Road Trip
Road trips, especially in the Mountain and Southwest states always serve to remind me how big America is. In the past days I have been on a journey that has taken me from Oregon to Texas. Along the way we passed through some of the most beautiful landscape America has to offer stopping over in Canyonlands, Arches and Mesa Verde National Parks. America’s National Parks are the jewels of the nation. They are precious monuments to a wild and beautiful unsettled land. Two guys at Mesa Verde, National Park As the miles slip away and we wind our way through miles of land with scarcely a single human present it reminds one of how empty and unsettled America is. The tiny farm towns we cross through are monuments to the past and decaying representations of the present. What little remains of a Main Street is often fronted by a few beautiful old brick buildings long since abandoned. It makes me wonder how they ever served as a commercial center but I suppose in the era of Amazon they ar