but what do you do with it?
You
enjoy it of course.
To me, it is very interesting to go hiking with someone from Boston.
We'll be driving down the Kankamagus highway (a mountain highway, also known as NH State Route 112), and there will be a car pulled over to the side of the road. "Why is that car...there?" I am asked. Because that is a small trailhead, that's a hiker's car or a fisherman's car, or a kayaker's car. "They won't get towed?" No. "Isn't this a state highway?" They still won't get towed. "Wow...."
Or perhaps we will take a water break by one of the rivers in the area, and alongside us are families with adventurous kids making a beeline for the (very cold!!) water, or a kayaker comes by with his/her boat, walks confidently across the rocks in the waterway and launches themselves downstream. "That's allowed?" Of course it is.
Or, talking with an avid hiker who plans to hike Mt. Washington for its annual "Seek the Peak" fundraiser in July. He is in fiercely good shape, and plans on starting his climb at Midnight, so he can summit the mountain during the overnight hours and then be winding his way down as the early hikers begin. "That's allowed?" Of course it is.
You could ask the motorist that caught the attention of a trooper for whatever reason...and gets pulled over without having to lunge for their seatbelt in a race to secure it before the officer gets to their window.Or the motorcyclist that chooses to ride without a helmet. Ask anyone who bought a new car. I bought one last year for about $25,000 --- and didn't have to pony up an extra $1000+ simply for sales tax.
Ask the person who just relocated here from spending a few years in the south on a job contract...that realizes they can go out and live their life without people knowing -- or caring -- what church they go to (if they even go at all). Or, ask Linda and Donna, who finally got married on the the steps of the state house in Concord after a 19 year relationship. Or even ask William Kostric, who made headlines around the world by open-carrying a firearm on private property on a day that President Obama was in town.
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