Relaxing With My Mac @ An Amazing Free Campsite Near V-Bar-V Archaeological Petroglyph Site, Rimrock, AZ (SE of Sedona)
#campsite #camping #boondocking #rvlife #digitalnomad #sedona #Sedona #arizona #redrockcountry #slickrock #geology #campinglife #wanderlust #wanderer #mac #offgrid #offgridliving #freecampsites #instagram #latergram
For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison.
“Right. So who did he find when he came here?” I asked. Usually, a few students would say, “Indians,” but I asked them to be specific: “Which nationality? What are their names?”
Silence.
In more than 30 years of teaching U.S. history and guest-teaching in others’ classes, I’ve never had a single student say, “Taínos.” So I ask them to think about that fact. “How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first—and there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. Why haven’t you heard of them?”
This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing—rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples.
”
My DIY Homemade A-Frame Popup Truck Camper Prototype (With Hella Headroom!) @ Wickenburg, AZ. #camper #DIY #digitalnomad #rvlife #boondocking #camping #popup
The Google Cultural Institute documents the world’s art and other cultural treasures. At the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Google workers 3D scanned these skulls, which you can view at any angle.
WHAT
Side note: These don’t have motors. They’re completely momentum/wind-powered and literally just wander around beaches unsupervised like giant abstract monsters.
these are both amazing and COMPLETELY TERRIFYING
IF I SAW ONE OF THESE COMING I WOULD CRY
Hiking To Wind Caves From Fish Creek Camp, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA
#anzaborrego #hiking #geology #nature #rocks #rockformations #backpacking #boondocking #rvlife #sandiego #instagram #latergram
Crazy Rock Formations (Hoodoos) @ Cliff Dwellers, 89A Near Marble Canyon, AZ Under The Vermillion Cliffs
#rocks #rockformations #boulders #geology #cliffs #arizona #hiking #backpacking #nature #rvlife #instagram #latergram
Hiking @ Horseshoe Bend, Page, AZ #arizona #hiking #backpacking #canyon #navajonation #lakepowell #geocaching #instagram #latergram
Making DIY Solar Panels For My Homemade Truck Camper (This Was a From My a First Set)
#diy #solar #panels #solarpanels #camping #camper #rv #boondocking
Field Of a Flowers @ Dogtown Road, Williams, AZ. #flowers #arizona #camping #hiking #backpacking #boondocking #instagram #latergram
Arizona Horned Lizard @ Kachina Trail, Flagstaff, AZ
#lizard #reptile #reptiles #hiking #trail #arizona #flagstaff #backpacking #instagram #latergram
what is the most terrifying creature on this planet?
(if you can’t think of one, may i suggest looking up deep sea creatures?)
It would be harmless to a human (and the pale, slimy fish we see here, which seems to spend its whole life as its symbiote) but the sheer idea of Stygiomedusa gigantea is so powerfully haunting it gives me chills to think about; especially from the perspective of its prey.
What you see here is at least twenty feet in length, and they’re seen so rarely they could easily get bigger. Their red-black coloration makes them invisible in the abyss, and they don’t have any stinging tentacles - only the vast oral arms, which as in other jellies are an extension of the digestive lining.
Prey are simply folded up and smothered in the sheets of tissue, and already begin to digest without even being drawn into the bell.
They’re out there, right now, thousands of miles away in the freezing abyss, billowing like huge, empty cloaks, blind and thoughtless. They don’t need to chase their prey. Helpless little things just find themselves trapped in a sticky, living shadow, wrapping up tighter in the membranous jelly the more they struggle. They digest so slowly that exhaustion or suffocation probably kills them first.
“only 114 sightings in the last 110 years”
Beach Boondocking In My Homemade Truck Camper @ Telephone Cove, Lake Mead, AZ
#camping #boondocking #beach #lakemead #lake #diy #camper #camperlife #freecamping #drycamping #instagram #latergram
via Lockett Meadow / Inner Basin Trail @ Flagstaff, AZ | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.