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The Vandwelling Dream

February 5, 2014 / carrot quinn / 3 Comments

Readers! So much has happened/is always happening; sometimes the constantly-forking nature of my life (all our lives?) baffles me. Currently I'm dogsitting in a beautiful house way up on a hilltop in Southern Oregon. This morning I ran in the cold and the smell of the ponderosa pines and the sun came out with its … Continue reading The Vandwelling Dream

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Headed to Death Valley to hike the Lowest to Highest Route, pulled off to sleep in the desert, that bright thing is the moon. It smells like creosote out here. I forget the desert is an animal. I forget that walking on concrete under the hot sun isn't the same as being inside the soft animal of the desert. ✨ On the drive I thought about how subjective reality is, how even looking directly at a thing, saying it out loud, will alter it. I also thought about how upsetting it is to know that reality is subjective. We all out here tryin to make fixed points out of soup, to place ourselves relationally. We can't tho. The "discourse" as the wave-particle duality of light, where Einstein said: . "It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do." ✨ I think we are the phenomena of light. I think that, all of this is the phenomena of light. 📍This is O'odham, Yavapaiv Apache, Yavapai, Akimel O'odham and Cocopah land

Yesterday evening, while @shooglet was taking this v quality photo of me, my dogs were at home snorfling 5 oz of dark chocolate that they had managed to find. (Don't worry, they're fine now!) 🖤 When I got home I was greeted by two frantic, thirsty, speedy dogs with hearts like hummingbirds and a lot of shredded foil wrappers. The online dog chocolate toxicity calculator (thx google!) told me that, bc of their body weights and the darkness and quantity of the chocolate, they were in extreme danger of cardiac arrest. 🖤 Muffy and I drove em to the emergency vet and I tried not to panic while we waited 3 hrs for them to recieve care- induced vomiting, IVs, activated charcoal and other anti toxicity drugs, ECG and blood pressure monitoring. Once they were settled in to ride out their terrible highs we headed home where I barely slept until the update call at 7 a.m.- their heart rates had come down, they were gonna be ok. 😭 It was quite the night. And really expensive. ✨ Luckily, I'm headed to Death Valley to hike the Lowest to Highest Route, the sublime and brutal creation of Brett Tucker @grandenchantmenttrail , and one of my favorite hikes. And this means another zine! ✨ This hike is going to destroy me. Will we find the water? Will we get heat exhaustion? Will my achilles tendons snap in half on the climb up to Telescope ridge? Will I get to eat Carls jr in Lone Pine?!! Afterwards I will have some new writing, and new sicc photos of peak desert suffering! 🌝 I'll be printing just 200 copies of Long Distance Hiking Zine #4, and it will be available the 2nd week of November. I'm selling advance copies now, if you want to make sure you get one. ✨ To order: click the link in my profile for paypal, or venmo $20 (shipping included) to @carrotquinn. Make sure to include yr shipping address! No international orders please. 🌝 (swipe thru for a photo that @shooglet took of all our dogs and all our tentacles, and the L2H four years ago)

Yall. @shooglet came to visit Tucson and I abt died. They are even cooler than I thought they wld be, in all these years of fangirling over their art. We talked abt the end of the world, ate papusas, and watched the sun set (twice). I don't know how I got so #blessed to have such hot brilliant queer friends who are like bright stars in a vast dark night. ✨🌝✨

Whomst can guess where I'm going in a week? Hint: 8 liter water capacity (only 6 shown here), plus a trekking umbrella. 🤓 (This is not all of my gear- some this & thats are missing from this photo- click the link in my profile and go to my blog for a comprehensive gear list of what I typically pack. My base weight for this trip is abt 10 lbs.)

Fri the 13th full moon tmrw has me feeling w i l d , who else can't focus on anything 2 save their life, I took this selfie in my backyard 🖤 p.s. thx to @shears4queers for fixing the yellow in my hair when I was in Portland

Also! A few days ago I turned 37, the first birthday I have not spent on trail in six years. Which is whatever, just an interesting fact. Muffy and I started the morning with donuts and cold brew, and then drove to the top of Mt Lemmon, where it is 30 degrees cooler than in the valley. We camped in the ponderosas and ate homemade potato salad, corn on the cob, and burgers. We made out in the soft light. We trail ran with dogs. It was Muffy's half birthday! We had a fire and spoke all our intentions for the coming year into the flames. Muffy gave me a six person tent! For future gay glamping parties. It was the perfect birthday. Also I love Muffy. Here are some photos.

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