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TrekEast: John Davis provisions for the Everglades

Friends and colleagues join John Davis in preparation for the next leg of TrekEast through Everglades National Park. In this video they discuss supplies needed for their canoe journey.

John Davis: Prepping for TrekEast

Close friend and neighbor John Davis is making final preparations for his epic 4k journey on foot, bike, ski, etc. from Florida to Quebec.

Flying the Crack

Jeb Corliss flying the crack is not for the faint of heart. This stunning YouTube video chronicles Corliss' human-flying-squirrel stunt over Switzerland in a Wing Suit. He lived, physics be damned!

Deliberately aimless

Waterloo to Thames (59)

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency,

Clever Pup cum Paris Flaneur

Galeries Lafayette Dome, by Hazel Smith (aka The Clever Pup)
Just like dominoes... I saw a boy, 9 or 10,  trip into a display of mannequins at Galeries Lafayette and bang, bang bang, bang, bang - all five plaster ladies toppled onto the floor; their arms and legs falling off in the process. The poor kid. In passing I whispered, "C'est OK", but he started to cry despite his age. He told his mum he was hurt, but it was just his pride. The day before, my minibus driver told me that the word "gendarmes" meant "people with arms". Now these mannequins were "gens pas d'armes"... (The Clever Pup)

Rockaway Taco & Surf

Rockaway Taco video via La Flâneur

Feeding hungry grateful folks in Rockaway during the summer, sneaking in a little surfing when you can, then heading off to parts exotic and remote for uninterupted surfing during the off-season... Thank you Laura (@Flaneur999) for finding and sharing this inspiring video!

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