Summer vacation fever took me to Idaho this year! The rumors are exaggerated; as a Californian, I was not shot on sight. (I… umm… would have approved, if I HAD been shot at.)
There was a raptor aviary in Boise that I visited. This bald eagle agreed it was hot.
“Fingers” the peregrine falcon staring at his trainer’s injured hand… one moment before she lost another finger. Fun show!
This was an Osprey. After the color revolution failed, the American Communists attempted a Red Dawn-style invasion of Idaho over Labor Day weekend while I was there. Also a fun show!
I’m not lying. I’m just too soon.
Speaking of lying, this complete Faro set was at the county fair:
That kid’s got talent!
Also speaking of liars, the Snake River is famous for fishing! And waterfalls.
Move over, potatoes, it’s the rainbow trout that Idaho is REALLY famous for!
It doesn’t look like drought conditions but Idaho is getting hit, too. Moss & algae is up in the Snake River, partly because it’s flowing more slowly after drainage for irrigation uses. The land really can’t support any more increase in population, not without the kind of serious infrastructure that doesn’t happen overnight or under corrupt politicians.
The rot is in the culture there, too. I saw churches without Crosses. Feminism in the news. As much as Idahoans pride themselves on not being Left Coast people, the system is already in place. Maybe the Mormons will pull off a Deseret instead of a WEF. I have my doubts, but they’re still an intact identity group that cares for its members. Hard to put a price on that. Which is why GAE tried so hard to kill them all.
I desperately want to escape the Globohomo insanity, but as well-traveled and wanderlusting as I am, I’ve yet to find a place that is anything but a few years behind the curve.
Still, it was a fun trip and I got to reconnect with a branch of my family that I’d drifted away from. None of my cousins are bachelors… and nobody drank coffee. I had to do coffee runs to avoid withdrawal headaches and discovered there ARE non-Starbucks cafes in Idaho! I was waffling on the political implications of a move but if their Java joints don’t burn the beans like Sixbucks always does, I’m sold. There was this chocolate raspberry iced espresso near Twin Falls that can only be experienced, not described. I have found religion in Idaho and don’t mean Mormons.
Why is Commiefornia coffee always Starbucks? They put an entire State’s worth of competitors out of business with “we burn our beans” as their selling point? It’s yet more proof that the definitive personality trait of SJWs is self-hatred. “I’m so trendy, my coffee tastes like tree bark! What are you drinking… something you LIKE?”
Idaho was fishing, family, picnics, fried chicken, fried fish, crushed-ice espressos, clean air & water and only a couple nutcase Covidians. All the stuff that used to make the Left Coast such a nice place to live. Now there’s an algae bloom in SF Bay and the eco-nazis were screaming about it until ecologists traced its origin to increases in “unprocessed human waste dumping”. It was !science!
And just in time for people wanting to beat the summer heat with a swim. I stuck a Panhandle on my vacations plans and no regrets!
“This was an Osprey. After the color revolution failed, the American Communists attempted a Red Dawn-style invasion of Idaho over Labor Day weekend while I was there. Also a fun show!”
What is the Osprey death toll up to now, for US Marines? That damn contraption was killing Marines back when I was still watching “60 Minutes”. Which would be back in the 20th century.
As for coffee, did you try Dawson and Taylor? IMO they have the best Cafe Mochas ever. Not. Too. Sweet.
” desperately want to escape the Globohomo insanity, but as well-traveled and wanderlusting as I am, I’ve yet to find a place that is anything but a few years behind the curve.”
If Saint John’s Apocalypse is about modern times, then this has to happen, unfortunately. We have to go through the 1-world government. But maybe the book is just about ancient Rome. I am no theologian, btw.
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” Fatal crashes like this happen too often in the Air Force and Marines to quickly chalk them up to misfortune. This is the second fatal Osprey crash this year — four Marines died in a crash during a NATO training exercise in Norway in March — and the ninth since 2000. There have been 34 Osprey crashes overall in that span. According to a report by The San Diego Union-Tribune military reporter Andrew Dyer, the Osprey has been “plagued by safety and maintenance issues.”
Twenty-three members of the U.S. military died in two fatal crashes in 2000, then four died in 2010, two in 2012, one in 2014, two in 2015, and three in 2017, according to the Aviation Safety Network website.
…As Dyer reported, Ospreys are “key to both Marine and Navy aviation operations as the aircraft is the only one capable of transporting weighty F-35 Lightning II engines to and from aircraft carriers at sea.”
The real reason is simply that an airplane that can hover is very useful for amphibious operations. I have no idea why he reached for the much-less-credible justification of “resupplying the Turducken fighter”.
I recently discovered Peet’s Coffee, another chain with locations in my area. Their coffee and pastries actually taste better than Starbucks’s. And I’ve long been a Starbucks fan.