In the early 80's I lived in the UC Irvine campus trailer park and used to hike daily in the surrounding Irvine Company land. I hardly ever saw anyone else out

In the early 80's I lived in the UC Irvine campus trailer park and used to hike daily in the surrounding Irvine Company land. I hardly ever saw anyone else out there other than a scary pack of feral dogs. Looking at a satellite pic now I see the whole area built up with development. I used to bike to a job on Balboa Island along the estuary. That was a beautiful ride at the time but now looks all suburbified. To get away from all of that population I moved to a very remote subdivision in rural New Mexico. I was the first inhabitant and had almost the whole place to myself for the first decade. It was glorious. Now it's full up and I have neighbors on three sides. I feel like the old cowboys must have when they saw all of that barbed wire going up. No matter how far I run modernity is patiently coming after me.