🔗 2024 United States Trip

In the summer of 2024, after a difficult year since the October 7 events in Israel and the war that followed, I felt I needed some rest. As I had already completed my journey of visiting all of the National Parks in the Contiguous United States some years back, and mostly wanted to rest, I decided to take a different approach this time. I rented an apartment in the small city of Walla Walla in Washington for a month with the main objective of relaxing. I continued to work (remotely) as normal, and medialed during the weekends.

After that first month, I spent a few days in Boise, Idaho, before continuing to Salt Lake City, Utah, were I rented another apartment for a couple of weeks. I spent the last two weeks of the trip in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Los Angeles, California, where I visited friends.

I had an incredible time on the trip, which included several beautiful nature preserves, music concerts (Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, Descendents), comedy shows (Nick Swardson), a car show, a balloon festival, and more. Mostly, though, I really enjoyed living in Walla Walla for a while, and found myself missing it after I left.