And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Number ten for sure, the truck on the White Rim Trail. I drove my old Scout down that 105 mile stretch of narrow track and there are sections like the one in your photo that will definitely put your sphincter in the pucker mode.
Well, I wasn't necessarily thinking jump (unless that's the ghost of Evel Knievel standing there), more of the "hmmm, how do I get from here to there?" challenge. And you're right about LOTR.
Ooh!
ReplyDelete#8 is how I like to think of trains.
Steam and smoke.
Dibbs on the old pick'm up, two dogs, and an the airstream!
ReplyDeleteI don't know which I like best, the home made rigid frame HD, the hammock on the beach or the moose racing. Maybe it's a tie?
ReplyDeleteHeh, number 7. "Go home moose, you're drunk."
ReplyDeleteI've been that messed up before.
DeleteAnd I can stand witness to that!!
DeleteNumber ten for sure, the truck on the White Rim Trail. I drove my old Scout down that 105 mile stretch of narrow track and there are sections like the one in your photo that will definitely put your sphincter in the pucker mode.
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd relate to that one.
DeleteI like the challenge implied in #13.
ReplyDeleteThat's a long, long jump, even with a running start! Looks like a scene from the Lord of the Rings, doesn't it?
DeleteWell, I wasn't necessarily thinking jump (unless that's the ghost of Evel Knievel standing there), more of the "hmmm, how do I get from here to there?" challenge. And you're right about LOTR.
DeleteThe Chevy heading towards that magnificent mountain and of course, the Challenger steam engine crossing the prairie!
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