Sunday, April 27, 2008

The Solution

Correct - the Joshua Tree Desert where the Garden of Eden is to be found; it is called Hidden Valley. The Californian High Desert is now my favourite place on earth.

6 comments:

  1. Ah and I see it's Zippy's last resting place too - another who paid the price of excess...

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  2. If you ever plan to motor west
    Just take my way, that's the highway that's the best
    I hope that's what was on your CD player Bryan, Buckweat Zydeco's version, of course.

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  3. Gram is Gram Parsons, onetime member of the country-rock groups Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, and singer of haunting duets with Emmylou Harris. Parsons had an obsessive attraction to Joshua Tree in his last, drug-addled years and (I think) died there of an overdose. Friends stole his body from a mortuary and partially cremated it at the stone in the picture.

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  4. Come back in mid-August, or mid-December, and let us know if you feel the same about it.

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  5. Given Bryan's sudden infatuation with the high desert of California, perhaps we should all pray that he doesn't fall down the same rabbit hole as poor Gram Parsons.

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