Tripvora
    A living journal

    Somewhere between where I was & where I'm going.

    Tripvora started as a notebook in a glovebox. This page is what happens when that notebook stays open, a slow-scrolling record of the trips that shaped the product.

    Day 47 on the road
    Day 3Somewhere in Nevada

    Left before the sun came up. Didn't have a reason — just felt like driving into the dark and watching the world wake up around me.

    Empty desert highway running straight toward distant mountains
    Empty desert highway running straight toward
    Milky Way arching over dark mountains from a roadside pullout
    Day 7Pullout off I-15

    Slept in a pullout tonight. No town lights for fifty miles, so the whole sky showed up instead.

    The road doesn't care about your plans. That's kind of the point.

    Traveler sitting above a valley filled with morning fog
    Day 12Campsite near Flagstaff

    Woke up and couldn't see anything. The fog was so thick the mountains disappeared. Made coffee and just… sat there. Didn't check my phone for three hours.

    Sometimes the best moments are the ones where nothing happens at all.

    Camper van on a desert road between red rock formations
    Camper van on a desert road
    Day 18Roadside diner, Route 66

    Met someone who's been doing this for 3 years. No fixed address, no plan. She said the hardest part isn't the loneliness — it's learning to sit with yourself.

    Ordered a second coffee and stayed an extra hour.

    Silver travel trailer parked in an open field at golden hour
    Day 24Somewhere in Colorado

    Parked up for two nights. Maps on the table, granola wrappers everywhere, a book I keep meaning to finish. It is a mess, but it is my mess.

    I didn't expect today to feel this quiet.

    Red mountain ridges catching the first light of the day
    Day 31Mountain pass, evening

    Pulled over because the light was doing something impossible. Sat on the hood with my boots still dusty from the trail. Didn't take a photo for ten minutes. Just watched.

    View out of a tent door onto a quiet forest campsite
    View out of a tent door
    Day 39Campfire, national forest

    There's a version of me that existed before this trip that I barely recognise. Not better or worse. Just different. The road does that — it files down the parts that don't matter.

    Wildflower meadow under a wide dusk sky in open country
    Wildflower meadow under a wide dusk

    Still figuring it out.

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