Still Here: Three Full Months of the Desert

Still Here: Three Full Months of the Desert

Wow hello it is suddenly almost October and I’ve been AWOL since early August. What, you may (or may not) wonder, have I been doing since Florida? Well. I took on a fun, but intense, National Parks project for one of my main clients, which had me pouring 40,000...
Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns

I watched a pair of Roseate spoonbills fly over salt flats as I drove up the steep slope of a bridge. I paddleboarded under the effervescent pink blooms of hibiscus flowers on a glassy lake, sunk my body into its bathwater-temperature shallows. I flew out of a red,...
The Playful Playa

The Playful Playa

On my very first full day in Santa Fe, I almost got my car stuck in the sand. I was on a deserted, unpaved back road about a half hour north of town, and had found a spare branch to haul under the front tires before discovering — with an overwhelming rush of...
Rocky Mountain High South to Santa Fe

Rocky Mountain High South to Santa Fe

I’ve had the desert on my brain since the start. I’ve been aiming at the southwest since the beginning of this adventure, and over the past week I finally made my way down. I took a break halfway, driving south from Felt to Fort Collins, a seven-hour,...