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Death Valley

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Back to the photos of the Californian road trip! I left the story at the very beginning, really. So as the title so explicitly suggests, I will go on with the first inevitable stop that we had planned: the Death Valley. It took us a while to actually get there 'cause the road we had planned to take was closed due to flooding. So we arrived at night, which didn't allow us to really enjoy the landscape but surely gave us a wonderful opportunity to get lost in the contemplation of a cloudless starry sky. As the first photo proves, we got up on the next day at the same time as the sun! Quite unusual for someone who lives in Barcelona and is more used to going to bed when the sun rises on Sunday morning but exceptional measures are to be taken when you find yourself in such an exceptional site. I am not going to lose myself in so many comments because really, it is difficult to describe into words such breath-taking landscapes. I will just let you have a look at the photos

BRMC guerrilla

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I'm putting on hold the photos of California to share with you a collective project. As some of you may vaguely have heard of, I'm a really big fan of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club . I love their music, their concerts and that feeling they always seem to give, be it on stage or on their records, to just show up, themselves, their guitars and their guts. It's only rock 'n' roll... but it just goes straight to the fucking point. A few weeks ago, as I was checking their Website to see if they would add come Spanish dates to their European tour, I came across this ... A "guerrilla"? Not to get all political and stuff but considering the current context in Spain and the fact that laws seriously restricting citizens' freedom are being passed in the middle of complete international indifference, the word and the idea found a particular echo. It may only be rock 'n' roll but... "Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to