Baja
There’s a million and one ways to describe my trip to Baja, a lesson learned from and a moment to reflect on in each. During July of 2019 I flew to San Diego and got in a van (technically 2 vans) along with 19 other students and a few course leaders for the Baja Earth Expedition as part of Project Dragonfly through Miami University. We drove south: to Mexico through Baja, to the desert, to the sea. Baja was a unique journey for each person. A platform for growth. A window for reflection. The first ripple or the cataclysmic burst of transformation. A pervasive theme of Baja centered around stepping outside of your comfort zone. For me this started well before the actual trip, with fears and doubts and foreboding. As someone who is prone to heat exhaustion and has had heat stroke several times, the prospect of living outside in the desert in the peak of summer filled me with dread. That was not including my penchant for sunburning, which was compa