At Zion National Park, I rinsed off the dust of my hike to Angel's Landing in a nearby river and then laid by the banks to dry off in the darkness. I gazed up at the sky and saw more stars than I ever have before.
GNRA offers astronomy viewing at Floyd Bennett Field on Friday nights. but one reason we cannot see all of the beautiful stars, that are so abundant they look like a cloud which we call the Milky Way, is because of all the lights that continually shine through the night in NYC.
Another reason the stars were so clear for me at Zion is because of the high elevation and lack of humidity.
And then I saw it: first on, then another, then too many shooting stars to count!
I thought I was just lucky enough to notice them.
But then my mother told me that this beautiful night I chose to sleep outside coin