The Bonneville Salt Flats are so flat you seem to see the curvature of the planet, so barren not even the simplest of life forms survive. A place for isolation where one faces demons and personal truths head on.
I find an area to set up camp, and set forth upon the salt and rock, clearing my head with each step. I have no visitors except for the lonely crow, cawing his welcome to the unforgiving landscape. The wind blows the cobwebs from my mind.
I began cloud bursting with renewed imagination. Disconnected from the outside world.
Just me.
As the sun begins its inevitable descent, I build a fire and chant in sun kissed skin. Laying naked under the stars, my walkabout is revealed in the nothingness.
Surviving the night through sweat and realization. New insight.
Sleeping in the howling wind, I rise to the early orange glow of the returning sun along the horizon. Walking out of the Salt with purpose….
going forward.
