Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have heard that my family and I took a two-week road trip a couple of months ago. And yes, it was “epic.”
We traveled over 2100 miles on our way to visit four National Parks, two National Monuments, and one Tribal Park. Er, yeah. I had lots of catching up to do on my return. But now I have all these pictures—complete with writing and life lessons—to share with you. *smile*
Lessons from my Epic Road Trip in picture form (click on each picture to see a larger version):
When Problems Come at Us…
(Doesn’t that erosion pattern look like a giant three-toed footprint? *grin*)
Sometimes the Situation Isn’t as Bad as We Think…
(Did the foreground keep you from noticing the Double Arch in the background?)
(Imagine the Windows Arches as eyes. Does that mean that gnarled piece of wood is picking the rock giant’s nose? *snicker*)
(Look at that top picture. See that squiggly road on the left side? We drove down that cliff. It wasn’t paved. Yet we made it to the bottom and survived to look back and think, “Cool. We did that.”)
Sometimes We Never Know until We Try…
(Modern people have tried defacing these petroglyphs. Grr. They give up before making much of an impression on the stone however. Each of those little dots took a lot of time to pound into the rock face.)
Experiences—Good and Bad—Bring Vibrancy to Our Art
(I used to think the Disney Imagineers used unrealistic painting techniques on their fake mountains of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad or Cars Land. Nope, real life is weirder looking than the fake stuff.)
(The complete set of pictures from my Epic Road Trip is up at Pinterest, and they’re all available for use with limited Creative Commons licensing at WANA Commons, a picture exchange Flickr group for sharing pictures to use on blog posts without copyright issues.)
When you travel, do you come away with insights about life or human nature? Do you ever try to imagine who would live in the different places you visit? How much do you think where we live affects us as a person? Have you ever written about something real, but others thought it was too unrealistic? Did you have a favorite picture and/or lesson? *smile*
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