On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:32:31 -0700, Mary Shafer
wrote:

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 05:53:49 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:

On the other hand, I've been told that the scorched earth where
gliders burned at Arnhem? in 1944 are still visible from the air. And
I have walked with great comfort along the former logging railroads in
the White Mountains, the railroads having disappeared 80 years
earlier.

You can see where George Patton practiced tank maneuvers in the desert
(at Fort Irwin, the NTC, I think it is) but sort of backward. Joshua
trees grow very thickly in the track because the seed pods have to be
crushed before the seeds can sprout. The tracks are dense groves of
Joshua trees.

There is also the "plank road", a wooden road laid down in the desert
near Glamis, dating from the ~1890's. Many of the planks are still in
place and are in quite good condition.

Al Minyard