What hasn’t changed — The magic of rivers (especially Grand Canyon), and the camaraderie of a well-oiled crew

28-year-old Steve Baer, the commune’s architectural mentor, showed reporters how to stand atop a junk car and chop its top off with an axe to get panels for geodesic domes, taking care to avoid toes and blade-dulling chrome trim.

Some of the following may wound the sensibilities of traditionalists, neo-hippies/rednecks, new/used car hawkers and litigation-minded attorneys.

That’s because what I do care about is something that we don’t seem to talk about enough anymore. Which is all of that magic out there —