We did over 50 climbs in 2008. Started in the middle of August. My last in 08 and my first in 09 were with Bobby, both above. I've written plenty about the mountain on this blog. And if you've kept up, you know how that mountain is. There's something about dark, cold-sweat, sunrises, rugged-quiet, desert-beauty on a regular basis that brings a certain amount of redemption. I still toss and turn a bit with excitement the night before, wake up a few times checking the clock.
Though I'm happy to go alone, I'm happiest when I'm with my girl Bobby. The smiles on the way down Cholla trail are not made up.
Here's some bobJuan notes from the Kitchen:
I prefer to eat meals I've cooked myself,
or by another great chef.
The most wonderful thing in the physical world is liquid. Most nites.
Once I believed happiness was mine to control, I got happy.
How can you get up every day and go back to the same place, just to make money? What the hell are you thinking?
It don’t take an expert to create an excerpt.
I’m an expert at excerpts
Creating is inevitable, it's what we do.
Don't resist it, in any of its flavors.
And from a real person:
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door...You will love again the stranger who was your self. --Derek Walcott
[found here: http://www.kirasalak.com/Darkness.html]
Happy New Year my friends.
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