hong kong is the chicken-on-bike epicenter of livestock commuting.

yes, the urge was there to just pop open the chicken coop constantly, they're incredibly trusting with their dinner.

i've only done scotland once, ditto ireland. you learn rather quickly to go buy a dirtbike, they're not too uptight about licenses when money's at stake.

arctery'x cancels any rain which never lasts, and you can bomb around. if you've got a world-band phone with a quality gps, you're going to be kosher if you just see something in the distance and investigate it.

i do the same thing anywhere the terrain hides the real treasures of the place. greece is totally-different if you're not bound to traversible roadways-the islands are all 5% beach, and the rest is craggy and mountainous so being able to just start throwing the thing up the dirt paths cut into the mountains make the cyclades and dodocanese especially different.

ios and santorini are the two that the restless will find mind-blowing as soon as they run as fast as possible from the brits and germans on holiday and get back to sheep, cliffs and rocks.

anyhow, i'm headed out to glacier in a week just before the hoards come. the last time we went in late may and there were still parts closed due to snow.

my old man is into sleeping on the side of mt.rainer and shit, not my bag so we compromise on getting dropped by a copter or seaplane far enough in that it's closer to alaska than yellowstone. 2 flyrods, the spiked river shoes from patagonia and ultralight one-person tents and no cooking shit let you move fast.

he's into bear spray, i've seen enough bears to but a pre-ban glock 20. yeah, i know you're a fag without a casull or a 500sw but if i'm caught off-gaurd, in a river, etc. hot 10mm fmj's aren't substantively diff. than a 357 but da triggers kill me and i'm surgical with the plastic gun.

the current gen nv is horriby expensive, but a big fenix and a chinese cree headlamp throw enough lumens(600+for the tk40 and 200ish on the head) and aren't battery hogs for bumps in the night. i'm skeptical of bear spray working if the/ bear's running on autopilot, i may get a used .44 with a 6" barrel, they're easier for some reason to shoot than a .357 and i'm not worried about the g20 but a wheelgun's mildly more reliable than it. i'm 6'3" 215ish so with a heavy/longer barrel it really doesn't distract you with kick, for some reason the 357 makes me mini-cringe shooting it, the bigger gun goes boom not a crack of lightning, makes no sense.