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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...
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...
The Pilgrimage To Mount Ostrog Monastery

The Pilgrimage To Mount Ostrog Monastery

by Calvin Sun | Aug 20, 2017 | August 2017: The Balkans, How Did You Do That?, Montenegro, Public Transportation, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

As 6 of us head back home after completing week 1 together, the 10 of us remaining headed out at 8am for a 4 hour pilgrimage to Mount Ostrog Monastery, a Serbian Orthodox Church dedicated to Saint Basil of Ostrog (Sveti Vasilije Ostroški), and that has been built...

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