We've been talking in my lit. class about release of energy and my professor mentioned listening to Beethoven's 5th Symphony as the mountains came into view from Kansas. I went to Colorado when I was a little kid. I think we drove, but I don't even remember. I remember someone threw up on the train up Pike's Peak and left the window open the whole time and I was very cold. I want to re-experience the mountains now that I can, maybe, actually appreciate them on some level. Any level at all.
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I've been there twice in the past few years. Went to Pikes Peak both times..in a car, so there was no vomiting.
Also, just downloaded the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.
Also, I'm too lazy to sign back in to my account because my password is always messed up.
-ChiselStick
NEVERMIND. I GUESS I WAS ALREADY SIGNED IN. LOOK AT ME BEING LAME.
I used to be rather indifferent to mountains. Growing up on the west coast, it seemed like a mountain's only purpose was to obstruct our path to the other side, and of course, to make the roads windy and passengers carsick. I realized though, when I moved to the flatlands of Belgium, how much I really missed the mountains I grew up hating!
My parents came over and visited me during my Spring Break, and we took a three week road trip down through France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and back up to Belgium. I will never forget the one morning I woke up in Kandersteg--we had been driving all night, and finally, around midnight we realized that the alps were not a good thing to traverse in the dark. So we stopped at the first little family hotel we came to; the next morning I woke up and was listening to Bach's Concerto #2.1 on my iPod, when I threw open the curtains to this....http://picasaweb.google.com/ShirahEden/BloggerPictures?authkey=F7YcgGqKN9I&feat=directlink#5297580675226906546
And I've never looked at mountains the same ever since. :)
I'm sorry...I thought you were somebody else. I have a friend Kate that has a very similar writing style. I just realized that I randomly posted on your blog and I don't even know you. So don't be creeped out-- simple mistake!
haha
Have a nice day though :)
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