We’ve been to the desert today. And the rain forest, too. And on our way to the rain forest we passed the savanna and the ocean. No, it’s not that Wilma all of a
sudden grew wings and and flew us around the globe. It’s the so-called
“Biosphere 2” we visited today, a project once initiated by some crazy New Age visionaries. They wanted to duplicate the earth’s conditions to create a self-contained, sustainable space kept in a huge greenhouse – and failed. But since the Arizona University pays lot of money to keep the experiment alive, they don’t call it a failure but a really very important greenhouse.
We only escaped to New Mexico. Or should I rather say, New Alaska?I am wearing gloves while writing this, sitting at Wilma’s kitchen table. The
water supply can go neither in nor out, beautiful flowers magically emerge on the windows inside and I can turn my coffee mug upside down without spilling anything. But I don’t
wanna complain. At least, we don’t have to buy ice cubes anymore to keep the
fridge cold!
In Vegas there is a bar that charges $20 for having a cocktail in a room cooled down to 5 Degree Fahrenheit. Imagine how much money we could make by offering the unique experience of having a full meal served in Wilma at that temperature?!
Talking of unique experiences. Chris and I are seriously considering writing a travel guide. Something like a “real” Lonely Planet, a “How to make sure not to meet anyone else while traveling ”-guide. If you choose the right places and time of the year you can have all the beautiful experiences to yourself, f.e. visiting ice caves in New Mexico when temperatures hit their minimum, strolling through a botanical garden months before the flowers start blossoming, seeing downtown Albuquerque when all shops are closed due to icy weather conditions or hit RV parks when everyone else fled into motels to keep their water tubes from freezing.
So somehow this vast country even seems a little more vast and empty to us than it already is.
