"It's an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you've been and what's happened. In the end, you're just happy you were there-with your eyes open-and lived to see it."
-Anthony Bourdain
(I just started reading his The Nasty Bits last night and this closing of his preface was EXACTLY what I felt when I tried to write about that sunrise the other morning.)
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