Spending personal quality time with the American desert is the joy of my life.  

 the gentle desert wilderness.

Secret American West

And there goes my soul walking down a road in the Great Basin.

This is looking West across the Reese River Valley  from Austin, Nevada.  Shoshone Mountains on the horizon.  

The Egan Range

A desert sunflower, and a fat little lizard.  He had a fat little belly.  And I, I had a little fat belly.  And both of us in Hungry Valley, Nevada.  I felt that my heart was very separate from me, like a moody pet cat.  I’m metaphorically speaking.