by Calvin Sun | Aug 28, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), California, Illinois, Nebraska, New York, United States
Day 1: Emeryville, CA “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” After we returned from LA yesterday night at 11pm, we turned in at our lodgings situated...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 23, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), California, United States, What Dreams May Come
“Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven. Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven. The one thing that we...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 22, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), California, United States
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 21, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), California, Oregon, United States
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of...
by Calvin Sun | Apr 10, 2015 | California, Crisis, Fail, Spring 2015: The Great USA Roadtrip, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After bidding adieu yesterday to Gareth’s crew of himself, Clay, and George, we were left with only 4 drivers. Given over 550 miles left to our end destination of San Francisco, and needing to be there within 24 hours, transporting our 3 RVs with our anemic crew...
by Calvin Sun | Apr 10, 2015 | Arizona, California, Spring 2015: The Great USA Roadtrip, United States
Today’s journey led us to the one and only Grand Canyon. But before we got there, we woke up this morning to check out more of our wigwams during the day and said farewell to 3 members of the crew: Gareth, Clay, and...