Into darkness

With the sun setting at half past six, night-time has returned to the High North and, with it, the chance to run one of those lovely “reflex trails” that I discovered last winter. After spending a whole day in front of Zoom, being all alone in the forest in the dark is uniquely soothing for the soul (but of course also slightly spooky at times).

At long last, the Biden administration today finally announced an end to the Covid travel ban that has been in effect since March 2020, making it possible to once again fly across the Atlantic. I do not know why but I have been rather emotional about this whole not being able to travel to the US thing, as if some part of me has been cut off. There is something with simply knowing that the desert is there, those Pacific coast highways or that walk across the Berkeley campus.