We had one week of spring bliss in Tennessee. Knoxville’s flora was in its full glory and the temperatures soared into the 80s. This is one of my two favorite times of the year in the area, the other one being Fall.
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By Oana Harrison
PUBLISHED in ROVA Magazine, March/April 2025 issue
The desert: dust, death, and desolation. Or at least that’s how I used to think about it before our springtime road trip to the Southwest. Eight months into a full-time RV year that my husband, David, and I had embarked upon, we headed west through Texas to New Mexico, Arizona, the California coast and back. Along the way, we discovered unique places in the Chihuahua, Sonora, Mojave, and Colorado Deserts. The Southwest offered incredible natural nuances, from shifting sand dunes to endless canyons, to lush oases and blue lakes. This landscape I’d once viewed as dead and quiet, the desert was teeming with life. And nothing prepared me for the intense orange-purple sunsets or the Technicolor desert in bloom.
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