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2: saguaros and wikieups
Dear Friend, Have you ever been to Wikieup? It is located along highway 93, south of Kingman, Arizona. The name sounds musical to me, like maybe it could mean the same thing as ‘ accelerando with glee !’ But, no, it’s a Mojave word for ‘ shelter .’ The town was established in 1864. The story goes that when it came time to come up with a name, there was a wikieup, (a building), that existed near the area where the proposed Post Office was to be built. The town was named af

Leslie Bevans
Jan 114 min read


1: why a rainbow?
Dear Friend, Happy New Year! Thank you for being here to read our first blog/letter of 2026! Today begins the fourth year of Tracks by the Post. Thank you very much for keeping in touch over the past three years, and for sharing our Tracks Posts with friends and family! We do not think of you as a Like or a Click or a Share . To us, you are not a 'set of zeros and ones.' We are not rewarded in the land of Social Media or in any way monetarily by your presence here.

Leslie Bevans
Jan 44 min read
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