“Listen, I get that you’re an anti-royalist, but can you PLEASE stop complaining about monarchies for five minutes and focus on labeling these geographic features?”
“Yeah, sure”
“What the heck—why is the ground rippling and splashing? Why are my feet wet? I don’t understand what’s happening or what all this water is! Help! Map, do you have any advice?!”
“We just have to wade through a few creeks up ahead, but don’t worry, they’re all very normal and in no way suspicious. No, I’m not going to let you look at the map, but I promise, they’re fine.”
“Hey, wanna go for a hike? No, I know I’m always tricking you into going into haunted houses and graveyards, but I promise I’m over that now. There will be absolutely no ghosts this time. Just a nice pleasant hike up a hill I discovered.”
Theres a lil town in Tx called Uhland and i love to imagine the conversation that settled on this.
"And what should we call this parcel of flat farm area?"
Bill, who is fed up and exhausted from naming things on a Friday afternoon just before happy hour 'Uhhh Land?'
"Bill youve done it again!"
sometimes I see your inaccessible image posts and wonder if you will have a different point of view when you (like all of us) eventually do lose your vision
[emerging from the mountain gap, to discover a verdant valley fed by a sparkling creek]
Truly, this is a promised land where we will raise our children, and they will raise their childr… WHAT is that smell?
Reminds me of the pre-Airbnb time we booked a cottage in the Scottish lowlands that the brochure referred to as something pleasantly along the lines of “Summerfield Farm Cottage” and when we arrived, it turns out it was actually called Foul Bog.
A short drive north of where I am in Vienna there are two villages Oberstinkenbrunn and Unterstinkenbrunn. Upper Stinking Well, and Lower Stinking Well.
I went white river rafting in Wyoming in 2022. There was one particularly terrifying rapid, a precipitous drop. I only found out afterwards that it's called "Sphincter".