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The Desert Speaks
Beyond the Asphalt, Part II
Season 19
Episode 1904
Interstate highways allow for quick trips, but they also provide a gateway to some of the most amazing places you’ll ever visit. Host David Yetman travels by foot, car, bike, and motorcycle to examine the caves of Kartchner Caverns State Park, the historic sites of Tombstone, the Sandhill Cranes of Sulphur Springs Valley and the “Wonderland of Rocks” in the Chiricahua Moutains.
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Host David Yetman takes a trip to the pueblos of the Sierra Madre.
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Host David Yetman and his brother take a geological road trip to Utah’s Colorado Plateau.
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Host David Yetman travels to track jaguar movements through Eastern Sonora Mexico.
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Travel through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Quitobaquito Springs.
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Travel around the Puna, the high-elevation plains of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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We trace the Atacama Desert Trade route from the Pacific coast to the Chilean Andes.
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.