Kristene

“And on top of it all, I couldn't believe I was here - that I really had a life now where I could drive on a lark to finally see a place that had felt to me more like a rumor than a location. It was a Monday, and back in New York my friends were in an office building looking at Google Docs. Meanwhile, I was in the most random part of Minnesota, where I changed from pants to shorts in the middle of the parking lot and then waded across a stream, just because I was curious and wanted to. I felt like I had lived more in the past thirty minutes than I did in some full weeks back home.”
― Blythe Roberson , America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

“As much as magazines have spent decades asking if women could have it all, it's obvious that they can't because so many things appear to me to be direct opposites, "freedom" and "companionship" chief among them.”
― Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

“But then it struck me how messed up it is that so much land was stolen, then privatized, and that a few people amassed so much capital that they could afford to buy land and "give" it back.”
― Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

“National Parks exist to preserve natural wonders but also to teach visitors about our nation's history.”
― Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled