30 Oct USA: Under the eye of the hurricane

I couldn't go to work today, and although I admit that I have borne this grief with great resignation, the fact of not being able to go outside for anything else is beginning to seem less amusing to me. Outside, Hurricane Sandy seems to have its eye on my neighbourhood. It's raining cats and dogs with gale force winds, the river that runs by my house has overflowed its banks, flooding the houses across the street and making my infinity pool more infinity than ever. I am afraid...

The danger I'm facing is real, I only have one box of tranchetes left to survive until the hurricane passes, so I'm not going to get out of bed so as not to use up my energy reserves in a stupid way.

It is in these grey days, when I most like to remember the last sunny days I have enjoyed and that is why I have remembered a park I haven't told you about yet, so here it is: (of course, what an ability to change the subject)

The park I present to you, Bryce Canyon, is by far the most beautiful natural park I have ever seen. In case anyone suspects my tendency to exaggerate, here is a sample.

I am aware that every time I talk about a landscape I always say that it is the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life. It is incredible the capacity of nature to keep surprising me day after day. Either that, or I'm starting to have a fish memory and I don't remember the ones I've seen before.

Seeing the sunrise from the so-called Amphitheatre is another of the experiences that will remain forever in my fishy memory, although I admit that when I got up at four in the morning I would have preferred to see it from bed in a documentary on TV 2. (I recommend you to click on the photo to see better the incredible hatching of colour of the sunrise in the park that I have managed to capture with that art that my child has).

But the Peek-A-Boo Loop is even better. It's ten kilometres of surprise after surprise that make this ride one of the best walks I've ever done in my life (I've said this before, haven't I?...). Here are some pictures of the trail, as you can see, words are superfluous:

And the Czech didn't want to do it, I had a hard time convincing him...

I'm sure you were wondering what had become of my favourite Czech. Well, nothing, he continued the trip with me, what's more, our relationship was getting stronger and stronger. I was even about to get him to learn to sing with me a cappella the famous Pimpinela duet (which, by the way, I still don't know how it ended up in my ipod, maybe it's one of those viruses).

Company is of the utmost importance on a journey. A bad travelling companion can turn this landscape into a bunch of rocks piled up without any sense.

And although I still saw incredible landscapes and not stones, I would have liked to do this trip with another company, I would have even taken with me that group that came with me not long ago to Africa...( Well, I don't know...).

Although I was once bitten by a steppe wolf in the arctic, I have not become a lone wolf and I need to share everything I am seeing, I can't keep it all to myself, that must be why I tell you about it in my egoblog.

Although I also like to count it with a beer on the side or a tortillita at Jose Luis.

As always, I'm going to show you a couple of those pictures of things that don't say anything but have an incredible colour, artist's license.

And with them I leave you for today, I return to the crude reality, I see from the window that it is still raining cats and dogs. This looks like the universal deluge, so for the good of Humanity, I am going to save two elements of each species that I want to last in the future, just in case, two hamburgers, two pizzas cuatrofromaggi, two gintonic...

And now I really have to go out, I've run out of cocoa and without it I don't think I'll be able to resist much longer. Wish me luck, I'll keep you informed...