Tourist spots, particularly in the US, often have a lot going on: flashy sights, fine dining, entertainment, shops, the works. But what about Bodie? This California ghost town has no restaurants, no gas station, no reenactments or stage shows. The only restrooms in the park are outhouses, with flush toilets…
You can’t tell what it is from the road. Driving through a seemingly endless stretch of desert scrubland with distant purple mountains filling in the boundaries of the horizon, you notice the protective roof structure first. It looks like a UFO hovering over the desert. There’s something misshapen beneath it,…
“Anytime you want to know what it feels like to go to another planet,” says Dennis Sullivan, President of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association, “you go to Bonneville Salt Flats.”2 He isn’t wrong. Stepping onto the 30,000-acre expanse of salt crust on the western edge of the Great Salt…
Think about how fast a week flies by. Then take a moment to sit with the fact that, if you live to be 80 years old (slightly above the average life expectancy in the US), you’ll get only four thousand of them. How do we make the best use of…