Chula Vista Locos

Serie of things I like, for no apparent reason:

Hidden face in a landscape by the great Bohemian etcher Wenceslaus Hollar, who was born #onthisday in Prague in 1607.

Farewell Dr Grant

Hiking - “I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, ‘A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”

𝗞𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 August 15. 1983.