Kieran The Scotsman Takes A Leap On The Grand Canyon Skywalk

Our modern world, with its constant state of instant inter-connectedness, is a wonder to behold.

A couple weeks ago I heard, via Twitter, from a pale Scotsman named Kieran McCrorie. I have so many incoming confusions I don't remember what it was Kieran tweeted at me. I know it somehow had something to do with his Quiver invention. That being a hiker's/biker's water bottle that somehow stays cool and is manufactured in Santa Barbara, California.

I learned about Santa Barbara being where Quiver is made after Kieran tweeted a question along the lines of wondering what there was to do in Santa Barbara. I think I suggested taking a day trip to Hollywood and Disneyland. I was assuming Kieran had not been to this part of America before.

I was wrong. Kieran tweeted to my tweet, I don't know if this is a re-tweet, or goes by some other tweet name, but Kieran told me that he'd been to the Los Angeles things to do, had run Las Vegas ragged. And had gone to the Grand Canyon. Spending a small fortune in the process.

What Kieran did not tell me was that he'd been on the Grand Canyon Skywalk, that being a new attraction built by the Hualapai Indian tribe. You walk out on a horseshoe shaped piece of glass, cantilevered out over the Grand Canyon, with about 4,000 feet of air between you, the glass and the canyon floor.

So, this morning, for purely selfish reasons, I twittered or tweeted, yet again, about the Grand Canyon Skywalk. With a link to my blogging about that subject.

Kieran read that tweet, which said "The Hualapai Indian tribe's Grand Canyon Skywalk loses favor with me due to not allowing visitor's cameras: http://bit.ly/CobTs."

(Note the little bit.ly link above. That is something you use with Twitter. Bit.ly shrinks down long URLs so that they don't use up too many of your allotted 140 Twitter characters)

Kieran then tweeted or re-tweeted, back at me, with a photo of himself, saying, "Far too expensive, but I wouldn't have caught this with my camera. Totally agree on skywalk. Everything seemed to cost, including the photos - but it ended up being worth it."

Kieran is referencing the photo of himself on the Grand Canyon Skywalk in the photo above, which happens to be, in my opinion, the best picture I have seen yet of that particular attraction.

Anyone reading this in Santa Barbara, Kieran will soon be in your zone and in need of entertainment.

HOT Dizzy Texas Hiking With Leaks A Nurse & Skywalking

That's the 96 degree noontime view of my water bottle and the Fort Worth Skyline from midway up to the summit of Tandy Mountain in the Tandy Hills Natural Area, which was being very natural today.

No wind, not even a little breeze, total dead calm.

From the time I got up this morning I've been being light-headed and a bit dizzy. My blood pressure is low. Walking around in the near 100 degree heat did not make me dizzier.

I have this same problem every year around this time. Due to the heat I eat less and drink more. More water. I start dropping weight. I try to eat more, but still the weight drops. It's vexing. But not too vexing.

On my Roadtripping Blog this morning I blogged about the Grand Canyon Skywalk. I knew about this thing, but I really didn't know all that much about it. I thought it was a big horseshoe shaped thing that stuck out over the canyon with a floor of glass that you walked all over. There is a floor of glass, but the glassed walk is just the perimeter of the horseshoe, the inside of the perimeter is open air. The walls and floor of the Skywalk are made with glass 2 inches thick. 2 inches? I found this information unsettling. You can read all about the Grand Canyon Skywalk and watch a video of its grand open by going to my Roadtripping Blog.

Speaking of me being dizzy. Here's an example. Yesterday I blogged about a video of Beavers Bend and Broken Bow Lake in Oklahoma. I said click here to watch the video. But the link went to the World's Biggest McDonalds, up by Tulsa. I must make these type mistakes all the time. I only caught this one by pure fluke.

A nurse from, I think, Missouri, emailed me asking if she could be a guest blogger. Her last names is Jones. Maybe she thinks we are related. I told her to send me an example of a blogging. Ms. Jones has not sent me one yet.

Anyone else out there want to be a Guest Blogger? Some Texas thing that would fit on this blog? Or maybe you'd like to spew your opinion about some TV thing that I'd put on my TV Blog? Or maybe you've got a good story for my Roadtripping Blog. I'm a stickler for spelling and grammar, sorta, but don't worry about that, those type woes are easily fixed.

I see Jammin Mole has commented on my Cockroach pets. Maybe Jammin would like to expand on her Roach experiences in a full blown Guest Blogging. But why would she? Jammin has her own blog.

There was still color on the prairie today, in the form of diehard wildflowers, surviving the 100 degree HEAT. The purple flower in the closeup, above, looks like it should wilt fast, but those delicate looking wildflowers have been persisting for quite some time now. I do not remember seeing these wildflowers last year. This was supposed to be a bad wildflower year. Early on that seemed to be true. But then they seemed to rebound, sprouting new stuff. In the other flower picture you see what the closeup flower looks like in relation to the rest of its section of the prairie.

It is remaining fairly green here in North Texas, despite the drought. I don't know how much longer that will last. The things staying green, I mean.

My latest local water leak, which had created a minor lake I had to wade through to cross one of my frequently used sidewalks, has now been fixed. If they could only harness the water of all the leaks the drought would be no problem. Or so it would seem. Then again, I'm dizzy, what do I know?