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# Horizon
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/horizon/
- Published: 2020-05-06T11:42:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:50:24.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves

I remember speeding past a row of broken trucks, their heads bowed in prayer. Along old Route 66 in the Mojave desert, you’ll find a string of towns with mythic names: Amboy and Bagdad, Ragtown and Siberia. Lately I’ve been combing through my photographs from these drives, dreaming of the day I find my way back. It’s becoming a nightly habit during this suspended season in a hushed city: scrolling through desert scenery while fantasizing about horizons, speed, and possibility.

The town of Zzyzx was known as Soda Springs until 1944 when a radio evangelist rechristened it with a nonsense name, hoping it would be the last word in the English language. Out near Frenchman Flat, there’s a woman who will tell your fortune by deciphering the contrails of experimental military aircraft.