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From there we continued inland, making an unscheduled, but thoroughly enjoyable stop in King City, CA" +} +</script> + +</head> +<body > + <div class="wrapper" id="wrapper"> + <div class="header-wrapper"> + <header class="site-banner"> + <div id="logo"> + <a href="/" title="Home">Luxagraf</a> + <span class="sitesubtitle">Walk Slowly</span> + </div> + <nav> + <ul> + <li><a href="/jrnl/" title="Stories of life on the road.">Jrnl</a> & <a href="/field-notes/" title="Short stories, snapshots of daily life on the road.">Field Notes</a></li> + <li><a href="/guide/" title="Advice, Tools, Tips and Tricks for Full Time Van or RV Life.">Guides</a></li> + <li><a href="/newsletter/" title="The 'friends of a long year' newsletter">newsletter</a></li> + <li><a href="/about" title="About Scott">About</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + </header> + </div> + <ol class="bl" id="breadcrumbs" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList"> + <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"><a itemprop="item" href="/"><span itemprop="name">Home</span></a> → + <meta itemprop="position" content="1" /> + </li> + <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"> + + <a href="/jrnl/" itemprop="item"><span itemprop="name">jrnl</span></a> + <meta itemprop="position" content="2" /> + <meta itemprop="position" content="2" /> + </li> + </ol> + + + <main> + <article class="h-entry hentry entry-content content" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> + <header id="header" class="post-header "> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post-title" itemprop="headline">Aquarium Kings</h1> + + <div class="post-linewrapper"> + <div class="p-location h-adr adr post-location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> + <h3 class="h-adr" itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"><span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="addressLocality">King City</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/jrnl/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name" itemprop="addressCountry">U.S.</span></h3> + – <a href="" onclick="showMap(36.20658011394801, -121.14895576255992, { type:'point', lat:'36.20658011394801', lon:'-121.14895576255992'}); return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-12-10T07:36:37" itemprop="datePublished">December <span>10, 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> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>After so much time away from the bus it was good to be on the road again. We headed out the morning after we got back, picking our way south through the Bay Area and down to, as it turned out, Silicon Valley, the epicenter of what’s wrong with America, and, as you might expect, a terrible place to try to camp. After an abortive attempt or two we gave up and got a hotel room.</p> +<p>The next day we drove the rest of the way down to Monterey, hoping to visit some friends and take the kids to aquarium. There’s a well located campground, right in the middle of Monterey, up on a hill. There’s too many trees to see the ocean, and there’s not even the pretense of a level site, but it’s far better than what you’ll find in most California cities so I won’t complain. It also had a nice playground for the kids.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-27_174258_monterey.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/2017/2017-11-27_174258_monterey_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-27_174258_monterey_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-27_174258_monterey_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-27_174258_monterey_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playground, monterey, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-27_174258_monterey.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-28_173526-1_monterey.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/2017/2017-11-28_173526-1_monterey_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-28_173526-1_monterey_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-28_173526-1_monterey_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-28_173526-1_monterey_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playground, monterey, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-28_173526-1_monterey.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Being centrally located also allowed us to explore the town and see the aquarium.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey.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/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey_picwide.jpg" alt="jellyfish photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_123804_monterey.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/2017/2017-11-29_123804_monterey_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_123804_monterey_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_123804_monterey_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_123804_monterey_picwide-med.jpg" alt="fish, monterey aquarium photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_123804_monterey.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_124950_monterey.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/2017/2017-11-29_124950_monterey_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_124950_monterey_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_124950_monterey_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_124950_monterey_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids in clam photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_124950_monterey.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_141005_monterey.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/2017/2017-11-29_141005_monterey_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_141005_monterey_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_141005_monterey_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-29_141005_monterey_picwide-med.jpg" alt="squid, monterey aquarium photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-29_141005_monterey.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I’m probably just a twisted person, but after a few hours at the Monterey Bay Aquarium I was starving and really craving sushi. </p> +<p>One night I managed to sneak off one night to spend some time with my friends, who I’m pretty sure really didn’t understand why I refused to drive the bus up the hill to their house. I’ll tell you why in the next post. For now, rest assured that I made a wise decision.</p> +<p>From Monterey we were supposed to head south to Santa Barbara to visit some more friends, but honestly, we were a bit sick of being damp and wanted to head away from the coast for a while. This turned out to be a smart choice since the Santa Barbara fires started a couple days later. The first day out of Monterey we were headed down 101 (probably the roughest, consistently awful road we’ve driven, Californians I know you don’t want to hear this, but you are living in a third world country and you’re the only ones who don’t realize it. But I digress), I stopped for gas and when we pulled out of the gas station there was a horrible grinding noise that really sounded like wheel bearings to me. </p> +<p>My wife on the other hand thought the noise was coming from further back, near the transmission. I crawled underneath the bus but I couldn’t see anything amiss. Unfortunately I crawled from the engine and wiggled backward, which meant I missed seeing the problem. We drove back into King City and searched out a mechanic who, fortunately, had time to look around. He and I took it for a drive, then crawled under it from about midway back and immediately saw the problem — the forward driveshaft mount had dropped down and the driveshaft was scraping against a crossbar. </p> +<p>A quick lift with a floor jack and we tightened up the bracket and everything was fine. It took less time to fix than it did for my wife and kids to eat lunch at the Vietnamese restaurant next door. </p> +<p>By this time it was midway through the afternoon and no one really felt like driving anymore. We had spied a county park on our way into town so we headed there instead of back on the highway. It was a nice place, virtually empty and there was plenty of stuff for the kids to explore. We ended up spending the entire weekend there.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-01_173929_king-city.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/2017/2017-12-01_173929_king-city_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-01_173929_king-city_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-01_173929_king-city_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-01_173929_king-city_picwide-med.jpg" alt="campground, King city photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-01_173929_king-city.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-30_170836_king-city.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/2017/2017-11-30_170836_king-city_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_170836_king-city_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_170836_king-city_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_170836_king-city_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train car, King city photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-30_170836_king-city.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-30_170657_king-city.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/2017/2017-11-30_170657_king-city_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_170657_king-city_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_170657_king-city_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_170657_king-city_picwide-med.jpg" alt="campground, King city photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-30_170657_king-city.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city.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/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playground, king city, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-30_174503_king-city.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/2017/2017-11-30_174503_king-city_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_174503_king-city_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-30_174503_king-city_picwide.jpg 2880w" 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We headed out the morning after we got back, picking our way south through the Bay Area and down to, as it turned out, Silicon Valley, the epicenter of what's wrong with America, and, as you might expect, a terrible place to try to camp. After an abortive attempt or two we gave up and got a hotel room.
+
+The next day we drove the rest of the way down to Monterey, hoping to visit some friends and take the kids to aquarium. There's a well located campground, right in the middle of Monterey, up on a hill. There's too many trees to see the ocean, and there's not even the pretense of a level site, but it's far better than what you'll find in most California cities so I won't complain. It also had a nice playground for the kids.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-27_174258_monterey.jpg" id="image-999" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-28_173526-1_monterey.jpg" id="image-1003" class="picwide" />
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+Being centrally located also allowed us to explore the town and see the aquarium.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-29_114628_monterey.jpg" id="image-1004" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-29_123804_monterey.jpg" id="image-1005" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-29_124950_monterey.jpg" id="image-1006" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-29_141005_monterey.jpg" id="image-1007" class="picwide" />
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+I'm probably just a twisted person, but after a few hours at the Monterey Bay Aquarium I was starving and really craving sushi.
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+One night I managed to sneak off one night to spend some time with my friends, who I'm pretty sure really didn't understand why I refused to drive the bus up the hill to their house. I'll tell you why in the next post. For now, rest assured that I made a wise decision.
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+From Monterey we were supposed to head south to Santa Barbara to visit some more friends, but honestly, we were a bit sick of being damp and wanted to head away from the coast for a while. This turned out to be a smart choice since the Santa Barbara fires started a couple days later. The first day out of Monterey we were headed down 101 (probably the roughest, consistently awful road we've driven, Californians I know you don't want to hear this, but you are living in a third world country and you're the only ones who don't realize it. But I digress), I stopped for gas and when we pulled out of the gas station there was a horrible grinding noise that really sounded like wheel bearings to me.
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+My wife on the other hand thought the noise was coming from further back, near the transmission. I crawled underneath the bus but I couldn't see anything amiss. Unfortunately I crawled from the engine and wiggled backward, which meant I missed seeing the problem. We drove back into King City and searched out a mechanic who, fortunately, had time to look around. He and I took it for a drive, then crawled under it from about midway back and immediately saw the problem -- the forward driveshaft mount had dropped down and the driveshaft was scraping against a crossbar.
+
+A quick lift with a floor jack and we tightened up the bracket and everything was fine. It took less time to fix than it did for my wife and kids to eat lunch at the Vietnamese restaurant next door.
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+By this time it was midway through the afternoon and no one really felt like driving anymore. We had spied a county park on our way into town so we headed there instead of back on the highway. It was a nice place, virtually empty and there was plenty of stuff for the kids to explore. We ended up spending the entire weekend there.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city.jpg" id="image-1010" class="picwide" />
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We headed down to Orange County to my parent’s house, where the kids got to do some Christmasy stuff, like decorate a tree and, eventually, have a Christmas morning a week early.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-13_140115_christmas_FJ3YFaF.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/2017/2017-12-13_140115_christmas_FJ3YFaF_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-13_140115_christmas_FJ3YFaF_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-13_140115_christmas_FJ3YFaF_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-13_140115_christmas_FJ3YFaF_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Early Chrismas in orange county photographed by luxagraf" 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+ <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-17_163406_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-17_163406_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-17_163406_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-17_163406_christmas_pictall-sm.jpg Nonew" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-17_163406_christmas_picwide.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-17_163406_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We also got to do some decidedly un-Christmasy stuff as well, like head down to the beach since the weather was plenty warm enough to play in the sand and even go for a swim one day.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas_picwide.jpg" alt="the beach off blackie's photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-14_154515_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-14_154515_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_154515_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_154515_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-14_154515_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the beach off blackie's photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-14_154515_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-15_155012_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-15_155012_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-15_155012_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-15_155012_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-15_155012_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the beach off blackie's photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-15_155012_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It wasn’t quite Christmas, it was early Christmas, but it was what we had. Then we headed back up toward the high desert to collect the bus, but it wasn’t quite ready so thankfully Bill and Crystal were willing to put us up in LA for a couple nights. We road the subways, explored Union Station and kept ourselves generally entertained until the call finally came — come get the bus.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-18_170731_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-18_170731_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_170731_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_170731_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_170731_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="On the metro, Los Angeles photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-18_170731_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-18_182555_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-18_182555_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_182555_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_182555_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_182555_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Union Station, Los Angeles photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-18_182555_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-18_182952_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-18_182952_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_182952_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_182952_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-18_182952_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shoe shine stand, Union Station, Los Angeles photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-18_182952_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Before middle class mediocrity took over Americans used to make beautiful things, even shoe shine stands could be amazing."> + </a> +<figcaption>Before middle class mediocrity took over Americans used to make beautiful things, even shoe shine stands could be amazing.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope 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We all suck at waiting actually, which is why after four days waiting around in the desert left us feeling a little stir crazy. We thought, screw the calendar, let's do Christmas now. And so we did. We headed down to Orange County to my parent's house, where the kids got to do some Christmasy stuff, like decorate a tree and, eventually, have a Christmas morning a week early.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-13_140115_christmas_FJ3YFaF.jpg" id="image-1024" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-13_145534_christmas.jpg" id="image-1025" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-17_163406_christmas.jpg" id="image-1029" class="picwide" />
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+We also got to do some decidedly un-Christmasy stuff as well, like head down to the beach since the weather was plenty warm enough to play in the sand and even go for a swim one day.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-14_153303_christmas.jpg" id="image-1026" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-14_154515_christmas.jpg" id="image-1027" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-15_155012_christmas.jpg" id="image-1028" class="picwide" />
+
+It wasn't quite Christmas, it was early Christmas, but it was what we had. Then we headed back up toward the high desert to collect the bus, but it wasn't quite ready so thankfully Bill and Crystal were willing to put us up in LA for a couple nights. We road the subways, explored Union Station and kept ourselves generally entertained until the call finally came -- come get the bus.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-18_170731_christmas.jpg" id="image-1030" class="picwide" />
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Or one of them anyway. </p> +<p>It all happened climbing or trying to climb over Tehachapi pass, to get out of central California. We’d been holed up in Bakersfield where I came down with a sinus infection that gave me a fever of 104 and took three rounds of antibiotics to put down. I was pretty doped up on cold medicine, but we really wanted to get out of Bakerfield so we went for it. About half way up oil was spraying out the right side of the engine and that was that. I pulled over and called AAA.</p> +<p>We got towed over the pass and, in the beginning, when I thought it was only the head gasket, we piled into a tiny, dingy Motel 6 room with 2 double beds and prepared to wait for a couple days. The next morning I got a call from the mechanic that I need to come down to the shop. That second picture is what I saw. </p> +<p>It was demoralizing to see the exhaust manifolds, spark plugs and other things we had just done sitting there destroyed. I called Corrinne and we discussed what to do. We seriously considered cutting our loses and parting it out, in fact we decided to do that, but in the end we couldn’t give up now. We’re too stubborn apparently. We had to stick with it. But there was no way we were going to hang around for weeks in a Motel 6 in Mojave, CA. We rented a car and set off for Palm Springs, where they at least have things to do and more than one restuarant. </p> +<p>We managed to get a great deal on a condo for a few days. It was a golf resort, the sort of place where I feel far more comfortable talking to the employees than I do my fellow guests, but it had a kitchen and the nicest foldout bed for the kids we’ve ever had. It also had a pool. And weather nice enough to use the pool.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-12_171308_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-12_171308_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-12_171308_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-12_171308_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-12_171308_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the pool photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-12_171308_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-12_171211_christmas_01.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/2017/2017-12-12_171211_christmas_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-12_171211_christmas_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-12_171211_christmas_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-12_171211_christmas_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the pool photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-12_171211_christmas_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Palm Springs is possibly the least Christmasy place you could think of, so we compensated by doing some Christmasy stuff, like going to the living desert museum’s night time Christmas party. Lights, a carousels, and a pretty massive outdoor train setup were all hits, but our kids really can’t stay up past eight so they didn’t last long.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-09_204346_christmas.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/2017/2017-12-09_204346_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-09_204346_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-09_204346_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-09_204346_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Christmas at the zoo photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-09_204346_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-09_202428_christmas_01.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/2017/2017-12-09_202428_christmas_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-09_202428_christmas_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-09_202428_christmas_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-09_202428_christmas_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Christmas at the zoo photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-09_202428_christmas_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Manual focus in low light is hard."> + </a> +<figcaption>Manual focus in low light is hard.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Reading over this it really doesn’t sound so terrible actually. It always sucks to be homeless, but when you live on the road it’s pretty much inevitable. One of the prices you have to pay to live this way I suppose. It could be worse.</p> + </div> + + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" class="page-border-top"> + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/12/aquarium-kings" rel="prev" title=" Aquarium Kings">Aquarium Kings</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/12/funland-beach" rel="next" title=" Funland at the Beach">Funland at the Beach</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">6 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2910" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for classical_liberal" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>classical_liberal</b></span> + <span class="when">December 24, 2017 at 9:27 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Ahh Crap!!!</p> +<p>If it makes you feel any better I’m spending my Christmas working 14 hour shifts, hundreds of miles from my family and girlfriend, the high temp wont get above 0 F. I do, however, have plenty of snow.</p> +<p>Keep the adventure alive!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2912" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">December 24, 2017 at 4:35 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@classical_liberal-</p> +<p>Sorry to hear that, hope you find some way to celebrate. We’re all down with the flu right now, so it’s looking to be a bit dismal here as well.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2920" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for DREW ELDRIDGE" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>DREW ELDRIDGE</b></span> + <span class="when">December 27, 2017 at 2:33 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Dont stop now. Youre the only thing that gives me hope sitting in my cube all day. Fight the good fight!</p> +<p>For a cold- Here is my cant miss home remedy- I just told Cathy and Bill about this last weekend and ill swear by it 100%</p> +<p>14-16 oz distilled water in some sort of bottle you can shake up. +add 2 tsp baking soda and 2 tsp non iodized salt.</p> +<p>shake it all up until it disolves 100%</p> +<p>Take a turkey baster with bulb syringe and squeeze into each nostril (HARD) twice per nostril. 2 times a day for as long as it takes.</p> +<p>I promise it will work. I was desperate when I came across this- had 2 rounds of antibiotics prior and even tried to snort fresh lime juice (a terrible idea).</p> +<p>To entertain you while you are down….</p> +<p>https://youtu.be/JpmHXIbqpB0</p> +<p>Makes the Neti pot look like a wus!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2921" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">December 27, 2017 at 3:06 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>We’re not quitting yet. Although we’ve all now had the flu for six days and if ever there’s been a time I wish we lived in a house, the past couple of days would have been it. But it will pass. I think.</p> +<p>Funny thing about your nasal cure, that’s more or less what I usually do, but I use a neti pot and add some goldenseal. I’ll have to pick up a baster though, looks more powerful and less likely to break when traveling. Thanks for the tip.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2922" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for DREW ELDRIDGE" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>DREW ELDRIDGE</b></span> + <span class="when">December 28, 2017 at 9:09 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Just got word that Cathy has turkey basted twice so far- Ill let you know how this saga plays out. She has already gone through 2 rounds of antibiotics with no results. I predict the turkey baster to cure her within the week.</p> +<p>Good luck out there! 2018 is your year!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2926" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">December 29, 2017 at 12:39 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>I have an alternative to the turkey baster, when you’re short a baster… use the neti pot, and then… just snort it like it’s 1985 and you’re at Studio 54…</p> + + </div> + </div> + + </div> + + +<div class="comment--form--wrapper comment-form-border"> + +<div class="comment--form--header"> + <p class="hed">Thoughts?</p> + <p class="subhed">Please leave a reply:</p> +</div> +<form action="/comments/post/" method="post" class="comment--form"> + +<input type="hidden" name="rder" value="" /> + + + <input type="hidden" name="content_type" value="jrnl.entry" id="id_content_type"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="object_pk" value="232" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833374" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="34c3a0cea53d48882fec9fde95f29a0e6924441f" id="id_security_hash"> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_name">Name:</label> + <input type="text" name="name" maxlength="50" required id="id_name"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_email">Email address:</label> + <input type="email" name="email" required id="id_email"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_url">URL:</label> + <input type="url" name="url" id="id_url"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_comment">Comment:</label> + <div class="textarea-rounded"><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="10" maxlength="3000" required id="id_comment"> +</textarea></div> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset style="display:none;"> + <label for="id_honeypot">If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam:</label> + <input type="text" name="honeypot" id="id_honeypot"> + </fieldset> + + + <div class="submit"> + <input type="submit" name="post" class="submit-post btn" value="Post" /> + <input type="submit" name="preview" class="submit-preview btn" value="Preview" /> + </div> +</form> +<p style="font-size: 95%;"><strong>All comments are moderated</strong>, so you won’t see it right away. 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+<img src="images/2017/2002-12-08_120000-4__.jpg" id="image-1018" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2002-12-08_120000-3__.jpg" id="image-1017" class="picwide" />
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+If you're not real familiar with cars, that second photo is what your pistons look like after your head gasket leak destroys them. Or one of them anyway.
+
+It all happened climbing or trying to climb over Tehachapi pass, to get out of central California. We'd been holed up in Bakersfield where I came down with a sinus infection that gave me a fever of 104 and took three rounds of antibiotics to put down. I was pretty doped up on cold medicine, but we really wanted to get out of Bakerfield so we went for it. About half way up oil was spraying out the right side of the engine and that was that. I pulled over and called AAA.
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+We got towed over the pass and, in the beginning, when I thought it was only the head gasket, we piled into a tiny, dingy Motel 6 room with 2 double beds and prepared to wait for a couple days. The next morning I got a call from the mechanic that I need to come down to the shop. That second picture is what I saw.
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+It was demoralizing to see the exhaust manifolds, spark plugs and other things we had just done sitting there destroyed. I called Corrinne and we discussed what to do. We seriously considered cutting our loses and parting it out, in fact we decided to do that, but in the end we couldn't give up now. We're too stubborn apparently. We had to stick with it. But there was no way we were going to hang around for weeks in a Motel 6 in Mojave, CA. We rented a car and set off for Palm Springs, where they at least have things to do and more than one restuarant.
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+We managed to get a great deal on a condo for a few days. It was a golf resort, the sort of place where I feel far more comfortable talking to the employees than I do my fellow guests, but it had a kitchen and the nicest foldout bed for the kids we've ever had. It also had a pool. And weather nice enough to use the pool.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-12_171308_christmas.jpg" id="image-1020" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-12_171211_christmas_01.jpg" id="image-1019" class="picwide" />
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+Palm Springs is possibly the least Christmasy place you could think of, so we compensated by doing some Christmasy stuff, like going to the living desert museum's night time Christmas party. Lights, a carousels, and a pretty massive outdoor train setup were all hits, but our kids really can't stay up past eight so they didn't last long.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-09_204346_christmas.jpg" id="image-1021" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-09_202428_christmas_01.jpg" id="image-1022" class="picwide caption" />
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+Reading over this it really doesn't sound so terrible actually. It always sucks to be homeless, but when you live on the road it's pretty much inevitable. One of the prices you have to pay to live this way I suppose. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-12-02T15:24:14" itemprop="datePublished">December <span>2, 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> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>We continued our slow meandering southward, stopping for a week to visit our friends Kate and Josh, whom we met back in Durango. They’re in the process of building a yurt on some friends’ land and there was enough room to tuck the bus under some redwoods as well. There was plenty of woods, fields, and streams for the kids to play in, and we got to wake up to the sound of hooting owls. They also loaned us a car, which was super nice.</p> +<p>Our thanksgiving plans were to return to my uncle’s house in Wellington, but I wasn’t about to drive the bus back over the mountains. Fortunately Kate and Josh’s friends (who actually own the land) said we could leave the bus there for a week. And that’s what we did. Since the bus was safely stowed, we figured we’d head into San Francisco on our way to visit some old friends there.</p> +<p>I’ll be honest, I was kind of dreading San Francisco. I’ve about had my fill of the whole entrepreneur-as-hero, techno-utopian bullshit that’s been spewing out of the Bay Area for the past decade or so. I was worried that that mindset had taken over the city, that the wealthy had squeezed the life out of it as they do everything else. I was, in short, prepared to hate what had become of the city I once loved. Fortunately for me, San Francisco hasn’t yet entirely succumbed the banality underlying the agendas of a handful of wealthy residents (and their acolytes). Which is to say, San Francisco is still pretty close to what it’s always been — San Francisco.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_151337_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-18_151337_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_151337_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_151337_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_151337_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="San Francisco bay photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_151337_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It probably helped that we arrived on a weekend of gloriously warm weather with wide open, deep blue skies filled with scattered clouds to match the wide open deep blue of the bay filled with scattered sails and whitecaps. We spent a lot of time outdoors, almost all our time in fact. Walking the city streets, the parks, the shore, the marina, we even made an attempt to visit <a href="https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/wave-organ/">the wave organ</a>, something I’ve been meaning to do for decades now, though it proved too far of a walk to go all the way around from where we parked out to the organ, we could at least see it, but then, seeing is not really the point of an organ. Next time.</p> +<p>We stayed on Lombard, down toward the touristy stuff because I thought the kids would like it and I was right. Hyde Street Pier was a hit, as was fisherman’s wharf and the liberty ship we toured, of which I have no pictures since helping three children navigate a giant metal ship with stairs and railings built for grown sailors did not leave a free arm to snap any photos. But the real find was the Musée Mécanique, an antique penny arcade museum.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_171206_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-18_171206_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_171206_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_171206_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_171206_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hyde st pier photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_171206_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_171850-1_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-18_171850-1_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_171850-1_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_171850-1_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_171850-1_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hyde st pier photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_171850-1_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_170634_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-18_170634_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_170634_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_170634_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_170634_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hyde st pier photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_170634_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_170747_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-18_170747_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_170747_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_170747_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-18_170747_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hyde st pier photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-18_170747_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-19_114028_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-19_114028_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_114028_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_114028_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_114028_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="arcade museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-19_114028_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="First game of air hockey."> + </a> +<figcaption>First game of air hockey.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>And of course, you can’t visit the city with kids without a trolley ride. See how thrilled they look?</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-19_120040_san-francisco.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_120040_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_120040_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_120040_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_120040_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trolley car photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-19_120040_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-19_123643_san-francisco.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-19_123643_san-francisco_pic5.jpg" alt="trolley ride photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-19_123643_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20171119_1133311.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20171119_1133311_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20171119_1133311.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>One morning we made made the long trek out to the Academy of Sciences museum, mostly I think because the kids had heard there was an albino crocodile, which the really wanted to see. It turned out to be pretty cool, especially the rainforest area with all its butterflies and birds flying around right next to you. And yes there was an albino crocodile.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-20_124138_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-20_124138_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_124138_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_124138_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_124138_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Butterfly Academy of Sciences, SF photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-20_124138_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-20_124223_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-20_124223_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_124223_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_124223_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_124223_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Snake, Academy of Sciences, SF photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-20_124223_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-20_132338_san-francisco.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/2017/2017-11-20_132338_san-francisco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_132338_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_132338_san-francisco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-20_132338_san-francisco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Albino Aligator, Academy of Sciences, SF photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-20_132338_san-francisco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>You want to know how out of touch with the modern world we are, we took our first Uber in SF, actually it was a Lyft, which I’d never heard of before we got there. Our friends in the city got it for us and it was probably faster than a taxi, certainly faster than the bus we’d taken earlier in the day. But I felt weird and little bit dirty about the whole thing, like I was somehow contributing to the demise of something, though I’m not sure what.</p> +<p>The next night I went to run a quick errand by myself, mostly just because I wanted to ride some public transportation alone, with headphones on. I have a <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove">whole essay</a> on this site<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> about what a magical thing it is to put on headphones on pubic transportation in pretty much any city. Twilight is the best time, but there’s no bad time. You slip into an otherworld of music in the city, riding public transportation you feel the city around you as if it were just you and the city, a kind of intimacy of place I know of no other way to achieve, at once isolating and communing, not with man but what we have wrought, what we have made collectively greater than ourselves. Cities are living things and I don’t mean that in some quasispiritual kind of way, I mean it very literally. This thing, this consciousness, we call the city for lack of a better word loves to commune if you ask it to. Paris and I get along best in this regard, though we have had our moments of disagreement. New York is all about flash and color, but here in San Francisco the conversation is always more sublte, warm yellow light and cool gray fog mingling in narrow streets, the glitter of shop windows and restaurants, blurring by as the bus lurches up Van Ness, inbound, coursing toward the heart the city. It was one short bus ride, another back but it was enough to spend some time alone with the city.</p> +<p>After four days in the city we headed back over the Sierras to my aunt and uncle’s place in Nevada. We had good Thanksgiving, I got to see some cousins I hadn’t seen in ten years and few relatives I hadn’t seen ever. The sunrises were nice too.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-23_073510_thanksgiving.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/2017/2017-11-23_073510_thanksgiving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-23_073510_thanksgiving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-23_073510_thanksgiving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-23_073510_thanksgiving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sunrise over topaz lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-23_073510_thanksgiving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-23_110251_thanksgiving.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/2017/2017-11-23_110251_thanksgiving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-23_110251_thanksgiving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-23_110251_thanksgiving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-23_110251_thanksgiving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="volvo graveyard photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-23_110251_thanksgiving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Volvo graveyard"> + </a> +<figcaption>Volvo graveyard</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>It was a good trip, but a week in hotels was quite enough. We were all ready to be back to the bus and when we got there Olivia jumped out of the car and ran to give the bus a hug. Home again.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Surprisingly, for someone who changes their mind constantly and generally crings when reading anything I didn’t write today (and often then too), I actually still really like that essay and agree with every word in it. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +</ol> +</div> + </div> + + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" class="page-border-top"> + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/11/absence-glass-beach" rel="prev" title=" The Absence of Glass Beach">The Absence of Glass Beach</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/12/aquarium-kings" rel="next" title=" Aquarium Kings">Aquarium Kings</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<div class="comment--form--wrapper "> + +<div class="comment--form--header"> + <p class="hed">Thoughts?</p> + <p class="subhed">Please leave a reply:</p> +</div> +<form action="/comments/post/" method="post" class="comment--form"> + +<input type="hidden" name="rder" value="" /> + + + <input type="hidden" name="content_type" value="jrnl.entry" id="id_content_type"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="object_pk" value="230" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833374" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="19347dbe594b4c668b2dbf323e3ccb77889e3a14" id="id_security_hash"> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_name">Name:</label> + <input type="text" name="name" maxlength="50" required id="id_name"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_email">Email address:</label> + <input type="email" name="email" required id="id_email"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_url">URL:</label> + <input type="url" name="url" id="id_url"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_comment">Comment:</label> + <div class="textarea-rounded"><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="10" maxlength="3000" required id="id_comment"> +</textarea></div> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset style="display:none;"> + <label for="id_honeypot">If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam:</label> + <input type="text" name="honeypot" id="id_honeypot"> + </fieldset> + + + <div class="submit"> + <input type="submit" name="post" class="submit-post btn" value="Post" /> + <input type="submit" name="preview" class="submit-preview btn" value="Preview" /> + </div> +</form> +<p style="font-size: 95%;"><strong>All comments are moderated</strong>, so you won’t see it right away. 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They're in the process of building a yurt on some friends' land and there was enough room to tuck the bus under some redwoods as well. There was plenty of woods, fields, and streams for the kids to play in, and we got to wake up to the sound of hooting owls. They also loaned us a car, which was super nice.
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+Our thanksgiving plans were to return to my uncle's house in Wellington, but I wasn't about to drive the bus back over the mountains. Fortunately Kate and Josh's friends (who actually own the land) said we could leave the bus there for a week. And that's what we did. Since the bus was safely stowed, we figured we'd head into San Francisco on our way to visit some old friends there.
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+I'll be honest, I was kind of dreading San Francisco. I've about had my fill of the whole entrepreneur-as-hero, techno-utopian bullshit that's been spewing out of the Bay Area for the past decade or so. I was worried that that mindset had taken over the city, that the wealthy had squeezed the life out of it as they do everything else. I was, in short, prepared to hate what had become of the city I once loved. Fortunately for me, San Francisco hasn't yet entirely succumbed the banality underlying the agendas of a handful of wealthy residents (and their acolytes). Which is to say, San Francisco is still pretty close to what it's always been -- San Francisco.
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+It probably helped that we arrived on a weekend of gloriously warm weather with wide open, deep blue skies filled with scattered clouds to match the wide open deep blue of the bay filled with scattered sails and whitecaps. We spent a lot of time outdoors, almost all our time in fact. Walking the city streets, the parks, the shore, the marina, we even made an attempt to visit [the wave organ](https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/wave-organ/), something I've been meaning to do for decades now, though it proved too far of a walk to go all the way around from where we parked out to the organ, we could at least see it, but then, seeing is not really the point of an organ. Next time.
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+We stayed on Lombard, down toward the touristy stuff because I thought the kids would like it and I was right. Hyde Street Pier was a hit, as was fisherman's wharf and the liberty ship we toured, of which I have no pictures since helping three children navigate a giant metal ship with stairs and railings built for grown sailors did not leave a free arm to snap any photos. But the real find was the Musée Mécanique, an antique penny arcade museum.
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+And of course, you can't visit the city with kids without a trolley ride. See how thrilled they look?
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+One morning we made made the long trek out to the Academy of Sciences museum, mostly I think because the kids had heard there was an albino crocodile, which the really wanted to see. It turned out to be pretty cool, especially the rainforest area with all its butterflies and birds flying around right next to you. And yes there was an albino crocodile.
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+You want to know how out of touch with the modern world we are, we took our first Uber in SF, actually it was a Lyft, which I'd never heard of before we got there. Our friends in the city got it for us and it was probably faster than a taxi, certainly faster than the bus we'd taken earlier in the day. But I felt weird and little bit dirty about the whole thing, like I was somehow contributing to the demise of something, though I'm not sure what.
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+The next night I went to run a quick errand by myself, mostly just because I wanted to ride some public transportation alone, with headphones on. I have a [whole essay](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove) on this site[^1] about what a magical thing it is to put on headphones on pubic transportation in pretty much any city. Twilight is the best time, but there's no bad time. You slip into an otherworld of music in the city, riding public transportation you feel the city around you as if it were just you and the city, a kind of intimacy of place I know of no other way to achieve, at once isolating and communing, not with man but what we have wrought, what we have made collectively greater than ourselves. Cities are living things and I don't mean that in some quasispiritual kind of way, I mean it very literally. This thing, this consciousness, we call the city for lack of a better word loves to commune if you ask it to. Paris and I get along best in this regard, though we have had our moments of disagreement. New York is all about flash and color, but here in San Francisco the conversation is always more sublte, warm yellow light and cool gray fog mingling in narrow streets, the glitter of shop windows and restaurants, blurring by as the bus lurches up Van Ness, inbound, coursing toward the heart the city. It was one short bus ride, another back but it was enough to spend some time alone with the city.
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+After four days in the city we headed back over the Sierras to my aunt and uncle's place in Nevada. We had good Thanksgiving, I got to see some cousins I hadn't seen in ten years and few relatives I hadn't seen ever. The sunrises were nice too.
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+It was a good trip, but a week in hotels was quite enough. We were all ready to be back to the bus and when we got there Olivia jumped out of the car and ran to give the bus a hug. Home again.
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+[^1]: Surprisingly, for someone who changes their mind constantly and generally crings when reading anything I didn't write today (and often then too), I actually still really like that essay and agree with every word in it. |