Beatrix, don’t bother reading people news. It’s always bad. I’ve been watching it for ninety percent of my life (I’m 75) and I can tell you that we’re doomed, and always have been.
You might be confusing your Lawrences, Arlo. D. H. travelled a lot, and spent some time in New Mexico, so he did see a bit of desert. T. E. Lawrence spent a great deal of WW1 in the Arabian desert, but he wasn’t alone all that often.
Good Cat News.