Before this current road trip, the last time I had stayed in an Airbnb was in April 2017. I was with my two friends Itzamme and Andres in Palm Desert, California, for the Coachella Music Festival. It’s a big three-day music festival in the desert near Joshua Tree with tens of thousands of people, ifContinue reading “The Redemption of Airbnb”
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A Glimpse Over the Edge
I thought I knew what loneliness was. I know some of its depths quite well, but I was not prepared for the cavernous sense of being truly, deeply alone in the isolated wilderness. I spent two days camping alone in the Big Meadows campground—mile 51.2 of Skyline Drive—in Shenandoah National Park, my first national parkContinue reading “A Glimpse Over the Edge”
The Seafaring Life
Hello from Washington, DC! It’s been two weeks since I started this cross-country adventure. I arrived here on Tuesday and being back in the DC Metro Area has been a welcome second-homecoming of sorts. I lived in DC for five years and my dad recently started a job here so he moved back up andContinue reading “The Seafaring Life”
Shunning Illusions of Impossibility
In college, a friend of a friend went on a road trip from Washington, DC to Colorado and he would write and post vlogs and photos about the trip. My friend Megan and I would sit enraptured watching this adventure unfold and we felt like we were on this exciting trip across America with him.Continue reading “Shunning Illusions of Impossibility”