Comments on: The Road as a River http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2005/09/16/the-road-river/ Notes on paddling, fly-fishing, hiking, conservation, writing and reading, the St. Croix River, and life in Minnesota. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:12:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: lene http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2005/09/16/the-road-river/comment-page-1/#comment-1475 lene Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:51:05 +0000 http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2005/09/16/road-trip-driving/#comment-1475 I really enjoyed this piece--how you wrote it with intentional pauses, as if we were driving and pausing with you. When I lived in Colorado, my mom and I took a 3-day--yep, 3 day road trip from the Colorado Springs area up through Bozeman, down through Utah, back into Wyoming, and then hit Independence Pass near Aspen at the peak of wildflower season. The trip was well over 2,000 miles--it's been too long to remember exactly how far now, but reading your post brought back the shape of the mountains and tapped into a part of my memory I didn't think was there. I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures too, but I'm kind of glad you drew them first with words. I really enjoyed this piece–how you wrote it with intentional pauses, as if we were driving and pausing with you.

When I lived in Colorado, my mom and I took a 3-day–yep, 3 day road trip from the Colorado Springs area up through Bozeman, down through Utah, back into Wyoming, and then hit Independence Pass near Aspen at the peak of wildflower season. The trip was well over 2,000 miles–it’s been too long to remember exactly how far now, but reading your post brought back the shape of the mountains and tapped into a part of my memory I didn’t think was there.

I’m looking forward to seeing the pictures too, but I’m kind of glad you drew them first with words.

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