Why You Need To Spend Some Time In The Desert 

I don’t think I could put into words how much these videos mean to me. As someone who comes from and has lived in the flat Midwest my whole life these videos are like a portal into an unknown world. I literally escape reality watching these videos it’s crazy.

This video summarizes why I love hiking and being outdoors so much. I've never agreed with a video more.

5 years ago, my son was transferred to Yuma AZ. The next late fall, early winter, my wife and I visited his family for 7 weeks. I was never so sad to leave an area in my life. I totally fell in love with the desert that trip. He's retired now and stayed in the area. I yearn to visit them. It is oh so beautiful there.

Brent you have become one of my favorite people to listen to. You have a gift for describing the landscape around you in a way that can be felt wherever the listener resides. It’s therapeutic and inspirational. I’m hoping one day, when your life slows a bit, you will find the time to put pen to paper or finger to keyboard and write a book or two.

Brent totally gets it, the desert really humbles anyone who can be alone and honest with themselves. Its an emotional and spiritual experience no doubt.

Your vocabulary and narration in your videos is really the icing on the cake.

I used to drive from Phoenix to San Diego every weekend. I drove alone. I loved it. That drive was beautiful, relaxing even. I always took it in. Now I live in the country of Central Texas. It's beautiful too. I'm definitely a person that loves to take in nature's beauty

When I started watching the first channel last year, it was because a friend and I were writing ghost hunting fanfiction and in my RU-vid rabbit hole, I discovered Ghost Town Living. A year later, I've stayed for the adventures, the simplicity, and the incredible video footage with inspirational words like this entire video is. Keep up the amazing work, Brent!

Ooo I like the idea of putting short clips from your main channel on here. Thats awesome and a great reminder of your amazing talks!

You totally nailed it Brent. One needs to experience "awe" to truly appreciate this amazing world and to feel alive.

I have lived in the High Desert most of my life. Love it! Ranching, Mining and Off Grid. Most people can not handle the wide open spaces, self sufficiently etc. I can appreciate your perspective on the struggles and Beauty!

A man after my own heart. The desert forces life and teaches death it’s a beautiful thing.

Brent, every scene and every word was chosen incredibly well and the Alabama Hills that you pass through on the way to Whitney Portal have no equal. You then shifted east to rise past the Cerro Gordo high desert and down into the valleys that drop lower and lower, past rain shadow creating mountain ranges, until Death Valley is reached.

It alway made me feel so little when I was out in the desert. I was always thinking where and how do I fit in. Brent you said it beautifully in this video. Thank you for all the great videos. They are inspiring!

People have lost the ability to see the beauty that surrounds them. Thanks Brent, you bring a reality to people. I live in Rural Australia, I get to travel with work, from mountains, plains and even the coast. Fantastic.

You, Brent are the drone master and the ultimate story teller! Thank you for sharing such beauty❤️👍🏻

You've described it well. The desert wins, every time. It's powerful magic.

To me the awe is the realization of how small and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of things. I used to do commercial fishing in Iceland and standing outside on the deck and seeing nothing but water in all directions as far as the eyes could see really gave me that feeling.

When it is warm, my mother and I go paddle boarding on Lake Washington near Seward Park. For those who don’t know, Seward park is a peninsula in Lake Washington and it is famous for old growth trees. Even with roads and small spots for picnics it remains a heavily forested area. When my mother and I paddle board around this beautiful area, we are constantly in awe of the large trees, Mount Rainer in the background, and the occasional small historic cabins that we pass. I am grateful for the area I grew up in as I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of it

Very well said I lived in the desert for 25 years now in the city but I sure do miss the peacefulness thank you again and GOD BLESS Don Morrow

Thank you for sharing your love for the west. You have a way of making us fall in love with the west.

No frills video. Just nature in all its pure wonder. But, this is definitely one of my favorites. The less entertaining or overtly attractive videos/content are my cup of tea. Humble philosophy with poignant contemplation.

Such an inspiring place to live. Oh yes it is important to see the beauty where we are but also to see the places that inspire others. If I were not 82 years young I would love to take a trip to this hidden mining town!!

Agreed! The desert is a beautiful and amazing place

I always thought I hated the desert, but once I truly spent more time there, playing with photography, I realized just how beautiful it truly is. I am in love with it now.

ive always been glad i grew up in the desert; my dad and i used to pile into his truck and drive as far up the mountains as we could go, and take pictures of the views from so high up with crappy old cameras. i remember being able to go outside in my small little hometown and look up and see the stars without issue; when i was little, we only had one car, so my mom would drive my dad to work at a mine an hour away at 3am each morning, and i could lay in the back seat and stare out the window to look at the stars and the outline of the sky against the mountains as much as i could. i miss it a lot. my most recent memories of that place are just of smoke and a red sun, now.

I love the desert, I often think of going back to death valley in the middle of the summer. Being lost in the hottest place on the planet, miles upon miles of a dry salt flat where the heat makes an ocean of fire. Every breath you take your lungs are set on fire and the sun so bright it makes the floor look like led lights reflecting off the sand dunes in the distance. Running on the fine grained powdered sand to only hear the wind blow in the nothing mass of beauty. It's only you and your thoughts, it's so gorgeous I often go back in time to relive those moments venturing across the south west. The deserts are a magical place that should always be cherished and taken care of.

The narration is just incredible. We've all felt it when driving through these landscapes, but to put it into these words which make sence of all the emotions, is just the most skillful thing.

I sense all that just watching the videos such a massive area the views the vastness of it all.... A great place for healing of the mind seeing yourself being yourself... Be a great place to visit 😊❤️

I know this was posted a couple of months ago. But I just watched it again. I grew up in the north end of LA. But have been venturing out to the desert and up into the mountains all of my life. I love them both. It's cool to see someone else viewing things as I always have. I love the vast vistas. Not like being out in the plains. That's a different sort of environment. There, you see great distances...to openness. In the deserts I'm familiar with, you can see great distances too. But there are always mountains. And not hills like eastern mountains. REAL mountains. Things are SO majestic and yes, so AWESOME! Great video.

I love your videos; I was born in the Bishop hospital during the time my parents lived in Keeler in 1950. We later moved to Bishop but moved away in 1956. I go back and visit once in a while. Your video makes me want to visit and explore the mountains.

I'd like to rent a car and drive through the US sometime. Am planning a route in California including a stop in Cerro Gordo. Looking forward to it being open to overnight stays.

Magnificent Solitude! What we all need...

The mountain scenery is breath-taking.

Thank you Brent for expressing the truth about nature and enjoying life. My first exposure to a ghost town came in the summer of 1977, when my grandfather took me up to Treasure City, Nevada and we spent a week or so metal detecting the ghost town in the mountainous desert. I still have some amazing memories of sights, sounds, smells of being in the high desert. I now live in the high desert of southeast Arizona near Tombstone, AZ and each day is something new....a sunrise, a sunset, a coyote, a roadrunner, an antelope, the mountains, the desert....keep up the good work with your vlogs.

Spent several years in the desert. I love it.

the best part is that.. during the day, it’s just you and desert. at night, it’s just you and the stars. it’s truly breathtaking. i’ll be going to death valley for the second time soon just because of that feeling. you summarized my thoughts exactly! thank you for this!

wonderful words added on incredible images, so true and inspiring. Thanks

I live in the high desert on the foothills of the rockies. 30 Miles from the Utah Border. It is truly beautiful. I have the mountains less than an hour away and the beautiful high desert in my backyard. But with that beauty comes a healthy respect. In the summer this place will kill you without thinking twice. You need a liter of water an hour if you want to do it right. It sucks the moisture right out of your body. I typically only hike and explore the desert during the winter. It's great. I decent flannel is all you need if the sun is out and the wind is down. It's the best time to go nuts and not worry about turning into a raisin or getting serious burns.

I always found deserts to be one of the worse places of the earth, its dry and rough, and a harsh environment, but just seeing your perspectives of this place, it really changes my perspectives of it all, and I just can't help but appreciate every single corner of the earth now, how beautiful it all truly is. The stories they can tell, the views, the sunsets, I am just mesmerized thanks to you! Keep up the great work!

Beautiful sentiment. Very relatable for us country folk. Hi from AUSTRALIA. Love this content

Drove truck for many years and some of the best road time was driving through the Sierra Nevada Mountain range...It was calm and peaceful as well as quite beautiful watching the sunset/rises...great stuff!

Your important words create important thoughts. Thanks Brent.

I hope you realize Brent, with the special magical videos you put out, PEOPLE Will COME!!!!! Maybe me and my family one day!!!!!

Ive lived in the Sonoran desert my whole life. I LOVE the desert!

Wonderful, thank you for this Brent 🤗❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Each of your videos on this channel make me feel more... thank you Brent

My parents moved to Palm springs I love going there and leaving for the day getting out into the desert I bought a drone and a new camera because of you Brent... Thank u our family is waiting for the day u give a thumbs up to come stay up at Cerro Gordo.. Can't wait

So inspirational, calming listening to your voice describing the beauty in our world that many have never seen! Thank you my friend!

Absolutely beautiful country ❤ 😍 ♥

“In the desert, there’s nothing to distract you from the thoughts and emotions you might want to avoid.” Brilliant observation, Brent. Truly. The same may be said for the practice of meditation…perhaps you’re exposing Westerners to a new way of connecting to spirit. A true pioneer, of both the outer, and inner landscapes. March on, my friend.

This short film was absolutely, pure magnificence.

My Dad has always loved the Mojave, and ever since I was a little girl he would take me on adventures all over the desert.. I remember the first time I “heard” that almost deafening quiet that you can only get in the desert while sitting at the entrance to a mine off of Kelbaker road. I was shown your channel by a friend at work and I am officially hooked. I’ve only visited Cerro Gordo once a few years ago (I am very lucky I got to see the hotel before it burned) and I can’t wait to go back again and hopefully stay the night. Please keep making your awesome videos so I can drool over all of your adventures!! ♥️

Watching your videos and listening to your thoughts is awesome. The feeling of being so insignificant in such a sparse landscape is also so reassuring in life.

I don’t know if you write a script or just speak from the heart, but your words are poetic and moving. They gave added life and dimension to the images you show us. Thank you.

you really captured the beauty and the emptiness of the eastern sierras and the desert. beautiful!

Brett this is a BEAUTIFUL video. Thank you. I needed this peace today.

I would love to come see you out there someday

When you got hit by your Muse... you always do inspiring videos.. thank you for that Brent!

I just gotta stop and say thank you. That was the best 5 minutes of my entire day.

Thank you Brent, for giving me some space to take a breath today.

like when i look at the Olympics to the northwest of me the snow on them and so high looking at hurricane ridge on a good clear day up here in shelton is awe inspiring too my mom taught me so much about living in the desert especially in Arizona she told me about Sedona how the mountains around tehre are mystifying she would just track a deer for two weeks studying how and where it would go she had to get it for food of course but she told me about its behaviors and what ti would and not eat certain things and stayed away from Cholla cactus they do jump especially during lightning my older brother D had scars on his calf from when my mom had to pull a few out from flagstaff to humbug creek she did a lot of work for mr dougherty especially in the assaying dept and prospecting area also but oh the peacock ore she brough with her she gave me a few of the rocks it is so beautiful.

Amen Brent. I used to Drive the 395 from Alturas calif towards Landcaster for work, no place other than Lake Tahoe inspired me like those 2 places

Nice video your right about the desert I lived in the Mojave 43 years so much to explore

Love your description of Awe it’s beautiful and the feeling of Awe is something we all need to experience ❣️❣️

I enjoy these monologues. Thank you.

Yet another breathtaking video. 🥺 Thanks for the content Brent. ❤

Dear Brent, Thank you very much for sharing this video and your deeper thoughts about life where you are with me. Like others, I find your work satisfying and your adventures a ton of fun! I feel a certain possessiveness when you show me what's around you like the mountains and the wonder that you carry with you now. My parents (who're still with us,) brought up about half of us kids in this region. Mom says, "once the dessert gets in your blood, it's always there." She's right! That sense of awe hits me often in large and small ways. From tiny ants to mountain ranges that slowly disappear into the horizon I feel deeply that my surroundings are incredible. I'm currently living in Ft Collins, Colorado and the Rockies are very close and the great plains are within view (if you can get a hundred feet higher and just look it's like being on the edge of creation itself.) Forested mountains are in my blood, just like the nothingness of desert life. So much to feast upon with my eyes and mind. Bless you for allowing the beauty of your environment to touch your heart and fill it with things that give you meaning and purpose. You've truly found the greatest treasure of all. Always, Andy

You get very philosophical, that´s great. Take care and God bless.

Absolutely love this type of terrain!

i been glued to your other channel and didn't know of this one till now. i know, where have i been? but i have to say, i am as ever pretty well dazed every time when i listen to you Brent, your words give so much more to your surroundings, sure i live in a small coastal town and i like many have a tv which enables me to see so much of the world we live in, and again i do the same with my trusty laptop, get on you tube and escape to other worlds getting to be one with nature is something i truly respect, and i like you will stop and look at my surroundings with some ore, twice a week i escape into the countryside where i do a little work, and sometimes find myself leaning over the fence chatting with a cow, or sometimes a bull, who comes over for a chat, its fun, its enjoyable to think we understand each other but my scenery is nothing like yours, certainly not as breath taking as yours, but i guess that's why i am here with others to enjoy it with you, sharing that feeling and the knowledge of its and your existence, cool

You are truly inspiring and gifted with words Thank you for letting us in on your journey 💕

Breathtaking. Thank you Brent.

Beautiful... I must say, you definitely have a way with words. I really enjoy listening to your captioning.

Thank you for posting this. I really needed this. You gave a sermon here...well done!!!

So beautiful Brent. Thanks for sharing. 💕

Poetry. Pure poetry!!

Thanks for sharing this,God bless you more

Such beautiful visuals. You were able to vocalize how I feel about the desert. I leaves me speechless with its scale and beauty

Brent, the way you describe nature is so poetic. Your narration on this video gave me chills because I felt like it described my relationship with nature so well. There is nothing better than getting lost in the wilderness to find yourself. You are a great film maker and we are lucky to have you on RU-vid, I hope one day to come out and visit Cerro Gordo.

I truly sincerely love you and all you have done,given and shown as well as shared with us🤘💜 this is beautiful! Rather enjoy listening to you talk about everything you have done and are experiencing ...those views are Epicness! I'm certainly in awe here.

Oh how I miss going through the desert. I too am in Florida… I miss the desert…

I absolutely love these kind of videos, they really help make you appreciate the beauty in the world!

this gives me the chills

Thanks Brent. Sure was worth watching. Another World. (Respect nature as it is). Regards

This made me emotional the first time I watched it, then I saw it again when you uploaded this 2 months ago, and it made me emotional again. Today, for the third time, it made me emotional. These words are a big inspiration and they mean a lot to me, mostly because our lives these days are mundane and repetitive and I really love adventure but we're not able to. I also haven't been in awe for years, and it saddens me. I really hope I can turn everything around and do things I like and spend more time with friends and family, but also have more time alone with my thoughts. Thanks for always cheering me up with the videos and inspiring me to be more adventurous, I wish you all the best.

Love it, reminds me of old times out there

Beautiful, soaring images, music, message. Thank you so much, Brent.

I just did this. I drove from Surprise, AZ to Northern Nevada a few days ago. It was mesmerizing for sure. Passed lots of old ghost towns (Beatty, Goldfield, Tonopah). Virginia City has a rich history as well.

Beautiful! Thanks

Superb images and wise words......these videos are like therapy.

You are really great at capturing in words the beauty and awe around you..I can't think of anyone more perfectly suited to be doing what you are doing bringing this moment and experience to life for so many who get to watch .. Just know it's very appreciated.

Beautiful. Thanks, Brent.

Beautifully expressed and filmed.

Magnificent! Like I said if I'm accepted as a volunteer it's probably going to take me 4 hours to drive very slowly up the road to Cerro Gordo just so as to soak it all in! ❤from Ohio

I just love your videos Scenery is amazing and your narrative is beautiful I've been to the USA on road trips through the deserts etc a few times...just breathtaking

Goosebumps, absolutely incredible video.

Thank you for sharing! I will never ever be bored with mountains. I live in the mountains, although tiny in comparison to Inyo, and I just love being able to see them all day every day. I also need to be near water and am grateful to be around water. But the desert.....that is one environment I have yet to experience and I live vicariously through you when you share videos with us. The awe is there even through video!

Brent is a true modern-day poet 🌄

Beautiful.