The Why Not Travel Center is in Why, Arizona. It’s the last stop before Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and not too far from the Mexican border. And, yes, you do ask yourself, “Why is there a town here?” The Travel Center includes a gas station and a really great general store full of kitschy memorabilia, desert necessities, and snacks. The RVs gassing up and poised for travel captured the outpost spirit of the place.

Once you own a digital camera, you can take extra images for negligible cost. Don’t use the capability to take nearly identical pictures of the same subject. That just clogs up the editing pipeline when dispose of them later. One of the worthwhile uses of free images is capture signs and brochures that describe the subjects of your photos. Visiting the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson, Arizona, I took this photo of an unusual plant called willow groundsel. This picture doesn’t reveal what is so unusual, but a photo of an accompanying sign keeps the memory alive.