oh blooming eck. Going to have to take the whole state, I am afraid. I went away again last weekend, to the Grand Coulee and Dry Falls. that was great too.
Now fascinated with farther afield, I wanna go to Pend Oreille (pronounced “Ponder ray”), to Metalline Falls. Such tourist I am. but this state is amazing.
OK, the scenery aside – which was stunning, with gorges and basalt cliffs and rocks and wheat fields and trees and mountains – the culture was completely different. Most people in Seattle have no idea. NO IDEA, what the small towns in central Washington are like. the company towns, the ones that were just for one thing. Like building a dam. or mining. Not many know what an Indian reservation is like, besides the casino. I just got a glimpse, that’s all.
I also realized that the Republican party, like the Democrats, have absolutely nothing in common with the day to day experience of these people. There is something else going on. I bet they are as non-plussed as I am when they turn on the TV, and see very little that they relate to at all.
I saw a coupla big stores, was it Wal-Mart? and an Army recruitment office, which was painted up all pretty.
Anyway, seem to be unnaturally fascinated with areas of the state that are so out of my experience. I think our success as a country is all to do with inclusiveness of the people East of the Cascades. This is an incredibly industrious food production area for the State. We kinda need food. The USA has got into a lot of trouble with the whole outsourcing of production and processing. Abstract profits (on paper) are a fallacy, a construct, and only benefit a select few. With no production, and all just city (hugging Puget Sound and the coast of Oregon and Northern California), we really are f*cked.
I know where I want to be, come the revolution. In an orchard, by the Columbia River.
