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ducpainter

#165
November 26, 2016, 08:46:24 PM
Quote from: 1.21GW on November 26, 2016, 08:27:46 PM
Always such the optimist.  ;D
What can I say?

I stole that from a guy at Grattan last summer. He kept saying...

'This doesn't suck'. :P
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


DarkMonster620

#166
November 27, 2016, 02:00:49 AM
Mico=Monkey
Carlos
I said I was smart, never that I had my shit together
Quote from: ducatiz on March 27, 2014, 08:34:34 AM
Ducati is the pretty girl that can't walk in heels without stumbling. I still love her.
"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Howie

#167
November 27, 2016, 04:42:06 AM
Good morning  [coffee]

ducpainter

#168
November 27, 2016, 05:40:40 AM
Quote from: howie on November 27, 2016, 04:42:06 AM
Good morning  [coffee]
Is this TOSAT now? [laugh]
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


1.21GW

#169
November 27, 2016, 06:31:33 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on November 27, 2016, 05:40:40 AM
Is this TOSAT now? [laugh]
That would be TUSAT.

"I doubt I'm her type---I'm sure she's used to the finer things.  I'm usually broke. I'm kinda sloppy…"

Howie

#170
November 27, 2016, 06:38:54 AM
OOPS  :-[

Good morning anyway.

1.21GW

#171
November 27, 2016, 06:21:45 PM
Ok, so the big attraction in the Huasteca region (where all the blue waters above are found) is Las Pozas.  I had seen pictures and was intrigued but not "wowed", so I put it as a maybe.  Well, in person it proved to be well worth the detour.





A little background: Las Pozas is the creation of British poet Edward James, a devoted fan and patron of Surrealism who once sponsored Dalí and modeled for two Magritte paintings.  In the 1940s, he acquired a coffee plantation near the mountain town of Xilitla where he could pursue his interest in orchid cultivation.  After a rare frost wiped out most of his flowers in 1962, James began constructing small surrealist structures out of concrete that would, over the course of twenty years, become his surrealist's playground.

The only way to experience Las Pozas is to simply wander through it without purpose, like a stream of consciousness.  The park is set up with no recommended route, no series of numbered galleries to follow: is it a creation as open and expansive as thought itself.   Paths begin and end in nothingness, or loop back on themselves like Möbius strips.  Inchoate forms suggest familiar objects---an airplane, a birdcage, a spinal column---while doubling as structural elements.  Stairs sometimes serve as support columns and columns act as stairs.  Nothing exists within a border and each form is many.

There is a lack of protection that can be unsettling to those of us used to having our safety micromanaged with waivers, warnings, and guard rails.  Here neither rope nor rail prevent you from falling off a four-story concrete structure.  However, there is reason behind this madness: the lack of restraint allows you to openly explore the site, walking seamlessly from stair to arch top to column in a sort of free association method of exploration.










































Oh, and the lack of restrictions carries over to the waterfalls and collection pools ("pozas").  I couldn't resist and undressed all but my shorts to take a dip.  It was sur-really refreshing.  [groan]


"I doubt I'm her type---I'm sure she's used to the finer things.  I'm usually broke. I'm kinda sloppy…"

Monsterlover

#172
November 27, 2016, 06:30:26 PM
Man, I don't think I have the right words to react to these pictures.

My mind is blown.

For the first time I'm wishing I scrapped it all and tagged along.
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

ducpainter

#173
November 27, 2016, 06:35:04 PM
Quote from: Monsterlover on November 27, 2016, 06:30:26 PM
Man, I don't think I have the right words to react to these pictures.

My mind is blown.

For the first time I'm wishing I scrapped it all and tagged along.
Stepping off the wheel Kev?

That would be...complicated without planning. ;D
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


Monsterlover

#174
November 27, 2016, 06:36:59 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on November 27, 2016, 06:35:04 PM
Stepping off the wheel Kev?

That would be...complicated without planning. ;D

To say the least.
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

ducpainter

#175
November 27, 2016, 06:41:55 PM
We all can live vicariously through 1.21GW. [thumbsup]
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


Monsterlover

#176
November 27, 2016, 06:43:18 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on November 27, 2016, 06:41:55 PM
We all can live vicariously through 1.21GW. [thumbsup]

You noticed that too?

;D

[thumbsup]
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

1.21GW

#177
November 27, 2016, 06:45:47 PM
Quote from: Monsterlover on November 27, 2016, 06:30:26 PM
Man, I don't think I have the right words to react to these pictures.

My mind is blown.

For the first time I'm wishing I scrapped it all and tagged along.

And I haven't even gotten halfway through Mexico yet.  I have the spacers to make my passenger pegs work, so you could have ridden in the back.  We'd be going about 25 mph in 5th, though, and I'm not sure I could handle your goatee tickling my neck.   ;D




I know one DMFer who would have trouble enjoying himself...look what I saw while waiting to climb up the Temple of the Sun in Teotihuacan:








"I doubt I'm her type---I'm sure she's used to the finer things.  I'm usually broke. I'm kinda sloppy…"

ducpainter

#178
November 27, 2016, 06:47:10 PM
We can honestly say that we helped him on his journey.

It was fun watching/guiding/helping him install tires for the first time. ;D
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


1.21GW

#179
November 27, 2016, 06:47:29 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on November 27, 2016, 06:41:55 PM
We all can live vicariously through 1.21GW. [thumbsup]

Didn't you get the email?  You'll all be getting a bill when this is all over.   ;D
"I doubt I'm her type---I'm sure she's used to the finer things.  I'm usually broke. I'm kinda sloppy…"
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