The year begins anew!
Mood:  a-ok
smoothly she sailed on down the western road. Sure was a rough trip through the mountains in Wyoming, though. The wind was gusting at over fifty miles per hour, and it started snowing. The higher the elevation, the more snow there was coming down, and the sun was on its way down, too, as I was going through the highest pass. Radio said it wasn't going to stop for a while, so the only way to get out of it was to continue driving at twenty miles per hour down the one lane that had been bladed, as semis blazed by in the unbladed lane at sixty miles per hour, kicking up more clouds of snow. Saw a few vehicles overturned in the middle of the road along the way, SUVs, police were already there helping them, fortunately. The rest of the drive wasn't too bad, pretty flat and boring throughout Utah. There was some more weather once I hit the Sierras, lots of rain just pouring down, fortunately it wasn't snow! The drive was quite exhausting, but well worth it. Had a spectacular time at the New Years eve extravaganza (Sea of Dreams) that I attended, sure was out of this world, I must say. I don't think there could have been a better place in the world, or this solar system, to end and begin the year anew.

Sea of Dreams is beyond a comprehensible description at this current juncture, so I'm not going to bother. It was one of those experiences like Burning Man, in that it is so different from anything else you've ever seen or heard or attended that mere words do not even begin to do it justice; one must attend to truly know.