2 hours ago · Life · 0 comments

Years after writing about it in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, I finally saw Echo Amphitheater: The "amphitheater" is a concave rock face which echoes really well. That's it. When I was the staff writer for WTWTLW, I had to write location-specific material for a bunch of cities in the US, and Echo Amphitheater was, I think, the Santa Fe thing. I can't quite remember what happened here, but I think Johnnemann gave me a list of locations to research... though I think I picked some on my own? I'm not sure. At any rate, a lot of those places were in cities I'd never been to. I watched a lot of YouTube and read a lot of Wikipedia pages to come up with ideas for how to approach the material. While I was researching it, I believe I only ever saw a far-off picture of Echo Amphitheater. So seeing it up close was a bit of a shock: The "amphitheater" itself was apparently created by water running down the cliff face and excavating a cavern. You can see water still runs from the top of the…

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