An actual text message exchange with her while on the road:
I’m starting to realize that I’m bored as fuck here
All these people clogging up everything
No wilderness
No mountains
No bears or moose
Just concrete and rudeness
And heat
I don’t fit in without a ton of effort
And I’m so apathetic that that won’t happen
Yup.
I just look outside and think “fuck all these people” and I want to come back there