TSG @ Kiva Threshold / Pecos National Historic Park

Heading down into the underground ceremonial pit. 

Reconstituted ruins of Pecos Pueblo in the distance. 

WTF??? (And Testing 1,2,3...)

 Something screwy is going on, not sure if this will be viewable, but what the heck. Somehow google has/had the blog pegged as deceptive or as a phishing vector of some type. After several hours of fruitless searching around for an answer, and submitting what we figured would be a useless report to google support, We were at our wit's end, and frankly quite distraught over the aspect of losing over a decade's worth of content.

Was the blog hacked somehow? Possible, but TSG is pretty security conscious when we're on the road, always using a VPN when posting from hotel wifi networks. Did someone hijack the blog site? Maybe, but there's no way we could figure that out with the resources at hand. The only thing we could think of was an image on the last post--the one of the cracked bridge support beam, which was copied from a news website.  So, we deleted the whole post.* That seemed to fix the google warning that we were getting, but who knows if that's a permanent fix.

So here's a test post. Fingers crossed. 

 * Well,  after getting an email from the blogger team, it seems that they were the ones who deleted the post for a "violation of community guidelines". How weird.  It would be nice to have all the content backed up, but of course we never expected any of our posts to get blacklisted.

And, for future reference if the original blog goes kablooie, TSG has created "The New Shouting Grasshopper" (https://thenewshoutinggrasshoper.blogspot.com) where we will (quite dejectedly) attempt to carry on if necessary. 

Right Before The Shutdown

Photo taken during TSG's transit over the I-40 bridge over the Mississippi just west of Memphis very shortly before it was closed by authorities:

 

Note: image of the cracked beam from the original post (that we copied from a web news site)  has been removed to (hopefully) avoid the possibility of further complications.

If You Find Yourself In Norman, Oklahoma...

 Take a few minutes to visit this particular crossroads:

Perspectives Of The Arlington Stairs

 Arlington as in the venerable hotel in Hot Springs Arkansas

Cool Pool

Tonight's lodging offered a uniquely-shaped swimming facility, perhaps appropriate to the Memphis location just down the street from Graceland. Unfortunately the neck portion of the pool was only 12" deep, making lap swimming for anyone over about 2 feet tall pretty much a non-starter. Additionally, the pool heater seemed to be out of action..."cool" being an understatement for the water temperature. (okay, let's be honest...it was frigging freezing!)

On Top Of Stone Mountain

 Depending on your zoom capabilities, you might be able to discern Atlanta on the horizon.