I have been to the mountains. They are both majestic and vast. To get up to the mountains you have to take a road that is steep and traveled by mid-size trucks and SUV's. Compact cars who are clueless often slow down and create traffic jams on the winding roads.Once you reach the tree line you cannot look back. Searching over the side of the drop you get stomach curdles. You can literally imagine plummeting millions of miles to your death and it is terrifying. One wrong twist or turn and it's over.
You stare forward-concentrating. No need to anticipate what surely would never happen. You ask why railing was put in on certain sections of the road. It's said because people went over the side. People died here. Suddenly, it all becomes real.
You are up in the mountains and society cannot save you. Tripping through the tremendous potential of nature you become a tourist in a trap. Eyes bulge grandly and this is it. This is what you cannot get from wide-screen surround sound DVDs, roller coasters, novelty gifts. Only nature can inspire you to understand fully that it is better then you. Only the mountains.
