Damn ....it has been a few days....

I have been rather busy doing some research for this up coming wandering season...
getting maps together and researching locations of ruins.....
I leave for Monticello next Monday and have a pretty killer itinerary prepared so stay tuned for pictures........

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to put you down ......

Bureaucratic Dysentery

Something to think about.....

If you ever hear a fellow student say, "I'm not turned on politics," give that student a history book because if you don't turn on politics, down to the air you breathe, the water you drink, the racial profiling you detest, the health insurance many people don't have, and on and on, If you don't turn on politics, politics will turn on you in very disagreeable ways.

Ralph Nader

Hanford Nuclear Reservation

The disaster at Fukushima has raised questions around the world about nuclear safety. But contamination is much worse in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The former plutonium plant in Hanford, Washington is one of the most contaminated places on earth, and still decades from being cleaned up.

The weapons production reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, but the manufacturing process left behind 53 million U.S. gallons (204,000 m³) of high-level radioactive waste that remains at the site.

This represents two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume. Today, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup.

While most of the current activity at the site is related to the cleanup project, Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory.

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My favorite Natural Bridges......

The Hazarchishma Natural Bridge is a beautiful and awe inspiring wonder ...but....
I am still partial to local attractions......

Rainbow Bridge

“Higher than the nation's capitol and nearly as long as a football field” describes Rainbow Bridge. It is the largest natural bridge in the world at 290 feet/88 meters tall and 270 feet/83 meters across. Rainbow Bridge is considered sacred by the Navajo culture as a symbol of deities responsible for creating clouds, rainbows and rain--the essence of life in the desert.

Sipapu Bridge

A Hopi term for the opening between worlds, the present name was given by William Douglas, who led a government survey party to the bridges in 1908, mapping the exact boundaries of the new national monument. Douglas thought that the ruins and rock art found in the area must be related to the Hopi people of northern Arizona.

Owachomo Bridge

Owachomo means rock mound in Hopi and is named after the rock formation on top of the southeast end of the bridge.

Hazarchishma Natural Bridge

Hazarchishma Natural Bridge is located 100 km north of Band-e-Amir National Park at the northern edge of Bamyan Province, near the border with Samangan Province. The arch is a young meander natural bridge carved through limestone karst in Jawzari Canyon (Dara-i-Jawzari), which joins the Ajar valley as part of the Amu Darya watershed and the main Caspian basin. In the recent geological past, the river became subterranean, leaving Dara-i-Jawzari dry. The elevation of the arch is 3100 meters (10,000 feet) above sea level.

The Bridge is formed of massive limestone which co-exists with marl limestone shales, bituminous shales, marlstone, limestone, conglomerates, and sandstones as the over- and under-laying layers. These rock formations and layers are from the Jurassic to the Lower Eocene in the Cenozoic.

The area is also of archaeological importance. The canyon below Hazarchishma village in which the natural bridge is located contains a series of caves that may have been occupied by cave-dwelling humans. This canyon lies on an ancient route between north and south and even now this route is locally used. An ancient fort was also observed during the previous field survey supporting the idea that this route must have been of some importance in earlier times.

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“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks......"

".....Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.”

Cooper Forks Canyon cliff dwellings

The Citarum – Dirtiest River in the World?

What happens when nine million people throw their trash in a river, and corporations use it to dump hazardous waste?


It becomes like the Citarum in West Java, Indonesia – choked with plastic, loaded with chemicals and human waste.


A generation ago, the Citarum River was a peaceful waterway where wildlife enjoyed the clean, fresh water and villagers caught fish and made a living off the rice paddies.