Happy October! Having grown up in Vermont, famous for its autumn foliage splendor, it's been odd to experience autumn in southern Arizona. I'm living vicariously through my computer desktop wallpapers, all gushingly nostalgic, picturesque images of blazing new england autumns.
Nonetheless. The desert really is a home to me, and one of many benefit of being
here right now? I sunbathed today. MMMhmmm. 89 degrees.
The first few days of October have already offered some wonderful experiences with friends and community. Yesterday, I embarked to the town of
Bisbee, AZ, about an hour from Patagonia, with a couple friends. Bisbee is one of the more odd towns I've ever been to. Rich with history, transformed from a massive mining town to an arts, music, and culture oriented hub whose residents are passionate about its story. It is also home to the
Bisbee 1000 race, which my friend and fellow raw food
Tim Van Orden runs.
After a delicious brunch at the Tree of Life Cafe, replete with zucchini duck sculpture, I embarked with Sarah and Lara to make the scenic drive to Bisbee, toting cucumbers and tomatoes as snacks :)
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| Live Food Pizza! |
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| Tree of Life Brunch |
In Bisbee, we walked around the victorian old west style town, visiting the many art galleries, boutiques and cafes, including this "High Desert Market and Cafe", which had a juice bar and carried many organic products, and even raw vegan chocolate from
Sedona Chocolate Superfoods. We enjoyed a Bisbee-grown (or wild, likely) pomegranate.
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| One of the many long stairways in Bisbee |
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| Lara and I walking in Bisbee |
After our tour of the town, we stopped by the even more oddly placed organic food co-op. About a mile outside of the town, the co-op is a relatively large store, the only one not abandoned on a strip of store fronts placed literally on the cliff of the massive mine that Bisbee grew around. Checking out at the counter with my raw superfood snack bar looking at the view of the... huge pit right behind the store was quite unique.
Such odd energy, mines. We can talk about the energetics of digging a massive hole in the Earth and depleting it of all its natural minerals there, and what that might do to a town, but that's another dialogue. Did I mention Bisbee is known for being haunted?
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| Another view of the mine from the co-op. It goes waaaaaay farther down than what's shown here. |
After returning to Patagonia, I continued my night's adventures at a dance party hosted by
Vivapura at their awesome warehouse. Chocolate and dancing, really does it get better than that?
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| Robert of Tree of Life and Michelle of Vivapura |
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| Sarah and I at the party |
Happy October :)
Courtney
