I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I stumbled on an interesting travel video. This is not the genre that leads to success -- usually. And that is true whether you are looking at the older generation's version of travel or at the youngsters.
The credit goes to You Tube's algorithm, I guess. But how can an algorithm make the value judgments that are needed?
Anyway here is the video of a young couple and their little dog who rode their bikes around their neighborhood in New Hampshire. They weren't out there to obsess over 'How Far?' and 'How Fast?' They were just using the bicycles to help them relax into the right mood.
The character of the land was so appealing: it had a balance of raw nature and human features such as houses, barns, agricultural fields, and livestock. Most travel videos show freakish and useless land. (And that is pretty much the land I am stuck with, in the Western states.) Surely I am not the only one turned off by a Manichean approach to nature, that is, everything non-human is divine, and everything human is considered vile pollution. Good versus Evil.
But humans aren't the opposite of nature. They are part of nature. I am glad the next generation appreciates that.
And who knows? I might start including more videos of that type in this blog. This video shows how impossible it is to make videos from a moving bicycle. Ah well, maybe I will give in someday and buy a GoPro.
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You might be talking of toy poodles?