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Darkness comes steadily earlier. The available time between putting the kids to bed and too-dark-to-work grows ever shorter. The loss of light would be worth it were the heat and humidity dropping a bit, but they haven't yet. For now I get by on the words of friends in more northerly climes, who have already started mentioning a crispness to the air. </p> +<p>Here the heat remains constant, the humidity never leaves. The bus feels like an oven by mid afternoon.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> +<amp-img alt="1969 Dodge Travco photographed by luxagraf" height="738" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/bus-banner_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/bus-banner_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/bus-banner_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/bus-banner_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img> +<figcaption>Fresh coat of wax. Compare to <a href="/jrnl/2015/06/big-blue-bus">when we got it</a>.</figcaption> +</figure> +<p>The good news is that the bus also gets closer to done in a series of hints and whispers. Bare walls disappear behind two layers of insulation, then finished birch panels. The ceiling is in and, to judge from bus visitors so far, it's the high water mark of what I've done. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> +<amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="748" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120302_bus-progress_LbYhTMJ_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120302_bus-progress_LbYhTMJ_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120302_bus-progress_LbYhTMJ_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120302_bus-progress_LbYhTMJ_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img> +<figcaption>The bead board ceiling.</figcaption> +</figure> +<p>There are new cabinets as well, partly because additional storage is nice when you're cramming five people into less than 100 square feet of livable space, and partly because neither the ceiling panels nor the wood on the walls is capable of bending to the degree necessary to follow the original curve of the Travco. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> +<amp-img alt="New cabinets in 1969 dodge travco motorhome photographed by luxagraf" height="721" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120359_bus-progress_pFby6Tq_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120359_bus-progress_pFby6Tq_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120359_bus-progress_pFby6Tq_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-08-26_120359_bus-progress_pFby6Tq_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img> +<figcaption>The new cabinets I built.</figcaption> +</figure> +<p>I'm not the only one to hide that curve behind a cabinet. Travcos up until 1968 had a plastic channel to hide it (which did double duty hiding some air conditioning ducting as well) and then in 1969 Travco started adding cabinets as well<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. I mimicked the latter as best I could.</p> +<p>There is still much to do, even if we do plan to <a href="/jrnl/2016/07/change-ideas-the-worst">leave before it's completely finished</a>. We need a floor and couch at the bare minimum, though I'd like to have the propane and sewage system working as well. Oh and then there's a cab area, which I really haven't touched.</p> +<p>Did I mention the brakes stopped working a couple weeks back? The Travco's brake fluid reservoir is incredibly inconvenient and difficult to access. There's a hole a few inches back from the accelerator pedal that's just wide enough for a four-year-old's hand. It's way to small for mine. Too small for my channel lock pliers too. I was lazy and posted something in the Travco Facebook group asking if anyone had any tricks for getting the reservoir open and someone responded that I wasn't trying hard enough. I mulled that over for a while. Then the day before I need to move it I felt like I wanted it pretty bad so I got a new pair of needle nose channel locks and sure enough, I hadn't been trying hard enough.</p> +<p>Sometimes it's good to have internet strangers call you on your bullshit. The reservoir was, predictably, empty. So now we get to bleed the brakes, which is good. I like to know that things like brakes are properly done.</p> +<p>The far more difficult project that I'd likewise been avoiding for some time was getting the generator out of the back compartment. Unlike the brake fluid reservoir, getting the generator out turned out to be much harder than I anticipated. </p> +<p>Everyone wants to know why I want to get rid of a perfectly functional Onan<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup> generator. Here's a link to fellow nomad Randy Vining <a href="https://vimeo.com/154906462">reading a poem</a> that nicely summarizes why I don't like generators. Suffice to say that most of my worst camping memories involve someone else's generator ruining the otherwise wonderful sounds of nature. In my view the advent of reasonably cheap solar completely eliminates any need for a generator.</p> +<p>Still, the generator in the bus was perfectly good and I didn't want to just throw it away. There are plenty of people who want one. A few weeks ago I saw someone post in the aforementioned Travco Facebook group looking for a generator for a 1972 Travco. I noticed he was only about five or six hours away in North Carolina so I messaged him and told him he could have the generator if he helped me get it out.</p> +<p>He agreed and a week later he drove down from NC with a neighbor to help out. After a quick run to get some tools I needed to finally get the last bolt off of the thing, the three of use tried lifting it out and quickly realized that there was no way that way happening. I called around to see if any local mechanics had an engine lift we could use, but no one did. This was somewhat complicated by the fact that the brakes had gone out earlier in the day and I didn't really want to drive further than I absolutely had to. Then I remembered that a local equipment rental place around the corner probably had some kind of lift. It was only three blocks a way and didn't involve any major hills. So I hopped in, fired her up and we took off just as a torrential rainstorm hit.</p> +<p>Around block two the bus sputtered and died. Out of gas. Blocking a fairly major intersection. I rolled it back as far it would go. The rain was coming down in sheets. I had no choice but to leave it there at the side of the road. I hopped in Nathan's car and he gave me and the meager two gallon gas can a ride to the gas station and back. I stood in the pouring rain with a makeshift funnel fashioned from a plastic water bottle, pouring gasoline in the tank. I was soaked through with water and gasoline long before I finally got it running again. Like my 1969 Ford, 2 gallons of gas is not enough to get the Travco started. Note to self, get two real steel 5 gallon gas cans and mount them on the bumper.</p> +<p>I finally made it to Barron's rentals and we somehow convinced the otherwise unoccupied warehouse employees to help us lift the generator out with a forklift. I took six of us in all, gently lifting, nudging and balancing the massive generator on a single forklift tine and slowly easing it out. In the end though it worked. We got it out of the bus and into the back of Nathan's Land Cruiser where it disappeared off to a new life in a 1972 Travco somewhere back in North Carolina.</p> +<p>I cleaned out the 50 odd years worth of motor oil and fluids and cut some leftover marine grade plywood the fit the bottom of the generator compartment so it would be a little less exposed to the elements (the wood covers a few holes and with a coat of sealant should last several decades). With the generator gone and the compartment cleared up there's finally room to start moving some of the kids' toys out of the house, which helps get the house cleaned up and more presentable for sale.</p> +<p>One things leads to another and it's all accelerating. It takes a long time to line up dominoes, but so far it's working and the few that we've managed to tip over have all fallen in place.</p> +<p>In the mean time there is much work to be done and miles to go before we sleep.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr/> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Why didn't our have said cabinets originally? No idea. In fact ours is the only Travco that I've seen built this particular way. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +<li id="fn:2"> +<p>The makers of the Onan generator is a company called Cummings. So far as I can tell the name has nothing to do with the minor, but intriguing, biblical character and practitioner of the withdrawal method of birth control (or masturbator depending of which interpretation your favor). <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +</ol> +</div> + </div> + </article> +</main> + +</body> +</html> diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2016/09/autumn-bus-update.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2016/09/autumn-bus-update.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc68528 --- /dev/null +++ b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2016/09/autumn-bus-update.html @@ -0,0 +1,483 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html +class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> + +<head> + <title>Autumn Bus Update - by Scott Gilbertson</title> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="description" + content="There is still much to do, even if we do plan to leave before it's completely finished. 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Darkness comes steadily earlier. The available time between putting the kids to bed and too-dark-to-work grows ever shorter. The loss of light would be worth it were the heat and humidity dropping a bit, but they haven’t yet. For now I get by on the words of friends in more northerly climes, who have already started mentioning a crispness to the air. </p> +<p>Here the heat remains constant, the humidity never leaves. The bus feels like an oven by mid afternoon.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939.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/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939_picwide.jpg" alt="1969 Dodge Travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Fresh coat of wax. Compare to <a href="/jrnl/2015/06/big-blue-bus">when we got it</a>."> + </a> +<figcaption>Fresh coat of wax. Compare to <a href="/jrnl/2015/06/big-blue-bus">when we got it</a>.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The good news is that the bus also gets closer to done in a series of hints and whispers. Bare walls disappear behind two layers of insulation, then finished birch panels. The ceiling is in and, to judge from bus visitors so far, it’s the high water mark of what I’ve done. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120302.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/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120302_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120302_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120302_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120302_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120302.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The bead board ceiling."> + </a> +<figcaption>The bead board ceiling.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There are new cabinets as well, partly because additional storage is nice when you’re cramming five people into less than 100 square feet of livable space, and partly because neither the ceiling panels nor the wood on the walls is capable of bending to the degree necessary to follow the original curve of the Travco. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120359.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/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120359_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120359_pic66.jpg 820w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120359_pic5.jpg 648w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120359_pic66.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120359.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I’m not the only one to hide that curve behind a cabinet. Travcos up until 1968 had a plastic channel to hide it (which did double duty hiding some air conditioning ducting as well) and then in 1969 Travco started adding cabinets as well<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. I mimicked the latter as best I could.</p> +<p>There is still much to do, even if we do plan to <a href="/jrnl/2016/07/change-ideas-the-worst">leave before it’s completely finished</a>. We need a floor and couch at the bare minimum, though I’d like to have the propane and sewage system working as well. Oh and then there’s a cab area, which I really haven’t touched.</p> +<p>Did I mention the brakes stopped working a couple weeks back? The Travco’s brake fluid reservoir is incredibly inconvenient and difficult to access. There’s a hole a few inches back from the accelerator pedal that’s just wide enough for a four-year-old’s hand. It’s way to small for mine. Too small for my channel lock pliers too. I was lazy and posted something in the Travco Facebook group asking if anyone had any tricks for getting the reservoir open and someone responded that I wasn’t trying hard enough. I mulled that over for a while. Then the day before I need to move it I felt like I wanted it pretty bad so I got a new pair of needle nose channel locks and sure enough, I hadn’t been trying hard enough.</p> +<p>Sometimes it’s good to have internet strangers call you on your bullshit. The reservoir was, predictably, empty. So now we get to bleed the brakes, which is good. I like to know that things like brakes are properly done.</p> +<p>The far more difficult project that I’d likewise been avoiding for some time was getting the generator out of the back compartment. Unlike the brake fluid reservoir, getting the generator out turned out to be much harder than I anticipated. </p> +<p>Everyone wants to know why I want to get rid of a perfectly functional Onan<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup> generator. Here’s a link to fellow nomad Randy Vining <a href="https://vimeo.com/154906462">reading a poem</a> that nicely summarizes why I don’t like generators. Suffice to say that most of my worst camping memories involve someone else’s generator ruining the otherwise wonderful sounds of nature. In my view the advent of reasonably cheap solar completely eliminates any need for a generator.</p> +<p>Still, the generator in the bus was perfectly good and I didn’t want to just throw it away. There are plenty of people who want one. A few weeks ago I saw someone post in the aforementioned Travco Facebook group looking for a generator for a 1972 Travco. I noticed he was only about five or six hours away in North Carolina so I messaged him and told him he could have the generator if he helped me get it out.</p> +<p>He agreed and a week later he drove down from NC with a neighbor to help out. After a quick run to get some tools I needed to finally get the last bolt off of the thing, the three of use tried lifting it out and quickly realized that there was no way that way happening. I called around to see if any local mechanics had an engine lift we could use, but no one did. This was somewhat complicated by the fact that the brakes had gone out earlier in the day and I didn’t really want to drive further than I absolutely had to. Then I remembered that a local equipment rental place around the corner probably had some kind of lift. It was only three blocks a way and didn’t involve any major hills. So I hopped in, fired her up and we took off just as a torrential rainstorm hit.</p> +<p>Around block two the bus sputtered and died. Out of gas. Blocking a fairly major intersection. I rolled it back as far it would go. The rain was coming down in sheets. I had no choice but to leave it there at the side of the road. I hopped in Nathan’s car and he gave me and the meager two gallon gas can a ride to the gas station and back. I stood in the pouring rain with a makeshift funnel fashioned from a plastic water bottle, pouring gasoline in the tank. I was soaked through with water and gasoline long before I finally got it running again. Like my 1969 Ford, 2 gallons of gas is not enough to get the Travco started. Note to self, get two real steel 5 gallon gas cans and mount them on the bumper.</p> +<p>I finally made it to Barron’s rentals and we somehow convinced the otherwise unoccupied warehouse employees to help us lift the generator out with a forklift. I took six of us in all, gently lifting, nudging and balancing the massive generator on a single forklift tine and slowly easing it out. In the end though it worked. We got it out of the bus and into the back of Nathan’s Land Cruiser where it disappeared off to a new life in a 1972 Travco somewhere back in North Carolina.</p> +<p>I cleaned out the 50 odd years worth of motor oil and fluids and cut some leftover marine grade plywood the fit the bottom of the generator compartment so it would be a little less exposed to the elements (the wood covers a few holes and with a coat of sealant should last several decades). With the generator gone and the compartment cleared up there’s finally room to start moving some of the kids’ toys out of the house, which helps get the house cleaned up and more presentable for sale.</p> +<p>One things leads to another and it’s all accelerating. It takes a long time to line up dominoes, but so far it’s working and the few that we’ve managed to tip over have all fallen in place.</p> +<p>In the mean time there is much work to be done and miles to go before we sleep.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Why didn’t our have said cabinets originally? No idea. In fact ours is the only Travco that I’ve seen built this particular way. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +<li id="fn:2"> +<p>The makers of the Onan generator is a company called Cummings. So far as I can tell the name has nothing to do with the minor, but intriguing, biblical character and practitioner of the withdrawal method of birth control (or masturbator depending of which interpretation your favor). <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +</ol> +</div> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>American Robin </li> + + <li>Blue Jay </li> + + <li>Brown-headed Cowbird </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> + + <li>Canada Goose </li> + + <li>Carolina Chickadee </li> + + <li>Chipping Sparrow </li> + + <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Eastern Bluebird </li> + + <li>Eastern Towhee </li> + + <li>Gray Catbird </li> + + <li>Great Blue Heron </li> + + <li>Hooded Warbler </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> + + <li>Red-bellied Woodpecker </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/summer-tanager">Summer Tanager</a> </li> + + <li>Tufted Titmouse </li> + + <li>Wood Duck </li> + + <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> + </ul> + </ul> + </aside> + + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2016/07/change-ideas-the-worst" rel="prev" title=" Change of Ideas (The Worst)">Change of Ideas (The Worst)</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2016/09/cloudland-canyon" rel="next" title=" Cloudland Canyon">Cloudland Canyon</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2016" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="11f564eb8c748a3526f921a0ac57c2b7"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/11f564eb8c748a3526f921a0ac57c2b7.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Bennett" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="http://davidpbennett.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bennett</a></b></span> + <span class="when">September 22, 2016 at 11:44 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Seeing as though our calls are far and few between these days, it’s nice to know that between the humidity and rain there’s always a story to be told. 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Darkness comes steadily earlier. The available time between putting the kids to bed and too-dark-to-work grows ever shorter. The loss of light would be worth it were the heat and humidity dropping a bit, but they haven't yet. For now I get by on the words of friends in more northerly climes, who have already started mentioning a crispness to the air.
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+Here the heat remains constant, the humidity never leaves. The bus feels like an oven by mid afternoon.
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+<img src="images/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-09-13_093939.jpg" id="image-123" class="picwide caption" />
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+The good news is that the bus also gets closer to done in a series of hints and whispers. Bare walls disappear behind two layers of insulation, then finished birch panels. The ceiling is in and, to judge from bus visitors so far, it's the high water mark of what I've done.
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+<img src="images/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120302.jpg " id="image-120" class="picwide caption" />
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+There are new cabinets as well, partly because additional storage is nice when you're cramming five people into less than 100 square feet of livable space, and partly because neither the ceiling panels nor the wood on the walls is capable of bending to the degree necessary to follow the original curve of the Travco.
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+<img src="images/2017/1969-dodge-travco_2016-08-26_120359.jpg" id="image-246" class="picwide" />
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+I'm not the only one to hide that curve behind a cabinet. Travcos up until 1968 had a plastic channel to hide it (which did double duty hiding some air conditioning ducting as well) and then in 1969 Travco started adding cabinets as well[^1]. I mimicked the latter as best I could.
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+There is still much to do, even if we do plan to [leave before it's completely finished](/jrnl/2016/07/change-ideas-the-worst). We need a floor and couch at the bare minimum, though I'd like to have the propane and sewage system working as well. Oh and then there's a cab area, which I really haven't touched.
+
+Did I mention the brakes stopped working a couple weeks back? The Travco's brake fluid reservoir is incredibly inconvenient and difficult to access. There's a hole a few inches back from the accelerator pedal that's just wide enough for a four-year-old's hand. It's way to small for mine. Too small for my channel lock pliers too. I was lazy and posted something in the Travco Facebook group asking if anyone had any tricks for getting the reservoir open and someone responded that I wasn't trying hard enough. I mulled that over for a while. Then the day before I need to move it I felt like I wanted it pretty bad so I got a new pair of needle nose channel locks and sure enough, I hadn't been trying hard enough.
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+Sometimes it's good to have internet strangers call you on your bullshit. The reservoir was, predictably, empty. So now we get to bleed the brakes, which is good. I like to know that things like brakes are properly done.
+
+The far more difficult project that I'd likewise been avoiding for some time was getting the generator out of the back compartment. Unlike the brake fluid reservoir, getting the generator out turned out to be much harder than I anticipated.
+
+Everyone wants to know why I want to get rid of a perfectly functional Onan[^2] generator. Here's a link to fellow nomad Randy Vining [reading a poem](https://vimeo.com/154906462) that nicely summarizes why I don't like generators. Suffice to say that most of my worst camping memories involve someone else's generator ruining the otherwise wonderful sounds of nature. In my view the advent of reasonably cheap solar completely eliminates any need for a generator.
+
+Still, the generator in the bus was perfectly good and I didn't want to just throw it away. There are plenty of people who want one. A few weeks ago I saw someone post in the aforementioned Travco Facebook group looking for a generator for a 1972 Travco. I noticed he was only about five or six hours away in North Carolina so I messaged him and told him he could have the generator if he helped me get it out.
+
+He agreed and a week later he drove down from NC with a neighbor to help out. After a quick run to get some tools I needed to finally get the last bolt off of the thing, the three of use tried lifting it out and quickly realized that there was no way that way happening. I called around to see if any local mechanics had an engine lift we could use, but no one did. This was somewhat complicated by the fact that the brakes had gone out earlier in the day and I didn't really want to drive further than I absolutely had to. Then I remembered that a local equipment rental place around the corner probably had some kind of lift. It was only three blocks a way and didn't involve any major hills. So I hopped in, fired her up and we took off just as a torrential rainstorm hit.
+
+Around block two the bus sputtered and died. Out of gas. Blocking a fairly major intersection. I rolled it back as far it would go. The rain was coming down in sheets. I had no choice but to leave it there at the side of the road. I hopped in Nathan's car and he gave me and the meager two gallon gas can a ride to the gas station and back. I stood in the pouring rain with a makeshift funnel fashioned from a plastic water bottle, pouring gasoline in the tank. I was soaked through with water and gasoline long before I finally got it running again. Like my 1969 Ford, 2 gallons of gas is not enough to get the Travco started. Note to self, get two real steel 5 gallon gas cans and mount them on the bumper.
+
+I finally made it to Barron's rentals and we somehow convinced the otherwise unoccupied warehouse employees to help us lift the generator out with a forklift. I took six of us in all, gently lifting, nudging and balancing the massive generator on a single forklift tine and slowly easing it out. In the end though it worked. We got it out of the bus and into the back of Nathan's Land Cruiser where it disappeared off to a new life in a 1972 Travco somewhere back in North Carolina.
+
+I cleaned out the 50 odd years worth of motor oil and fluids and cut some leftover marine grade plywood the fit the bottom of the generator compartment so it would be a little less exposed to the elements (the wood covers a few holes and with a coat of sealant should last several decades). With the generator gone and the compartment cleared up there's finally room to start moving some of the kids' toys out of the house, which helps get the house cleaned up and more presentable for sale.
+
+One things leads to another and it's all accelerating. It takes a long time to line up dominoes, but so far it's working and the few that we've managed to tip over have all fallen in place.
+
+In the mean time there is much work to be done and miles to go before we sleep.
+
+[^1]: Why didn't our have said cabinets originally? No idea. In fact ours is the only Travco that I've seen built this particular way.
+[^2]: The makers of the Onan generator is a company called Cummings. 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For example I lived within 100 miles or so of Death Valley for 26 years and never once went. Then I moved thousands of miles across the country and finally arranged <a href="/jrnl/2010/04/death-valley">a trip to Death Valley</a>. Same with Catalina Island, which was always a mere 26 miles away. Until it wasn't. And then <a href="/jrnl/2007/07/other-ocean">I went</a>.</p> +<p>I've been joking for some time that Savannah GA is going to be my new Death Valley, which I suppose would make Cloudland Canyon my new Catalina Island. Except that it appears I'm getting better about these things. Maybe. I wouldn't say <em>I</em> got myself to Cloudland Canyon, but events did conspire such that I ended up in Cloudland Canyon <em>before</em> we left Georgia. Progress.</p></div> +<p><amp-img alt="Sunrise, Bear creek overlook, Cloudland Canyon GA photographed by luxagraf" height="548" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-17_070613_cloudland-canyon-2_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-17_070613_cloudland-canyon-2_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-17_070613_cloudland-canyon-2_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-17_070613_cloudland-canyon-2_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p>No, we didn't take the bus. It was a family reunion for some of Corrinne's family so cabins were rented and we were offered a room in one of them, which is just as well because the campground was a bit dismal -- little more than a gravel parking lot really. The canyon, however, is well worth going for, particularly if you get up before dawn and head down to the Bear Creek overlook to watch the sunrise.</p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="659" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/cloudland1_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/cloudland1_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/cloudland1_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/cloudland1_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p>As is our usual pace we took the back roads, not hurrying, winding through the mountains, stopping for a picnic lunch at another state park that was mostly a shrine to the Army Corp of Engineers. I have mixed feelings about The Corp. They're largely responsible for the mess that is the Mississippi River Valley today and their hubris is possibly unmatched even today. Still. At least they didn't waste their time building gadgets. </p> +<p>Could they have stopped for a minute to study the ecology of a place before they attempted to "improve" it? Sure, but at least they tried to make the world a better place (even if their vision differs from mine). At least they left behind a place my kids can eat turkey sandwiches and chocolate cookies.</p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="878" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160011_5x0G4sl_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160011_5x0G4sl_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160011_5x0G4sl_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160011_5x0G4sl_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p>Oh, and a reservoir. The Corp did love them some dams. But not for lakes mind you. Lakes are frivolous. Reservoirs are eminently practical and serious. Like the Army Corp of Engineers.</p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="705" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160016_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160016_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160016_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160016_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p>Eventually we made it to Cloudland Canyon. Not without things getting interesting though. To add modicum of adventure the air conditioning broke just after lunch. I turned on the WD50 air con, but because it's never-winter here in Georgia, we were all quite warm by the time we got there. Fortunately the solution was already there waiting for us -- hammocks.</p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="772" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170063_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170063_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170063_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170063_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="723" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170100_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170100_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170100_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170100_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p>We didn't hike all the way down into the canyon, but we did manage to go a little ways. Apparently it just wasn't enough for Elliott who decided hiking up out of a canyon wasn't hard enough so he picked up a large rock and carried it all the way up.</p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="713" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160033_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160033_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160033_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9160033_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p>We've taken the girls camping before, but they were too young to remember. And I don't think we ever did the important stuff, like making campfires and roasting marshmellows for s'mores. That oversight has since been corrected.</p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="878" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170120_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170120_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170120_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170120_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="878" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170124_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170124_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170124_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170124_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p><amp-img alt=" photographed by luxagraf" height="759" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170127_1170.jpg" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170127_2280.jpg 2280w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170127_1170.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/P9170127_720.jpg 720w" width="1170"></amp-img></p> +<p>Now the question is, will I make it to Savannah before we leave or will I have to wait for a return visit to make it to the coast?</p> + </div> + </article> +</main> + +</body> +</html> diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2016/09/cloudland-canyon.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2016/09/cloudland-canyon.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3f1f79 --- /dev/null +++ b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2016/09/cloudland-canyon.html @@ -0,0 +1,343 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html +class="detail double" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> + +<head> + <title>Cloudland Canyon - by Scott Gilbertson</title> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="description" + content="I've always wanted to visit Cloudland Canyon, but have a terrible habit of never going to places nearby until I've long since moved away. 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For example I lived within 100 miles or so of Death Valley for 26 years and never once went. Then I moved thousands of miles across the country and finally arranged <a href="/jrnl/2010/04/death-valley">a trip to Death Valley</a>. Same with Catalina Island, which was always a mere 26 miles away. Until it wasn’t. And then <a href="/jrnl/2007/07/other-ocean">I went</a>.</p> +<p>I’ve been joking for some time that Savannah GA is going to be my new Death Valley, which I suppose would make Cloudland Canyon my new Catalina Island. Except that it appears I’m getting better about these things. Maybe. I wouldn’t say <em>I</em> got myself to Cloudland Canyon, but events did conspire such that I ended up in Cloudland Canyon <em>before</em> we left Georgia. Progress.</p></div> + +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/2016-09-17_070613_cloudland-canyon-2.jpg"/></p> +<p>No, we didn’t take the bus. It was a family reunion for some of Corrinne’s family so cabins were rented and we were offered a room in one of them, which is just as well because the campground was a bit dismal — little more than a gravel parking lot really. The canyon, however, is well worth going for, particularly if you get up before dawn and head down to the Bear Creek overlook to watch the sunrise.</p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/cloudland1.jpg"/></p> +<p>As is our usual pace we took the back roads, not hurrying, winding through the mountains, stopping for a picnic lunch at another state park that was mostly a shrine to the Army Corp of Engineers. I have mixed feelings about The Corp. They’re largely responsible for the mess that is the Mississippi River Valley today and their hubris is possibly unmatched even today. Still. At least they didn’t waste their time building gadgets. </p> +<p>Could they have stopped for a minute to study the ecology of a place before they attempted to “improve” it? Sure, but at least they tried to make the world a better place (even if their vision differs from mine). At least they left behind a place my kids can eat turkey sandwiches and chocolate cookies.</p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9160011_5x0G4sl.jpg"/></p> +<p>Oh, and a reservoir. The Corp did love them some dams. But not for lakes mind you. Lakes are frivolous. Reservoirs are eminently practical and serious. Like the Army Corp of Engineers.</p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9160016.jpg"/></p> +<p>Eventually we made it to Cloudland Canyon. Not without things getting interesting though. To add modicum of adventure the air conditioning broke just after lunch. I turned on the WD50 air con, but because it’s never-winter here in Georgia, we were all quite warm by the time we got there. Fortunately the solution was already there waiting for us — hammocks.</p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9170063.jpg"/></p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9170100.jpg"/></p> +<p>We didn’t hike all the way down into the canyon, but we did manage to go a little ways. Apparently it just wasn’t enough for Elliott who decided hiking up out of a canyon wasn’t hard enough so he picked up a large rock and carried it all the way up.</p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9160033.jpg"/></p> +<p>We’ve taken the girls camping before, but they were too young to remember. And I don’t think we ever did the important stuff, like making campfires and roasting marshmellows for s’mores. That oversight has since been corrected.</p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9170120.jpg"/></p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9170124.jpg"/></p> +<p><img class="picwide" src="images/2016/P9170127.jpg"/></p> +<p>Now the question is, will I make it to Savannah before we leave or will I have to wait for a return visit to make it to the coast?</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/2016/09/autumn-bus-update" rel="prev" title=" Autumn Bus Update">Autumn Bus Update</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2016/09/equinox" rel="next" title=" Equinox">Equinox</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="175" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833421" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="eac2a81a1e97ff6326dd84d0093772af8e9b82cc" 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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For example I lived within 100 miles or so of Death Valley for 26 years and never once went. Then I moved thousands of miles across the country and finally arranged <a href="/jrnl/2010/04/death-valley">a trip to Death Valley</a>. Same with Catalina Island, which was always a mere 26 miles away. Until it wasn't. And then <a href="/jrnl/2007/07/other-ocean">I went</a>.</p>
+<p>I've been joking for some time that Savannah GA is going to be my new Death Valley, which I suppose would make Cloudland Canyon my new Catalina Island. Except that it appears I'm getting better about these things. Maybe. I wouldn't say <em>I</em> got myself to Cloudland Canyon, but events did conspire such that I ended up in Cloudland Canyon <em>before</em> we left Georgia. Progress.</p></div>
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+<img src="images/2016/2016-09-17_070613_cloudland-canyon-2.jpg" class="picwide" />
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+No, we didn't take the bus. It was a family reunion for some of Corrinne's family so cabins were rented and we were offered a room in one of them, which is just as well because the campground was a bit dismal -- little more than a gravel parking lot really. The canyon, however, is well worth going for, particularly if you get up before dawn and head down to the Bear Creek overlook to watch the sunrise.
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+<img src="images/2016/cloudland1.jpg" class="picwide" />
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+As is our usual pace we took the back roads, not hurrying, winding through the mountains, stopping for a picnic lunch at another state park that was mostly a shrine to the Army Corp of Engineers. I have mixed feelings about The Corp. They're largely responsible for the mess that is the Mississippi River Valley today and their hubris is possibly unmatched even today. Still. At least they didn't waste their time building gadgets.
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+Could they have stopped for a minute to study the ecology of a place before they attempted to "improve" it? Sure, but at least they tried to make the world a better place (even if their vision differs from mine). At least they left behind a place my kids can eat turkey sandwiches and chocolate cookies.
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+<img src="images/2016/P9160011_5x0G4sl.jpg" class="picwide" />
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+Oh, and a reservoir. The Corp did love them some dams. But not for lakes mind you. Lakes are frivolous. Reservoirs are eminently practical and serious. Like the Army Corp of Engineers.
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+<img src="images/2016/P9160016.jpg" class="picwide" />
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+Eventually we made it to Cloudland Canyon. Not without things getting interesting though. To add modicum of adventure the air conditioning broke just after lunch. I turned on the WD50 air con, but because it's never-winter here in Georgia, we were all quite warm by the time we got there. Fortunately the solution was already there waiting for us -- hammocks.
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+<img src="images/2016/P9170100.jpg" class="picwide" />
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+We didn't hike all the way down into the canyon, but we did manage to go a little ways. Apparently it just wasn't enough for Elliott who decided hiking up out of a canyon wasn't hard enough so he picked up a large rock and carried it all the way up.
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+<img src="images/2016/P9160033.jpg" class="picwide" />
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+We've taken the girls camping before, but they were too young to remember. And I don't think we ever did the important stuff, like making campfires and roasting marshmellows for s'mores. That oversight has since been corrected.
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To become more aware of the rhythms and patterns of life that haven’t had human will imposed on them. To be aware of the cycles around us.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox.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/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox_picfull-sm.jpg 750w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox_picwide.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/2016-09-22_083636_equinox.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould writes about time having two components, time’s arrow and time’s cycle. </p> +<p>Time’s arrow is linear time, what we would call history, a way of looking at the past as a series of non-repeating events. Time’s cycle on the other hand is circular time, “fundamental states… immanent in time, always present and never changing”, as he puts it in <cite>Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle</cite></p> +<p>Time’s arrow is all around us every day, it is the proverbial water to a fish, we exist so immersed in a world that views time as an arrow that we don’t even realize that’s something we think, however, subconsciously.</p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/2016-09-22_08.51.43.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_08.51.43_pictall-sm.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_08.51.43_pictall-med.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_08.51.43_pictall.jpg Nonew" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_08.51.43_pictall-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/2016-09-22_08.51.43.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Time’s cycle though, that doesn’t get much press in our world. If you want the space to exist in time’s cycle for a while you’ll have to carve it yourself. I’m convinced this is why our forefathers recognized and celebrated time’s cycle where they saw it. It’s easy to live in time’s arrow, but it’s only at certain points on the arrow can you see the cycle happening as well. This why there have always been harvest festivals, planting festivals, hunting festivals, lunar festivals, seasonal festivals and so on. Nearly every culture prior to ours had them, and in more of the world than not, they’re still celebrated today.</p> +<p>I have a thing for solar cycles I guess. I was born a few hours before the winter solstice. My wife and I were married on the summer solstice. My son was born a few hours before the winter solstice. None of that was planned. It’s all synchronicity. Coincidence some would say. That’s the word for the the curious cycle-denying component of our culture. Not only do we ignore the cycle, we seem to want to deny it entirely.</p> +<p>Alternately, you could contemplate the possibility that synchronicities like that are not coincidence. That they have pattern to them, that the pattern might mean something or have something to say to you, even if it only turns out to be, “hey I exist too”.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/2016-09-22_084656_equinox.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/2016/2016-09-22_084656_equinox_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_084656_equinox_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_084656_equinox_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/2016-09-22_084656_equinox_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pond photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/2016-09-22_084656_equinox.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Another pattern I’ve noticed in my existence so far is that whenever there’s a proposed dualism there’s also a third possibility half-hidden in the combination of the two. 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+One of our motivations for living in the bus is to spend more time outside -- outside in general, but even moreso, outside in nature. To become more aware of the rhythms and patterns of life that haven't had human will imposed on them. To be aware of the cycles around us.
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+<img src="images/2017/2016-09-22_083636_equinox.jpg" id="image-137" class="picwide" />
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+Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould writes about time having two components, time's arrow and time's cycle.
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+Time's arrow is linear time, what we would call history, a way of looking at the past as a series of non-repeating events. Time's cycle on the other hand is circular time, "fundamental states... immanent in time, always present and never changing", as he puts it in <cite>Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle</cite>
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+Time's arrow is all around us every day, it is the proverbial water to a fish, we exist so immersed in a world that views time as an arrow that we don't even realize that's something we think, however, subconsciously.
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+<img src="images/2017/2016-09-22_08.51.43.jpg" id="image-138" class="picfull" />
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+Time's cycle though, that doesn't get much press in our world. If you want the space to exist in time's cycle for a while you'll have to carve it yourself. I'm convinced this is why our forefathers recognized and celebrated time's cycle where they saw it. It's easy to live in time's arrow, but it's only at certain points on the arrow can you see the cycle happening as well. This why there have always been harvest festivals, planting festivals, hunting festivals, lunar festivals, seasonal festivals and so on. Nearly every culture prior to ours had them, and in more of the world than not, they're still celebrated today.
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+I have a thing for solar cycles I guess. I was born a few hours before the winter solstice. My wife and I were married on the summer solstice. My son was born a few hours before the winter solstice. None of that was planned. It's all synchronicity. Coincidence some would say. That's the word for the the curious cycle-denying component of our culture. Not only do we ignore the cycle, we seem to want to deny it entirely.
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+Alternately, you could contemplate the possibility that synchronicities like that are not coincidence. That they have pattern to them, that the pattern might mean something or have something to say to you, even if it only turns out to be, "hey I exist too".
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+<img src="images/2017/2016-09-22_084656_equinox.jpg" id="image-253" class="picwide" />
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+Another pattern I've noticed in my existence so far is that whenever there's a proposed dualism there's also a third possibility half-hidden in the combination of the two. Time's looping arrow that repeats though cycles but is a bit different each time.
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