Chicken Fried Steak
Ranch Wife and I just got back from California. We stayed in the wonderful Westin Hotel in Los Angeles and used it as a base to explore La-La Land aka Lo-Cal.
We hiked on Mt San Antonio, went to the LA County Museum of Natural History(NHM), read some books, and put in some pool time.
The NHM was the most amusing time of the whole trip as we found out that we eat Chicken Fried Steak every day here in Texas.
First, the NHM had an interesting exhibit based upon Jared Diamond's book Collapse , which I have read. The exhibit was created with input from Dr Diamond. My compaint about the exhibit is that it did not go into detail nor did it provide local detailed applications of Dr. Diamond's key themes about resource lost and resource restoration. Sure, they covered the main themes in his book, but could have looked around for local examples. Fish sizes and fish catches just offshore could have been compared to samples from the local marine sanctuaries. I have dove all over the California Coast and have seen first hand the differences between the virgin seabead and the overfished regions. Another contrast could have been the forested slopes the the Angeles Crest before and after logging.
Another interesting thing about the exhibit were the two Chinese men discussing the exhibit in English. One was telling the other than Anglos came to North America for the "resources because they had ruined Europe and they were starving in Europe. "
Huh?
The Pilgrims came for religious freedom. The french came for the fur trade in order to further enrich the Crown. The Spanish came for gold. And when they came to the New World, they starved.
We hiked on Mt San Antonio, went to the LA County Museum of Natural History(NHM), read some books, and put in some pool time.
The NHM was the most amusing time of the whole trip as we found out that we eat Chicken Fried Steak every day here in Texas.
First, the NHM had an interesting exhibit based upon Jared Diamond's book Collapse , which I have read. The exhibit was created with input from Dr Diamond. My compaint about the exhibit is that it did not go into detail nor did it provide local detailed applications of Dr. Diamond's key themes about resource lost and resource restoration. Sure, they covered the main themes in his book, but could have looked around for local examples. Fish sizes and fish catches just offshore could have been compared to samples from the local marine sanctuaries. I have dove all over the California Coast and have seen first hand the differences between the virgin seabead and the overfished regions. Another contrast could have been the forested slopes the the Angeles Crest before and after logging.
Another interesting thing about the exhibit were the two Chinese men discussing the exhibit in English. One was telling the other than Anglos came to North America for the "resources because they had ruined Europe and they were starving in Europe. "
Huh?
The Pilgrims came for religious freedom. The french came for the fur trade in order to further enrich the Crown. The Spanish came for gold. And when they came to the New World, they starved.
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