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Views So Good, Almost Can’t “See-It-All”

Views So Good, Almost Can’t “See-It-All”

by Calvin Sun | Aug 18, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), Fit for Foodies, United States, Walking Tours, Washington

  “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”  It’s time for every journey to close a chapter. Noeleen and I woke up early at 6:50am to drive our RV for one last hurrah.  With just the...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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