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang.

Summary graphic: A sun-scorched container tank rises above a warehouse-style building. Midway up the tank, lettering indicates the SEA LEVEL line.

Escape to San Diego, 2008, Part II: The Desert

2010-06-30
On: 06/30/2010
In: The West

San Diego is huge: over a million people. It used to be in Mexico. The weather attracts young adults and bums from pretty much all of the southwest.

Escape to San Diego, 2008, Part I: The Coast

2010-06-29
On: 06/29/2010
In: Photo Essays, The West

I grew very tired of whatever I had been doing. I decided to engage some temporary manifest destiny and go west to explore San Diego and its vast desert backyard. This is what I saw.

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