Gordo Running

Good evening Jordan, it's Sunday and this series comes to you in at least 3 parts. We'll see how long these posts get with the preposterous amount of pictures we were taking. Now, I can say that I started my post on the day we bot back. I will have to take a day or two organizing and editing pictures, so I'll be right back. Promise you won't even know I've left. See? Bueno As has been the ongoing theme for a while now, our planned vacation spot was Peru. This would be attempt #3 to go eat lomo salteado and hang out with alpacas, but as we were starting our initial planning phases, Macchu Picchu was closed down due to protests. With that being such a center piece of a Peruvian plan, we decided to hold off. again. However, we decided to keep it to the same continent. Our highest rated spot was Argentina (yes, we have solo and combined updated top 15 vacation destinations lists) and Gabriel had gone there the year before, giving us some good ideas. I was in school thro...

 It was apropos that, while sitting on my grandma's decades-old couch, I read Stephen King's intro to the Dark Tower.  In it, he talks about how he started writing the series at 19 years old and how that age shaped the outlook of the series.  King continues with how many of us get stuck at that age mentally.  Before you argue too much about that, think of your go-to music and movies.  Who are your favorite athletes?  Chances are they all come from around that age.  I know I still blast Flogging Molly and AFI.  I think I'll circle back to this in a bit. Due to COVID and moving, I was not able to meet my brothers' kids (and I still haven't met Thea).  Since I had a hole in my training schedule, we decided to drive up north and do a tour, spending 2-3 nights in various locations.    The whole point of the trip was to see family.  Different from prior trips, we weren't going to be doing much site-seeing or exploring.  Unf...