So Long, Ajo Arizona!

“I get the urge for going”

It’s about that time of year again – the days are getting warmer and northern mountains, forests, and rivers call.

There should be a “moving on” from a winter in the desert like Joni Mitchell’s “I get the urge for going”:

I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky, then it gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold
And all trees are shivering in a naked row
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go
I get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown.

That’s such a beautiful song and it captures many of my melancholy and bittersweet moods and feelings, as I get the urge for and reflect upon going. (But I must admit that I prefer Tom Rush’s version, though)

Ajo is a cool little town – and there’s plenty of surrounding BLM desert lands to camp in.

Spectacular landscape – colors, light, vegetation. Lizards, small birds, wild burrows, javelina, bobcat, coyote, blazing sun, crystal clear blue skies, mountains, arroyo’s and crazy riot riparian vegetation.  …… Silence. …..  Solitude.

The singing coyotes and swooping ravens kept Bouy busy this year in chase. And they both kept me up many a night – a pack of coyote singing followed by dog howling and barking!.

So, so long Ajo – maybe we meet again next year.

We got the urge for going – where? …..