Response Paper #2: Home Away From Home

­This past year I went to the North Eastern tip of California to hunt for black tail deer. The place that we went to was not fancy; it didn’t have any thing you think a campground would have. The campground was just dirt a trees but it had so much history. My father and his friend have been going there for well over thirty years. The trees were dying from the drought and the dirt was so dry it felt like concrete. There were all types of birds and other animals around us at all times. The grass was tall and dead. Whenever I stepped on it I could here the crunch of the grass crumbling like potato chips. I visited this place to go hunting. I always hunt in Montana but never had the chance to hunt California until this past year. This is a place that has nobody around for fifty miles or more. Nobody lives here and the only person you may come across is other hunter but that is very unlikely. This area is best known for its hunting. Since it is so isolated and nothing is developed the land is all-natural. When one goes here there are many obstacles to over come. The first is being able to get a car in there. The roads are more like cattle trails and every twenty feet you have to get out and move a giant rock. The land is beautiful though. There are giant canyons that have hundred feet drop offs and valleys that look like a storybook picture when the sun sets behind them. I saw a deer on the skyline when the sun was setting and may have been one of the most majestic things I have ever witnessed. While I was there I did a lot of hunting and hiking. Walking thirty or so miles everyday you see a lot. Like I previously said I saw canyons and large valleys. I saw so much wildlife I lost count of the deer I saw and there were so many different types of birds I couldn’t tell you how many different species I saw. I would love to go back here. It is places like this were I feel the most calm and most safe. I am not in the city surrounded by man made things and I am just enjoying the simple things in life. It is a place like this I feel like I am at home. If I could go anywhere in the world I would want to go to the heart of Africa. I have always loved Africa and have always been fascinated with the way the land looks and all the amazing animals that they have there. It is like nothing else I have ever seen and it one of a kind. There are things there you cannot find anywhere else on this planet. It has always been my dream to go there and someday I will.