Lance Armstrong
Sunday, November 25th, 2007 
Me and running
Don’t always see eye to eye
Some days it hurts more than others
But it doesn’t mean
I don’t do it
I deal with it
And I keep running because
Not everything that is good for you
Always feels good for you
EVERYDAY IS THE DAY!
USS Midway, San Diego
The photos above are taken from the USS Midway, an impressive aircraft carrier with its 47-year odyssey that saw the end of WWII, Vietnam and Desert Storm. She was decommissioned in 1992 and is now permanently docked in San Diego as an interactive museum and memorial. Upper right shows crews fixing the rigging of a much older battleship on display with other historic ships like the Star of India and Berkeley.
On our way back, fires were raging across the mountains close to the freeway which was choked in smoke, while fire-fighting planes and copters drop retardants, but they are no match to the howling wind that threw off smaller cars off the highway. These were fiery times indeed and as turbulent as the USS Midway's odyssey? You be the judge.
NASA, Orlando
The photos above are taken at the Kennedy Space Center with Reno and Rey. Above right is a photo op with real astronauts while the one at the bottom right has unused real rockets and lunar module as background. They have become obsolete with the advent of the Space Shuttle, so they are used as adornments of a spanking restaurant inside NASA.
The Grand Canyon, Arizona
The Grand Canyon takes your breath away literally. It is massive and pre-historic. The tepees on the bottom left are taken in an Indian reservation near the Grand Canyon. The visit is one of the best, but I have one regret though, not having rafted the Colorado river below. Someday I will.
Yellowstone, Wyoming
The upper left photo shows one geyser among the hundreds of geysers in the area which you can view via a maze of wooden walkways snaking across the geyser valley. The most famous being, Old Faithful. Upper right shows remnants of a more recent forest fire, not the 1988 conflagration that destroyed more than a million acre (half the park). Bottom left shows herds of grazing bison in the background which is a pretty common sight, while bottom right is a ski resort in Jackson Hole. At first I thought it to be a massive landslide. Heck, I should know better….
