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Cas-cades A Spell Over Me

Cas-cades A Spell Over Me

by Calvin Sun | Aug 17, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), United States, Washington

   “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”      After spending the night parked in a KOA outside of Spokane near the no-mask country of Lake Couer d’Alene in Idaho, we set off for one final push west 5 hours in North Cascades...
Monsooning at a Not-So-Glacier Pace

Monsooning at a Not-So-Glacier Pace

by Calvin Sun | Aug 16, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), Montana, United States

  “We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one noble function of the time, move.”   Back to back special!     After 3 days in Grand Teton and Yellowstone, we spent today mostly on the road...
“Yellow” From the Other Side…

“Yellow” From the Other Side…

by Calvin Sun | Aug 14, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), United States, Wyoming

    “Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”      After grabbing an early bougie breakfast (and...
Falling Into Jackson Hole

Falling Into Jackson Hole

by Calvin Sun | Aug 13, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), United States, What Dreams May Come, Wyoming

  “I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams”   I’ve long associated the term “Jackson Hole” with the longtime local burger joint my dad used to take me to in NYC. I never knew it was...
From SD to WY: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

From SD to WY: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

by Calvin Sun | Aug 12, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), United States, Wyoming

  “We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess — across the night, eastward over the Plains, where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably...
Rushmore Into The Badlands

Rushmore Into The Badlands

by Calvin Sun | Aug 11, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), South Dakota, United States, What Dreams May Come

    “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”     After our night in Sioux Falls and adding 2 more to our RV yesterday, this morning filled up our tires with...
The Pur-Sioux of Happyness

The Pur-Sioux of Happyness

by Calvin Sun | Aug 10, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), South Dakota, United States, Wisconsin

“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”    After an overnight in the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin and picking up our new addition Dan Reesman, whom we had last seen when he traveled with us early...
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