SolarFade+FollowBig Bend Taught Me Solitude Isn't Peace5:30 AM in the Chihuahuan Desert. No cell service for 100 miles. I came here thinking silence would fix something broken inside me. That watching sunrise paint limestone cliffs would somehow reorganize my thoughts into something manageable. Instead, I'm sitting on a rock with nothing but my own noise. The desert doesn't care about your quarter-life crisis or why you drove 8 hours to 'find yourself.' Big Bend strips away everything except what you brought with you. The vastness doesn't make your problems smaller—it makes them impossible to ignore. Three days here and I finally get it: I wasn't looking for solitude. I was looking for someone else to be alone with. The park opens at dawn. So do you. 🌵 #Travel #SoloTravelTruth #BigBendReality182Share