we do not take a trip; a trip takes us...only when this is realized can the blown-in-the-glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

-- Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

Over halfway into 2010 and less than halfway into a life-changing year, to say the least. Upturned assumptions, a couple of self-shaved heads, and a certain acceptance of chaos reached in the mountains of New Mexico. It's been documented in other places, and being so, it's time to go along with what's next.