idaho twenty eight (2023) (Patreon)

This shot was taken on one of my many 150-mile trips to the airport, which Idaho 28 takes me to. The road also serves as, potentially, the gateway to Yellowstone National Park, Craters of the Moon National Monument, and the Experimental Breeder Reactor in the Idaho National Laboratory (depending on the route I take).

I'm back in Idaho again after my trip—we did at least start the Thunderbird, which was satisfying in its own right, and made for a much better video conclusion than dejectedly scratching our heads—and now I have to go home again and pass time. My partner is gone for quite a while still, I have a handful of assignments to finish but nothing that should take that long, I am going to continue sending out resumes to jobs I will never hear back from, and the house can only be cleaned so many damn times before it becomes relatively pointless to chase single errant cat hairs I missed while sweeping. At this point, with how little I have to do and how much I habitually clean when nothing else is on the agenda, I would make such a good housewife if I just had some Xanax.

Maybe instead of attempting to get committed to a sanatorium, however, I'll actually go see one of those places on Idaho 28 instead of always wishing I had time to swing by after a trip to the airport. The Camry gets like 30 miles a gallon and I can and will sleep in it. All it'll cost me is sandwiches and gasoline. I need to shoot something dramatic and beautiful, and the Thunderbird trip was going to be that for me; since it didn't happen, Yellowstone might have to do. An '89 Camry isn't quite as stunning a car for photographs as the Ford would have been, but maybe I can make something work.