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national parks : acadia, maine
(suzanne timmer)
Spring Iris, Monroe, MI
new york city night
East 53rd Street, NYC
Wyoming, Fall 2013
All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.
- Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Taking it all in
It didn’t take long for the stress and exhaustion of packing and leaving to wear off and then it was all about freedom, exploration, the road ahead. We had a super quick drive from Ann Arbor, our meetup, to Portland, our destination - crossing Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and a small part of Wyoming on mega-road I-80, then dropping down into Colorado and Utah from Cheyenne to visit with family and friends.
Although we spent a lot of time in the car each day, we were just looking around taking it all in, stopping for photo ops along the way. Jen says US 40 from Steamboat to Salt Lake may now be her favorite road ever. I’m thinking I want to get out on more roads.
From Michigan to Oregon, our route was breathtaking and desolate – the stubble of harvested fields disappearing into the horizon, rolling hills and high desert mesas, tumbleweed and ragged brush, rock, mountains, rivers – thousands of miles punctuated with rest stops, farms, granaries, small towns and cities, pockmarked with oil refineries and cement factories and dams and poverty and abandonment.
What a ride.