Road Trips

Recently I have been embarking on a long road trip (thus explaining the last post about the Beatles LOVE show) and while on this trip I stopped at Yosemite. Now I'll be honest, I'm not exactly the nature type. Not at all actually. I saw the waterfalls, trees, chipmunks, giant rocks and was blown away just as much as the next person. Yet I will admit none of it left me flabbergasted and whatnot.

That is until on our way home we made a stop while traveling down hill from Point Glacier.

Now these photos don't even give a fraction of how unbelievable the view was. The sun was coming down, fog was slightly lingering above the mountains, and the sky was clear with a few stars sprinkled into the mix (even though you can only see Venus in these) and it was just so beautiful.

Now on this trip I forgot my ipod, I had absolutely no music. It sucked. That isn't to say that during this moment it wasn't as if I was wishing music was playing in the background or anything silly, it was just that reflecting back on it I kept wondering what song would describe that moment. We all know the important role music plays in our lives, how it measures it in pieces. It can essentially catalog our lives. One song describes the time period of a new love, another of the time when it ended. We can ignore songs to ignore certain memories, we can listen to songs insistently to return to memories.

So in honor of this moment I've compiled a list of songs that I thought do this view justice.

Honestly I'm terrible at song descriptions so I'll leave the song listening up to whoever wants to, they'll probably make more sense why they were chosen then me blabbering about why each one is special.

"Love at the end of your day" - Dr. Dog

"Gabriel" - Emmy the Great

"Up against the Wall"- Peter Bjorn and John

"I'll be yr Bird"- M. Ward

"White winter hymnal"- Fleet Foxes

"Strawberry fields forever (demo sequence)"- The Beatles

All in all if you're ever at Yosemite go to Point Glacier, see how massive Half Dome and the other rocks are and on your way back (preferably around sundown) you will drive by this. It's beautiful, magnificent, and lovely. Now when you do this, pick a song for it yeah? It's definitely worthy of a good song to reflect back on with later in life. I know personally those songs I picked are what I would have liked, this doesn't mean it's what they will be for me. It would have been really something if I had actually gotten a song for this moment, it really would have been.