dingy motel rooms, the smell of garlic driving through gilroy, wading in the glacial lakes in montana, driving over ice to the grand canyon, hiking through yellowstone, braying donkeys at a friend's ranch in colorado, the thick fog over the salmon river, indian reservations, paper mill towns, drive through liquor, dead moose, tarantulas, peeing off a cliff with half of it ending up on my shoes, peeing out of the side of a van with half of it blowing back through the window, sleeping in a hatchback, sleeping in a truckbed, sleeping on the beach after collecting sand dollars, the weird silence of calexico after 6 pm, the cigarillos, cigars, cigarettes, film roll after film roll only to find that my lens was broken the entire time, hot rocks... every school break there was another road trip...