Food & Fun
Roswell and the Truth About Aliens
“The coolest part about Roswell is the way in which almost the entire city has embraced its strange alien-reputation. Every shop, whether they sell electronics or hand-made soaps has found even the smallest way of incorporating the little green guys into their aesthetic and offerings.”
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Road Map of a Broken Heart
“You lose things when you travel, no matter how tight your packing-game may be or how many times you’ve triple-checked the hotel room. I’ve lost a lot of things throughout this journey. I lost a pair of sunglasses in Las Cruces, and a charger somewhere in Texas. I left t-shirt in Alabama, and, I lost my heart in Seattle.”
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Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace, and the Ancient Pueblo Native Americans
“You can feel the history and the ambient mystery surrounding this site as you place your hand upon the ancient sandstone at the various locations. Gazing upon the kivas that exist in each different tribal city, you can envision the Ancestral Puebloans performing various religious rites.”
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The Grand Canyon, One of the Natural Wonders of the World
“you can see up to 2 billion years of this history within the Canyon’s mile depth. The nearby Pueblo natives considered this a holy site, making pilgrimages here regularly. Today more than 5 million people make pilgrimages of their own, and I would say that if anything would qualify as a “holy” experience, the Canyon would certainly be a contender.”
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Las Vegas, the Neon Oasis
“The nighttime desert landscape, typically pitch black except for starlight, was suddenly interrupted by a river of glowing, vivid light. It was like a synthetic milky way competing with the actual one for visibility here, in the closest thing you can get to the middle-of-nowhere. Marvelous, colorful, and just a bit ostentatious, the scene was a perfect microcosm for what Las Vegas is really about – spectacle!”
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A day at Joshua Tree National Park, a Spiritual Journey?
“Some of the trees are thousands of years old, a fact I didn’t know but could somehow feel with the plate-mail of woody bark that covered their trunks. I felt their strength, their resilience but I didn’t know their story or struggle.”
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Cholla Cactus Garden
“There is an almost Seussian quality about them, a result of the aforementioned color and fuzziness combined with the awkward way in which their limbs grow as they age. Cholla Cactus Garden, therefore, looks much like something you’d expect to find in Whoville”
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California’s Painted Canyon
“hard lines of separation between vividly emerald-colored limestone, streaked with veins of marble and other sediment such as sandstone and granite or chalky white stone. This myriad of geological offerings is the culprit behind the tapestry of colors that has inspired the very name “Painted Canyon.”
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Malibu, Santa Monica and Los Angeles
“Taking my first dip in the cool, azure waters of the Pacific Ocean was satisfying in a way that transcended just being cooled. Its been a sort of a personal bucket-list item I’ve had as long as I can remember.”
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Sequoia National Forest and the realities of traveling
“Life, in general, doesn’t always work out as you planned. Sometimes it’s partially to fully because of lackluster planning. Other times, despite your best-laid plans, things still don’t turn out as you planned.”
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