colorado driving

driving through colorado and all I can do is admire the beauty around me. photos wouldn't do the rivers, farmhouses, hills, and rocky mountains justice. nevermind being able to capture the vastness of the bonneville salt flats or the deep richly red beauty of arches national park in utah yesterday. 

we're on day three of our journey back to virginia. 

being in the car so many days on end while being serenaded by fleet foxes, the head and the heart, and other folky mood music which inspire life reflection, tends to make a person think a lot. I'm finding I'm much more comfortable living wildly outside of my comfort zone (for now anyway. I guess that comes with the FEMA corps territory...traveling from place to place at a moment's notice). I've become strangely accustomed to owning two shirts, a pair of pants, shorts, and my uniform and packing up my life in fifteen minutes.

some days I wake up and forget I'm sleeping five people to a motel room or in the middle of nebraska or that I have a ten hour journey ahead of me that day in attempts to slowly crawl across the country. it's a strange existence. but it's a good one.