Edgemoor Community Research Group Reflection Paper

Unbeknownst to us at the time, my Edgemoor Community Research Group participated in a microadventure the first day we explored our neighborhood together. After reading through the powerpoint and the assignment on microadventures and liminality, I realized that our experience met the criteria for understanding how our choices of food and transportation contributed to ecotourism, how our congruent travel personalities contributed to engaging in activities that met everyone’s needs and wants in the moment, and to unanimously experience a moment of escape from responsibility and cultural norms. Before beginning our journey, we stopped for food at Win’s Drive In, a locally owned business established in 1964, in Fairhaven. Carpooling through Edgemoor, we all felt out of place and intrusive to our immediate pristine, upper-class surroundings. …show more content…
Taking her advice by word of mouth, we hiked through the west trailhead and emerged out onto a steep cliff side overlooking Portage and Lummi Island in the distance. Without realizing it at the time, we had passed through our proverbial threshold. Like stepping through the other end of the wardrobe and into Narnia, we ignored the fact that we were only supposed to be there on account of school. As it turns out, Clark’s Point is part of the Whatcom Land Trust, so it is protected from further development to maintain its exotic features for the locals to revere. Watching the water sparkle and scaling along the sandstone cliffs, all conversation of school or responsibility ceased and we proceeded to explore. For a place so close to home, it felt so foreign, yet invoked a sense of nostalgic familiarity of how it felt to be a child