Status Updates From Death Valley

"I know the sunlit trail well now—intimately, or at least, intimately enough that the blue markers no longer seem exciting (what is intimacy if not the ebb of excitement?)."

"Clearly, we are not on the same drug. This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

This is already not giving

"I get why people like this outdoorsy, self-inflicted adventure stuff. There’s something to be said for manufacturing a crisis (a crisis can be simpler than just living). Definitely more thrilling. Each time I see a trailmarker, I feel a flood of adrenaline."

"Euphoric dreams leave a question hanging in the air—the question of: Is that all we get?"