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climbing out of the vortex – Sedona
After a long, hot day of driving through the desert, we arrived in Sedona to have lunch with friends. It was good to see them and laugh, but the heat was oppressive, and the crowds of paying tourists looking for metaphysical healing got me feeling a bit cynical, fresh as we were from the Hopi…
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don’t worry, be Hopi
We set out before dawn yesterday. We threw the last of our gear and some snacks for the road into the Jeep (a.k.a. Berta, a.k.a. the ExPatriot), filled up the gas tank, bade farewell to my parents, and didn’t look back. We hadn’t slept much. Chalk it up to last-minute preparations, launching the crowdfunding campaign,…