Hello all,
Yesterday while on a skype call with Hong, I tried to explain the concept of camping. I told her...we would go into the mountains of Colorado where the mighty elk roam, where bears sleep in the winter and forage for berry's all summer, and where big cats live by their own rules. I went on to tell her...we will live in a tent, warm ourselves with a fire, eat freshly caught fish, and how our meals will taste better outdoors. As I continued, I said...you will have never breathed air this pure, or inhaled the strong scent of the forest amongst giant granite boulders, or gazed upon a million stars at night such as... she was to witness. Then I really dropped the bomb on her (hehe) I said Hong, there will be days when you will not see a single other person...at all!
OK, so I was attempting to paint her a pictures with words. Most of us here would say, "when do we leave" But, her first words were "is this how we will live?" "I don't want to be food for other animals". I laughed, and said... maybe just on weekends, here and there. She seemed relieved.
As an after thought today, I started thinking. As, I have yet to come to her (Sept) and she has likely always lived in very big cities (Wuhan as present) whether or not, I was sending her a frightening picture? I keep getting this notion of something like... a collective mindset with her emotions if you will, and with her always being amongst so many people, and perhaps that is where her peace and comfort resides...in the masses, in the cities. Is there such a thing? Or, am I really over thinking this? Actually, I am relocating to the Denver area, partly for the Chinese community, but also for the outdoors.
Chris