# Xmas Tree Canyon - Link: https://mywalkabout.net/xmas-tree-canyon/ - Published: 2021-07-13T05:19:14-07:00 - Author: My Walkabout **The lands where** Arizona, Nevada and California meet is a vast desert wasteland. A zombie apocalypse in waiting. A place where people come to disappear from the world, and if disturbed may very well ruin your day. It’s desolate, lonely, and unforgiving. My favorite place to explore. ![](https://i0.wp.com/mywalkabout.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_1759.jpg?resize =640%2C360&ssl=1) **Rumbling along the dusty back roads**, I see the clouds forming over the mountains in the distance. I drive toward the nuclear winter, wondering what or who else may also be out there. I find Christmas Tree Canyon, perhaps so aptly named because one finds unique landscapes and vistas around each bend in the road like new presents for younglings under a family tree during the Holidays. ![](https://i0.wp.com/mywalkabout.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_1766.jpg?resize =640%2C480&ssl=1) **The emptiness around soothes me**. The toxic clouds drop a smattering of rain that I catch on my beak, as the radiation bubbles and emanates a poison that chokes the breath out of me for a spell. No one here to save me but myself. So let it be written, so let it be done. ![](https://i0.wp.com/mywalkabout.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_1770.jpg?resize =640%2C480&ssl=1) **I wander around slowly,** letting the area seep into my pores, and maybe even into what is left of my soul. I leave the canyon feeling dark, foreboding apprehension about the coming madness. ![](https://i0.wp.com/mywalkabout.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_1773.jpg?resize =640%2C480&ssl=1) **The bermuda triangle** of The West this area is, and with wonder it is that each time I enter this patch of earth, I emerge alive and able to tell another tale. ### Share this: * [ Email ](https://mywalkabout.net/xmas-tree-canyon/?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Xmas%20Tree%20Canyon&body=https%3A%2F%2Fmywalkabout.net%2Fxmas-tree-canyon%2F&share=email) * [Post](https://x.com/share) * [Share on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/share) * [ WhatsApp ](https://mywalkabout.net/xmas-tree-canyon/?share=jetpack-whatsapp) * [ Nextdoor ](https://mywalkabout.net/xmas-tree-canyon/?share=nextdoor) * [ Threads ](https://mywalkabout.net/xmas-tree-canyon/?share=threads) * [[ * [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) * [ Reddit ](https://mywalkabout.net/xmas-tree-canyon/?share=reddit) ### Like this: Like Loading…