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For
spring break, my boyfriend and I took a road trip to Colorado. We
visited Crestone, Valley View, and Colorado Springs. We also stopped at
Zapata Falls and Great Sand Dunes National Park. For this trip, I
created a journal that we could both write in.
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This
journal alternated between pages written by my boyfriend, and pages
written by me. The highlight of our trip was certainly Valley View Hot
Springs. It is a hot spring located on the side of a mountain,
overlooking the entire valley. It is all-nude. We shared the water with
snakes and deer. It was my first time sleeping in a car.
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All
of Colorado was like a scene out of a magical realism novel. We met
strange people and encountered places that were lost in time. One such
place was a roadside alligator nursery where we got to hold an actual
alligator. Another weird location was the Japanese shumei. It was some
kind of nature-based sustenance-farming cult that has roots in only
Japan and Crestone, Colorado and we attended a Sunday “healing service”.
Another weird place was a bar with live music in Crestone. We saw how
dreadlocked new-age white people dance and I’m not sure if I want to see
that again.
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My
boyfriend and I also walked around a frozen waterfall. I face planted
about three times per minute. It was probably infuriating at the time.
But our recollections are humorous to look back at.
My favorite places in Colorado: