Here are some Webpages that help me to prepare for my desert journeys:
Desert Exploration
- Desert Girls Exploration – (each desert trip presents a comprehensive gallery of the ecounters of these two desert ladies. This will open you eyes to wonder)
- Desert USA (a collection of resources about desert exploration)
- Desert Magazine (complete online collection of the issues of this out-of-print magazine on the desert. Detailed maps and historical background to desert sites)
- Digital Desert (orients you to various California desert sites. Some of their photos over a 360 degree view of certain locations)
- Death-Valley.net (collection of Death Valley resources)
- Owens Valley History (collection of Owens Valley resources, including oral histories)
- Animas Institute (workshops and retreats connecting spirituality and nature). http://www.animas.org/
Media News
- Episcopal Priest Reveals Desert Spiritual Mysteries
- Priest Finds Redemption in the Desert
- Finding the Holy Amid Desert Beauty
Desert Spirituality
- Rubén Martínez – Desert Pilgrimage (Pulitzer Prize writer connects stories of desert struggles with Ignatian spirituality)
- Ernest E. Larkin – Desert Spirituality
- Sister Mary Christa Kroening, OSB – Desert Spirituality – Silence, Solitude, Simplicity
- Desert
- Interrupting the Silence
- Jewish Hermits in the Desert (reminds us that the desert is foundational to Judaism too)
- The Desert Foundation
Museums and Associations
- Kern County Archaeological Society
- Pacific Coast Archaeological Society
- Death Valley Natural History Association
- Maturango Museum (one of finest desert museums, currently undergoing expansion at the Ridgecrest CA site)
- Mojave River Valley Museum
- Eastern California Museum (excellent exhibits on Native American, mining, pioneers and the Manzanar WWII Relocation Camp. Staff is helpful as you explore their research library. Located in Independence CA)
- Lone Pine Film History Museum (All the Western film heroes we remember made movies in Lone Pine. Even today major movie productions are filmed here: Iron Man, Gladiator, and Django Unchained. Roy Rodgers and Hoppy still live here!)
- Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center & Museum