Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Well, night has fallen on the desert

And I finally did it

I finally added 29 palms

To the list of high desert communities

That I have called home

At least for a month

There's got the valley that I have called home, at least for a month.

You got the valley, North Joshua Tree, South Joshua Tree, Flamingo Heights, Pioneer Town, Feelin. The Feelein is over by Pinyon Hills, Western Mojave

between the Antelope Valley and the Victor Valley. Very nice out there, but no

national parks, no national parks and no national monuments and too many strip malls and

too many suburbs, but it's nice up by Indian Hills. By Juniper Hills. That whole area up against the north slope of the San Gabriel Mountains,

Val Yermo headed up to big pines and rightwood.

They've got Joshua trees twice as big around as the ones here in Joshua Tree.

Now, when you've lived a lot of here in Joshua Tree.

Now, when you've lived a lot of places, and I've lived in about 50 at last count, all over this country and Europe and mostly Eastern Europe,

I've lived so many places that I came up with my own rule, my own metric

regarding whether or not I really lived somewhere or whether it was a long work trip or a vacation,

whatever that is, the rule was this. If you got your mail forwarded to the address, you really

live there.

But with email and online billing and all the dull horrors of modern existence

following you around so that you can't even pick up your phone without being confronted with this ridiculous and constant flow of garbage now you really

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