Some years ago John and I often flew to New York City for the day on Jet Blue’s $19 round trips. We started at the Metropolitan Museum and worked our way down to Grand Central Station, stopping at places of interest.
Families at the playground. Walking paths. Houses and apartments clustered together. Farming all around. These are some of the elements that impressed me on a recent early evening walk through the tiny town of Eysins, Switzerland, population 1,600. We were staying nearby in Nyon, a city founded by the Romans in 50 BCE on the shore of Lake Geneva.
I fell in love with tall mountains when I was thirteen. My parents and I took the Trans Andean Railway from the pampas of Argentina to Santiago, Chile. It was winter and we were the first train through in a month. High in the mountain peaks of the Andes the train stopped at an army camp. The soldiers were throwing snowballs and laughing. The sky was intense blue and the snow dazzled. The previous eerie silence of the landscape outside of our window was shattered by this moment of human joy set against nature’s cold but beautiful power.
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