48.10 Arizona: Tonto National Forest...in the basin. Pictures of the week—Bridging a dam-lake.
Roosevelt Dam and lake...life is a many splendid thing. Surprisingly, there are advantages in not having much of a brain. Don't laugh, we speak from experience. Were we brighter, that is, had more power in the head, we'd not see and experience much of what we do. There are many places a person would not climb or hike should they be intelligent. And therein lies the advantage we referred to earlier. Admittedly, there is downside but when that occurs, we consider it experience. We win both ways. Alas, there is a perturbing trend which has occurred of late. In fact, today when we were heading off trail to reach a mountaintop, I mentioned to Jen she should question me more as well as argue when she thinks I'm leading us astray. We were 'bush-wacking' up a mountain over and around cacti and more subtle 'pricklies' at the time. Her singing reply: 'I will follow you...(there isn't a mountain too high...)." I did not know how to take that other ...