Alone in Badwater - Cacia (Patreon)

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Cacia Zoo and I didn't get to Death Valley until almost sunset, and didn't get to the inn until night time, so we ate dinner, smoked weed and drank and chatted before turning in for the night.  We got up early the next day and drove the road that follows one edge of the park and then cut straight through the valley and stopped in the middle of it and walked out into the great open expanse of the Valley as the sun came over the mountains.

I set up my camera and Cacia instinctively stripped naked and just wandered away. When I was ready to start shooting i turned to find her in the distance dancing ecstatically, totally lost in her own world and having her own experience of being in this place for the first time.  I just let her go.  I barely gave her any direction the next several hours while we shot.  At some point I couldn't resist her joy and stripped myself, and we just lay there and the smooth, quickly warming hard packed earth in the middle of Death Valley.  We chatted and laughed (Cacia's laugh is big and intense and infectious) and tried to remember to shoot pictures (she even took her turn shooting me).  

That process definitely had little to do with making nude images, and so much more to do with that crazy feeling that happens when you at once realize we are tiny compared to the Earth and the Universe, and totally accept that that is exactly as it should be.  When you realize all that new age mumbo jumbo is actually truth, that science and religions are different paths to the same ultimate goal, you can't help but laugh.