Non long distance hikers often ask me, "what do you think about while you're out there for all thos miles?"
I never really had a good answer. So I decided that for each long hike I do in the future, I will submit 1 weird thought or question at the end of each daily journal entry. I have been collecting these entries for several months, but one came up yesterday while I was hiking that seems to occur on every trail no matter where I do my hiking. You could say this first question was encountered during my 1992 AT thru hike. Here is the weird(or not so weird) question:
--If you are already higher in elevation than a place you have to cross( a river, RxR tracks, hwy, etc), why do the trail builders make you ascend even more before you descend to cross that feature? In other words, why do they make you go up to go down?
Here is a few more non trail related:
--If Hawaii is considered a vacation destination, then where do the local Hawaiians go on vacation?
--If blood spills, what does it sound like?
--Why is it that in science fiction stories or movies/TV shows, the first thing to stop working or get damaged on a ship is the hyper drive engines? And why don't they put strong shields around the hyper drive?
--On Half and half cartons are there pictures of missing transvestites?
--If a model puts out a book on dieting, would it be rather thin?
--Is there really not a single word that rhymes with orange?
--Why do people that drive to the gym circle round and round the parking lot to find the closest spot to the entrance to park?
--Will we be so politically correct in the future that parents will say, “ My kids don’t read Winnie the Pooh! He is half naked”.
--Is there any song Weird Al won’t parody?
--If marijuana in rolling papers is called a joint, then why is tobacco in rolling papers called a cigarette?
--In Star Trek universe if they can extend life beyond 100 years why can’t they cure baldness?
--If a person suffers from Torrents Syndrome yet doesn’t know swear words, what would they say?
--If a person is going to repeat something, why do they say “I repeat”?
--Why do women buy/wear earrings that can be 3 inches across, then when they turn their heas it slaps them in the ace?
--Why do people wear their best for church?
--Ever known anyone that gets high all the time say no to this question: “Hey, wanna get high?”
--Why do some men stand so close to urinals?
--Why is a near plane collision called a near miss?
--IF THEY CAN PAY SOMEONE TO NAME WINTER STORMS WHY CAN’T THEY USE ONE TERM TO CLASSIFY CONDITIONS IN THE SKY? Ex: partly cloudy is same as mostly sunny
--If Adam and Eve had Cain, Abel and Seth, one brother killed the other, how did they populate the earth?
--What purpose do you celebrate your birthday: the year that just passed, the year that is coming or the date you were born?
Okay, okay that's enough. But I do have more if you like these.
Anybody have any of their own? Let's hear them!!