Category: Road trip

• There is No Dark Future! Part 2: A poem & photo series.

  A poem continued. An offering of hope. Like so many of you I have been on a spiritual journey the past year and a half. New Wisdom has been given to me. Words of truth our souls are aching to know. Thank you so much for reading these frail words which are spoken through me.…

  Joshua Khatena

  September 12, 2021

  Adventure, Backpacking, beginning, Blog, Canon Photography, Change, Colorado, Consciousness, Empowerment, Forest, Freedom, friends, growth, Healing, hiking, hope, journey, Liberation, Mountain, Murals, National Park, Nature, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Questioning, Road trip, rocky mountain, self-care, thankfulness, the Universe, transformation, Travel, trust, wanderlust, Washington, writer

  black lives matter, Blog, Change, clarity, Consciousness, empowered, explorer, friends, graffiti, growth, Human rights, love, mountains, Nature, Oneness, Photography, Poem, poet, Poetry, purpose, searching, seeker, Social Justice, thankful, transformation, Travel, wanderlust

• The Delicate Arches

  We hiked in a 108 degree Utah sun. The journey itself a sort of tribute to 2 sandstone sentinels of the desert. But what is heat to 65 million years of stratified rock? To Earthen towers whittled into brittled brilliance by erosion, by wind & rain?

  Joshua Khatena

  June 20, 2021

  America, Backpacking, Blog, earth, hiking, journey, National Park, Nature, Road trip, traveler, utah, wanderlust, writer

  backpacker, Change, desert, evolution, hiking, Nature, Oneness, Photography, Travel, Universe, utah, wanderlust

• Beyond Thunderdome 2

  Get out of your thunderdome! You get to create the rules and tools to get you to the next part of your life. Beyond the ideas we’ve been programmed to believe. Past our personal and societal impositions. Belief in your future before it has happened is the most powerful instrument in your toolbox of creation.…

  Joshua Khatena

  June 8, 2021

  Backpacking, camping, Canon Photography, Change, earth, Empowerment, Freedom, growth, Healing, hiking, hope, National Park, Photography, Questioning, Road trip, soul, the Universe, transformation, trust, utah, writer, Zion National Park

  clarity, Consciousness, empower, faith, hope, Oneness, purpose, Roadtrip, seeker, thankful, transformation, Universe, utah, Zion National Park

• Beyond Thunderdome

  I didn’t know I had fear of camping in the desert until confronted with the reality of its stark dry silence. The solemn landscape loomed with limestone and clay towers. Canyons leftover from a former ocean. Approaching the desert, I suddenly became claustrophobic, small, and unsure. Surprised by my reaction, I thought,“those feelings happen in…

  Joshua Khatena

  May 27, 2021

  Adventurer, America, Backpacking, camping, Discover, Empowerment, fear, Freedom, growth, hiking, Nature, Philosophy, Questioning, Road trip, self-care, thankfulness, Unconditional, utah, wanderlust, writer, Zion National Park

  backpacker, Blog, clarity, Consciousness, doubt, empowered, growth, inspiration, Mental Health, motivation, Nature, Photography, self-care, strength, transformation, Travel, Universe, wanderlust

• The Rolling Stoned/ Halfway Home

  I’m halfway through writing my second book, re-planning my move to the PNW, & waiting for 2nd interviews. The words flow much more freely this go round, but will they see the light of day? It’s been difficult to get out of bed since the end of December, but I’ve been getting out and up…

  Joshua Khatena

  February 10, 2019

  Adventurer, Author, Backpacking, Blog, Breakdown, Canon Photography, Consciousness, Depression, doubt, Dreams, Empowerment, Existentialism, Gay, Loat, Mental Health, montana, Mountain, Nature, Nature Photography, Philosophy, Photography, Questioning, Road trip, self-care, soul, thankfulness, the Universe, Travel, wanderlust, writer

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• Back to tha Future/Final Reflections part 1

  

  Traveling may as well be a time warp because Mexico feels a world away from 8 days ago. I finally see the full picture- all the pieces and posts which have concluded to now. The past 7 marvelous confounding months were influenced by the last couple of intense weeks, and soul-searching couple of months in…

  Joshua Khatena

  January 24, 2019

  ADHD, Adventurer, Author, Backpacking, Book, Breakdown, Canon Photography, Consciousness, Existentialism, Forest, Gay, hope, life, Lost, Mental Health, mexico, Mountain, Nature, Nature Photography, Oregon, Path, Photography, Questioning, Road trip, the Universe, Travel, wanderlust, writer

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