Burning the planet made the skies smokey in Denver. The Canadian forest first created a fog like sky in Denver, but the Kadizzles are back in AZ with clear skies. It was a slow plane trip and we got home very late, but we are away from the urban sprawl. The building of apartments in Denver is insane. How can that many people be moving to Denver? The East side of the Rocky Mountains from Cheyanne to Colorado Springs is one continuous shopping mall, traffic mess, and urban sprawl. Humans are eating the planet.
A thought that keeps running through the head, there are no old fashioned jobs. People either sell hamburgers or stare at a computer all day. The factories, steel mills, and good old sweat shops are gone. Nobody works and the young have no money.
Long ago Kadizzle asked his little sister how the economy was in Wheeling, West Virginia. Her reply was perfect, " fine we just sell each other hamburgers". Retailing food seems like half the economy. Does anyone eat at home? The number of empty store fronts in downtown Denver was shocking. The stores that were open had the atmosphere of a funeral home. Kadizzle walked into one store without a singe customer. The poor girl working there about cried when Kadizzle left.
There was one store buzzing, REI. At REI you buy all the stuff to pretend you are an outdoor person. One of the craziest things is the obsession with water bottles. Every store markets water bottles, and REI is the king of selection. Go to the thrift store and you can buy the fifty dollar thermos for fifty cents. Every modern house has a cabinet with ten water bottles. We have come a long way from using a goats stomach to an insulated fifty dollar aluminum can.
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