This Summer's Adventure

So, i've started thinking about where to go this summer. i've applied for a program at Columbia University in NYC, but won't know if i got in until March sometime. Still, it's only three weeks in June so i'll have plenty of time for another little 10-day solo jaunt after it is over in late July and early August.

I was thinking Las Vagas, Death Valley, Ash Meadows, and hiking in Utah. i will have my new camera by then and will take an exorbitant number of photos. i will probably rent a car again because the truck grows increasingly less reliable every day and if i'm going to be driving alone around the Nevada desert, i'm going to want a car i don't have to worry about.

Here's the tentative route...



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This will also take me, interestingly (or not, if you're not curious about this kind of thing) through Colorado City/Hildale which is that famous FLDS town. Fear not, i will bring you further curious tales from the American West!!