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Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ

Saguaro Sunrise, Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ, February 1, 2012
Saguaro Sunrise, Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ, February 1, 2012

Cave Creek Regional Park is a busy new RV park and recreational area near Cave Creek AZ.

This is a busy park and reservations are required but there is a large overflow parking area for those without reservations.

Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ

Nights I've camped here

A Voyage and a Harbor

The native American was forced westward by the young escaping the limits of east coast villages that had been established only a generation or two earlier by parents escaping the limits of European villages. From then on, whether seeking a whale, rafting with Huck Finn, easy riding with Peter Fonda, or next week in Cancun, there has been a strong belief in America that happiness lies somewhere else. And yet as we find freedom we also rediscover loneliness. As geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says, we require both shelter and venture. We need freedom and support, silence and cacophony, the vast and distant but also the warm and near, a voyage and a harbor, the great adventure and the hobbit hole. Much of the iconography of our times gives little sense of this. Instead, the individual is treated as a self-sufficient, self-propelled vehicle moving across a background of other things, other places, and other people.

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