With all the March and April rain, I figured it would be a good year for poppies in the desert, but they closed the reserve on Wednesday. Anza Borrego is closed, too, except to residents of Borrego Springs.
We’d like to just go for a drive, to seen the green hills and flowers, but Patricia is afraid of getting pulled over. But I don’t think they’re doing that, and I don’t think they should even be discouraging driving. There is no risk of spread from it, other than the occasional need to get gas. It seems like they should be offering options for relief from cabin fever.
[Sunday-morning update]
We took a drive around Palos Verdes peninsula yesterday. Lovely drive as always, with mustard on the hillsides greening everything up.
Couldn’t pull over at view areas, trails closed, bike paths closed, beaches closed, Point Vicente (where we go to watch the whales migrating) closed. Drove past the hospital ship in San Pedro. The 710 and 405 were eerily empty, like it was 3 AM.
Hope you’re at least getting a break on your car insurance.
You expect rational law and regulation making from the government?
Sure isn’t happening here in Australia.
The more rules there are, especially unreasonable ones, the more people will break them.
If the government wants people to comply, it has to make the rules as common-sense as possible. Otherwise, if they make no sense, people will decide that none of it makes any sense.
As for me, I’m going for a drive into the wilderness tomorrow. I think that’s fine in my state – but I neither know nor care. It’s no risk to anyone, myself included.
Hiking trails in NH are still open. Some of these are so obscure and hard to find it’d be hard to close them all. Deep forest has that effect. Common sense among hikers & people are keeping their distance. No need for nanny state.