America loves the motor car (well in fact they love girt big trucks masquerading as cars), so much so that most touristy places I go end up with a 1/2 mile exclusion zone around the car park beyond which 80% of Americans will not walk.
This is A Good Thing because it means the application of a little human powered activity i.e. walking or, in this mornings case, paddling, results in accessing proper wildscapes without screaming kids, revving engines, yakking people or white socks pulled half way up to the knees.
Beyond the exclusion zone you meet the 20% of locals who dig the outdoors properly and loads of Europeans. For example, I had a good franglais chat with some French canoeists I met about 2 miles off shore on Lake Jackson and later in the afternoon, when I walked around Lake Jenny, I shared 1/4 of the circumnavigation with Hubert und Franz the gay hikers from Germany who love to go a-wandering along der mountain tracks (I kid you not).
Anyway, todays lesson: Good times can be had if you push beyond the place everybody else stops first.
Perfect - real chocolate box stuff!
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