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Your Mom

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  1. Just curious if you considered the south rim hike. I’ve only done it with a camp out at the rim and hike back the next day, but people do it in a single day all the time, including a few guys on this site, I believe. Sounds like it’s well within your capabilities. Might not want to drive much further than Terlingua afterward though. It has to be in the 18 to 20 mile range round-trip I’d guess.
  2. Also, another vote for Marfa being lame. Yes, they have some good food and eclectic patio bars, but you can find that stuff back home most likely. It’s only a hit because Marfa is in the middle of nowhere, and that stuff is somewhat unexpected there.
  3. For just bagging the peaks, your plan would work, but in my opinion, it misses the best of that region. The South Rim is a much better hike than Emory Peak. Emory gets you about halfway there before you peel off and summit, but it’s not the best half. If you go back down after submitting, you missed the entire south and east rim, which I think is the highlight of the whole park. I also like the desolation of getting a campsite somewhere in a very remote spot, and just chilling out for a day without seeing a single other personal vehicle, but I understand that’s not the vacation you’re looking for. Almost every trip I’ve taken to Big Bend Ive roamed around a bit and rarely camped in the same place more than once or twice. I always head home feeling like I was on the move a little bit more than I wished I had been and wishing I had just focused on a single part of the park for longer periods of time.
  4. I was skiing over spring break and after doing exactly one rep I realized doing them at 10,000 feet elevation was not going to happen.
  5. I would never shop out my body hiding to someone who calls it Lady Bird Lake anyway.
  6. They’ve been fishing bodies out of Town Lake for decades. They only make the news now because the entertainment districts have crept further east. Bodies around Festival Beach and the old Holly power plant are nothing new.
  7. Anybody have some insight to getting Zach Bryan tickets? This was supposed to be my sons birthday present. We both registered to buy tickets in the lottery for several shows and weren’t selected for any. His tickets are only available through AXS and supposedly they will be matching IDs to tickets to try to prevent scalping. I applaud this but it has made getting tickets hard. There are some available on vivid but his people are adamant that those tickets are not going to be valid. If anyone got a pair and is thinking about putting them on the AXS marketplace, let me know so I can time it when you do.
  8. Seems like we haven’t had a good serial killer in a while. Everything trendy comes back around. Points for being retro about it with patience compared to the typical basic mass murder most Gen Z’ers go for.
  9. The Daily podcast said the same thing yesterday. The guy they interviewed seemed surprised everyone took a tweet by Donald seriously and ran with it when there is clearly another witness on the list.
  10. Was Grendel the guy that named his bike?
  11. Meh. The beach sucks anyway. Go to the mountains.
  12. Somebody fell off the Quicksilver lift yesterday at Breck Peak 9. From pretty high up with serious injuries, from what we heard.
  13. Your Mom

    Heads up!

    W hotel getting new windows?
  14. I’m sorry you got robbed of spending even more time inside an airplane.
  15. Gotta admire a girl who keeps eye contact in crucial moments.
  16. Jesus. Fuck that. I think after a couple hours I’d start considering just rolling with it expired for a few years and hope for a better system to come around. Could always carry a passport card for ID. And if you guys are in Austin, go to Marble Falls for this stuff. We did my sons DL there a while back and were in and out in 15 minutes. Plus had pie at the Bluebonnet Cafe.
  17. Yeah, and she owns a fucking tiger too.
  18. I’ll shout muledick to everyone I see and hopefully over the course of four days one of those people will be you.
  19. We’ll be in Breck 13-16.
  20. Of course it is March 6 and, historically, that’s a pretty bad date to be dealing with Mexicans.
  21. Tons of American cars are already being manufactured in Mexico. Japanese and German cars too. Ford E-Mustang, Chevy crew cab Silverados, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Honda… the list goes on. Every major brand makes cars in Mexico.
  22. Just putting this here because you can’t have a thread about Matamoros without talking about the night they took Mark Kilroy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mark_Kilroy https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-work-of-the-devil/
  23. I’m picturing the husband on the other end of this conversation giving the occasional nod and “uh huh… yeah… hmm…” to give an ever-so-slight appearance of paying attention but generally have no fucking clue what’s being discussed.
  24. Yeah but you didn’t click on the Surly Official Hotel Thread. The sense of adventure and freedom is part of it. The personal satisfaction from roughing it is real. Not to mention how nice it can be to separate yourself from television and internet for a while.
  25. Maybe he still has Chavez’ number. https://www.chavezlawfirm.com/about-us
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