Nature from the Car

So I wasn't exactly in my neighborhood this weekend. I drove down to Parkfield, CA with the UNR mountain bike team to race so I can reflect on this weekend as related to the blog. I did quite of bit of walking and I was camping so being right in nature really made observations easy.

Making the drive through California was something that really opens your eyes to nature. I saw everything from the mountains to the fields. In the mountains nature is more pristine than anything else. Perhaps having the large trees on either side gives a falsifying sense of nature. In reality I’m still zipping along 80 unable to truly observe everything around me. I’m a passenger being swept through. I have a destination there is no time to walk.

How can I relate this to my local environment? 80 Goes through Reno. How often are people simply just swept through Reno with no time to truly observe what they are around? I bet that this happens all the time just as I was swept through California. As I come home to Nevada I see rivers that are lined with concrete in California. This just seems so unnatural and wrong. This prompt wanted me to talk local but if from Reno to the bay area are so linked this is almost local. Rivers give life to a region. So the life force of our region is a concrete lined piece of shit.

I don’t know what river that was exactly but I do notice that the Truckee River isn’t exactly natural itself. So the major life force of Reno is also semi screwed. Well this is great. If nature is connected with the region then cycling is connected with nature. You can see that cycling is connected with nature. There is nothing more satisfying then a crisp morning ride. It feels natural and it feels right.

I'll post some pics later.