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+                <h1 class="p-name entry-title post-title" itemprop="headline">Arc of Time</h1>
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+                    <h3 class="h-adr" itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"><span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="addressLocality">Chaco Canyon</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/jrnl/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">New Mexico</a>, <span class="p-country-name" itemprop="addressCountry">U.S.</span></h3>
+                     &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="" onclick="showMap(36.047362129649464, -107.9295706172955, { type:'point', lat:'36.047362129649464', lon:'-107.9295706172955'}); return false;" title="see a map">Map</a>
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+                <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-06-28T16:45:21" itemprop="datePublished">June <span>28, 2017</span></time>
+                <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span>
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+            <p>I have only one note from Chaco Canyon<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>: the wind gusts, a light whistling sound through the thin curled leaves of creosote; in the interludes the stillness is filled with raven calls reverberating across the canyon, a conversation bouncing around sandstone, echoing in arroyos until, like everything else here, they fade into the darkness of the past.</p>
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+<p>There is only so much one can say for sure here. Try to cling to some idea and it will slip through your fingers as another contradictory one arises. That something happened here once upon a time at Chaco is really all I or anyone else can say about this place.</p>
+<p>There are ruins to prove that something happened. Great stone structures that have stood for over a thousand years in many cases.  Once there were people, now there are stones. And ravens.</p>
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+<p>Craig Childs, whose book <cite>House of Rain</cite> I highly recommend<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>, recounts the various theories on what happened here. In the end there are nearly as many theories as archaeologists. </p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>The evidence gathered from a century of digging and mapping can support nearly any speculation thrown at Chaco Canyon: religious center, military center, government center, economic center, ceremonials center &#8212; the list is extensive. The place is thought by some to have been a colony of churches, its numerous great houses exhibiting certain recurring features thought to be religious. The repetition of specific architectural designs could also be interpreted as a form imposed by a ruling elites, the abundance of goods as tithing. The outrageously copious artifacts found inside these great houses look like ritual paraphernalia: feathers and bones representing nearly every bird species found with a thousand mile radius; a large number of wooden staffs like shepherds crooks, their handles inlaid with fines stones; and many rooms filled precious, expertly crafted mementos, may of which were found positioned as if on alters.</p>
+<p>Other people take the abundance to mean that Chaco was a commercial center, a pre-Colombian shopping mall built to redistributes good in the Southwests notoriously unstable environment. In that sense the buildings are seen as store houses with some rooms tacked nearly to the ceiling.</p>
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+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+<p>Probably all these theories are wrong. The first things to do at Chaco is accept that you cannot know.</p>
+<p>The question that most nagged me in Chaco seemed simpler, but perhaps was not &#8212; why here? What was that lured so many people here, inspired them to some of the finest construction in North America in this otherwise rather unremarkable wash, one of about a dozen that come off the San Juan river in it&#8217;s path down off the Colorado Plateau. </p>
+<p>That&#8217;s the question I pondered on the trails, walking through the dusty flatlands, up the rough, rocky climbs to the mesa tops where the sun is hot and relentless. </p>
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+<p>Standing in thousand year old buildings tends to fill you with awe, it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s Cambodia, Austria or New Mexico. As fragile, impermanent beings we&#8217;re drawn to permanence, we are inspired by by what we lack &#8212; sturdiness and longevity. Even today, when we could build with anything, we choose steel girders, concrete, and asphalt, imitations of stone. Because laying in and fitting stone like the builders of Chaco is labor intensive and time consuming, time we don&#8217;t seem to have. But they did. </p>
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+<p>The Chacoans had time. Not just for these buildings, but for even more labor intensive projects, like a network of roads running absolutely straight and true across the desert, possibly for thousands of miles. Raised stone road beds thirty to forty feet wide running for thousands of miles &#8212; even with modern technology that would  likely take decades. How the Chocans did it remains a mystery, but the faint outlines of them can still be seen from space.</p>
+<p>Similar head-scratching feats of design and building surround the builders of Angkor Wat, Machu Pichu, Teotihuacan and elsewhere. But there is something different about here, something extra about this place. You hear it in the murmur of the wind through creosote, you see it in the stone work of the greathouses. Something happened here, something happened in a way it never has again. Whatever these people saw, whatever they had access to, it was more than we do today. Their world was unutterably alien to ours and you feel it every second you are here.</p>
+<p>You should come here. You should sit here and consider it. Don&#8217;t worry about the heat, it is everywhere. You will make peace with it. Or you will die in it, either way there is no need to worry about it. It will be here. You must come when it is here. You will not know the core of this place if you do not come in the heat. </p>
+<p>Some archaeologists think these citadels may have been painted white. Gleaming white beacons rising out of the shimmering mirage of heat. It must have been something to arrive here having walked from Mexico, California, The Gulf Coast and all the other places for which there is evidence that people came.</p>
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+<p>We hiked in the mornings, climbing up the canyon walls, while there was still some shade to be had, and up on to the mesa where there was none. Or so it seems at first glance. But then you look closer, you start to think differently, you realize you could crawl up under that juniper tree and get a break from the sun, you see ledges in the rocks where you could wedge yourself flat against what might still be cool sandstone. There are escapes here, but you will have to work for them.</p>
+<p>Chaco remains largely off the grid. The road in from the north is rough enough that it takes nearly an hour to drive 13 miles. And the first two miles are paved, so really it takes about 50 minutes to drive 11 miles. That&#8217;s part of the remoteness, but there is more. There&#8217;s something about this wash that once you are in it it consumes your past in some way, you are no longer just you, you are you in Chaco. </p>
+<p>This is one of those places that can influence things. It seems to have a will about it, whether it&#8217;s the place or some echo of the people who were here I could not say, but if you come here you will feel it.</p>
+<p>You might see some things you&#8217;re pretty sure aren&#8217;t there. They are there. Everything is here. </p>
+<p>The first day we left early to stay out of the heat, we headed up the eastern wall of the main wash, no real destination in mind, simply following that ancient human need to get to high point and survey the land, wrap your head about where you are.</p>
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="view from the mesa, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+<p>We stuck to the trail for a good while, then we deviated. Chaco is the most tightly controlled national parkish area I&#8217;ve ever been in. In my experience National Parks typically have a tightly controlled area, generally around whatever the feature of the park is &#8212; Yosemite valley, Sequoia trees, the grand canyon, etc &#8212; and then the backcountry is more or less unregulated, at least in terms of where you can go. Not enough people venture beyond the first mile of trail to bother regulating the backcountry too much. </p>
+<p>Not true here. </p>
+<p>It&#8217;s still true that no ventures beyond that first mile, but here the backcountry is regulated just like the rest. There&#8217;s not even overnight camping allowed in the backcountry. It&#8217;s a little bit like being a kid again (not in a good way), you have to be home by sunset and you&#8217;re not to detour from the trail. Ever.</p>
+<p>We might have gotten lost you could say. There was a tiny wash, up near the end of it I spied an overhang that promised at least shade, perhaps more. I could not say, we did not make it. The kids are kids after all. They tuckered out in the heat and the soft sand of the wash, which was just wide enough to look trail-like, plausible deniability should we have run into a ranger. I can do a mean dumb tourist when I need to. But no ranger came for us, just the heat and the exhaustion it brings. We ate a snack, rested on some rocks. Every now and then a breeze would puff our sweaty clothes like air conditioning. It was wonderful. Then we gathered up our things and walked back.</p>
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+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170625_181918.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Campground, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170625_181918.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Post hike tacos">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Post hike tacos</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>The campground is tucked back in a tributary wash, up against a short sandstone bluff, wedge between the road and some 900-odd-year-old buildings tucked back under an overhang. About 30 feet up the wall to the right of the buildings are some petroglyphs, some ancient, some recent. </p>
+<p>In another of Craig Child&#8217;s books, <cite>Finder&#8217;s Keepers</cite>, about the rather outrageous world of archaeology, artifacts and the people obsessed with them, Childs recounts a story he heard from a flamboyant and occasionally flagrantly law breaking Santa Fe antiquities dealer who invited over a bunch of archaeologists and local pueblo tribal leaders for a barbecue party. Half way through the party the host announced that food everyone was eating was grilled over a fire built with charcoal from a dig on private land &#8212; 1000 year old charcoal used to grill up some burgers in a backyard in Santa Fe. The archaeologists all went pale and started to toss their food in outrage. The tribal leaders just smiled and shook their heads. </p>
+<p>What does that mean? I don&#8217;t know. I wonder though, was that charcoal made 1000 years ago perhaps as part of a backyard barbecue? Would that charcoal maker by mortified or satisfied to know that 1000 years later it finally seared some meat?</p>
+<p>In America we experience the past mainly as a roped off thing, something carefully catalogued and carted off to museums where only a fraction of it ever visible to people like you and I. In Chaco the past is right here, all around you, you step into it, you are part of it. The big artifacts are gone, that&#8217;s true. The rooms are bare, the pots, baskets and mysterious staffs, to say nothing of the bones, have been carted off to the Peabody and elsewhere. The walls of the ruins by the road are reinforced with modern concrete, the kivas roped off, but it&#8217;s surprisingly easy to leave that behind and get out to the real ruins.</p>
+<p>The second day we climbed the south mesa. It was slightly more accessible, though still pretty much straight up the side of mesa. We went a couple of miles on the mesa until we spied an overhang with just enough shade for all of us to eat lunch out of the sun. Corrinne wandered off for a while, down the hillside, until she found some potsherds. </p>
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mesa, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="shade under a juniper, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="shade under a juniper">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>shade under a juniper</figcaption>
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+<div class="cluster">
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+<figure class="pic66">
+    <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170627_090812_RWPoCrB.jpg" title="view larger image ">
+        <img class=" "  src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170627_090812_RWPoCrB_pic66.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170627_090812_RWPoCrB.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Our guide."></a>
+<figcaption>Our guide.</figcaption>
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+        <img class=" "  src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170627_095050_pic66.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170627_095050.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""></a>
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+    <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi.jpg" title="view larger image ">
+        <img class=" "  sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_pic66.jpg 820w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_picwide-med.jpg" alt="potsherds, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a>
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+<p>They are everywhere here, if you have an eye for them. I do not, but she does. That is some of what makes Chaco special, it has not all be catalogued and carted off, most of it perhaps, but there is still plenty here all around you. We held the potsherds and then put them back where they had been so you can come and find them too.</p>
+<p>If Chaco Canyon has a disappointment it&#8217;s the visitor center, or rather it&#8217;s the official line the visitor center takes on the demise of the Chaco culture. There&#8217;s a movie in which someone actually says &#8220;it&#8217;s amazing that they could just walk away from all this, think of the strength it would take to just walk away.&#8221; It&#8217;s amazing because that&#8217;s utter bullshit. No one has ever just walked away from any civilization. Like everything else civilizations rise, hit an apex and then decline. They follow the same pattern over and over again. The Greeks, the Romans, India, China, Mesoamerica, every civilization for which have even the faintest historical records has followed a nearly identical trajectory. If you don&#8217;t believe me set aside a couple of months and tackle Arnold Toynbee&#8217;s <cite>A Study of History</cite>.</p>
+<p>Chaco&#8217;s decline was likely as bumpy, violent and unpleasant as that of the rest of humanity&#8217;s experiments in civilization. No one just walks away, and to pretend otherwise says far more about our culture and its stubborn insistence that it will not, cannot decline, even in the face of increasingly difficult to ignore signs of its decline, than it does about Chacoan culture. Skip the visitor center.</p>
+<p>Stay outside instead. The truth of this place is not behind glass, not in books, it is out here in the wind, in the heat. Go to the stones that remain, step inside, find the cool of the shade, feel the breeze that comes through doorways even on the stillest afternoon, the temperature difference between outside and the rooms deepest within creates a breeze to this day, the way I assume its builders intended. </p>
+<p>Walk the mesas if you can, look for shade and you will probably find you are not the first to spy whatever shady spot you spy. You may find ruins, you may only find rodent droppings and the impressions of something larger that lay in the sand, a deer perhaps, a mountain lion possibly. Whatever you find, know that you are not the first to walk here or anywhere else. Like those who passed before you step softly, walk quietly, and remember to listen.</p>
+<p>Note: If Chaco sounds at all interesting to you, I highly recommend first reading <cite>House of Rain</cite>.</p>
+<div class="footnote">
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+<p>luxagraf is created by piecing together half-legible thought fragments scribbled in tattered notebook that lives in my pocket.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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+<p>Rather conspicuously absent from the Chaco bookstore, despite stocking Finder&#8217;s Keepers. I suspect because Childs does not sugar coat the archaeological evidence that suggests that late Chacoan history was marked by violence and decline, which is very much not part of the narrative the visitor center presents. But then I could be wrong, maybe they were just sold out.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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+                <span class="when">July 28, 2017 at  9:17 a.m.</span>
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+                <p>So glad you and your family are enjoying your adventure. Folks in Winder, Georgia are praying for your travels to be safe and worry free. Love reading your accounts of all that you are seeing and experiencing. Have fun and be safe!</p>
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+                <span class="when">July 31, 2017 at  1:20 p.m.</span>
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+                <p>Wow,  what an adventure.  I love your little tour guide though he&#8217;s looking a bit more like a kid than a baby these days.  The photos are amazing, kinda reminds me of my trip to Egypt, being priviledged  enough to walk thru the ruins, being a part of an ancient culture.  What an experience for you all.  Continue to enjoy and keep us posted!</p>
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+                <p>@Arva- </p>
+<p>He is looking more like a kid isn&#8217;t he. And Egypt is one place I&#8217;d love to go. We&#8217;ll just have to ship the bus over. :-)</p>
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+                <p>I had to reread this; the first reading inspired a trip of my own last month.  It was awe inspiring, Thanks.  </p>
+<p>A couple weeks before my trip the north road had washed out (I did not know this, should&#8217;ve called?&#8230;  naw) and had a hard time getting in with my old Japanese s**tbox.  I had to move some rocks into large ruts the size of my tires to get through.   The few folks in the campground met me with enthusiasm since they were amazed I got in without a 4WD vehicle.</p>
+<p>I should have planned for longer as I only spent two nights, but it&#8217;s a trip I will never forget.</p>
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+Arc of Time
+===========
+
+    by Scott Gilbertson
+    </jrnl/2017/06/arc-time>
+    Wednesday, 28 June 2017
+
+I have only one note from Chaco Canyon[^1]: the wind gusts, a light whistling sound through the thin curled leaves of creosote; in the interludes the stillness is filled with raven calls reverberating across the canyon, a conversation bouncing around sandstone, echoing in arroyos until, like everything else here, they fade into the darkness of the past.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-623" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-631" class="picwide" />
+
+There is only so much one can say for sure here. Try to cling to some idea and it will slip through your fingers as another contradictory one arises. That something happened here once upon a time at Chaco is really all I or anyone else can say about this place.
+
+There are ruins to prove that something happened. Great stone structures that have stood for over a thousand years in many cases.  Once there were people, now there are stones. And ravens.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-629" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-624" class="picwide" />
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_164354-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-625" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_164434-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-626" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+
+Craig Childs, whose book <cite>House of Rain</cite> I highly recommend[^2], recounts the various theories on what happened here. In the end there are nearly as many theories as archaeologists. 
+
+> The evidence gathered from a century of digging and mapping can support nearly any speculation thrown at Chaco Canyon: religious center, military center, government center, economic center, ceremonials center -- the list is extensive. The place is thought by some to have been a colony of churches, its numerous great houses exhibiting certain recurring features thought to be religious. The repetition of specific architectural designs could also be interpreted as a form imposed by a ruling elites, the abundance of goods as tithing. The outrageously copious artifacts found inside these great houses look like ritual paraphernalia: feathers and bones representing nearly every bird species found with a thousand mile radius; a large number of wooden staffs like shepherds crooks, their handles inlaid with fines stones; and many rooms filled precious, expertly crafted mementos, may of which were found positioned as if on alters.
+
+> Other people take the abundance to mean that Chaco was a commercial center, a pre-Colombian shopping mall built to redistributes good in the Southwests notoriously unstable environment. In that sense the buildings are seen as store houses with some rooms tacked nearly to the ceiling.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-633" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-635" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-636" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-634" class="picwide" />
+
+Probably all these theories are wrong. The first things to do at Chaco is accept that you cannot know.
+
+The question that most nagged me in Chaco seemed simpler, but perhaps was not -- why here? What was that lured so many people here, inspired them to some of the finest construction in North America in this otherwise rather unremarkable wash, one of about a dozen that come off the San Juan river in it's path down off the Colorado Plateau. 
+
+That's the question I pondered on the trails, walking through the dusty flatlands, up the rough, rocky climbs to the mesa tops where the sun is hot and relentless. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-632" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-627" class="picwide" />
+
+Standing in thousand year old buildings tends to fill you with awe, it doesn't matter if it's Cambodia, Austria or New Mexico. As fragile, impermanent beings we're drawn to permanence, we are inspired by by what we lack -- sturdiness and longevity. Even today, when we could build with anything, we choose steel girders, concrete, and asphalt, imitations of stone. Because laying in and fitting stone like the builders of Chaco is labor intensive and time consuming, time we don't seem to have. But they did. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-638" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-639" class="picwide" />
+
+
+The Chacoans had time. Not just for these buildings, but for even more labor intensive projects, like a network of roads running absolutely straight and true across the desert, possibly for thousands of miles. Raised stone road beds thirty to forty feet wide running for thousands of miles -- even with modern technology that would  likely take decades. How the Chocans did it remains a mystery, but the faint outlines of them can still be seen from space.
+
+Similar head-scratching feats of design and building surround the builders of Angkor Wat, Machu Pichu, Teotihuacan and elsewhere. But there is something different about here, something extra about this place. You hear it in the murmur of the wind through creosote, you see it in the stone work of the greathouses. Something happened here, something happened in a way it never has again. Whatever these people saw, whatever they had access to, it was more than we do today. Their world was unutterably alien to ours and you feel it every second you are here.
+
+You should come here. You should sit here and consider it. Don't worry about the heat, it is everywhere. You will make peace with it. Or you will die in it, either way there is no need to worry about it. It will be here. You must come when it is here. You will not know the core of this place if you do not come in the heat. 
+
+Some archaeologists think these citadels may have been painted white. Gleaming white beacons rising out of the shimmering mirage of heat. It must have been something to arrive here having walked from Mexico, California, The Gulf Coast and all the other places for which there is evidence that people came.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-641" class="picwide" />
+
+We hiked in the mornings, climbing up the canyon walls, while there was still some shade to be had, and up on to the mesa where there was none. Or so it seems at first glance. But then you look closer, you start to think differently, you realize you could crawl up under that juniper tree and get a break from the sun, you see ledges in the rocks where you could wedge yourself flat against what might still be cool sandstone. There are escapes here, but you will have to work for them.
+
+Chaco remains largely off the grid. The road in from the north is rough enough that it takes nearly an hour to drive 13 miles. And the first two miles are paved, so really it takes about 50 minutes to drive 11 miles. That's part of the remoteness, but there is more. There's something about this wash that once you are in it it consumes your past in some way, you are no longer just you, you are you in Chaco. 
+
+This is one of those places that can influence things. It seems to have a will about it, whether it's the place or some echo of the people who were here I could not say, but if you come here you will feel it.
+
+You might see some things you're pretty sure aren't there. They are there. Everything is here. 
+
+The first day we left early to stay out of the heat, we headed up the eastern wall of the main wash, no real destination in mind, simply following that ancient human need to get to high point and survey the land, wrap your head about where you are.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/20170625_155039.jpg" id="image-650" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170626_100255.jpg" id="image-652" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_122041-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-643" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_110941-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-640" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-642" class="picwide" />
+
+We stuck to the trail for a good while, then we deviated. Chaco is the most tightly controlled national parkish area I've ever been in. In my experience National Parks typically have a tightly controlled area, generally around whatever the feature of the park is -- Yosemite valley, Sequoia trees, the grand canyon, etc -- and then the backcountry is more or less unregulated, at least in terms of where you can go. Not enough people venture beyond the first mile of trail to bother regulating the backcountry too much. 
+
+Not true here. 
+
+It's still true that no ventures beyond that first mile, but here the backcountry is regulated just like the rest. There's not even overnight camping allowed in the backcountry. It's a little bit like being a kid again (not in a good way), you have to be home by sunset and you're not to detour from the trail. Ever.
+
+We might have gotten lost you could say. There was a tiny wash, up near the end of it I spied an overhang that promised at least shade, perhaps more. I could not say, we did not make it. The kids are kids after all. They tuckered out in the heat and the soft sand of the wash, which was just wide enough to look trail-like, plausible deniability should we have run into a ranger. I can do a mean dumb tourist when I need to. But no ranger came for us, just the heat and the exhaustion it brings. We ate a snack, rested on some rocks. Every now and then a breeze would puff our sweaty clothes like air conditioning. It was wonderful. Then we gathered up our things and walked back.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-644" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-648" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170626_122346.jpg" id="image-653" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170625_181918.jpg" id="image-651" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The campground is tucked back in a tributary wash, up against a short sandstone bluff, wedge between the road and some 900-odd-year-old buildings tucked back under an overhang. About 30 feet up the wall to the right of the buildings are some petroglyphs, some ancient, some recent. 
+
+In another of Craig Child's books, <cite>Finder's Keepers</cite>, about the rather outrageous world of archaeology, artifacts and the people obsessed with them, Childs recounts a story he heard from a flamboyant and occasionally flagrantly law breaking Santa Fe antiquities dealer who invited over a bunch of archaeologists and local pueblo tribal leaders for a barbecue party. Half way through the party the host announced that food everyone was eating was grilled over a fire built with charcoal from a dig on private land -- 1000 year old charcoal used to grill up some burgers in a backyard in Santa Fe. The archaeologists all went pale and started to toss their food in outrage. The tribal leaders just smiled and shook their heads. 
+
+What does that mean? I don't know. I wonder though, was that charcoal made 1000 years ago perhaps as part of a backyard barbecue? Would that charcoal maker by mortified or satisfied to know that 1000 years later it finally seared some meat?
+
+In America we experience the past mainly as a roped off thing, something carefully catalogued and carted off to museums where only a fraction of it ever visible to people like you and I. In Chaco the past is right here, all around you, you step into it, you are part of it. The big artifacts are gone, that's true. The rooms are bare, the pots, baskets and mysterious staffs, to say nothing of the bones, have been carted off to the Peabody and elsewhere. The walls of the ruins by the road are reinforced with modern concrete, the kivas roped off, but it's surprisingly easy to leave that behind and get out to the real ruins.
+
+The second day we climbed the south mesa. It was slightly more accessible, though still pretty much straight up the side of mesa. We went a couple of miles on the mesa until we spied an overhang with just enough shade for all of us to eat lunch out of the sun. Corrinne wandered off for a while, down the hillside, until she found some potsherds. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-645" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-646" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-647" class="picwide caption" />
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/20170627_090812_RWPoCrB.jpg" id="image-655" class="cluster pic66 caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170627_095050.jpg" id="image-656" class="cluster pic66 caption" />
+</span>
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi.jpg" id="image-659" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+
+They are everywhere here, if you have an eye for them. I do not, but she does. That is some of what makes Chaco special, it has not all be catalogued and carted off, most of it perhaps, but there is still plenty here all around you. We held the potsherds and then put them back where they had been so you can come and find them too.
+
+If Chaco Canyon has a disappointment it's the visitor center, or rather it's the official line the visitor center takes on the demise of the Chaco culture. There's a movie in which someone actually says "it's amazing that they could just walk away from all this, think of the strength it would take to just walk away." It's amazing because that's utter bullshit. No one has ever just walked away from any civilization. Like everything else civilizations rise, hit an apex and then decline. They follow the same pattern over and over again. The Greeks, the Romans, India, China, Mesoamerica, every civilization for which have even the faintest historical records has followed a nearly identical trajectory. If you don't believe me set aside a couple of months and tackle Arnold Toynbee's <cite>A Study of History</cite>.
+
+Chaco's decline was likely as bumpy, violent and unpleasant as that of the rest of humanity's experiments in civilization. No one just walks away, and to pretend otherwise says far more about our culture and its stubborn insistence that it will not, cannot decline, even in the face of increasingly difficult to ignore signs of its decline, than it does about Chacoan culture. Skip the visitor center.
+
+Stay outside instead. The truth of this place is not behind glass, not in books, it is out here in the wind, in the heat. Go to the stones that remain, step inside, find the cool of the shade, feel the breeze that comes through doorways even on the stillest afternoon, the temperature difference between outside and the rooms deepest within creates a breeze to this day, the way I assume its builders intended. 
+
+Walk the mesas if you can, look for shade and you will probably find you are not the first to spy whatever shady spot you spy. You may find ruins, you may only find rodent droppings and the impressions of something larger that lay in the sand, a deer perhaps, a mountain lion possibly. Whatever you find, know that you are not the first to walk here or anywhere else. Like those who passed before you step softly, walk quietly, and remember to listen.
+
+Note: If Chaco sounds at all interesting to you, I highly recommend first reading <cite>House of Rain</cite>.
+
+[^1]: luxagraf is created by piecing together half-legible thought fragments scribbled in tattered notebook that lives in my pocket. 
+[^2]: Rather conspicuously absent from the Chaco bookstore, despite stocking Finder's Keepers. I suspect because Childs does not sugar coat the archaeological evidence that suggests that late Chacoan history was marked by violence and decline, which is very much not part of the narrative the visitor center presents. But then I could be wrong, maybe they were just sold out.
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+                     &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="" onclick="showMap(31.599022773408446, -96.54395813109839, { type:'point', lat:'31.599022773408446', lon:'-96.54395813109839'}); return false;" title="see a map">Map</a>
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+                <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-06-07T15:12:35" itemprop="datePublished">June <span>7, 2017</span></time>
+                <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span>
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+            <p>From Austin we drifted north, toward Dallas, hitting a milestone along the way:</p>
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+<figcaption>I spied this vintage GMC by the side of the road. Later I was talking to someone at a gas station not far from here who said there was a Travco further down the same road.</figcaption>
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+
+<p>We pulled into Fort Parker State Park on a Thursday afternoon and spent the next day watching the campground fill up. This is more or less the pattern, even in summer, the weekends are jammed full, during the week we have the campgrounds to ourselves. </p>
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+
+<p>We passed a couple of days in Fort Parker State Park and then headed north to Plano, TX to visit Corrinne&#8217;s sister and her family. Thanks to the bus we ended up spending an entire week in Plano. Let this be a lesson to those of you who have invited us to your homes, sometimes we way overstay to that point when the smell of rotten fish is upon us. We tried to get it off in the pool.</p>
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+        </a>
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+
+<p>Possibly worse we shipped a ton of parts, random purchases, laptops I&#8217;m reviewing and other stuff that piled up around the house. Seriously, think twice before you invite us over. It all starts out innocently enough. We show up for a couple days, make some vague plans and then. Then.</p>
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+        </a>
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+<div class="picwide">
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
+        </a>
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+<div class="picwide">
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
+        </a>
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+<figure class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday wishes photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Technically Kenny&#39;s birthday, but since the girls are close too they joined in. And Elliott, he manages to weasel his way into all sorts of things.">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Technically Kenny&#8217;s birthday, but since the girls are close too they joined in. And Elliott, he manages to weasel his way into all sorts of things.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>The engine was, yet again, running hot on the way into Plano. I figured since we had a couple days and there wasn&#8217;t really room to park on the street anyway, I would take it to a repair shop and get the radiator fixed and have a place to park &#8212; two birds one stone sort of thing. </p>
+<p>I found a tiny pinhole size leak in the back side of the radiator, but then the shop that I went to at first turned out to not be able to solder. Kids these days. But they didn&#8217;t seem opposed to me leaving the bus there for a few days, so we pulled the radiator off and I drove it over to another shop that did solder (I had the first shop replace two belts, which was about the same price as paying for a week&#8217;s worth of parking). </p>
+<p>The old guy at the radiator shop &#8212; by the way, never trust a mechanic under 50 &#8212; took one look at the radiator and said I can&#8217;t patch that. When we first got it off and I saw the back my reaction was very similar. I believe what I said was, oh shit. The pinhole leak was small enough that you could only find it when it was pressurized, but it had obviously been going for some time. And the fins were bent in at the corners which means someone had probably been in there already. </p>
+<p>Long story short, for those that don&#8217;t find engine adventures entertaining<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, I gave him the go ahead to re-core it. Expensive, but we want to be able to get into the mountains and not worry about overheating. I even considered making it four core, but held off on that since clearance could have been an issue.</p>
+<p>Getting the new cores and having it all rebuilt added a weekend and some change to our stay. But it gave me time to install the water tank and get the solar panels on the roof. So I spent my morning in the alley behind a mechanic&#8217;s wrestling a 65 gallon water tank under a bed and crimping pex. To do all that I had to empty out everything under the bed and pile it out in the alley with me. And then run back and forth to home depot ten times in two days. Oh who am I kidding, it was probably almost twice that many times. I actually didn&#8217;t think much of the whole project, but then one day I just left everything outside the bus while I was at home depot and I came back around the corner and realized it looked like a small tornado had hit a dumpster and blown everything all over the alley. </p>
+<p>In the afternoons I would eventually start sweating so much my eyebrows would fail me and I couldn&#8217;t see anymore. I&#8217;d give up and pack it up. Fortunately there was a pool back at the house and I could spend some time recovering in proper fashion &#8212; floating it all away. The kids of course spent nearly all their time in the pool playing with their cousins.</p>
+<p>Eventually I got the water tank in and the radiator back in to. Started it up, drove home, everything seemed fine. Well. Maybe it was a tad hotter than I&#8217;d like, but it was 95 that evening so I dismissed it. </p>
+<p>We said our goodbyes and headed west, into the sunset.</p>
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+<p>We weren&#8217;t even out of the subdivision when the temperature gauge started to climb again. There was some creative swearing in the bus for a few miles. It&#8217;s frustrating to fix something and realize you didn&#8217;t have the right problem, but it&#8217;s even more frustrating when you spent almost $1000 doing it. I stopped at an auto parts store and let the bus cool, while I contemplating trying to install a new thermostat in the parking lot. Me pulling out radiators at the side of the road, it could be a thing. The part store intervened and saved me from myself by not having the part I needed anyway.</p>
+<p>Eventually the engine cooled and I thought screw this, let&#8217;s push on. Perhaps not the best choice, but I&#8217;m stubborn and I needed to get on the road. I also decided to test something hairbrained. Back when we first entered Texas I put some insulation around the engine doghouse, mostly just to cut down on the heat coming off the engine into the cabin, but also to cut down on the noise. It happened to coincide with the engine starting to run hot, so I thought well, let&#8217;s crack the doghouse and see what happens, maybe that extra airflow was helping. </p>
+<p>Crazy, I know. But. <em>But</em>. Well, no that didn&#8217;t help at all, but it did reveal something interesting &#8212; a loud clattering sound that was previously muffled enough that I assumed it was just some pans in the oven rattling. But with the engine hood open it was very clearly louder and coming from the engine. The mechanically inclined could probably put those two clues together &#8212; rattling metal sounds and overheating engine &#8212; and figure out the problem. It took me about 20 miles but it slowly started to dawn on me, water pumps have ball bearings in them. </p>
+<p>We pushed it as far as Denton, which wasn&#8217;t far and, very frustrated, called around looking for someone to take a look. About five different shops didn&#8217;t want anything to do with it, one shop did, but couldn&#8217;t get to it for another week. Finally on the advice of one of the other shops I called a place way outside of town that supposedly &#8220;did old engines&#8221;. No one answered so I said screw it, let&#8217;s drive out there and see. So I did and somehow convinced the shop owner, who was mainly a rat rod and custom car builder, to take a look at the bus. Well, I didn&#8217;t really convince him, the bus did, the bus is cool like that.</p>
+<p>So he agreed to replace the water pump the next day. We grabbed a hotel room to wait it out. </p>
+<div class="footnote">
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+<li id="fn:1">
+<p>If engine adventures bore this is not the blog for you. Until we get everything dialed in I expect to have more engine adventures.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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+                <span class="when">June 29, 2017 at  2:14 p.m.</span>
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+                <p>Bout time.  I was jonesing for a new adventure.  I almost sent a message on FB.  You have to give the people what they need.  An escape and hope that there is life outside of my cubicle.</p>
+<p>I know its frustrating at times out there.  But its worse in here. </p>
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+                <span class="when">June 29, 2017 at  3:06 p.m.</span>
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+                <p>@drew-</p>
+<p>I got a few more cued up, but I can&#8217;t upload photos at the moment. Waiting to see if a forest fire is going to force us to evacuate our current camp. Can&#8217;t go down and use coffee shop wifi cause I&#8217;m scared they won&#8217;t let me back to get the bus. Never leave the bus.</p>
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+Dallas
+======
+
+    by Scott Gilbertson
+    </jrnl/2017/06/dallas>
+    Wednesday, 07 June 2017
+
+From Austin we drifted north, toward Dallas, hitting a milestone along the way:
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-02_134942_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-577" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-03_135705_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-578" class="picwide caption" />
+
+We pulled into Fort Parker State Park on a Thursday afternoon and spent the next day watching the campground fill up. This is more or less the pattern, even in summer, the weekends are jammed full, during the week we have the campgrounds to ourselves. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-576" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-579" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-580" class="picwide" />
+
+
+We passed a couple of days in Fort Parker State Park and then headed north to Plano, TX to visit Corrinne's sister and her family. Thanks to the bus we ended up spending an entire week in Plano. Let this be a lesson to those of you who have invited us to your homes, sometimes we way overstay to that point when the smell of rotten fish is upon us. We tried to get it off in the pool.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano.jpg" id="image-575" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano.jpg" id="image-574" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano.jpg" id="image-573" class="picwide" />
+
+Possibly worse we shipped a ton of parts, random purchases, laptops I'm reviewing and other stuff that piled up around the house. Seriously, think twice before you invite us over. It all starts out innocently enough. We show up for a couple days, make some vague plans and then. Then.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano.jpg" id="image-572" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano.jpg" id="image-571" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano.jpg" id="image-570" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano.jpg" id="image-569" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The engine was, yet again, running hot on the way into Plano. I figured since we had a couple days and there wasn't really room to park on the street anyway, I would take it to a repair shop and get the radiator fixed and have a place to park -- two birds one stone sort of thing. 
+
+I found a tiny pinhole size leak in the back side of the radiator, but then the shop that I went to at first turned out to not be able to solder. Kids these days. But they didn't seem opposed to me leaving the bus there for a few days, so we pulled the radiator off and I drove it over to another shop that did solder (I had the first shop replace two belts, which was about the same price as paying for a week's worth of parking). 
+
+The old guy at the radiator shop -- by the way, never trust a mechanic under 50 -- took one look at the radiator and said I can't patch that. When we first got it off and I saw the back my reaction was very similar. I believe what I said was, oh shit. The pinhole leak was small enough that you could only find it when it was pressurized, but it had obviously been going for some time. And the fins were bent in at the corners which means someone had probably been in there already. 
+
+Long story short, for those that don't find engine adventures entertaining[^1], I gave him the go ahead to re-core it. Expensive, but we want to be able to get into the mountains and not worry about overheating. I even considered making it four core, but held off on that since clearance could have been an issue.
+
+Getting the new cores and having it all rebuilt added a weekend and some change to our stay. But it gave me time to install the water tank and get the solar panels on the roof. So I spent my morning in the alley behind a mechanic's wrestling a 65 gallon water tank under a bed and crimping pex. To do all that I had to empty out everything under the bed and pile it out in the alley with me. And then run back and forth to home depot ten times in two days. Oh who am I kidding, it was probably almost twice that many times. I actually didn't think much of the whole project, but then one day I just left everything outside the bus while I was at home depot and I came back around the corner and realized it looked like a small tornado had hit a dumpster and blown everything all over the alley. 
+
+In the afternoons I would eventually start sweating so much my eyebrows would fail me and I couldn't see anymore. I'd give up and pack it up. Fortunately there was a pool back at the house and I could spend some time recovering in proper fashion -- floating it all away. The kids of course spent nearly all their time in the pool playing with their cousins.
+
+Eventually I got the water tank in and the radiator back in to. Started it up, drove home, everything seemed fine. Well. Maybe it was a tad hotter than I'd like, but it was 95 that evening so I dismissed it. 
+
+We said our goodbyes and headed west, into the sunset.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano.jpg" id="image-567" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano.jpg" id="image-568" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano.jpg" id="image-566" class="picwide" />
+
+We weren't even out of the subdivision when the temperature gauge started to climb again. There was some creative swearing in the bus for a few miles. It's frustrating to fix something and realize you didn't have the right problem, but it's even more frustrating when you spent almost $1000 doing it. I stopped at an auto parts store and let the bus cool, while I contemplating trying to install a new thermostat in the parking lot. Me pulling out radiators at the side of the road, it could be a thing. The part store intervened and saved me from myself by not having the part I needed anyway.
+
+Eventually the engine cooled and I thought screw this, let's push on. Perhaps not the best choice, but I'm stubborn and I needed to get on the road. I also decided to test something hairbrained. Back when we first entered Texas I put some insulation around the engine doghouse, mostly just to cut down on the heat coming off the engine into the cabin, but also to cut down on the noise. It happened to coincide with the engine starting to run hot, so I thought well, let's crack the doghouse and see what happens, maybe that extra airflow was helping. 
+
+Crazy, I know. But. *But*. Well, no that didn't help at all, but it did reveal something interesting -- a loud clattering sound that was previously muffled enough that I assumed it was just some pans in the oven rattling. But with the engine hood open it was very clearly louder and coming from the engine. The mechanically inclined could probably put those two clues together -- rattling metal sounds and overheating engine -- and figure out the problem. It took me about 20 miles but it slowly started to dawn on me, water pumps have ball bearings in them. 
+
+We pushed it as far as Denton, which wasn't far and, very frustrated, called around looking for someone to take a look. About five different shops didn't want anything to do with it, one shop did, but couldn't get to it for another week. Finally on the advice of one of the other shops I called a place way outside of town that supposedly "did old engines". No one answered so I said screw it, let's drive out there and see. So I did and somehow convinced the shop owner, who was mainly a rat rod and custom car builder, to take a look at the bus. Well, I didn't really convince him, the bus did, the bus is cool like that.
+
+So he agreed to replace the water pump the next day. We grabbed a hotel room to wait it out. 
+
+[^1]: If engine adventures bore this is not the blog for you. Until we get everything dialed in I expect to have more engine adventures.
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+            <p>By the time we left Denton we&#8217;d put in a new radiator core, new water pump, new thermostat and new power steering hose that had cracked when I made too tight of turn in the hotel parking lot. In Texas we had in fact pretty much redone the entire cooling system of the bus. Ideally that would have solved the overheating issues, but it did not. I left ahead of Corrinne and kids, hitting the road by 6AM to avoid the forecasted 105 degree midday temps.</p>
+<p>The night before I purchased one of those nice digital thermometer guns in hopes that perhaps the problem was the temperature or sending unit. Armed with that I stopped frequently to crawl under the engine and take temp readings all over the place. What quickly became obvious was that most of the temp readings were well within ideal operating temps for the engine. The exception was right around the sending unit, which sits roughly on the first piston on the passenger&#8217;s side of the engine. That area was notably hotter than everything else, though still not overheating hot.</p>
+<p>Despite the heat I made it Amarillo without overtaxing the engine. And just for fun, since I have the digital thermometer anyway, I started taking readings in cab of the bus&#8230; about 122 degrees on the dashboard (direct sun), about 108 on most other surfaces and 115 by my right foot where a bit of engine air still leaks out. Hot. Damn hot.</p>
+<p>That night I sat out sweating in the Amarillo night talking with my uncle Ron who serves as official bus mechanical repair consultant. He walked me through a few scenarios/possibilities, but in the end the most likely fix will probably involve flushing the engine block. In the mean time, the temp readings stayed pretty constant and within operating params for the engine so we decided to push on out of Texas, out of the heat wave and into the mountains where the bus, and we, would be much cooler and happier. </p>
+<p>That meant bypassing one of my favorite places in this region, <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands">Comanche National Grassland</a>, but with a forecast temp in the mid 90s and not a hookup for three hundred miles, we were hesitant to push it. We still hadn&#8217;t actually camped without hookups in the bus so we didn&#8217;t know what sort of temperature would be comfortable and what would be miserable. 93 degrees sounded miserable so we decided to skip it (turns out it&#8217;s not bad at all if you have a breeze, but oh well).</p>
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+<p>I left Amarillo at 5AM, well ahead of Corrinne and kids, trying to push through to the mountains before the heat of the day kicked in. I was halfway out of Texas when the sun finally did start to glow on the eastern horizon of the vast nothingness that is the western Texas desert. This is part of Texas I know reasonably well and happen to really like, the wide open, barren land, parched badlands of windswept sand and nearly endless grass and creosote. But only crazy people come out here in June. Even if you&#8217;re not crazy when you get here, you will be soon, the heat bakes you until you come unglued. The day we passed through the forecasted temp was 112.</p>
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+<p>I was well into New Mexico long before the sun got high enough for those temps. </p>
+<p>When I stopped to take this photo:</p>
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+        </a>
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+
+<p>This train honked and I looked over to see the engineer waving and giving me the thumbs up:</p>
+<div class="picwide">
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train, new mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+
+<p>I&#8217;ve driven a lot of miles in this country, seen a lot of trains, but I&#8217;ve never seen or heard of train honking and waving at a car. The bus is like that though, it extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary.</p>
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Rocky mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The kids&#39; first view of real snowy mountains, the Sangre de Christo range.">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>The kids&#8217; first view of real snowy mountains, the Sangre de Christo range.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>The bus struggled to get over Ratan pass, which is just shy of 8000 feet. It made it, the engine wasn&#8217;t overheating even, but I didn&#8217;t have much power. I was doing about 35 by the time the road finally started down again. From there I coasted on down to Trinidad Lake State Park, which has two campgrounds, one with full hookups and one totally dry with nothing save a communal water spigot and some pit toilets. We grabbed a site in the latter area, filled our new water tank and settled in to enjoy an afternoon at the lake.</p>
+<p>Unfortunately I made the mistake of asking the ranger if there were any good sandy, beach-like areas further down the road. I was prompted informed that there was no swimming in the lake. Say what? The ranger was unable to provide any reason for the no swimming, but I&#8217;d already blown it &#8212; there&#8217;s no plausible deniability after you ask. Never ask permission, just do and play dumb when you need to. Sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my brain. </p>
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+        </a>
+<figcaption>We don&#8217;t have a lot of space indoors, but we have some nice views.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>We ended up just sitting around the camp, which was nice enough, if a little warm. The heatwave was still too much on us, so we hatched a plan to head higher into the mountains the next day. </p>
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+        </a>
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+
+<p>That night was the first in the wide open big sky of the west. The sunset reflected on the clouds for hours. I let the fire burn down and watched the sky instead. Later on thunderheads rolled in over the peaks of the Sangre de Christo range. Arcing flashes of lightening bounced around the clouds like streaking silver pinballs. Just as the last light faded away coyotes began to bark and sing. Finally, the west.</p>
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+Escaping Texas
+==============
+
+    by Scott Gilbertson
+    </jrnl/2017/06/escaping-texas>
+    Monday, 12 June 2017
+
+By the time we left Denton we'd put in a new radiator core, new water pump, new thermostat and new power steering hose that had cracked when I made too tight of turn in the hotel parking lot. In Texas we had in fact pretty much redone the entire cooling system of the bus. Ideally that would have solved the overheating issues, but it did not. I left ahead of Corrinne and kids, hitting the road by 6AM to avoid the forecasted 105 degree midday temps.
+
+The night before I purchased one of those nice digital thermometer guns in hopes that perhaps the problem was the temperature or sending unit. Armed with that I stopped frequently to crawl under the engine and take temp readings all over the place. What quickly became obvious was that most of the temp readings were well within ideal operating temps for the engine. The exception was right around the sending unit, which sits roughly on the first piston on the passenger's side of the engine. That area was notably hotter than everything else, though still not overheating hot.
+
+Despite the heat I made it Amarillo without overtaxing the engine. And just for fun, since I have the digital thermometer anyway, I started taking readings in cab of the bus... about 122 degrees on the dashboard (direct sun), about 108 on most other surfaces and 115 by my right foot where a bit of engine air still leaks out. Hot. Damn hot.
+
+That night I sat out sweating in the Amarillo night talking with my uncle Ron who serves as official bus mechanical repair consultant. He walked me through a few scenarios/possibilities, but in the end the most likely fix will probably involve flushing the engine block. In the mean time, the temp readings stayed pretty constant and within operating params for the engine so we decided to push on out of Texas, out of the heat wave and into the mountains where the bus, and we, would be much cooler and happier. 
+
+That meant bypassing one of my favorite places in this region, [Comanche National Grassland](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands), but with a forecast temp in the mid 90s and not a hookup for three hundred miles, we were hesitant to push it. We still hadn't actually camped without hookups in the bus so we didn't know what sort of temperature would be comfortable and what would be miserable. 93 degrees sounded miserable so we decided to skip it (turns out it's not bad at all if you have a breeze, but oh well).
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas.jpg" id="image-582" class="picwide" />
+
+I left Amarillo at 5AM, well ahead of Corrinne and kids, trying to push through to the mountains before the heat of the day kicked in. I was halfway out of Texas when the sun finally did start to glow on the eastern horizon of the vast nothingness that is the western Texas desert. This is part of Texas I know reasonably well and happen to really like, the wide open, barren land, parched badlands of windswept sand and nearly endless grass and creosote. But only crazy people come out here in June. Even if you're not crazy when you get here, you will be soon, the heat bakes you until you come unglued. The day we passed through the forecasted temp was 112.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_062702_escaping-texas.jpg" id="image-583" class="picwide" />
+
+I was well into New Mexico long before the sun got high enough for those temps. 
+
+When I stopped to take this photo:
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas.jpg" id="image-584" class="picwide" />
+
+This train honked and I looked over to see the engineer waving and giving me the thumbs up:
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-585" class="picwide" />
+
+I've driven a lot of miles in this country, seen a lot of trains, but I've never seen or heard of train honking and waving at a car. The bus is like that though, it extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-587" class="picwide" />
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-586" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The bus struggled to get over Ratan pass, which is just shy of 8000 feet. It made it, the engine wasn't overheating even, but I didn't have much power. I was doing about 35 by the time the road finally started down again. From there I coasted on down to Trinidad Lake State Park, which has two campgrounds, one with full hookups and one totally dry with nothing save a communal water spigot and some pit toilets. We grabbed a site in the latter area, filled our new water tank and settled in to enjoy an afternoon at the lake.
+
+Unfortunately I made the mistake of asking the ranger if there were any good sandy, beach-like areas further down the road. I was prompted informed that there was no swimming in the lake. Say what? The ranger was unable to provide any reason for the no swimming, but I'd already blown it -- there's no plausible deniability after you ask. Never ask permission, just do and play dumb when you need to. Sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my brain. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-588" class="picwide caption" />
+
+We ended up just sitting around the camp, which was nice enough, if a little warm. The heatwave was still too much on us, so we hatched a plan to head higher into the mountains the next day. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-589" class="picwide" />
+
+That night was the first in the wide open big sky of the west. The sunset reflected on the clouds for hours. I let the fire burn down and watched the sky instead. Later on thunderheads rolled in over the peaks of the Sangre de Christo range. Arcing flashes of lightening bounced around the clouds like streaking silver pinballs. Just as the last light faded away coyotes began to bark and sing. Finally, the west.
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+            <p>After one night at Trinidad State Park we had to leave. The weekend thing. Saturday night even the &#8220;walk up&#8221; dry camping sites were booked, because in Colorado state parks &#8220;walk up&#8221; means whatever hasn&#8217;t been reserved online. It&#8217;s a crazy, chaotic system that makes no sense at all. All I know is that we had leave on Saturday because there were no campsites.</p>
+<p>We decided, since it was still a little warm at bedtime for the kids, that we&#8217;d head higher into the mountains. There were a couple of National Forest campgrounds up higher in the mountains above Trinidad so we booked one and set out.</p>
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+<p>Inside my head there are tons of voices, but one dominates the rest most of the time, it&#8217;s the voice that always says, sure, let&#8217;s try it, what&#8217;s the worst that could happen? </p>
+<p>Most of the time the answer to that question is very tame. Once you get past your prejudices and irrational fears and give some serious thought to, well, what <em>is</em> the worst thing that could happen and how likely is it to occur, you find that it&#8217;s really not that bad and it&#8217;s pretty unlikely. The simple truth of life is that most of what you fear is very unlikely to occur. For example, could you fall to your death while hiking a mountain trail? Well, technically yes, but millions of people go hiking in mountains around the world everyday and don&#8217;t fall to their death, so there&#8217;s a very good chance you won&#8217;t either. And so on.</p>
+<p>That&#8217;s just to preface this adventure slightly, or rather to explain my thinking when I tell you that the campground we were headed to was at 10,500 feet. </p>
+<p>Did I really think the bus would make it to 10,500 ft? Honestly? No. But I was damn sure going to try. And so we did.</p>
+<p>As per our usual these days I left early, around seven, though once I got a few thousand feet I knew air temperature wasn&#8217;t going to be the problem. The problem was even simpler &#8212; air, or the lack thereof. Internal combustion engines need three basic things &#8212; fuel, fire and compression. The higher you go the less compression. The less compression, the less power. The less power the less a roughly 8000lb 1969 Dodge Travco goes forward.</p>
+<p>The drive started well, the bus breezed on up to about 8500 ft like it was nothing, and it was, the grade was mild, the air cool and traffic almost non-existent. I stopped at a tiny store and let the engine rest a while. There were rocking chairs on a nice wooden porch lined with hummingbird feeders. I listen to two locals talk about how they spent the winter, and got the impression that, despite living less than 10 miles apart they hadn&#8217;t seen each other in months thanks to the snow. As I keep telling Corrinne, it&#8217;s beautiful here, but if want to know the truth about Colorado mountain towns, check how far up the stovepipes extend. Now you know how much snow sits on your roof all winter.</p>
+<p>I enjoyed the country store porch so much I went back to the bus and pulled out a 100-300 zoom lens I bought off eBay back when we were in Dallas. Producing an decent image of a hummingbird hand-holding a massive, heavy, manual focus 100-300 zoom from the early 1980s turns out to be as difficult as it sounds. </p>
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+<p>But photography is a lot like fishing in that the fish aren&#8217;t really that important sometimes, sometimes it&#8217;s all in the trying. I discovered an interesting thing that happens with digital viewfinders &#8212; the screen refresh rate is far slower than a hummingbird&#8217;s wings beating, which means that through the viewfinder you get a live-action, slow motion movie of a hummingbird&#8217;s wings beating. It&#8217;s gorgeous, but it&#8217;s only in the viewfinder. </p>
+<p>I was about to go dig out my tripod and get serious about taking a hummingbird picture when Corrinne and kids caught up and we all set out up the mountain again. The next 1500 vertical feet happened much faster than the first 1500. I didn&#8217;t track the mileage, but I doubt it was more than ten. It was hard climbing. The bus just didn&#8217;t have the power (I was also carrying about 35 gallons of water since it was unclear from our research whether there would be any water at the campground, that added about 300lbs, which I could definitely feel dragging in the rear). </p>
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg" alt="1969 dodge travco, pull out, somewhere in the Sangre de Christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Taking a break before trying the final climb to the pass.">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Taking a break before trying the final climb to the pass.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>The final grade up to the pass was a long, winding, steady climb with no breaks. It was too much. I dropped to about ten miles an hour and then five and then I felt the transmission slip. Because I am an extremely luck person, the only pull out on the entire grade was about 50 feet back from where I was and so I gave up.</p>
+<p>I cut the engine and rolled back down, backing into the turnout (a private dirt road really) and shut the bus down. I probably could have sat there, let the engine rest and cool for a while and the given it another try. But I knew from the maps that the pass wasn&#8217;t the end of the climbing. After the pass the road went down about 1000 feet and then back up 1500 more to the campground. It just wasn&#8217;t going to happen.</p>
+<p>Like Kenny Rogers&#8217; said, you got know when to fold &#8216;em.</p>
+<p>I let the engine rest a bit, called Corrinne back and then we started back down. We made it down to a lower, larger pullout and parked the bus so we could scout around and maybe find somewhere to boondock for a few nights. We headed up into some National Forest land on a dirt road that eventually led to a campground, but had plenty of boondocking spots on the way. We know this because they were all full of happy looking van dwellers and RVers. Damn you Colorado in the summer time.</p>
+<p>Eventually we made to all the way up to the lower campground, which was still at 9500 ft. It was beautiful, tucked in an aspen grove on the edge of an alpine meadow with crystalline, wildflower-lined streams cascading down the mountainside seemingly everywhere. There aren&#8217;t many places where you can drive to scenery like that, usually you have to strap on boots and hump it over the mountains on foot to see alpine meadows. </p>
+<p>We sat there for a while and debated whether or not the bus could get up the road. I still don&#8217;t know, it might have. But it turns out there are some consequences to driving, rather than walking, to an elevation like that. </p>
+<p>I&#8217;ve never really suffered much from altitude sickness, I get it a little bit, dizziness usually, but I&#8217;ve seen more acute symptoms in plenty of hiking companions &#8212; dizziness, nausea, disorientation, confusion. It&#8217;s rather difficult to describe if you haven&#8217;t experienced it. Usually you can just sleep it off and be fine the next morning, but with everyone a little off, and the bus not running as well as I&#8217;d like, it was an easy call. We headed back down to Trinidad. If we want to camp in an alpine meadow we&#8217;ll do it the right way &#8212; by hiking to it.</p>
+<p>Getting down the mountain was nerve wracking for me, not because of the drive, but because I was unsure what kind of gas mileage I had been getting on the way up and I had calculated the gas such that we&#8217;d just make it to the gas station on the other side (I was trying to keep weight down). Going back the way we came meant adding 20 miles to the drive, which eliminated the 2-3 gallon cushion I&#8217;d calculated. I was sweating by the time we neared Trinidad, not entirely from the heat, but I did make it to a gas station. I paid mountain gas prices and was happy to do so. </p>
+<p>By then it was near dinner time and everyone was tired, frustrated, hangry and cranky. We grabbed one of the last hotel rooms in Trinidad, took some showers and headed out for burgers. Really good burgers as it turned out, bison burgers and fries at the What A Grind Cafe, which also served up a proper pour of Guinness, something that goes a long way to getting your tail out from between your legs at the end of a long frustrating day. </p>
+<figure class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Room with a view photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The view from our door.">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>The view from our door.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>The next morning we decided to go ahead and stay in the Trinidad area for a while. It was sunday so there were campsites available again. And it was warm, about the mid 90s during the day, but it wasn&#8217;t too bad because there was a reliable breeze to keep things bearable. At night the temperature dropped quickly in the evenings so putting the kids to bed was fine and we could always use the van to head up into the mountains if we really needed to get away from the heat.</p>
+<p>We managed to get a campsite with a view at the far end of the campground. We went hiking, I made a few repairs to the bus, I got some work done to pay the bills and just generally relaxed. </p>
+<figure class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Breakfast with a view photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Breakfast with a view">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Breakfast with a view</figcaption>
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+<div class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sangre de Christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Butterfly photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Coloring photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+
+<p>The water pump that came with the bus &#8212; which sounded a bit like a jet engine when it was running &#8212; gave out one day and so we drove out to an RV supply shop to get another one and discovered an abandoned mining town on the way.</p>
+<div class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving near trinidad photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+<figure class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Old coal mining town photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Old coal mining town.">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Old coal mining town.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Our friend Mike was headed from Paonia, CO to Texas and since Trinidad wasn&#8217;t far out of the way he stopped by and camped with us for a night. He happened to have some Elk antlers, which entertained the kids for a good solid 6 hours or so.</p>
+<figure class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Mike photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Our friend mike was passing through the area so he stopped by for a night.">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Our friend mike was passing through the area so he stopped by for a night.</figcaption>
+</figure>
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+<figure class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Elk Antlers photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Mike travels with elk antlers. And now, so do we. The antler Elliott is holding is part of our traveling bric-à-brac show now.">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Mike travels with elk antlers. And now, so do we. The antler Elliott is holding is part of our traveling bric-à-brac show now.</figcaption>
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+The High Country
+================
+
+    by Scott Gilbertson
+    </jrnl/2017/06/high-country>
+    Sunday, 18 June 2017
+
+After one night at Trinidad State Park we had to leave. The weekend thing. Saturday night even the "walk up" dry camping sites were booked, because in Colorado state parks "walk up" means whatever hasn't been reserved online. It's a crazy, chaotic system that makes no sense at all. All I know is that we had leave on Saturday because there were no campsites.
+
+We decided, since it was still a little warm at bedtime for the kids, that we'd head higher into the mountains. There were a couple of National Forest campgrounds up higher in the mountains above Trinidad so we booked one and set out.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-590" class="picwide" />
+
+Inside my head there are tons of voices, but one dominates the rest most of the time, it's the voice that always says, sure, let's try it, what's the worst that could happen? 
+
+Most of the time the answer to that question is very tame. Once you get past your prejudices and irrational fears and give some serious thought to, well, what *is* the worst thing that could happen and how likely is it to occur, you find that it's really not that bad and it's pretty unlikely. The simple truth of life is that most of what you fear is very unlikely to occur. For example, could you fall to your death while hiking a mountain trail? Well, technically yes, but millions of people go hiking in mountains around the world everyday and don't fall to their death, so there's a very good chance you won't either. And so on.
+
+That's just to preface this adventure slightly, or rather to explain my thinking when I tell you that the campground we were headed to was at 10,500 feet. 
+
+Did I really think the bus would make it to 10,500 ft? Honestly? No. But I was damn sure going to try. And so we did.
+
+As per our usual these days I left early, around seven, though once I got a few thousand feet I knew air temperature wasn't going to be the problem. The problem was even simpler -- air, or the lack thereof. Internal combustion engines need three basic things -- fuel, fire and compression. The higher you go the less compression. The less compression, the less power. The less power the less a roughly 8000lb 1969 Dodge Travco goes forward.
+
+The drive started well, the bus breezed on up to about 8500 ft like it was nothing, and it was, the grade was mild, the air cool and traffic almost non-existent. I stopped at a tiny store and let the engine rest a while. There were rocking chairs on a nice wooden porch lined with hummingbird feeders. I listen to two locals talk about how they spent the winter, and got the impression that, despite living less than 10 miles apart they hadn't seen each other in months thanks to the snow. As I keep telling Corrinne, it's beautiful here, but if want to know the truth about Colorado mountain towns, check how far up the stovepipes extend. Now you know how much snow sits on your roof all winter.
+
+I enjoyed the country store porch so much I went back to the bus and pulled out a 100-300 zoom lens I bought off eBay back when we were in Dallas. Producing an decent image of a hummingbird hand-holding a massive, heavy, manual focus 100-300 zoom from the early 1980s turns out to be as difficult as it sounds. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-591" class="picwide" />
+
+But photography is a lot like fishing in that the fish aren't really that important sometimes, sometimes it's all in the trying. I discovered an interesting thing that happens with digital viewfinders -- the screen refresh rate is far slower than a hummingbird's wings beating, which means that through the viewfinder you get a live-action, slow motion movie of a hummingbird's wings beating. It's gorgeous, but it's only in the viewfinder. 
+
+I was about to go dig out my tripod and get serious about taking a hummingbird picture when Corrinne and kids caught up and we all set out up the mountain again. The next 1500 vertical feet happened much faster than the first 1500. I didn't track the mileage, but I doubt it was more than ten. It was hard climbing. The bus just didn't have the power (I was also carrying about 35 gallons of water since it was unclear from our research whether there would be any water at the campground, that added about 300lbs, which I could definitely feel dragging in the rear). 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-592" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The final grade up to the pass was a long, winding, steady climb with no breaks. It was too much. I dropped to about ten miles an hour and then five and then I felt the transmission slip. Because I am an extremely luck person, the only pull out on the entire grade was about 50 feet back from where I was and so I gave up.
+
+I cut the engine and rolled back down, backing into the turnout (a private dirt road really) and shut the bus down. I probably could have sat there, let the engine rest and cool for a while and the given it another try. But I knew from the maps that the pass wasn't the end of the climbing. After the pass the road went down about 1000 feet and then back up 1500 more to the campground. It just wasn't going to happen.
+
+Like Kenny Rogers' said, you got know when to fold 'em.
+
+I let the engine rest a bit, called Corrinne back and then we started back down. We made it down to a lower, larger pullout and parked the bus so we could scout around and maybe find somewhere to boondock for a few nights. We headed up into some National Forest land on a dirt road that eventually led to a campground, but had plenty of boondocking spots on the way. We know this because they were all full of happy looking van dwellers and RVers. Damn you Colorado in the summer time.
+
+Eventually we made to all the way up to the lower campground, which was still at 9500 ft. It was beautiful, tucked in an aspen grove on the edge of an alpine meadow with crystalline, wildflower-lined streams cascading down the mountainside seemingly everywhere. There aren't many places where you can drive to scenery like that, usually you have to strap on boots and hump it over the mountains on foot to see alpine meadows. 
+
+We sat there for a while and debated whether or not the bus could get up the road. I still don't know, it might have. But it turns out there are some consequences to driving, rather than walking, to an elevation like that. 
+
+I've never really suffered much from altitude sickness, I get it a little bit, dizziness usually, but I've seen more acute symptoms in plenty of hiking companions -- dizziness, nausea, disorientation, confusion. It's rather difficult to describe if you haven't experienced it. Usually you can just sleep it off and be fine the next morning, but with everyone a little off, and the bus not running as well as I'd like, it was an easy call. We headed back down to Trinidad. If we want to camp in an alpine meadow we'll do it the right way -- by hiking to it.
+
+Getting down the mountain was nerve wracking for me, not because of the drive, but because I was unsure what kind of gas mileage I had been getting on the way up and I had calculated the gas such that we'd just make it to the gas station on the other side (I was trying to keep weight down). Going back the way we came meant adding 20 miles to the drive, which eliminated the 2-3 gallon cushion I'd calculated. I was sweating by the time we neared Trinidad, not entirely from the heat, but I did make it to a gas station. I paid mountain gas prices and was happy to do so. 
+
+By then it was near dinner time and everyone was tired, frustrated, hangry and cranky. We grabbed one of the last hotel rooms in Trinidad, took some showers and headed out for burgers. Really good burgers as it turned out, bison burgers and fries at the What A Grind Cafe, which also served up a proper pour of Guinness, something that goes a long way to getting your tail out from between your legs at the end of a long frustrating day. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-593" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The next morning we decided to go ahead and stay in the Trinidad area for a while. It was sunday so there were campsites available again. And it was warm, about the mid 90s during the day, but it wasn't too bad because there was a reliable breeze to keep things bearable. At night the temperature dropped quickly in the evenings so putting the kids to bed was fine and we could always use the van to head up into the mountains if we really needed to get away from the heat.
+
+We managed to get a campsite with a view at the far end of the campground. We went hiking, I made a few repairs to the bus, I got some work done to pay the bills and just generally relaxed. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-596" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-597" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-598" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-599" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-600" class="picwide" />
+
+The water pump that came with the bus -- which sounded a bit like a jet engine when it was running -- gave out one day and so we drove out to an RV supply shop to get another one and discovered an abandoned mining town on the way.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-602" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-601" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Our friend Mike was headed from Paonia, CO to Texas and since Trinidad wasn't far out of the way he stopped by and camped with us for a night. He happened to have some Elk antlers, which entertained the kids for a good solid 6 hours or so.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-595" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-594" class="picwide caption" />
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+            <p>The fire exhales in soft gasps and whispers, occasionally snapping a shot of sparks into the air. It&#8217;s the longest day of the year, well past 9pm and the last reddish glow of twilight is still clinging to the high mountains of the Spanish Peaks wilderness, a good thirty miles west from our camp here at Trinidad Lake.</p>
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+<p>We celebrated the Solstice by heading back up into the Sangre de Christo Mountains, to Bear Lake. We had to see it, even if we couldn&#8217;t get the bus to it. It turned out to be a wonderful little glacial lake at the base of Teddy&#8217;s Peak<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, with a good view of the Culebra Range. </p>
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+<p>The name comes from a large black bear that was causing a lot of havoc back in the early 1900s. An early forest ranger set a trap for it and the next day he went to retrieve the trap but it was gone. He tracked the bear and trap to the middle of the lake. The bear was so big that it had dragged the trap cross-country several miles before dying in the lake. The story serves as a reminder that the pre-Aldo Leopold forest service was not noted for it&#8217;s ecological outlook. Arguably, neither is the post-Aldo Leopold forest service.</p>
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+<p>A mostly spruce forest, with glades of aspen here and there surround the Bear Lake. A tributary of the Cuchara River runs down the hill and feeds snow melt into Bear Lake. The water is freezing. Even near the end of June there&#8217;s still a patch of now and ice lingering in the cool shade of the north shore. </p>
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+<p>It was way too cold for any of us to give it a try. The kids contented themselves with throwing rocks in the shallow water.</p>
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+
+<p>I&#8217;m late getting this up, I&#8217;m running about a month behind right now, bit longer than the week I aim for, but I hope wherever you were, whatever you did, you had a good solstice. </p>
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+<p>Yes, <a href="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/original/2017/theodore-roosevelt_3QXvPHn.jpg">that</a> Teddy.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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+Solstice
+========
+
+    by Scott Gilbertson
+    </jrnl/2017/06/solstice>
+    Wednesday, 21 June 2017
+
+The fire exhales in soft gasps and whispers, occasionally snapping a shot of sparks into the air. It's the longest day of the year, well past 9pm and the last reddish glow of twilight is still clinging to the high mountains of the Spanish Peaks wilderness, a good thirty miles west from our camp here at Trinidad Lake.
+
+<img src="images/2017/iphone_2017-06-21_210323.jpg" id="image-609" class="picwide" />
+
+We celebrated the Solstice by heading back up into the Sangre de Christo Mountains, to Bear Lake. We had to see it, even if we couldn't get the bus to it. It turned out to be a wonderful little glacial lake at the base of Teddy's Peak[^1], with a good view of the Culebra Range. 
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-606" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170621_151929.jpg" id="image-615" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/20170621_140434.jpg" id="image-613" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170621_142149.jpg" id="image-612" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+The name comes from a large black bear that was causing a lot of havoc back in the early 1900s. An early forest ranger set a trap for it and the next day he went to retrieve the trap but it was gone. He tracked the bear and trap to the middle of the lake. The bear was so big that it had dragged the trap cross-country several miles before dying in the lake. The story serves as a reminder that the pre-Aldo Leopold forest service was not noted for it's ecological outlook. Arguably, neither is the post-Aldo Leopold forest service.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-604" class="picwide" />
+
+A mostly spruce forest, with glades of aspen here and there surround the Bear Lake. A tributary of the Cuchara River runs down the hill and feeds snow melt into Bear Lake. The water is freezing. Even near the end of June there's still a patch of now and ice lingering in the cool shade of the north shore. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-608" class="picwide" />
+
+It was way too cold for any of us to give it a try. The kids contented themselves with throwing rocks in the shallow water.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-605" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_150327_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-618" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_150335_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-619" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-617" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-620" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-621" class="picwide" />
+
+I'm late getting this up, I'm running about a month behind right now, bit longer than the week I aim for, but I hope wherever you were, whatever you did, you had a good solstice. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/20170618_202958.jpg" id="image-622" class="picwide" />
+
+
+[^1]: Yes, [that][1] Teddy.
+
+[1]: https://luxagraf.net/media/images/original/2017/theodore-roosevelt_3QXvPHn.jpg
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+            <p>We eventually managed to book a campsite at McKinney Falls State Park, which is just a few miles from downtown Austin. </p>
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_133641_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_133641_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_133641_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_133641_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="chocolate ice creem photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-30_133641_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Making chocolate ice cream">
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+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_174134-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_174134-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_174134-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_174134-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancing, mckinney falls campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-28_174134-1_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Peacocks dancing.">
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+        </a>
+<figcaption>This is an animated gif, if you click it and are patient, it&#8217;ll load. I should learn how to compress them, but meh.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<div class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="interior, 1969 dodge travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
+        </a>
+</div>
+
+<p>It&#8217;s a short drive from the campground into Austin, but it&#8217;s not exactly a pretty one, it winds through the massive sprawling suburbs that encircle Austin. </p>
+<figure class="picwide">
+        <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/sprawl.jpg " title="view larger image">
+            <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sprawl, austin photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/sprawl.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes made of ticky tack / Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes all the same,">
+        </a>
+<figcaption>Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes made of ticky tack / Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes all the same,</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>Corrinne grew up here, before all the sprawl, or perhaps in the first round of sprawl. This round of sprawl has happened shockingly fast. The difference just in the six years since we were last here is astounding. One of the blacksmiths we spoke with at Pioneer Farm had a son in a high school where the freshman class is three times the size of the graduating class.</p>
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+<figcaption>Live action Ed Ruscha. From one of the many, many planned and half executed subdivisions around Austin.</figcaption>
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+<p>Driving in we got an interesting tour of what&#8217;s drawing people to town &#8212; mostly high tech companies, particularly hardware makers &#8212; and then the suburban sprawl where the employees live. It&#8217;s easy to mock that sprawl, it&#8217;s pretty ugly, but what other answer is there? Completely change your culture to embrace real, functioning cities? Probably not going to work. Until there&#8217;s no other choice.</p>
+<p>Athens has had some pretty intense growth as well, and the city tried to combat sprawl by encouraging development downtown, but all that did was bring in a bunch of huge generic high rises that turned downtown into, well, it could be anywhere &#8212; there&#8217;s nothing left of the downtown Athens I knew and loved. So Austin has sprawl, but still has its downtown. I think that&#8217;s the way to do actually because downtown Austin feels and looks about the same as it did when I first drove through a decade ago. </p>
+<p>The traffic is crazy though. Our running joke was that nothing was less than a 25 minute drive away. Grocery is four miles? Twenty five minutes. Didn&#8217;t matter what time of day it was, traffic was constant. In fact I passed on buying our house batteries because the shop was 15 miles away, but that 15 mile drive was never less than a 1 hour drive (according to Google Maps anyway).</p>
+<p>I do still like Austin though. It&#8217;s a little hip for its own good, but it has some fabulous food, great camping close to town and tons of stuff to do. It&#8217;s hard to beat in that regard. The kids got to see their Gmommy, we took a trip to the coolest swimming pool ever, Barton Springs, and ate at quite a few food trucks.</p>
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+                <p>Wondering if you&#8217;re headed to Dallas? I am considering going to a conference there this fall and wondering if it&#8217;s an interesting city to visit.  I think I would enjoy seeing downtown Austin from reading your post. If you are headed to Dallas, there is  a state park nearby where you can see dinosaur footprints. I think your kids would enjoy that.</p>
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+<p>We&#8217;re actually in Dallas right now, or just north of it in the city of Plano. We&#8217;re mostly here to visit family and make some repairs to the bus though so we haven&#8217;t explored too much. </p>
+<p>It&#8217;s my second time here, but I&#8217;ve never really done anything more than drive through downtown Dallas. It seems pretty cool though. There&#8217;s a lot of great sounding restaurants anyway. I&#8217;d say go. But I&#8217;d almost always say that.</p>
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+Sprawl (Austin, part deux)
+==========================
+
+    by Scott Gilbertson
+    </jrnl/2017/06/sprawl-austin-part-deux>
+    Thursday, 01 June 2017
+
+We eventually managed to book a campsite at McKinney Falls State Park, which is just a few miles from downtown Austin. 
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_133953_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-556" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_135025_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-557" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/DSC07665.gif" id="image-565" class="picwide caption" />
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+
+It's a short drive from the campground into Austin, but it's not exactly a pretty one, it winds through the massive sprawling suburbs that encircle Austin. 
+
+<img src="images/2017/sprawl.jpg" id="image-564" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Corrinne grew up here, before all the sprawl, or perhaps in the first round of sprawl. This round of sprawl has happened shockingly fast. The difference just in the six years since we were last here is astounding. One of the blacksmiths we spoke with at Pioneer Farm had a son in a high school where the freshman class is three times the size of the graduating class.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-558" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Driving in we got an interesting tour of what's drawing people to town -- mostly high tech companies, particularly hardware makers -- and then the suburban sprawl where the employees live. It's easy to mock that sprawl, it's pretty ugly, but what other answer is there? Completely change your culture to embrace real, functioning cities? Probably not going to work. Until there's no other choice.
+
+Athens has had some pretty intense growth as well, and the city tried to combat sprawl by encouraging development downtown, but all that did was bring in a bunch of huge generic high rises that turned downtown into, well, it could be anywhere -- there's nothing left of the downtown Athens I knew and loved. So Austin has sprawl, but still has its downtown. I think that's the way to do actually because downtown Austin feels and looks about the same as it did when I first drove through a decade ago. 
+
+The traffic is crazy though. Our running joke was that nothing was less than a 25 minute drive away. Grocery is four miles? Twenty five minutes. Didn't matter what time of day it was, traffic was constant. In fact I passed on buying our house batteries because the shop was 15 miles away, but that 15 mile drive was never less than a 1 hour drive (according to Google Maps anyway).
+
+I do still like Austin though. It's a little hip for its own good, but it has some fabulous food, great camping close to town and tons of stuff to do. It's hard to beat in that regard. The kids got to see their Gmommy, we took a trip to the coolest swimming pool ever, Barton Springs, and ate at quite a few food trucks.
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