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Ideas Field Notebook Published Stories ideas August 15, 2010 What it's like in Patagonia All you can see is the lightless inside of your small tent, no reference but for the sound of multi-thousand ton concussions echoing from peak to peak... August 11, 2010 My new book, Finders Keepers, is out! Beyond what most people think about archaeology--with its cleanly numbered dates, and discoveries--lies a vibrant and controversial realm of scientists, thieves, and contested land claims... June 04, 2010 Thank you Gulf of Mexico... For taking the blow for me... field notebook Spring, 2009 Utah I keep rehearsing in my head what it will feel like to walk straight to these cave-arches, congratulating the compass of my body, but poking down one bedrock draw after the next I see my compass is off... Winter, 2008 Colorado How many more children could we have? The curiosity will never end. They are each like opening Pandora's box... Winter, 2008 Colorado Late that night JT and I are running through the dark with torches outstretched, boots crashing through wind-hardened snow. We move fast, as if we had stolen this fire from the gods... published stories July 17, 2009 Perfect Quiet Searching for refuge -- and, perhaps, health -- in a sickeningly loud world. June 15, 2009 The Southwest's good ol' artifact boys You might have an imaginary picture of the pot hunters and collectors, a crew of dirty, well-armed black-market privateers roving the desert (in the case of many Western pot hunters, you'd be right)... June 09, 2009 The Memory of Water It is a hard and beautiful way to live, counting on ephemeral water holes like this. You have to be ready for long periods of waiting, traveling at night to preserve water in your body, sleeping in daytime shade...

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