“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give –
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
Roadtrippin’
in Travel
california
Like Another Planet
in Travel
We hop in the car, zoom down the highway for twenty minutes, then turn off of the paved road. Dirt crunches under the tires of our Crosstrek, behind us a huge cloud of dust. We bounce around in our seats as Neil steers toward the pinnacles, dodging rocks poking out of the ground. Twenty more minutes pass. I look down at my hands, suddenly in large white gloves, my body in a loose white suit, fans whirring, the weight of a helmet on my head, gold visor tinting the view. I hear a voice through some static babble in my ear. We are about to land on another planet.