“Amongst the cholla”, on the Fantasy Island Trail. Photo ©Erika Burkhalter

Travel, Photography

Revisiting my Roots in Tucson, Arizona

Those vast blue skies and desert wildlife will always have a piece of my heart

Published in
6 min readApr 20, 2024

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I wasn't born a desert rat. But I became one at age eleven, when my family moved from the snowy realms of Upstate New York to Tucson, Arizona.

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Photographer, yogi, cat-mom, lover of travel and nature, spreading amazement for Mother Earth, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MA Yoga, MS Neuropsychology)