y mid­night this time of year, the Milky Way has risen to the ceil­ing of the sky. The desert has cooled to short-sleeve tem­per­a­tures with­out the uncom­fort­able humid­i­ty that accom­pa­nies the thun­der­storm months of July and August. We tra­versed about 100 miles of … Con­tin­ue read­ing →