My spirit animal has changed again. I am straight up wolfington for daze.

I just got back from my vision quest in California and I miss it so much.

I stayed at the Roosevelt hotel in Hollywood the first night there, after some ridiculous amount of hours spent delayed at the Memphis Airport where I met Gustavo.

Justin picked me up at LAX 6 hours layer than planned and we met Eric at the hotel, chilled at the pool bar,  had burgers at 2am.

The next morning I woke up so early cuz I was still on Eastern time and I ordered from room service this yummy fritatta . I love hotels and room service!

Then I went shopping and I need to get this jacket from Zara:

So, driving out to Palm Springs was amazing, as the scale of the landscape is so large. I tried in vain to capture it but the pictures really do no justice unless there’s a person to show scale in a panoramic view. I loved just being alone traveling through unknown territory.

And, of course, there is a biker convention in Palm Springs as I roll up. It’s like 90 degrees in the sun and it’s so nice.

The hotel I stayed in at Palm Springs was Polynesian themed and had tiki torches and tiki masks everywhere! I also had these Baja fish tacos at a place called Shanghai Red and talked to the couple next to me about Joshua Tree. They gave me some good facts to know about going and where else to stop and how long it will take to get down.

This is Palm Springs at sunset:

The next day I woke up really early and headed out for Joshua tree but was going to first go to Integratron in Landers, CA going through Yucca Valley.  On the way there there was all these windmills moving slowly in the mountains. They looked so peaceful.

Driving out through the mountains there was strange and I started to feel really weird and at one point realized how in the middle of nowhere I was and almost freaked out. I arrived at Integratron at 9am. I was really early and there was a private group that rented the dome until 11am, so I had 2 hours to hang out. I spent some time in the sun on the lounge re-writing my contract and then felt the need to leave – maybe go into town and get some food and go back.

I went into 29 Palms and Joshua Tree, got some food at the Crossroads Cafe and met a man named JR at the trading post where I bought some dream catchers. He was really cool and was drinking this bright blue water with amino acids. He told me about the Integratron and the native american Blackbeard, who passed away, and whose dream catcher I was purchasing.

Went and hung out in Pioneertown on the way back to Integratron. It was meh. Saw this cowboy on the side of the highway 62. Versa, my rental car and I had been properly bonded at this point and I felt we were becoming best friends! 😉

Everyone was so nice everywhere I went. Before going to Joshua Tree National Park, I went to the Retreat Center of Metaphysics and found some info on my new spirit animal.

Characteristics and behaviors that no longer serve your spiritual purpose are being culled from your consciousness.

Make cooperation a priority over competition.

Valuable insights, ideas, and new teachings are coming your way, so pay close attention.

It’s important to maintain your self-esteem and integrity and deeply trust in your inner knowing, even when you feel misunderstood or misaligned.

You’re being spiritually and psychically protected at all times, so there;s really no need to fear.

That last sentence I have always felt was true.

Went and got even more tacos at a Mexican restaurant to kill time. I knew I wanted to be in the park during sunset, which wasn’t supposed to be until 6:55pm. Had I had known the sunset I imagined really happened at around 6pm, I would’ve gone into the park much sooner. So into the park, which spans around 100 some miles, everything was breathtaking and overwhelming. Here’s some time lapse panoramas:

I swear, driving around blasting music in such a beautiful landscape was almost like a religious experience at times. I listened to ceo and tta a lot.

The park required a lot of driving around and there was literally no service for miles. It would’ve been more ideal to have been able to come back the next day after checking it out one day, because from halfway in, the Joshua trees stopped and it was so dark all I could tell was around was mountains and maybe rock formations still? I couldn’t tell. Again, sunset was beautiful with amazing colors but it was hard to properly capture.

At one point I could smell the incense in my ceremony bag and felt it was trying to tell me it was time, unfortunately, I couldnt find a good place to stop so by the time I actually got out to do my offering ceremony, it was pitch black and a little scary. Although the stars were my witness. And a bird that scared the shit out of me and made me scream in the darkness of night!

I found my way out of the park and drove through Coachella Valley back to Palm Springs and stopped at the In-N-Out Burger and brought it back to the hotel and did some night swimming/jacuzzing and slept heavily. I had the strangest dreams, too.