Exploration and Emotions

[Tommys]

It has been some time since i have been choked up while discovering new areas and places. Recently, in NC we found Cherokee Nation and unraveled a story that changed my perspective of Native Americans. It was an adventure, but one of emotional empathy. Check it out and let me know if you have had any awe moments while traversing far and away.

 

[grubworm]

unfortunately a person doesn't even have to travel far to experience places where others were treated badly. there is an old plantation about 4 miles from my house that still has rows of slave quarters on the property...they are of course run down pretty bad and not in use, but its easy to see them and imagine how crappy that was.
i was camping on the rio grande between del rio and lantry and could see where the old railroad was built and there were a lot of sections that were up on the side of the canyon and was carved in the rock wall by blasting and pick and shovels. a lot of chinese worked building that and i saw a marker saying how many of the chinese workers lost their lives doing the hard and dangerous work and their bodies were just buried in the debris. it was messed up to hike along that and wonder how many bodies i'm walking over.
probably my biggest awe moment was standing on the Arizona Memorial. standing there and looking down into the water and knowing that there are still 1,102 bodies down on that ship...just imagining how terrible it was to be trapped on there as its sinking and the compartments are filling up with water. that one hit me the hardest

 

[Tommys]

Incredible but necessary to appreciate this land of ours. Thanks.