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i've gotten ahead of myself, as usual, delving into the specific without giving my reader the outline. Our trip's framework:
Wednesday the 25th
We left Louisville in my MINI for our non-stop flight out of Indianapolis. Whitney's a bad flyer even under the best of circumstances, but her months of nightmares about our doom on our flight to Denver had her on a razor's edge the whole day. Two hops to Tampa earlier in the year had nearly undone her, so I found a non-stop flight to Denver on upstart Frontier airlines. A discount carrier like Southwest or JetBlue, Frontier has new Airbus A318/319 planes with only coach-class seats. I was only impressed with their service, professionalism, and price.
Anyway, our flight left out at 2:10 Indianapolis time. Indy doesn't follow Daylight Savings time, so we had an extra hour to kill. We had some lunch at the TGI Friday's on the concourse, then made it through security just in time for boarding.
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Imagine a place with the best water you've ever tasted, not bottled, but flowing from every tap.
Imagine air, crisp and devoid of humditity. Imagine the most scenic vistas imaginable, of mountains and wildlife surrounding you in 360 degrees of God's creation.
Imagine all this, and you'll have Estes Park, Colorado, the place I've shared with elk, gray jay's, fat chipmunks, and my darling for the past few days.
Yes, folks, I've been on VACATION! Having done the sea-level thing just a few months ago, we decided to try the opposite: Where St. Petersburg is developed, hot, and sea-level, the Rockies are wild, chilly, and relatively untouched. If you like nature at ALL, then go there.
There's so much to say about the place! Each part--the land, the water, the air, the people, the animals, the weather--deserves its own blog entry. Hell, each of them deserve a treatise!
But just to begin...
The Altitude
Georgetown, Kentucky is at ~900 fee...
fascinating summary of the liberals -v- conservative perspectives:
Red Brains vs. Blue Brains:
In my mind, the main difference between liberals and conservatives is a preference for nature or nurture. This ties in to your idea abou the loss of free will. Disclaimer: I consider myself a conservative, athough I think I have a good understanding of how liberals think because a lot of my friends are liberals and I like to talk about politics. I'd love to hear feedback on this idea to see how valid it is.
Conservatives tend to believe that people behave in the way they do as a result of something about them in particular - their nature. Some people are just good and some people are just bad. Nothing can be done to change or fix the situation- it's just how they are. Good people tend to obey the law, pay taxes, go to church and be good citizens. Bad people don't. When a bad person does something bad, it's because he's a bad person and therefore likely to do ba...
