Hello, Vagabonds!
Are you feeling any wanderlust?
in between nowhere,
jalopies pass each other
divided highway
Roadtripping
I do not use any substances, illicit to otherwise, to trigger altered mental states. This is not (at least not any more) a moral standard as much as it is a fear of addiction given my troubled family history of substance abuse and my personal history of mental illness.
However, I often still find myself in an altered state. Writing and drawing often put me in the zone—and so does driving. When I’m driving across a monotonous backdrop, and everyone else in the car falls asleep or drifts off into their own world, my mind shifts.
It feels like being in two places at once. I am still in control of the car and focused on the road, but my inner narrator begins to weave intricate, fantastical tales about the nothing passing by outside. This feels very much the same as when I’m in the zone creating art. It’s a trippy altered state that always comes to an end much too soon.
This is one of the main reasons I love road trips, it gives me a chance to go roadtripping.
Artist Note
It’s almost summer, and to my brain that means I need to take a road trip. Today’s haiku comic is from my ongoing Road Trip series. I have stealthily published two other comics in this series:
snow reflecting moon
ice crystals refracting light
glittering jewels
silent lightning strike
sparks conflagration on butte
we keep driving south
Here you can read about the trip over Mount Shasta in the middle of a snow storm.
And here you can read about driving in a nasty wind storm across southeastern Idaho.
Be the weird you want to see in the world!
Cheers,
Jason
Jalopies is an underrated word.
For sure, Jason. Driving is very settling to my thoughts.