The Cure for Cabin Fever: Go to a Cabin!
Jul. 25th, 2023 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyVacation achieved!
Spent four days in Colter Bay in Grand Teton National Park with my cousins, whom I haven't seen in like 15 years. I took almost no pictures (forgot Mini Addy, my go-to travel companion), so you don't get any. But I assure you, the Tetons are still there.
Though a couple of climate comments (it was ungodly hot) invited some scoffing from my uncle, who is the platonic ideal of the comfortably unwoke entitled white dude. Like, convicted-for-multiple-whitecollar-felonies-and-then-pardoned-by-his-good-buddy-the-governor levels of comfortably unwoke entitled white dude. He also has no self awareness. He once tried to splain how great Dune is to me. He works for an oil company. I'm sure they assured him that the climate crisis is not a real crisis at all.
Somehow I didn't pick a fight with him.
Lotta people there, though. It's a bit overrun. I've heard we're just trampling the National Parks "post" Covid, and I believe it.* I think a lot of people kinda broke under the lockdown portion, with bad coping strategies leading to some serious emotional dysregulation--and, more to the point, cabin fever. Hence the thousands of people stomping all over the visitor centers. But that's just a hypothesis.
Anyway, good to enjoy a few days in my home away from home! What'd I miss?
*Also, uh, sorry for doing some trampling of my own.
Spent four days in Colter Bay in Grand Teton National Park with my cousins, whom I haven't seen in like 15 years. I took almost no pictures (forgot Mini Addy, my go-to travel companion), so you don't get any. But I assure you, the Tetons are still there.
Though a couple of climate comments (it was ungodly hot) invited some scoffing from my uncle, who is the platonic ideal of the comfortably unwoke entitled white dude. Like, convicted-for-multiple-whitecollar-felonies-and-then-pardoned-by-his-good-buddy-the-governor levels of comfortably unwoke entitled white dude. He also has no self awareness. He once tried to splain how great Dune is to me. He works for an oil company. I'm sure they assured him that the climate crisis is not a real crisis at all.
Somehow I didn't pick a fight with him.
Lotta people there, though. It's a bit overrun. I've heard we're just trampling the National Parks "post" Covid, and I believe it.* I think a lot of people kinda broke under the lockdown portion, with bad coping strategies leading to some serious emotional dysregulation--and, more to the point, cabin fever. Hence the thousands of people stomping all over the visitor centers. But that's just a hypothesis.
Anyway, good to enjoy a few days in my home away from home! What'd I miss?
*Also, uh, sorry for doing some trampling of my own.
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Date: 2023-07-26 04:25 am (UTC)Also, I, uh, may have lied a bit about not picking a fight.