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Last Monday we drove ninety miles east to the Desert View Tower. I'd been meaning to take the kids there for months. Amazing view and irresistible climbing-rocks, that's what everyone says about the place.

We'll have to take their word for it.

Jane and I thought the sign alone—"blight or famine"?—made the trip worthwhile, but some members of the back seat brigade opined otherwise.

We all loved seeing the wind farm, though.

A ballet of giants: breathtaking.

The desert was spread with a threadbare q...