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 I'll stick with my correlated series theme. Since Lewis and Clark were moving family homes they still couldn't drive a wagon wheeled trailer through here.[3]  These places are close to some of America's first national parks: Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890.[1][2] |
The world's original explorers traveled to new places primarily on horses because there were no cars.
There were not the roads that we drive on now and so we're
not exploring anywhere anymore. There are still what we call "off-roaders". All of us are environmentalists and we insist that driving anywhere there aren't any roads are
ruining our world. I agree and I'll explain our problem.
This started in [part 1]
with children playing in sand piles. This example featuring “exploration” has always existed. These ancient places represent something we once called hiking. Where? Anywhere that there were no people. We acted just like monkeys or tigers. We're all animals and we all want our territory. Hikers went wherever they could without any modern “needed” weapons. We saw other people once or twice a week carrying their own trash out too. Bears are just like humans without trash. First, leave a mother with her cubs alone. Second, leave any bear alone. No problem. We dipped any water we needed right from the stream or lake. We burned any firewood that we needed for our existence. |
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This hiker is in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes the only water is in a canteen.You don't
have to bring food but most do. No roads. No human trails. Mostly no rain or snow. Yes, there are other types of terrain. Originally I figured this would be a great place for a date with some certain friends. |
| This was a long time ago and there were state parks too. Since these pictures are historic but maybe
now there are roads and condominiums on the hills.
I've seen similar situations that have already happened and are happening now. Why are we ruining our world? The number of hikers who venture into places that are very difficult to reach on foot hasn't increased much. Other people types have increased. Most of them live in bigger cities that are covered by snow , floods or earthquakes. |
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A common term used by normal people who call those "special" vehicles "4-wheelers". I think they meant "4-wheel drive".
I too lived in Colorado. I was in a remote part of the state during times when there were no asphalted roads that we used to get home. Yeah, that's the problem.
People do have to live somewhere, so why not in the middle of nowhere – in our untouched environment so far? Most off-roaders historically used 4-legged transportation. Those were horses. Suddenly, the major problem with our existence appeared immediately. |
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| It depends on who you ask and when. The poopulation(sic) stats are estimations. The shapes of the graphs are correct.[6] Mother Nature can provide us with a nasty disease.[7] Otherwise look at the facts. I can be a crude man but I'm not today. I don't care if you're Republican, Democrat or anything. You have to agree - This is the entire world's biggest fucking problem.[5] (literally) |
The last of Chapter 3 and/or Chapter 4 Premise
  This is our government's brilliant safety advice[8]  |
Occasionally not-maintained snow covered my Colorado dirt roads. I paid attention when I drove a 4-wheeler in the Colorado mountains because if your vehicle was still on the road most people took that for granted. Otherwise you might “accidentally” drive off of the road instead. The sides of roads in the mountains were cliffs.
People think that any car is still under control on any state's freeways despite unknown environmental surprises. In the next series part III, I will detail about concurrently ruining our world's environment. A lot of people think that off-roading is easy, I know better than that and I'll talk about that. I imagine that explorers like Lewis and Clark might have experienced the same things. That's our world's history. It still happens now but a lot does change. For example, the pictures on the left are some hot, dry and nasty places in California. Are these similar to the mountain pictures? A few do think so. The first two are from a place named “Death Valley”. The second is also a hot place in the south. The only thing that geographically separates the U.S. And Mexico are train rails. That last sign is visible from both directions. Americans don't cross those train tracks much. Why? Americans think that their rattlesnakes are meaner. I don't know if that's a fact. Remember the “Wagon Wheelers” – they were the original “somethings”. In the damn good 'ole years there was some exciting off road vehicleing. I think that there are a lot of reasons that off-roading has declined and will disappear quickly. |
Post Script One previous related blog.
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As I mentioned above there are 7 billion human animals in this world and our population is still increasing.
By some of my crude math I divided the livable land territory and that leaves about 2 acres for each person (minus land for other animals and farming for just you
– among a lot of others). If you get bored, there are pictures from others on Facebook that featured the cool places to live. Everyone have different opinions. |
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References or notes:
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[1] The first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872
[2] President Abraham Lincoln [3] Lewis and Clark [4] ”homo-sapiens has been around for 200,000 years. “Modern man” is only 50,000 years old. We are both of them. [5][may be better in PS xyzzy] Our population is about 7.4 billion so far. We have already ruined the world. Earth might re-grow without all of us. That's a good gamble. Who cares? Hey, think about it. When I die any minute, do I care if the rest of mankind dies completely as well? What is your answer and why? [6] Maybe there aren't any correct. Find better ones [7] Nasty Diseases [7½] May be another version? Charlton Heston used to play in a movie called The Omega Man. Which represented a disease of CDC biosafety level 6 (5 is currently the highest) Omega is Greek alphabet version of last letter or Z Imagine catching something really bad in some jungle. There might still be a few. [8] hyperthermia can mean "heat exhaustion" [8½] [9] The pictures in this blog were shot in California. There are two things that are similar in Hawaii: Clear skies with a lot of visible stars and SNOW. Do most people know that? A lot of people who live in HI. don't either.
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