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...Navas is at the head of a syndicate that has bought 1,000 hectares of ranch land next to a six-mile beach to regenerate the dry tropical forest and build a tourism business....
...Oliver Roeder But to build 2,000 miles of fresh railroad through the desert and the mountains, you need money....
...In mid-April, Coachella will once again kick off deep in the Colorado Desert, with Blur, Grimes, Lana del Rey and Tyler the Creator among the big names....
...The railroads would sell their squares to fund arduous construction through mountains and deserts and snow....
...“But when farmers lose money, it’s like screaming in the middle of the desert.”...
...With the retro feel of an old-fashioned ranch house, Pousada Trijunção is an elegant rustic lodge, all salvaged wood and rich South American fabrics....
...And then he flies to Namibia with his wife for a three-week safari in the Kalahari Desert. After that, the focus will be on getting the Exxon deal over the line....
...It catered to station (ranch) hands, miners and swagmen. And then, in 2013, the Quamby’s landlord walked away, leaving it to rot....
...In 1934 she began spending summers at the Ghost Ranch, a “dude” or guest ranch with 21,000 acres of majestic rock walls and vast skies....
...Both The Inn and The Ranch sit in genuine oases that give out to the sublime, terrifying beauty of Death Valley....
...Sheffield and his wife then head to Namibia to celebrate his retirement with a three-week safari in the Kalahari Desert, before returning to the US “to make sure this deal with Exxon gets closed”....
...There is absolutely nothing else there, save Heizer’s little ranch and miles of low brush and dust. It is empty even by the standards of American deserts....
...It can feel hostile, a flat desert with relentless sun that tans you through your shirt. The plants all seem to have thorns....
...Undeterred, he tried again, buying a remote plot on the nearby high desert plateau peppered with sage and rush. Again, the remoteness defeated him....
...But get any distance out into the desert here (as any desert anywhere), and you are immediately, intensely aware of the preciousness of water, the sacredness of the rivers and streams that come tumbling...
...But it is the sense of theatre that dazzles: more than 100 staff look after only 30 guests, curating exceptional moments: staging secret dinners lit by hundreds of candles, erecting bivouacs on desert-hike...
...Back then, barely 21, I worked for six months on a cattle ranch in another high desert near Casper, Wyoming....
...Instead, he stayed at his ranch in Carson City, Nevada, a town once described by former resident Mark Twain as “a desert, walled in by barren, snow-clad mountains” without a tree in sight....
...Visitors to Taos included Aldous Huxley, Willa Cather, and DH Lawrence and his wife Frieda, who ended up staying for two years after Luhan gave them a ranch....
...Confined to a Mojave desert ranch by young Icarus Orson Welles (Tom Burke), the washed up Mankiewicz is forced back to the blank page....
...(And outside the realm of finance, Prado, whose father was a close confidante of former Spanish king Juan Carlos, can be found breeding cattle for bullfights at Torrealta, a prestigious ranch....
...I was given Moon, a well-behaved former ranch horse whose only fault was to stop to rub her belly on the desert sagebrush....
...Lautner had worked for Wright, but this desert spaceship was something else — sci-fi moderne of the highest and wackiest order....
...Monumental outdoor concrete sculptures sit in stark glory in the high-desert landscapes....
...We pull off at the gates of Estancia Mercedes, the siblings’ 13,000-hectare ranch....
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