My latest book, Leaving Tucson: Travels in an Uncertain Time, has just been released (available on Amazon in both e-book and pocketbook editions). An early version of the story Getting the Shaft in Mexico, which first appeared on this site, is included in this latest volume. The book covers several excursions around the desert southwest as…

HAYLEY AND I MOVED SOUTH, trading the cold desert of Wyoming for the hot desert of Arizona. We traveled through more desert along the way, starting with the Red Desert near the Colorado border. Geologists refer to this region as an endorheic basin. Any rain that has the misfortune of falling here cannot look forward to…