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		<title>Veterans&#8217; Day 2025, Go For Broke: the 442nd Regimental Combat Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I traveled the back roads of Western Arizona, through what remains of the town of Poston. It was named for &#8220;the Father of Arizona,&#8221; Charles Debrille Poston, whose efforts contributed to the creation of the Arizona Territory. Poston laid out the Colorado River Reservation and the irrigation system that distributed water from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mecum Auctions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I wrote a couple of years ago, When folks think of car culture in Scottsdale, many think of our “Car Week” at the end of January. There are several collector car auctions at that time, and a host of other associated events. But, the car scene here doesn’t begin and end with Car Week. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Water is for Fighting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent Facebook post to which I had a knee-jerk response caused me to go back and do some digging. The post said: &#8220;Mexico Draws 1.5M AcreFeet of Water every year from the Colorado River (1 AcreFoot of Water is 325,851 Gallons of Water) That’s over 488B that’s 488 Billion with about Gallons of water. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quote of the Day: Driving Like Fangio</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 23:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A conversation today reminded me of this quote, and I could have sworn I posted it before. But since I couldn&#8217;t find it, here it is: &#8220;Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway and I get passed by some idiot who thinks he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Memorial Day 2023</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 16:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like many Arizonans, I spent a few of the last days of spring last week in Southern California. As it happens, some of those days were spent in Oceanside, just south of USMC Base Camp Pendleton. Our lodging was adjacent to an old city cemetery, placarded as the &#8220;I.O.O.F. Cemetery.&#8221; I.O.O.F. is an abbreviation for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cars and More Cars</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When folks think of car culture in Scottsdale, many think of our &#8220;Car Week&#8221; at the end of January. There are several collector car auctions at that time, and a host of other associated events. But, the car scene here doesn&#8217;t begin and end with Car Week. There&#8217;s the enormous weekly Saturday afternoon/evening Rock and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dalí</title>
		<link>http://www.scottsdaletrails.com/2022/10/10/dali/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 01:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent conversation about Salvador Dalí caused me to refresh my memory of the Spanish surrealist artist, whereupon I found a quote that sums up my feelings better than I could have in my own words. &#8220;These pictures from the subconscious reveal so skilled a craftsman that the artist&#8217;s return to full consciousness may be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Albuquerque Botanic Gardens</title>
		<link>http://www.scottsdaletrails.com/2022/01/13/albuquerque-botanic-gardens/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Spades Washington. Photos by John Washington and Spades Washington. If you haven’t visited the Albuquerque Botanic Garden give it a try, you won’t be disappointed. I recently visited with my family and the botanical gardens exceeded my expectations.  The weather was perfect, cool yet sunny and was a perfect day to be outside and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Thorny Bougainvillea</title>
		<link>http://www.scottsdaletrails.com/2021/12/28/the-thorny-bougainvillea/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The beautiful-but-thorny bougainvillea is ubiquitous throughout the Southwest, so much so that I almost never notice them. The bright “bracts” (specialized colored leaves) surround and visually overwhelm tiny flowers that are so small as to require magnification to fully appreciate. The always-hard-to-spell (at least for me) name derives from French Navy admiral Louis Antoine de [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>100 Years Old: Scottsdale&#8217;s Charles Poston</title>
		<link>http://www.scottsdaletrails.com/2021/10/07/100-years-old-scottsdales-charles-poston/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 20:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I first got to know Charles and Carole Poston because of shared passion for neighborhood advocacy. I&#8217;d known them a few years before I discovered by happenstance that Charles and I are both US Air Force veterans. At one of their final reunions, I interviewed Charles and some of his compatriots from the WWII 1st [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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