We left a week ago. It was the beginning of a month-long road trip.
Sunday, we were driving through Wyoming listing to To the Best of Our Knowledge on NPR. The host was talking to the author of a book about mothers. She had just written a book about how women become smarter when they become mothers. When we have new experiences, our brains create new pathways as a home for the new knowledge. That’s how we learn and grow. Since mothers are bombarded with new experiences they gain knowledge and wisdom very quickly.
I started wondering how that will apply to us and our trip. What will the new experience of being in Yellowstone National Park and seeing wild elk up close add to how we think about the world and nature? Maybe it won’t have much impact or maybe it will lead to radical changes like when we took our first kayak trip down the Buffalo National River in Arkansas.