Ours was a land mass of forests and rivers and deserts and plains, a tangled and disconnected tableau that disappeared from view with the blackness of night.

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So this spring, as is the case every spring, global warming is allowing earlier planting seasons, spurring higher crop production, assisting forests, shrinking deserts, and reducing drought.

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Deserts, old growth forests and lakes are all within easy reach.

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It was a somewhat rectangular loop that took us through deserts, mountains, forests, adobe villages, big cities, college towns, and nowhere truck stop areas where every bordering rusted RV seemed a home base for would-be Walters and Jesses cooking up their next batch of Blue Sky.

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