Not that it matters, but the following story could be true They rode into town one dusty December day, fresh from the High Plains of western Colorado. Blaine was riding shotgun. Blake covered our flanks from the backseat of The Beast, a 4×4 Toyota Landcruiser. Between them they carried a fistful of dollars, and were giddy-up rough and ready to […]
High Noon In Aguas Zarcas Where The Reed Bros Ride Again Read Post »
“Look! Brahmins and Chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters – all the world going and coming. The Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India’s traffic for fifteen hundred miles – such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world.” So proclaimed Rudyard Kipling of India’s main
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“I at first doubted whether it was a true aerolite or not, in consequence of the colour being different from the one that fell in the Furreedpore District in 1850… but I find from Mr. Peppe, the Sub-Deputy Opium Agent, that there can be no doubt of its being a true aerolite, as he has seen two that fell in
Costa Rica’s Second Meteorite Un caso de pura birra. The summer Tuesday night skies were clear at 9:07, April 23, 2019, when the fireball flew above the crater of erupting Volcan Turrialba, captured on video by government cameras monitoring activity. Dash cams and security cameras around the country photographed the object as it exploded, dropping material. The fireball had a
