Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Everybody saw this coming.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The willow is too close to the house.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Bark louder, little dog.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

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Leaving Yaxchilan we continued to paddle downstream for the next couple of days. Sometimes we would camp on the Mexican side of the river. Other days it would be in Guatemala.

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Usumacinta River

The geology of the river banks kept changing. While it was mostly all limestone, the shapes caused by erosion constantly changed.

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Usumacinta River

I often felt that things were looking at us from the rocky shore.

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Usumacinta River

Mexican Chucky rock?

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Usumacinta River

One constant was the thick jungle. Sometimes the jungle hugged the river. Here the hills receded a bit.

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Usumacinta River

As we went further the hills got higher and the river flowed faster. We would typically take the rapids one boat at a time.

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Usumacinta River

I never tried paddling the inflatable kayaks.

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Usumacinta River

The river was frequently fed by springs and small creeks. We came to this amazing waterfall and stopped to enjoy it. Note the people at the base for a sense of scale.

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Usumacinta River

We climbed the bank upriver from the falls and hiked to a flat section with ponds and the higher falls that came out of the forest.

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Usumacinta River

Back in the boats we pulled up to the base for a few more photos.

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Usumacinta River

We relied on springs like this for our water (bleach was used for disinfection).  

Next stop – another ruin and more rapids.

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    stinger

    What a striking terrain! Those top two or three photos, in particular, are haunting. I’d call the top one The Elders.

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    Denali5

    Thanks for sharing. I have wanted to visit that part of Mexico-great to see what it is like.

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    pieceofpeace

    This is a gorgeous space on the earth.  Imagining the wildness and animal activity of the terrain inland, as if that’s even possible in those forests.

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    neldob

    Really spectacular! What an adventure and thanks for the vicarious excitement.

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    TheOtherHank

    I do believe the rock formation at the big falls is travertine. Dissolved limestone in the water precipitates out and forms those cools shapes

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