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Other Stuff 
I like to write so I am toying with the idea of a page 
where I can write about cool places I have been, and things I've done, just for fun, like Sotano de las Golondrinas, above, a 1,675 foot free-fall pit in the State of San Luis Potosi in Mexico. 
Or I'll just write whatever comes to mind that is not oil and gas related.
I'm thinking about it anyway. 
This pit in San Luis Potosi was first rappelled into in 1967 by American cavers. I was in it in 1971. It took a train of eight burros to travel up the mountain with the rapel rope and gear. The  rapel into it was fifteen minutues; the friction bars on the rapel gear got so hot  going down we had to keep them soaked in water with canteens. 

There were Huasteca remains in the bottom of the pit indicating it had some religious significance or represented some kind of burial ground. 

National Geographic eventually got onto the place and in the 1990's people were free jumping into it with brightly colored parachutes, screaming the entire way down. I rather believe the God that watched over the pit might have been disgusted by the entire thing.
For us, in 1971, it was sacred and all very intimidating. 

In Spanish the name of the pit means swallow basement. On the way up and down in  the damp air the pit was full of flocks of brightly colored parrots, or conjures, I think they were called. The were always very upset that we were there and did not not hesitate to say so. 
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