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Arizona: From the OK Corral to Stars Wars

WHILE standing on a steep bank of sand, I sensed a disturbance in the Force. It might have been some lingering tremors from the escape pod which crash landed here with C3PO and R2D2 in the first Star Wars film. Or it could be that I was nearing the spot where in Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia rescued Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt’s sand barge. But it was more likely to be the vibration of the passing juggernaut on the busy interstate at the bottom of the Imperial Sands, just outside Yuma in southern Arizona.