This post covers the last 24 days of our 2024 road trip, Aug. 18 to Sep. 10. It took us three days to drive from Rochester, NY to Alabama, to visit my niece Sara. She is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University doing research on alcoholism using tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. It […]
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Monsoonal Madness
We left northern New Mexico on August 4, heading towards the borderlands to look for plants dependent on monsoonal rains. On the way, we drove through Petrified Forest National Park to look for Parryella filifolia, a pea family shrub, which we easily located. Trees and shrubs can usually be identified even if not flowering or […]
Southeast Arizona
After vacating the Great Basin Desert a second time, due to unseasonably cold weather, we spent four nights on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in the Pahrump Valley in Nevada, just a hundred yards from the California border. We had visited the California part of the valley several times before retirement, looking for uncommon […]
Nomadic Naturalists 