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AK aug 13 - final day ziplining and kayaking

travel
2013.08.27
For the final day, we decided to do a little ziplining in the morning, then Riana went on one of her vertical hikes and I took on a spot of touristy kayaking with a bunch of people from the cruise ships.

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Excited for the ziplining


Wheeeeeeeeeee!


They also had wobbly bridges.


The whole ziplining thing was over an old failed mine, and there was still some cool hardware around.




Again, cruise ships are SO BIG.


All geared up for kayaking


Finally, a Tlingit mural in the city. I also found a Pacman Battle Royale while wandering on my own but didn't have 3 other people to play against, just a computer opponent.

We're basically the descendants of nervous monkeys.
Bill Duane, meditation teacher for Google
from a Wired article on the popularity of meditation and mindfulness in Silicon Valley.
As the crickets' soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees
as are they
to the rocks and the hills.
Gary Snyder
My hand is able to touch things only because my hand is itself a touchable thing.
David Abram, "The Spell of the Sensuous"
"It was as though after the demise of the ancestral, pagan gods, Western civilization's burnt offerings had become ever more constant, more extravagant, more acrid--as though we were petitioning some unknown and slumbering power, trying to stir some vast dragon, striving to invoke some unknown or long-forgotten power that, awakening, might call us back into relation with something other than ourselves and our own designs."