Try always a diffrent way

    Last weekend, the whole family, with one Chinese colleague of my husband, went to visit Grand Canyon, one of the most famous place that you should not miss in Arizona. Since my husband had visited it 5 years ago, he was proud of being our guide.

    Nowadays, we don't need to take a traffic map with us, because our phone is so smart to tell us the ideal route and direct us to the destination which takes the least time. It can even tell us the route condition, for example, accidents, hazards, strange objects...

    We were astonished when we first saw the big hole. Yes, as my husband said, it was stunning. Especially you couldn't feel its grandness through photos. Then we realized how big the canyon was. My husband tried to follow the same path and was eager to show us the magnificent scenic points, from which he took pictures years ago. But after walking ten minutes along the rim of canyon, i noticed a trail, which was recommended with big words. Since we didn't do any research work before this journey and my husband just followed his other colleagues last time, we had no idea of the difference between different trails. But this trail, marked as icy trail interested me so much and I insisted to go downhill.

   We had controversial opinions and became a little angry on with the other. In Peng's view, it was impossible to go to the bottom of the canyon and that was just a waste of time. Besides, Claire could not afford the uphill climbing. His colleague did not dare express his opinion, having no interest of disagree with me. Perhaps my struggle to discover another way was considered as a lack of confidence in my husband and it made him angry, especillay in presence of his colleague.

   Women always have the last word in family and finally everybody followed me and we begaun to go down the trail. Although we did not reached the bottom, which may takes 6 hours, we had such great views along the trail. My husband could not deny the truth that the recommendation was worthy.

    We can easilly follow the routine or the experience. That's the way to be safe. But some times, discovry needs more curiosity and pleasure comes up with surprise.

    In the way back home, which took us 7 hours. We did not follow the route recommended by the APP of our phone, because we had taken it and knew it. We tried an other route in spite of the extra hour that sould be spent. Terrific views of the snowed mountain turned out to be the recompense.

    Life is a journey. To make it a worthy one, do not be lazy. Drive safe and try diffrents ways.

Comments

[Adrienne]

ah je me disais que vous abandonniez le français au profit de votre nouvelle langue d'adoption ;-)

pas grave, on vous suit quand même! bonne continuation :-)

[maloloya]

Chers lecteurs, j'écrirai alternativement en anglais et en français en vue de me mettre à l'aise avec ces deux langues étrangères. Désolée pour les éventuelles difficultés de lecture, s'il y en a. Merci de tolérer mes fautes et maladresses linguistiques. Merci d'avoir partagé ces miettes-pensées dans ma vie.