I like anticipation. I can be in the same room with an unopened birthday present for WEEKS.
This is so me.
I like planning ahead. Even if I can't do shit. I can pretend.
Yes, this too. Plus, I find a kind of comfort in the ritual of preparing. Buying jugs of drinking water, filling the bathtubs and buckets with extra water to flush the toliet and clean (we have always had wells, so no power means no water), setting out flashlights and battaries and candles. It may be an illusion, but it's comforting to me nonetheless.
However, I definitely have to defer to ita in terms of locale. New England almost never gets the really big hurricanes, and we do have a lot of higher ground and inland to flee to.
Kristin, you and my mom. Poor woman married a climber and an astronomer. She spent(spends) a lot of time Not Looking That Way.
But hey, she survived Machu Picchu last year. Though she avoided the trail up the peak that even freaked out my dad (and that she thought he fell off of for about 2 hours. He didn't. It was someone else he helped carry down. She greeted him, absolutely furious that he was upright and walking and how DARE he not be the broken one.)
So 24. Less than 4 hours in
and Jack's breaking the law VERY publicly again. You'd think, given what's gone down the prior 3 years, that everybody would know his face by now.
Heh.
Machu Picchu has ginormous dropoffs? That you have to navigate by car? Damn it. Cross that off my list, and I so wanted to see it.
Earthquakes. Fast, no stress beforehand and then you deal with the aftermath. Plus it is cool to think of the earth just twitching like that.
Um, I grew up on the San Andreas. I'm good with the earthquakes.
Machu Picchu has ginormous dropoffs? That you have to navigate by car?
Well, they did it by foot. Long long days of hiking. I don't know about auto access. I'm thinking not, but I could be easily wrong as I only know of their experience.
And my house getting picked up and dropped down the street is good? Um, no.
I'll stick with ground that shakes. At least my house stays in the same zipcode.
And yes, ginormous drop-offs. Stairs so steep my mom climbed by sitting on her ass and scooting up backwards. And I would have too, seeing the pictures.
