everyone should sail 300 miles off the coast to remember what the night sky used to look like
everyone should drive 300 miles into the desert to remember what the night sky used to look like
everyone should drive 300 miles... [checks a map of Ireland] ...to the coast and into the ocean, whichever direction you pick
everyone should drive 480km in a random direction in europe and try to escape signs of human civilization
everyone should walk 500 miles
and then walk 500 more
One time I went with a bunch of people to climb some mountain in the middle of nowhere and we ended up heading back really late and I still often think about how the level of darkness was almost as fascinating as the way the night sky looked.
"real, country dark" is something I think about a lot (Alex describes it thus in Clockwork Orange)
Seeing the night sky without light pollution with the sounds of a forest at midnight around me made me understand how religions came to be
I remember telling a previous Irish friend that I was, at the time, commuting 165 miles each way on a weekly basis. (that was an unusually bad commute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd1z8jNuiz8
this never fails to get me a-gigglin'
