I live in the desert in the northwestern most part of town. If you drive south or east it will be 45 minutes before you get anywhere good and if you drive north or west it will be a lot longer than that. On Saturday we got in the car and drove north and west, further into the desert, past the windmills and old miners' shacks. We drove and we drove until a great city was born of the barren stillness. Beyond the great city was the ocean. We had been here before. We we were in Los Angeles.
