What is it about traveling that just wears you out? You're just sitting there, whether it is in a car or airplane or whatever. We're not on horseback or walking behind a covered wagon. There's no rowing or hoisting sails involved. We've lounged on padded Seats in air conditioned comfort with customary drinks and food readily available. At day's end we are settled in a comfortable room with familiar television stations like the weather channel to soothe our frazzled psychics.
Where would this country, this world be if we had been the ones who had to cross the Rockies or ford the raging Mississippi or hike the Appalachian trail to start a new life?
I'd like to think we could have done it. Not as a challenge on our life's bucket list, but just because it was what was expected of us. Thank goodness for our ancestors who were brave and stalwart and forged all these new trails that we take for granted today. Are there still adventurers taming the wild and creating new frontiers? I don't know...some of those shows about life in Alaska look pretty challenging.
Well. on to our project of the day. Instead of hip boots and a machete to carve out a trail, I will be clad in my hot pink blazer and dear husband will even sport a pink shirt! We're not claiming to be the Donner Party but we do have a mission today. I hope we bring a little smile to someone. It's the best we can do right now.
Where would this country, this world be if we had been the ones who had to cross the Rockies or ford the raging Mississippi or hike the Appalachian trail to start a new life?
I'd like to think we could have done it. Not as a challenge on our life's bucket list, but just because it was what was expected of us. Thank goodness for our ancestors who were brave and stalwart and forged all these new trails that we take for granted today. Are there still adventurers taming the wild and creating new frontiers? I don't know...some of those shows about life in Alaska look pretty challenging.
Well. on to our project of the day. Instead of hip boots and a machete to carve out a trail, I will be clad in my hot pink blazer and dear husband will even sport a pink shirt! We're not claiming to be the Donner Party but we do have a mission today. I hope we bring a little smile to someone. It's the best we can do right now.
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