From
the age of nine, Petra Cimbalova dreamed of leaving the Czech
Republic and traveling to exotic places. Growing up she kept a book
of photographs, cut from magazines of islands and other distant
lands. Inspired by cousins, who'd returned to the Czech Replublic
after living in Germany for many years, Petra
embarked...
A
native of Michigan, Jane and her then husband moved to Southern
California in the late 60's. A trip with her young family to Indian
Cove, near Joshua Tree National Park, planted the seed for Jane's
love of the desert.
Jane
first came to live in the desert in the 80's under very different
circumstances: divorced,...
At the
age of eight, Mary Bell Cassle's father handed her a carburetor and
it's schematic and said, "Put this back together." And she
did. Now Mary finds herself in her second semester of the
Automotive program at Copper Mountain College, with the goal of
adding to the female ranks of the automotive industry.
Annelies Kuiper is of Dutch descent, born in
Kenya, Africa eight years before Kenya received it's independence
from Britain. With no rights to Kenyan citizenship, it was
difficult to find work so Annelies made the difficult decision to
leave and has only been back to Kenya twice since
1974.
A
native of Los Angeles, Kat Johnson says her first trips to the
desert in the 1970's were inspired by the desert sounds of The
Eagles. She wouldn't come back again until six years ago at the
suggestion of a then boyfriend. Kat wasn't really excited
about a trip to the desert, but the vacation rental close to the
park...