Assignment #6

In "California:  Desert Byways" Peter Garrison writes to appeal to the senses vividly, or as Roy Peter Clark would describe in Chapter 14 of Writing Tools Garrison is "getting the name of the dog."  Garrison does not simply describe what he sees in Death Valley but also what he feels while traveling through it.  For example, when describing his journey down Lippencott Road Garrison writes that his vehicle "jounces and teeters over mammoth rocks and tiptoes across washouts."  Personally I thought it was not only very descriptive of the scenery but also how driving on the path felt physically.  Garrison "got the name of the dog."