Hello friends! Once a month, is that the frequency that I am down to posting? Seems like. Not much of a blog if I only post once a month. I agree. But I don't give up easily.
The blogs that I read post at least once a week. I read the blogs linked in the sidebar, mostly RV lifestyle blogs. When I traveled I blogged at least 3 times a week for a year. I believe in the value of on-line stories that essentially journal our experience. We don't know what's happening until after it has happened, so it's good to write it down.
I learned much living in an RV and traveling for 18 months. I have learned much becoming "im-mobile"
(as a good friend recently described us living in a house) and thinking back on that time. Life is a moving river, nothing stands still.
I appreciate the running dialogue blogs of "we did this" stories, because they flow with river. I find what I miss reading is what people
think about. Communication is instant, but comprehension takes time to see the patterns emerge.
Looking back, technology is moving at a ferocious pace. Social patterns are changing at a pace influenced by ferocious technology. Looking back seems almost futile. The future is now. Today will immediately be replaced by tomorrow, so today becomes meaningless. Except... it doesn't. Today means everything. Today is another chance.
So check it out. We went to Arches National Park and it was beautiful. We stayed in the
Devils Garden Campground, the only campground in the park. We hiked, saw the sights, went for a ride on the trust Honda CT110. Glorious.
Everyone takes the same picture from the same spots at these places. They mark them for you and build a parking lot.
I wanted to do something different than the same beautiful shots of the same beautiful landscape. And so, I am sharing some of the pictures of what I saw
ON the landscape.
Arches is crawling with people. They come in vans, buses and RV's and park in the parking lots and spill out over the ground.
That's what you are seeing here, my album of pictures of people taking pictures. You are seeing the vans, buses, RVs. You are seeing the tourists on their way to the carefully marked spots.
This is the beaten path of off the beaten path.
Believe me, I would much rather see tourism here than mining. I would much rather have our beautiful places crowed with people than destroyed for their assets. And I can't get too upset, I was one of those people who came here in an RV.
And it was awesome!
Next stop, Boulder, Colorado!
2 comments:
Yup, it's awesome! Sometimes we are nearly alone at a national park, but usually we are surrounded by people. Funny people, annoying people, endlessly fascinating people.
I'm a watcher, more so than an interacter. I think you talk to people more than I do. But I'm always looking, and I love seeing people and their stuff and vehicles.
I'm glad you photographed them at Arches.
Thanks for your kind words. I'm a people watcher too but I've had to learn how to make friends quickly and more readily interact with other people from our 18 months on the road. I had to learn how to build community with my neighbors as soon as I arrived. Us nomads had to look out for each other.
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