Yellowstone
Last year some friends and I went to Yellowstone park for a week.
I hadn't seen snow since I was a kid. Considering this was June, it
was doubly cool. I have a million pictures. I have a million
memories. I live in Houston Texas. The weather forecasters here start
the show with the misery index. That is the temperature with a factor
added for the humidity. That mean's it feels about ten or fifteen
degrees hotter than it really is. That means you feel like a sopping
wet gorilla is sitting on your shoulders sweating all over you. Most
people get sick in the winter across the nation because that is when
most people close up all the windows and hide inside to stay warm. In
Houston we get sick in the summer because we all hide inside to dodge
the humidity. Houston was built on a swamp. That means grass. We have
lots of grass, everywhere. I read an article somewhere that said
Houston wouldn't have half the pollution problem LA has if we didn't
live in a swamp covered in pollinating grass. - anyway, back to
Yellowstone.
Yellowstone was green and blue and brown and white
and black in all the right places. The air was so thin, you could see
right through it. We road horses and got chased around by buffalo.
That memory will last beyond Alzheimer's. We went on hikes. We ate
the same lodge food six days in a row. It was the most fun I've had
in my life. I recommend Yellowstone. Stay
at Lake Lodge and just expect to drive everywhere. Lake Lodge is by
far the most beautiful by far. I'm sure others would debate. There is
not a direction (outside of civilization)
you can point the camera and not catch a postcard. When I return I
will try to catch it just a bit earlier in the season. I bet with
less people it will be just that more mystical.
Stress
They
give us these stress-balls at my work. I have quite a collection
going. I think the official method of use is to squeeze them, but I
find it far more effective stress relief to throw them at people
I complain too
much
That one is self explanatory.
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