I love the Internet: I started reading the news this morning on CNN. A story about a 15 year old girl and her live in boyfriend who kill the girls mother because they don't like her. Hello? She's 15 and has a live in boyfriend. My first thought was that the boy needs to be arrested for statuary rape (I know, its statutory, but I am thinking that if you are stupid enough to live with a 15 year old girl you have to be stoned, thus statuary rape). Anyway, the article bothered me so I clicked off and the travel section had a nice article about Easter Island, you know, the place with all the big stone carvings (truly statuary). I realized that I didn't know much about the place so I went over to Wikipedia and did some reading. I discovered that it was a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Well, I didn't know what UNSESCO was and I didn't know what a World Heritage Site was. So a few more clicks I was educated on both. It turns out that there 20 in the United States, of which I have seen 7 in person, 2 more from the air (and that really doesn't count). I now know what I am going to do when I retire! [For the record I have been to Great Smokey Mountains, Mammoth Cave (live here), Olympic National Park, Redwood National Park, Statue of Liberty, Yellowstone National Park (only a brief drive through visit when I was 18), and The French Quarter in New Orleans.
One of my favorite Canadian places was called Head-Smashed-in Buffalo Jump. The place is famous because the Blackfoot people would set up these lines of people and scare the crap out of the buffalo and they would be forced off a cliff and die. At the base of the cliff they would set up a camp to process the buffalo. Well one brave warrior decided he wanted to witness this but not from the top where everyone else was, but from the bottom of the cliff, he wanted to watch them fall from the sky. So (true story), they are pulling a few of these buffalo apart at the bottom of the cliff to process them and they find the warrior underneath, they had fallen on him and killed him. It appears that he died instantly because his head was "smashed-in". So that is why they call it Head-Smashed-in Buffalo Jump. Its not named after the smashed in heads of buffalo, but the moron who stood at the bottom of the cliff with his mouth gapping open as a 2000 pound buffalo came falling out of the sky. This may explain why the Blackfoot people almost became extinct.
One of my favorite Canadian places was called Head-Smashed-in Buffalo Jump. The place is famous because the Blackfoot people would set up these lines of people and scare the crap out of the buffalo and they would be forced off a cliff and die. At the base of the cliff they would set up a camp to process the buffalo. Well one brave warrior decided he wanted to witness this but not from the top where everyone else was, but from the bottom of the cliff, he wanted to watch them fall from the sky. So (true story), they are pulling a few of these buffalo apart at the bottom of the cliff to process them and they find the warrior underneath, they had fallen on him and killed him. It appears that he died instantly because his head was "smashed-in". So that is why they call it Head-Smashed-in Buffalo Jump. Its not named after the smashed in heads of buffalo, but the moron who stood at the bottom of the cliff with his mouth gapping open as a 2000 pound buffalo came falling out of the sky. This may explain why the Blackfoot people almost became extinct.
Labels: buffalo, Easter Island, Internet, national sites, UNESCO
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Bet you would do it if was a good photo moment.
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