3rd day after Irene - roads start to be passable

Irene-the aftermath

All within a mile or so of my house.

Working on the Guzzi (not going well)

Swapping tires between the Massey & the Ford

Snow, Queens NY

CAT-DEL UV

One of my biggest projects. (double click image to actually see it)

Two cool facts:

This plant will double the US capacity for the UV treatment of drinking water.

Building this requires that a man dive almost 600' down a waterfilled shaft to cement and seal a through pipe.

Cha Cha's on Coney Island

Not bad. Good cover of "Rebel Yell"

The thin one broke a cinder block over the fat one's head. Then the fat one lay on a bed of spikes and let people walk on him.

I stapled $20 to his face.It was fun. For $100 he would have let me staple his scrotum to his leg. If that is not a sign that times are tough I don't know what is.

Argentina: Cows and Horses

Stallion picketed by the road somewhere near the border with Paraguay.

A burro in the Chaco.

Wild bull in Callilegua. He objected to my presence.

One cow + a whole lot of nothing. I called it the never. (You never see a house, car, human..)

This heap of sand was supposed to be a road. It said so on the map. After a while there was no more motorized traffic, just a couple of guys on horses. So we turned the little Ford around and went back the way we had come.

Central Argentina: Lots of desert

Horses will thrive in environments that cannot even support sheep, far less cattle.

Lest you should think it's just desert

This is the Callilegua cloudforest

Spider and webs oh my

Argentina

This looks a lot like Africa El Palmar
The truck drivers get their milanesas in places like this, way out in the never.
Somewhere in the Chaco>>>where horses graze in the street.

Jordan: Some people, some places.

They asked if I wanted to marry them but I'm sure they say that to all the guys.

He was asleep and didn't want his picture taken so she kicked him repeatedly

Valley of Kings

They are actually Rom out of Egypt but everyone calls them Bedouins.

Petra

Rose red city half as old as time...

In and around Petra

We hired a bunch of bandits to make us dinner in a cave out in the hills. Why? it seemed like a good idea at the time.

We found out later no one had ever taken a pony trap down this hill.