Hi, welcome to my website,

I am a soon to be graduated electrical engineering student who specializes in radio-frequency electronics. As much as I love my field, this blog will be mostly unrelated to that.

This website's name was inspired by a childhood pastime in which my grandfather would take my little brother and I fossil hunting. There was a small clearing out by a highway which ran through my grandparents' hometown of Argyle Texas. Despite being right off of the highway, this secluded area radiated natural beauty from every possible angle. Sunlight poured from behind the trees, spilling onto dewey patches of native grasses and the wet pits of silty soil whose grey color combined with the moisture to create an amazing shimmering effect. As if it could not get more mystical, we would sift through the top soil to uncover fossilized arthropods and other fossil fragments in between the occasional bottle cap or twig. We'd spend the afternoon searching, talking, and snacking on tacos de sal wrapped in foil. Once the summer sun became too much to bear, we'd pile our treasure into some old plastic containers and begin the walk back home. Before even making it halfway back, we'd already be excitedly planning the next outing and fantasizing about the huge dinosaur bones which were surely hidden just out of reach.

Fast forward 15 years later and that majestic area has been descended upon by greedy developers who transformed our magical "arthropod zone" into the flat bermuda grass covered border of some sub division full of poorly constructed homes and concrete as far as the eye can see. What natural mysticism will be left for the future generation?

My goal with this website is to replicate the ethereal magic of that clearing by documenting interesting people, places, and things which may otherwise be looked over. Additionally, there will be some logs documenting my own small-scale adventures for people to stumble across. The consumerist nature of most contemporary travel content disgusts me, the posts here will be devoid of ads/sponsored posts, affiliate links to the fanciest uber-expensive micro-plastic shedding adventure gear, and things of that nature. Thank you very much for stopping by :D

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