We use Boise to distract visitors from the better canyons, mountains, deserts, forests, waterfalls, and whitewater that exist literally 45 minutes in any direction. It is a gorgeous place to live, except for all the rabid conservatism lately.
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I love that sculpture. I didn’t know about it until we drove past on a nearby motorway (being tourists; happily I wasn’t driving) and my head was on a swivel as these massive horse heads suddenly appeared unexpectedly. It’s a heck of a thing to have sprung on you : )
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For us the conservatism was one of the attractions. We had decided we had to escape from California, not only because it was ruinously expensive to live there (moving to Kansas significantly raised our standard of living), but also because we had experienced progressive legislation and policy and didn’t want to live under them. We had already decided where to move and started packing when AB5 passed, but that made me absolutely certain we had made the right choice, and just barely in time.
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Wow. Looks like a Vermeer.
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We also had clouds yesterday.
This is our newly renovated Marktplatz with the city founder’s tomb in the center. Yes, we have a pyramid as a tomb in the center of the city.
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Probably not really a tomb, but an illuminati communication station.
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Are you implying the illuminati don’t bury people in their communication stations?
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They have to, don’t they? The soul is trapped in the body and used to power their infernal technology.
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…sail plane??? SAIL PLANE??? !? 
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I’m not sure why it’s funny. The mechanics is exactly the same as that of a fore and aft rig, just rotated 90°. It seems like a logical name. On the other hand, I myself call them “gliders,” that being the usual name in my childhood.
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I’ve lived my entire life in the US and never heard the term sailplane. I’ve only ever heard glider.
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Fascinating! Maybe it’s a regional thing.
(Which is where I point at the coke vs pop vs soda map. But that’s thoroughly off-topic for this thread.)
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The wife of one of my players tells the story of moving out of the South and discovering that when she asked for a coke in a restaurant, they would bring her Coca-Cola instead of asking what kind she wanted.
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I would say sailplane, since to me glider implies a hangglider, which is a quite different thing. But then I’m from the northwest, so that may be the thing here.
I read that as this lady was trying to get cocaine!
I can’t remember which comedian this is from, but someone said that in the UK the full name for Pepsi is, ‘it’s Pepsi, is that ok?’
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Well, that’s a good thing to call it, and when I drank caffeinated soda the answer was No, thank you.
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Views from above downtown Little Rock. Northeast and east.
Views east and west in the middle of the Hillcrest neighborhood.
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I prefer Pepsi