Southwest Journey: Intro
After I obtained occupied with journey pictures years in the past, I labored as a graphic designer. To start with, I handled pictures as a passion and inventive outlet. However, sooner or later, I noticed that journey pictures mixed two of my favourite passions—a ardour for exploration and a ardour for locating the wonder round us by way of a digicam lens. I additionally acknowledged that journey pictures is actually what I needed in my life.
I gave myself loads of time to transition from graphic design into pictures and began planning my future adventures. I put collectively a journey want listing over the subsequent few years in order that I had objectives and sufficient time for planning.
My want listing had the standard suspects—Australia and New Zealand—in addition to goals to return to Europe to see how a lot it had modified since I left. After I was prepared to begin executing my plans, I visited the southwest solely to search out that my plans have been fully derailed. I used to be blown away by the unconventional magnificence, vastness, and the number of landscapes. I put all my plans on maintain to additional discover the area.
Discovering the Southwest
For the final seven years or so, I’ve traveled to the southwest no less than twice a 12 months. I’ve no plans to cease as a result of it nonetheless feels that I’ve solely scratched the floor. To start with, I began like most vacationers by visiting the preferred spots. However, with each go to, I went deeper and deeper into exploring the much less visited and fewer crowded spots.
This 12 months, my plan was to discover the backcountry of Utah and Arizona by driving the filth roads and tenting in distant locations removed from civilization. Whereas that was the plan, we (my spouse and I) didn’t handle to execute it correctly. The obvious purpose for our failed plan was the climate. The rain made many of the filth roads unpassable leaving us to scramble to regulate our plans.
Though half of my planning didn’t materialize, I think about the newest journey to be probably the most profitable and thrilling. Every single day adjustments and corrections to our itinerary stored us on our toes and allowed us to find some superb and unintended areas.
Please comply with my visible diary the place I define my 12-day driving journey by way of the southwest.
