'The girl does what she wants to do.'

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Just having a vacation here. Wound my way up the Lewis river canyon watching the osprey and red-tails cruise on the breeze. Stopped to watch a moose or just sit and look out at the lake. Tuesday morning I came upon a huge herd of bison crossing the road. I was very grateful for the cars that were stopped there because I could hide behind or between them. Bison are my favorite animals in the whole wide world, but one of the reasons I like them is that they could easily kill me if they felt like it. And you should have heard them grunting at each other. There were another hundred across the river and still I could hear them. Oh the trees and the sun and the frigid air and the sound of their footsteps and my heart racing and then a white pelican flew overhead and landed in the water- it was too much. You’d know me as the mouse on a bike with a silly grin plastered to her face, riding loopily from side to side like any kid on a sunny summer day with nothing to do but pedal along and feel the wind in her hair.