Riding a motorcycle (or a bicycle or hiking) across half the states is an adventure. It allows you to smell the corn, the earth, the animals--to feel the subtle changes in temperature as the road rises and falls. You are there, more so than with other travel methods.
You stop, out in the outback, put on coffee on a little gas burner and the smells of the coffee mix with the soybeans and the wheat and the cattle--or often they mix with solitude, it's just something. and one is kind of engulfed--and it is so different from auto-travel, although that's fun.
Probably the optimal is bicycle riding but I am afraid I don’t have that much time left, and my dogs would die before I returned anyway.
There could have been any number of pictures to post and I took, literally, hundreds. The Great Plains, mountain ranges, and desert, are magnificent photos in what they show you about the country--how incredibly big and complicated it is. It seems beyond touchable. It dwarfs all. Mountains and deserts, rivers-
As an excellent example, and as a favorite of mine, I post some pictures of Truckee, CA. The Truckee River in Northern California (I stayed in a brothel/hostel in Truckee-which is another story) and you see/feel the pioneers, the miners, the explorers--and you can still see the perfection of the wilderness. That continues to right now.
Our country is rich in resources. It is well placed between major oceans, and thus has security. For now, we have an adequate supply of engineers, scientists, politicians, builders ,planners,— who build dams, roads, bridges-- and the skilled craftsmen who execute the tasks and supervise the quality. We have a supply of writers, artists and thinkers who document our thoughts & dreams. We have a supply of executives, managers, supervisors, teachers and technicians--who make it all work.
It was good to see the truth of this. I think that, by and large, we are a nation of people who appreciate what is right from what is wrong, and are ethical. The negatives are not worth mentioning here--but we know what they are. We really do. Cheers.
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