From Germany I fly home to Boulder and entertain my parents for their one-week visit to the Colorado Rockies.

The day they leave I travel with some friends to northern Idaho, where we watch a quintessential small-town Americana Fourth of July street parade, complete with lemonade and fireworks. The next day, we drive to a mountainous hot spring in Alberta, Canada, picking up a few hitchhikers along the way.

After a week I return to Colorado, spend six weeks starting and finishing a few freelance projects, officially move out of my house, then fly to San Francisco to hang out in the Bay Area for a week while preparing for the Burning Man Festival.

From San Francisco, we ride a veggie-oil schoolbus into the desert, and experience the desert festival of fire and art (which is another story for a different day). When its done I ride with a British woman to Reno, where we stay in a hotel so grandiose that has its own movie theater, shopping district, six-lane entryway and restaurant row.

The next day I catch a flight to Atlanta, where I attend a four-day journalism conference and visit with my parents.

I then fly back to Colorado, pack my bags, and five days later find myself on a flight to Egypt. Thus begins the next leg of my two-year round-the-world journey.

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