Congratulations to Roseann Hanson, who has just started her new blog, Three Martini Lunch! It's also very good to see her husband, the Alpha Environmentalist posting once again, especially when the posts involve really first-rate piracy (by current standards, anyway). He's been posting a lot on bicycles lately, though, in anticipation of a two-wheeled circumnavigation of the Grand Canyon. Here's something to inspire him for the crossing of Marble Canyon:

For further inspiration, here's an account of the Bundys, inhabitants of the Canyon's Northwestern rim, shootin' rattlesnakes with six shooters and much more. Bundyville is now disappointingly known as Mt. Trumbull.