Linda Joyce Beck, desert explorer
But not in the summer.
Do you know that there actually are
people – most of them Europeans, with Germans said to predominate – who come
here in the summer to see what it is like to hike in 110+0 heat? Even some Englishmen are involved. (You know about Englishmen, and mad dogs, of course.) Miraculously, some of these idiots
survive. At least the Germans should
know better.
I write this because I just came
back from walking up Hellhole Canyon, in what seemed like 1100 heat. I walked for only a bit more than an hour –
and I am exhausted. To make matters
worse, when I got back the lying bastard of a thermometer in my jeep said the
temperature was only 720! (If
it wasn't at least 100 degrees I will eat my walking stick.)
And to make matters doubly worse yet, my Internet is down. (If you see this you will be able to deduce
that I figured out what is wrong.)
So now you understand the
title of this blog entry. I think I am
being punished for voting for the wrong candidate today. In my view Obama doesn't deserve a second
term and Romney doesn't deserve a first term – so, as usual, I voted
for the Libertarian. Since Reagan the
only candidate I have voted for with real conviction was McCain. It may be that, in getting old and tired, I
also am turning into a curmudgeon. Can that be?
According to Google, nobody has commented on this blog entry and only three people have even read it. So, a follow-up. I have been in Borrego for over a month, probably gone on at least 15 hikes, and tried to get in shape. Today I went out with the paleo people on our usual monthly field trip. I had to quit after two hours. I was exhausted! I think my days of field work are over. It is discouraging.
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