The desert is one of the easier places to escape civilization because it is not hospitable to our race. Dry, dusty, rocky, filled with flora that cuts with a swipe and fauna that poisons with a bite. What better place to get away from all things human for a short while?

I pressed the pedals and headed east through the night Friday until I reached the edge of the Anza Borrego desert, where I passed out in the back of the Beast. I woke with the sun and trekked across a shadeless and desolate valley to the music of my footsteps.

Upon reaching a canyon oasis a refreshed my water supply and prepared for the night. After a day I could not yet keep my mind still. 

Day two brought the peace of life giving desert streams and a brain clear and focused on the present. 

Finding what I had come to find I decided to walk out by the light of a nearly full moon. After not seeing another human for an entire day and a half, hearing the howls of coyotes caused me to run through numerous coyote defense scenarios in my head.

Being alone is a good thing, for a short time. I also realized I am a very social being and would have loved to have had your company at times. Life is meant to be shared. Community is essential. Create it and embace it.