It's been a few decades but I still have a couple of images in my mind of vistas I experienced when walking & thumbing around the USA in the 60's.
Amherst, Mass. to San Diego ---- taking a break with my canteen in Utah while sitting on a guardrail along an empty 2-lane highway. Looking across at the Rockies to the north of me. Puffy clouds & huge blue sky, cool breeze, silence.*
Sitting high on a cliff in the Big Sur in the sun, looking across the deep blue pacific with millions of white-caps sparkling to the horizon. Waves pounding below me so loudly I could only 'feel' my guitar against my chest ....couldn't hear it.*
Looking across an ocean on sunny days from an elevation - is SO different than the way it looks from the beach. From the beach it's great - but when viewed from higher up the deep blue ocean is something you won't forget.
These pix are from the internet, I had a nice Minolta 35mm camera in my backpack (HS graduation present), but never had any extra $ for developing, and film would have only cooked in my back pack
Was threatened with arrest by CHP in San Diego for having a "stolen" camera when they rousted me.
3 times- same morning. Dump everything out of my pack for them to check it. Wasn't doing anything illegal - I knew to stand
below the signs on the entrance ramps. 3rd CHP took pity on me - put me, pack and guitar in the back seat took me over to the Naval Station to catch ride into Mexico.
Stig
*I remember thinking both of these times, "shame no one is here to share this!"
