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The Long Way Home to Myself
Category: Mountains
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Welcome to Nevada The hills are a little bit sharper or more defined and the trees or bushes are tall fir trees. So, it’s almost forest-like but not quite. It’s still hills. The landscape changes completely. Instantly, it feels like. More mountains, different colors. Or maybe it’s just the time change playing tricks on my…
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Beauty of the desert Beyond my original destination, a large part of this trip is about beauty. That can be in the shape of a classic that old Volkswagen Microbus or the vastness of the loneliness and the searing heat. Finding the beauty in the desert is less about getting used to it or having…
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Well, after 6,300 miles, 16 state borders crossed, 17 souvenir magnets, 18 sleeps, 1 ocean, half a dozen deserts, too many mountains to count, and one UPF 50+ sun protection panama hat – I’m home! Wait, what? Weren’t I just in California? Yes, it looks like that. By the time I got to California I…
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It’s been a crazy couple of days. Many miles and many adventures. Here are two tales to keep you patiently waiting for real content. The photo above is my current view. That view plus 5G? I’ll take it! Dancing in the moonlight Canyonlands National Park was one of the remotest locations I enjoyed. The road…
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A long driving day, with some old bones to keep me interested halfway there. Dinosaur National Monument “Enormous desert plains stretch out, entirely dwarfed by the towering mountains behind them. Though these peaks bear names, they are barely legible print on a map. The sheer scale of the hills makes the vast desert basin feel…
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I swear I’m working on content – literally right now. But thought I’d throw something out there as a sign of life. This is while I was driving from the Little A’Le’Inn to a different hotel in Vegas. (Long story, you’ll get it eventually) I was driving across the great flat desert, the line of…
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Not very freaking well! (Just kidding, up at 3:30am and I’m rarin’ to go!). (waiting for the crash) It was my pocket tool, trying to get the valve cover off, and I “snapped it like a twig”. Happily I have a spare one at home, but I was not going to go home from edina…
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I’ve been using Gemini (AI) to help me handle my transcriptions from the audio recorder. It’s been going wonderfully. I drop some files on Gemini, they get transcribed and then added to a google doc in my drive. Simply a dream, and makes one love AI. Until today, when Gemini decides they have never been…
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“Until death it is all life” Cervantes / Don Quixote I understand that quote to be along the lines of “Carpe Diem,” but in less of an empowering entitled white people in an expensive school sort of way. And to be honest I don’t like that movie because the vast majority of those kids are…
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As I’ve mentioned, the Internet has been hit or miss, and my original intent of stopping at a coffee shop for an hour, sipping a nice Latte (please be a dear and insert the right little like above that) – well that idea has not happened. On this leg of the journey I’m focused on…
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