Ooh, pretty pictures! I love how the sky looks different in each one. And long, slow, make-lots-of-stops kins of drives are WAY better than rushed drives. Stopping to see the sights is way more enjoyable. :)
GORGEOUS pictures, Alyon. The light in the second one is unbelievable. And the rolling, grassy high-plains land in the third is just my cup of scenery. (Well, one of them.) How I would love to walk there! But, as you said,
What I would love to do is get way out, off the interstate, and walk in the middle of the fields, far away from the roads. You can't really do that in America--I did it in England twenty years ago because there are all these lovely public footpaths that take you right into the land. In America, I'd be trespassing, and I'd be a little afraid of someone coming after me. But I itch to do it...Sadly, this is so true. I've been reading a biography of C. S. Lewis, and there are many references to how much he and his brother loved to go on walks where they lived, as well as taking extended walking holidays. How I would love to do that! Too bad it would mean airfare to England in order to do it! There were paths like that in southwest Germany when I visted there twenty years ago, too. You could walk and walk and
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Yeah, I love the feeling of being IN the land. From a highway the land can become flat scenery, or just miles to count--I like to honor it and step into it and feel the bigness of it all. When my husband and I went to England 20 or so years ago, we would bus to a region, and then take the footpaths from village to village. At first I was very hesitant, waiting for someone to tell us to get off the property (after all, some of those paths went right through people's backyards!!), but we soon got comfortable walking with the cows, through fields, and under clotheslines. I loved it!!
Oh, Alyon, that sounds WONDERFUL, your trip twenty years ago. Perhaps you will be able to do it again? You are still young, relatively speaking (relative to me, anyway :) ).
Those photos are very beautiful, Alyon. Looking at them, I can almost feel the wind and the sun on my skin.
In America, I'd be trespassing, and I'd be a little afraid of someone coming after me. But I itch to do it... It never crossed my mind that this shouldn't be easily possible in your country. I imagine the U.S. so unthinkably huge - but obviously, space alone doesn't mean you can actually wander where your heart desires to lead you. But I suppose there are hiking areas in the States? Is hiking possible in the National Parks and the like? (Sorry to pester you with those questions! I've never been to the States, but I intend to travel there someday!)
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And long, slow, make-lots-of-stops kins of drives are WAY better than rushed drives. Stopping to see the sights is way more enjoyable. :)
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What I would love to do is get way out, off the interstate, and walk in the middle of the fields, far away from the roads. You can't really do that in America--I did it in England twenty years ago because there are all these lovely public footpaths that take you right into the land. In America, I'd be trespassing, and I'd be a little afraid of someone coming after me. But I itch to do it...Sadly, this is so true. I've been reading a biography of C. S. Lewis, and there are many references to how much he and his brother loved to go on walks where they lived, as well as taking extended walking holidays. How I would love to do that! Too bad it would mean airfare to England in order to do it! There were paths like that in southwest Germany when I visted there twenty years ago, too. You could walk and walk and ( ... )
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In America, I'd be trespassing, and I'd be a little afraid of someone coming after me. But I itch to do it...
It never crossed my mind that this shouldn't be easily possible in your country. I imagine the U.S. so unthinkably huge - but obviously, space alone doesn't mean you can actually wander where your heart desires to lead you.
But I suppose there are hiking areas in the States? Is hiking possible in the National Parks and the like? (Sorry to pester you with those questions! I've never been to the States, but I intend to travel there someday!)
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