Sunday, June 12, 2022

We have been traveling for about 8 days now and it has given me a completely different perspective of almost everything

The first thing I realized is many people over 65 or 70 might never travel again because of their fear of Covid, the violence almost everywhere now and people beating up each other on airlines around the world too.

Even I, when I had altitude problems in Lake Tahoe I at first was going to give up traveling because basically not being able to sleep for 2 nights almost ended the usefulness of this trip.

However, when I heard about Boost Oxygen where you can buy this in places like CVS or sometimes even supermarkets at higher altitudes over the counter if made me feel more confident of being okay at higher. altitudes. By the time we had driven to Twin Fall, Idaho across Nevada which was incredibly green from all the rain they were getting (that people didn't get between Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea in California I realized I likely was going to be okay on this trip. Then Jackson Wyoming was about 6300 feet in elevation I found I could sleep at least 6 hours uninterrupted which gave me hope of continuing this trip. So, even though I got injured enough on Wednesday to have stitches put into my left shin I still decided to keep going on this trip.

So, What is an adventure?

Best definition is: "A Difficult situation well handled!"

That is the best way to describe this vacation in some ways.

However, being just feet from a Buffalo whose head was almost as large at the hood of our car and my wife seeing a wild bear up close and personal as well as several hundred buffalo at a time in herds and the beauty of Yellowstone and Teton National Parks has made the trip worthwhile. 

Also, friends from Mt. Shasta also traveled with us and stayed next door to us at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone for two nights and had dinner with us twice was really nice too.

How I see the world has changed a lot too when you visit somewhere like Wyoming or Montana that are Very very green right now (likely the greenest in 20 or 30 years each just like Nevada and you see 50 to 100 mile stretches of land where no one basically lives at all and you can often see 100 miles with no one there except a few cars on the roads, it changes how you feel about everything on earth.

You start to realize in some ways that no matter what happens around the world (unless there is some nuclear blast event, things are going to stay basically the way they are in places like Wyoming and Montana for many many years to come.

I find this very comforting to see this much beauty with so few people here. 

But, I'm also looking out my sliding glass door of my cabin at the Yellowstone River moving possibly to flood stage because of so much rain this spring (that should have gone also to California, Arizona and New Mexico but didn't.

So, as wonderful as Wyoming and Montana are there is always something you have to think about if you want to be anywhere on earth and survive it long term. 

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