“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
—Elbert Hubbard
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Waiting for UPS
“The laws of the physical universe govern us too. Nothing can be accumulated in this world without a corresponding debt; not experience, not beauty, not wealth, not even love, and the price can never be estimated in advance by the one who has to pay it.”
—–Ted Simon
Meandering
“A Prayer for the Traveller” – by Edward Abbey
“May your trails be crooked, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poet’s towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes, and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightening clangs upon the high crags, where something more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”
Muchas Gracias GG
Las Pozas
When I arrived at Las Pozas, three boys greeted me and
asked me if I wanted them to watch The Rover. When I finally caught
onto what they were getting at, I agreed to the deal thinking it
couldn’t hurt. It cost 30 pesos to get into Las Pozas and it is
worth every peso. It is a maze of stone, concrete and rebar that
climbs up into the jungle and dances among waterfalls. The place is
completely bizarre and utterly surreal in the very best definition
of each word. The stone steps take you up, over and down; they lead
you over bridges, into pagodas and through a myriad of doorways,
all with the jungle encroaching and reclaiming. It truly is
amazing. All of this was funded by the imagination and bank account
of Edward James, a patron of the arts and the rumored illegitimate
grandson of King Edward VII. My favorite quote I could find was
from Salvadore Dali who said to James: “Look, we move among a bunch
of pseudo-realists, who… produce nothing but junk. So, they try
to act like madmen to justify themselves. On the other hand, you
who are real labor to act sane.” When Edward James came to Xilitla
after WWII, it seems he fell in love with the area. I can
understand why: I just spent ten minutes watching two flocks of
parrots circle and squawk at each other. When I returned to The
Rover, the three boys had turned into four. I gave the ring leader
30 pesos to divide as he saw fit, saying it was the same as Las
Pozas. “Es bueno?” “Si. Es bueno.”
“What the heck are ya drivin?”
Driving south of Dodge, a truck was coming up from behind just as my lane was coming to an end. I slowed to let him get around, but he stopped and blocked my way. I was blocking the entrance to Hwy 54 and he was blocking Hwy 283. No problem, we’re in Kansas, there was no one behind us.
“What kind of vehicle is that?”
“A Land Rover.”
“That is so cool!”
“Thanks.”
“What year is it?”
“66”
“What a great truck! You’re from Alaska?”
“Yes.”
“No problems?”
“None.”
“How cool. I’m going to look them up online.”
“I think you should. Umm… I’m trying to go that way… On 283.”
“You go right ahead. I’ll wait.”
On the flip side: four girls passed me in Missouri and they were laughing. I mean, bent over double with laughter. It would seem the women of Missouri like ’em younger.
Cue The Doors “Peace Frog” now…
“It’s Not Even Advice…
… but somewhere along the way somebody directed me to this saying, that, ‘Success is a matter of travel, it’s not a destination.’ And I think that’s pretty wise.”
— Alan Page
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