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    • Re-Visitation Rights

      I’m camped out on Gooseberry Mesa, southern Utah. It’s perfect. My spot overlooks the back side of Zion NP. The first time I was here was close to 30 years ago. There was nothing here and hardly anyone knew about it. We ran into the Harris brothers from Hurricane who had just started building trail…

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    • Iran Over It

      Good article from a great perspective https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/04/iran-war-israel-missile-strikes-drones/678066/?utm_source=feed

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    • “Live Like Someone Left the Gate Open”

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    • Soloist

      The French have a term, “Je suis suelement”. Loosely translated, it means “I’m alone”. Of the French, in particular, and romantic languages, in general; they prefer not to be loosely translated. Like English, there are subtleties and colloquial words that just don’t translate. Most likely to confuse those who don’t speak the language well. But…

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    “Live Like Someone Left the Gate Open”

    Soloist

    The French have a term, “Je suis suelement”. Loosely translated, it means “I’m alone”. Of the French, in particular, and romantic languages, in general; they prefer not to be loosely translated. Like English, there are subtleties and colloquial words that…

    Working the Edges

    A fellow wanderer and good friend from Crested Butte days, Dave Lindsay and I are always laughing about ‘working the edges’. A term we use to describe getting away from the usual crowd of campers and pilgrims. If an area…

    My Own Private Arizona

    For 22 winters I’ve been coming to this very special place in the Transition Zone of the Northern Sonoran Desert. Some winters for only a couple of weeks. Others for months on end. At 4,000 feet in elevation, anything can…

    Journeys

    As I begin this next year of travels, I’m reminded of a great quote from Swiss writer Alain de Botton…. “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or…

    Resolute in a New Year

    “ The Edge…Only those who have gone over know exactly where it is.” Hunter S Thompson

    Happy Everything

    It’s a time of year when we should slow down and remember to say thanks… for what we have and what we don’t have. Say thanks… for who we are and who we are not. Say thanks….for where we are and…

    The monkey sees his reflection

    Donald Trump testified yesterday in his civil fraud trial and admitted to fraudulently overvaluing financial statements.

    Same Shit

    4 Thousand years later…. A bunch of impotent old guys with beards who all want to be King.

    Vital

    Air. Water. Nutrition Health. Friendship. Love What is vital? Feelings. Thoughts. Memories Touch. Warmth. Cool Here. Now. The list should be short

    Back to the Crack

    I’m a charter member of the “Crack of Noon” club. Those that prefer a calming entrance to the day and allowing the temperatures to warm sufficiently for a few hours of vigorous play. Most of my life, I’ve preferred cooler…

    NatGeo

    I still remember as a child, we had a hallway in the house that connected the front of the house to the den in the back. I called it “the long hall”. Dad built bookshelves that lined the entire hallway,…

    Bikeness

    I’ve never really been a city guy. I have explored some amazing cities in my life. Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, to name a few. I’ve always felt that the best way to explore and learn a city is on a bicycle.…

    Unfortunately everyone who voted for him is illiterate

    No Country for Old White Men

    Look, I’m disgusted as anyone with the political environment these days. Seems like the whole place has turned into one giant butt hole. Everyone racing for the middle. Part of the problem is that we have too many scared old…

    Sometimes…….

    Ever wonder what Supreme Court judges wear under their robes?

    The best part of waking up….

    I think the best part of yesterday’s New York Dumpster event was the fact that Marjorie-Taylor Greene was shut down by the noise of Trump protesters. Even with a megaphone, The Mouth of the South was left running away and…

    TMF

    Hard to believe that twelve days after I effectively hit a wall at 100 mph that I got the go-ahead from the Orthopedist to get back on my bike(slowly), no rough sex. Lucky is not a word to use here.…

    I find it Very Ironic

    That Gov. Sarah Huckabee is so anti transgender when she’s the one who looks like an ugly old man in a woman’s wig.

    A Clear Case of Fucklessness

    On Thursday past, I was driving to one of my favorite mountain bike rides. A clear, beautiful early spring morning. On NC Highway 226, I was driving north. The highway is a wonderful western North Carolina two lane country road.…

    Mark Your Calendars

    “ This Day will Live in Infamy”. Franklin D Roosevelt

    GEORGE SANTOS APPLIES FOR A NEW JOB By Eli Grober January 12, 2023 Nassau County Republicans on Wednesday called on Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign immediately after the newly elected lawmaker admitted he fabricated key details of his background and…

    Haida Gwaii

    In the local dialect it means “people’s land”. In my own southern dialect, it means “life changing”. Formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, Haida Gwaii is an archipelago of islands almost a hundred nautical miles west of Prince Rupert,…

    Return to Wobegon

    Mom died last December. Sis is in a much better place with her life. My time in North Carolina was done. Most of my travels led me west and I wanted to be closer. The east is trashed. There are…

    #VanLife my ass

    I’m sitting in the parking lot of the Canopy Hilton, Minneapolis. I’ve made coffee in my van but I spent the night in an outrageously nice hotel in the Mill District of Minneapolis…Look it up In 1969 my family borrowed…

    The Marketing of False Promises

    I have to admit, I was led astray from the straight and narrow. Carbon fiber can be formed into sexy curves and undeniably beautiful graphics. But carbon fiber, like any other reinforced plastic, is just that, plastic. Fibers of carbon…

    DeSantis + Anything = Idiot

    SATIRE FROM THE BOROWITZ REPORT DESANTIS WARNS THAT MATH MAKES CHILDREN GAY By Andy Borowitz April 18, 2022 TALLAHASSEE (The Borowitz Report)—Proposing a sweeping ban on math in Florida’s classrooms, Governor Ron DeSantis asserted that “the latest research” indicates that “math…

    Pagan Bunnies

    Ever wonder why Easter is never on the same day from year to year? Well I did. I mean, for Christ’s sake, the guy was born on December 25th. We all know that. And you’re telling me that after 2000…

    FKT

    The acronym for Fastest Known Time is a popular subset of the outdoor types. Seems the world is obsessed with doing something faster than anyone else. BFD. Big fucking deal. Anyone who truly enjoys time outdoors appreciates the lingering; the…

    Motherfuckery

    Stephen Colbert always has a great talent for making words up. The modern English language has opened itself up to reimagining words. Adverbing nouns. Participling adjectives. What a great world we live in. When I was thinking of the adverb,…

    Big Finish

    Mom died last week. She was 101. It was relatively quick. She had a great run and lived a life most only dream of. She was born during the last great Pandemic that took her father before he saw her.…

    Rules of the Desert

    1 Watch where you squat 2 Don’t kick the cactus 3 Everything makes you bleed 4 It’s a dry heat…kinda like sticking your head in an oven 5 If it moves, it’s probably poisonous

    It’s a frustrating time for smart people

    Almost half the voting public in this country voted for a Moronic clown…twice. The same people refuse to believe facts and think they know more than all the scientists that have twice the education they do. Truly astounding. The old…

    Thanks

    It’s a time of year when we should slow down and remember to say thanks… for what we have and what we don’t have. Say thanks… for who we are and who we are not. Say thanks….for where we are…

    When Love Finds You

    The Universe is a wise and powerful thing. Perhaps it’s what Frank Baum was referring to about the Great OZ. I’ve believed for a long time that it isn’t any one deity that runs things but the Universe that encompasses…

    Abiding Numpties

    I’ve always enjoyed British humor. Cutting, sardonic, even biting at times. It probably evolved from a World ruling Monarchy that now can barely keep its own house in order, leaving a crushed ego behind. The word Numpty is one of…

    “The trick, my dear, is not minding that it hurts.” Lawrence of Arabia

    How Not to Grow Old

    “The best way to overcome it [the fear of death]—so at least it seems to me—is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly…

    There’s a Place…

    Bennett’s Point, South Carolina is a place that most people 50 miles away couldn’t tell you a thing about or where the Hell it is. My kind of place. Stuck between Charleston and Hilton Head, the rich and famous have…

    Too Far

    “The Edge…….There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over” hunter s. thompson “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find…

    Fine Art

    The Italians have an expression. Il dolce far niente. The sweetness of doing nothing. It’s an art form worth savoring. Americans call it killing time. A crude way to explain something that needs more understanding and acceptance. The faster we…

    How Long Has It Been

    I’ve always judged the quality of a friendship by time. A true friendship doesn’t pass with time, you just pick up where you left off. Blogs can work the same way. It’s been almost seven years since I blogged here.…

    Love comes in many shapes and sizes but true love only comes once in a lifetime. I’m glad that mine came along in this lifetime. I love you true blue.

    75%

    They say the surface of the earth is three fourths water. Of course I have no way of proving or disproving that fact. So whoever ‘they’ are, I’ll take ‘their’ word for it. I started my adventure of the 75%…

    Timeless Thoreau

    1. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”…

    The New 10 Commandments

    1 Laugh. 2 Read. 3 Say please. 4 Floss. 5 Doubt. 6 Exercise. 7 Learn. 8 Don’t hate. 9 Cut the bullshit. 10 Chill.

    Lost and Found

    There are times when something lost is never found again. There are times when something found was thought lost forever. Losing something can often mean finding something else. Sometimes it takes losing something to find anything. Finding something does not…

    Curve Balls

    When Life throws you a curveball, plant your feet, swing hard and hit it out of the Park.

    History

    History: You can write about, you can read about it… but there’s nothing you can do about it.

    All Things Reconsidered

    Remember when we were discussing the various definitions of cold? Well we just discovered a new one. It’s called OhMyFuckingGodICan’tBeliveItCanGetThatFuckingCold! Yes, you read that correctly. A new all time record low was recorded in Anarctica. -135 degrees Fahrenheit. To Hell…

    Mandela Under Grace

    This NPR Story sums up a lifetime of love and grace under impossible odds that was Nelson Mandela. Rest in Peace, Love and Grace Madiba.