Life is Better Where It's Wetter

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Travel had always been in my blood. I can even remember the first time I was legally allowed to board a plane on my own without having to wear a silly "Unaccompanied Minor" badge around my neck. The idea of getting on an airplane and landing in a completely new place only hours later would always thrill me. Unfortunately, when the pandemic hit, travel started to look a little different. The freedom I once felt when I stepped foot on a 737 began to feel more like an anxiety-filled hassle. Normally, I would have been found jet-setting across the U.S. to the big cities on the east and west coasts where the parties lasted all night long, but that was no longer possible.

I started to remembered how I had always wanted to visit Lake Tahoe. I'd always seen the outdoorsy girls on my Instagram feed post pictures of the clear, blue water. Maybe this was my chance to take a break from the major hubs and slow down my pace. One thing remained, though. I still didn't want to face those airports. That's when I made one of the biggest decisions of my young life. I packed up my Jeep and started out on what would become 3 weeks across our American highways - just me, a Jeep Wrangler, and the open road. I never could have expected what I would discover while driving. I truly gained a new appreciation for the world around me and realized I much preferred travel by wheel than by wing. Here I thought the freedom I felt when traveling was at risk of becoming obsolete, when in reality it was the opposite. Any time there was a unique store along the road or a picturesque landscape, I simply stopped. I never could have done that in an airplane! When I finally made it to the beach at California's gorgeous Lake Tahoe, I was speechless. It was everything I could have imagined and more. The views, the smells, the sounds - breathtaking. It was in those moments, I got my freedom back in the middle of a pandemic.

Date (Dublin Core)

September 16, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Sarah Shellam

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Audio

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Travel

English Parks

English Environment & Landscape

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

California

Lake Tahoe

sensory

sight

smell

sound

nature

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

ArizonaStateUniversity

HST643

SensoryHistory

Soundscape

Nature

Water

LakeTahoe

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Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/22/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/29/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

09/16/2021

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This item was submitted on August 22, 2022 by Sarah Shellam using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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