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[CDS] Day 14-17 Northern California and Oregon
Every new state comes from some other state's end
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[CDS] Day 9-14 – California, at last
The waves in Northern California were wild. We arrive in (Southern-most) California and Pacific Time, in earnest. Through the Colorado Desert to north of San...
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[CDS] Day 8 – The Grand Canyon
Some things are easy to photograph.
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[CDS] Day 5-7 – Williams, Arizona
Colorado’s parks and rest stops are top-tier stuff. A rest stop off I-70, nestled between the mountains, adjacent to a river. I mean c'mon, you can't beat...
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[CDS] Day 2-4 – Denver
Surprise, you're in Oklahoma!
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[CDS] Day 1 – Texas Highways
There are some archetypes you might notice after several hours on Texas' highways.
Prelude: My contribution to the pantheon of “pop-up newsletters”
They’re like pop-up1 shops, exhibits, shows, etc. Craig Mod, Nat Bennett, and Naz Hamid do them, to great effect. I like the idea that 1) they're temporary...
And, we're back
Something newsletter this way comes.
That's a wrap on 2020
The time of year is upon us when things feel like they’re winding down. Even the days end earlier, for most of us. It’s the season for looking back, looking...
World keep on turnin’
I’m listening to Stevie Wonder and so should you. (I’m Adam Keys and this is a bunch of things I’m enthusiastic about. If you’re wondering how you got here...
Just fix the thing
Mandatory Central Texas weather update: cold front came in last night. It is now cold in a seasonally-appropriate way. 🙁 I’m Adam Keys and this is a bunch of...
A slice of the old way
Somehow it's October. Time’s arrow is a helluva thing here lately. My lived experience in Austin is blooming in an odd way. As fall arrived, so did hanging...
Kind of making it, kinda
I window-shop cars a lot. Too much, honestly. Lately, that window shopping has escalated to outright attempting to buy a used car a few times. Let me tell...
Do Texans Dream of Summer Days?
If you have a conversation with a Texan in the summer and the weather doesn’t come up, you have to ask yourself some tough questions. Did that conversation...
Unpausing life, cursed technologies
July 5th The feeling that life is on pause sort of overwhelmed me this week. I brainstormed ways I could unpause my life, given the circumstances. Writing...
Never give up on reading the whole internet
The pen ran dry for a bit there. A cadence is being rediscovered, if ever so slowly. National news aside 🤦♂️, this is about the trajectory of things. I’m...
Now way through but together
New routines are emerging. Feels like we’ve moved on from sitting on our hands, biding time. We’re fully into the in-between time. Seven billion of us are...
Ever forward, eventually, to the new way
Salutations! It’s a strange time. Life feels at once at a standstill and in motion. We want to return to the old way, but that’s probably not a thing. There...
Why not wash your hands to some of the best songs of the twentieth century?
Salutations! I’m Adam Keys and you’re here because, at some point in your past, you subscribed to my newsletter on interesting things you can enjoy and/or...