This was me in '76, orange coat when we found an old silver mine near Aspen, CO
Mountain climbing also near Aspen in '76
My old front engine chrysler powered rail dragster in '82 (long gone, needed cash for first house)
Who could forget the scene that The Flying Penguin created for me for his Unofficial Quake Screen Saver a few years ago ('98 I think?)
Apparently FPs removed or moved this? Was ancient history anyway.
Most recent:
Here I am in at the Sedona, AZ airport just before my Bi-plane tour (5/22/04) during our week long vacation there. The wife wouldn't go with me on that, nor did she go with me on my hot-air balloon trip (also cool http://www.redrockballoons.com/photos.html ) or my ATV tour on very rough back-road, rocky terrain (VERY fun http://www.fatcatatv.com/). We also rented a Jeep for some off-roading adventure and some of the Jeep paths were so bad that she got out of the Jeep, refused to ride in it at times and said that I was crazy for driving on those paths. The included tourbook map had directions and said "go here" so I did. There were other guided Jeep tours there too so we weren't the only crazy people. They were some extremely knarly, rocky paths over rocks that I wouldn't normally think ANY vehicle could drive over. Only Jeeps or ATVs could navigate those paths.
Went on the Verde Canyon Railroad trip too: http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/nov/stor ... evall.html
We also took a trip to the Grand Canyon, about 2 hours north of Sedona. We were there for a Sunset tour but the sunset wasn't all that extraodinary that day, alot of cloud cover. It was cold there too that day. Would you believe that it hadn't changed in appearance from the last time I saw it in '75, 29 yrs ago?
Someday I want to do the 3 day mule trip and the 8 day white water raft trip on the CO river below.During the Bi-plane tour, they take a VHS video which they give to you, switches between me in the front seat and the surrounding scenery plus I also took my own mini-videos and pics with my new digi-cam. The pilot sits in the back seat. They fly very close to the local rock formations (mesas, small mountains, etc) and through rocky canyons. That was a blast!!! Wasn't cheap but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Here's a page I found via Google (Red Rock Biplane tours) that shows a few pics of those planes flying in the area surrounding Sedona, unfortunately it doesn't seem as though you can enlarge the pics however:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/i ... urs+Sedona
Another page with my review:
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2 ... -i?thnku=1
I think most older married guys often feel that way when we think of our days before we met our women. In all fairness though I really can't complain as I feel my wife's enhanced (more than hindered) my life. It'll be 25 yrs that I've been with her this June. At least she's allowed me to buy another "toy" car last year and she even likes it as long as I drive it nice when she's in it.