Great Salt Desert

I haven’t seen it much in recent years. But not all that long ago, it was a staple of cartoons and B movies. The tale of a man, dying of thirst in a desert, who sees water and runs towards it, only to discover more dry sand under the sun that is killing him. The water, of course, is a mirage. I had never seen a mirage that was remotely convincing, and I wondered how anyone could ever be foolish, or desperate, enough to be deceived. Until Hotel Subaru descended onto the Great Salt Desert of Utah on a hot Saturday afternoon in August.

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