I’ve been spending a lot of time on the computer the last few weeks.
Some interesting things happening with besthike.com, my most important site.
A daily blog about t-shirts, t-shirt companies, and things that should be t-shirts.
Logic + Emotion blogger T-Shirts at Tcritic – Daily T-Shirt Blog
One of the downsides of being a Winehiker, or hiking with a winehiker, is the irresistible urge to sing around the campfire with lyrics forgotten. Gotta memorize this classic.
“Desperado”
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Can hurt you somehow
Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can’t get
Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone
Don’t your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine
It’s hard to tell the night time from the day
You’re losin’ all your highs and lows
Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away?
Just finished quite a major update to my hiking blog. I have my own Amazon bookstore and travel insurance partner.
Besthike.com is my most important website these days. The blog supports that site.
After being, I think, the first blog to announce (twice) the “Stremnaya Road”, Bolivia actually the Guoliang Tunnel in China mystery solved , I am on to a new investigation.
This time declaring this Tibetan photo was not taken in Tibet:
… check my hiking blog to see where tourists are allowed to scramble this cliff.
I just posted a photo journal on my hiking blog: Paria – the best canyon walk in the world.
It links to my photos of the trip as well as a detailed description on how to organize 4 days wading in a river slot canyon. Certainly this is one of my favourite hikes anywhere.
I also recommend the famous day hike nearby, called The Wave. (I had trouble on that one.)
» this is the last travelogue post on this trip.
Just trudged out of amazing Paria Canyon.
It was four days walking in a cathedral of stone (with flooded floors). Simply gorgeous.
Paria Canyon is much safer than I expected. It is nearly impossible to get lost on a river hemmed in by huge cliffs. (Though 62-year-old James Aalberts managed it last week.) And I cannot see how anyone could drown in Paria no matter how high the tidal wave.
On my hiking blog, for photos, check this post: Paria – best canyon walk in the world
» next travelogue post on this trip – “security theatre”
Had a great couple of weeks in Vegas, being trained in the circus arts. Where else to learn but in the true Entertainment Capital of the World?
I saw the 5 awesome Cirque du Soleil shows currently playing and spent time backstage. As well, I observed two auditions and assisted my she-mentor Dana with evaluations.
It was an eye-opener! And a learning experience big-time.
If you want to know more, I post Cirque du Soleil notes on my gymnastics blog.
THANKS Dan & Terri, and Dana & Fred who hosted the perfect houseguest (… at some point in the past. This time it was me eating their food and drinking their booze.)
Next adventure?
Hiking Paria Canyon on the Arizona / Utah border. I plunge into the slot canyon Thursday Oct. 26th.
» next travelogue post on this trip – hiking – survived Paria Canyon
Checking the weather for an upcoming hike to Paria Canyon …
» next travelogue post on this trip – exercising while travelling
A terrible story.
One killed for sure. Children led off to be “detained”.
It hit the major media an hour ago.
My read on this crime against civilians posted on my hiking blog.
Rick McCharles 