Road trips and happenstance
The last road trip I took of any great length was in relocating back to Boulder, CO from Ontario after a summer of living in my tent following graduate school. I don't recommend moving into a tent after finishing grad school, it doesn't make you feel great about your choices. Unless you want to live in a tent. I drove out of Canada, picked up my friend Lionel in Kalamazoo, MI -of all places to find him- and then we proceeded to cross the plains during a terrible drought that had rendered all the miles of cornfields dead and damned apocalyptic in appearance. I've been in Boulder since trying to roll with the flow while the flow has been whipped into a frenzy by the wild gales of life and learning. It has been a year of transition. It's been a year and change since that trip and the universe in all its conspiracies has propelled me onto the road once again. This time rather then a homecoming, it's a departure for Lionel, off into the wild blue southern Colorado y