The Desert

Finally we have arrived into the Texas desert. Patrick says this is not the terrain he had imagined. There is too much vegetation. That was my own first impression. I made this same trip in 1989: a lifetime ago. And, without asking it to do so, my mind draws a line between then and now. Both trips have a desert crossing. Both signify some important marker in my life. Sometimes I wish foresight was also 20/20.