Last fall, my partner and I packed our apartments into a storage unit, bought a used pop-up camper, and took off on a two-month road trip across the country. One of our most highly anticipated stops was a long weekend camping and hiking with my brother, his girlfriend, and my oldest childhood friend in Moab,Continue reading “Are we going to die here?! (Porcupine Rim, Utah)”
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COVID-19 in a Divided Country
As with everything in 2020, the reality of COVID-19 permeated our entire road trip. Virus precautions and closures changed much about how we traveled and what we experienced. Compared to an ideal trip, we ate at minimal restaurants, visited only two (limited capacity) museums, and saw fewer friends and family. More subtly, the culture ofContinue reading “COVID-19 in a Divided Country”
A Beautiful, Brutal (Brutiful?) Road Trip
A road trip across the United States is, in many ways, a tour of bloody and brutal colonialism. I just completed a 10-week work-from-the-road trip with my partner, Michael. We started the trip in New Jersey, drove west across the northern midwest until Utah, looped back across the south to North Carolina and then upContinue reading “A Beautiful, Brutal (Brutiful?) Road Trip”
Lin Furio 