What to say about today...this place was altogether captivating. An art museum, sculpture garden, and national park all in the same place is an incredible combination, and to be put together so seamlessly is a feat. Being here restored my faith in what it is I am pursuing, both professionally and personally. Biking through wind swept dunes, striking against the dark and foreboding sky along what used to be the coast, I felt totally in awe of the world, and overcome with a deep sense of gratitude. Also, I was biking, which in itself makes me so joyful: and I was officially having a Dutch experience! A bike on which I sat up straight as a pole, I felt like I was riding the station wagon of bikes; they all have these here, I've only seen a couple road bikes. The bikes were free, parked in spots all over the park, their whiteness so striking against the landscape. The simple beauty of a well-placed path was subtley apparent here for what it revealed, and the artfulness of placing objects just beyond where they are comprehensible in order to lead you onward, like a massive sculpture hidden atop a hill in the woods, was brilliant. This place was magic; if I had to choose one place in the Netherlands to send you, it would be here.
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