Travel

Pack the car. Fill up on gas. Grab ice from the store. And hit the road. The getting away part of getaways is the hardest part. We were headed to Sequoia National Park from Los Angeles. It should be an uneventful drive through California's Central Valley.

As I hiked through the desert, observing all of the holes in the ground that are surely home to a feast of rodents, there was one question I couldn't get out of my head.