Thinking About Writing About the Salton Sea

I’ve been working on a piece about my March, 2018 visit to the Salton Sea since at least later that year. It’s not just that it’s an experience I’ve mythologized in my memory, but also that my excursion doesn’t reflect how much different Bombay Beach has become since I was there. It’s forced me to rethink much of what I had in mind for the piece, to tell of an experience devoid of the sort of artification the area has experienced in the years since then. I bring this up on the off chance that I eventually complete the thing. Perhaps this shift will be the bump I need to wrap it up. We’ll see.