This weekend I drove out to Arizona to visit family who were vacationing there. Driving through the southwest is an experience that I would recommend to everyone. I first experienced it this way when I drove across country through Utah, Nevada and parts of Arizona (I think, things got a little blurry at this point in the trip, if you have ever driven across country I think you will understand). Having grown up in the northeast this area of the country is the polar opposite to what I was use to, not only directionally but it terms of terrain. I find both these areas of the country equally beautiful but in very different ways. The beauty of a forest, lake or country side in new england is more subtle, the elements that make it breath taking are more in the details. Leaves, streams, trees all need to be explored, discovered to be truly enjoyed. These elements draw you in and make it possible for you to lose yourself in the serene. Walking through a forest I almost always end up sitting down, listening to the sounds, watching what can happen when you sit patiently. Maybe it's just that I grew up with the country but to me desert beauty is much more dramatic.
Driving up the 15 to interstate 40 you come around a bend where all of a sudden the hills on the side open up and you see, out before you, miles and miles of openness. Mountains in the distance with smaller rock formations a little when driving), even though I'm on a freeway with lots of other people all I can take in is the vastness and the feeling of being very small against all that space. As I drive on the scenery does not change too much, unlike new england, where even the country has signs of life in almost every corner, here you could literally imagine you are the only person (sometimes when there is no traffic you are). Though of course in reality it is dead silent, when I look out over the desert, the mountains, hills and rocks are loud. They emit deafening sound that grows louder the longer you focus on them and let yourself be made smaller and smaller by the empty space.
Where as this beauty can be over powering it is also refreshing to be in a space where your significance seems so small. To let yourself be surrounded by the drama of the terrain.
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