'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
I will still do it. Someday. With Valium.
And my house getting picked up and dropped down the street is good? Um, no.
I agree, which is why I am hugely not into the whole tornado thing. However, I can leave ahead of time if a bad hurricane is coming. An earthquake? Nsm.
Once again I got Machu Piccu and Chichen Itza mixed up. Nothing to see here, really.
No, really, it's not.Well certainly not when there is massive destruction and loss of life as just happened. Any disaster, natural or man-made, would be tragic on that scale.
But just the tremblors that move some stuff around a little? It is really fascinating to me. The earth isn't a dead rock, it is constantly changing and renewing. Obviously YGeologicIntrigueMV.
I should have said that *I* think it is.
I think tornado/earthquake/hurricane is one of those personality things. Someone make an internet quiz.
Kristin, I can say I think it'd be so worth it. My parents brought back over 600 pictures that make me drool with envy. They went from flat farmlands, to salt farms to MP. And the incredibleness of the engineering feats, and the beautiful location. It is truly amazing.
Mom would like to go back.
I'm pretty sure that this year they closed off the ruins Machu Piccu to visitors, and that you can no longer climb them like you once did.
If you mean crawling all over the walls willynilly, sure. But you certainly have access to the whole and can touch them and go to the different levels. Plus climb up the steps to it as well as the nearby peaks. And the accesses are via paths the Incans laid. Most of my parents' hike was on old Incan roads. I got to hear all about them...
eta: Ah- saw edit.
Sara, I went back and edited. I got Chichen Itza and Machu Piccu mixed up. Like I usually do. One's in Peru, the other's in Mexico. I know that, but I can't keep them straight in my head.
Yup, saw. Dazzled by the engineering as an excues?
Works for me.
BTW, alpalca makes lovely scarves. Not as itchy to me as wool (so LOVING the gifts my parents got there. Local watercolors I need to frame, too.)
Plus it is cool to think of the earth just twitching like that.
It totally is. Plate tectonics are cool. Shimmy shimmy co co pop!
A couple of my co-workers were a bit put out that they'd honked at me in traffic and I hadn't looked over.
People tell me every now and then that they saw me and waved from their cars, and I didn't wave back. That's because they didn't swerve their cars in a way that endangered me and thus demanded my attention.
It occurs to me that I never try to get the attention of women I don't know out in public unless it's a customer/staff thing or I'm making small talk with the people next to me while waiting in line. I don't know if that says that guys who do are are doing so out of some (perhaps unconscious) sexually-tinged motive, or just that I'm insular and don't like talking to people I don't know. But hopefully either way it insulates me from creeping anyone out with unwanted attention.
Machu Picchu has ginormous dropoffs?
I read this 3 times before I realized it wasn't about Pokemon.