Silence.
Close your eyes. Listen. Unless you are blasting music or sitting on an airport runway (or living in 910 Exum....), whatever you are hearing right now is probably closer to silence than anyone ever experiences here. Imagine if you honked your car horn every time you saw another car, or a bike, or a pedestrian. Now imagine that everyone else on the road did the same. Now eliminate the traffic lights, road signs, and all other forms of traffic control. Add potholes. Subtract sidewalks. My 25-minute walk to the office is the most exhausting commute I have ever had because the constant noise makes my head spin (the jetlag and altitude probably don't help in that regard). It is truly overwhelming.
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Oh man, I know what you mean. One day while walking on the street after returning to "civilization" I figured out what was so strange about the street. It was the near silence--only the whoosh of cars, silently speeding along...no horns, no bells, no yelling, no backfires...
Hope other than the noise things are going well...Great to see your blog. Hope you have wonderful and fantastic adventures! Big hugs to you.
"You know you've acclimitized when" a car passes by you as you're walking on an relatively quiet street and actually *doesn't* blast it's horn for 5 seconds as it goes by, as they normally do presumably to assert their presence, and you think, "How rude!!"
Took me about 2 months to get there :P
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