I had the opportunity to go west this past summer.
Everyone I knew kept telling myself and others about the Hoover Dam plus the Grand Canyon.
Once I got to the desert plus looked out at the Rockies, I was in awe. I could have cared less about all the tourist traps that people spent millions of dollars a year to visit. Seeing the Rockies with their snow caps from this distance, had myself and others in tears. I remembered how our family often said how our family came from this area. They moved east to escape the ravages of the soldiers plus to start a life that was free of the reservations they were forced to live in. This was their country plus their legacy had been taken from them. I could only imagine how difficult it had to have been to live in this dire desert plus survive. They had no air conditioner to keep them cool, plus only the dire heat of the sunshine to wake them up. When they navigated to the mountains, they had to cross the icy peaks, plus survive the chilly only with the fires they built from snow-covered wood. I wondered if I could have survived the heat plus chilly without the luxury of Heating in addition to A/C. I am so used to having air conditioner plus a oil furnace, that I am sure I would have never survived back then. I wonder what our ancestors would say if they could see how both of us live now, plus wonder if they would be jealous or feel sorry for our getting so soft plus unable to live in nature.