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Welcome to my belated Rumspringa. It’s July 13th and I can put it off no longer. The cold feet, nerves and hesitation can no longer be counted on to do their job. I’m bound for Florida. I’m heading into that barren, boiling wasteland that lies beyond La Mesa. It’s an emotional sendoff as Rebecca, tearsContinue reading “WELL HELLO”

Ocotillo Wells is where Satan goes on spring break. A series of trailers and out buildings clumped around a desert highway, it has the look of an abandoned leper colony. Riding through its 108 degrees, the bike is overheating and I can hardly see straight. But it’s too hot to stop in this godforsaken wasteland.Continue reading “WELLS”

Arizona is a nightmarish post apocalyptic landscape…much like Detroit. Flat, devoid of trees with all the personality of a one legged pedophile clown, scoring crack at a truck stop. Riding its roads you have a vision of what the whole planet will look like in twenty years; hot, sandy, bone dry and full of peopleContinue reading “ARIZONA”

All you need to know about Arizona’s attitude to incarceration can be seen in the Jail Tree: prisoners would be tied to this tree to stop them escaping. Seen as too progressive by the good people of Arizona, prisoners are now instead forced to spend summers in Phoenix. Dear Christians of Arizona: quick question. IContinue reading “ZONA”

Hi Jolly was a man who moved from Syria to Quartzite, Arizona to join the US armies short lived camel core. If that’s not the back story for a superhero, I don’t know what is! The film pretty much writes itself. I often think of the pioneers arriving in this area, having escaped rat infestedContinue reading “NO PLACE TO BE”

Monument Valley. A place desperate for a theme park if ever there was one. And perhaps a water slide too, oh and decent wifi wouldn’t hurt either. Don’t get me wrong this iconic destination is lovely… for the first five minutes. Windswept and hot, the endless brown desert strangles the will to live. Nothing aContinue reading “MONUMENT VALLEY”

Never mind the fires, shouldn’t we be more concerned with roaming gangs of pyromanic bears who have mastered  the ability to use matches and are marauding through the southwest igniting the countryside! 

Not many people know Arizona is originally a Navaho word. Ari meaning hot and zona meaning as fuck.

People of New Mexico, please stop shooting your signs. Made by hard working felons for your geographical information, they’ve done nothing to you. Leave the signs alone. You know your life has taken a turn for the worse when you wake up in Albuquerque. Situated somewhere in middle earth, its like if hell had aContinue reading “NEW MEXICO”

The thing about staying in moderately priced hotels is that you run the risk of some of them being shit holes. There’s one in New Mexico took the grand prize. Given one star in the Hobo Hideaways Almanac, it seemed to be a halfway house for scary looking, knife wielding, face tattooed ex-convicts. There wasContinue reading “HOTEL HELL”