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Stairway to Heaven- Joshua Tree Trip report part 1 of 2

  Stairway to Heaven- Joshua tree trip report part I of 2 What is an experience of the desert?  Does it involve art? No. Terror? No.  Heightened consciousness? No.  Does it involve drugs, and death, and drama? Yes.  I wanted to go to the Desert to see the stars but it was so much more than that.  I know that I would have great conversations with my family, possibly a few meals.  Maybe I’d get a connection to nature, and enjoy other people’s  connection to nature.  I had a pocket full of cigarettes a head full of dreams, a wallet full of dollars, and my suitcase full of clothes, and money is paper, so I suppose I found spirituality in the desert if you could call that Devil’s play spirituality.  Would I connect with my family?  That remains to be seen.   Tuesday  After a loathsome flight from Providence to Baltimore to San Diego, which involved a declension into primitive subhuman manners,  we arrived in San...