We are not there Day 1
May. 5th, 2020 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwWhen Obama made the national monument declarations for Bear's Ears and Escalante, in December 2016, I started wish-planning a trip to see them. The urgency increased when the Trump administration announced enormous rollbacks of the area covered, but Arthur does (did?) so much economist travel that it was not on his priority list. After three years, I started pushing for a real plan, so we coordinated his work schedule with the best weather time to go, and came up with early May. We made very firm plans, and everything was booked - flights, car rentals, motels, tour guide companies. I guess it was a month ego that we started un-booking everything. We received credits, not refunds, from the guide companies, so maybe we will do it some other year. In the meantime, I decided to post the trip, from our kitchen.
By coincidence, it's #VirtualRoadTrip day on twitter, but I haven't seen anything like our proposed trip.
Right now, my sister and I should be gazing around in distress at the destruction of parts of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
https://www.nps.gov/orpi/index.htm
Facilities in most national parks are closed now, but the majority of the closures at OPC are because of the huge machinery destroying nature and erecting segments of the Wall.
Part of the greater area, not just OPC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ps5_i82JM
By coincidence, it's #VirtualRoadTrip day on twitter, but I haven't seen anything like our proposed trip.
Right now, my sister and I should be gazing around in distress at the destruction of parts of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
https://www.nps.gov/orpi/index.htm
Facilities in most national parks are closed now, but the majority of the closures at OPC are because of the huge machinery destroying nature and erecting segments of the Wall.
Part of the greater area, not just OPC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ps5_i82JM
