The storms out West were stark and angry. The sagebrush and juniper desert of New Mexico and western Texas allowed me to see the expanse of skies darkening out into the afternoon. Though the inside of my car was a much lower temperature, I could still smell the coming rain—the metallic scent of wet minerals …
Tag: roadtrip
So You’re Planning a Roadtrip
Though it's easy to make traveling purely about the destination (because we get excited about new places!), if you have the time to commit to a roadtrip, it's an ideal way to refocus your travel around the act of traveling itself- that is, the journey. The way roads wind through landscapes, the roadside vegetation, the climate, …
Desert Abundance
Over Thanksgiving break, Matt and I visited Zion, Canyonlands, and Arches National Parks in Utah as well as Antelope Canyon on the Navajo Reservation outside Page, Arizona, and Horseshoe Bend (of the Colorado River) there too. I’ve never been any place that dry before, that red. North Carolina clay is notoriously red and dense, but …
California Trip, Part II: Big Sur, Yosemite, and Santa Barbara
This post is a continuation of my last post, California Trip, Part I: San Francisco, about Matt's and my trip to California a couple weeks ago. On Monday morning, we left San Francisco and drove down to Big Sur, of which I've seen beautiful pictures and heard wonderful things. I'd read (thank you, internet) that …
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Holi in SLC
In order to live in Laramie, sometimes you just have to get out of Laramie. That's what my friend Amy and I did last weekend - five and a half hours of driving to Salt Lake City, another five and a half back. The descent into Salt Lake is as gorgeous as it is dangerous …
Katherine Indermaur 