My search for water in the desert took Lissa and I this afternoon up US 160 from Teec Nos Pos in Arizona’s far northeastern corner, past the Four Corners Monument and into Colorado, where the highway crosses the San Juan River. Teec Nos Pos has a weather station that averages 8.09 inches (20.55 cm) of precipitation a year, but this landscape looks far drier. I feel like I’m zeroing in on what water in the desert looks like:

San Juan River north of Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. By John Fleck, May 2014