I think these are days 11-12-13-14
The photography bug wore off towards the end of the vacation. Not really, I feel like I took a ton of pictures, but as the memories fade, it’s crazy how quickly the immediacy and details fade. Ahhhh, getting older.
So, day 11 was an interesting one. I was pretty much told that I got up a little later than my companion would want, and that she felt like that was cramping all she wanted to do on this vacation. Ummm, okay, I guess it’s not my vacation too, but I’m here to entertain you. I mean, it was totally her idea and she made the plans, but I am not sure she would have had it any other way. There were a few times I totally felt like decoration. Meh, I choose to remember the good times hahahaha.
So, up I got, early, and went to retrieve coffee for us in nearby Bishop. LOVED this saying on the wall in the coffee shop I found:
Today was a beautiful, but somewhat somber day. Today, we went to Manzanar. I don’t remember EVER hearing or being taught about places like Manzanar, until I was well in to adulthood. Manzanar was an internment camp. During WWII, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, we chose to take a cue from the Germans and divest Japanese citizens of all their property and put them in concentration camps. Despicable. And you know what? The Japanese people overcame this. They were traumatized, brutalized, I’m sure and they still found a way to make things in these camps beautiful, and to exist as they could. That’s maybe the take away, along with “NEVER FUCKING LET ANYTHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN AGAIN”. I think THAT is why it’s so important for these sorts of places to exist, and be preserved. It’s such a slippery slope, and it happens so quickly.
And, about the aforementioned beauty:
Barracks:
And yet, surrounded by unimaginable beauty:
This is near the monument, peace cranes. I just can’t, ya’all:
And no internment camp overview would be complete without a guard tower:
Me, at the golf course where we camped while we were in Bishop:
Here’s a lovely stream that existed in a botanical garden we went to after Manzanar to try to get some Zen after the ick:
I was going to smash them all together, but as I’m doing it, it seems appropriate for me to let Manzanar have it’s own entry.
Good Goddess, people suck.
Peace.
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