Even before I moved there, I could see the Old Pueblo’s superiority. Tucson had a singular, authentically Sonoran Desert character that evolved from its origin as a military outpost in Spain’s old northern territory, then developed in the isolation resulting from Phoenicians’ dismissal of the city as a backwater.
I still believe in wild nature, but in my young, confused Thoreauvian worldview, urban areas were cancerous “man-made” places to escape, not savor, so I fled Tucson every chance I got, just as I had fled Phoenix the year before. I read a lot of ecology and nature books back then, and what compounded my avoidance was my belief that the wilderness held the answers to all of humanity’s questions - from the meaning of life to cures for cancer to an objective sense of right and wrong. Sitting still meant dealing with temptation hiking kept me on track.
I’d smoked too much weed during the previous three years, and I was trying to quit in order to find my calling. I was restless at age 20, lost, searching for something beyond my reach and always beyond my understanding, some cosmic insight and career path that Mother Nature’s vast deserts seemed capable of offering in a way cities could not. Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains, Sycamore Canyon in the Pajarito Mountains - in those first Tucson months, I saw more of this rugged landscape than many University of Arizona students did in four years of college, yet I never really saw my new city for what it was, because I didn’t take the time. Struggling with my isolation and anxiety about life, I tried to work through my twitchy misdirection in the border region’s dry mountain forests and lowland deserts, taking advantage of the long highways that gave me time for silent contemplation at 75 miles per hour. And yet I couldn’t stand to be alone and sit still either. My previous friendships had only helped me turn myself into a pothead. I didn’t know anybody in Tucson, and I didn’t want to - not yet. Half a year passed during which I spent as little time in my sad, lonely apartment as possible. I ditched class to hike during the week and drove all over Arizona’s rugged southeastern corner to hike the whole weekend.
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