EDITOR’S NOTE

My advice to you this month: go sleep under

the stars—simply because you can. Late last year, I was browsing the free stock photo site Unsplash like it was Instagram, scrolling through collections looking for visual inspiration for this magazine and adding photos exuding an undefi nable “Sensi vibe” to a collection I’ve amassed under that same heading that struck me as something that I’d like to see on our pages. At some point, I came across the most stunning image by If you’ve been @joshgordon taken at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. The shot was meaning taken on the dunes on a moonless night in the certifi ed dark sky zone where the lack of artifi cial light pollution allows for the Milky Way to shine as bright as day when captured with a long exposure. It’s a striking scene, and I had to have it in the magazine so to plan a getaway to I could share it with you all. I just needed the right story angle to make it relevant. someplace

It came to me a few nights later while I was working on the February edition: the stun- where you ning photograph could serve as a visual reminder to our readers that, although it may can sleep still have been winter, but it was time to book summer camping spots. Recreation.gov opens up booking for spots in its campgrounds six months in advance. And the night under the of I happened to be working on the piece was January 3, six months in advance to this stars, do it month’s July 4 weekend. now.

I took my own advice that night and snatched up one of the 40-something spots in Piñon Flats campground in the park—loop 1, site 22. Make a note of that detail if you plan on ever pitching a tent in the national park, because I can now confi rm what I had hoped to be the case when I was picking out a spot on that night back in January. From that site, you’re aff orded the very best views of the dunes and of the spectacle nature provides every night at sunset—a kaleidoscopic scene of changing colors in brilliant hues that made the whole excursion so very worth every day of the sixmonth wait.

Which is my long, anecdotal way of reminding you (and reminding myself) that even though we are in the peak of summer right now, the Earth is already swinging back around the sun. The days are getting shorter, winter is getting closer, and the dog days of summer are only a month or so away. If you’ve been meaning to plan a getaway to someplace where you can sleep under the stars, do it now. It’s July; it’s hot; the world is open and waiting for you so get out there and enjoy it. Stephanie Wilson @stephwilll

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