The Yearn

It's every geologist's ingenuous wish to visit the natural geological museum i.e the Grand Canyon's in the US. But not many of their's wish is fulfilled. Mine was in extremely close proximity to being fulfilled. I had to attend a training course in Houston and the training included a field visit to Colorado and Utah.We were traveling from Houston, Texas to Grand Junction, Colorado and from Grand Junction to Moab, Utah by car. Our field instructors, thankfully, though it wise to do some sight-seeing on our way to Moab. The 1st stop was at Colorado National Monument (see pic below). The clear color of the blue sky is not at all seen if one stays in over-populated metropolitan cities of India (no harsh feelings but this is the hard fact). We had our wee bit photo-session over here (not many are lucky enough to experience these in one lifetime). Below are some glimpses of the breathtakingly spectacular place where the time comes to a still.

The ebullient, unadulterated air around us, unblemished with the chemicals of the busy metropolitan cities was much needed.
The discipline and perseverance of the people there was a tight slap on our (Indians') faces, we could see there were 3 different types of waste buckets- plastic, non-plastic and wet. And the people there are moral enough to abide by the rules and regulations. Indeed, it is not such a Herculean task to throw the waste in their respective buckets. But alas, when will our fellow country men realize this?