Days #9 and 10: Usual . . . or Unusual

As we have traveled down the highways and byways of Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota the last few of days, I've been thinking that much of life is a matter of perspective. What for one person might be usual, for another person might be quite unusual. Here are some examples that we have experienced in the last few days.

~ Usual it might be for Coloradoans to experience snow on 15 August, for these Southern Californians, it was most unusual!

~ Usual it might be to drive along major roadways multiple miles and not see another car traveling in either direction, this is a "never happens" event at home!

~ Usual it might be for Wyoming folks or South Dakotans to be able to look out across miles and miles of rolling prairies as far as the eye can see, this cannot happen in our little corner of the world!


~ Usual it might be to see a row of 12-18 mailboxes (you know -- "real" mailboxes sitting atop wooden posts) lined up at the end of a side road, for us it was unusual, taking us back in memory to different times and places!

~ Usual it might be to see herds of antelope grazing near the highway, for these Southern Californians, it was a sight to behold!

~ Usual it might be to see two antelope grazing alongside a herd of Black Angus cattle, it sure seemed unusual to us!

~ Usual it might be to see an antique tractor parade coming down the highway, it was the first time it had ever happened to us, and cool it was!


~ Usual it is for me to walk to any one of at least six Starbucks in 5 - 20 minutes from our condo in downtown Pasadena , for the residents of the states through which we've been driving, that would seem unusual indeed!

Usual . . . or unusual? It's all a matter of perspective.