I said yes to the aurora

I went out chasing the aurora borealis last night! The short story is that I didn’t see it. But that kind of wasn’t the point.

The bigger story is that I said ‘yes’ to something I loved that I normally would talk myself out of because: 

• It was too late at night
• I already had my pjs on
• nobody else in my house gets as excited about this stuff as I do and unless I went by myself I would be making people do something they found boring
• a woman by herself on the backroads of Texas late at night is not safe
• it was pretty unlikely I would see any of the aurora anyway… 
• blah blah blah.

But I went anyway! Doc accompanied me and we had a good time standing in the dark in some random field in what was almost certainly dried cow shit. No aurora in sight – we probably would have needed to drive for another hour to get to an appropriately dark sky. But at least we got to see way more stars than we do in the city.