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$\"Gravatar\"$ and an Aussie behind me who was inexplicably sober.

He must have been driving.
Jamie R | Homepage | 07.13.09 - 2:38 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ She then made the egregious error of asking me if knives were legal to own in America.

Hehe, you know you wanted her to ask. (And she's wrong. There's no such thing as a useless knife, except perhaps a dull one, and that can be remedied. Of course for defense purposes, guns are superior.)

The Aussie guy sounds alright. You're meeting all sorts of characters...
Wendy | 07.13.09 - 8:31 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I wish I could have been a 'fly on the wall' listening into that conversation. She would have had me chuckling on the landscaping remark.

Of course when you come from an island nation with the only wilderness area some marshy place containing a prison, I guess the size of our 'landscaping' could be overwhelming to a foreigner. On the other hand, its nice to know we aren't the only ones with a crappy educational system.
Susan | 07.13.09 - 9:46 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I like the dressing them all up in orange plan. Is that to help spot them?
Jamsco | Homepage | 07.13.09 - 12:03 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Never trust a man what keeps a dull knife, Wendy.
jaciii | 07.13.09 - 12:16 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Elkan tried to feed the squirrel a piece of plastic? Why is he trying to kill them?
Josh | 07.13.09 - 12:27 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Love the orange. I used to dress the youngest in orange and the oldest in yellow.
EN | 07.13.09 - 1:59 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Sheesh. I'm getting virtigo just looking at those pics.

I love the expression on your middle son in the squirrel pic.

\"Just a little closer... liiiiittle closer ...\"
Michael Maier | Homepage | 07.13.09 - 2:59 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Queue, the word your looking for is queue.
Spacebunny | 07.13.09 - 3:29 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ que?
The Barbarian | 07.13.09 - 4:01 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ The limeys said there was a half farthing?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Que
Josh | 07.13.09 - 4:14 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Sorry Spacebunny. I don't speak Eurotrash.

Speaking of that... next time Vox starts running his mouth about white shoes on americans ask him how he thinks it looks to see black wingtips and black dress socks... matched with black shorts worn while hiking at the Grand Canyon. Oh... did I mention the \"man\" was carrying a purse?
Nate | Homepage | 07.13.09 - 4:29 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Sorry Spacebunny. I don't speak Eurotrash.

Whatever. This from the guy who spells with an \"our\" instead \"or\". Queue is not eurotrash, it is the proper word for the situation.
Spacebunny | 07.13.09 - 4:59 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Phonetically, Nate's right.
Blame the French and their inexplicable love affair with superfluous vowels.
Huckleberry | Homepage | 07.13.09 - 5:25 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I've spent to much time around idiot europeons to have much patience. Morons are so spectacularly ignorant... yet they hold themselves up as the models for the rest of the world.

Fuck england. Fuck France.
Nate | Homepage | 07.13.09 - 6:12 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ So are you going to go on up the road and take a look at Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks??
Passinthrough | Homepage | 07.13.09 - 7:26 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Thinking about backtracking to New Mexico for Roswell and Carlsbad... or just straight on to Colorado Springs.
Nate | Homepage | 07.14.09 - 7:23 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Phonetically, Nate's right.
Blame the French and their inexplicable love affair with superfluous vowels.

It's good for scrabble.
Wendy | 07.14.09 - 8:48 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ This from the guy who spells with an \"our\" instead \"or\".

Nate is following the Canadian example, not European.
SarahtheCanucki | 07.14.09 - 10:14 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ And the burning question: does Nate's orange tshirt have a dozer on it as well?
Wendy | 07.14.09 - 12:58 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Morons are so spectacularly ignorant... yet they hold themselves up as the models for the rest of the world.

You could just as easily be talking about Americans Nate. Just like not all Americans are like than, neither are all (or even most) Europeans.
Spacebunny | 07.14.09 - 1:01 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Someday however I WILL get to the Grand Canyon.
Spacebunny | 07.14.09 - 1:02 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ It's a pretty nice big hole in the ground. We went in October a few years ago (for a wedding in Phoenix). The weather was perfect.
Wendy | 07.14.09 - 1:28 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Nate: \"or just straight on to Colorado Springs.\"

Did you get an email from me, yet?
WaterBoy | 07.14.09 - 1:38 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ You could just as easily be talking about Americans Nate. Just like not all Americans are like than, neither are all (or even most) Europeans.

Or just about anyone in the world.

I don't think Nate has a problem with Americans or Europeans...just with people in general
Josh | 07.14.09 - 5:43 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Just wonderin' - did you harvest any bacon from those rocks?
Lulabelle | 07.14.09 - 8:07 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ did you harvest any bacon from those rocks?

Silly.
Everyone knows that it's only Yankee rocks what yield bacon...
Huckleberry | Homepage | 07.14.09 - 8:11 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ The squirrels there are well fed by tourists, and therefore pretty friendly. IIRC, signs abounded saying, \"Don't feed the squirrels\" or something.

I remember that wall, too. And the very steep, very high drop off just on the other side of it.

Cool.
jml1911a1 | Homepage | 07.15.09 - 12:27 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ When I worked in Yellowstone, Europeans would as where we put the animals at night. Many of them would say things that were quite funny. Of course once you've seen how small their country is and understand how crowded they live, its easier to see why they think Yellowstone is just a big zoo.

I shared my table with a married couple a few years back. They were exploring the park in the fall and I was hunting Grand Teton National Park. She was a Brit and he was a German. He had a license to hunt in Germany (not an easy thing to get) and was fascinated by American hunting opportunities and regulations. His poor wife endured translating the whole conversation for him. He asked what I hunted with. I told him a Mauser action rifle 30-06 (he approved) and a handgun. His wife said she never saw a real handgun, and I produced a Smith 629 in 44 mag on the spot. Her eyes got real big but she didn't faint. Anyway I'm still allowed in the Wyoming Grill in Dubois. When Ken (the owner and chef) sees me he just holds up his hands and laughs.
Res Ipsa | Homepage | 07.15.09 - 7:11 pm | #

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