Have you ever driven across the United States by yourself? Why did you? Do you have any cool stories?
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Drove from Baltimore to Denver and driving through Kansas felt like an 8-bit Atari game where the same scenery kept going by over and over again.
Most amazing road trip was Denver to Arizona and driving down Interstate 25 on a cloudless new moon night and getting 50 miles ...
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... south of Trinidad where there were no major city lights within like 100+ miles. Looked out the side window of the car and saw these weird clouds. Got out and it wasn't clouds, it was the fucking Milky Way. I was blown away in awe -- the stars were so vibrant...
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...never saw anything like it growing up in the NE where there is a ton of light pollution. It was definitely up there with profound religious experiences -- my brain couldn't take in what it was seeing. It was like I was watching a special effects CGI scene in a movie. Amazing.
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Looked like this except the ground wasn't as lit up -- but it was basically that bright in the sky. I remember the Milky Way was casting a shadow on the ground. Intense.
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I really hope you get the opportunity to do so. It is such a beautiful thing to see with your own eyes. Like I said earlier, I grew up in the northeast (just outside of Baltimore) so the night sky is heavily polluted with light from so many nearby cities (DC, Annapolis, Baltimore
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