![Longing [Denver, CO]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20180731_120608-1.jpg?fit=1170%2C878&ssl=1)
The one with an Emerald Lake in the mountains.
Category: North America
![Into the Abyss [Grand Canyon National Park, AZ]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG_20200103_120459_486.1.jpg?fit=1170%2C1157&ssl=1)
Into the Abyss [Grand Canyon National Park, AZ]
The one with a canyon.
![Limitless Oa’hu [Honolulu, Hawai’i]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20181230_172713.1.jpg?fit=1170%2C878&ssl=1)
Limitless Oa’hu [Honolulu, Hawai’i]
The one with mopeds.
![Frozen in Time [Petrified Forest National Park, AZ]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190805_1400308046438668460538608.jpg?fit=1170%2C1560&ssl=1)
Frozen in Time [Petrified Forest National Park, AZ]
August 4, 2019 Sixteen hours seems a lot longer when you’re sitting in the passenger seat of a car driving one way West on I-40.
![Lazy Adventures [Lone Rock Beach, UT]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_20191014_172658_995.jpg?fit=1080%2C1081&ssl=1)
Lazy Adventures [Lone Rock Beach, UT]
The one with a car stuck in the sand.
![Scorched Sunrise [Santa Fe, New Mexico]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20190805_114605.jpg?fit=1170%2C878&ssl=1)
Scorched Sunrise [Santa Fe, New Mexico]
The one with a weird, intensive art installation museum.
![The Windy City – Part 4 [Chicago, USA]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20160516_170108.jpg?fit=1170%2C658&ssl=1)
The Windy City – Part 4 [Chicago, USA]
May 17, 2016 Nora and I spent our last day wandering the streets of her city. We weaved in and out of the busy streets,
![House of Magic [Chicago, USA]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20160513_1750201.jpg?fit=1170%2C658&ssl=1)
House of Magic [Chicago, USA]
May 13, 2016 That morning, you couldn’t have told me Nora and I would literally flag down a passenger train on the side of the
![Wandering Orchestra [Chicago, IL]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20160513_2228261.jpg?fit=1170%2C658&ssl=1)
Wandering Orchestra [Chicago, IL]
When I finally made it to Chicago, touching down in O’Hare to one of the busiest airports I had been to thus far in my short life, Nora and I absolutely ran to one another when we finally spotted one another in the crowd. Through the crowd I spotted her, the mop of brown hair and glasses matching mine. The elation I felt after having gone so long without seeing her practically bowled us both over.
![The Windy City – Part 1 [Chicago, USA]](https://i0.wp.com/headbeyondhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_20160516_2027491.jpg?fit=1170%2C1170&ssl=1)
The Windy City – Part 1 [Chicago, USA]
I’d traveled to Chicago plenty of times before–with my mom, with my dad’s family, with the high school band on an excursion to one of the wind ensemble clinics within the city. However, this was the first large trip I would take on my own, without anyone else to keep me company.