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 | Aug 20, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), Washington
“We lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” This morning we said an unexpected goodbye to Brynn. View this post on Instagram I ran out of spoons. Friends, I came home early. After 10 days in the RV, I was...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 19, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), United States, Washington
About yesterday: “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye.” More goodbyes...
