Right now we are rolling to St Louis, I am navigating and spent the evening watching crappy movies in hotel in Lawerence KS
Windmills and sunsets last night. It is weird traveling into the darkness going east. A warm welcome back home to what for us is the familiar but has historically been the old, the past, the places left behind in search of the American dream. Makes me wonder how our culture and society would have changed and been effected if we had landed on the west and progressively moved east. Granted there are amazing places in the east, but our subconscious is based on going to the light, expanding west with the sun setting. The sun rising over your back for a new day, lighting the way. You travel west while slowly emptying the landscape of your familiar topography, plants and weather. You push through the barren green and brown plains to the majestic rockies, a thousand miles of magical geologic features not even hinted at in the wooded east, then through the Cascades and Sierra Nevadas to the lush shoreline and the never ending sunsets of the Pacific.I think it is a large part of what we can define as the American Ethos and something that forever defined our culture.
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Deep thoughts, FR8... deeeeep thoughts! ;)
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