I have been slow about writing lately. I have been busy. I have some thoughts about current events but I am so tired of it I don’t want to write.
But I would just like to make a shameless plug for my daughter’s recent post on Palin.
I think she has out done herself.
Have you seen Tina Fey do Palin on SNL? It was hilarious.
Tina Fey does Palin better than Palin. She sounds like Palin, looks like Palin has the mannerisms down perfectly. Many are wondering if there will be encores.
As good as it was I hope by November that Palin will only be a memory. A memory of some bad heart burn.
Between the server crash and being away on vacation, I have not written much. Let me try and bring things up to date.
I spent last week on vacation again. This time it was like a real vacation. At least in some ways. Real in that I got away and did not have a real time table to do anything. It was very nice.
I took my bicycle and car went to Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. Two years ago I rode my bicycle on a self contained tour along this route plus the Blue Ridge Parkway. You can read about the adventure here. It was a very difficult tour.
This time I intended to relax and just do a few rides sans 50lbs of gear. So I took my Specialized Roubaix bike. It was nice to revisit some of the same sites and see it differently.
It was interesting to see how much narrower the road seems when driving than when bicycling. And as is normally the case when driving, you don’t notice how much elevation change there is.
After driving for a day I got up one morning and took a bike ride. It was really hard. I thought to myself that I didn’t remember driving all these climbs just the day before. I wondered how I did it two years ago fully loaded with 50lbs of gear. As Ernest Hemingway once wrote:
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
I think it is true that even though it was hard work two years ago the scenery seemed more spectacular traveling by bicycle than by driving Skyline drive.
Two years ago I traveled during June. I saw many Appalachian Trail through hikers. When I stopped at Elk Mountain back then it was like some mountain man rendevous site. There were hikers every where.
Now that it is September most of them have already passed through the area. I saw few through hikers last week. At Elk Wallow there wasn’t a single hiker.
As you can see my site is back. The most recent posts were not in a backup but can be restored and will be eventually.
As you can see I lost my theme. I will work on that also. My plan was to be on vacation this week. So I am not sure how much of my blog will be restored right away. I was thinking it might be time for a new theme anyway.
So for now you get this plain Jane default. No offense to anyone named Jane.
