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Some places are like a world you’ve never been to before. I don’t drive and so have the advantage of more opportunity to see things when someone else is driving. It is a memory from a long time ago, but I do remember my feeling that it was like watching a movie in this unique desert panorama with forms of vegetation that seemed so marvelously alien that I could pretend that I was on another planet. Hot and dry, yes, but what a revelation when you have never seen that kind of desert before. Many people think that all desert is alike, but no, none of it is. I come from low desert; not sand, but arid and with shrubs and cactus. To me, California is an amazing place of variety in plants, levels and people.

I want to ride the lite rail to the Mall of America, because it would be an adventure that I would enjoy. I love trains!!! I remember the first train I ever rode was from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City and I was six years old. It was such an interesting experience I have never forgotten it. The sights, the sounds, the smells. All these things lend themselves so dearly to anything you write.