Br'er Rabbit

I now know how he feels. Using Google Earth, I thought I had a running route figured out that should have taken me over about six miles. Admittedly, my mapping program showed a gap between two roads that I needed to traverse, but I assumed it would be maybe a grass field or something. Yes, something indeed.

After trying (and failing) to figure out how Lupin Hill Road fit into my plans, I found a trail running along a wilderness preservation habitat don't go in here or you might kill a banded dune snail or kangaroo rat place. Then the trail sort of went down into a ravine, and I had to use a rusted car jack lying around as a stepping stone to get across a muddy creek thing that messed up my relatively new shoes (sniff), and promptly found myself in the middle of the closest thing to a briar patch I hope ever to be found in. More like a sea of dead thistles, perhaps. Whatever they were, they were covered in thorns/stickers/lack of places to touch them safely. Now I could see Colima Road just up the hill, but it took me probably a half an hour to go those twenty feet. The people in the surrounding houses were probably wondering who was cursing at the top of their lungs, but were not interested enough to give me any help. Finally scrambled through one last bush and found myself at the very top of Colima.

Being a pastor's kid, I spent the run back thinking about the myriad sermon illustrations I had just brought into existence. And about how I am never ever doing anything that stupid again.

And the Yankee announcers are about what I would expect.
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Now I remember what I was going to add to this post. I was reminded of Br'er Rabbit because I had just gone to Disneyland with my youngest sister two days prior, during which Splash Mountain broke down right as we were about to go up the last climb before the drop, so we got to be escorted out a side door past animatronical foxes moving their mouths silently. Which leads me to my question: where is Disney's Robbin Hood movie represented at Disneyland? Either I missed it, or it's missing.