I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.
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I was up early yesterday (Monday) so I spent a couple hours getting the vacation pictures set up on the blog. I hope you have had a chance to see them but if not just check out the links at the bottom of this entry.
We left Moab, Utah yesterday around 10 a.m. after breakfast at Denny’s and a stop at a grocery store to pick up a cheap cooler, ice, water, and salad stuff for lunch. Our first stop was Looking Glass rock after taking a side road for a few miles. At first it just looks like a big rock sticking out of the ground but on the backside there is an arch window that does look a lot like a looking glass.
A little way further down the main highway we came to Wilson Arch which was right alongside the highway and quite large. We drove down a very long side road to see the Needles Overlook. It hangs on the very edge of the mesa top and you can look down into the canyons cut by the Colorado River. There was slight haze so it was hard to get good pictures of the distance. We saw a prong horn antelope along the way and Tracey spent some time in a prairie dog village trying to get some pictures of the little guys but they wouldn’t stay out of their holes for long. There was always one of them making warning noises to the rest when they saw her trying take pictures.
We reached Blanding, Utah around 2 p.m. and ate our picnic salad lunch at a little park pavilion on the edge of town. The rest of the afternoon was spent on “scenic detours” in an attempt to take unpaved roads into the Natural Bridges National Monument. The first one led us into a very rough area where the road finally narrowed down to rocks and crevices we couldn’t negotiate with the little car we have. The next try took us down into a very wet and muddy area and we had to turn back before we got stuck. We managed to make it back to civilization but bumped the underside of the car and the muffle a few times. We didn’t tear anything up but I sure wouldn’t rent us a car. Tracey did manage to get some pictures of a deer we scared out of the brush but they are mostly pictures of it’s backside. Several hours spent bumping over bad roads for deer butt pictures!
After checking into our Super 8 Motel (where we get an AARP discount!) we went to (as Aaron would say) a No-Name Generic place to eat. We got large steaks and plenty of salad and sides to stuff us so we sloshed and then went back to the motel. I had a bad time trying to get connected to the Interwebs. Eventually I set up camp down in the lobby were I could get a WiFi connection, but no Internets. The manager dude gave me a WiFi signal booster to ethernet gadget and it worked great. I was too tired to mess with it last evening so I got up early again this morning type up the blog.
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This photograph by the U.S. Army, provided by the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Md., on Monday, May 5, 2008, is one of a series of declassified images depicting the summary execution of South Korean political prisoners by the South Korean military and police at Daejeon, South Korea, over several days in July 1950. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea is investigating this and similar mass killings in South Korea in 1950-51. A chief investigator estimates up to 7,000 were killed at Daejeon, and tens of thousands elsewhere.
You have to know the U.S. tacitly approved of this or they would not have been photographing it. We stood by and condoned war crimes. History repeats.
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Nordakota
Ole is a farmer in Minnesota. He is in need of a new milk cow and hears about a nice one for sale over in Nordakota. He drives to Nordakota, finds the farm and looks at the cow. He reaches under to see if she gives milk.
When he grabs the teat and pulls ... the cow farts. Ole is very surprised. He looks at the farmer who is selling the cow, then reaches under the cow to try again. He grabs another teat, pulls, and the cow farts again. Milk does come out however, so after some discussion with the cow’s current owner, Ole decides to buy the cow and take it home.
When he gets back to Minnesota , he calls over his neighbor, Sven, and says, “Hey, Sven, come and look at dis here new cow I ust bought. Pull her teat, and see vat happens.”
Sven reaches under, pulls the teat - and the cow farts. Sven looks at Ole and says, “You bought dis here cow in Nordakota, didn’t yah?”
Ole is very surprised since he hadn’t told Sven about his trip. Ole replies, “Yah, dats right. But how did you know?”
Sven says, “My wife is from Nordakota.” |
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