Happy New Year!
Sedona rainbow
Today’s photo features the view from our room when we pulled in to Sedona on New Year’s Eve yesterday. Today’s hikes were amazing.
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Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon (South Rim, Arizona)
Our trip to the Grand Canyon was fantastic. We got there just in time for a sunset before a snow storm hit. We spent the night at Yavapai Lodge and woke up to several inches of snow. Hence, there wasn’t a sunrise, but the Bright Angel Trail was awesome in the snow.
Red Rock Canyon
Red Rock Canyon (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Yesterday we did a short hike with my sister’s family to a lovely place I’d never been to before. Today we are headed to the Grand Canyon (for the first time), and beginning tomorrow night we will be in Sedona, Arizona for the new year.
If you ever want to drive the 13-mile scenic road through Red Rock Canyon, don’t go between Christmas and New Years. The road was closed due to high traffic. The only way in, around, and out was on foot. They still charged everyone to use the road which seemed rather odd.
That said, it was well worth the $3 a person price, and you’ll see more by seeing less on foot.
Goal!
Rasmus Falk scores a goal for F.C. Kobenhavn
This past summer I went to my third professional soccer match. All three were in Copenhagen. All three were blowouts in favor of the home team. All three were at a mostly empty Parken Stadium.
I don’t really understand how European soccer works, but F.C. Copenhagen won the Danish Superliga and the Danish Cup in the prior year and the Danish Superliga again before I saw this game. Maybe those games are better attended.
By the time I’m in Denmark in the middle of summer things have moved on to the UEFA Europa League, in which FCK dominates in the early rounds and gets crushed in later rounds. I’m only there for the early rounds. On this night, FCK beat the Crusaders F.C. (Belfast, Ireland) 6-0.
One year ago…
Lemmy of Motorhead @ London’s Crobar
@myMotorhead #rememberingLemmy #rockbar #crobar #london #AXSofSPADES
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousands years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
Lemmy died a year ago today. Four days ago (on his birthday) I watched one of his final performances on AXS TV. I cried.
Of course, he’s looked liked he’s been on his last leg for decades, even when I last saw him (on the Orgasmatron tour early in 1987). However, it should have been plain to anyone who was at one of these last shows, or who saw the video before he died, that he didn’t have more than weeks or months in November of 2015.
Today’s photo comes from after his death. I took this pic this past summer when I was at a rock ‘n roll bar in London. Great place, BTW. I meet a friendly chap at Crobar, who was from across the Thames, who paid for all of my drinks.
高幡不動尊の山内八十八ヶ所めぐり
Portion of the Heart Sutra on a bib at Takahata Fudoson Kongo-ji Temple
Nearly seven years ago I promised to discuss “adventures around the City of Hino”. Those memories have since faded, and the details are all but gone.
This photo is my random, desktop image of the day, though, and it’s from that day. Doing a bit of internet research reveled that it is one of the 88 spots along the trail in Hino (山内八十八ヶ所めぐり). The 88 spots are supposed to mirror those on the Shikoku pilgrimage (四国遍路).
If you are living in Tokyo for an extended period of time, this place may be a good excursion if you want a bit of a walk. I don’t recall it being at all strenuous. Here is a map of the mountain walk next to the temple:
山内八十八ヶ所クイズめぐり — 高幡不動尊金剛寺 — map