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Thursday, 7 November 2013

The road to BlizzCon

Anne Stickney and I decided to travel to BlizzCon a little differently this year. Why fly? Flying is boring. You know what isn't boring? Driving through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and finally, down through California. While most of the drive presented us with little more than mountains and desert, that was perfectly fine by us. Mountains are awesome. And the desert? Things lurk in the desert.

Unfortunately, I couldn't avoid airfare completely. My significant other and I began our stretch of the journey in Milwaukee, WI. From there, we had to make a geographically ludicrous stop in Houston, TX before flying back up to Grand Junction, CO where our journey truly began.

Though Anne wasn't particularly impressed by the mountains surrounding us throughout Colorado and Utah, I spent hours of our ride awestruck. She has always lived among those mountains, whereas I hail from one of the flattest places in America. Wisconsin has its share of beauty, but never before had I passed through terrain such as what you see in the header image above -- which happens to have been taken in Arizona, not Colorado or Utah, but you get the picture. To someone from the flatlands of the United States, that stretch of the drive made me feel like the insignificant speck that I really am in the grand scale of things. It felt alien and bizarre, beautiful and inspiring. If you want to partake of some scenery shots from our drive, hit the gallery at the end of this post.

We spent a night in Utah, mere mortals in the shadow of a bright red mountain range, then began anew the following morning. After dining on elven pie, of course. That's where it started to get weird. Weird in the tourist sort of way. As far as I'm concerned, that's the best kind of weird.

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