From: howD@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article , russell-watson@att.net   
   says...   
      
   >"What   
   >the hell were the first guys who ever came out here on nothing but   
   >horses thinking?" Talk about balls...   
      
   Those like myself, who grew up with the Chihuahuan   
   desert for a playground - literally - have a very   
   different take on the desert environs than someone   
   who is a 'foreigner' to it. The current issue of   
   National Geographic - as an example - has an article   
   on the people who LIVE and eke out a living "where   
   rain never falls" - the Atacamba Desert of Chile.   
   That place makes the deserts of SW USA look like   
   a lush savanah.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)