It’s a Salty Crew
My Son-in-law & grandsons charged out to run Broken Arrow Trail (Sedona, AZ) with me in the Raptor.
We bravely battled tens of pink jeeps offering belching tourists a look at the same trail at $100 a pop (tip your driver). Here we are at Chicken Point.
I spoke to one rude lady pink jeep tour driver who remarked that the Raptor made the same route as her jeep without sustaining any body damage. Yes, the Raptor is 10 years old and is not damaged from trail driving. It speaks to skill…
After the run comes lunch, you weren’t planning on eating those fries, were you?
Broken Arrow. Trail, a network of dedicated county roads, and not the property of the Pink Jeep Company is treated by the pink jeeps as their personal fief.
Sedona — yes, I know.
In the Navy
Bullet Points:
** Pedo Joe’s regime has proposed a new plan that will cut out gas-powered water heaters and push Americans towards “carbon friendly” electric heaters. Electric heaters cost 33% more monthly to run. As if the inflation and stagnant wages hadn’t hurt Americans enough, now the regime is attempting to raise energy bills for average Americans while they live in luxury mansions and fly private jets, surrounded by heavily armed guards and high walls topped by razor wire.
** Any Questions?
Warriors
Time marches and warriors remain the same.
Interesting finds
It sheds light on a part of human history of which we have only small remnants to study. The tone of the narrative becomes unnecessarily preachy towards the end, but I suspect preachiness is what the FB page is all about. The archeological evidence will speak for itself.
HALF A CENTURY ago, as archaeologists worked in the wooded Pavlov Hills of the Czech Republic, they made a remarkable discovery. During the excavation of the Upper Paleolithic site known as Dolní Věstonice, they found a pair of shoulder blades from a mammoth. The bones had been placed so as to form the two sides of a pitched roof, one of them leaning against the other. Beneath them was a human skeleton, and in the earth that covered it and on the bones themselves were traces of red ocher. The body had been painted red before it was laid to rest.
If nothing more had been found in this grave, it would have added little to what was already known about Ice Age peoples and their customs. During the Upper Paleolithic, corresponding to the final years of the Ice Age, about sixty thousand years ago, people already had the same anatomy as modern human beings. In Eurasia, most of them lived not in caves but in the dark coniferous forests and wide-open steppes that lay beyond the reach of the glaciers.
This particular burial was of no ordinary person, though. A flint spearhead had been placed near the head of the deceased, and the body of a fox had been placed in one hand. For the archaeological team, led by Bohuslav Klíma, the fox was a clear indication that the person in the grave had been a shaman; the fox had a long history as a shamanic spirit guide, in Europe and all the way across Asia and into the Americas. It came as something of a shock, however, when skeletal analysis revealed that the shaman in question was a woman.
Why is this find so important? Before the discovery of this woman—and, though it’s hard to believe, for a long time afterward—Ice Age shamans were imagined as members of an all-male religious community of mammoth hunters, a sort of Flintstones private club in which manhood was celebrated and the transcendental achieved by worshiping, then negating, the feminine. This excavation—which remains the oldest known of its kind—and further work at Dolní Věstonice prove that wasn’t so.
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Identify the Aircraft
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I love dirt roads. Many hours of my life have been spent happily driving on the roads less travelled. Pulled more than one person out of the ditch whose phone told them the limited maintenance road was the best route. The gazetteer is your friend!
I love recovering Land Rovers. I take a picture every time I do.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Douglas A-3 Skywarrior
2. Sopwith 1½ Strutter
3. Albatros D.III
Exactly
A3D = “All Three Dead”….
;^)
Do I detect a slight tone of disdain for the Pink Jeep Tourist group?
Well deserved I’m sure. MrsPaulM and I are getting to the point of avoiding the General Public when out and about, but one can’t entirely so we observe from a distance. Watched a little girl zipping around on her pink bicycle last night…younger brother says, That’s all electric, kids don’t peddle anymore like we did. Exactly.
The Shaman Lady looks like Tilda Swinton. As for a woman Shaman…what’s that saying, Your Karma ran over my dogma…shattering illusions with facts often gains a surprised response from those defining history.
“the shaman in question was a woman.” How do they know?
They can’t ask her/him.
Funny how we had no argument for historical male/female…yet in the past two years the mentally ill savants have decided they know better. More to that agenda than 42 letters and a plus sign. Undermine everything God set forth as a way to eliminate Him. Man plans, God shakes his head.
Exactly, nobody asked him/her/it what their pronouns were. Archeologists are taking a lot on themselves.
PaulM, I don’t scorn the belching tourists that pay $110 each to be shoehorned into a Pink Jeep (+tip your driver). It’s the arrogant jeep drivers. I ran this trail a few years ago and had a less-than-pleasant run-in with a tour driver who threatened to call the County Sheriff and have me cited/arrested for driving on the COUNTY ROAD (maintained at public expense) that he hauled his wretched tourists over. At the time, I carried my S&W 460 V in a chest rig, and he kept looking at it while he harped at me, butching up for the tourists. It left an even worse taste in my mouth for the Pink Jeeps.
Confrontations of that sort by tour operators don’t solve anything. They don’t like that people take their own rigs on the tour route. So what? I keep my calm, stand my ground and smile.
If it’s a public road there is no quarrel…so what happened is they are selling this tour as unique and theirs alone. You made him look bad.
Exactly – If you want to go along this admittedly cool trail, you have to do it in a Pink Jeep (tip your driver).
Get one of those virtue signaling pink license plates.
I could go on a rant over that too. I have an Arizona flag front license plate. When in California visiting the children the last time I took my truck – maybe Christmas time – and parked in a strip mall, a lady looked at the plate and commented to her offspring, “they keep rifles in their back windows”. It made me smile. No, I don’t have a rifle in the back window, but yes, there is a mindset that the progs understand and fear.
She gets a few props for at least knowing that detail. Smile…yup…I call it ‘the cowboy knowing smile’.
“Oh, you wanna call the SO? Fine, I’ll do it for you. Just let me get a pic of you and your vehicle tag first.”
You can tell my the hip bones. Women were made for having babies, men are not.
That’s a MAGA lie, JohnD. Men can have babies. Ask the President’s press secretary. It’s settled science. And aren’t there something like 50 genders now?
Yeah, well, the hips don’t lie but far too many males today need to carry tampons.
They go with the man-bun.
I was thinking Laura Linney as Abigail Adams, but yes, I see it.
Could be, the somewhat dour drawn face.
I had an electric stove when we got married.
My wife was thrilled when I bought her a gas stove. (Happy spouse, happy house.)
It is more efficient than electric. Almost instant heat.
Electricity has it’s place. Electric bulbs are better than gas lamps. :)
But to get electricity, you burn natural gas to heat water to steam (with heat loss) to spin a turbine to generate electricity which you push through wires with resistive loss.
Then you provide it to the stove which uses resistance to heat the burner to heat water to steam.
Gas stoves cut out the middleman.
Gas, from the well to the homeowner tank…fewer moving parts translates to more efficiency. In the Left’s parlance it’s green and sustainable.
The Left doesn’t have the option of instantly turning off your propane. It takes time to choke off the supply.
Everyone with an off grid system to power their house or cabin use a gas stove and range because batterie’s do not have the capacity. There are a multitude of manufacturers who specifically tailor their gas appliances for that segment…and that’s with the solar nirvana install these same proponents spout as planet saving.
How to tell a Democrat: They forget their own lies and talk out of three sides of their mouths while never engaging their brain. Dems can’t keep straight their newest Chicken Little emergency from the week before.
“We’d all be happier if we owned nothing and lived in fifteen-minute cities.”
We’d also be happier if we had a robust social credit system…
Most of us would be happy if the ninny’s and meddler’s would mind their own business.
+1
unpossible. all of that science has been settled, don’t you know.
Questioning settled science is a threat to ‘our demokracy’.
Tsk, tsk. Those pink jeep drivers are highly trained to save the environment. The great unwashed might scuff an unscuffed rock.
How many of those drivers vote GOP? Rhetorical question.
I don’t care that they run a business. It’s good for the local economy by fleecing tourists. The enviro-types are forever in your face. In the days of the old west, the Indians in the area (see Geronimo) would simply scalp them and take what they had. Today things are more complicated.
Had some friends that used to do a lot of off-roading, and they had lots of stories about arrogant, aggressive tour operators.
We have an all-electric house, and I don’t care for it. The stove is new super-duper one, and it was actually easy to learn how to use it. It gets hot right NOW, and cools off fairly fast. I still prefer gas. Same with water heaters. Electric heat took some getting used to, too. It’s nice having individual heat for each room, but it’s expen$ive to use, and takes time to learn how to use it effectively.
It doesn’t bother men that people chose electric appliances or gas appliances. I’m irked that the government put its thumb on the scale in an effort to remove choice for a bullshit reason.
And by whose authority? The Federal government has no Constitutional authority to meddle in our gear, regardless they believe otherwise. Their very simple friggin job is to get out of our way and allow American’s the ability to thrive. Instead we get micromanaging and regulations on everything down to toilets and shower heads…and now appliances, heat, and AirCon….oh wait…and food.
A well placed meteor os the only solution, can only blame God and pretty sure He can handle it.
Amen.
I don’t care, either….BUT one of the reasons we have a lot of all-electric places here is that Jimmuh Cattah rammed through some kind of proto Social Justice BS legislation regarding the fact that natural gas is (or was) very cheap out here because we’re close to the source. Now those poor people on the East Coast have to pay more because of transpotation costs, and tha’s just nor FAIR.
So lots of “Non Gas” powered homes were built here, or so I’ve been told by several locals.
SMOD might just do it. I’m sure His aim is pretty good!
There is enough recoverable natural gas in Weld County to supply most of the country for decades. Shale oil is produced as a side product. Said oil can be run ‘as is’ in older diesel engines during warm months.
Yet simple cost-effective solutions such as yours are not what the Lunatics in Charge want, they want subservience.
Wonder what it would do to one of those new Diesels with the “DEF” systems on it…..
Funny how those ‘facts’ keep upsetting the ‘settled’ history… Re the pink jeep tours, I’ve never heard anything good about them. Friends who did that trail years ago said they were literally blocked by the pink Jeeps on purpose more than once, and when they reported it to the Rangers, got a shrug and a ‘what can we do’ look.
Friend of mine was one of the few who survived going in the water off a carrier in an A-3D, they went out the overhead hatch and all three survived.08-Mar-74 142257 VQ 2 Lost at sea.
Arrestment of #1 cross deck pendant appeared normal for 190′ until CDP separated. A/C left angled deck impacting nose high. All crew escaped through upper hatch and rescued by helo.
Excellent! A lotta quick thinking by the crew.
Twenty-something years ago, the now ex-wife and I honeymooned in Sedona. Had a nice time playing tourists. On the way to arrange a Pepto-Bismol Jeep tour, we saw several HUMMERs with third-row seats. Bingo! Found the dealer and arranged an off-road touri in a HUMMER rather than said Pepto-Bismol Jeep.
Many years later, had a friend who needed work and drove same Pepto-Bismol Jeeps for a period of time till his clearance was re-adjudicated. He didn’t have much good to say about the job other than “it pays”.
Wandering Neurons