In Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, Pati finds culture, history, and unexpected abundance.

Pati journeys from Denver’s jazz-filled Five Points south into the New Mexico desert. Along the way, she picks up the Rio Grande near its source and follows it down. She finds music, farming, adobe building, and traditions that outlasted centuries.

Pati begins the next leg of her Pan-American journey at the northern border of the United States, moving south into Montana and Wyoming to explore how change often begins with one person deciding something must be preserved, restored, or reimagined.

In Alberta, Pati dives into cowboy culture and explores its diversity in Edmonton and Calgary.

Pati Jinich explores the sister cities of Alaska’s capital, Juneau, and the capital of Canada’s Yukon Territory, Whitehorse.