And as for trains-slurs, this one is a beauty, although I would probably lose the alvacado color scheme- so 1970s.

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Meanwhile libs whine and complain that politics right wing and I'm on hour four on waiting for a meme to be featured.

It's hard. I really like the freedom of posting here on Real_Politics, but the reach on serious issues is still small. Some days when the commies have the pedal to the metal I struggle with which 2 memes to post on Politics (a lot of memes I make get past their expiration date). I put my sick humor here, some of the serious stuff before it's outdated and then cringe when I know I have to call BS on some woke punk on politics. I spend a lot of time in the penalty box.
I'm going to hit a sacrifice fly soon to try to get more people to follow the stream here, Biden et al just doesn't make that easy.

I usually post my 2 politics memes here as well they ar up hours before leftists politics. Id's get out of bed

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Id's works for me, oh that doesn't mean idiots? LOL Love your stuff, always, and I mean always upvote it. The beauty of here is you can post what is on your mind anytime it hits you. The stuff hitting the fan is fast and furious right now.

Well yeah

The leftists mods are all still in bed. When you don't have a real job you know

At first, I didn't realize how cool the photo in your meme is. That's a new-build steam locomotive, completed in 2008. I didn't know anyone had done such a thing until I googled its road number.

Awesome stuff!

Phenomenal machines. I live near the Silverton/Durango and Cumbres/Toltec lines. Forever in awe. When I was 14 I bought an old 3hp Fairbanks Morris hit and miss motor. I hate the hit and miss title- you could literally see every stroke of the 4 stroke engine,-- oilers, gyros babbit bearings.... some awesome old farts took me under wing and taught me all about real life. Now people look at me and say, damn you can fix anything! BS, I just was taught how to figure stuff out. Story for another time, I kept my mouth shut and listened to a couple dozen pioneers who came to western Colorado in covered wagons talk and talk when I was a little kid. Geniuses and i am an idiot by comparison.

That's AWESOME!

I love that part of the country, and I've been wanting to get back for the Cumbres & Toltec scenic railroad. It would HAVE to be a great ride.

I've camped out in Monument Valley, with my tent oriented toward the east, for an epic sunrise.

The entire Four Corners area wouldn't seem like much to some people, but I just love it. I had a great time in the little restaurant shack there at the Four Corners monument, where the big Native American dude gave me a long and involved lecture on making fry bread perfectly. He even showed me his five-gallon lard bucket, to demonstrate that only posers use anything else. That was so great that I wrote it into a fictional short story, soon to be published.

I've had the tamales from the Carniceria Sonora in Farmington, which are the _best ever_!

Hiking in that entire area is great. Where better to get lost than back in the Canyonlands?

I'm so jealous. Please make a point of enjoying any little random thing there in your area this coming weekend, and I'll be sure to have vicarious pleasure from it.

Back to trains, I had a ride pulled by a geared steam locomotive this summer, with the Cass Scenic Railroad. The 22-mile trip up to Bald Knob and back required 4 stops to service the locomotive (including at the end), which was a very weird machine. All the moving parts, hanging out on the left side of the locomotive, were nothing less than trippy. What a strange machine!

Thanks for your comment!

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Talk about jealousy! Before the Obama induced oil and gas bust of 2014-2015 I was working in WV. They flew me from Colorado, where Democrat governors destroyed our natural gas industry, to Pittsburgh and I couldn't wait to get out of PA to WV to get to work, two different worlds for sure.
I've been trying to convince my wife to take an extended trip there to see the New River Gorge and as much as we can pack in, but she is so fearful of the economy and it's impact on our retirement savings, she won't go.
I have backpacked all over the Four Corners, and done the same thing with and without tents. As the sunlight paints the earth there the gradients from layer upon layer upon layer are stunning. I've done a couple trips where we slept in the caves of Anasazi ruins (unmapped and undisturbed). A lot of people think the history of the United Sates started in the 1500's, but the written history of the west was carved into rock of the Southwest from well before 1200 BC. The area is full of the ruins of ancient cities that boggle the mind.
I've been blessed to travel everywhere but Hawaii, and it doesn't matter where you go, there is something incredible in the United States. I can't believe there are people who feel compelled to destroy it.

Cheers!

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