How We Do Things

It's different, when you take people to a place you've been to many times before.

Because you know the place, you have routines that you fall into when you visit the place.

But the friends you have with you....have their own vacation routines that they fall into on vacation.

So it takes a bit of maneuvering to get all the different wants and needs on the same page.

One of the things about our Moab trip was the focus our friends had on food.

They weren't as concerned about where we were going, or what we were doing. They wanted to know when we were eating. Where would we go for lunch and for dinner. The insistence that we stop and get a hamburger before we go hiking, and then grab food after we were done hiking for dinner.

lol.

It was weird for my family, as we tend to be like "Okay Breakfast is whatever the hotel is serving or we have in the room, be sure to pack lots of snacks as we'll be hiking all day, then when we get home we'll grab a larger dinner."

But it was also in other things.

Where we're like "Oh yah this hike isn't that hard." Because we've hiked it a million times before and know the terrain so we're like "Yah there's this little bit of climbing and this bit of walking over a fin." yadda yadda.

But because my family grew up basically hiking in Arches National Park.

Nothing we encounter is....well....terrifying.

Because we've been around those situations our entire lives and know how to be careful, know what to do to stay safe and outta trouble etc.

So when we encounter a thing like....climbing up the side of a fin, walking along a wide ledge, or walking over a fin that's part of a cliff face....

We don't think twice about it.

It was rather surprising then to find out that most of our friends....

had a fear of heights.

Which, we could understand a fear of heights when it comes to walking up to Delicate Arch, or along the long fin by Double O arch. As those heights are terrifying to those unused to it.

But they were scared/wary/not comfortable with climbing the side of a rocky mountain. No cliffs or anything, just getting above the road....or the bowl below Delicate Arch, or climbing up six feet over a fin. O.o

It's just....mind boggling.

Which I suppose....because we're so familiar with the Arches and with the hikes....we're more...relaxed in the area.
So it's harder for me to understand....what there is to be afraid of.

*shakes head*
It's just a strong reminder that everyone is different. :)

Thankfully, our friends muscled through their terror, and I believe they had a ton of fun on the different hikes. :) Maybe if they come down with us again in the future, they'll be able to be more relaxed about future hikes. ;) or avoid them completely haha. :)

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi