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

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

'This doesn't suck'. Tongue
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« Reply #166 on: November 27, 2016, 02:00:49 AM »
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« Reply #167 on: November 27, 2016, 04:42:06 AM »
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« Reply #168 on: November 27, 2016, 05:40:40 AM »
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Good morning  coffee
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« Reply #169 on: November 27, 2016, 06:31:33 AM »
Quote from: ducpainter on November 27, 2016, 05:40:40 AM
Is this TOSAT now? laughingdp
That would be TUSAT.

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« Reply #170 on: November 27, 2016, 06:38:54 AM »
OOPS  Embarrassed

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« Reply #171 on: 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]
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« Reply #172 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.
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« Reply #173 on: 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. Grin
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« Reply #174 on: 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. Grin

To say the least.
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« Reply #175 on: November 27, 2016, 06:41:55 PM »
We all can live vicariously through 1.21GW. waytogo
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« Reply #176 on: 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. waytogo

You noticed that too?

Grin

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« Reply #177 on: 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.   Grin




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:
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« Reply #178 on: 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. Grin
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« Reply #179 on: 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. waytogo

Didn't you get the email?  You'll all be getting a bill when this is all over.   Grin
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