Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY
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Grow up? Why?, Western Juniper, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY, May 2, 2011
Night camp
Site n/a - Cottonwood Campground, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - good signal
- Natrona County Parks Website
- Locate Cottonwood Creek Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Skepticism is Helpful
If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be. For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.
The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004