all border-related

Today I learned that besides sounding like a ridiculous way to keep Mexicans from crossing into the US, Yuma's proposed moat would make a little piece of the Colorado River wet again, so people could go fishing and have a bike path. That sounds kind of nice.

In other border-crossing news, that land bridge the Native Americans crossed a zillion years ago was actually much bigger than I gleaned from my elementary school coursework. Maybe my little-kid imagination failed in the face of a bridge wider than six lanes.

In just general desert news, your dog can take a rattlesnake-avoidance class from the Humane Society.