This was a beautiful comment. It truly is unifying! Knowing that we all see the same sun rise and set all across the world truly is a nice thought.
South-Africa is a vast country and I have witnessed many different sunrises. From the cold sunrises over the Drakensberg mountain range, to the humid, hazy rise over Durban. Sometimes just the location can contribute to the experience.
I hope that you enjoy the Steemit platform, so far I am!
Back when I lived in El Paso, every great once and a while, I would see a sunrise that looked like the sunrises in my hometown a thousand miles away.
Those places are extremely different. Landscapes extremely different. Climates completely different. They are so different, it's like they're two different planets -- except for the times when the sky looked to same.
Those rare mornings when the sunrise in El Paso looked like the sunrise in my hometown, my heart would ache desperately for where I'm from.
Now that I'm back in my hometown (the mive and events immediately following the move were very traumatic), on the rare occasion that the sunrise looks like the sunrise in El Paso, I find myself wanting to run away and go back.
I posted up a picture of a sunset as an entry for the current steemitphotochallenge. I know I won't win, but I'm really excited about it.
I have always lived in the same town, but I understand the longing... While travelling, sometimes my sunsets feel strange without the pollution.
I will have a look at your photo and good luck with your entry...
I've lived a couple places, and have travelled to different parts of the country. The US has pretty much every kind of climate and terrain the rest of the world has, spread across its fifty states.
Which means you can see pretty much anything if you're in the right place. (Fun fact: The US had the brilliant idea of introducing gemsbok into New Mexico because they were endangered. I was in an SUV that almost collided with one in the dead of night. Just imagine seeing THAT come out of nowhere, illuminated by foggy headlights. Terrifying when you don't have animals like that native to the region and aren't expecting a huge African antelope to be standing in the middle of a two-lane highway at midnight.)
Anyways, I'll stop rambling on. You've got other people to chat with. :)
That is actually hilarious! It happens here more often than you can imagine...
As I said in my post, this is why I love online interaction! Thank you for the conversation.
I know they're native to South Africa. Look up white tail deer, because that's the main animal like it we have through most of the country. And elk, moose, and reindeer.
And then throw a Missouri boy used to white tail deer on a highway in New Mexico, unawares that gemsbok are even in the country outside of zoos. (They have no natural predators here. They kill our cougars.)
Thank you for the conversation as well! It's been a pleasure!