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Chat Thread: An Idiot Abroad: Spain or Italy or France !????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wakephan09 said:
Thanks for those suggestions the other day! Unfortunately, the Devil's Backbone road detour was a disaster and meant we missed the chance to stop at the restaurant you posted. Just left Mesa Verde; definitely awesome. Thought about popping into Canyon de Chelly to honor the inimitable JEANNE SIMONELLI, but couldn't swing it.

The parks were all so different and unique! But to be honest right now they're all blending together in my mind. My preliminary Utah rankings:

1. Canyonlands
1. Arches
3. Bryce Canyon
4. Capitol Reef
5. Zion

*we didn't have the time or equipment to do the Narrows at Zion, so I'm positive that's hurting its rank. And I wanted so badly to have a bike to cruise Capitol Reef.

Cedar Breaks, Natural Bridges, Monument Valley, Mesa Verde. Antelope Canyon and Navajo and horseshoe bend today. Grand Canyon tomorrow. Only halfway and I can already feel my body deteriorating

Also loved Calf Creek in Grand Staircase. Beautiful hike ending in a waterfall.
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I love Moab so much. Arches and Canyonlands within a few miles of each other. So many things to do.
 
That simonelli shout was for you, TSY, and HTTD and our other anthro brethren
 
wakephan09 said:
That simonelli shout was for you, TSY, and HTTD and our other anthro brethren
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Preciate it. When I think of Simonelli, I think of Mexico. It's a shame you didn't get to take a class with Woodall. Thacker is good, but Woodall was the sole reason I switched to Anthro. Such a great guy.
 
tsywake said:
Preciate it. When I think of Simonelli, I think of Mexico. It's a shame you didn't get to take a class with Woodall. Thacker is good, but Woodall was the sole reason I switched to Anthro. Such a great guy.
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J. Ned was just great and unusual. Spent a summer in New Mexico doing a dig with him.
 
tsywake said:
Preciate it. When I think of Simonelli, I think of Mexico. It's a shame you didn't get to take a class with Woodall. Thacker is good, but Woodall was the sole reason I switched to Anthro. Such a great guy.
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I think one simonelli book was on the zapatista (and her participation in some rebellion got her deported), another book on NY State ("Too Wet to Plow"), and another on Canyon de Chelly and the navajo ("crossing between worlds"?).

I love Thacker dearly. I catch up with him every year or so. Disappointed that I missed woodall.
 
@pitchingninja is such a great follow on Twitter. The things pitchers can do with a baseball are crazy to my pea sized brain
 
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
what were you digging for?
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Can't speak to ned, but Thacker's sites are all in Portugal, where he trained all the government archeologists and therefore got free reign. Other digs all had to be accompanied by government officials.

His primary interest is prehistoric. We had digs ranging from upper Paleolithic (10,000 BP) to Roman to medieval Islamic. Each student got to focus eventually on their own interests. One of the best summers of my life.

Not so fun was needing to get up and run 16 miles every morning before a day of digging. I had a particularly egregious case of sun poisoning once of those days after my fellow students drank all the tap water before I returned from my run. Very, very sick that night
 
very cool

i'm into art -- especially ceramics -- from southwest US and northern Mexico

would do well to learn more about the history of the area
 
workweek is back but i'm taking off friday to take my wife to asheville for her birthday so gotta jam 5 days of work into 4.
 
Deaconblue said:
Excavating a small Anasazi ruin near Ramah, NM.
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I never got to dig out west. I did two field schools with Ned on the Upper Yadkin, one as a student and one as a TA. So many great memories.

I spent two winter breaks in Puerto Rico digging on a military base. Not a bad way to get to the Caribbean when it was cold and freezing rain here in NC.
 
YoungBuck95 said:
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Insanity. Hitters have no chance against that stuff, that’s why the MLB cracked down so hard on pitchers using grip substances to spin the ball.
 
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