Highlights from Josh Gates and the Destination Truth crew. OK, I never saw this show, I know his work from the Expedition Unknown show of recent years. He's an actual archeologist, and goes in search of all kinds of interesting mysteries. And into caves. He winds up in a lot of gnarly caves for some reason
This blog, Crazy California 43, is about going on adventures. Little adventures. Things pretty much anyone in California can do. Hey, here's a cool place to take a selfie. Hey, here's a weird thing you and your friends or family can go check out. Hey, here's a mystery in California that no one has solved yet, you want to take a crack at it? That kind of stuff.
The idea of this blog is to get people looking a little deeper into the cool, weird, funny, and historical stuff all around us... here in California. And if you're not in California, check out your own area. That's where the love of adventure comes from, checking out local things you've always wondered about. Exploring where you are, and then moving out from there. If it's something that catches you, keep going and find some place to go explore that you've been wondering about. Think of this blog as "Introduction to Exploratory Adventures 101." It's a place to start thinking about the weird and mysterious around you, and see where that leads.
Then there's people like Josh Gates and his intrepid crew. Josh is a real archeologist. He will travel the globe and go to really dangerous places to seek out the truth of some historical mystery. And he winds up in a lot of caves. A lot of caves for some reason. I guess because caves are great places to hide away things for centuries.
I got turned on to weird mysteries of the world as a kid in the 1970's from paperback books on odd subjects, and the one TV show we had back then that explored the weird, In Search Of... with Leonard Nimoy. Those shows helped inspire us Generation X kids to wonder about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the Bermuda Triangle, the Nazca Lines, and other mysteries that were on the fringe back then.
Since those days, 45 or so years ago, dozens of TV shows, some movies, and thousands of magazines, blogs, and YouTube videos, have looked into the weird and unexplained mysteries of our world. But most of them never find the answer, and after the early shows, few break really new ground. It's become the same shows over and over again, for many of these mysteries.
One thing I love about Josh Gates and Expedition Unknown, is that they pretty much always find some new info, some answers, to the mysteries they track down. Josh is pretty crazy, he and the whole crew go through some serious ordeals to shoot these shows, and he's got a sarcastic sense of humor, as host, that adds to the entertainment value of the shows. While they might not find the ultimate answer to many of these mysteries, they always seem to find something that was previously unknown, they take us, as viewers, into a better understanding of whatever the mystery is, and closer to the final answer to it.
So I highly recommend checking out episodes of Expedition Unknown, and their sister show about paranormal mysteries, Expedition X. Some are on YouTube or streaming now, and new ones will come.
As for your own life, this blog is here to spark your own desire to get out and check out a few California sites, mysteries, and do a little low level exploring of your own. You 'll never see me wandering through the jungle and then rappelling into a cenote', to go cave diving for Mayan relics. After spending about 5 years living in my cab as a taxi driver, and then being homeless for quite a while, I love real bathrooms way to much to go on that kind of crazy trek. I'll leave that crazy shit (pun intended) to the Expedition Unknown crew. My job here is to show you there are weird and mysterious places all around us. Places the rest of us can explore.
There are plenty of weird places and mysteries here in California to keep me busy blogging for years. Scroll down the blog post list (on the right on a laptop screen), see what sounds interesting, check out the post. If the place seems really interesting, go check it out. Maybe this winds up a little day trip once a month, or maybe you'll get really into hardcore exploring, and turn into a Josh Gates type person for a new generation, some day. More likely, somewhere in between. Follow your own interests, go explore stuff, and have some fun. You never known where a little adventure might ultimately lead.
I'll end with two little known facts I've learned about Josh Gates from his shows. 1) He once worked as a waiter at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. 2) He's a huge fan of The Goonies. That might help explain his crazy adventures. Alright check out those shows, and go explore something for yourself.
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