She Was There the Whole Time

R. James Miller
5 min readSep 26, 2021

I have wanted to write about my most recent road trip for the past week, but something happened that kind of complicated my feelings on the entire trip. Since I returned from the trip two Saturdays ago, we have all learned Gabby Petito’s body was recovered in a dispersed camping area near Grand Teton National Park. The reason this complicates my feelings is that I passed by the Spread Creek dispersed camping area three different times while I was near Teton.

To be clear, I never actually entered the Spread Creek area. I drove by it three different times on the highway between…

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R. James Miller

Mental health, emotional wellness, opinion, & travel-focused writer. Writing about my weight struggles, personal growth, and wanderlust.