French Canadians in the Desert
The <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1822&entry_id=1644" title="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/travel/story.html?id=f80c8cdd-9e28-452f-9676-3123303844b0" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/travel/story.html?id=f80c8cdd-9e28-452f-9676-3123303844b0′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Montreal Gazette</a> visited Arizona and all they got was a lousy T-Shirt.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Visiting Arizona for the first time, I found the arid hot landscape as different from Canada as the surface of Mars and, initially, about as inviting….<br />
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As I peeled away the layers, the desert revealed itself as a place of delicate and unusual beauty….<br />
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The bleakness is punctuated by towering saguaro cacti whose limbs reach skyward as though calling for rain.</span><br /></div><br />I’ve been to Montreal and had a good time there. I wonder if the Phoenix paper has written a travel article about Montreal recently? I’d like to read that.<br /><br />