This is the daughter of a friend.
Cute.
She’s already a beach girl.
Category: miscellaneous
North to Alaska
Rick McCharles is travelling Alaska / Yukon. This blog may be a little slow until Aug. 15th.
ANOTHER vandalized Calgary bus stop
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Why, oh why, does Calgary Transit keep building bus shelters that are easily shattered by vandals?
Why are they so unaccountable?
photos from Korea
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Chris has added yet more interesting photos from Seoul.
I’m stinking he is off to Shanghai, China next.
I must have spoken to 6 different people over the last few days about travel to Shanghai.
Hmmmmm
best destinations for your next BASE jump
world’s record highest jump – Mt. Meru
Base jumpers use “BASE” as an acronym from the fixed objects that participants choose to launch themselves from: BASE; Building, Antennae, Span, Earth that includes uninhabited towers such as an aerial mast, a bridge, arch or dome and cliff or other natural formation. The jumpers use parachutes, but they wait until the last possible moment to deploy them. BASE jumping is different from ‘Wingsuit BASE jumping’ in which a participant uses both a Wingsuit as well as a parachute.
These are some of the best or the worst sites for base jumping, depending upon what your take on it is. Base jumping can give you the most intense, incredible sense of being alive, yet it is a potentially dangerous sport and the risk is yours!
Before you go, check the BASE fatality list to see if you’ve already died on a previous jump.
would you recognize the top classical musician in the USA?
One of the world’s best violinists poses as a street musician and plays a 3.5 million dollar violin in a Metro station. What happens?
Einstein
So you think you know Albert Einstein …
Check this list:
10 wonders of the TRULY modern world
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
I voted on the the NEW 7 Wonders of the World.
You can even wager on the results.
There’s no shortage of lists of world wonders. Howard Hillman combined them ALL on one quite complete list.
But Brian posed a question. What are the wonders of the 20th century and later?
We had trouble coming up with many:
Millau Viaduct (new bridge in France)
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain)
Itaipu Dam (Brazil / Paraguay)
Are these worthy?
Leave a comment below if you can think of any others.
Rick McCharles 