Last weekend I went quadding up in the high plains desert of Arizona. The photo below is taken just above an old stage coach stop in the rolling hills of the high plains.
The high plains desert is a lot like the Australian scrub. There is very little water but an awful lot of vegetation that has adapted to the water sparse environment. About thirty metres to the left of where I took the picture was a natural spring. Which probably accounts for why it was a 19thC stage coach resting place.
The high plains desert is a lot like the Australian scrub. There is very little water but an awful lot of vegetation that has adapted to the water sparse environment. About thirty metres to the left of where I took the picture was a natural spring. Which probably accounts for why it was a 19thC stage coach resting place.We traveled as a group with a jeep, a ute and two quads; driving up through a dry river bed, to a wash and on to a ghost mining town via what I would call fire access roads though I think they were graded because there was still some mining interests in the area.
The Arizona sun is very strong. Like Australia it is easy to get sunburnt even when being conscious of the damage it can do. Then again you can also take your shirt off deliberately to get a tan and shun the skin cancer concerns. Since I grew up in Sydney shirtless I am probably close to a lost cause anyway.
For the first time since moving to the US I have a tan. Ironically it makes me feel ... almost ... aussie again.
The Arizona sun is very strong. Like Australia it is easy to get sunburnt even when being conscious of the damage it can do. Then again you can also take your shirt off deliberately to get a tan and shun the skin cancer concerns. Since I grew up in Sydney shirtless I am probably close to a lost cause anyway.
For the first time since moving to the US I have a tan. Ironically it makes me feel ... almost ... aussie again.
