Day 51 - December 21st

"Entering the Sonoran Desert on the winter solstice!"

Day 50 - December 20th

Day 49 - December 19th

Day 48 - December 18th

An undated photo taken by Sam on some previous day.

Day 47 - December 17th

The following two images, courtesy of Google Earth, have pins indicating Sam's location a few miles east of Tonopah, close to Buckeye, at the time he sent the above Scribbling.  

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Day 46 - December 16th

Song of The Day

Day 45 - December 15th

Merry Christmas!

Reporting from Maricopa, Arizona! Here's what the family tree looks like back home. A pair of ficus trees aren't traditional but I sure wish I was home to see it in all its ungainly majesty.

I hope you're all safe and warm and with good people.

Love,
Sam

Day 44 - December 14th

Day 43 - December 13th

Day 42 - December 12th

Heather Huhtala and myself at Bouse Public Library. 

Thanks for letting me use the computers, Heather!

Day 41 - December 11th

Day 40 - December 10th

Day 39 - December 9th

The Colorado river doing it's thing, being sexy and all that.

Day 38 - December 8th

Day 37 - December 7th

The following entry by Blog Support:

For those of you with an interest, here is an entry about the "Shoe Tree / Shoe Fence" Sam encountered in the ghost town of Rice taken from the Wikipedia page on Rice, CA. 

Direct link- Wikipedia - Rice,California - Rice Shoe Tree

Rice Shoe Tree

Rice became noted for its Rice Shoe Tree, a lone tamarisk on a turnout just south of the highway. For reasons unknown, it became customary for travelers on Highway 62 (also known as Rice Road) to and from the Colorado River to hang an old shoe on the tree's branches. The tree was featured on California's Gold, a PBS program hosted by Huell Howser. The tree burned to the ground in 2003 in a fire of suspicious origin, after which a 'shoe garden' replaced it; a fence on which people hang shoes instead. Travelers still stop to spell their names on the nearby Arizona and California Railroad right-of-way with the multi-colored volcanic rock used as ballast. Hand-assembled graffiti lines the railroad for the entire distance that it parallels Highway 62.

This image courtesy of Wikipedia

Day 36 - December 6th

I can see tomorrow's walking today