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Boyd Percy
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Date Posted: 00:13:42 10/03/12 Wed
In reply to:
Leo
's message, "First Impressions whilst traveling" on 20:41:44 10/02/12 Tue
>I was re-reading Dawnwalker recently, and at the start
>of chapter 66, Randy is noticing: "The clear air --
>that was what got to Randy the most."
>
>It got me to thinking; I had recently driven from
>where I live on the East Coast (Maryland,) out to a
>trade-show in Las Vegas, and took the chance to go
>driving through some of Colorado, Utah, Nevada,
>Arizona, and New Mexico.
>
>To me, it wasn't clear air, but rather a fundamentally
>different-- sound. I don't know if it was the relative
>thinness of the air (I was generally over 5000 feet
>once I went past Colorado,) or the lack of buildings
>or trees, but there was a general sense of... quiet.
>Not that it was particularly quiet, but rather, at
>least, in the East, sound is diffused by the humidity,
>the density of the air. And it comes back at you from
>the nearby trees, buildings, or what-have-you.
>
>Out there, if you spoke, slammed your car door, or
>whatever, the sound passed you. Once. Never to return.
>And sounds from others seemed.. sharper. Less diffused
>and deadened.
>
>So what other things to people notice when they
>travel? Or have traveled?
I remember in the summer of 1973 that my wife and I flew from New Orleans where we were living to Denver and then drove to Cheyenne. I felt like a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders after escaping the humidity of the Deep South to the thin air of the Rockies. I was in average physical shape in my mid 20s. About twenty-five years later when I drove from South Louisiana to the West Coast via Amarillo, Tucumcari, Flagstaff, Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, I did not feel the same effect since I was much heavier and had ten days to adjust rather than ten hours.
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