The Real Wilderness The Plains Indians traditionally marked the passage from childhood to adulthood through a wilderness experience often called a vision quest. The purpose was simple: step away from the distractions of daily life and look inward. This story is about ten teenage girls who were given a similar opportunity in the rugged Chiricahua […]
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Travel has a way of stirring everything—excitement, anticipation, fatigue, stress, and sometimes discomfort we didn’t expect. Long drives, airport noise, unfamiliar beds, altitude changes, and tight schedules can quietly overwhelm the body and nervous system, even when the journey itself is something we’ve been looking forward to. What many travelers don’t realize is that the
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The Iconic Roadrunner One of the most well-known birds in North America, the road runner was an iconic symbol to humans long before the animated antics of Looney Tunes brought them into mainstream popularity. The roadrunner was designated the official state bird of New Mexico in 1949. Also called the chaparral bird, the roadrunner (Geococcyx
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While I was living in the White Mountains of Arizona, I had an opportunity to build a seven-circuit “Cretan” labyrinth, named after those found in ancient Greece on a friends property. The location was decided on the south side and down a short incline from her home. There were plenty of short old logs laying
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I was climbing up a long and steep hill in the Valles Caldera backcountry when I stumbled upon this beautiful elk antler. Tired and thirsty from the long climb, I sat down to gaze upon the antler. Towering Douglas fir trees outlined the distant view of the Valle Grande and the whole setting was profoundly
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Women can be just as wild and wooly as men. The ladies of the “Wild West” in this post were notorious female gamblers. Fierce and strong as any man, but in a different way. In this time period women had to use their charms and wits instead of the brawn a man usually displays. Gunsmoke’s
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Written by Katarina Betterton Only a handful of settings exist in the world where you can be in two places at once. Even fewer exist that allow you to stand in four different states! In the southwest of the United States, however, you can stand in four separate states at once. It’s called the Four
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