Caught in Atmosphere – Chapter 6 : Nowhere (Middle of)

New Year’s Day is something special in my book: It not only signifies the beginning of new chapter, but also introduces how this story shapes up in next 364 days of journey.

I started to write diary when I was junior year in high school in Guam in hopes of escaping boredom from being trapped in rather monotonous island life. Now it’s nearly decade later I am still writing today. It’s often hard to keep the habit, but once you get a hang of it after writing for maybe 3 months or 4 it starts to become part of your life. It’s like smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee except it gives enough buzz to life without leaving residue in your health department.

So I’ve been writing writing and writing for years and books of my life are stacking up. I think I have at least 8 bound of books in different volumes and sizes that could eventually be used for source of my another writing. Although I’ve been moving and living around in different places, some books are missing from my possession. Most of my earlier volumes are with my parents in Guam and I am just not bothered to look back on those at the moment.

Time moves forward and I took few steps backward to write about the beginning of 2015 that happened three months ago (God! It’s already April!) I found myself in the middle of nowhere in Nevada on the backseat of 4WD truck with three fools from Vegas on New Year’s Day:

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Just like riding the ship that keeps moving through nervous waves – Off-roading into the desert field with carpets of hollowing yucca trees made me feel so detached from ordinary ways. There was no set plan, we just drove into the wilderness by whim.

Even in the depth of wilderness, it is not uncommon to see the trace of human life like empty cans of coca-cola or trails of tires. More often than not there is some sort of sign that reminds you why environmental topics such as global warming is popular discussion item among big city inhabitants.

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003 copy 004 006 007 008The world was there in the way it must have been since the conception of this planet. Except for few roadways that diverged from main road to dehydrated boonies of eventual dead end, the place was inaccessible to human.

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015 016 017 011The sun slowly shifted and the night poured its thick tarp over our heads. Deepening the sense of isolation as we lost our way back to the road (Yes, we’ve been driving on and off rocks and gaps of hills somewhere only satellites can determine the location).
No reception on our phones, no visible path, the only seemingly legitimate thing to do was to cut through the desert to get to the other side of vast land where the Interstate highway can supposedly pump us back to Las Vegas.

There was heavy silence inside the 4WD truck.
Headlights of truck became our only eyes to see the way. Off-roading for hours I lost count of yucca trees we have killed as we stampeded through bumpy rocks. A place like this reminds me how power of technology can be so convenient at most needed time.012 013 014_v2Good news is: I am writing this post right now sipping cup of coffee at neighborhood cafe chilling out to some folk songs sang by unknown person. This could mean either our attempt made success or otherwise. Life could take funny turns along paths, and this off-roading adventure was certainly a mix of various toss and turns (and ups and downs on bumpy rocks). So that’s how my 2015 opened up, and I am definitely feeling the effect of powerful beginning. Book started with memorable first line can only lead to interesting read, right? Well, that’s at least what I want to believe.

Stay tuned for more adventure reports.
Thanks for reading!

Caught in Atmosphere – Chapter 5 : Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

Life is too short to sit and wait for the sun to shine; sometimes you just have to accept the weather and focus on the opportunity to do something epic.

Uniqueness of landscape in its appearance under certain weather condition shows the world continues to rotate regardless of our will. The world keep goes on, and we live on until eventually getting drop off from the face of this universe and let the time pass us by. I can never contain each passing moment in a jar, or neither do I know where this life is heading to; but the torch in my hand is lighting the path that lies in front of my eyes. That is the only certain thing I know.

Back on my long overdue travel diary from the last New Year’s Eve — at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada (not to be mixed up with State Park in California of the same name) I was blessed by mystical weather condition that allowed me to get the taste of both crispy blue sky and hazy snow sky in Las Vegas.

My heels were worn from previous days of heavy hiking, but my curiosity and motivation was not easily succumbed by it.
Against park ranger’s warning, I pushed myself onward to the summit of Turtlehead Peak — one of the most glorious points of Red Rocks that offered grotesque vista of magnificent desert and artificial paradise built by hands of men otherwise known as Sin City, or Las Vegas.

Calico Hills Trail that leads to Sandstone Quarry has high concentration of Red Rocks to saturate your vision in vivid crimson. There beyond haze you can see the glorious Turtlehead Peak thrusting to heaven.

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Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area:
From visitors center take Calico Hills trail to Sandstone Quarry, take Turtlehead Peak trail to reach the summit. (difficulty: 8/10)

Life is too short to waste away on thinking backward. It is way too short for regrets to blind the positive light in future. Stop filling your mind with meaningless thoughts and move on. My adventurous hike up to Turtlehead Peak, although it was challenging under the harsh weather condition, was my only valid decision at the time and it well worth taking the risk to complete it.

Stay tuned for the next adventure.