A Centaurs Journey Blog

Earlier this week Dr Tom Fleishner came to visit and reported that this has been the driest summer in Arizona since 1900. You can see the signs of this in the dry hole s by the windmills, the absence of mesquite beans, and fewer tuna on the prickly pears.

At the end of each day on our shakedown expedition I would lay down w/ tired muscles under threatening skies as  storms spun off a hurricane in the gulf of mexico.  Moisture passing off in every direction around us, but barely a sprinkle coming our way.

Of all te things that will shape this expedition across Arizona, the absence of water in an already parched landscape pushes us to depend on more resources; to depend on our logisiticians, the use of fossil fuels, and seeing the truck more than we wpould like. Saying yes to this journey is not a casual action- the challengesand costs are sobering. We comit ourselves to a process, a journey, not necessarily the destination.  What possibilities will we create?