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So, you ask.   What the hell did Rand Damn Nix DO in 2007?  It certainly wasn’t blogging, now was it?

No, it was not.

2007 definitely had some challenges, but I’d have to say, looking back on it, it’s got to have been the best Rand Year in recent history.

NOTABLES:

AA Miles:  77,000

Countries:   7

Passports:  2

Lines of Code:   Give me a break…

Broken Bones:   1 or 5, but all in the hand.

Number of Hotels kicked out of:  1

Number of Hotels that should have kicked me out:   2

Number of lunches that consisted of rice, beans and mystery meat:  7,234

Number of weeks spent out of the country:   Far more than in.

So that’s pretty much what’s kept me busy and not blogging.   I really do intend to do better this year, but last year, seriously, I wound up on the back foot trying to make good on a million dollar promise I made counting on some support I didn’t get.   The fact that I did make good on the promise despite being behind from the start and without the support I was counting on made me realize how important it is to not go around making promises.     

What I can tell you is that, and this is important, from the deserted backwaters of the Amazon, to trendy restaurants in England and all the way to the smoke filled Cafe’s in Paris…   and you may not believe me. . . . but I’ve got plenty of photos to prove it. . .

. . .  the buttcrack is back.   Seriously, if you’re not showing some crack, you just lost your relevance in the new world.  Once the only identifying characteristic of the average plumber –  today, however, in the 21′st century, we still don’t have our flying cars, granted… but we’ve got buttcrack.   Miles of it.

So, for 2007, we can sum it up with that:  The Crack is Back, Jack.  

Beginning to Intermediate my A$$$.

Have you ever shot straight over the handlebars into a tree?

Have you ever gone to work yourself and your bike up a hill and wound up smacking yourself straight on your back, head first, with the bike following on top of you?

If not, friends, Sister Grove is what you want!

It’s a beginner to intermediate trail — rhyming with hell– which I spent the day becoming intimately familiar with.

Actually, the worst part was the intersection.   See, the first loop is like 3.5 miles.   Maybe 3.25 miles.   then, you reach the intersection of that loop with the lake loop.    I desperately didn’t want to do the lake loop.   Somehow, with 8 choices in direction, I chose the right one to get us out of there as quickly as possible.

Thanks, Kara for hanging in there with me, despite your concussion.   It was a great ride…..

XXOO

Rand.