教員コラムBlog

  1. home
  2. 教員コラム / Blog
  3. 詳細 / Detail

A memorable place from travels in the US

2019.12.27
  • The BBP Staff
  • Travel
  • 2019
The trip to Sedna was one of my most memorable experiences! You can count on a great view and a relaxed atmosphere. For me, personally, the point of the trip was to hike the four famous vortexes (red-rock mountains) that have been called “power spots”. 

Many believe that there are some magical powers that heal your mental fatigue or bring you some future happiness in these mountains. Actually, many Japanese people (especially young women? ) tend to hike up these mountains because they believe that they will be able to get some mystical energy or their worries will magically disappear. Therefore, a lot of tourists from Japan hike these power spots every year. I was one of them and went up there to have fun and get some mystical energy. 

Of course, there are travellers who embark just to enjoy the famous red rocks and not to get any mystical energy. Indeed, hundreds of hiking trails and Jeep tours will definitely lead you to some fantastic scenery and experiences. So, there were many travelers who came to just have these experiences. 

Anyway, I went up one of the famous red rocks for its mystical power and tried to think spiritual thoughts there. Then, nothing happened to me. I was just feeling that the sun shine was literally baking my entire body and my face was physically painful from that deadly heat of the sun (I went there with my husband in August). I was just getting nervous about my skin getting serious sunburn and wanted to go back to our hotel to lay on a couch in our room when something happened. My husband (who was 38 years old at that time with a PhD in statistics) just started crying. Tears were running down his face and he was weeping. I was getting really nervous this time not because of my skin getting burn but because my partner for life seemed to be going insane. So, I shook his shoulders and said to him “let’s get back to our hotel room.” But he didn’t want to go down the mountain and insisted on staying there a little bit more because he was feeling really good. 

Then this time I went insane. I yelled at him repeatedly saying “let’s get out of here.” I even punched his shoulder and almost screamed. Both I and he were really upset at that time. We ended up going down to the hotel while having a really bad fight. Everybody passing by on the way down the mountain was staring at us as both crying badly. My husband just turned normal after we came back to our hotel room. We had really nice Mate tea made by our hotel owner and just got back to peaceful feelings finally. However, I cannot forget that moment on the top of the red rock mountain (one of the famous power spots). I will never forget my husband’s crying (I have never seen his crying face before and from then. He didn’t even cry when our first daughter was born in the hospital). That was the most memorable place from our travels in the US.

Photo Credit: Tim Mossholder@ Pexels.com

戻る / go back

Related posts