Karmolette O’Gilvie, born and raised in Houston,
Texas, has lived in 29 palms for 27 years. She and her husband of
38 years moved to 29 as part of his military career.
Karmolette's first experience with desert was in
California. She and her husband were stationed in Camp Pendleton
and discovered 29 Palms by riding...
A
native of Wisconsin, Shana Rhodes says she didn’t feel the
connection she was hoping for in Portland when she decided to move
there.
Intrigued by a documentary about dancer Marta
Beckett, who landed in the Mojave desert under interesting
circumstances and spoke of the wild horses and amazing sunsets,
Shana said to...
Heather recalls her first experience with desert
was on a road trip with her grandmother and says that wasn't
the one that put the desert in her heart. At 14, on a Nile river
cruise to Egypt with her mother and grandmother, the desert set her
soul alight.
Years
later, living in Silicon Valley, Heather traveled to
LA...
Originally from the Philadelphia area, Janet
became enamored with the desert while traveling through New Mexico
on a family vacation to visit her dad’s one and only uncle in San
Diego. Driving through the desert she thought, “I have to
come back to this place.”