For 22 winters I’ve been coming to this very special place in the Transition Zone of the Northern Sonoran Desert. Some winters for only a couple of weeks. Others for months on end. At 4,000 feet in elevation, anything can happen with the weather….and does. Special places exist because we want them to. Special places…

As I begin this next year of travels, I’m reminded of a great quote from Swiss writer Alain de Botton…. “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes…

“ The Edge…Only those who have gone over know exactly where it is.” Hunter S Thompson