FINDING PEACE ON THE TALIMENA SCENIC DRIVE

When you need to clear your head, drive until you feel compelled to stop. That's where you'll find what you need.

Abby Lutz

A few years ago, I had just begun my sophomore year at the University of Oklahoma, and I was miserable. I loved college, but I was living with strangers, and I was very uncomfortable. I wasn't spending very much time with friends because we were all feeling the pressure of our classes, so I was feeling isolated and out of place. One Saturday, I had to get out of the house. I studied a few maps of Oklahoma and chose a road in the southeast of the state that I figured I'd go drive. The sun was high in the sky. I packed a lunch and hit the road. I cued up a handful of podcast episodes and drowned out everything but the road, driving for hours across flat, rural…

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ROVA (Digital) - 1 Issue, Thirty-Three: October/November 2022

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