Kobae

Kobae has learned to rest his head on his arm just like I learned to do in most of the classes I took in high school.

Three Guys on a Roller Coaster

Jordan, Chris, and I made a quick two hour round trip to visit Three Guys on a Roller Coaster and since I have access to very fast internet today I'm going to put a little more of the trip on then usual. Having listened to the snake video it sounds like I'm getting a little snarky to Chris and Jordan but what surprisingly Go Pro doesn't project is the snake rattling and I'm telling it we're moving on.

The Washing Machine Problem

Kobae always hangs in the laundry room for a week or two when I bring him back from San Diego but this year he took a little longer than normal to move back over to his house. Still, on occasional he'll visit the laundry room. In the past I use to have the big yellow mop bucket in there but Kobae didn't like the mop bucket and I could always here it getting slammed around in the room so I took it out. Kobae is about 150 pounds now so he's looking for larger enemies and today he found one.

Hiking with Ray

Ray said: “And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.”

The Hayduke Trail

Carl is doing the Hayduke. From Arches to Zions with a whole bunch of places in between. Whenever you can hang around with people that do things like this it can only make you better.

Hiking with Ray, R is for Rocket

In the Martian Chronicles the first three human expeditions to Mars never returned. I told Ray I was pretty sure I knew where one of them was. It had long since crash landed and petrified in the Martian atmosphere. The front, the side, the port holes on the side of the ship were all plainly in view. I took Ray with me to investigate.

Hiking with Ray, Ray Fell

“(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)

"Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry."