Existential Traveler

About to Leave

[Existential Traveler @xmascolors]

@Timcast I feed about 70 wild quail on my property. They make me so happy. When they run, the males look like little fat men in hats, running to catch a bus.

[Armstrong and Getty @AandGShow]

I grew up in Chicagoland. I love Chicago. I miss Chicago.
But I would be enjoying it a lot less this week if it weren't for the MASSIVE police presence made necessary by the erosion of law and order brought on by progressive policies. Chicagoans...enjoy it while it lasts. JG

[eLeni @eleniZarro]

I don’t mean to get political but why don’t superheroes wear pants

[Existential Traveler @xmascolors]

@therabbithole @elonmusk Me

[Storm @stormrobinson]

There was a car with a flat tire at the trailhead today. “That sucks” I thought and started on my run. Passed two Gen-Z chicks coming down the canyon about two miles in. The car with the flat was the only other car at the trailhead so it must be theirs. “That sucks” I thought and kept on about my run. I got back about an hour later and the two chicks are sitting in their car, doors open, all distraught.

“Are you alright?” I asked.

“Yeah… we’re fine… we’re just… it’s fine” the girl in the driver’s seat replies with wide eyes like I’m definitely a serial killer.

It was clearly not fine.

“You have a plan to get down?”

“Yeah, we’ll call someone.”

There’s no cell service for 10 miles in any direction.

“Do you have a spare?” I asked.

“Uhm, I’m not sure. It’s fine” she replies.

It’s a 2016/17-ish Honda HR-V. The spare tire is under the cargo floor.

“You do. I can put it on for you if you want.”

The two chicks stare at each other. “Uhm… no, that’s ok” the driver says to the passenger in the tone of a question.

“You sure? It will take me ten minutes” I said insistently but trying not be a creep.

The two chicks stare at each other some more. (They clearly would have chosen the bear.)

“Or I can call the ranger when I get down to Pasadena.”

The two chicks stare at each other some more. They whisper in girl code. They look me up and down. They stare back at each other. The passenger finally speaks: “uhm, so… would you mind helping us change the tire?”

“Yeah, it’s no problem.”

I have them open the cargo. They dug out enough hiking supplies to hike the PCT.

“You have enough gear to survive out here for a week” I joked.

The two chicks stared at each other. They looked at me. They looked back at each other. In girl code they agreed it’s safe to chuckle. “Hehe, yeah” one of them says.

By the time I got the car lifted, they had let their guard down a little and thanked me “seriously so so so so much.” They told me they had no idea how to change a tire. They’ve never had to change a tire before but one of them did have a dead battery once in college and had to have her dad drive over an hour to come give her a jump.

Ten minutes later, the tire was changed and they seemed genuinely surprised I didn’t kill them. They thanked me again “seriously so so so so much” and assured me that I “have no idea, omg” and then they were on their way.

It made realize how much it sucks to be a woman where every man is a threat until proven otherwise. I don’t blame them for being cautious, but I do blame them for venturing into the mountains with $1000 worth of REI products, but no clue how to change a tire.

Teach your daughters how to change a tire ffs!

[Existential Traveler @xmascolors]

@StuBishop_LPD Donated what I could. Prayers sent. I am so sorry..

[Existential Traveler @xmascolors]

“Oh my”

[Existential Traveler @xmascolors]

For more fun, hide grandma‘s reading glasses!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

True and lasting love is the rhythm for the dance

📹 fayewilsonnn

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

#Americans need to add a word to their vocabularies: Evil. There is evil in this world, and we will not be able to defeat it and keep our country unless we recognize that it exists.

[Clinton @614clinton]

A man was stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he came upon a preacher Baptizing people in the river.

He proceeded to walk into the water and subsequently bumps into the preacher.

The preacher turned around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, whereupon he asked the drunk,

"Are you ready to find Jesus?"

The drunk shouted, "Yes, I am."

So the preacher grabbed him and dunked him in the water.

He pulled him up and asks the drunk, "Brother have you found Jesus?"

The drunk replied, "No, I haven't found Jesus."

The preacher, shocked at the answer, dunked him Into the water again for a little longer.

He again pulled him out of the water and asks again, "Have you found Jesus my brother?"

The drunk again answered, "No, I haven't Found Jesus."

By this time the preacher is at his wits end and dunked the drunk in the water again

but this time held him down for about 30 seconds and when he began kicking his arms and legs he pulled him up.

The preacher again asked the drunk, "For the love of God have you found Jesus?"

The drunk wiped his eyes and caught his breath and said to the preacher, "Are you sure this is where he fell in?"

#614clinton

[Jennie Taer @JennieSTaer]

This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today

We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here.

[Existential Traveler @xmascolors]

@Based_Jedi I hope you have emergency equipment in case you are caught in that up in the build. Sleeping bag, some tarps, food, perhaps a small tent?

[Gray Wolf @graywolf442]

If birds had arms 😂😂😂
https://t.co/C89sOZpHUA

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The colour variations of chicken eggs

📹bergs_fairytale_garden

[Existential Traveler @xmascolors]

@BravoKiloActual I miss living there. I hope it hasn’t changed. ( much)

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

girls shed their ugg boots in the spring the way deer shed their antlers and I think that connection to nature is beautiful

[Morgan Rhinegelt @rhinegelt]

Consider a spherical chicken of radius R. The chicken lays spherical eggs of radius r= 0.2R. Assuming this chicken obeys the Law of The Conservation Of Volume in Chickens, how many eggs must it lay before it's 3/4 of its original radius?

[Judianna @Judianna]

How we learned to swear when I was a kid...