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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-01-15T19:33:42" itemprop="datePublished">January <span>15, 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>A couple weeks back we thought we had a buyer for the house. It fell through at the last minute, but it was close enough that we were all getting excited at the prospect of actually hitting the road. And then nothing. </p> +<p>To make up for that we decided it was time to do something of an exploratory trip, something to help us discover all the little things we needed to do to get everything livable in the bus. </p> +<p>The house fiasco happened to coincide with a few days of warm weather so I packed up the bus and we hit the road for a short trip out to Fort Yargo State Park, a lake that sits, more or less, in downtown Winder, about 30 minutes from our house.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-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/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01_picwide.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Surprisingly though Fort Yargo ends up feeling like you’re more out in nature than you really are. And it worked out well to camp ten minutes from a tasty Laotian restaurant since I haven’t actually hooked up the propane system yet and cooking consists of balancing a Coleman stove atop the Travco’s actual stove. It worked well enough for breakfast. On the whole it was a bit like tent camping in a 27ft fiberglass shell. The bus ran well, as well as I expected on the way out. Right as we pulled into the campground it started to hesitate when I accelerated, but I managed to get it parked reasonably level and pushed that out my mind for a couple of days.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-14_073712_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-14_073712_fort-yargo_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-14_073712_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-14_073712_fort-yargo_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-14_073712_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Breakfast in 1969 Dodge Travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-14_073712_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_070019_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_070019_fort-yargo_pic66.jpg" alt="Breakfast in 1969 Dodge Travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_070019_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""></a> +<figcaption></figcaption> +</figure> + + + + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_061421_fort-yargo-01.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_061421_fort-yargo-01_pic66.jpg" alt="1969 Dodge Travco kitchen photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_061421_fort-yargo-01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Like tent camping inside an RV."></a> +<figcaption>Like tent camping inside an RV.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>We pulled in around 2 in the afternoon and the ranger at the visitor center apologized for the fact that the lake was in the process of being drained. I didn’t say anything but I was thinking, <em>you just created possibly the largest mud flat my kids are ever going to see and you’re apologizing?</em></p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_114931_fort-yargo.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/2017/2017-01-13_114931_fort-yargo_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_114931_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_114931_fort-yargo_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_114931_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1969 Dodge Travco at Fort Yargo State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_114931_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We found a spot that backed up along what would have been a little inlet, but was currently just a sandy, muddy ravine. About two minutes after the engine shut off everyone was in the mud.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_150254_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_150254_fort-yargo_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_150254_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_150254_fort-yargo_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_150254_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy playing in muddy creek, fort yargo state park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_150254_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_153248_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_153248_fort-yargo_pic66.jpg" alt="Boy eating fresh water clams photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_153248_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_153249_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_153249_fort-yargo_pic66.jpg" alt="boy playing in the mud photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_153249_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_153143_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_153143_fort-yargo_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_153143_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_153143_fort-yargo_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_153143_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Girl photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_153143_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_144257_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_144257_fort-yargo_pic66.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_144257_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_152620_fort-yargo_MEg0j6p.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-12_152620_fort-yargo_MEg0j6p_pic66.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-12_152620_fort-yargo_MEg0j6p.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>We had intended to only stay one night, but Fort Yargo was running a two nights for the price of one special, so, why not? </p> +<p>As a test run for full time living it was an interesting trip. There’s plenty of practical things we need to do, figure out systems that help us live comfortably in a small space. But beyond that it’s difficult to explain what it’s like to wake up and go outside. This sounds incredibly mundane, but for me it’s not. To wake up and head outside first thing sets a kind of tone for the day that’s very different. I feel part of the natural world in way that I just don’t at home.</p> +<p>Not everything was wonderful though. The first night we were there we had a rough time getting everyone to bed. It’s hard to fall asleep when everything is new and different and exciting. But by the second night it had all become the new (very wonderful) normal and the kids were asleep by their usual bed time. </p> +<p>We sat up by the campfire for a while, but if you look closely at the breakfast images above, you’ll noticed that it’s still dark out. In the end we rarely stay up more than an hour or two later than the kids.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_084959_fort-yargo.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/2017/2017-01-13_084959_fort-yargo_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_084959_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_084959_fort-yargo_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_084959_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_084959_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Not actually bedtime."> + </a> +<figcaption>Not actually bedtime.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_192213_fort-yargo.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/2017/2017-01-13_192213_fort-yargo_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_192213_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_192213_fort-yargo_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_192213_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg" alt="campfire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_192213_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_193237_fort-yargo.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/2017/2017-01-13_193237_fort-yargo_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-01-13_193237_fort-yargo_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="1969 Dodge Travco by firelight photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-01-13_193237_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Friday afternoon we realized it was a long weekend. The campground filled up in a hurry and we decided to pack it in and head home the next day. </p> +<p>The stalling while accelerating thing was forced out of the back of my mind and into the forefront again. Things started off well enough. A bit of sputtering as we headed out of the campground, but it could have been that the engine wasn’t completely warm. Then headed through downtown Winder it died at a stoplight, then another. Then I pulled off into a nice big parking lot where I spent some quality time messing with the carburetor. </p> +<p>Eventually I gave up and called Progressive roadside assistance, which was a mistake. I gave up in part because I wanted to test Progressive and man did it fail. Catastrophically failed. <strong>Do not under any circumstances buy Progressive roadside assistance</strong>. Progressive refused to tow to the mechanic I wanted and instead wanted to tow me to a Ford dealership that didn’t have the slightest idea how to work on a Dodge RV. I know because I called them<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. What a bucket of fail Progressive turned out to be. Really hope their insurance is better or we’re screwed if anything ever happens.</p> +<p>Eventually I managed to coax the bus into running and together the bus and I limped home. It turned out… well, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you so I’ll just say I’m not sure how I did it exactly, but I did. Now she’s headed in for a new carb, exhaust work and a new muffler. After that, I think it’ll be time to get back on the road, whether the house is sold or not.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Needless to say I have since cancelled Progressive roadside assistance. After asking around on some RV forums I decided to go with AAA Premier RV assistance. It ain’t cheap, but it lets me pick the mechanic I want and that could potentially save thousands by stopping some idiot from messing up the bus. 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It fell through at the last minute, but it was close enough that we were all getting excited at the prospect of actually hitting the road. And then nothing.
+
+To make up for that we decided it was time to do something of an exploratory trip, something to help us discover all the little things we needed to do to get everything livable in the bus.
+
+The house fiasco happened to coincide with a few days of warm weather so I packed up the bus and we hit the road for a short trip out to Fort Yargo State Park, a lake that sits, more or less, in downtown Winder, about 30 minutes from our house.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-12_144535_fort-yargo-01.jpg" id="image-287" class="picwide" />
+
+Surprisingly though Fort Yargo ends up feeling like you're more out in nature than you really are. And it worked out well to camp ten minutes from a tasty Laotian restaurant since I haven't actually hooked up the propane system yet and cooking consists of balancing a Coleman stove atop the Travco's actual stove. It worked well enough for breakfast. On the whole it was a bit like tent camping in a 27ft fiberglass shell. The bus ran well, as well as I expected on the way out. Right as we pulled into the campground it started to hesitate when I accelerated, but I managed to get it parked reasonably level and pushed that out my mind for a couple of days.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-14_073712_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-284" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-13_070019_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-277" class="cluster pic66 caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-13_061421_fort-yargo-01.jpg" id="image-276" class="cluster pic66 caption" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+We pulled in around 2 in the afternoon and the ranger at the visitor center apologized for the fact that the lake was in the process of being drained. I didn't say anything but I was thinking, *you just created possibly the largest mud flat my kids are ever going to see and you're apologizing?*
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-13_114931_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-280" class="picwide" />
+
+We found a spot that backed up along what would have been a little inlet, but was currently just a sandy, muddy ravine. About two minutes after the engine shut off everyone was in the mud.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-12_150254_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-272" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-12_153248_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-274" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-12_153249_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-275" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-12_153143_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-273" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-13_144257_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-281" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-12_152620_fort-yargo_MEg0j6p.jpg" id="image-285" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+We had intended to only stay one night, but Fort Yargo was running a two nights for the price of one special, so, why not?
+
+As a test run for full time living it was an interesting trip. There's plenty of practical things we need to do, figure out systems that help us live comfortably in a small space. But beyond that it's difficult to explain what it's like to wake up and go outside. This sounds incredibly mundane, but for me it's not. To wake up and head outside first thing sets a kind of tone for the day that's very different. I feel part of the natural world in way that I just don't at home.
+
+Not everything was wonderful though. The first night we were there we had a rough time getting everyone to bed. It's hard to fall asleep when everything is new and different and exciting. But by the second night it had all become the new (very wonderful) normal and the kids were asleep by their usual bed time.
+
+We sat up by the campfire for a while, but if you look closely at the breakfast images above, you'll noticed that it's still dark out. In the end we rarely stay up more than an hour or two later than the kids.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-13_084959_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-279" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-13_192213_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-282" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-01-13_193237_fort-yargo.jpg" id="image-283" class="picwide" />
+
+Friday afternoon we realized it was a long weekend. The campground filled up in a hurry and we decided to pack it in and head home the next day.
+
+The stalling while accelerating thing was forced out of the back of my mind and into the forefront again. Things started off well enough. A bit of sputtering as we headed out of the campground, but it could have been that the engine wasn't completely warm. Then headed through downtown Winder it died at a stoplight, then another. Then I pulled off into a nice big parking lot where I spent some quality time messing with the carburetor.
+
+Eventually I gave up and called Progressive roadside assistance, which was a mistake. I gave up in part because I wanted to test Progressive and man did it fail. Catastrophically failed. **Do not under any circumstances buy Progressive roadside assistance**. Progressive refused to tow to the mechanic I wanted and instead wanted to tow me to a Ford dealership that didn't have the slightest idea how to work on a Dodge RV. I know because I called them[^1]. What a bucket of fail Progressive turned out to be. Really hope their insurance is better or we're screwed if anything ever happens.
+
+Eventually I managed to coax the bus into running and together the bus and I limped home. It turned out... well, you wouldn't believe me if I told you so I'll just say I'm not sure how I did it exactly, but I did. Now she's headed in for a new carb, exhaust work and a new muffler. After that, I think it'll be time to get back on the road, whether the house is sold or not.
+
+[^1]: Needless to say I have since cancelled Progressive roadside assistance. After asking around on some RV forums I decided to go with AAA Premier RV assistance. It ain't cheap, but it lets me pick the mechanic I want and that could potentially save thousands by stopping some idiot from messing up the bus. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-03-24T01:41:01" itemprop="datePublished">March <span>24, 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>Everything accelerates toward beginnings. But then there’s that moment where things suspend there at the starting line, thin, ephemeral, balanced there with every decision waiting to propel you into the future. </p> +<p>Or, to put in another way, starting out is like being in that weird moment where Wily E Coyote has merrily run past the edge of the cliff and managed to keep going out of sheer blissful ignorance — until he looks down. Starting out is that moment when you look down and realize the edge of the cliff is well behind you now — you’re on your way down.</p> +<p>When I did it by myself years ago it was an exhilarating thing I likened to <a href="/jrnl/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go">swinging as a child</a>, but I won’t lie, throw three kids and a half still-broken bus in the mix and it’s not really fun or exhilarating; it’s a stressful nightmare. Nothing compared to what millions experience every day, but a long way from those dreams of carefree abandon you imagine you’ll feel. Or, in my case, that you have felt before.</p> +<p>For the better part of a week we bounced from hotel to in-laws to hotel to in-laws, all while the bus sat at the repair shop waiting on parts, some of which to this day have not arrived (do not get me started on this topic…).</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days.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/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days_picwide.jpg" alt="Bus on tow truck photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="I sincerely hope I never see this again."> + </a> +<figcaption>I sincerely hope I never see this again.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Still, we did it. The house sold. For the record, we got our full asking price. </p> +<p>Some where in the middle of packing up ten years worth of accumulated stuff, selling off most of our possessions, negotiating with buyers, oh, and working full time, I managed to finish up the interior of the bus, laying the floor, refinishing the dash, all the trim and countless other little tasks. One day Corrinne called around to find someone to recover the seats and after a few people declined or couldn’t make our deadline we found someone about an hour a way who had a week between two big jobs and was will to take it on. I packed up the seats, drove to Atlanta and worked out the details. A couple days later I dropped off the bus to get the carburetor replaced, electronic ignition and few other odds and ends.</p> +<p>And then the house sold and we started falling.</p> +<p>We were forced to confront a problem most of you have not —where do you put your stuff when your home is at the shop? Answer: boxes? We shoved everything in boxes and stuffed them in our minivan, at my in-law’s house and in the storage unit we rented to hold a few items. The remainder we carted from hotel room to hotel room.</p> +<p>But you know, I’d be lying if I said it was all work and moving. We took time out to have a few last rides in the truck (which we’re selling). Crazy times are also good times to bend the rules a bit, to lighten things up. I’m not saying we did this, because I know what the internet parent police will say, but <em>if</em> we did all ride in the truck at once, using gasp, a single seat belt for three children, theoretically speaking, I bet it would have been fun.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-09_071126_last-days_IKbGZJ7.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/2017/2017-03-09_071126_last-days_IKbGZJ7_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-09_071126_last-days_IKbGZJ7_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="nothing to see here photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-09_071126_last-days_IKbGZJ7.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We also took a day off somewhere in there to visit a friend’s farm so the kids could drive around in massive tractors. Heck, even Corrinne and I drove the tractors. How often do you get to drive something with a wheel that’s taller than you are?</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-02-19_161809_farm.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/2017/2017-02-19_161809_farm_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-02-19_161809_farm_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="driving a massive tractor photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-02-19_161809_farm.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Working farms, that is to say, real farms, not those little vegetable patches on ten acres that the hipsters have been buying up, are a healthy reminder that I’ve never really worked a day in my life. Not worked like a farmer does. It’s humbling just to listen to someone tell you about their day to day work on a farm. There are things I dislike about the modern world, but I am frequently thankful that I don’t have to farm.</p> +<p>Really the worst thing I had to deal with was having a home in the shop. One day I sorta half snapped and had the mechanic just put the thing back together as best he could so we’d have a place to be. So the bus has electronic ignition now at least, still no carburetor though. It ran well enough to get to the tire shop and get new wheels put on, but of course that didn’t go quite as well as planned, the new wheels are different enough that our spare didn’t quite fit. I did get to learn how to use a floor lift though, so not total loss. But I still need to get some longer bolts and get the spare mounted up before we leave.</p> +<p>But at least we had our home back, which meant we could get out town, stop hemorrhaging money at hotels and restaurants, which we promptly did, decamping to Watson Mill State Park for a week. 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But then there's that moment where things suspend there at the starting line, thin, ephemeral, balanced there with every decision waiting to propel you into the future.
+
+Or, to put in another way, starting out is like being in that weird moment where Wily E Coyote has merrily run past the edge of the cliff and managed to keep going out of sheer blissful ignorance -- until he looks down. Starting out is that moment when you look down and realize the edge of the cliff is well behind you now -- you're on your way down.
+
+When I did it by myself years ago it was an exhilarating thing I likened to [swinging as a child](/jrnl/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go), but I won't lie, throw three kids and a half still-broken bus in the mix and it's not really fun or exhilarating; it's a stressful nightmare. Nothing compared to what millions experience every day, but a long way from those dreams of carefree abandon you imagine you'll feel. Or, in my case, that you have felt before.
+
+For the better part of a week we bounced from hotel to in-laws to hotel to in-laws, all while the bus sat at the repair shop waiting on parts, some of which to this day have not arrived (do not get me started on this topic...).
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-08_135013_last-days.jpg" id="image-292" class="picwide caption" />
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+Still, we did it. The house sold. For the record, we got our full asking price.
+
+Some where in the middle of packing up ten years worth of accumulated stuff, selling off most of our possessions, negotiating with buyers, oh, and working full time, I managed to finish up the interior of the bus, laying the floor, refinishing the dash, all the trim and countless other little tasks. One day Corrinne called around to find someone to recover the seats and after a few people declined or couldn't make our deadline we found someone about an hour a way who had a week between two big jobs and was will to take it on. I packed up the seats, drove to Atlanta and worked out the details. A couple days later I dropped off the bus to get the carburetor replaced, electronic ignition and few other odds and ends.
+
+And then the house sold and we started falling.
+
+We were forced to confront a problem most of you have not --where do you put your stuff when your home is at the shop? Answer: boxes? We shoved everything in boxes and stuffed them in our minivan, at my in-law's house and in the storage unit we rented to hold a few items. The remainder we carted from hotel room to hotel room.
+
+But you know, I'd be lying if I said it was all work and moving. We took time out to have a few last rides in the truck (which we're selling). Crazy times are also good times to bend the rules a bit, to lighten things up. I'm not saying we did this, because I know what the internet parent police will say, but *if* we did all ride in the truck at once, using gasp, a single seat belt for three children, theoretically speaking, I bet it would have been fun.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-09_071126_last-days_IKbGZJ7.jpg" id="image-290" class="picwide" />
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+We also took a day off somewhere in there to visit a friend's farm so the kids could drive around in massive tractors. Heck, even Corrinne and I drove the tractors. How often do you get to drive something with a wheel that's taller than you are?
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-02-19_161809_farm.jpg" id="image-291" class="picwide" />
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+Working farms, that is to say, real farms, not those little vegetable patches on ten acres that the hipsters have been buying up, are a healthy reminder that I've never really worked a day in my life. Not worked like a farmer does. It's humbling just to listen to someone tell you about their day to day work on a farm. There are things I dislike about the modern world, but I am frequently thankful that I don't have to farm.
+
+Really the worst thing I had to deal with was having a home in the shop. One day I sorta half snapped and had the mechanic just put the thing back together as best he could so we'd have a place to be. So the bus has electronic ignition now at least, still no carburetor though. It ran well enough to get to the tire shop and get new wheels put on, but of course that didn't go quite as well as planned, the new wheels are different enough that our spare didn't quite fit. I did get to learn how to use a floor lift though, so not total loss. But I still need to get some longer bolts and get the spare mounted up before we leave.
+
+But at least we had our home back, which meant we could get out town, stop hemorrhaging money at hotels and restaurants, which we promptly did, decamping to Watson Mill State Park for a week. 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The bus was running much better, but I still wanted to replace the carburetor and get new wheels and tires before we left. Both of those things involved ordering parts and — my least favorite thing — waiting. </p> +<p>We tried to get back out to <a href="/jrnl/2017/01/wilds-of-winder">Fort Yargo</a>, but the campground was booked up the Friday night we were trying to leave, so we ended up on the other side of Athens at Watson Mill Bridge State Park. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill_picwide.jpg" alt="watson mill bridge photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-24_100234_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-24_100234_watson-mill_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-24_100234_watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-24_100234_watson-mill_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-24_100234_watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bridge photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-24_100234_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-24_100714_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-24_100714_watson-mill_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-24_100714_watson-mill_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="trees photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-24_100714_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It’s a place we’ve been quite a few times for the day, but never overnight. But it has a river for the kids to play in and a small campground that no one seems to use — we slid in around dinner time on a Friday and there were plenty of spots still available after we parked. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-29_165837_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-29_165837_watson-mill_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-29_165837_watson-mill_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="chopping fire wood photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-29_165837_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Chopping fire wood the old fashioned way."> + </a> +<figcaption>Chopping fire wood the old fashioned way.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The first night was a continuation of our “tent camping in an RV” routine. We still had no city water lines, no hot water tank and no propane inside the bus. I spent the next couple of days taking care of all that and quite a few other projects on the list. By the time we left a week later the bus was actually something like a real RV, with cushy features like running water (still just cold) and a working stove (the gas pressure is a bit low for my tastes, haven’t fully figured that one out, love to hear ideas beyond mine — that the regulator is a cheap piece of crap).</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-25_111526_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-25_111526_watson-mill_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-25_111526_watson-mill_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="half finished bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-25_111526_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Seats? We don't need no stinking seats."> + </a> +<figcaption>Seats? We don’t need no stinking seats.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_080429_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-26_080429_watson-mill_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_080429_watson-mill_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="Livy in half finished bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_080429_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-25_114021_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-25_114021_watson-mill_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-25_114021_watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg 1170w" alt="unicorn helmet photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-25_114021_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Not that all we did was work. There was a river to play in after all. And a massive covered bridge to walk through. There were not, unfortunately, any paddle boats though. They’re apparently just too stuck in the mud for anyone to bother getting rid of them.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_153223_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-26_153223_watson-mill_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_153223_watson-mill_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="Livy Apple photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_153223_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_153405_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-26_153405_watson-mill_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-26_153405_watson-mill_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="lilah watching photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-26_153405_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>There is however, s stretch of rock to the far side of the river, about 50 yards down from the falls where you can, if your butt is up for it, slide down slick mossy granite at speed that, toward the end, becomes moderately alarming. The impact at the bottom is jarring, but it’s a fun ride and jarring or no, I couldn’t say no to the kids so up and down we went well past the point where my butt was sore. </p> +<p>After a few days the wheels and tires were in and I drove into town and got rid of the split ring rims that have served the bus since 1969. I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I hate fixing things that aren’t broken and the rims were technically not broken. However, it’s nearly impossible to get tires for them in this country and our current plans don’t have us in Mexico until at least a year from now, which is further than I wanted to go given the dry rot on the old tires.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-29_171722_watson-mill.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/2017/2017-03-29_171722_watson-mill_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-03-29_171722_watson-mill_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="toy trucks photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-03-29_171722_watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>On the plus side, the 195 R19.5 tires I put on add about 2-3 inches of more tread to every wheel and I absolutely feel it. The ride is rougher with the radials, but much more solid with the bus feeling more like it’s stuck the road and significantly less floaty. And that’s with the horribly blown out shocks we’ve got, I can’t wait to see how it rides with a nice fresh set of shocks too.</p> +<p>The carburetor story is significantly shorter and less happy. I got sick of calling to see if it had come in. No one at the shop ever called me and so we just blew it off. The current carb, while after market and basically a piece of crap, does, technically, nevertheless work. Most of the time anyway.</p> +<p>We were frustrated with the delays and tired of hanging around for empty false promises, so after a couple nights in a hotel in Athens, during one of which I nearly lost my mind stressing out about the condition of the engine and transmission, we decided to say screw it, let’s hit the road and figure it out as we go. 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The bus was running much better, but I still wanted to replace the carburetor and get new wheels and tires before we left. Both of those things involved ordering parts and -- my least favorite thing -- waiting.
+
+We tried to get back out to [Fort Yargo][1], but the campground was booked up the Friday night we were trying to leave, so we ended up on the other side of Athens at Watson Mill Bridge State Park.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-26_143813_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-298" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-24_100234_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-293" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-24_100714_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-294" class="picwide" />
+
+
+It's a place we've been quite a few times for the day, but never overnight. But it has a river for the kids to play in and a small campground that no one seems to use -- we slid in around dinner time on a Friday and there were plenty of spots still available after we parked.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-29_165837_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-301" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The first night was a continuation of our "tent camping in an RV" routine. We still had no city water lines, no hot water tank and no propane inside the bus. I spent the next couple of days taking care of all that and quite a few other projects on the list. By the time we left a week later the bus was actually something like a real RV, with cushy features like running water (still just cold) and a working stove (the gas pressure is a bit low for my tastes, haven't fully figured that one out, love to hear ideas beyond mine -- that the regulator is a cheap piece of crap).
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-25_111526_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-295" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-26_080429_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-297" class="picwide" />
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-25_114021_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-296" class="picwide" />
+
+Not that all we did was work. There was a river to play in after all. And a massive covered bridge to walk through. There were not, unfortunately, any paddle boats though. They're apparently just too stuck in the mud for anyone to bother getting rid of them.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-26_153223_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-299" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-26_153405_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-300" class="picwide" />
+
+There is however, s stretch of rock to the far side of the river, about 50 yards down from the falls where you can, if your butt is up for it, slide down slick mossy granite at speed that, toward the end, becomes moderately alarming. The impact at the bottom is jarring, but it's a fun ride and jarring or no, I couldn't say no to the kids so up and down we went well past the point where my butt was sore.
+
+After a few days the wheels and tires were in and I drove into town and got rid of the split ring rims that have served the bus since 1969. I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I hate fixing things that aren't broken and the rims were technically not broken. However, it's nearly impossible to get tires for them in this country and our current plans don't have us in Mexico until at least a year from now, which is further than I wanted to go given the dry rot on the old tires.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-03-29_171722_watson-mill.jpg" id="image-302" class="picwide" />
+
+On the plus side, the 195 R19.5 tires I put on add about 2-3 inches of more tread to every wheel and I absolutely feel it. The ride is rougher with the radials, but much more solid with the bus feeling more like it's stuck the road and significantly less floaty. And that's with the horribly blown out shocks we've got, I can't wait to see how it rides with a nice fresh set of shocks too.
+
+The carburetor story is significantly shorter and less happy. I got sick of calling to see if it had come in. No one at the shop ever called me and so we just blew it off. The current carb, while after market and basically a piece of crap, does, technically, nevertheless work. Most of the time anyway.
+
+We were frustrated with the delays and tired of hanging around for empty false promises, so after a couple nights in a hotel in Athens, during one of which I nearly lost my mind stressing out about the condition of the engine and transmission, we decided to say screw it, let's hit the road and figure it out as we go. And so we did.
+
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In reality we finally got going, fittingly enough, on April 1st. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville.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/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville_picwide.jpg" alt="1969 Dodge Travco at Raysville campground, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We spent the morning saying goodbye to friends and family and (briefly) stopping buy a classic car show that happens once a month at a local coffee shop. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_104549_leaving_si54IVc.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/2017/2017-04-01_104549_leaving_si54IVc_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_104549_leaving_si54IVc_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="classic cars at jittery joes photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_104549_leaving_si54IVc.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I wouldn’t say we stole the show, but we certainly dominated when it came to size. And hey, we even have a pretty much finished +interior now.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_163448_raysville.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/2017/2017-04-01_163448_raysville_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_163448_raysville_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="1969 Dodge Travco interior photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_163448_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_163510_raysville.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/2017/2017-04-01_163510_raysville_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_163510_raysville_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="1969 Dodge Travco interior photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_163510_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We finally made it out of town at the crack of 2PM and drove a whooping 80 miles before pulling in to Raysville campground near the southern end of the massive lake that is the Savannah river. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_173026_raysville.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/2017/2017-04-01_173026_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_173026_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_173026_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-01_173026_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Savannah river, raysville photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-01_173026_raysville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>If was an uneventful drive, the bus ran smooth and everything just worked for a change. For posterity’s sake I’d like to note that the person with the paper map drove straight there and the person with the GPS got lost twice. Relying on Google to navigate the back roads of the south is a recipe for disaster. There are now two paper maps and no GPS on our persons.</p> +<p>Raysville was nice and quiet. Or at least absent human noise. The Canadian geese roosting on the island just off shore from our campsite had frequent loud and rather involved conversations all night long. Still, it was lovely spot so we stayed a second night. A couple friends who’d been out of town when we said goodbye made the trek out from Athens the second day and spent the afternoon with us. </p> +<p>Mostly though we just played on the shore and got ourselves and all our clothes covered in good old red Georgia clay.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-02_091635_raysville.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/2017/2017-04-02_091635_raysville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-02_091635_raysville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-02_091635_raysville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-02_091635_raysville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Savannah river, raysville photographed by luxagraf" 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I love Linda and John and enjoy the pictures they share of family. What incredible memories you are making with your children! It is refreshing to see them playing in the mud versus playing with an electronic device! I admire your courage to venture out of ‘mainstream’ and you have my prayers for a safe and fulfilling journey.</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="187" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833415" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="4ce978b8cfa06df0214d0345f12f7c2a6c307bdf" 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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In reality we finally got going, fittingly enough, on April 1st.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-01_163648_raysville.jpg" id="image-309" class="picwide" />
+
+We spent the morning saying goodbye to friends and family and (briefly) stopping buy a classic car show that happens once a month at a local coffee shop.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-01_104549_leaving_si54IVc.jpg" id="image-305" class="picwide" />
+
+I wouldn't say we stole the show, but we certainly dominated when it came to size. And hey, we even have a pretty much finished
+interior now.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-01_163448_raysville.jpg" id="image-307" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-01_163510_raysville.jpg" id="image-308" class="picwide" />
+
+We finally made it out of town at the crack of 2PM and drove a whooping 80 miles before pulling in to Raysville campground near the southern end of the massive lake that is the Savannah river.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-01_173026_raysville.jpg" id="image-310" class="picwide" />
+
+If was an uneventful drive, the bus ran smooth and everything just worked for a change. For posterity's sake I'd like to note that the person with the paper map drove straight there and the person with the GPS got lost twice. Relying on Google to navigate the back roads of the south is a recipe for disaster. There are now two paper maps and no GPS on our persons.
+
+Raysville was nice and quiet. Or at least absent human noise. The Canadian geese roosting on the island just off shore from our campsite had frequent loud and rather involved conversations all night long. Still, it was lovely spot so we stayed a second night. A couple friends who'd been out of town when we said goodbye made the trek out from Athens the second day and spent the afternoon with us.
+
+Mostly though we just played on the shore and got ourselves and all our clothes covered in good old red Georgia clay.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-02_091635_raysville.jpg" id="image-312" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-01_185339_raysville.jpg" id="image-311" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-02_095205_raysville.jpg" id="image-313" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-02_100003_raysville.jpg" id="image-315" class="picwide" />
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Enough time anyway, to make it feel a little like coming home when we get here.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide.jpg" alt="kids playing at beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>This also feels a bit like coming home, or at least returning to the beginning, because this is where we were when we decided to do this trip two years ago. It’s also where we were when Corrinne found the bus on Craigslist. Yes, Corrinne found it. And yes, it took two years to get it restored. Tip for anyone reading this who’s thinking, “man, I really want to restore an older RV/Trailer”: make a budget for time and money and then double both. Then, just to be safe, double the money budget again.</p> +<p>It took longer than we wanted, and there were some darker moments in those last two years when everything seemed impossible, but hey, we did it. We’re here. Again.</p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_105426_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-12_105426_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_105426_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_105426_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_105426_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="open for business photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_105426_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Ironically not in the bus though. Through all our visits to St. George Island we’ve always stayed in the same place, which is owned by some friends of the family. I tried to talk the girls into camping at the very lovely state park down at the east end of the island, but they wouldn’t hear of it. It had to be the pink beach house.</p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_152059_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-12_152059_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_152059_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_152059_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_152059_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bridge to st george island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_152059_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Fine with me actually. Gave me a chance to finish the last of the bus tasks I need to knock out to call it finished. I don’t know why my wife just laughs now when I say I’m done. But really I am. The only thing left is getting a new water tank. Oh and the solar panels. And the house battery. And the ladder. And the roof rack. And the new awning. Cough.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_070738_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-15_070738_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_070738_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_070738_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_070738_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1969 Dodge Travco at St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_070738_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>When we got here we were leaking transmission fluid pretty bad. I had my eye on a section of the transmission cooler hose that had been replaced with what looked like some cheap rubber hose. But I had promised the family I wouldn’t spend the entire time on the island under the bus so I called around a bit and found a shop that was willing to take a look the following Monday. Good enough. I spent the next four days at the beach, hardly ever thinking about that hose, hardly ever having nightmares about failed gaskets that would require dropping the entire transmission.</p> +<p>Instead we played in the surf, climbed the lighthouse, ate shrimp, fried up Grouper cheeks, cooled off with shaved ice and frozen lemonades, and tried to find a cool Piggly Wiggly t-shirt. In other words, we did what you do at the beach — a whole lot of nothing.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_163612-1_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-12_163612-1_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_163612-1_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_163612-1_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_163612-1_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing at the beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_163612-1_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_163734_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-12_163734_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_163734_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_163734_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_163734_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing at beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_163734_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island_picwide.jpg" alt="kids playing at beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_165318_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-12_165318_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165318_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165318_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-12_165318_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing at beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_165318_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_150128_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-15_150128_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_150128_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_150128_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_150128_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shaved Ice photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_150128_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Shaved ice and frozen lemonade in the shade."> + </a> +<figcaption>Shaved ice and frozen lemonade in the shade.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-13_065013_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-13_065013_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-13_065013_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-13_065013_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-13_065013_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cooking photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-13_065013_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Cooking at the beach requires sunglasses."> + </a> +<figcaption>Cooking at the beach requires sunglasses.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-19_142856_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-19_142856_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-19_142856_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-19_142856_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-19_142856_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Climbing lighthouse stairs photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-19_142856_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="95 stairs and a 10 ft vertical ladder, she did it all. The woman selling tickets thought Lilah was too short to climb a lighthouse. I told her they'd climbed Half Dome, that shut her up."> + </a> +<figcaption>95 stairs and a 10 ft vertical ladder, she did it all. The woman selling tickets thought Lilah was too short to climb a lighthouse. I told her they’d climbed Half Dome, that shut her up.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-19_143305_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-19_143305_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-19_143305_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-19_143305_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-19_143305_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Top of the lighthouse photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-19_143305_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Top of the lighthouse."> + </a> +<figcaption>Top of the lighthouse.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>One day I spent the better part of an hour with the kids, digging up tiny little clams out of the wet sand behind receding waves. The Seashells of North America guide back up at the house told me later that the slightly larger, rainbow colored clams were Florida Coquinas, while the smaller, white ones were Gulf Donax. Both pop themselves out of the sand when they feel the vibration of crashing waves so that they’re carried up and down the beach, always remaining at the edge of the tidal zone where we were sitting, digging in the sand.</p> +<p>We dug up the Coquinas and Donax and dumped them on the surface of the sand to watch them suck themselves back down into the wet depth. Over and over we dug, then they dug. We started to root for different clams, trying to guess which one would disappear first. There was something hypnotic about watching them, something of the same appeal perhaps of things like frog races. I started to wonder what the clams must think, the ocean gone mad, surf pounding the shore and digging them up over and over again. Or maybe they’re more seasoned than that, maybe they knew exactly what it is, fucking tourists. Or maybe they didn’t need a why at all, maybe they just sucked themselves back down without a thought. Because it is there.</p> +<p>On Monday we drove the bus up to Port St. Joe, which had the only mechanic that had met my criteria: shop out of the way, huge bay doors in Google Street View and not fazed by my slow sell of, “I got a dodge 318, with a 727, that’s leaking transmission fluid…” “Well, bring it in.” “Okay. One thing, it’s got a 27ft motorhome attached to it, is that okay?” “How many feet?” “27.” Pause. “That should be alright.”</p> +<p>Turn out to be… wait for it… transmission cooler hose. Sigh. But hey, it’s fixed and I didn’t miss any time with the kids at the beach.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_155920_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-15_155920_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_155920_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_155920_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_155920_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing at beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_155920_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_155929_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-15_155929_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_155929_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_155929_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-15_155929_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing at beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-15_155929_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-16_092549_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-16_092549_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-16_092549_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-16_092549_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-16_092549_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids riding bikes photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-16_092549_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="We had a mailing address for a little while, so we went ahead and got the girls their birthday presents -- pedal bikes."> + </a> +<figcaption>We had a mailing address for a little while, so we went ahead and got the girls their birthday presents — pedal bikes.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-16_094843_st-george-island.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/2017/2017-04-16_094843_st-george-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-16_094843_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-16_094843_st-george-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-16_094843_st-george-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy on bike photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-16_094843_st-george-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Since the girls got new bikes, Elliott was more than happy to take one of their old ones."> + </a> +<figcaption>Since the girls got new bikes, 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waiting.What a gift to us the third generation to have it.Oh yes,George was glad to(big smile)to hear someone used reference books he put there.Enjoyed your blog almost as much as the one about the joys of an outdoor shower.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2452" 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">May 02, 2017 at 9:07 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@G and G Weldon-</p> +<p>I didn’t know he built it himself. I would like to have seen the island back then. </p> +<p>And I’ve read almost all the books there. A few years ago we met an older gentleman at the nature center in Eastpoint. He talked a bit about being a ferry captain years ago and some other things about the history of the Bay. Anyway later I was reading that Voices of Apalachicola book and he was in it. We sort of got the in-person version of what was in the book. 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Enough time anyway, to make it feel a little like coming home when we get here.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-355" class="picwide" />
+
+This also feels a bit like coming home, or at least returning to the beginning, because this is where we were when we decided to do this trip two years ago. It's also where we were when Corrinne found the bus on Craigslist. Yes, Corrinne found it. And yes, it took two years to get it restored. Tip for anyone reading this who's thinking, "man, I really want to restore an older RV/Trailer": make a budget for time and money and then double both. Then, just to be safe, double the money budget again.
+
+It took longer than we wanted, and there were some darker moments in those last two years when everything seemed impossible, but hey, we did it. We're here. Again.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_105426_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-353" class="picfull" />
+
+Ironically not in the bus though. Through all our visits to St. George Island we've always stayed in the same place, which is owned by some friends of the family. I tried to talk the girls into camping at the very lovely state park down at the east end of the island, but they wouldn't hear of it. It had to be the pink beach house.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_152059_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-351" class="picfull" />
+
+Fine with me actually. Gave me a chance to finish the last of the bus tasks I need to knock out to call it finished. I don't know why my wife just laughs now when I say I'm done. But really I am. The only thing left is getting a new water tank. Oh and the solar panels. And the house battery. And the ladder. And the roof rack. And the new awning. Cough.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-15_070738_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-358" class="picwide" />
+
+When we got here we were leaking transmission fluid pretty bad. I had my eye on a section of the transmission cooler hose that had been replaced with what looked like some cheap rubber hose. But I had promised the family I wouldn't spend the entire time on the island under the bus so I called around a bit and found a shop that was willing to take a look the following Monday. Good enough. I spent the next four days at the beach, hardly ever thinking about that hose, hardly ever having nightmares about failed gaskets that would require dropping the entire transmission.
+
+Instead we played in the surf, climbed the lighthouse, ate shrimp, fried up Grouper cheeks, cooled off with shaved ice and frozen lemonades, and tried to find a cool Piggly Wiggly t-shirt. In other words, we did what you do at the beach -- a whole lot of nothing.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_163612-1_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-352" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_163734_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-354" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_165237_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-355" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_165318_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-356" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-15_150128_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-359" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-13_065013_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-357" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-19_142856_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-364" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-19_143305_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-365" class="picwide caption" />
+
+One day I spent the better part of an hour with the kids, digging up tiny little clams out of the wet sand behind receding waves. The Seashells of North America guide back up at the house told me later that the slightly larger, rainbow colored clams were Florida Coquinas, while the smaller, white ones were Gulf Donax. Both pop themselves out of the sand when they feel the vibration of crashing waves so that they're carried up and down the beach, always remaining at the edge of the tidal zone where we were sitting, digging in the sand.
+
+We dug up the Coquinas and Donax and dumped them on the surface of the sand to watch them suck themselves back down into the wet depth. Over and over we dug, then they dug. We started to root for different clams, trying to guess which one would disappear first. There was something hypnotic about watching them, something of the same appeal perhaps of things like frog races. I started to wonder what the clams must think, the ocean gone mad, surf pounding the shore and digging them up over and over again. Or maybe they're more seasoned than that, maybe they knew exactly what it is, fucking tourists. Or maybe they didn't need a why at all, maybe they just sucked themselves back down without a thought. Because it is there.
+
+On Monday we drove the bus up to Port St. Joe, which had the only mechanic that had met my criteria: shop out of the way, huge bay doors in Google Street View and not fazed by my slow sell of, "I got a dodge 318, with a 727, that's leaking transmission fluid..." "Well, bring it in." "Okay. One thing, it's got a 27ft motorhome attached to it, is that okay?" "How many feet?" "27." Pause. "That should be alright."
+
+Turn out to be... wait for it... transmission cooler hose. Sigh. But hey, it's fixed and I didn't miss any time with the kids at the beach.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-15_155920_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-360" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-15_155929_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-361" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-16_092549_st-george-island.jpg" id="image-362" class="picwide caption" />
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It’s not always visible, but it is there, tracing a path down out of the hills and toward the sea.</p> +<p>We avoid interstates, even divided highways, sticking instead to the county roads, the thin gray lines on the map, many known only by local names, no number at all. Jones Rd. Thompson Bridge Rd. Stoney Bluff Rd. One blurs into the next as we pass down out of the tall Georgia pines, to mixed farmland, ever larger oaks and the first cordgrass hints of marsh.</p> +<p>In between are the occasional small towns, these days little more than scattered clusters of single wide trailers and abandoned downtown squares encircled by Popeye’s and dollar stores. Life out here feels bleak and hopeless to me. Or at least life as it is right now. Layers of peeling advertisements still clinging to collapsed billboards hint at time when it wasn’t like this.</p> +<p>I don’t know when it became like this out here, or even how widespread it is, but it feels widespread on this drive. We pass through several whole towns that quite simply aren’t there anymore. Just broken buildings and empty houses remain. It’s remarkable how fast the landscape reclaims what isn’t maintained. </p> +<p>The abandonment seems recent, within the last 20 years to judge by the advertisements still stuck inside windows here and there. But I imagine the decline started decades earlier. In fact there probably was no collapse at all. We always think things end suddenly, but with a few <a href="/jrnl/2011/06/forever-today">dramatic exceptions</a> it seldom works out that way. Instead there’s just less and less year after year until one day the last family walks slowly out of town and disappears into somewhere else. </p> +<p>It’s become fashionable in the last couple of years for the big city glossies to send reporters out to places like this to do a lot of hand-wringing about what happened, what it all means. Very few seem willing to accept that maybe this is just part of the cycle of things. That there is no perpetual progress, that things rise up and eventually fall back down. If you think that cycle is something that only happens elsewhere, to other people, you need to get off the interstate.</p> +<p>The scene brightens a little as we pass into the Carolina lowcountry. The towns are older, they’re at different point in the cycle, having already declined and rebuilt several times. This is a land where people have been around long enough to get a better idea of what works and what doesn’t. What remains now is what has survived the cycles thus far, what has been pruned and honed.</p> +<p>Finally we dip down into the intertidal plain and the road becomes covered by massive Live Oaks dripping Spanish Moss. Poking above them you can see the tufted tops of the Loblolly and Long Leaf Pines. They look like pineapples on sticks thrust up into the sky. </p> +<p>It’s overcast, but never actually rains, which is good because I have no windshield wipers at the moment. I have a single wiper arm on the driver’s side<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> and a blade I bought at a truck stop that I’m hoping I can somehow attach, but I’m waiting for a good downpour before I tackle that project. Fortunately for me the weather holds all the way to the Edisto State Park campground. </p> +<p>We had been promising the kids that we’d be at the beach “soon” for about six months so we literally parked the bus in our campsite and headed straight out the beach. It was chilly, overcast and generally dismal, but no one cared. There was sand and sea and salt air and the weather really doesn’t much matter when you’re a kid and you have everything else.</p> +<p>There were birds to chase, sandcastles to build, dead jellyfish to investigate, shark’s teeth to gather, shells to collect and just barely enough daylight to even get started on it all before we had to head back and make dinner. Fortunately the next day was bright and sunny and apparently all you have to do if you want the shores of Edisto to yourself is show up before 11 AM.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto_picwide.jpg" alt="Edisto beach, storm photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165510_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-03_165510_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165510_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165510_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165510_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Edisto beach, storm chasing birds photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165510_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165528_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-03_165528_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165528_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165528_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165528_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Edisto beach, storm photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165528_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165840_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-03_165840_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165840_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165840_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165840_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Edisto beach, storm photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165840_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165935_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-03_165935_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165935_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165935_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-03_165935_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Edisto beach, storm photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-03_165935_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-04_122410_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-04_122410_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-04_122410_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-04_122410_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-04_122410_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Edisto beach sunny photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-04_122410_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="When it's sunny and nice I never remember to take pictures. This is the only image I have."> + </a> +<figcaption>When it’s sunny and nice I never remember to take pictures. This is the only image I have.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-06_142336_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-06_142336_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-06_142336_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-06_142336_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-06_142336_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Edisto beach windy photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-06_142336_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>I recently noticed there’s actually a motor on the passenger’s side, though it has no arm and I have no idea if it works. A new motor and arm assembly that was recommended to me by another Travco owner goes for a cool $200. Not in hurry to drop $200 on a windshield wiper. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 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>Bald Eagle </li> + + <li>Belted Kingfisher </li> + + <li>Black Scoter </li> + + <li>Blue Jay </li> + + <li>Bonaparte's Gull </li> + + <li>Brown Pelican </li> + + <li>Carolina Chickadee </li> + + <li>Carolina Wren </li> + + <li>Double-crested Cormorant </li> + + <li>Eastern Phoebe </li> + + <li>Forster's Tern </li> + + <li>Gray Catbird </li> + + <li>Great Blue Heron </li> + + <li>Great Egret </li> + + <li>Hooded Merganser </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> + + <li>Pileated Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Red-bellied Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Red-headed Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Red-tailed Hawk </li> + + <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> + + <li>Ring-billed Gull </li> + + <li>Ruby-crowned Kinglet </li> + + <li>Sanderling </li> + + <li>Tufted Titmouse </li> + + <li>Willet </li> + + <li>Yellow-bellied Sapsucker </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/2017/04/april-fools" rel="prev" title=" April Fools">April Fools</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/04/storming" rel="next" title=" Storming">Storming</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2423" 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>Bennett</b></span> + <span class="when">April 11, 2017 at 8:49 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>So… (markdown isn’t working for me)</p> +<p>I’m a wee bit jealous. No more breakdowns I assume? Just a road to nowhere. </p> +<p>There’s nothing like being on the road. With the road there is truly the feeling of being present. Casting all fears and uncertainties aside a person can throw themselves into the abyss, hold their breath and emerge with their brain completely re-wired. </p> +<p>Stay fearless…</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2424" 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">April 12, 2017 at 9:24 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@bennett-</p> +<p>I’m leaking transmission fluid at a rate that defies the possible in my opinion (doesn’t seem like there’s that much in there), but otherwise she’s running well. </p> +<p>For now. There will be breakdowns I’m sure, but for now at least, the road, the endless road.</p> +<p>(and what markdown didn’t work? I didn’t see any in your comment. It’s possible that it doesn’t render it for the preview, but it should work for the actual comment. 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It's not always visible, but it is there, tracing a path down out of the hills and toward the sea.
+
+We avoid interstates, even divided highways, sticking instead to the county roads, the thin gray lines on the map, many known only by local names, no number at all. Jones Rd. Thompson Bridge Rd. Stoney Bluff Rd. One blurs into the next as we pass down out of the tall Georgia pines, to mixed farmland, ever larger oaks and the first cordgrass hints of marsh.
+
+In between are the occasional small towns, these days little more than scattered clusters of single wide trailers and abandoned downtown squares encircled by Popeye's and dollar stores. Life out here feels bleak and hopeless to me. Or at least life as it is right now. Layers of peeling advertisements still clinging to collapsed billboards hint at time when it wasn't like this.
+
+I don't know when it became like this out here, or even how widespread it is, but it feels widespread on this drive. We pass through several whole towns that quite simply aren't there anymore. Just broken buildings and empty houses remain. It's remarkable how fast the landscape reclaims what isn't maintained.
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+The abandonment seems recent, within the last 20 years to judge by the advertisements still stuck inside windows here and there. But I imagine the decline started decades earlier. In fact there probably was no collapse at all. We always think things end suddenly, but with a few [dramatic exceptions][1] it seldom works out that way. Instead there's just less and less year after year until one day the last family walks slowly out of town and disappears into somewhere else.
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+It's become fashionable in the last couple of years for the big city glossies to send reporters out to places like this to do a lot of hand-wringing about what happened, what it all means. Very few seem willing to accept that maybe this is just part of the cycle of things. That there is no perpetual progress, that things rise up and eventually fall back down. If you think that cycle is something that only happens elsewhere, to other people, you need to get off the interstate.
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+The scene brightens a little as we pass into the Carolina lowcountry. The towns are older, they're at different point in the cycle, having already declined and rebuilt several times. This is a land where people have been around long enough to get a better idea of what works and what doesn't. What remains now is what has survived the cycles thus far, what has been pruned and honed.
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+Finally we dip down into the intertidal plain and the road becomes covered by massive Live Oaks dripping Spanish Moss. Poking above them you can see the tufted tops of the Loblolly and Long Leaf Pines. They look like pineapples on sticks thrust up into the sky.
+
+It's overcast, but never actually rains, which is good because I have no windshield wipers at the moment. I have a single wiper arm on the driver's side[^1] and a blade I bought at a truck stop that I'm hoping I can somehow attach, but I'm waiting for a good downpour before I tackle that project. Fortunately for me the weather holds all the way to the Edisto State Park campground.
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+We had been promising the kids that we'd be at the beach "soon" for about six months so we literally parked the bus in our campsite and headed straight out the beach. It was chilly, overcast and generally dismal, but no one cared. There was sand and sea and salt air and the weather really doesn't much matter when you're a kid and you have everything else.
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+There were birds to chase, sandcastles to build, dead jellyfish to investigate, shark's teeth to gather, shells to collect and just barely enough daylight to even get started on it all before we had to head back and make dinner. Fortunately the next day was bright and sunny and apparently all you have to do if you want the shores of Edisto to yourself is show up before 11 AM.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-03_165426_edisto.jpg" id="image-316" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-03_165510_edisto.jpg" id="image-317" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-03_165528_edisto.jpg" id="image-318" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-03_165840_edisto.jpg" id="image-319" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-03_165935_edisto.jpg" id="image-320" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-04_122410_edisto.jpg" id="image-321" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-06_142336_edisto.jpg" id="image-323" class="picwide" />
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+[^1]: I recently noticed there's actually a motor on the passenger's side, though it has no arm and I have no idea if it works. A new motor and arm assembly that was recommended to me by another Travco owner goes for a cool $200. Not in hurry to drop $200 on a windshield wiper.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-04-25T15:08:22" itemprop="datePublished">April <span>25, 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>I could spend all day floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Coming from the Pacific I sometimes sneer at places without waves. Waves humanize the ocean, they give it rhythm, maybe even rhyme and reason. Especially big waves.</p> +<p>The Gulf though. It’s not much for waves, a little chop that tries to be wave like. Still, there is something utterly tranquilly magic about just floating there on your back, staring up the occasional Brown Pelican or tern hunting for fish. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U.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/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U_picwide.jpg" alt="Gulf Island National Seashore Fort Pickens Area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands_Om2Am3U.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Or at least it seems like it would be, unfortunately I don’t float for more than about five seconds. I do enjoy sit-floating in the shallows, watching the birds drift by overhead, especially Ospreys, which are in abundance around here. Having spent considerable time watching Ospreys over the last few weeks I’ve decided that, should I get the chance to have another go on this planet, I’d like to do it as an Osprey.</p> +<p>We ended up staying four extra days at the beach house in St. George Island. Some friends from Atlanta came down for the last couple of days and then we hit the road again, headed for the Fort Pickens area of Gulf Islands National Seashore.</p> +<p>I am, and will continue to be, an advocate of taking the back roads. However, there are exceptions and Florida’s 98 — not really a back road, but the only option other than I10 — is a horrid disaster of a road. It was so bad I’m not even going to describe it. I’ll just say that if I had it to do over again I’d take I10. Although I don’t know, Florida drivers are so consistently bad I’m not sure I’d want to see them going over 60. I’ve been to 45 states and Florida drivers are without question and by a very large margin consistently the worst drivers I’ve ever had the misfortune to drive among. I’ve also never seen so much garbage hurled from moving cars. Stay classy Florida.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-28_151157-1_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-28_151157-1_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-28_151157-1_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-28_151157-1_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-28_151157-1_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1970s style sign for pensacola beach, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-28_151157-1_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Florida, where the 70s never stopped."> + </a> +<figcaption>Florida, where the 70s never stopped.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-28_130812_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-28_130812_gulf-islands_pic66.jpg 820w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-28_130812_gulf-islands_pic5.jpg 648w" alt="kids riding an old fashion store carousel photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-28_130812_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="You don't see these much any more either."> + </a> +<figcaption>You don’t see these much any more either.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Despite the horror of Florida roads and the drivers on them we did eventually though we made it to Gulf Islands National Seashore, which might be the prettiest beach I’ve been to in the U.S. It’s downright stunning, if you plunked me here I might guess I was in Thailand though the dunes provide a clue, the dunes are unmistakably Gulf coast barrier island dunes.</p> +<p>In some ways Gulf Islands is probably what St. George was like 60-70 years ago. Take away the houses and St George wouldn’t be all that different. St. George is darker though, more stars. I’ve never been anywhere on the east coast with more stars visible than St. George. </p> +<p>We ended up in a really nice partially shaded spot in the Fort Pickens campground, about a three minute walk from the shoreline. Not a mosquito to be found and steady breeze to keep things nice and cool. Approaching perfection. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_112632_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-24_112632_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_112632_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_112632_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_112632_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boardwalk fort pickens campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_112632_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_115525-1_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-24_115525-1_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115525-1_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115525-1_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115525-1_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Olivia jumping photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_115525-1_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_115351_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-24_115351_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115351_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115351_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115351_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lilah Jumping photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_115351_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_115338-1_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-24_115338-1_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115338-1_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115338-1_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_115338-1_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Elliott jumping photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_115338-1_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands_pic5.jpg 648w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg" alt="campfire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The weather largely held too, we had couple days of clouds here and there, but that just meant we got the beach to ourselves. If you’re willing to put up with the occasional spit of rain, you can have an entire barrier island to yourself down here. Or at least it feels that way. I spent several hours on the beach one day with the girls and we didn’t see another soul.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_134430_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-27_134430_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_134430_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_134430_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_134430_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Empty beach at gulf islands national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_134430_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_171341_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-25_171341_gulf-islands_pic66.jpg 820w" alt="Sorting shell photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_171341_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_123615_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-27_123615_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123615_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123615_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123615_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="going swimming at the beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_123615_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lifitng elliott high above the waves photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_121724_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-27_121724_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_121724_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_121724_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_121724_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Storms over the beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_121724_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_165918_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-26_165918_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_165918_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_165918_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_165918_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids wrapped in beach towels photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_165918_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>If all this sounds wonderfully Idyllic there is one, occasional, catch. This particular barrier island is right off the coast of Pensacola, home of a rather large naval air station, a rather large naval air station that happens to be home to the Blue Angels. Just down the road there’s an air force base that’s home to the Thunderbirds. Twice a week, two times a day, for the better part of two hours you get a free air show, whether you want it or not. We even got the see the Blue Angels flying in formation with the Thunderbirds, which I’m pretty sure doesn’t happen at air shows.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103132_gulf-islands_vU3CJZp.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/2017/2017-04-25_103132_gulf-islands_vU3CJZp_pic5.jpg 648w" alt="Blue angles practicing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103132_gulf-islands_vU3CJZp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I have mixed feelings about watching 40 million dollar killing machines burn through millions more dollars in jet fuel for the sole purpose of entertainment, but the kids thought it was pretty cool. Or at least they were entertained until they noticed a Great Blue Heron that was going around to all the fishermen and women on the pier and trying to steal their fish. </p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103549_gulf-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_103549_gulf-islands_pic66.jpg" alt="Heron with fisherman photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103549_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103442_gulf-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_103442_gulf-islands_pic66.jpg" alt="Heron with fisherman photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103442_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>I thought we had a close encounter with a Heron at the cabin the swamp, but that was nothing compared to this. This bird had no fear and seemed to barely care about our existence. It came within arms reach — and Great Blue Herons are very big birds — and just stared, craning its neck around, always keeping an eye on all the buckets of fish around the pier.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103819-1_gulf-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_103819-1_gulf-islands_pic66.jpg" alt="Great Blue Heron photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_103819-1_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_104107_gulf-islands_8n4Lm6I.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_104107_gulf-islands_8n4Lm6I_pic66.jpg" alt="Great Blue Heron photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_104107_gulf-islands_8n4Lm6I.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>Fort Pickens itself is fairly uninteresting — big cannons, brick walls, people fighting, same old tired story — but the views from the top are nice.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_102113_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-26_102113_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_102113_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_102113_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_102113_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="View from the top of fort pickens photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_102113_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands_pic5.jpg 648w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Fort Pickens, war, blah blah blah, but on a long enough time scale life always wins."> + </a> +<figcaption>Fort Pickens, war, blah blah blah, but on a long enough time scale life always wins.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We’re living with just a starting battery. Buying an isolator and house deep cycle battery is on the short list of things to do, but for now we have start up the bus every so often to make sure the starting battery doesn’t get too low. It gives me a chance to slowly acclimate the kids to riding in the bus.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands_pic5.jpg 648w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg" alt="going for a drive photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Going for a drive."> + </a> +<figcaption>Going for a drive.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_182752_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-25_182752_gulf-islands_pic66.jpg 820w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_182752_gulf-islands_pic5.jpg 648w" alt="Fixing the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_182752_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Not sure where they got the idea, but fixing the bus is one of their favorite games now."> + </a> +<figcaption>Not sure where they got the idea, but fixing the bus is one of their favorite games now.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_174445_gulf-islands.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/2017/2017-04-25_174445_gulf-islands_pic66.jpg 820w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-25_174445_gulf-islands_pic5.jpg 648w" alt="Bird's nest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_174445_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-25_074601_gulf-islands.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" 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So many possibilities open up at night. I love reading your adventures.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2450" 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">May 02, 2017 at 7:45 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew- That’s definitely on my list of things to figure out. I know nothing about astrophotography though, gotta do some research before we get out west to the really dark places.</p> +<p>I have a couple lenses that might work, a 20mm f/4 and a cheap Russian 12mm fisheye. The fisheye comes with a free softening filter for any aperture wider than f/11 :), but it might work.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2451" 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">May 02, 2017 at 8:53 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Its not difficult. Turn your ISO up as high as it will go. Even 3200 and 6400 work. Everything is grainy but its super dark and you cant tell. </p> +<p>Tripod</p> +<p>Use a delayed timer or a switch to fire the shutter. Set the 20mm up at about 25 seconds. Once you go longer than that you will get star trails (which can be awesome anyway).</p> +<p>Get a good (free) astro app for your phone. It will show you what you are looking at, where the milky way is, what time the milky way will be prime in your spot, etc.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2453" 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">May 02, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>Cool, thanks. That’s not too hard. I’ll give that a try. We’re on Dauphin Island right now, which isn’t super dark and has the offshore derricks lit up at night, but maybe I can get something to work.</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="192" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833411" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="d1727aba51ff4d94440b59e4320d2caa8192d8e8" 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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Coming from the Pacific I sometimes sneer at places without waves. Waves humanize the ocean, they give it rhythm, maybe even rhyme and reason. Especially big waves.
+
+The Gulf though. It's not much for waves, a little chop that tries to be wave like. Still, there is something utterly tranquilly magic about just floating there on your back, staring up the occasional Brown Pelican or tern hunting for fish.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_162808_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-378" class="picwide" />
+
+Or at least it seems like it would be, unfortunately I don't float for more than about five seconds. I do enjoy sit-floating in the shallows, watching the birds drift by overhead, especially Ospreys, which are in abundance around here. Having spent considerable time watching Ospreys over the last few weeks I've decided that, should I get the chance to have another go on this planet, I'd like to do it as an Osprey.
+
+We ended up staying four extra days at the beach house in St. George Island. Some friends from Atlanta came down for the last couple of days and then we hit the road again, headed for the Fort Pickens area of Gulf Islands National Seashore.
+
+I am, and will continue to be, an advocate of taking the back roads. However, there are exceptions and Florida's 98 -- not really a back road, but the only option other than I10 -- is a horrid disaster of a road. It was so bad I'm not even going to describe it. I'll just say that if I had it to do over again I'd take I10. Although I don't know, Florida drivers are so consistently bad I'm not sure I'd want to see them going over 60. I've been to 45 states and Florida drivers are without question and by a very large margin consistently the worst drivers I've ever had the misfortune to drive among. I've also never seen so much garbage hurled from moving cars. Stay classy Florida.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-28_151157-1_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-391" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-28_130812_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-390" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Despite the horror of Florida roads and the drivers on them we did eventually though we made it to Gulf Islands National Seashore, which might be the prettiest beach I've been to in the U.S. It's downright stunning, if you plunked me here I might guess I was in Thailand though the dunes provide a clue, the dunes are unmistakably Gulf coast barrier island dunes.
+
+In some ways Gulf Islands is probably what St. George was like 60-70 years ago. Take away the houses and St George wouldn't be all that different. St. George is darker though, more stars. I've never been anywhere on the east coast with more stars visible than St. George.
+
+We ended up in a really nice partially shaded spot in the Fort Pickens campground, about a three minute walk from the shoreline. Not a mosquito to be found and steady breeze to keep things nice and cool. Approaching perfection.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-24_112632_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-366" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-24_115525-1_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-369" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-24_115351_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-368" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-24_115338-1_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-367" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-24_202504_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-370" class="picwide" />
+
+The weather largely held too, we had couple days of clouds here and there, but that just meant we got the beach to ourselves. If you're willing to put up with the occasional spit of rain, you can have an entire barrier island to yourself down here. Or at least it feels that way. I spent several hours on the beach one day with the girls and we didn't see another soul.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-27_134430_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-389" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_171341_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-379" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-27_123615_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-387" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-388" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-27_121724_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-386" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-26_165918_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-385" class="picwide" />
+
+If all this sounds wonderfully Idyllic there is one, occasional, catch. This particular barrier island is right off the coast of Pensacola, home of a rather large naval air station, a rather large naval air station that happens to be home to the Blue Angels. Just down the road there's an air force base that's home to the Thunderbirds. Twice a week, two times a day, for the better part of two hours you get a free air show, whether you want it or not. We even got the see the Blue Angels flying in formation with the Thunderbirds, which I'm pretty sure doesn't happen at air shows.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_103132_gulf-islands_vU3CJZp.jpg" id="image-373" class="picwide" />
+
+I have mixed feelings about watching 40 million dollar killing machines burn through millions more dollars in jet fuel for the sole purpose of entertainment, but the kids thought it was pretty cool. Or at least they were entertained until they noticed a Great Blue Heron that was going around to all the fishermen and women on the pier and trying to steal their fish.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_103549_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-375" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_103442_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-374" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+I thought we had a close encounter with a Heron at the cabin the swamp, but that was nothing compared to this. This bird had no fear and seemed to barely care about our existence. It came within arms reach -- and Great Blue Herons are very big birds -- and just stared, craning its neck around, always keeping an eye on all the buckets of fish around the pier.
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+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_103819-1_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-376"class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_104107_gulf-islands_8n4Lm6I.jpg" id="image-377" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+Fort Pickens itself is fairly uninteresting -- big cannons, brick walls, people fighting, same old tired story -- but the views from the top are nice.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-26_102113_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-384" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-26_101815_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-383" class="picwide caption" />
+
+We're living with just a starting battery. Buying an isolator and house deep cycle battery is on the short list of things to do, but for now we have start up the bus every so often to make sure the starting battery doesn't get too low. It gives me a chance to slowly acclimate the kids to riding in the bus.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-26_093418_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-382" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_182752_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-381" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-25_174445_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-380" class="picwide" />
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Seemed like a good day to head up to Charleston.</p> +<p>One of the downsides to camping at Edisto is that there’s no fresh water. The water table is too shallow, the sea gets in. There’s potable salt water, which works fine for showers and dishes, but if you want drinking water you have to lug your jugs down to the fire station, which apparently has the only deep well around this part of the island. </p> +<p>The only real problem this causes it that there’s no laundry at the campground. And if you have three kids in the sand and mud all day, you need laundry access pretty regularly. The nearest proper laundromat is in Charleston, and since we wanted to see the city anyway, especially Corrinne, who lived in Charleston for five years, we headed up to do laundry and walk around downtown a bit before the storm hit.</p> +<p>We managed to find a shopping center that had a laundromat, a hardware store, a pharmacy and a Thai restaurant, all our errands in one place, plus lunch. Then we headed downtown, took the kids over to see the rainbow houses and the battery park.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-05_145108_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-05_145108_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_145108_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_145108_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_145108_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ice cream photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-05_145108_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Then we got some ice cream and walked over to the Circular Church, which seemed unchanged since <a href="/jrnl/2011/01/charleston-a-z">our last visit</a>. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto_picwide.jpg" alt="Circular Church graveyard photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-05_150310_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-05_150310_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150310_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150310_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-05_150310_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Circular Church graveyard photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-05_150310_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We made it back to camp before the storm hit, but just barely. I gambled and threw some burgers on the grill and about two minutes later I lost, the deluge started. I had to race out and salvage what I could of the now soggy raw meat. We finished dinner on the stove and ate to the deafening downpour pounding on the fiberglass of the bus. There were predictions of golf ball size hail, but fortunately all we got was rain. And more rain.</p> +<p>The rain didn’t stop, nor did the more or less continuous thunder and lightning, for about 10 hours. It was a hell of a storm. Or so I’m told. I fell asleep amid the flashes and booms around 10. Corrinne was awake most of the night. </p> +<p>Surprising even me, the bus hardly leaked at all. A little water came in through a window track that was simply overwhelmed by the sheets of rain coming down, but even the leaks I know about didn’t seem to leak that night. Odd, but I’ll take it. My last thought before falling asleep was <i>man, it would really suck to be in a tent right now</i>.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-06_103938_edisto.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/2017/2017-04-06_103938_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-06_103938_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-06_103938_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-06_103938_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bus decorations photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-06_103938_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Bus decorations."> + </a> +<figcaption>Bus decorations.</figcaption> +</figure> + 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Seemed like a good day to head up to Charleston.
+
+One of the downsides to camping at Edisto is that there's no fresh water. The water table is too shallow, the sea gets in. There's potable salt water, which works fine for showers and dishes, but if you want drinking water you have to lug your jugs down to the fire station, which apparently has the only deep well around this part of the island.
+
+The only real problem this causes it that there's no laundry at the campground. And if you have three kids in the sand and mud all day, you need laundry access pretty regularly. The nearest proper laundromat is in Charleston, and since we wanted to see the city anyway, especially Corrinne, who lived in Charleston for five years, we headed up to do laundry and walk around downtown a bit before the storm hit.
+
+We managed to find a shopping center that had a laundromat, a hardware store, a pharmacy and a Thai restaurant, all our errands in one place, plus lunch. Then we headed downtown, took the kids over to see the rainbow houses and the battery park.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-05_145108_edisto.jpg" id="image-324" class="picwide" />
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+Then we got some ice cream and walked over to the Circular Church, which seemed unchanged since [our last visit][1].
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-05_150059_edisto.jpg" id="image-325" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-05_150310_edisto.jpg" id="image-326" class="picwide" />
+
+We made it back to camp before the storm hit, but just barely. I gambled and threw some burgers on the grill and about two minutes later I lost, the deluge started. I had to race out and salvage what I could of the now soggy raw meat. We finished dinner on the stove and ate to the deafening downpour pounding on the fiberglass of the bus. There were predictions of golf ball size hail, but fortunately all we got was rain. And more rain.
+
+The rain didn't stop, nor did the more or less continuous thunder and lightning, for about 10 hours. It was a hell of a storm. Or so I'm told. I fell asleep amid the flashes and booms around 10. Corrinne was awake most of the night.
+
+Surprising even me, the bus hardly leaked at all. A little water came in through a window track that was simply overwhelmed by the sheets of rain coming down, but even the leaks I know about didn't seem to leak that night. Odd, but I'll take it. My last thought before falling asleep was <i>man, it would really suck to be in a tent right now</i>.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-06_103938_edisto.jpg" id="image-327" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-06_111610_edisto.jpg" id="image-328" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-07_081027_edisto.jpg" id="image-329" class="picwide caption" />
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As always with wind my greatest fear wasn’t the wind, but my own accidental over-compensation for the wind.</p> +<p>It was all fine in the end, except for the part of the drive we decided to do on the interstate — passing through Savannah. What a boring thing driving on interstates. And American drivers these days… curious bunch, I’m somewhat surprised they all continue to live doing what they do every day. Maybe I’m just old, but I swear hardly anyone knows how to drive these days. And truckers are the only people who understand how things larger than a car move<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p> +<p>There’s actually a whole hidden communication system among truckers that I haven’t fully deciphered yet, but I recognize it now. A headlight flash here, a brake there. Nods and hat tips. I don’t pretend to know what it all means but it’s out there, happening all around you, unseen because you’re too low on the road. I get to see it, but I’m not sure I get to participate. The bus is big, but not that big. I’m twelve wheels short of that club.</p> +<p>We were headed for the middle of nowhere, but it was further than we wanted to go in a day. We’ve thus far kept our max driving under 200 miles a day. And frankly anything over two hours feels long. Just because we’re living in an RV doesn’t mean we want to spend all our time driving it. There’s no hurry to get anywhere after all.</p> +<p>In fact our destination in the middle of nowhere was mainly to pass some time. We’re not really reservations type of people, but sometimes you have to. And for Edisto we had to book way in advance. We also had to reserve the beach house we often rent in Florida ahead of time. The problem is that it worked out such that there were four days in between those two reservations.</p> +<p>This is a problem because, well, there just isn’t much in the South Georgia/North Florida region. Its swamp and farm land. Sometimes both, remarkably enough. In a casual conversation about this a while back we discovered that some friends of our family had a “cabin” down just west of the Okefenokee Swamp and said we were welcome to stay as long as we wanted. Sold.</p> +<p>We spent an interim night in one of those parking lot style RV parks at the end of the Altamaha River, an experience I am not going to comment on, save to say that everyone we talked to was very nice. The kids quickly made friends and had fun anyway.</p> +<p>We left early the next morning and drove north, around the top of the Okefenokee and down the west side. It was one of those drives where there wasn’t much traffic to begin with and then there was less and finally we drove at least 30 miles without seeing another car. Then we turned off that road onto a private dirt road where the only other <em>allowed</em> traffic was logging trucks. Several miles down that road we turned on an even smaller road, just two tire tracks really, and finally arrived at the cabin.</p> +<p>The middle of nowhere. Or the edge of the Okefenokee. Same thing really.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin.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/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin_picwide.jpg" alt="sunrise, pond outside fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The cabin sat in the middle of a pine farm, backed up against a pond that was about a mile long and half a mile wide. I killed the engine and opened the door and it was… totally and completely silent. Still and quiet in a way I haven’t heard since I went snowshoeing in the Sierra Nevada in the dead of winter — so quiet the silence really is deafening. Your ears sound like they’re ringing even when they’re not.</p> +<p>Once your ears adjust it’s not quite so quiet. There are sounds in the swamp. The occasional calls of birds, a few cicadas chirping and every now and then a pig frog’s staccato, almost digital sounding croak. But if you’ve been sitting atop a 1969 Dodge 318 V8 for three hours the difference is a silence that’s nearly overwhelming. And even after four days in the cabin, there were still moments when you heard absolutely nothing.</p> +<p>It was glorious.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-10_132640_fargo-cabin.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/2017/2017-04-10_132640_fargo-cabin_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="cabin interior, fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-10_132640_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_115048_fargo-cabin.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/2017/2017-04-09_115048_fargo-cabin_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="lunch outdoors photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_115048_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Except for the part where it was in a swamp. I find swamps interesting in the way I find stamp collecting interesting, which is to say I recognize that some people really enjoy it and I love to hear them talk about it for a while, but it’s not really for me. I love to be in a swamp for a while, but by and large, I am not a swamp person. It is in fact the only ecosystem in which I find myself feeling distinctly ill at ease, out of place. Humans don’t seem to fit in swamps and, for me, just being there at all feels like violating some fundamental law of nature.</p> +<p>Fortunately the cabin came with a couple of canoes. I never feel quite so much at home as when I’m in a boat — no matter how small — and so the two things balanced each other out. I spent a couple hours a day on the water, just paddling the pond with the kids. Trying to sneak up and get a closer look at the alligators or trying to edge ever deeper into the thickets of cypress and water grass in search of herons, egrets, anhingas and the two very elusive wood ducks that would come all the way up to the patio/dock area so long as no one was around, but would flee deep into the inner sanctum of the pond the minute a door opened.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-10_165814_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-10_165814_fargo-cabin_pic66.jpg" alt="Elliott canoe photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-10_165814_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_163931_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-11_163931_fargo-cabin_pic66.jpg" alt="Lilah in canoe photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_163931_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_163904_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-11_163904_fargo-cabin_picfull.jpg 1500w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-11_163904_fargo-cabin_pic5.jpg 648w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-11_163904_fargo-cabin_pic33.jpg 420w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-11_163904_fargo-cabin_pic5.jpg" alt="Livy in canoe photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_163904_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_164516_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_164516_fargo-cabin_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="olivia and lilah, fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_164516_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_102206_fargo-cabin.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/2017/2017-04-09_102206_fargo-cabin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_102206_fargo-cabin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_102206_fargo-cabin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_102206_fargo-cabin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pong outside fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_102206_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Despite by best efforts and stealthiest paddling we never got anywhere near a gator, but I did manage to grab a feather left behind by one of the wood ducks.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_102126_fargo-cabin.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/2017/2017-04-09_102126_fargo-cabin_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="pong outside fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_102126_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>And there was no shortage of other animals around, sleek blue-tailed five-lined skinks, green anoles, carolina wrens, tiny pig frogs, great egrets, snowy egrets, great blue herons, and a sharp shinned hawk that screamed every time we went to the far side of the pond. There were supposed to be lots of snakes around too, we’d been warned to keep a close eye on the kids, but the only snake I saw was a tiny six-inch pigmy rattlesnake. Fortunately our close encounters with wildlife were limited to birds and mammals. </p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_162827_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_162827_fargo-cabin_pic66.jpg" alt="frog in hand, fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_162827_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_142318_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-09_142318_fargo-cabin_pic66.jpg" alt="pigmy rattlesnake, fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_142318_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_105450_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-11_105450_fargo-cabin_pic66.jpg" alt="green anole, fargo ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_105450_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_123400_fargo-cabin.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-11_123400_fargo-cabin_pic66.jpg" alt="deer, fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-11_123400_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>One morning the girls and I were out in the canoe, slowly drifting into the one of several narrow, thicket choked channels when we flushed some kind of large bird we couldn’t quite make out. </p> +<p>I set the paddle down and we just drifted in silence for a minute until we slid deeper into the channel and came face to face with a black-crowned night heron. It stayed put, yellow legs wrapped tight around one of the upper branches of a dead cypress tree. It was was no more than 10 feet from the canoe and it stood there, stalk still, studying us with its huge red eyes, black head cocked slightly to the side. We stared at each other for a good five minutes, no one moving, no one talking. Then I slowly lowered in a paddle and pushed us back out again.</p> +<p>The birds weren’t the only close encounters we had either. White tailed deer came around regularly every day we were there. There was a trashcan full of dried corn on the back porch that served as feed for deer, raccoons, squirrels and anything else that wanted it. But the deer especially came around regularly at meal times looking for corn, which we’d fling out for them. They’d come around every morning while we ate breakfast and again in the evening when we at dinner. We ate watching them, they ate watching us. Mutual admiration society perhaps.</p> +<p>Later I got to thinking that maybe they weren’t watching us though. The cabin was really a hunting lodge, the vast majority of the decor was once living things shot, stuff and mounted on a wall. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_113443_fargo-cabin.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/2017/2017-04-09_113443_fargo-cabin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w" alt="cabin interior, fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-09_113443_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I’ve nothing a against hunting for food, but the whole notion of hunting as sport has always struck me a morally dubious. The most common dead thing on the walls of the cabin were deer and later I started thinking, maybe the deer were out there staring in, not at us, but at the heads mounted on the chimney behind us. Whatever the case, it certainly didn’t stop the deer from eating the corn. There is no moral code of the wild that includes passing up easy calories.</p> +<p>Explaining guns, hunting, death and lots of related topics to the kids added a wrinkle I wasn’t expecting to our time at the cabin, but we try not sugarcoat the world too much. The girls seemed mostly okay with the idea of hunting. They already know they’re eating animals when we have meat for dinner, so it wasn’t a great leap to explaining how that meat comes to be on your plate. I haven’t yet told them how the current practices of industrial farming work, which of course makes hunting seem not just okay, but downright saintly, but we’ll get there. Or we’ll take up hunting.</p> +<p>The other nice thing about having a cabin to stay in is that we could work on and organize the bus without upending our entire living area. And yes, we’ve already figured out enough about what works, what doesn’t and what we need to change and rearrange to warrant more or less unpacking the entire thing and re-organizing. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_084646_fargo-cabin.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/2017/2017-04-12_084646_fargo-cabin_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="The bus in fargo, ga photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-12_084646_fargo-cabin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I also had time to finish up the plumbing so now the toilet flushes without needing to turn on the shower nozzle. And, much more exciting, we have, wait for it, hot water. Luxury living. The last bit of plumbing to do is tying the water tank we don’t yet own and water pump into the city water system, but I won’t be tackling that for a while.</p> +<p>I also went ahead and made the wiper blade work with the wiper arm. As much as I was looking forward to doing that in a hurry, at the side of the road, in the rain, I decided, meh, what the heck, I’ll do it ahead of time. This trip is turning me into a regular boy scout. Now if only I could find the source of the transmission fluid leak.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>When you pass a truck and cut over right in front of them, it is only by the grace of whatever god you believe in that you continue to exist. 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+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_084648_road.jpg" id="image-350" class="picwide" />
+
+The winds left over from the storm made it a less than fully relaxed drive, which is to say I had both feet on the floor and both hands on the wheel. As always with wind my greatest fear wasn't the wind, but my own accidental over-compensation for the wind.
+
+It was all fine in the end, except for the part of the drive we decided to do on the interstate -- passing through Savannah. What a boring thing driving on interstates. And American drivers these days... curious bunch, I'm somewhat surprised they all continue to live doing what they do every day. Maybe I'm just old, but I swear hardly anyone knows how to drive these days. And truckers are the only people who understand how things larger than a car move[^1].
+
+There's actually a whole hidden communication system among truckers that I haven't fully deciphered yet, but I recognize it now. A headlight flash here, a brake there. Nods and hat tips. I don't pretend to know what it all means but it's out there, happening all around you, unseen because you're too low on the road. I get to see it, but I'm not sure I get to participate. The bus is big, but not that big. I'm twelve wheels short of that club.
+
+We were headed for the middle of nowhere, but it was further than we wanted to go in a day. We've thus far kept our max driving under 200 miles a day. And frankly anything over two hours feels long. Just because we're living in an RV doesn't mean we want to spend all our time driving it. There's no hurry to get anywhere after all.
+
+In fact our destination in the middle of nowhere was mainly to pass some time. We're not really reservations type of people, but sometimes you have to. And for Edisto we had to book way in advance. We also had to reserve the beach house we often rent in Florida ahead of time. The problem is that it worked out such that there were four days in between those two reservations.
+
+This is a problem because, well, there just isn't much in the South Georgia/North Florida region. Its swamp and farm land. Sometimes both, remarkably enough. In a casual conversation about this a while back we discovered that some friends of our family had a "cabin" down just west of the Okefenokee Swamp and said we were welcome to stay as long as we wanted. Sold.
+
+We spent an interim night in one of those parking lot style RV parks at the end of the Altamaha River, an experience I am not going to comment on, save to say that everyone we talked to was very nice. The kids quickly made friends and had fun anyway.
+
+We left early the next morning and drove north, around the top of the Okefenokee and down the west side. It was one of those drives where there wasn't much traffic to begin with and then there was less and finally we drove at least 30 miles without seeing another car. Then we turned off that road onto a private dirt road where the only other *allowed* traffic was logging trucks. Several miles down that road we turned on an even smaller road, just two tire tracks really, and finally arrived at the cabin.
+
+The middle of nowhere. Or the edge of the Okefenokee. Same thing really.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-09_072852_fargo-cabin.jpg" id="image-331" class="picwide" />
+
+The cabin sat in the middle of a pine farm, backed up against a pond that was about a mile long and half a mile wide. I killed the engine and opened the door and it was... totally and completely silent. Still and quiet in a way I haven't heard since I went snowshoeing in the Sierra Nevada in the dead of winter -- so quiet the silence really is deafening. Your ears sound like they're ringing even when they're not.
+
+Once your ears adjust it's not quite so quiet. There are sounds in the swamp. The occasional calls of birds, a few cicadas chirping and every now and then a pig frog's staccato, almost digital sounding croak. But if you've been sitting atop a 1969 Dodge 318 V8 for three hours the difference is a silence that's nearly overwhelming. And even after four days in the cabin, there were still moments when you heard absolutely nothing.
+
+It was glorious.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-10_132640_fargo-cabin.jpg" id="image-341" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-09_115048_fargo-cabin.jpg" id="image-335" class="picwide" />
+
+Except for the part where it was in a swamp. I find swamps interesting in the way I find stamp collecting interesting, which is to say I recognize that some people really enjoy it and I love to hear them talk about it for a while, but it's not really for me. I love to be in a swamp for a while, but by and large, I am not a swamp person. It is in fact the only ecosystem in which I find myself feeling distinctly ill at ease, out of place. Humans don't seem to fit in swamps and, for me, just being there at all feels like violating some fundamental law of nature.
+
+Fortunately the cabin came with a couple of canoes. I never feel quite so much at home as when I'm in a boat -- no matter how small -- and so the two things balanced each other out. I spent a couple hours a day on the water, just paddling the pond with the kids. Trying to sneak up and get a closer look at the alligators or trying to edge ever deeper into the thickets of cypress and water grass in search of herons, egrets, anhingas and the two very elusive wood ducks that would come all the way up to the patio/dock area so long as no one was around, but would flee deep into the inner sanctum of the pond the minute a door opened.
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+Despite by best efforts and stealthiest paddling we never got anywhere near a gator, but I did manage to grab a feather left behind by one of the wood ducks.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-09_102126_fargo-cabin.jpg" id="image-332" class="picwide" />
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+And there was no shortage of other animals around, sleek blue-tailed five-lined skinks, green anoles, carolina wrens, tiny pig frogs, great egrets, snowy egrets, great blue herons, and a sharp shinned hawk that screamed every time we went to the far side of the pond. There were supposed to be lots of snakes around too, we'd been warned to keep a close eye on the kids, but the only snake I saw was a tiny six-inch pigmy rattlesnake. Fortunately our close encounters with wildlife were limited to birds and mammals.
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+One morning the girls and I were out in the canoe, slowly drifting into the one of several narrow, thicket choked channels when we flushed some kind of large bird we couldn't quite make out.
+
+I set the paddle down and we just drifted in silence for a minute until we slid deeper into the channel and came face to face with a black-crowned night heron. It stayed put, yellow legs wrapped tight around one of the upper branches of a dead cypress tree. It was was no more than 10 feet from the canoe and it stood there, stalk still, studying us with its huge red eyes, black head cocked slightly to the side. We stared at each other for a good five minutes, no one moving, no one talking. Then I slowly lowered in a paddle and pushed us back out again.
+
+The birds weren't the only close encounters we had either. White tailed deer came around regularly every day we were there. There was a trashcan full of dried corn on the back porch that served as feed for deer, raccoons, squirrels and anything else that wanted it. But the deer especially came around regularly at meal times looking for corn, which we'd fling out for them. They'd come around every morning while we ate breakfast and again in the evening when we at dinner. We ate watching them, they ate watching us. Mutual admiration society perhaps.
+
+Later I got to thinking that maybe they weren't watching us though. The cabin was really a hunting lodge, the vast majority of the decor was once living things shot, stuff and mounted on a wall.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-09_113443_fargo-cabin.jpg" id="image-334" class="picwide" />
+
+I've nothing a against hunting for food, but the whole notion of hunting as sport has always struck me a morally dubious. The most common dead thing on the walls of the cabin were deer and later I started thinking, maybe the deer were out there staring in, not at us, but at the heads mounted on the chimney behind us. Whatever the case, it certainly didn't stop the deer from eating the corn. There is no moral code of the wild that includes passing up easy calories.
+
+Explaining guns, hunting, death and lots of related topics to the kids added a wrinkle I wasn't expecting to our time at the cabin, but we try not sugarcoat the world too much. The girls seemed mostly okay with the idea of hunting. They already know they're eating animals when we have meat for dinner, so it wasn't a great leap to explaining how that meat comes to be on your plate. I haven't yet told them how the current practices of industrial farming work, which of course makes hunting seem not just okay, but downright saintly, but we'll get there. Or we'll take up hunting.
+
+The other nice thing about having a cabin to stay in is that we could work on and organize the bus without upending our entire living area. And yes, we've already figured out enough about what works, what doesn't and what we need to change and rearrange to warrant more or less unpacking the entire thing and re-organizing.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-12_084646_fargo-cabin.jpg" id="image-349" class="picwide" />
+
+I also had time to finish up the plumbing so now the toilet flushes without needing to turn on the shower nozzle. And, much more exciting, we have, wait for it, hot water. Luxury living. The last bit of plumbing to do is tying the water tank we don't yet own and water pump into the city water system, but I won't be tackling that for a while.
+
+I also went ahead and made the wiper blade work with the wiper arm. As much as I was looking forward to doing that in a hurry, at the side of the road, in the rain, I decided, meh, what the heck, I'll do it ahead of time. This trip is turning me into a regular boy scout. Now if only I could find the source of the transmission fluid leak.
+
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-05-30T02:12:19" itemprop="datePublished">May <span>30, 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>I grew up spending a lot of time outdoors. Camping, hiking, and later, backpacking, rock climbing, and mountaineering. The latter two activities ended up consuming more and more of my time as I got older. I chose the first college I went to chiefly because it got me closer to some of the best rock climbing and mountaineering around in Joshua Tree National Park, the San Jacinto mountains and, a bit further but still accessible, the high sierra.</p> +<p>All I wanted to do was be in the mountains and, ideally, climb them. Since that wasn’t financially viable for me I did what I considered the next best thing, I worked at the North Face and mostly sat around reading books on Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, Edmund Hillary, Alex Lowe, Galen Rowell and others. I even got to hang out with Ron Kauk when he gave a talk at our store. And of course I went climbing whenever I could. There was no “van life” crap back then, just dirt bag climbers sleeping in their cars out in Joshua Tree, the Buttermilks, Horseshoe Slabs, and Deadman’s.</p> +<p>Which is all just a little background on why, rather than writing about what we did for two weeks in the Austin Texas area, I’m writing about how absolutely mind blowing it is that Alex Honnold free soloed El Capitan.</p> +<p>Just in case you’re not familiar with what that means, it means that he climbed a 3000 foot rock face, alone with no ropes, no protection, no margin for error. He climbed it perfectly. You know that he did because if he hadn’t he’d be a bloody smear somewhere up the face of El Capitan.</p> +<p>While the sheer physicality of climbing for three hours and fifty-six minutes with no break is impressive, to me it’s nothing next to the mental strength and absolute confidence it takes to even consider doing something like that, let alone doing it. If that doesn’t blow your fucking mind then I have to say, I think you’re probably not wired up quite right.</p> +<p>Anyway, we drove across more of Texas.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_120942_buscher-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_120942_buscher-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_120942_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_120942_buscher-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_120942_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The open road, texas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_120942_buscher-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_124322_buscher-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124322_buscher-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124322_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124322_buscher-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124322_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="travco dashboard, texas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_124322_buscher-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_124340_buscher-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124340_buscher-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124340_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124340_buscher-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_124340_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="directions, somewhere in texas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_124340_buscher-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_125431-1_buscher-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_125431-1_buscher-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_125431-1_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_125431-1_buscher-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-23_125431-1_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1969 dodge travco, rest area, somewhere in texas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-23_125431-1_buscher-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The plan was to spend a while hanging around the Austin area, but we’re not very good planners. We forgot about Memorial day and couldn’t get a place to camp in Austin. We ended up just east of Austin, near Bastrop which had a space and was close enough to drive into town. We tried to take the kids to a children’s museum, but it was so crowded it was no fun for anyone. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_111801_austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_111801_austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_111801_austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_111801_austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_111801_austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="children's museum, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_111801_austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_120617_austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_120617_austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_120617_austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_120617_austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_120617_austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="children's museum, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_120617_austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""Me ready to go.""> + </a> +<figcaption>“Me ready to go.”</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We bailed out of that and headed out to Pioneer Farm, an all-volunteer effort to preserve a little slice of Texas (and more broadly, American) history with historic buildings, re-enactments and a working farm and blacksmith shop. Much more to the kids’ liking.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_140003_austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140003_austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140003_austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140003_austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140003_austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="oil lamp, pioneer farm, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_140003_austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_140629_austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140629_austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140629_austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140629_austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140629_austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pioneer farm, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_140629_austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Given space kids can make a game out of anything, even an open window."> + </a> +<figcaption>Given space kids can make a game out of anything, even an open window.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_140141_austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140141_austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140141_austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140141_austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_140141_austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="building, pioneer farm, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_140141_austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="They don't build them like they used to."> + </a> +<figcaption>They don’t build them like they used to.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_145633_austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_145633_austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_145633_austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_145633_austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_145633_austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pioneer farm, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_145633_austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_151611_austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_151611_austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_151611_austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_151611_austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-26_151611_austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="black and white photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-26_151611_austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The rest of the time we hung around camp and sweated.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-27_095800_buscher-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-27_095800_buscher-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-27_095800_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-27_095800_buscher-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-27_095800_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="riding bike, buscher state park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-27_095800_buscher-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-28_095941_buscher-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095941_buscher-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095941_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095941_buscher-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095941_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="wildflowers of texas drawing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-28_095941_buscher-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This time of year Texas roads are flanked by huge fields of wildflowers, which get translated to crayon."> + </a> +<figcaption>This time of year Texas roads are flanked by huge fields of wildflowers, which get translated to crayon.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-28_095918_buscher-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095918_buscher-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095918_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095918_buscher-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-28_095918_buscher-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="wildflowers of texas drawing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-28_095918_buscher-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It finally got hot while we were in Bastrop. Really hot. One day the weather said it was 97 degrees and the “feels like” was at 116. What better day to go to a dinosaur park and walk around in the hot sun for a few hours? Made me miss Matt and Debi who would definitely have been up for some heat. Surprisingly though it wasn’t empty, there were more than a few Texans just as crazy as us, which was impressive.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07525.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/DSC07525_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07525_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07525_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07525_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07525.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07531.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/DSC07531_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07531_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07531_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07531_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07531.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07537.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/DSC07537_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07537_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07537_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07537_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07537.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07540.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/DSC07540_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07540_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07540_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07540_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07540.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07549.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/DSC07549_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07549_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07549_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07549_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07549.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07562.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/DSC07562_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07562_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07562_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07562_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07562.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07570.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/DSC07570_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07570_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07570_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07570_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur nest, dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07570.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07579.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/DSC07579_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07579_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07579_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07579_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinosaur egg, dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07579.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07589.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/DSC07589_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07589_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07589_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/DSC07589_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trex mouth, dinosaur park, bastrop, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/DSC07589.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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/2017/05/keeps-rainin" rel="prev" title=" Keeps on A-Rainin'">Keeps on A-Rainin'</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a 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Youll have to talk to Sam about it sometime. As im typing he is out climbing with his coach at Foster Falls which is one of the best areas in the southeast. His coach is Wills Young who literally wrote the book on bouldering in Bishop, CA. https://www.amazon.com/Bishop-Bouldering-Wills-Young/dp/0982615418</p> +<p>His other coach is Wills’ wife Lisa Rands who was the number one female boulderer in the world </p> +<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc5JuQIcJOE</p> +<p>This is insane. +part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUQGSFN1rC4 +part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjoGRYFM6ZA</p> +<p>The confidence elite climbers have is second to none. And these climbers confidence is nothing compared to Alex Honnold. </p> +<p>Safe travels.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2533" 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">June 08, 2017 at 6:06 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>Wow, those are some impressive coaches. I was never anywhere near those skill levels. Sam is probably already much better than I ever was. </p> +<p>I was really more into climbing the high peaks and big walls. I liked to be at the top of things when I was done. That was back in the mid to late ‘90s when a lot of first assents were being done in Torres del Paine and other exotic places, which sort of started the world travel desire. I trained twice to do half dome, but both times it didn’t work out. Then my main partners moved away (both because guides, one still is) and I just sorta stopped climbing.</p> +<p>But I’m going to see if my parents can bringing my old climbing shoes out in a couple months when we meet up. I thought I’d see if they still fit 20 years later…</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2535" 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">June 09, 2017 at 9:31 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>It they fit (and you make it back out east) we will get out sometime. Im not much of a climber, but im a hell of a belayer.</p> +<p>Id love to go to Whiteside in NC sometime. Ive never done anything over 1 pitch. We were supposed to climb Castleton tower in Moab this Spring, but Sam had a 102 temp.</p> +<p>Whiteside has some 6-10 pitch stuff. and one line that supposed to be an insanely perfect 500 foot 5.8</p> +<p>https://www.mountainproject.com/v/whiteside-mountain/105965576</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2537" 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">June 09, 2017 at 7:40 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Definitely. Multi-pitch 5.8s are pretty much what I chased all over the place. A nice crack with couple traverses, maybe a bit of 5.9 here and there… that was my happy stuff.</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="200" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833402" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="05e829335bf68e8b503f89548cb90472d84ea912" 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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Camping, hiking, and later, backpacking, rock climbing, and mountaineering. The latter two activities ended up consuming more and more of my time as I got older. I chose the first college I went to chiefly because it got me closer to some of the best rock climbing and mountaineering around in Joshua Tree National Park, the San Jacinto mountains and, a bit further but still accessible, the high sierra.
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+All I wanted to do was be in the mountains and, ideally, climb them. Since that wasn't financially viable for me I did what I considered the next best thing, I worked at the North Face and mostly sat around reading books on Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, Edmund Hillary, Alex Lowe, Galen Rowell and others. I even got to hang out with Ron Kauk when he gave a talk at our store. And of course I went climbing whenever I could. There was no "van life" crap back then, just dirt bag climbers sleeping in their cars out in Joshua Tree, the Buttermilks, Horseshoe Slabs, and Deadman's.
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+Which is all just a little background on why, rather than writing about what we did for two weeks in the Austin Texas area, I'm writing about how absolutely mind blowing it is that Alex Honnold free soloed El Capitan.
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+Just in case you're not familiar with what that means, it means that he climbed a 3000 foot rock face, alone with no ropes, no protection, no margin for error. He climbed it perfectly. You know that he did because if he hadn't he'd be a bloody smear somewhere up the face of El Capitan.
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+While the sheer physicality of climbing for three hours and fifty-six minutes with no break is impressive, to me it's nothing next to the mental strength and absolute confidence it takes to even consider doing something like that, let alone doing it. If that doesn't blow your fucking mind then I have to say, I think you're probably not wired up quite right.
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+Anyway, we drove across more of Texas.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-23_120942_buscher-state-park.jpg" id="image-527" class="picwide" />
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+The plan was to spend a while hanging around the Austin area, but we're not very good planners. We forgot about Memorial day and couldn't get a place to camp in Austin. We ended up just east of Austin, near Bastrop which had a space and was close enough to drive into town. We tried to take the kids to a children's museum, but it was so crowded it was no fun for anyone.
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+We bailed out of that and headed out to Pioneer Farm, an all-volunteer effort to preserve a little slice of Texas (and more broadly, American) history with historic buildings, re-enactments and a working farm and blacksmith shop. Much more to the kids' liking.
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+The rest of the time we hung around camp and sweated.
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+It finally got hot while we were in Bastrop. Really hot. One day the weather said it was 97 degrees and the "feels like" was at 116. What better day to go to a dinosaur park and walk around in the hot sun for a few hours? Made me miss Matt and Debi who would definitely have been up for some heat. Surprisingly though it wasn't empty, there were more than a few Texans just as crazy as us, which was impressive.
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I mean it’s an island in the gulf, it’s not that bad. The beaches are nice enough, though nothing like what you’ll on the other side of Mobile Bay, in Florida. The ocean is brown here, from the rivers, but you can’t help feeling that it might be, as my daughter put it, “because Alabama is dirty?” No, it’s just the river, I swear.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-02_161659_dauphin-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161659_dauphin-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161659_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161659_dauphin-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161659_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-02_161659_dauphin-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-02_162216_dauphin-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_162216_dauphin-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_162216_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_162216_dauphin-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_162216_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-02_162216_dauphin-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-02_161610_dauphin-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161610_dauphin-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161610_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161610_dauphin-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-02_161610_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-02_161610_dauphin-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Left to our own devices we’d have stayed one night and moved on, but we’d already made plans to meet up with some family who were nearby on a trip of their own. We ended up staying for four days. Sometimes it’s good to spend time in a place you’re not that fond of if only to better understand why you like the places you do. In this case it might just be a luck of geography, Florida got better sand and clearer water. But it might also be because Florida’s beaches have been better cared for and protected.</p> +<p>If you need any firsthand insight into the advantages of turning land over to federal management — currently very unpopular — head to Dauphin Island. There is no federally managed land on Dauphin Islands, just county land and in the grand scheme of tax money, counties typically don’t rake it in. To see the difference a generous budget can make, head over to Gulf Islands National Seashore, which, as the name suggests, is managed by the National Park Service. </p> +<p>Forget the part where the non-federal owned one is covered in houses and garbage while the federally owned one features relatively pristine beaches without a house in sight, all I want to contrast are the facilities and what you get for your money. For $28 in Gulf Islands you get a nice clean, level camp site with 50 amp, 30 amp and 20 amp hookups, along with good fresh water, a spacious picnic table, and a fire pit. Every day at 9 AM ranger comes and cleans the bathroom. This more or less the same as every other national park in the U.S.</p> +<p>For $42 a night at Dauphin Island Park & Beach Board you get a tiny sliver of land that hasn’t ever been leveled, will more than likely have giant roots you’ll need to navigate and a picnic table so small my three children under five barely fit on one side of it. Your neighbor’s RV will be just beyond arm’s reach. The electric service will max out at 30 amps and stop working at the first hint of rain. You’ll need to bring your own fire pit and the last time the bathrooms were cleaned at Dauphin Island RV Park Jimmy Carter was president<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. The beach, which could be quite nice, will, inevitably, courtesy of your neighbors, almost every single one of whom will be from Alabama, be covered in trash, beer cans and whatever refuse happened to be used while said neighbors were at the beach. Because to an Alabaman Alabama is nothing so much as a giant trash can.</p> +<p>This actually extends from top to bottom from what I can see. Not only is trash everywhere, it gets celebrated in exhibits. About 25 percent of the local aquarium is more or less a pro-oil propaganda exhibit that spends most of its time highlighting all the ways in which oil can be cleaned up without ever showing a single picture of what an oil spill of the size of the Deep Water Horizon disaster actually looks like when it rolls ashore, nor mentions the devastation it has done to the local fishing industry which as more or less gone belly up and had to sell out to multinational corps since the accident. It’s so breathtakingly one-sided that you notice it.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-30_150810_dauphin-island.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/2017/2017-04-30_150810_dauphin-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_150810_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_150810_dauphin-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_150810_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-30_150810_dauphin-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" 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image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_165106_dauphin-island_pic66.jpg" alt="brown pelicans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-30_165106_dauphin-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-30_165116_dauphin-island_ye4Xyt4.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_165116_dauphin-island_ye4Xyt4_pic66.jpg 820w" alt="brown pelican photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-30_165116_dauphin-island_ye4Xyt4.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-30_165554_dauphin-island.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/2017/2017-04-30_165554_dauphin-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_165554_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_165554_dauphin-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-30_165554_dauphin-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-30_165554_dauphin-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Of course it’s not like we sat around miserable the whole time. As you can probably tell from the pictures we had a pretty good time. It’s not the worst place on earth after all, but there’s certainly many better in this world and we couldn’t wait to get to them.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>The bathrooms are technically cleaned every day, they just don’t actually get any cleaner. <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/2017/04/gulf-islands-national-seashore" rel="prev" title=" Gulf Islands National Seashore">Gulf Islands National Seashore</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/davis-bayou" rel="next" title=" Davis Bayou">Davis Bayou</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">6 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2478" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Linda Norman" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Linda Norman</b></span> + <span class="when">May 11, 2017 at 8:01 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>So glad you stayed so we could see you!! 24 hours of bliss for us!!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2489" 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">May 12, 2017 at 9:19 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Linda- Things got better when ya’ll got there.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2483" 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">May 15, 2017 at 10:02 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Following along on your adventures. I’ve heard pretty good things about the Biloxi/Gulfport area. Are you continuing west on the coast? I’d be interested to read a contrast vs the disappointing Alabama coast. </p> +<p>As always, great photos! I’ve been considering giving photography a shot as a hobby since I, evidently, lack any artist ability with my hands. Photos have always spoke to me. What would you recommend for a frugal beginner to start?</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2484" 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">May 15, 2017 at 10:57 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@classic_liberal-</p> +<p>Thanks for stopping by. So we did find some cool stuff in the Gulfport area, particularly Ocean Springs was nice. That’ll be the next post. Been too busy in New Orleans to get anything up lately, but I’ll get back to it this week.</p> +<p>For photos, I really don’t know. A lot of people say the gear doesn’t matter, which is true in the sense that a skilled photographer can make a great photo with any camera, but not entirely true in the sense that different size sensors are capable of different things.</p> +<p>That said, I would suggest getting something cheapish off ebay, not a point and shoot, but don’t spend a ton until you’re sure you like it. Micro 4/3 camera’s are a great place to start, lenses are cheap and work regardless of maker (i.e. panasonic lens work fine on Olympus cameras and vice versa, which is not true of other sensor sizes).</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2487" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for gwen macallister" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>gwen macallister</b></span> + <span class="when">May 16, 2017 at 9:13 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>My only context for Dauphin Island before reading your post is a poem of the same name that I love by southern poet Jeff Hardin. You have kind of destroyed the lovely image I had of it due to the poem. At least I know not to visit now! Enjoying following your journey and the great photos.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2488" 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">May 16, 2017 at 9:42 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@gwen- Hey, thanks for stopping by. That’s a nice poem. Not a Dauphin Island I recognized, but then I came very close to not publishing this because I hate to be negative about places. I should probably keep my mouth shut so to speak and say nothing so other people can discover for themselves without my coloring things ahead of time. It could just be me. It probably is just me. So don’t take my word for it :) In fact, I’d be sorta curious to go back, though I wouldn’t camp there. The campground is definitely a dump, I stand by that.</p> +<p>By the way, finished up Travels with Charley while I was at Dauphin Island, thanks for the recommendation.</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="193" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833409" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="8985e4f5a98d6cd3a5003f93c193ee5f4241cc31" 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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+I was not a fan of Dauphin Island. I mean it's an island in the gulf, it's not that bad. The beaches are nice enough, though nothing like what you'll on the other side of Mobile Bay, in Florida. The ocean is brown here, from the rivers, but you can't help feeling that it might be, as my daughter put it, "because Alabama is dirty?" No, it's just the river, I swear.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-02_161659_dauphin-island.jpg" id="image-404" class="picwide" />
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+Left to our own devices we'd have stayed one night and moved on, but we'd already made plans to meet up with some family who were nearby on a trip of their own. We ended up staying for four days. Sometimes it's good to spend time in a place you're not that fond of if only to better understand why you like the places you do. In this case it might just be a luck of geography, Florida got better sand and clearer water. But it might also be because Florida's beaches have been better cared for and protected.
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+If you need any firsthand insight into the advantages of turning land over to federal management -- currently very unpopular -- head to Dauphin Island. There is no federally managed land on Dauphin Islands, just county land and in the grand scheme of tax money, counties typically don't rake it in. To see the difference a generous budget can make, head over to Gulf Islands National Seashore, which, as the name suggests, is managed by the National Park Service.
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+Forget the part where the non-federal owned one is covered in houses and garbage while the federally owned one features relatively pristine beaches without a house in sight, all I want to contrast are the facilities and what you get for your money. For $28 in Gulf Islands you get a nice clean, level camp site with 50 amp, 30 amp and 20 amp hookups, along with good fresh water, a spacious picnic table, and a fire pit. Every day at 9 AM ranger comes and cleans the bathroom. This more or less the same as every other national park in the U.S.
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+For $42 a night at Dauphin Island Park & Beach Board you get a tiny sliver of land that hasn't ever been leveled, will more than likely have giant roots you'll need to navigate and a picnic table so small my three children under five barely fit on one side of it. Your neighbor's RV will be just beyond arm's reach. The electric service will max out at 30 amps and stop working at the first hint of rain. You'll need to bring your own fire pit and the last time the bathrooms were cleaned at Dauphin Island RV Park Jimmy Carter was president[^1]. The beach, which could be quite nice, will, inevitably, courtesy of your neighbors, almost every single one of whom will be from Alabama, be covered in trash, beer cans and whatever refuse happened to be used while said neighbors were at the beach. Because to an Alabaman Alabama is nothing so much as a giant trash can.
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+This actually extends from top to bottom from what I can see. Not only is trash everywhere, it gets celebrated in exhibits. About 25 percent of the local aquarium is more or less a pro-oil propaganda exhibit that spends most of its time highlighting all the ways in which oil can be cleaned up without ever showing a single picture of what an oil spill of the size of the Deep Water Horizon disaster actually looks like when it rolls ashore, nor mentions the devastation it has done to the local fishing industry which as more or less gone belly up and had to sell out to multinational corps since the accident. It's so breathtakingly one-sided that you notice it.
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+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-30_165147_dauphin-island.jpg" id="image-401" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-30_165106_dauphin-island.jpg" id="image-407" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-30_165116_dauphin-island_ye4Xyt4.jpg" id="image-400" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-04-30_165554_dauphin-island.jpg" id="image-402" class="picwide" />
+
+Of course it's not like we sat around miserable the whole time. As you can probably tell from the pictures we had a pretty good time. It's not the worst place on earth after all, but there's certainly many better in this world and we couldn't wait to get to them.
+
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We’re not fans of long drives — too long for us is about four hours — and getting to Dauphin Island was just a two hour drive. We decided that was about right so we opted not to drive straight from Dauphin Island to New Orleans. Instead we noticed a little slice of the Gulf Islands National Seashore sitting roughly midway between the two.</p> +<p>We pulled into Davis Bayou around mid day and figured we’d spend a night or two and move on, but we wound up spending a week.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_174750-1_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_174750-1_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_174750-1_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_174750-1_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_174750-1_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="marsh, davis bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_174750-1_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_170210_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_170210_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_170210_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_170210_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_170210_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="davis bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_170210_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>There is something very relaxing about marshes, or bayous as they call them down here. There’s a rhythm to life that lulls and comforts. The tide goes out, the tide goes in. The periwinkles go up the cordgrass, they go back down. If it’s sunny the alligators are on the log, if it’s not they’re in the water. You almost get the feeling that life is predictable. And then you watch a heron wading in the mud, like herons always do, when suddenly it trips and falls face first in the water and you remember that nothing is totally predictable, just rhythmic, one foot in front of the other.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_173126_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173126_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173126_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173126_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173126_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trail, davis bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_173126_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_173406_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173406_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173406_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173406_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_173406_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy on trail, davis bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_173406_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_171805_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_171805_davis-bayou_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-04_171805_davis-bayou_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="hiking in davis bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-04_171805_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Some places are like that, they lull you and keep you longer than you think. It wasn’t that there was much to do, there was a nice enough beach that the kids liked because this part of the Gulf is flat like a lake and has a long, shallow shelf so that you can walk out a hundred yards and only be in shin deep water. Annoying for people my size, perfect if you’re two.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_121105_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121105_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121105_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121105_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121105_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating a peach, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_121105_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_121441_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121441_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121441_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121441_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_121441_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing on the beach, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_121441_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>There was also a playground that proved popular, more popular than the beach in fact.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_133902-1_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_133902-1_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_133902-1_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_133902-1_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_133902-1_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playground, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_133902-1_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_140009_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140009_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140009_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140009_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140009_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids on a bench, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_140009_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_140502_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140502_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140502_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140502_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_140502_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing on playground, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_140502_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_143933_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_143933_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_143933_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_143933_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_143933_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_143933_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="One day we got some ice cream from a store. The owner basically shooed us away from the bench outside and gave us towels "so I don't have to clean up". To be fair, Elliott can be messy with his ice cream, but the guy didn't need to be an asshole."> + </a> +<figcaption>One day we got some ice cream from a store. The owner basically shooed us away from the bench outside and gave us towels “so I don’t have to clean up”. To be fair, Elliott can be messy with his ice cream, but the guy didn’t need to be an asshole.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Ocean Beach was pretty nice, but like most places these days it had tons of rules signs. Pretty sure if you combined all these rules all you’d be able to do is still perfectly still until you died.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_135340_davis-bayou.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_135340_davis-bayou_pic66.jpg" alt="rules, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_135340_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_141321_davis-bayou.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_141321_davis-bayou_pic66.jpg" alt="rules, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_141321_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + +<figure > + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_141139_davis-bayou.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_141139_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_141139_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_141139_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_141139_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="rules, ocean springs, ms photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_141139_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="One of the problems with so many rules is people tend to ignore them all, when there's one that's actually a sound rule to have."></a> +<figcaption>One of the problems with so many rules is people tend to ignore them all, when there’s one that’s actually a sound rule to have.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +</div> + +<p>About half way through our stay we were chatting with the ranger who suggested we visit the children’s museum down near Gulfport. It ended up being really fun for the kids, with a ton of stuff tucked away in a massive old schoolhouse, even some face painting.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_150230_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_150230_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_150230_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_150230_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_150230_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing vet at the children's museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_150230_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_151229_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_151229_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_151229_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_151229_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_151229_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_151229_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""Sorry, not enough money". Our children are into very realistic health care games."> + </a> +<figcaption>“Sorry, not enough money”. Our children are into very realistic health care games.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_160543_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160543_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160543_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160543_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160543_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing at children's museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_160543_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Lilah giving one of her rare interviews."> + </a> +<figcaption>Lilah giving one of her rare interviews.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_160741_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160741_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160741_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160741_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_160741_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing talking head photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_160741_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_153001_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_153001_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_153001_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_153001_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_153001_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing drums at the children's museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_153001_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_162953_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162953_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162953_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162953_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162953_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="face painting photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_162953_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_162846_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162846_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162846_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162846_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_162846_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="face painting photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_162846_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>A fair bit of the time we hung around the campground, I got some work done, the girls learned to ride bikes, explored the nature center, went on a hike and watched the random wildlife that stopped by our camp. All in all a pretty good week, but by the end we were ready to hit the road again. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_160435_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_160435_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_160435_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_160435_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_160435_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_160435_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""We're baby sea turtles running to the sea.""> + </a> +<figcaption>“We’re baby sea turtles running to the sea.”</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_101735_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_101735_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_101735_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_101735_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_101735_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="old time car with trailer photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_101735_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="If I had that car I'd sure as heck get a cooler trailer. Still pretty cool though."> + </a> +<figcaption>If I had that car I’d sure as heck get a cooler trailer. Still pretty cool though.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_191932_davis-bayou.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-06_191932_davis-bayou_pic66.jpg" alt="rabbit, davis bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-06_191932_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-03_141657_davis-bayou.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-03_141657_davis-bayou_pic66.jpg" alt="raccoon, davis bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-03_141657_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_kO3BLEB.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_kO3BLEB_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_kO3BLEB_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_kO3BLEB_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_kO3BLEB_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_kO3BLEB.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This is Jumpy. He or she was a pet for a few hours before making a dramatic escape."> + </a> +<figcaption>This is Jumpy. He or she was a pet for a few hours before making a dramatic escape.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_134519_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_134519_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_134519_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_134519_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_134519_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The bus in Davis Bayou photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_134519_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating bananas in the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_112907_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""Hey dad, take my picture.""> + </a> +<figcaption>“Hey dad, take my picture.”</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_112919_davis-bayou.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112919_davis-bayou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112919_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112919_davis-bayou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-07_112919_davis-bayou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating bananas in the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-07_112919_davis-bayou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""No, take *my* picture". Clearly they already understand depth of field."> + </a> +<figcaption>“No, take *my* picture”. Clearly they already understand depth of field.</figcaption> +</figure> + </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/2017/05/dauphin-island" rel="prev" title=" Dauphin Island">Dauphin Island</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/new-orleans-instrumental-number-1" rel="next" title=" New Orleans Instrumental Number 1">New Orleans Instrumental Number 1</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">5 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2490" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Jeena" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://jeena.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeena</a></b></span> + <span class="when">May 17, 2017 at 3:34 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Very nice writeup and cute pictures!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2498" 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">May 22, 2017 at 11:10 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@jeena- </p> +<p>Thank you.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2499" 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">May 22, 2017 at 11:18 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Your DOF is awesome. Love keeping up here.</p> +<p>Your text under the photos looks like it is right centered. It cuts off the last couple of letters on full sentences on my screen- but that may just be mine.</p> +<p>Safe travels.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2500" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Arva C Weinstein" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Arva C Weinstein</b></span> + <span class="when">May 22, 2017 at 4:47 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>LOVE love love the pictures!!!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2501" 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">May 22, 2017 at 6:24 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@drew-</p> +<p>Thanks, I went from micro 4/3 to full frame and I’m still a little obsessed with the DOF potential a huge sensor gets you. 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+One thing that we did like about Dauphin Island was the drive there. We're not fans of long drives -- too long for us is about four hours -- and getting to Dauphin Island was just a two hour drive. We decided that was about right so we opted not to drive straight from Dauphin Island to New Orleans. Instead we noticed a little slice of the Gulf Islands National Seashore sitting roughly midway between the two.
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+We pulled into Davis Bayou around mid day and figured we'd spend a night or two and move on, but we wound up spending a week.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-04_174750-1_davis-bayou.jpg" id="image-414" class="picwide" />
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+There is something very relaxing about marshes, or bayous as they call them down here. There's a rhythm to life that lulls and comforts. The tide goes out, the tide goes in. The periwinkles go up the cordgrass, they go back down. If it's sunny the alligators are on the log, if it's not they're in the water. You almost get the feeling that life is predictable. And then you watch a heron wading in the mud, like herons always do, when suddenly it trips and falls face first in the water and you remember that nothing is totally predictable, just rhythmic, one foot in front of the other.
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+Some places are like that, they lull you and keep you longer than you think. It wasn't that there was much to do, there was a nice enough beach that the kids liked because this part of the Gulf is flat like a lake and has a long, shallow shelf so that you can walk out a hundred yards and only be in shin deep water. Annoying for people my size, perfect if you're two.
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+There was also a playground that proved popular, more popular than the beach in fact.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-06_133902-1_davis-bayou.jpg" id="image-417" class="picwide" />
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+Ocean Beach was pretty nice, but like most places these days it had tons of rules signs. Pretty sure if you combined all these rules all you'd be able to do is still perfectly still until you died.
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+About half way through our stay we were chatting with the ranger who suggested we visit the children's museum down near Gulfport. It ended up being really fun for the kids, with a ton of stuff tucked away in a massive old schoolhouse, even some face painting.
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+A fair bit of the time we hung around the campground, I got some work done, the girls learned to ride bikes, explored the nature center, went on a hike and watched the random wildlife that stopped by our camp. All in all a pretty good week, but by the end we were ready to hit the road again.
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I have some thoughts on driving in Texas, but I am not going to air them until I leave.</p> +<p>A while back someone asked what we do when it rains. At the time I didn’t know because, despite having some big storms come through in various places, it still hadn’t really rained during the day. In Huntsville it rained most of the day so now I know. When it rains, we put on raincoats and play in the rain.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_092931_huntsville-tx.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_092931_huntsville-tx_pic66.jpg" alt="Playing in the rain, Huntsville state park, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_092931_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_093007_huntsville-tx.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_093007_huntsville-tx_pic66.jpg" alt="Playing in the rain, Huntsville state park, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_093007_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_093026_huntsville-tx.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_093026_huntsville-tx_pic66.jpg" alt="Playing in the rain, Huntsville state park, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_093026_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_092934_huntsville-tx.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_092934_huntsville-tx_pic66.jpg" alt="Playing in the rain, Huntsville state park, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_092934_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_122445_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122445_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122445_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122445_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122445_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="inside the bus in a storm, huntsville, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_122445_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_122348_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122348_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122348_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122348_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_122348_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="rainy windshield photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_122348_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>When that gets old we drive into the nearest town, have lunch, and check out the sights.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_140945_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_140945_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_140945_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_140945_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_140945_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="huntsville, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_140945_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_141229_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_141229_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_141229_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_141229_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_141229_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="huntsville, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_141229_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_142707-4_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_142707-4_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_142707-4_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_142707-4_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_142707-4_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="huntsville, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_142707-4_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="First Lenin statue I had seen since Eastern Europe."> + </a> +<figcaption>First Lenin statue I had seen since Eastern Europe.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_143216_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_143216_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_143216_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_143216_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_143216_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Aligators exist photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_143216_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Yes, but are they happy? Fulfilled? Satisfied?"> + </a> +<figcaption>Yes, but are they happy? Fulfilled? Satisfied?</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Then we do something I’ve been pondering ever since Taylor and Beth served us cornbread waffles — would chocolate cake waffles work? Yes, yes it would<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="waffle cake! photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_150519_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150519_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150519_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150519_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150519_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="waffle cake! photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_150519_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_150535_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150535_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150535_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150535_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_150535_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="waffle cake! photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_150535_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Eventually the rain stops and then it’s back to life as usual exploring the outdoors.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_155613_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_155613_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_155613_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_155613_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_155613_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="visitor squirrel photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_155613_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_160813-1_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_160813-1_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_160813-1_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_160813-1_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_160813-1_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="scooter ride photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_160813-1_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg" alt="dock, hunstville state park, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_161218_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_161340_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161340_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161340_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161340_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_161340_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dock, hunstville state park, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_161340_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_183940_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183940_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183940_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183940_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183940_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bus, huntsville, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_183940_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_183955_huntsville-tx.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183955_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183955_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183955_huntsville-tx_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-22_183955_huntsville-tx_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grumpy eaters photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-22_183955_huntsville-tx.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Not every dinner is enthusiastically received."> + </a> +<figcaption>Not every dinner is enthusiastically received.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Our oven doesn’t work, so actual chocolate cake or cupcakes or whatever aren’t possible. 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I have some thoughts on driving in Texas, but I am not going to air them until I leave.
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+A while back someone asked what we do when it rains. At the time I didn't know because, despite having some big storms come through in various places, it still hadn't really rained during the day. In Huntsville it rained most of the day so now I know. When it rains, we put on raincoats and play in the rain.
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+When that gets old we drive into the nearest town, have lunch, and check out the sights.
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+Then we do something I've been pondering ever since Taylor and Beth served us cornbread waffles -- would chocolate cake waffles work? Yes, yes it would[^1]
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+Eventually the rain stops and then it's back to life as usual exploring the outdoors.
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Heading south would mean more beach time, but a long road back up to Austin and then Dallas where we’re scheduled to meet up with Corrinne’s family. We decided to skip the Texas beaches for now. Temperatures have been rising beyond comfortable in the afternoon anyway, and one of the big appeals of Texas beaches is boondocking, which we can’t do yet because we still have no water tank.</p> +<p>So westward we go.</p> +<p>I’ve recently realized through a few internet conversations I’ve had with friends and family, that no one believes that we drive (whenever possible) back roads. It seems that when I say back roads people think I mean staying off the interstate in favor of state roads (usually two digit highways with four lanes). But no, that’s not how we roll, so to speak.</p> +<p>Admittedly, sometimes those highways are the only option, but when possible we go much smaller than that, stringing together routes using county roads, random streets and the occasional barely-a-road dirt track. I generally feel like a driving day should include at least one moment where we collectively think “there’s no way this is right” and then continue on anyway. To give you some flavor of what it’s like here’s an otherwise not very good photo from somewhere along our drive out of Palmetto Island, through Louisiana:</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_141207_train-museum-driving.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_141207_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_141207_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_141207_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_141207_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving the Atchafalaya basin photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_141207_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Traveling this way is unquestionably slow (that 35 mph stretch above was probably at least 15 miles, not exactly covering ground in a hurry), but the advantage is that you get to stumble unto things you’d otherwise never find, like the wonderful railroad museum in DeQuincy Louisiana. </p> +<p>Coming into the otherwise unremarkable DeQuincy LA, I spotted a couple of train cars under a large metal covering. It looked interesting, but it was late in the day and I was pretty sure everyone was tired. I drove on past the first obvious turn toward it. A couple of red lights later though I saw a sign that said “railroad museum” and I thought what the hell, this is why we’re out here, randomness, even when you’re tired. I pulled down a small side street and parked the bus. </p> +<p>I popped in the Iron Horse pub where what turned out to be a few off duty railroad workers were enjoying a drink, or ten, and asked if the bus was okay where it was. Now, the thing I know about the bus is that it’s really hard to tow so it’s not like I’m worried about it disappearing, but I dislike offending the local citizenry so I always like to ask when I park it in places where it takes up a good bit of the available street.</p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0375_01.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/2017/IMG_0375_01_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0375_01_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="travco outside the train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0375_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Of course one does not simply point to the bus, ask a question and walk away. So I spent ten minutes or so hanging out, fielding engine questions (Dodge 318, nope, not the 440, that comes along in ‘72, 8.2mpg) and learning a tiny bit about railroad work. Most of the people there were not just railroad workers, but second and even third generation railroad workers. I also noticed a sign that said all canned beer was just $1 whenever a train went by the tracks just out front. This was the second time that having children has forced me to a different itinerary than I would have naturally picked. Left to my own devices I’d have never made it to the museum, but I bet I’d know a lot more about railroad workers.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_143724_train-museum-driving.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143724_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143724_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143724_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143724_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_143724_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Eventually I extracted myself and headed across the street to the museum. Corrinne and the kids were already inside what turned out to be the old station house. There were switches and time tables — most people don’t realize this but time zones, and accurate time keeping only exists because railroads demanded it<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> — along with old typewriters, a telegraph, even a Burroughs adding machine.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_143555_train-museum-driving.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143555_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143555_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143555_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_143555_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_143555_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""Dad, what's that?" "Early email." "What's email?" "A way to write letters without mailing them" "Why?" "No idea.""> + </a> +<figcaption>“Dad, what’s that?” “Early email.” “What’s email?” “A way to write letters without mailing them” “Why?” “No idea.”</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_144203_train-museum-driving.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144203_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144203_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144203_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144203_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_144203_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_144829_train-museum-driving.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144829_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144829_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144829_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144829_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_144829_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Because of the Poliovirus. Ironically a day later we would discover that Texas SP bathrooms lack soap dispensers. Health codes, hit or miss."> + </a> +<figcaption>Because of the Poliovirus. Ironically a day later we would discover that Texas SP bathrooms lack soap dispensers. Health codes, hit or miss.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The kids, particularly Elliott, were drawn to the back room with the model railroad set up. Humans have come up with a lot of different ways of moving themselves around, but trains seem to catch kids’ imaginations in some way that most others do not. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_144712_train-museum-driving.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144712_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144712_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144712_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_144712_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_144712_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Eventually we started to head outside when the woman behind the counter intercepted us and gave us keys to the padlocks. “I have to go pick up my daughter from school,” she said, “just make sure you lock up when you’re done and put the keys in the mailbox.” We had free run of the place, which was cool, but I was more impressed with the trusting of strangers, how often does that happen in America anymore?</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_145515_train-museum-driving.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145515_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145515_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145515_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145515_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_145515_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0369.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0369_pic66.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0369.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0371.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0371_pic66.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0371.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01_picwide.jpg" alt="inside of railroad car, dequincy railroad museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>We went in the railcar, poked around the engine a bit and looked in the cabooses as well. The kids seemed most enthralled by the mini train that gets used during the local “railroad days” festival. Sometimes you need something that’s more your size.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_150432_train-museum-driving.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_150432_train-museum-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_150432_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_150432_train-museum-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_150432_train-museum-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train museum dequincy louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_150432_train-museum-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>After looking around we locked up, dropped the key in the mailbox and headed on down the road.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Most of what I know about what we call “time” — and just how downright strange and culturally-bound it turns out to be — comes from reading the excellent, <cite>A Geography Of Time</cite>, by Robert Levine. <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/2017/05/palmetto-island-state-park" rel="prev" title=" Palmetto Island State Park">Palmetto Island State Park</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/keeps-rainin" rel="next" title=" Keeps on A-Rainin'">Keeps on A-Rainin'</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="198" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833402" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="f7ddec5faad8cd9fd69c530c09e15f4795b3630f" 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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Heading south would mean more beach time, but a long road back up to Austin and then Dallas where we're scheduled to meet up with Corrinne's family. We decided to skip the Texas beaches for now. Temperatures have been rising beyond comfortable in the afternoon anyway, and one of the big appeals of Texas beaches is boondocking, which we can't do yet because we still have no water tank.
+
+So westward we go.
+
+I've recently realized through a few internet conversations I've had with friends and family, that no one believes that we drive (whenever possible) back roads. It seems that when I say back roads people think I mean staying off the interstate in favor of state roads (usually two digit highways with four lanes). But no, that's not how we roll, so to speak.
+
+Admittedly, sometimes those highways are the only option, but when possible we go much smaller than that, stringing together routes using county roads, random streets and the occasional barely-a-road dirt track. I generally feel like a driving day should include at least one moment where we collectively think "there's no way this is right" and then continue on anyway. To give you some flavor of what it's like here's an otherwise not very good photo from somewhere along our drive out of Palmetto Island, through Louisiana:
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_141207_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-496" class="picwide" />
+
+Traveling this way is unquestionably slow (that 35 mph stretch above was probably at least 15 miles, not exactly covering ground in a hurry), but the advantage is that you get to stumble unto things you'd otherwise never find, like the wonderful railroad museum in DeQuincy Louisiana.
+
+Coming into the otherwise unremarkable DeQuincy LA, I spotted a couple of train cars under a large metal covering. It looked interesting, but it was late in the day and I was pretty sure everyone was tired. I drove on past the first obvious turn toward it. A couple of red lights later though I saw a sign that said "railroad museum" and I thought what the hell, this is why we're out here, randomness, even when you're tired. I pulled down a small side street and parked the bus.
+
+I popped in the Iron Horse pub where what turned out to be a few off duty railroad workers were enjoying a drink, or ten, and asked if the bus was okay where it was. Now, the thing I know about the bus is that it's really hard to tow so it's not like I'm worried about it disappearing, but I dislike offending the local citizenry so I always like to ask when I park it in places where it takes up a good bit of the available street.
+
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0375_01.jpg" id="image-504" class="picfull" />
+
+Of course one does not simply point to the bus, ask a question and walk away. So I spent ten minutes or so hanging out, fielding engine questions (Dodge 318, nope, not the 440, that comes along in '72, 8.2mpg) and learning a tiny bit about railroad work. Most of the people there were not just railroad workers, but second and even third generation railroad workers. I also noticed a sign that said all canned beer was just $1 whenever a train went by the tracks just out front. This was the second time that having children has forced me to a different itinerary than I would have naturally picked. Left to my own devices I'd have never made it to the museum, but I bet I'd know a lot more about railroad workers.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_143724_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-497" class="picwide" />
+
+Eventually I extracted myself and headed across the street to the museum. Corrinne and the kids were already inside what turned out to be the old station house. There were switches and time tables -- most people don't realize this but time zones, and accurate time keeping only exists because railroads demanded it[^1] -- along with old typewriters, a telegraph, even a Burroughs adding machine.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_143555_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-505" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_144203_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-506" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_144829_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-499" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The kids, particularly Elliott, were drawn to the back room with the model railroad set up. Humans have come up with a lot of different ways of moving themselves around, but trains seem to catch kids' imaginations in some way that most others do not.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_144712_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-498" class="picwide" />
+
+Eventually we started to head outside when the woman behind the counter intercepted us and gave us keys to the padlocks. "I have to go pick up my daughter from school," she said, "just make sure you lock up when you're done and put the keys in the mailbox." We had free run of the place, which was cool, but I was more impressed with the trusting of strangers, how often does that happen in America anymore?
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_145515_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-500" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0369.jpg" id="image-501" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0371.jpg" id="image-502" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_145609_train-museum-driving_01.jpg" id="image-507" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+We went in the railcar, poked around the engine a bit and looked in the cabooses as well. The kids seemed most enthralled by the mini train that gets used during the local "railroad days" festival. Sometimes you need something that's more your size.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_150432_train-museum-driving.jpg" id="image-503" class="picwide" />
+
+After looking around we locked up, dropped the key in the mailbox and headed on down the road.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-05-12T14:52:02" itemprop="datePublished">May <span>12, 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>New Orleans is the last living city in the United States.</p> +<p>Every time I return here I am amazed that it is allowed to continue existing, that something so contrary to the rest of America has not been destroyed, locked up and disneyfied. But it hasn’t. Somehow the people here manage to carry their unique way of life on day after day in this amazing place. The people here shame the rest of us with their vibrancy, their community, their music, their love. </p> +<p>Must be hot as hell in August though.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/no-banner.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/no-banner_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/no-banner_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/no-banner_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/no-banner_picwide-med.jpg" alt="new orleans collage photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/no-banner.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We came in from the east, on 90 which takes its time wandering through all the bayous the interstate passes right over. Highway 90 cuts out to the very edge where the last of the bayous gives way to the sea. The islands are thin little wafers out here, you feel exposed and vulnerable just driving them, as if at any given moment the sea is going rise up and take them back. But it doesn’t. Hasn’t yet. There are houses here that are obviously from at least 50 years ago. My favorite was the one with a message that felt aimed directly at today’s AirBnBer: “It’s a camp, not a condo.”</p> +<p>I didn’t track which bridge finally brought us into the city, but I do know that the minute we were at the high point I was hit with a smell so strong for a minute I thought something was wrong with the bus, but no, it was just New Orleans and some curious melange of oyster poboys, truck brakes, shrimp boats, fried dough, flashy new taco trucks and Vietnamese restaurants, all trapped inside a couple bends of the Mississippi by some mysterious force of voodoo. It has it’s own fragrance, unbottleable and only available here.</p> +<p>Driving into the city in the bus was an experience I can’t really do justice to with just words. People everywhere honk and wave and call out to me when I’m driving the bus. It happens half a dozen times every day I drive it, often more. But getting through New Orleans topped everything else before it and I suspect after it. The bus was especially a hit in the Treme, which I’ll be honest, made me feel good. Because yeah, of course I drove right through the heart of the city. How else would you cross it? I even had one woman have a five minute conversation with me at a stop light about camping out west who ended it with a simple, ‘okay, you ahright, you ahright son’. I hope so.</p> +<p>We stayed at Bayou Segnette State Park on the west bank, which is nice enough, but forgettable save the fact that it’s a 10 minute drive from the French Quarter. </p> +<p>The first day we took the ferry in from Algiers in part to let the kids ride a ferry and in part because I’ve been curious to see Algiers ever since I heard the name in a Grant Lee Buffalo song decades ago. It lived up to my vision of it, complete with hundred year old bars possibly full of hundred year old sailors. I didn’t want to spoil the image in my head so I didn’t go in.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_121032_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_121032_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_121032_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_121032_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_121032_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Algers ferry, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_121032_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_120507_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_120507_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_120507_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_120507_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_120507_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Algers ferry, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_120507_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0136.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/IMG_0136_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0136_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0136_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0136_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Algers ferry, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0136.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Instead we crossed the river to Vieux Carré which still amazes me because it is both itself and a parody of itself at the same time and somehow manages to do both very well. It’s cheesy and full of tourists, but it’s also a really part of the city and full of locals. It might be the strangest tourist destination I’ve ever been to and I love it. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_122025_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122025_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122025_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122025_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122025_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="river front, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_122025_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_122450_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122450_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122450_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122450_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122450_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing on statues, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_122450_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_122437_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122437_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122437_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122437_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_122437_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing on statues, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_122437_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I also love that I keep coming back here and finding a different New Orleans. All the old ones I’ve found are still there too, I even took a picture of the diner my friend Mike hung out at 20 years ago when we passed through. We had a huge fight about something or other and I left him in the French Quarter to stew for half a day or so. He ended up at the diner below. At least I like to think it’s the same diner. Eventually I came back and found him hanging out here with the largest man I’ve ever met who was named Earl and rather sweet on Mike I believe. There was something about a toothless bum too. He got some good stories out of it, me, all I got was another tank of gas. This time around we got some tater tots and fries.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_162604_new-orleans.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_162604_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_162604_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_162604_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_162604_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Diner, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_162604_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0200.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0200_pic66.jpg" alt="at the diner, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0200.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0203.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0203_pic66.jpg" alt="at the diner, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0203.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>This was my first time in New Orleans with kids, which changed things a little bit. I like to get a coffee or a drink and just watch the people drift by on the streets, which we did do a couple times, but never for more than about 10 minutes. Because kids. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_130509_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_130509_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_130509_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_130509_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_130509_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating treats at Envie, New orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_130509_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="We didn't get to stay long, but we did stop in at one of my favorite people watching spots, Envie."> + </a> +<figcaption>We didn’t get to stay long, but we did stop in at one of my favorite people watching spots, Envie.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_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/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_01_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_01_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_01_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_01_picwide.jpg" alt="Walking Decatur st new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-10_131547_new-orleans_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>While sitting in one place is not their thing, they had no trouble walking. They walked the streets of the French Quarter from one end to the other and back again almost daily. In the heat the of the day. They were enthralled the whole time. And they slept well after ward. I shake my head every time I see someone with a 3 or 4 year old in stroller, what a lost opportunity . There aren’t many places in America with so much going on on the streets. New Orleans is vibrant and alive, like kids. </p> +<p>I tried to get a little history in the kids, we stopped by the Jean Lafitte Museum and the kids got another stamp in their NPS passport books. The museum also has a small courtyard of the sort you find in New Orleans, something I’d been trying to explain for a while, but which is best understood by seeing one. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_153129_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_153129_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_153129_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_153129_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_153129_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Listening to New Orleans History photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_153129_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="She picked up the phone to her left, listened for a minute and said, "hey, this one is just about soup"."> + </a> +<figcaption>She picked up the phone to her left, listened for a minute and said, “hey, this one is just about soup”.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>But mostly they just wanted to hang around Jackson Square, listen to the music and watch the living statues, which the girls developed a minor obsession with for a few days, playing living statue whenever we were back in camp.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_165443_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_165443_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_165443_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_165443_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_165443_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Brand playing in Jackson Square, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_165443_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The Free Spirit Brass Band was pretty damn good. You can listen to them on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8BSqILHc6k">youtube</a>."> + </a> +<figcaption>The Free Spirit Brass Band was pretty damn good. You can listen to them on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8BSqILHc6k">youtube</a>.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_170144_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_170144_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_170144_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_170144_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_170144_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="watching music in Jackson Square photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_170144_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0213.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/IMG_0213_pictall-sm.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0213_pictall-med.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0213_pictall.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0213_picfull.jpg 1500w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0213_pic5.jpg 648w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0213_pictall-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0213_pictall.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0213_picfull.jpg" alt="Living statue, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0213.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="For a $1 the living statue hands out tiny messages, Olivia's said "enjoy your piece of peace"."> + </a> +<figcaption>For a $1 the living statue hands out tiny messages, Olivia’s said “enjoy your piece of peace”.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_185458_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_185458_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_185458_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_185458_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_185458_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pretending to be a living statue photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_185458_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The hat is full of little scraps of paper with messages written on them."> + </a> +<figcaption>The hat is full of little scraps of paper with messages written on them.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0277.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0277_pic66.jpg" alt="crepes in the french market photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0277.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""></a> +<figcaption></figcaption> +</figure> + + + + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0282.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0282_pic66.jpg" alt="crepes in the french market, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0282.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="crepes in the french market, new orleans."></a> +<figcaption>crepes in the french market, new orleans.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>The New Orleans we found this time was all over the map. Along with the French Quarter, City Park turned out to be a huge hit as was their trolley ride up there. There was something called Story Land, which, on our initial visit was closed, which caused much gnashing of teeth, but fortunately playgrounds never close so we were able to salvage the day.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-11_151109_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_151109_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_151109_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_151109_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_151109_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Swings in City Park, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-11_151109_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0178.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0178_pic66.jpg" alt="climbing a tree, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0178.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""></a> +<figcaption></figcaption> +</figure> + + + + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0175_heD9M7M.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0175_heD9M7M_pic66.jpg" alt="climbing a tree, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0175_heD9M7M.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="All the playground equipment in the park didn't hold their attention as long as this tree."></a> +<figcaption>All the playground equipment in the park didn’t hold their attention as long as this tree.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +</span> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-11_150232_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_150232_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_150232_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_150232_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-11_150232_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ducks in city park, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-11_150232_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0287.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/IMG_0287_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0287_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0287_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0287_picwide-med.jpg" alt="taking notes photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0287.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="I carry a notebook around in my back pocket, but sometimes other people snatch it and add their own impressions."> + </a> +<figcaption>I carry a notebook around in my back pocket, but sometimes other people snatch it and add their own impressions.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_200059_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_200059_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_200059_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_200059_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-12_200059_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cashew chicken in the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-12_200059_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="We might be out and about a lot, but the bus bookends our days."> + </a> +<figcaption>We might be out and about a 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+
+Every time I return here I am amazed that it is allowed to continue existing, that something so contrary to the rest of America has not been destroyed, locked up and disneyfied. But it hasn't. Somehow the people here manage to carry their unique way of life on day after day in this amazing place. The people here shame the rest of us with their vibrancy, their community, their music, their love.
+
+Must be hot as hell in August though.
+
+<img src="images/2017/no-banner.jpg" id="image-451" class="picwide" />
+
+We came in from the east, on 90 which takes its time wandering through all the bayous the interstate passes right over. Highway 90 cuts out to the very edge where the last of the bayous gives way to the sea. The islands are thin little wafers out here, you feel exposed and vulnerable just driving them, as if at any given moment the sea is going rise up and take them back. But it doesn't. Hasn't yet. There are houses here that are obviously from at least 50 years ago. My favorite was the one with a message that felt aimed directly at today's AirBnBer: "It's a camp, not a condo."
+
+I didn't track which bridge finally brought us into the city, but I do know that the minute we were at the high point I was hit with a smell so strong for a minute I thought something was wrong with the bus, but no, it was just New Orleans and some curious melange of oyster poboys, truck brakes, shrimp boats, fried dough, flashy new taco trucks and Vietnamese restaurants, all trapped inside a couple bends of the Mississippi by some mysterious force of voodoo. It has it's own fragrance, unbottleable and only available here.
+
+Driving into the city in the bus was an experience I can't really do justice to with just words. People everywhere honk and wave and call out to me when I'm driving the bus. It happens half a dozen times every day I drive it, often more. But getting through New Orleans topped everything else before it and I suspect after it. The bus was especially a hit in the Treme, which I'll be honest, made me feel good. Because yeah, of course I drove right through the heart of the city. How else would you cross it? I even had one woman have a five minute conversation with me at a stop light about camping out west who ended it with a simple, 'okay, you ahright, you ahright son'. I hope so.
+
+We stayed at Bayou Segnette State Park on the west bank, which is nice enough, but forgettable save the fact that it's a 10 minute drive from the French Quarter.
+
+The first day we took the ferry in from Algiers in part to let the kids ride a ferry and in part because I've been curious to see Algiers ever since I heard the name in a Grant Lee Buffalo song decades ago. It lived up to my vision of it, complete with hundred year old bars possibly full of hundred year old sailors. I didn't want to spoil the image in my head so I didn't go in.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-10_121032_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-440" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-10_120507_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-439" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0136.jpg" id="image-463" class="picwide" />
+
+
+Instead we crossed the river to Vieux Carré which still amazes me because it is both itself and a parody of itself at the same time and somehow manages to do both very well. It's cheesy and full of tourists, but it's also a really part of the city and full of locals. It might be the strangest tourist destination I've ever been to and I love it.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-10_122025_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-441" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-10_122450_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-443" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-10_122437_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-442" class="picwide" />
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+I also love that I keep coming back here and finding a different New Orleans. All the old ones I've found are still there too, I even took a picture of the diner my friend Mike hung out at 20 years ago when we passed through. We had a huge fight about something or other and I left him in the French Quarter to stew for half a day or so. He ended up at the diner below. At least I like to think it's the same diner. Eventually I came back and found him hanging out here with the largest man I've ever met who was named Earl and rather sweet on Mike I believe. There was something about a toothless bum too. He got some good stories out of it, me, all I got was another tank of gas. This time around we got some tater tots and fries.
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+This was my first time in New Orleans with kids, which changed things a little bit. I like to get a coffee or a drink and just watch the people drift by on the streets, which we did do a couple times, but never for more than about 10 minutes. Because kids.
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+While sitting in one place is not their thing, they had no trouble walking. They walked the streets of the French Quarter from one end to the other and back again almost daily. In the heat the of the day. They were enthralled the whole time. And they slept well after ward. I shake my head every time I see someone with a 3 or 4 year old in stroller, what a lost opportunity . There aren't many places in America with so much going on on the streets. New Orleans is vibrant and alive, like kids.
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+I tried to get a little history in the kids, we stopped by the Jean Lafitte Museum and the kids got another stamp in their NPS passport books. The museum also has a small courtyard of the sort you find in New Orleans, something I'd been trying to explain for a while, but which is best understood by seeing one.
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+But mostly they just wanted to hang around Jackson Square, listen to the music and watch the living statues, which the girls developed a minor obsession with for a few days, playing living statue whenever we were back in camp.
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+The New Orleans we found this time was all over the map. Along with the French Quarter, City Park turned out to be a huge hit as was their trolley ride up there. There was something called Story Land, which, on our initial visit was closed, which caused much gnashing of teeth, but fortunately playgrounds never close so we were able to salvage the day.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-05-15T23:02:43" itemprop="datePublished">May <span>15, 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>There are thin silvery white cracks in the clouds. They burn into the backs of your eyelids when you blink. Thunder arrives before you can count to three. It’s the crisp, crackling thunder that happens when you’re under a mile from lightning. </p> +<p>The bus is a sauna, windows shut tight and fogged, air conditioner already shut off. But I like watching the beads of water run down the vastness of windshield. </p> +<p>I have a bag packed and a rain jacket over it and I should probably go, but there’s something very peaceful about the clattering roar of rain on the roof, the rivulets of water running down the windows. The storm feels closer when you’re in here, you have to confront more of it when your walls are only two inches thick. Even more of it when your walls are made of nylon, which I know several people in this campground are doing right now. Compared to them, this is nothing. But then it is a cozy 105 degrees or so, which ruins the peacefulness. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0245.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/IMG_0245_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0245_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0245_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0245_picwide-med.jpg" alt="rainbow over the bridge, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0245.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Eventually I go and find Corrinne and the kids in the bathroom with a few other people who had taken shelter, mostly because there was a tornado warning. I have my doubts about how much being in a bathroom would help you in a tornado — have you ever seen what a tornado can do to human structures, even concrete structures? — but I understand the basic human (animal?) need to huddle together in groups for some small sense of protection.</p> +<p>I dislike the whole notion of tornadoes. I’m from earthquake country. I like my disasters to come suddenly without warning and generally be over before you even know what happened. If you die, you probably won’t even know it. Tornadoes? I don’t know the first thing about tornadoes other than you get warned about them ahead of time, which, to me, is like telling some who’s afraid of flying that they’re statistically more likely to die on the way to airport. Thanks, now I have two things to be afraid of. I’m happy in my ignorance of pending tornadoes. I’ve seen what they can do and I don’t think I can outrun one, so why the hell are you “warning” me about them? Where am I possible going to go?</p> +<p>To the bathroom apparently. Which worked out well because we met a bunch of nice people there, particularly Taylor and Beth, some fellow full time RVers who turned out to know the only other person I’m aware of that lives full time in a Travco. We chatted, decided to meet up in New Orleans at some point and then the storm was over and everyone went their separate ways. We headed into to New Orleans to wander the French Quarter some more. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-14_161448_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_161448_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_161448_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_161448_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_161448_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Walking the French quarter photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-14_161448_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>More importantly though, a couple days later, we finally made it to Storyland out in City Park. It apparently has the world’s fastest carousel, according to my wife, and the world’s fastest slide according to my kids.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_140027-1_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_140027-1_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" alt="carousel, storyland, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_140027-1_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0254_01.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0254_01_pic66.jpg" alt="carousel, storyland, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0254_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0256.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0256_pic66.jpg" alt="carousel, storyland, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0256.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141119_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141119_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141119_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141119_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141119_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="storyland, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141119_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141211_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141211_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141211_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141211_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141211_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="storyland, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141211_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141255_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141255_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141255_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141255_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141255_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="three pigs storyland, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141255_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141432_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141432_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141432_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141432_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_141432_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="storyland, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_141432_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_140925-1_new-orleans.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_140925-1_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_140925-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_140925-1_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-13_140925-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-13_140925-1_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We couldn’t leave without doing something that’s become a pilgrimage of sorts for me — visiting Marie Laveau’s grave. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_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/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01_picfull.jpg 1500w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01_picfull-sm.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01_picfull.jpg" alt="painting of Marie Laveau photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The so-called voodoo queen of New Orleans has been growing in popularity over the years, but she’s still a little obscure. The facts in her story are few and far between, but sometimes facts aren’t the most important part of a story. If you know your way around the occult scene at all you’ve probably heard of Marie Laveau. She’s sort of the patron saint of female occult power, because, let’s face it, male dominated religions rule our era.</p> +<p>But Marie Laveau seems to laugh in the face of all that. Born in 1801, mixed blood creole, she became a hairdresser to the wealthy — no small part of her power I’m sure — and was the city’s most famous practitioner of Voodoo. Even if you care nothing about Voodoo, and I don’t really, beyond the mild respect I hold for all animist/naturalist religious systems, Marie Laveau is fascinating because she wielded power in a culture that wouldn’t have otherwise given her any. But by all accounts she held considerable political power as a non-white woman in the early 19th century. Think what you will of the Vodun/Voodoo religion, it takes someone special to completely subvert their culture like that. And I have a fondness for cultural subversives.</p> +<p>I had been reading some books on Voodoo the first time I came to New Orleans in 1996 and was captivated by what little is known of her story. I dragged my friend Mike out to visit her grave in St. Louis Cemetery Number 1. At the time the neighborhood around the cemetery was a bit sketchy, sketchy enough that we had the only working car parked on the street. We also had the entire cemetery to ourselves. Marie Laveau’s grave was clearly visited, but not often, to judge by the flowers around it.</p> +<p>Years later, around 2003 I came back and it was much the same, but when Corrinne and I came in 2010, things had changed. There was a new stop light down the street with a new Valero station just past it. People walked the streets and new buildings were going up. Things were looking, if not quite gentrified, certainly headed in that direction. And now, sadly, the gentrification is complete. St. Louis Cemetery Number 1 is hemmed in on three sides by new construction and, worst part, you can no longer get to Marie Laveau’s grave.</p> +<p>Technically you can, you just have to pay $20 and take a tour with a guide. I’d sooner chew my leg off.</p> +<p>The money is a non-issue to me. Admittedly, it’s a bit steep. I certainly would not have paid $100 to get a family of five in, but I understand that part, it’s the “you must have a tour guide” bit the rubs me the wrong way. I hate tour guides. I hate having my experiences mediated through another person, especially someone who’s a professional mediator. I’d rather walk away and not show the kids Marie Laveau’s grave (despite building it up quite a bit) than have them experience it through someone else’s words. So we did. Walk away that is.</p> +<p>We did a bit of research and it turns out people were desecrating graves, pulling out bones and what not and the Catholic church decided that money and tour guides was the solution to that problem. The thing is, people have always done that. Depending on which occult text you trust Marie Laveau’s bones may not have even been in that grave for more than a couple days before 19th century grave robbers came seeking her bones (or her family moved her, again depending on which shakily documented story you want to believe). I’ve also toured quite a few Catholic churches where the bones of the dead had been dug up and rearranged by the Catholic Church itself, but I guess that’s out of fashion now, current hipster pope not withstanding.</p> +<p>Whatever the case Marie Laveau’s grave is a thing of the past for me. We opted to head to the New Orleans Voodoo Museum instead. Museum is something of a misnomer, it’s really just a tiny two room building with some shrines that (I assume) are actively used by Voodoo practitioners. At least they looked fairly actively used, we let the kids add a wish to one. It wasn’t quite as nice as visiting the grave would have been, but it gave them a sense of the flavor of Voodoo if you will. 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They burn into the backs of your eyelids when you blink. Thunder arrives before you can count to three. It's the crisp, crackling thunder that happens when you're under a mile from lightning.
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+The bus is a sauna, windows shut tight and fogged, air conditioner already shut off. But I like watching the beads of water run down the vastness of windshield.
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+I have a bag packed and a rain jacket over it and I should probably go, but there's something very peaceful about the clattering roar of rain on the roof, the rivulets of water running down the windows. The storm feels closer when you're in here, you have to confront more of it when your walls are only two inches thick. Even more of it when your walls are made of nylon, which I know several people in this campground are doing right now. Compared to them, this is nothing. But then it is a cozy 105 degrees or so, which ruins the peacefulness.
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+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0245.jpg" id="image-465" class="picwide" />
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+Eventually I go and find Corrinne and the kids in the bathroom with a few other people who had taken shelter, mostly because there was a tornado warning. I have my doubts about how much being in a bathroom would help you in a tornado -- have you ever seen what a tornado can do to human structures, even concrete structures? -- but I understand the basic human (animal?) need to huddle together in groups for some small sense of protection.
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+I dislike the whole notion of tornadoes. I'm from earthquake country. I like my disasters to come suddenly without warning and generally be over before you even know what happened. If you die, you probably won't even know it. Tornadoes? I don't know the first thing about tornadoes other than you get warned about them ahead of time, which, to me, is like telling some who's afraid of flying that they're statistically more likely to die on the way to airport. Thanks, now I have two things to be afraid of. I'm happy in my ignorance of pending tornadoes. I've seen what they can do and I don't think I can outrun one, so why the hell are you "warning" me about them? Where am I possible going to go?
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+To the bathroom apparently. Which worked out well because we met a bunch of nice people there, particularly Taylor and Beth, some fellow full time RVers who turned out to know the only other person I'm aware of that lives full time in a Travco. We chatted, decided to meet up in New Orleans at some point and then the storm was over and everyone went their separate ways. We headed into to New Orleans to wander the French Quarter some more.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-14_161448_new-orleans.jpg" id="image-469" class="picwide" />
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+More importantly though, a couple days later, we finally made it to Storyland out in City Park. It apparently has the world's fastest carousel, according to my wife, and the world's fastest slide according to my kids.
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+We couldn't leave without doing something that's become a pilgrimage of sorts for me -- visiting Marie Laveau's grave.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-14_151659_new-orleans_01.jpg" id="image-466" class="picwide" />
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+The so-called voodoo queen of New Orleans has been growing in popularity over the years, but she's still a little obscure. The facts in her story are few and far between, but sometimes facts aren't the most important part of a story. If you know your way around the occult scene at all you've probably heard of Marie Laveau. She's sort of the patron saint of female occult power, because, let's face it, male dominated religions rule our era.
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+But Marie Laveau seems to laugh in the face of all that. Born in 1801, mixed blood creole, she became a hairdresser to the wealthy -- no small part of her power I'm sure -- and was the city's most famous practitioner of Voodoo. Even if you care nothing about Voodoo, and I don't really, beyond the mild respect I hold for all animist/naturalist religious systems, Marie Laveau is fascinating because she wielded power in a culture that wouldn't have otherwise given her any. But by all accounts she held considerable political power as a non-white woman in the early 19th century. Think what you will of the Vodun/Voodoo religion, it takes someone special to completely subvert their culture like that. And I have a fondness for cultural subversives.
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+I had been reading some books on Voodoo the first time I came to New Orleans in 1996 and was captivated by what little is known of her story. I dragged my friend Mike out to visit her grave in St. Louis Cemetery Number 1. At the time the neighborhood around the cemetery was a bit sketchy, sketchy enough that we had the only working car parked on the street. We also had the entire cemetery to ourselves. Marie Laveau's grave was clearly visited, but not often, to judge by the flowers around it.
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+Years later, around 2003 I came back and it was much the same, but when Corrinne and I came in 2010, things had changed. There was a new stop light down the street with a new Valero station just past it. People walked the streets and new buildings were going up. Things were looking, if not quite gentrified, certainly headed in that direction. And now, sadly, the gentrification is complete. St. Louis Cemetery Number 1 is hemmed in on three sides by new construction and, worst part, you can no longer get to Marie Laveau's grave.
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+Technically you can, you just have to pay $20 and take a tour with a guide. I'd sooner chew my leg off.
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+The money is a non-issue to me. Admittedly, it's a bit steep. I certainly would not have paid $100 to get a family of five in, but I understand that part, it's the "you must have a tour guide" bit the rubs me the wrong way. I hate tour guides. I hate having my experiences mediated through another person, especially someone who's a professional mediator. I'd rather walk away and not show the kids Marie Laveau's grave (despite building it up quite a bit) than have them experience it through someone else's words. So we did. Walk away that is.
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+We did a bit of research and it turns out people were desecrating graves, pulling out bones and what not and the Catholic church decided that money and tour guides was the solution to that problem. The thing is, people have always done that. Depending on which occult text you trust Marie Laveau's bones may not have even been in that grave for more than a couple days before 19th century grave robbers came seeking her bones (or her family moved her, again depending on which shakily documented story you want to believe). I've also toured quite a few Catholic churches where the bones of the dead had been dug up and rearranged by the Catholic Church itself, but I guess that's out of fashion now, current hipster pope not withstanding.
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+Whatever the case Marie Laveau's grave is a thing of the past for me. We opted to head to the New Orleans Voodoo Museum instead. Museum is something of a misnomer, it's really just a tiny two room building with some shrines that (I assume) are actively used by Voodoo practitioners. At least they looked fairly actively used, we let the kids add a wish to one. It wasn't quite as nice as visiting the grave would have been, but it gave them a sense of the flavor of Voodoo if you will. Or at least I like to think it did.
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+Back at camp we met up with Taylor and Beth for dinner. Living in campgrounds is a little odd because while you meet tons of really nice people, who are almost always in a good mood (they're on vacation after all), they never really want to hang out because, well, they're on vacation. But fellow fulltimers... we meet up for dinner. So many thanks to Taylor and Beth for having us over for some delicious food and teaching us about a million tricks we didn't know about living full time in an RV. 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It’s a land of wide open fields, rice paddies, blue crab traps, great flocks of snowy egrets wading patiently through marshes. There’s hardly anyone living out here, the roads are thin strips of land barely above water level.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_115617_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_115617_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_115617_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_115617_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_115617_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving the Atchafalaya basin photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_115617_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Every now and then there are pockets of swamp, bald cypress trees in a lake of duckweed so thick it looks like you could walk across it.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg" alt="bayou in palmetto island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Palmetto Island State Park exists just inside one of these pockets of unfarmed land, though it is not full of bald cypress, but, as the name suggests, Saw Palmettos. It was the sort of place you can tell is going to be pretty nice just by the drive in, the road kep getting narrower and narrower, and rougher and rougher, sure signs of good things to come.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_100253_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_100253_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_100253_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_100253_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-19_100253_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="road, abbeville, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-19_100253_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We came here just looking for a nice place to get some work done, with little entertainment for the kids, but it turned out to be one of the nicest campgrounds we’ve stayed in. It had the newest, cleanest facilities we’ve seen, there was even a leave-one-take-one library full of kids books that we used to swap out a books.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0327..pg_ " 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/IMG_0327._picwide-sm.pg_ 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0327._picwide-med.pg_ 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0327._picwide.pg_ 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0327._picwide-med.pg_" alt="painting, Palmetto island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0327..pg_" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I got some writing done, the kids played around the campsite in the mornings and then after lunch, when the heat and humidity was becoming a bit much we all headed over to the splashpad to cool off.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_164119_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164119_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164119_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164119_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164119_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Splashpad, Palmetto Island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_164119_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_164458_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164458_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164458_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164458_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164458_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Splashpad, Palmetto Island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_164458_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_164929_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164929_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164929_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164929_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_164929_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Splashpad, Palmetto Island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_164929_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_165416_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165416_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165416_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165416_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165416_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Splashpad, Palmetto Island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_165416_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_165037_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165037_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165037_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165037_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_165037_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Splashpad, Palmetto Island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_165037_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_171636_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_171636_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_171636_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_171636_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_171636_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Splashpad, Palmetto Island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_171636_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_174137_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_174137_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_174137_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_174137_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_174137_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="climbing, palmetto island state park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_174137_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>And just to liven things up a little, there were plenty of wild pigs running around. And bears. Supposedly, we did not see any.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_172253_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_172253_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_172253_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_172253_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-16_172253_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Wild Pigs, Palmetto Island, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-16_172253_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Wait for me..."> + </a> +<figcaption>Wait for me…</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-18_124039_palmetto-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-18_124039_palmetto-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-18_124039_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-18_124039_palmetto-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-18_124039_palmetto-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bedroom in the big blue bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-18_124039_palmetto-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The other part of the reason we came to Palmetto Island was to postpone a decision about our future direction. From here we could still go south to beaches of Texas, the Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston, Corpus Christie, or we could head due west, inland, toward Austin. 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It's a land of wide open fields, rice paddies, blue crab traps, great flocks of snowy egrets wading patiently through marshes. There's hardly anyone living out here, the roads are thin strips of land barely above water level.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_115617_palmetto-island.jpg" id="image-495" class="picwide" />
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+Every now and then there are pockets of swamp, bald cypress trees in a lake of duckweed so thick it looks like you could walk across it.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-16_121751_palmetto-island.jpg" id="image-481" class="picwide" />
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+Palmetto Island State Park exists just inside one of these pockets of unfarmed land, though it is not full of bald cypress, but, as the name suggests, Saw Palmettos. It was the sort of place you can tell is going to be pretty nice just by the drive in, the road kep getting narrower and narrower, and rougher and rougher, sure signs of good things to come.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-19_100253_palmetto-island.jpg" id="image-493" class="picwide" />
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+We came here just looking for a nice place to get some work done, with little entertainment for the kids, but it turned out to be one of the nicest campgrounds we've stayed in. It had the newest, cleanest facilities we've seen, there was even a leave-one-take-one library full of kids books that we used to swap out a books.
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+I got some writing done, the kids played around the campsite in the mornings and then after lunch, when the heat and humidity was becoming a bit much we all headed over to the splashpad to cool off.
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+And just to liven things up a little, there were plenty of wild pigs running around. And bears. Supposedly, we did not see any.
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+The other part of the reason we came to Palmetto Island was to postpone a decision about our future direction. From here we could still go south to beaches of Texas, the Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston, Corpus Christie, or we could head due west, inland, toward Austin. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-06-28T16:45:21" itemprop="datePublished">June <span>28, 2017</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>I have only one note from Chaco Canyon<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>: the wind gusts, a light whistling sound through the thin curled leaves of creosote; in the interludes the stillness is filled with raven calls reverberating across the canyon, a conversation bouncing around sandstone, echoing in arroyos until, like everything else here, they fade into the darkness of the past.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Fajada butte, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunrise, Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>There is only so much one can say for sure here. Try to cling to some idea and it will slip through your fingers as another contradictory one arises. That something happened here once upon a time at Chaco is really all I or anyone else can say about this place.</p> +<p>There are ruins to prove that something happened. Great stone structures that have stood for over a thousand years in many cases. Once there were people, now there are stones. And ravens.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ravens, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Chaco wash, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_164354-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_164354-1_chaco-canyon_pic66.jpg" alt="Thousand year old walls, Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_164354-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_164434-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_164434-1_chaco-canyon_pic66.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_164434-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>Craig Childs, whose book <cite>House of Rain</cite> I highly recommend<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>, recounts the various theories on what happened here. In the end there are nearly as many theories as archaeologists. </p> +<blockquote> +<p>The evidence gathered from a century of digging and mapping can support nearly any speculation thrown at Chaco Canyon: religious center, military center, government center, economic center, ceremonials center — the list is extensive. The place is thought by some to have been a colony of churches, its numerous great houses exhibiting certain recurring features thought to be religious. The repetition of specific architectural designs could also be interpreted as a form imposed by a ruling elites, the abundance of goods as tithing. The outrageously copious artifacts found inside these great houses look like ritual paraphernalia: feathers and bones representing nearly every bird species found with a thousand mile radius; a large number of wooden staffs like shepherds crooks, their handles inlaid with fines stones; and many rooms filled precious, expertly crafted mementos, may of which were found positioned as if on alters.</p> +<p>Other people take the abundance to mean that Chaco was a commercial center, a pre-Colombian shopping mall built to redistributes good in the Southwests notoriously unstable environment. In that sense the buildings are seen as store houses with some rooms tacked nearly to the ceiling.</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Probably all these theories are wrong. The first things to do at Chaco is accept that you cannot know.</p> +<p>The question that most nagged me in Chaco seemed simpler, but perhaps was not — why here? What was that lured so many people here, inspired them to some of the finest construction in North America in this otherwise rather unremarkable wash, one of about a dozen that come off the San Juan river in it’s path down off the Colorado Plateau. </p> +<p>That’s the question I pondered on the trails, walking through the dusty flatlands, up the rough, rocky climbs to the mesa tops where the sun is hot and relentless. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Chaco wash, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Standing in thousand year old buildings tends to fill you with awe, it doesn’t matter if it’s Cambodia, Austria or New Mexico. As fragile, impermanent beings we’re drawn to permanence, we are inspired by by what we lack — sturdiness and longevity. Even today, when we could build with anything, we choose steel girders, concrete, and asphalt, imitations of stone. Because laying in and fitting stone like the builders of Chaco is labor intensive and time consuming, time we don’t seem to have. But they did. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The Chacoans had time. Not just for these buildings, but for even more labor intensive projects, like a network of roads running absolutely straight and true across the desert, possibly for thousands of miles. Raised stone road beds thirty to forty feet wide running for thousands of miles — even with modern technology that would likely take decades. How the Chocans did it remains a mystery, but the faint outlines of them can still be seen from space.</p> +<p>Similar head-scratching feats of design and building surround the builders of Angkor Wat, Machu Pichu, Teotihuacan and elsewhere. But there is something different about here, something extra about this place. You hear it in the murmur of the wind through creosote, you see it in the stone work of the greathouses. Something happened here, something happened in a way it never has again. Whatever these people saw, whatever they had access to, it was more than we do today. Their world was unutterably alien to ours and you feel it every second you are here.</p> +<p>You should come here. You should sit here and consider it. Don’t worry about the heat, it is everywhere. You will make peace with it. Or you will die in it, either way there is no need to worry about it. It will be here. You must come when it is here. You will not know the core of this place if you do not come in the heat. </p> +<p>Some archaeologists think these citadels may have been painted white. Gleaming white beacons rising out of the shimmering mirage of heat. It must have been something to arrive here having walked from Mexico, California, The Gulf Coast and all the other places for which there is evidence that people came.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mesa, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We hiked in the mornings, climbing up the canyon walls, while there was still some shade to be had, and up on to the mesa where there was none. Or so it seems at first glance. But then you look closer, you start to think differently, you realize you could crawl up under that juniper tree and get a break from the sun, you see ledges in the rocks where you could wedge yourself flat against what might still be cool sandstone. There are escapes here, but you will have to work for them.</p> +<p>Chaco remains largely off the grid. The road in from the north is rough enough that it takes nearly an hour to drive 13 miles. And the first two miles are paved, so really it takes about 50 minutes to drive 11 miles. That’s part of the remoteness, but there is more. There’s something about this wash that once you are in it it consumes your past in some way, you are no longer just you, you are you in Chaco. </p> +<p>This is one of those places that can influence things. It seems to have a will about it, whether it’s the place or some echo of the people who were here I could not say, but if you come here you will feel it.</p> +<p>You might see some things you’re pretty sure aren’t there. They are there. Everything is here. </p> +<p>The first day we left early to stay out of the heat, we headed up the eastern wall of the main wash, no real destination in mind, simply following that ancient human need to get to high point and survey the land, wrap your head about where you are.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170625_155039.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_155039_pic66.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170625_155039.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170626_100255.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170626_100255_pic66.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170626_100255.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_122041-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_122041-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_122041-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_122041-2_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_122041-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="view from the mesa, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_122041-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_110941-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_110941-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_110941-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_110941-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_110941-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pueblo bonita chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_110941-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="view from the mesa, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We stuck to the trail for a good while, then we deviated. Chaco is the most tightly controlled national parkish area I’ve ever been in. In my experience National Parks typically have a tightly controlled area, generally around whatever the feature of the park is — Yosemite valley, Sequoia trees, the grand canyon, etc — and then the backcountry is more or less unregulated, at least in terms of where you can go. Not enough people venture beyond the first mile of trail to bother regulating the backcountry too much. </p> +<p>Not true here. </p> +<p>It’s still true that no ventures beyond that first mile, but here the backcountry is regulated just like the rest. There’s not even overnight camping allowed in the backcountry. It’s a little bit like being a kid again (not in a good way), you have to be home by sunset and you’re not to detour from the trail. Ever.</p> +<p>We might have gotten lost you could say. There was a tiny wash, up near the end of it I spied an overhang that promised at least shade, perhaps more. I could not say, we did not make it. The kids are kids after all. They tuckered out in the heat and the soft sand of the wash, which was just wide enough to look trail-like, plausible deniability should we have run into a ranger. I can do a mean dumb tourist when I need to. But no ranger came for us, just the heat and the exhaustion it brings. We ate a snack, rested on some rocks. Every now and then a breeze would puff our sweaty clothes like air conditioning. It was wonderful. Then we gathered up our things and walked back.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="view from the bus, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170626_122346.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/2017/20170626_122346_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170626_122346_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170626_122346_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170626_122346_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Campground, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170626_122346.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170625_181918.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170625_181918_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Campground, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170625_181918.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Post hike tacos"> + </a> +<figcaption>Post hike tacos</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The campground is tucked back in a tributary wash, up against a short sandstone bluff, wedge between the road and some 900-odd-year-old buildings tucked back under an overhang. About 30 feet up the wall to the right of the buildings are some petroglyphs, some ancient, some recent. </p> +<p>In another of Craig Child’s books, <cite>Finder’s Keepers</cite>, about the rather outrageous world of archaeology, artifacts and the people obsessed with them, Childs recounts a story he heard from a flamboyant and occasionally flagrantly law breaking Santa Fe antiquities dealer who invited over a bunch of archaeologists and local pueblo tribal leaders for a barbecue party. Half way through the party the host announced that food everyone was eating was grilled over a fire built with charcoal from a dig on private land — 1000 year old charcoal used to grill up some burgers in a backyard in Santa Fe. The archaeologists all went pale and started to toss their food in outrage. The tribal leaders just smiled and shook their heads. </p> +<p>What does that mean? I don’t know. I wonder though, was that charcoal made 1000 years ago perhaps as part of a backyard barbecue? Would that charcoal maker by mortified or satisfied to know that 1000 years later it finally seared some meat?</p> +<p>In America we experience the past mainly as a roped off thing, something carefully catalogued and carted off to museums where only a fraction of it ever visible to people like you and I. In Chaco the past is right here, all around you, you step into it, you are part of it. The big artifacts are gone, that’s true. The rooms are bare, the pots, baskets and mysterious staffs, to say nothing of the bones, have been carted off to the Peabody and elsewhere. The walls of the ruins by the road are reinforced with modern concrete, the kivas roped off, but it’s surprisingly easy to leave that behind and get out to the real ruins.</p> +<p>The second day we climbed the south mesa. It was slightly more accessible, though still pretty much straight up the side of mesa. We went a couple of miles on the mesa until we spied an overhang with just enough shade for all of us to eat lunch out of the sun. Corrinne wandered off for a while, down the hillside, until she found some potsherds. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mesa, Chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon_picwide-med.jpg" alt="shade under a juniper, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_112123_chaco-canyon.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="shade under a juniper"> + </a> +<figcaption>shade under a juniper</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170627_090812_RWPoCrB.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170627_090812_RWPoCrB_pic66.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170627_090812_RWPoCrB.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Our guide."></a> +<figcaption>Our guide.</figcaption> +</figure> + + + + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170627_095050.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170627_095050_pic66.jpg" alt="hiking Chaco Canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170627_095050.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""></a> +<figcaption></figcaption> +</figure> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_pic66.jpg 820w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi_picwide-med.jpg" alt="potsherds, chaco canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>They are everywhere here, if you have an eye for them. I do not, but she does. That is some of what makes Chaco special, it has not all be catalogued and carted off, most of it perhaps, but there is still plenty here all around you. We held the potsherds and then put them back where they had been so you can come and find them too.</p> +<p>If Chaco Canyon has a disappointment it’s the visitor center, or rather it’s the official line the visitor center takes on the demise of the Chaco culture. There’s a movie in which someone actually says “it’s amazing that they could just walk away from all this, think of the strength it would take to just walk away.” It’s amazing because that’s utter bullshit. No one has ever just walked away from any civilization. Like everything else civilizations rise, hit an apex and then decline. They follow the same pattern over and over again. The Greeks, the Romans, India, China, Mesoamerica, every civilization for which have even the faintest historical records has followed a nearly identical trajectory. If you don’t believe me set aside a couple of months and tackle Arnold Toynbee’s <cite>A Study of History</cite>.</p> +<p>Chaco’s decline was likely as bumpy, violent and unpleasant as that of the rest of humanity’s experiments in civilization. No one just walks away, and to pretend otherwise says far more about our culture and its stubborn insistence that it will not, cannot decline, even in the face of increasingly difficult to ignore signs of its decline, than it does about Chacoan culture. Skip the visitor center.</p> +<p>Stay outside instead. The truth of this place is not behind glass, not in books, it is out here in the wind, in the heat. Go to the stones that remain, step inside, find the cool of the shade, feel the breeze that comes through doorways even on the stillest afternoon, the temperature difference between outside and the rooms deepest within creates a breeze to this day, the way I assume its builders intended. </p> +<p>Walk the mesas if you can, look for shade and you will probably find you are not the first to spy whatever shady spot you spy. You may find ruins, you may only find rodent droppings and the impressions of something larger that lay in the sand, a deer perhaps, a mountain lion possibly. Whatever you find, know that you are not the first to walk here or anywhere else. Like those who passed before you step softly, walk quietly, and remember to listen.</p> +<p>Note: If Chaco sounds at all interesting to you, I highly recommend first reading <cite>House of Rain</cite>.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>luxagraf is created by piecing together half-legible thought fragments scribbled in tattered notebook that lives in my pocket. <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>Rather conspicuously absent from the Chaco bookstore, despite stocking Finder’s Keepers. I suspect because Childs does not sugar coat the archaeological evidence that suggests that late Chacoan history was marked by violence and decline, which is very much not part of the narrative the visitor center presents. But then I could be wrong, maybe they were just sold out. <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> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" class="page-border-top"> + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/solstice" rel="prev" title=" Solstice">Solstice</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/07/junction-creek" rel="next" title=" Junction Creek">Junction Creek</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2636" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Mike &a Patsy Wall" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Mike &a Patsy Wall</b></span> + <span class="when">July 28, 2017 at 9:17 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>So glad you and your family are enjoying your adventure. Folks in Winder, Georgia are praying for your travels to be safe and worry free. Love reading your accounts of all that you are seeing and experiencing. Have fun and be safe!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2638" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Arva C Weinstein" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Arva C Weinstein</b></span> + <span class="when">July 31, 2017 at 1:20 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Wow, what an adventure. I love your little tour guide though he’s looking a bit more like a kid than a baby these days. The photos are amazing, kinda reminds me of my trip to Egypt, being priviledged enough to walk thru the ruins, being a part of an ancient culture. What an experience for you all. Continue to enjoy and keep us posted!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2643" 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">August 05, 2017 at 9:09 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Arva- </p> +<p>He is looking more like a kid isn’t he. And Egypt is one place I’d love to go. We’ll just have to ship the bus over. :-)</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2879" 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 01, 2017 at 7:29 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>I had to reread this; the first reading inspired a trip of my own last month. It was awe inspiring, Thanks. </p> +<p>A couple weeks before my trip the north road had washed out (I did not know this, should’ve called?… naw) and had a hard time getting in with my old Japanese s**tbox. I had to move some rocks into large ruts the size of my tires to get through. 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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_162724-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-623" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_080453_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-631" class="picwide" />
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+There is only so much one can say for sure here. Try to cling to some idea and it will slip through your fingers as another contradictory one arises. That something happened here once upon a time at Chaco is really all I or anyone else can say about this place.
+
+There are ruins to prove that something happened. Great stone structures that have stood for over a thousand years in many cases. Once there were people, now there are stones. And ravens.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_165938_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-629" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_163826_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-624" class="picwide" />
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_164354-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-625" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_164434-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-626" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
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+Craig Childs, whose book <cite>House of Rain</cite> I highly recommend[^2], recounts the various theories on what happened here. In the end there are nearly as many theories as archaeologists.
+
+> The evidence gathered from a century of digging and mapping can support nearly any speculation thrown at Chaco Canyon: religious center, military center, government center, economic center, ceremonials center -- the list is extensive. The place is thought by some to have been a colony of churches, its numerous great houses exhibiting certain recurring features thought to be religious. The repetition of specific architectural designs could also be interpreted as a form imposed by a ruling elites, the abundance of goods as tithing. The outrageously copious artifacts found inside these great houses look like ritual paraphernalia: feathers and bones representing nearly every bird species found with a thousand mile radius; a large number of wooden staffs like shepherds crooks, their handles inlaid with fines stones; and many rooms filled precious, expertly crafted mementos, may of which were found positioned as if on alters.
+
+> Other people take the abundance to mean that Chaco was a commercial center, a pre-Colombian shopping mall built to redistributes good in the Southwests notoriously unstable environment. In that sense the buildings are seen as store houses with some rooms tacked nearly to the ceiling.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_095915_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-633" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100426_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-635" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100523-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-636" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100202-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-634" class="picwide" />
+
+Probably all these theories are wrong. The first things to do at Chaco is accept that you cannot know.
+
+The question that most nagged me in Chaco seemed simpler, but perhaps was not -- why here? What was that lured so many people here, inspired them to some of the finest construction in North America in this otherwise rather unremarkable wash, one of about a dozen that come off the San Juan river in it's path down off the Colorado Plateau.
+
+That's the question I pondered on the trails, walking through the dusty flatlands, up the rough, rocky climbs to the mesa tops where the sun is hot and relentless.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_095310_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-632" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-25_164447-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-627" class="picwide" />
+
+Standing in thousand year old buildings tends to fill you with awe, it doesn't matter if it's Cambodia, Austria or New Mexico. As fragile, impermanent beings we're drawn to permanence, we are inspired by by what we lack -- sturdiness and longevity. Even today, when we could build with anything, we choose steel girders, concrete, and asphalt, imitations of stone. Because laying in and fitting stone like the builders of Chaco is labor intensive and time consuming, time we don't seem to have. But they did.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100901_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-638" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_100945-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-639" class="picwide" />
+
+
+The Chacoans had time. Not just for these buildings, but for even more labor intensive projects, like a network of roads running absolutely straight and true across the desert, possibly for thousands of miles. Raised stone road beds thirty to forty feet wide running for thousands of miles -- even with modern technology that would likely take decades. How the Chocans did it remains a mystery, but the faint outlines of them can still be seen from space.
+
+Similar head-scratching feats of design and building surround the builders of Angkor Wat, Machu Pichu, Teotihuacan and elsewhere. But there is something different about here, something extra about this place. You hear it in the murmur of the wind through creosote, you see it in the stone work of the greathouses. Something happened here, something happened in a way it never has again. Whatever these people saw, whatever they had access to, it was more than we do today. Their world was unutterably alien to ours and you feel it every second you are here.
+
+You should come here. You should sit here and consider it. Don't worry about the heat, it is everywhere. You will make peace with it. Or you will die in it, either way there is no need to worry about it. It will be here. You must come when it is here. You will not know the core of this place if you do not come in the heat.
+
+Some archaeologists think these citadels may have been painted white. Gleaming white beacons rising out of the shimmering mirage of heat. It must have been something to arrive here having walked from Mexico, California, The Gulf Coast and all the other places for which there is evidence that people came.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_111013-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-641" class="picwide" />
+
+We hiked in the mornings, climbing up the canyon walls, while there was still some shade to be had, and up on to the mesa where there was none. Or so it seems at first glance. But then you look closer, you start to think differently, you realize you could crawl up under that juniper tree and get a break from the sun, you see ledges in the rocks where you could wedge yourself flat against what might still be cool sandstone. There are escapes here, but you will have to work for them.
+
+Chaco remains largely off the grid. The road in from the north is rough enough that it takes nearly an hour to drive 13 miles. And the first two miles are paved, so really it takes about 50 minutes to drive 11 miles. That's part of the remoteness, but there is more. There's something about this wash that once you are in it it consumes your past in some way, you are no longer just you, you are you in Chaco.
+
+This is one of those places that can influence things. It seems to have a will about it, whether it's the place or some echo of the people who were here I could not say, but if you come here you will feel it.
+
+You might see some things you're pretty sure aren't there. They are there. Everything is here.
+
+The first day we left early to stay out of the heat, we headed up the eastern wall of the main wash, no real destination in mind, simply following that ancient human need to get to high point and survey the land, wrap your head about where you are.
+
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_121127-2_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-642" class="picwide" />
+
+We stuck to the trail for a good while, then we deviated. Chaco is the most tightly controlled national parkish area I've ever been in. In my experience National Parks typically have a tightly controlled area, generally around whatever the feature of the park is -- Yosemite valley, Sequoia trees, the grand canyon, etc -- and then the backcountry is more or less unregulated, at least in terms of where you can go. Not enough people venture beyond the first mile of trail to bother regulating the backcountry too much.
+
+Not true here.
+
+It's still true that no ventures beyond that first mile, but here the backcountry is regulated just like the rest. There's not even overnight camping allowed in the backcountry. It's a little bit like being a kid again (not in a good way), you have to be home by sunset and you're not to detour from the trail. Ever.
+
+We might have gotten lost you could say. There was a tiny wash, up near the end of it I spied an overhang that promised at least shade, perhaps more. I could not say, we did not make it. The kids are kids after all. They tuckered out in the heat and the soft sand of the wash, which was just wide enough to look trail-like, plausible deniability should we have run into a ranger. I can do a mean dumb tourist when I need to. But no ranger came for us, just the heat and the exhaustion it brings. We ate a snack, rested on some rocks. Every now and then a breeze would puff our sweaty clothes like air conditioning. It was wonderful. Then we gathered up our things and walked back.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-26_124153-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-644" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_140005_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-648" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/20170625_181918.jpg" id="image-651" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The campground is tucked back in a tributary wash, up against a short sandstone bluff, wedge between the road and some 900-odd-year-old buildings tucked back under an overhang. About 30 feet up the wall to the right of the buildings are some petroglyphs, some ancient, some recent.
+
+In another of Craig Child's books, <cite>Finder's Keepers</cite>, about the rather outrageous world of archaeology, artifacts and the people obsessed with them, Childs recounts a story he heard from a flamboyant and occasionally flagrantly law breaking Santa Fe antiquities dealer who invited over a bunch of archaeologists and local pueblo tribal leaders for a barbecue party. Half way through the party the host announced that food everyone was eating was grilled over a fire built with charcoal from a dig on private land -- 1000 year old charcoal used to grill up some burgers in a backyard in Santa Fe. The archaeologists all went pale and started to toss their food in outrage. The tribal leaders just smiled and shook their heads.
+
+What does that mean? I don't know. I wonder though, was that charcoal made 1000 years ago perhaps as part of a backyard barbecue? Would that charcoal maker by mortified or satisfied to know that 1000 years later it finally seared some meat?
+
+In America we experience the past mainly as a roped off thing, something carefully catalogued and carted off to museums where only a fraction of it ever visible to people like you and I. In Chaco the past is right here, all around you, you step into it, you are part of it. The big artifacts are gone, that's true. The rooms are bare, the pots, baskets and mysterious staffs, to say nothing of the bones, have been carted off to the Peabody and elsewhere. The walls of the ruins by the road are reinforced with modern concrete, the kivas roped off, but it's surprisingly easy to leave that behind and get out to the real ruins.
+
+The second day we climbed the south mesa. It was slightly more accessible, though still pretty much straight up the side of mesa. We went a couple of miles on the mesa until we spied an overhang with just enough shade for all of us to eat lunch out of the sun. Corrinne wandered off for a while, down the hillside, until she found some potsherds.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_104021-1_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-645" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_105836_chaco-canyon.jpg" id="image-646" class="picwide" />
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+
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-27_114318_chaco-canyon_3uTKtSi.jpg" id="image-659" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+
+They are everywhere here, if you have an eye for them. I do not, but she does. That is some of what makes Chaco special, it has not all be catalogued and carted off, most of it perhaps, but there is still plenty here all around you. We held the potsherds and then put them back where they had been so you can come and find them too.
+
+If Chaco Canyon has a disappointment it's the visitor center, or rather it's the official line the visitor center takes on the demise of the Chaco culture. There's a movie in which someone actually says "it's amazing that they could just walk away from all this, think of the strength it would take to just walk away." It's amazing because that's utter bullshit. No one has ever just walked away from any civilization. Like everything else civilizations rise, hit an apex and then decline. They follow the same pattern over and over again. The Greeks, the Romans, India, China, Mesoamerica, every civilization for which have even the faintest historical records has followed a nearly identical trajectory. If you don't believe me set aside a couple of months and tackle Arnold Toynbee's <cite>A Study of History</cite>.
+
+Chaco's decline was likely as bumpy, violent and unpleasant as that of the rest of humanity's experiments in civilization. No one just walks away, and to pretend otherwise says far more about our culture and its stubborn insistence that it will not, cannot decline, even in the face of increasingly difficult to ignore signs of its decline, than it does about Chacoan culture. Skip the visitor center.
+
+Stay outside instead. The truth of this place is not behind glass, not in books, it is out here in the wind, in the heat. Go to the stones that remain, step inside, find the cool of the shade, feel the breeze that comes through doorways even on the stillest afternoon, the temperature difference between outside and the rooms deepest within creates a breeze to this day, the way I assume its builders intended.
+
+Walk the mesas if you can, look for shade and you will probably find you are not the first to spy whatever shady spot you spy. You may find ruins, you may only find rodent droppings and the impressions of something larger that lay in the sand, a deer perhaps, a mountain lion possibly. Whatever you find, know that you are not the first to walk here or anywhere else. Like those who passed before you step softly, walk quietly, and remember to listen.
+
+Note: If Chaco sounds at all interesting to you, I highly recommend first reading <cite>House of Rain</cite>.
+
+[^1]: luxagraf is created by piecing together half-legible thought fragments scribbled in tattered notebook that lives in my pocket.
+[^2]: Rather conspicuously absent from the Chaco bookstore, despite stocking Finder's Keepers. I suspect because Childs does not sugar coat the archaeological evidence that suggests that late Chacoan history was marked by violence and decline, which is very much not part of the narrative the visitor center presents. 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Later I was talking to someone at a gas station not far from here who said there was a Travco further down the same road."> + </a> +<figcaption>I spied this vintage GMC by the side of the road. Later I was talking to someone at a gas station not far from here who said there was a Travco further down the same road.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We pulled into Fort Parker State Park on a Thursday afternoon and spent the next day watching the campground fill up. This is more or less the pattern, even in summer, the weekends are jammed full, during the week we have the campgrounds to ourselves. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park_picwide.jpg" alt="Empty campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""> + </a> +<figcaption></figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Using the fan to fly origami birds photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Using the fan to fly origami birds"> + </a> +<figcaption>Using the fan to fly origami birds</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="slides at fort parker photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We passed a couple of days in Fort Parker State Park and then headed north to Plano, TX to visit Corrinne’s sister and her family. Thanks to the bus we ended up spending an entire week in Plano. Let this be a lesson to those of you who have invited us to your homes, sometimes we way overstay to that point when the smell of rotten fish is upon us. We tried to get it off in the pool.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Possibly worse we shipped a ton of parts, random purchases, laptops I’m reviewing and other stuff that piled up around the house. Seriously, think twice before you invite us over. It all starts out innocently enough. We show up for a couple days, make some vague plans and then. Then.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pool time, Plano TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday wishes photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Technically Kenny's birthday, but since the girls are close too they joined in. And Elliott, he manages to weasel his way into all sorts of things."> + </a> +<figcaption>Technically Kenny’s birthday, but since the girls are close too they joined in. And Elliott, he manages to weasel his way into all sorts of things.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The engine was, yet again, running hot on the way into Plano. I figured since we had a couple days and there wasn’t really room to park on the street anyway, I would take it to a repair shop and get the radiator fixed and have a place to park — two birds one stone sort of thing. </p> +<p>I found a tiny pinhole size leak in the back side of the radiator, but then the shop that I went to at first turned out to not be able to solder. Kids these days. But they didn’t seem opposed to me leaving the bus there for a few days, so we pulled the radiator off and I drove it over to another shop that did solder (I had the first shop replace two belts, which was about the same price as paying for a week’s worth of parking). </p> +<p>The old guy at the radiator shop — by the way, never trust a mechanic under 50 — took one look at the radiator and said I can’t patch that. When we first got it off and I saw the back my reaction was very similar. I believe what I said was, oh shit. The pinhole leak was small enough that you could only find it when it was pressurized, but it had obviously been going for some time. And the fins were bent in at the corners which means someone had probably been in there already. </p> +<p>Long story short, for those that don’t find engine adventures entertaining<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, I gave him the go ahead to re-core it. Expensive, but we want to be able to get into the mountains and not worry about overheating. I even considered making it four core, but held off on that since clearance could have been an issue.</p> +<p>Getting the new cores and having it all rebuilt added a weekend and some change to our stay. But it gave me time to install the water tank and get the solar panels on the roof. So I spent my morning in the alley behind a mechanic’s wrestling a 65 gallon water tank under a bed and crimping pex. To do all that I had to empty out everything under the bed and pile it out in the alley with me. And then run back and forth to home depot ten times in two days. Oh who am I kidding, it was probably almost twice that many times. I actually didn’t think much of the whole project, but then one day I just left everything outside the bus while I was at home depot and I came back around the corner and realized it looked like a small tornado had hit a dumpster and blown everything all over the alley. </p> +<p>In the afternoons I would eventually start sweating so much my eyebrows would fail me and I couldn’t see anymore. I’d give up and pack it up. Fortunately there was a pool back at the house and I could spend some time recovering in proper fashion — floating it all away. The kids of course spent nearly all their time in the pool playing with their cousins.</p> +<p>Eventually I got the water tank in and the radiator back in to. Started it up, drove home, everything seemed fine. Well. Maybe it was a tad hotter than I’d like, but it was 95 that evening so I dismissed it. </p> +<p>We said our goodbyes and headed west, into the sunset.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="family portrait with 1969 travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="extended family portrait with 1969 travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sisters in front of bus, plano, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We weren’t even out of the subdivision when the temperature gauge started to climb again. There was some creative swearing in the bus for a few miles. It’s frustrating to fix something and realize you didn’t have the right problem, but it’s even more frustrating when you spent almost $1000 doing it. I stopped at an auto parts store and let the bus cool, while I contemplating trying to install a new thermostat in the parking lot. Me pulling out radiators at the side of the road, it could be a thing. The part store intervened and saved me from myself by not having the part I needed anyway.</p> +<p>Eventually the engine cooled and I thought screw this, let’s push on. Perhaps not the best choice, but I’m stubborn and I needed to get on the road. I also decided to test something hairbrained. Back when we first entered Texas I put some insulation around the engine doghouse, mostly just to cut down on the heat coming off the engine into the cabin, but also to cut down on the noise. It happened to coincide with the engine starting to run hot, so I thought well, let’s crack the doghouse and see what happens, maybe that extra airflow was helping. </p> +<p>Crazy, I know. But. <em>But</em>. Well, no that didn’t help at all, but it did reveal something interesting — a loud clattering sound that was previously muffled enough that I assumed it was just some pans in the oven rattling. But with the engine hood open it was very clearly louder and coming from the engine. The mechanically inclined could probably put those two clues together — rattling metal sounds and overheating engine — and figure out the problem. It took me about 20 miles but it slowly started to dawn on me, water pumps have ball bearings in them. </p> +<p>We pushed it as far as Denton, which wasn’t far and, very frustrated, called around looking for someone to take a look. About five different shops didn’t want anything to do with it, one shop did, but couldn’t get to it for another week. Finally on the advice of one of the other shops I called a place way outside of town that supposedly “did old engines”. No one answered so I said screw it, let’s drive out there and see. So I did and somehow convinced the shop owner, who was mainly a rat rod and custom car builder, to take a look at the bus. Well, I didn’t really convince him, the bus did, the bus is cool like that.</p> +<p>So he agreed to replace the water pump the next day. We grabbed a hotel room to wait it out. </p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>If engine adventures bore this is not the blog for you. Until we get everything dialed in I expect to have more engine adventures. <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/2017/06/sprawl-austin-part-deux" rel="prev" title=" Sprawl (Austin, part deux)">Sprawl (Austin, part deux)</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/escaping-texas" rel="next" title=" Escaping Texas">Escaping Texas</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2582" 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">June 29, 2017 at 2:14 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Bout time. I was jonesing for a new adventure. I almost sent a message on FB. You have to give the people what they need. An escape and hope that there is life outside of my cubicle.</p> +<p>I know its frustrating at times out there. But its worse in here. </p> +<p>Happy trails.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2583" 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">June 29, 2017 at 3:06 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@drew-</p> +<p>I got a few more cued up, but I can’t upload photos at the moment. Waiting to see if a forest fire is going to force us to evacuate our current camp. Can’t go down and use coffee shop wifi cause I’m scared they won’t let me back to get the bus. 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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-02_134942_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-577" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-03_135705_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-578" class="picwide caption" />
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+We pulled into Fort Parker State Park on a Thursday afternoon and spent the next day watching the campground fill up. This is more or less the pattern, even in summer, the weekends are jammed full, during the week we have the campgrounds to ourselves.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-04_144933_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-576" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-04_082110_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-579" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-04_101711_fort-parker-state-park.jpg" id="image-580" class="picwide" />
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+We passed a couple of days in Fort Parker State Park and then headed north to Plano, TX to visit Corrinne's sister and her family. Thanks to the bus we ended up spending an entire week in Plano. Let this be a lesson to those of you who have invited us to your homes, sometimes we way overstay to that point when the smell of rotten fish is upon us. We tried to get it off in the pool.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_151806_plano.jpg" id="image-575" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_151820_plano.jpg" id="image-574" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_151827_plano.jpg" id="image-573" class="picwide" />
+
+Possibly worse we shipped a ton of parts, random purchases, laptops I'm reviewing and other stuff that piled up around the house. Seriously, think twice before you invite us over. It all starts out innocently enough. We show up for a couple days, make some vague plans and then. Then.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_153310_plano.jpg" id="image-572" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_153313_plano.jpg" id="image-571" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-07_155201_plano.jpg" id="image-570" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-11_150803_plano.jpg" id="image-569" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The engine was, yet again, running hot on the way into Plano. I figured since we had a couple days and there wasn't really room to park on the street anyway, I would take it to a repair shop and get the radiator fixed and have a place to park -- two birds one stone sort of thing.
+
+I found a tiny pinhole size leak in the back side of the radiator, but then the shop that I went to at first turned out to not be able to solder. Kids these days. But they didn't seem opposed to me leaving the bus there for a few days, so we pulled the radiator off and I drove it over to another shop that did solder (I had the first shop replace two belts, which was about the same price as paying for a week's worth of parking).
+
+The old guy at the radiator shop -- by the way, never trust a mechanic under 50 -- took one look at the radiator and said I can't patch that. When we first got it off and I saw the back my reaction was very similar. I believe what I said was, oh shit. The pinhole leak was small enough that you could only find it when it was pressurized, but it had obviously been going for some time. And the fins were bent in at the corners which means someone had probably been in there already.
+
+Long story short, for those that don't find engine adventures entertaining[^1], I gave him the go ahead to re-core it. Expensive, but we want to be able to get into the mountains and not worry about overheating. I even considered making it four core, but held off on that since clearance could have been an issue.
+
+Getting the new cores and having it all rebuilt added a weekend and some change to our stay. But it gave me time to install the water tank and get the solar panels on the roof. So I spent my morning in the alley behind a mechanic's wrestling a 65 gallon water tank under a bed and crimping pex. To do all that I had to empty out everything under the bed and pile it out in the alley with me. And then run back and forth to home depot ten times in two days. Oh who am I kidding, it was probably almost twice that many times. I actually didn't think much of the whole project, but then one day I just left everything outside the bus while I was at home depot and I came back around the corner and realized it looked like a small tornado had hit a dumpster and blown everything all over the alley.
+
+In the afternoons I would eventually start sweating so much my eyebrows would fail me and I couldn't see anymore. I'd give up and pack it up. Fortunately there was a pool back at the house and I could spend some time recovering in proper fashion -- floating it all away. The kids of course spent nearly all their time in the pool playing with their cousins.
+
+Eventually I got the water tank in and the radiator back in to. Started it up, drove home, everything seemed fine. Well. Maybe it was a tad hotter than I'd like, but it was 95 that evening so I dismissed it.
+
+We said our goodbyes and headed west, into the sunset.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-13_100418_plano.jpg" id="image-567" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-13_100305_plano.jpg" id="image-568" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-13_100536_plano.jpg" id="image-566" class="picwide" />
+
+We weren't even out of the subdivision when the temperature gauge started to climb again. There was some creative swearing in the bus for a few miles. It's frustrating to fix something and realize you didn't have the right problem, but it's even more frustrating when you spent almost $1000 doing it. I stopped at an auto parts store and let the bus cool, while I contemplating trying to install a new thermostat in the parking lot. Me pulling out radiators at the side of the road, it could be a thing. The part store intervened and saved me from myself by not having the part I needed anyway.
+
+Eventually the engine cooled and I thought screw this, let's push on. Perhaps not the best choice, but I'm stubborn and I needed to get on the road. I also decided to test something hairbrained. Back when we first entered Texas I put some insulation around the engine doghouse, mostly just to cut down on the heat coming off the engine into the cabin, but also to cut down on the noise. It happened to coincide with the engine starting to run hot, so I thought well, let's crack the doghouse and see what happens, maybe that extra airflow was helping.
+
+Crazy, I know. But. *But*. Well, no that didn't help at all, but it did reveal something interesting -- a loud clattering sound that was previously muffled enough that I assumed it was just some pans in the oven rattling. But with the engine hood open it was very clearly louder and coming from the engine. The mechanically inclined could probably put those two clues together -- rattling metal sounds and overheating engine -- and figure out the problem. It took me about 20 miles but it slowly started to dawn on me, water pumps have ball bearings in them.
+
+We pushed it as far as Denton, which wasn't far and, very frustrated, called around looking for someone to take a look. About five different shops didn't want anything to do with it, one shop did, but couldn't get to it for another week. Finally on the advice of one of the other shops I called a place way outside of town that supposedly "did old engines". No one answered so I said screw it, let's drive out there and see. So I did and somehow convinced the shop owner, who was mainly a rat rod and custom car builder, to take a look at the bus. Well, I didn't really convince him, the bus did, the bus is cool like that.
+
+So he agreed to replace the water pump the next day. We grabbed a hotel room to wait it out.
+
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In Texas we had in fact pretty much redone the entire cooling system of the bus. Ideally that would have solved the overheating issues, but it did not. I left ahead of Corrinne and kids, hitting the road by 6AM to avoid the forecasted 105 degree midday temps.</p> +<p>The night before I purchased one of those nice digital thermometer guns in hopes that perhaps the problem was the temperature or sending unit. Armed with that I stopped frequently to crawl under the engine and take temp readings all over the place. What quickly became obvious was that most of the temp readings were well within ideal operating temps for the engine. The exception was right around the sending unit, which sits roughly on the first piston on the passenger’s side of the engine. That area was notably hotter than everything else, though still not overheating hot.</p> +<p>Despite the heat I made it Amarillo without overtaxing the engine. And just for fun, since I have the digital thermometer anyway, I started taking readings in cab of the bus… about 122 degrees on the dashboard (direct sun), about 108 on most other surfaces and 115 by my right foot where a bit of engine air still leaks out. Hot. Damn hot.</p> +<p>That night I sat out sweating in the Amarillo night talking with my uncle Ron who serves as official bus mechanical repair consultant. He walked me through a few scenarios/possibilities, but in the end the most likely fix will probably involve flushing the engine block. In the mean time, the temp readings stayed pretty constant and within operating params for the engine so we decided to push on out of Texas, out of the heat wave and into the mountains where the bus, and we, would be much cooler and happier. </p> +<p>That meant bypassing one of my favorite places in this region, <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands">Comanche National Grassland</a>, but with a forecast temp in the mid 90s and not a hookup for three hundred miles, we were hesitant to push it. We still hadn’t actually camped without hookups in the bus so we didn’t know what sort of temperature would be comfortable and what would be miserable. 93 degrees sounded miserable so we decided to skip it (turns out it’s not bad at all if you have a breeze, but oh well).</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="west texas sunrise photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I left Amarillo at 5AM, well ahead of Corrinne and kids, trying to push through to the mountains before the heat of the day kicked in. I was halfway out of Texas when the sun finally did start to glow on the eastern horizon of the vast nothingness that is the western Texas desert. This is part of Texas I know reasonably well and happen to really like, the wide open, barren land, parched badlands of windswept sand and nearly endless grass and creosote. But only crazy people come out here in June. Even if you’re not crazy when you get here, you will be soon, the heat bakes you until you come unglued. The day we passed through the forecasted temp was 112.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_062702_escaping-texas.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_062702_escaping-texas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_062702_escaping-texas_picwide.jpg 2880w" alt="west texas sunrise photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_062702_escaping-texas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I was well into New Mexico long before the sun got high enough for those temps. </p> +<p>When I stopped to take this photo:</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas_picwide.jpg" alt="Welcome to New Mexico Sign photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>This train honked and I looked over to see the engineer waving and giving me the thumbs up:</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train, new mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I’ve driven a lot of miles in this country, seen a lot of trains, but I’ve never seen or heard of train honking and waving at a car. The bus is like that though, it extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Welcome to Colorado sign photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Rocky mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The kids' first view of real snowy mountains, the Sangre de Christo range."> + </a> +<figcaption>The kids’ first view of real snowy mountains, the Sangre de Christo range.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The bus struggled to get over Ratan pass, which is just shy of 8000 feet. It made it, the engine wasn’t overheating even, but I didn’t have much power. I was doing about 35 by the time the road finally started down again. From there I coasted on down to Trinidad Lake State Park, which has two campgrounds, one with full hookups and one totally dry with nothing save a communal water spigot and some pit toilets. We grabbed a site in the latter area, filled our new water tank and settled in to enjoy an afternoon at the lake.</p> +<p>Unfortunately I made the mistake of asking the ranger if there were any good sandy, beach-like areas further down the road. I was prompted informed that there was no swimming in the lake. Say what? The ranger was unable to provide any reason for the no swimming, but I’d already blown it — there’s no plausible deniability after you ask. Never ask permission, just do and play dumb when you need to. Sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my brain. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Room with a view photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="We don't have a lot of space indoors, but we have some nice views."> + </a> +<figcaption>We don’t have a lot of space indoors, but we have some nice views.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We ended up just sitting around the camp, which was nice enough, if a little warm. The heatwave was still too much on us, so we hatched a plan to head higher into the mountains the next day. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunset over the lake, trinidad, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>That night was the first in the wide open big sky of the west. The sunset reflected on the clouds for hours. I let the fire burn down and watched the sky instead. Later on thunderheads rolled in over the peaks of the Sangre de Christo range. Arcing flashes of lightening bounced around the clouds like streaking silver pinballs. Just as the last light faded away coyotes began to bark and sing. 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In Texas we had in fact pretty much redone the entire cooling system of the bus. Ideally that would have solved the overheating issues, but it did not. I left ahead of Corrinne and kids, hitting the road by 6AM to avoid the forecasted 105 degree midday temps.
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+The night before I purchased one of those nice digital thermometer guns in hopes that perhaps the problem was the temperature or sending unit. Armed with that I stopped frequently to crawl under the engine and take temp readings all over the place. What quickly became obvious was that most of the temp readings were well within ideal operating temps for the engine. The exception was right around the sending unit, which sits roughly on the first piston on the passenger's side of the engine. That area was notably hotter than everything else, though still not overheating hot.
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+Despite the heat I made it Amarillo without overtaxing the engine. And just for fun, since I have the digital thermometer anyway, I started taking readings in cab of the bus... about 122 degrees on the dashboard (direct sun), about 108 on most other surfaces and 115 by my right foot where a bit of engine air still leaks out. Hot. Damn hot.
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+That night I sat out sweating in the Amarillo night talking with my uncle Ron who serves as official bus mechanical repair consultant. He walked me through a few scenarios/possibilities, but in the end the most likely fix will probably involve flushing the engine block. In the mean time, the temp readings stayed pretty constant and within operating params for the engine so we decided to push on out of Texas, out of the heat wave and into the mountains where the bus, and we, would be much cooler and happier.
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+That meant bypassing one of my favorite places in this region, [Comanche National Grassland](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands), but with a forecast temp in the mid 90s and not a hookup for three hundred miles, we were hesitant to push it. We still hadn't actually camped without hookups in the bus so we didn't know what sort of temperature would be comfortable and what would be miserable. 93 degrees sounded miserable so we decided to skip it (turns out it's not bad at all if you have a breeze, but oh well).
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_062553_escaping-texas.jpg" id="image-582" class="picwide" />
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+I left Amarillo at 5AM, well ahead of Corrinne and kids, trying to push through to the mountains before the heat of the day kicked in. I was halfway out of Texas when the sun finally did start to glow on the eastern horizon of the vast nothingness that is the western Texas desert. This is part of Texas I know reasonably well and happen to really like, the wide open, barren land, parched badlands of windswept sand and nearly endless grass and creosote. But only crazy people come out here in June. Even if you're not crazy when you get here, you will be soon, the heat bakes you until you come unglued. The day we passed through the forecasted temp was 112.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_062702_escaping-texas.jpg" id="image-583" class="picwide" />
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+I was well into New Mexico long before the sun got high enough for those temps.
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+When I stopped to take this photo:
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_080436_escaping-texas.jpg" id="image-584" class="picwide" />
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+This train honked and I looked over to see the engineer waving and giving me the thumbs up:
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_081335-3_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-585" class="picwide" />
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+I've driven a lot of miles in this country, seen a lot of trains, but I've never seen or heard of train honking and waving at a car. The bus is like that though, it extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_110347_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-587" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_103228_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-586" class="picwide caption" />
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+The bus struggled to get over Ratan pass, which is just shy of 8000 feet. It made it, the engine wasn't overheating even, but I didn't have much power. I was doing about 35 by the time the road finally started down again. From there I coasted on down to Trinidad Lake State Park, which has two campgrounds, one with full hookups and one totally dry with nothing save a communal water spigot and some pit toilets. We grabbed a site in the latter area, filled our new water tank and settled in to enjoy an afternoon at the lake.
+
+Unfortunately I made the mistake of asking the ranger if there were any good sandy, beach-like areas further down the road. I was prompted informed that there was no swimming in the lake. Say what? The ranger was unable to provide any reason for the no swimming, but I'd already blown it -- there's no plausible deniability after you ask. Never ask permission, just do and play dumb when you need to. Sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my brain.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_090014_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-588" class="picwide caption" />
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+We ended up just sitting around the camp, which was nice enough, if a little warm. The heatwave was still too much on us, so we hatched a plan to head higher into the mountains the next day.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-16_212745_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-589" class="picwide" />
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+That night was the first in the wide open big sky of the west. The sunset reflected on the clouds for hours. I let the fire burn down and watched the sky instead. Later on thunderheads rolled in over the peaks of the Sangre de Christo range. Arcing flashes of lightening bounced around the clouds like streaking silver pinballs. Just as the last light faded away coyotes began to bark and sing. 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The weekend thing. Saturday night even the “walk up” dry camping sites were booked, because in Colorado state parks “walk up” means whatever hasn’t been reserved online. It’s a crazy, chaotic system that makes no sense at all. All I know is that we had leave on Saturday because there were no campsites.</p> +<p>We decided, since it was still a little warm at bedtime for the kids, that we’d head higher into the mountains. There were a couple of National Forest campgrounds up higher in the mountains above Trinidad so we booked one and set out.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Heading up into the Sangre de Christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Inside my head there are tons of voices, but one dominates the rest most of the time, it’s the voice that always says, sure, let’s try it, what’s the worst that could happen? </p> +<p>Most of the time the answer to that question is very tame. Once you get past your prejudices and irrational fears and give some serious thought to, well, what <em>is</em> the worst thing that could happen and how likely is it to occur, you find that it’s really not that bad and it’s pretty unlikely. The simple truth of life is that most of what you fear is very unlikely to occur. For example, could you fall to your death while hiking a mountain trail? Well, technically yes, but millions of people go hiking in mountains around the world everyday and don’t fall to their death, so there’s a very good chance you won’t either. And so on.</p> +<p>That’s just to preface this adventure slightly, or rather to explain my thinking when I tell you that the campground we were headed to was at 10,500 feet. </p> +<p>Did I really think the bus would make it to 10,500 ft? Honestly? No. But I was damn sure going to try. And so we did.</p> +<p>As per our usual these days I left early, around seven, though once I got a few thousand feet I knew air temperature wasn’t going to be the problem. The problem was even simpler — air, or the lack thereof. Internal combustion engines need three basic things — fuel, fire and compression. The higher you go the less compression. The less compression, the less power. The less power the less a roughly 8000lb 1969 Dodge Travco goes forward.</p> +<p>The drive started well, the bus breezed on up to about 8500 ft like it was nothing, and it was, the grade was mild, the air cool and traffic almost non-existent. I stopped at a tiny store and let the engine rest a while. There were rocking chairs on a nice wooden porch lined with hummingbird feeders. I listen to two locals talk about how they spent the winter, and got the impression that, despite living less than 10 miles apart they hadn’t seen each other in months thanks to the snow. As I keep telling Corrinne, it’s beautiful here, but if want to know the truth about Colorado mountain towns, check how far up the stovepipes extend. Now you know how much snow sits on your roof all winter.</p> +<p>I enjoyed the country store porch so much I went back to the bus and pulled out a 100-300 zoom lens I bought off eBay back when we were in Dallas. Producing an decent image of a hummingbird hand-holding a massive, heavy, manual focus 100-300 zoom from the early 1980s turns out to be as difficult as it sounds. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hummingbird photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>But photography is a lot like fishing in that the fish aren’t really that important sometimes, sometimes it’s all in the trying. I discovered an interesting thing that happens with digital viewfinders — the screen refresh rate is far slower than a hummingbird’s wings beating, which means that through the viewfinder you get a live-action, slow motion movie of a hummingbird’s wings beating. It’s gorgeous, but it’s only in the viewfinder. </p> +<p>I was about to go dig out my tripod and get serious about taking a hummingbird picture when Corrinne and kids caught up and we all set out up the mountain again. The next 1500 vertical feet happened much faster than the first 1500. I didn’t track the mileage, but I doubt it was more than ten. It was hard climbing. The bus just didn’t have the power (I was also carrying about 35 gallons of water since it was unclear from our research whether there would be any water at the campground, that added about 300lbs, which I could definitely feel dragging in the rear). </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg" alt="1969 dodge travco, pull out, somewhere in the Sangre de Christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Taking a break before trying the final climb to the pass."> + </a> +<figcaption>Taking a break before trying the final climb to the pass.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The final grade up to the pass was a long, winding, steady climb with no breaks. It was too much. I dropped to about ten miles an hour and then five and then I felt the transmission slip. Because I am an extremely luck person, the only pull out on the entire grade was about 50 feet back from where I was and so I gave up.</p> +<p>I cut the engine and rolled back down, backing into the turnout (a private dirt road really) and shut the bus down. I probably could have sat there, let the engine rest and cool for a while and the given it another try. But I knew from the maps that the pass wasn’t the end of the climbing. After the pass the road went down about 1000 feet and then back up 1500 more to the campground. It just wasn’t going to happen.</p> +<p>Like Kenny Rogers’ said, you got know when to fold ‘em.</p> +<p>I let the engine rest a bit, called Corrinne back and then we started back down. We made it down to a lower, larger pullout and parked the bus so we could scout around and maybe find somewhere to boondock for a few nights. We headed up into some National Forest land on a dirt road that eventually led to a campground, but had plenty of boondocking spots on the way. We know this because they were all full of happy looking van dwellers and RVers. Damn you Colorado in the summer time.</p> +<p>Eventually we made to all the way up to the lower campground, which was still at 9500 ft. It was beautiful, tucked in an aspen grove on the edge of an alpine meadow with crystalline, wildflower-lined streams cascading down the mountainside seemingly everywhere. There aren’t many places where you can drive to scenery like that, usually you have to strap on boots and hump it over the mountains on foot to see alpine meadows. </p> +<p>We sat there for a while and debated whether or not the bus could get up the road. I still don’t know, it might have. But it turns out there are some consequences to driving, rather than walking, to an elevation like that. </p> +<p>I’ve never really suffered much from altitude sickness, I get it a little bit, dizziness usually, but I’ve seen more acute symptoms in plenty of hiking companions — dizziness, nausea, disorientation, confusion. It’s rather difficult to describe if you haven’t experienced it. Usually you can just sleep it off and be fine the next morning, but with everyone a little off, and the bus not running as well as I’d like, it was an easy call. We headed back down to Trinidad. If we want to camp in an alpine meadow we’ll do it the right way — by hiking to it.</p> +<p>Getting down the mountain was nerve wracking for me, not because of the drive, but because I was unsure what kind of gas mileage I had been getting on the way up and I had calculated the gas such that we’d just make it to the gas station on the other side (I was trying to keep weight down). Going back the way we came meant adding 20 miles to the drive, which eliminated the 2-3 gallon cushion I’d calculated. I was sweating by the time we neared Trinidad, not entirely from the heat, but I did make it to a gas station. I paid mountain gas prices and was happy to do so. </p> +<p>By then it was near dinner time and everyone was tired, frustrated, hangry and cranky. We grabbed one of the last hotel rooms in Trinidad, took some showers and headed out for burgers. Really good burgers as it turned out, bison burgers and fries at the What A Grind Cafe, which also served up a proper pour of Guinness, something that goes a long way to getting your tail out from between your legs at the end of a long frustrating day. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Room with a view photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The view from our door."> + </a> +<figcaption>The view from our door.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The next morning we decided to go ahead and stay in the Trinidad area for a while. It was sunday so there were campsites available again. And it was warm, about the mid 90s during the day, but it wasn’t too bad because there was a reliable breeze to keep things bearable. At night the temperature dropped quickly in the evenings so putting the kids to bed was fine and we could always use the van to head up into the mountains if we really needed to get away from the heat.</p> +<p>We managed to get a campsite with a view at the far end of the campground. We went hiking, I made a few repairs to the bus, I got some work done to pay the bills and just generally relaxed. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Breakfast with a view photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Breakfast with a view"> + </a> +<figcaption>Breakfast with a view</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sangre de Christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Butterfly photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Coloring photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The water pump that came with the bus — which sounded a bit like a jet engine when it was running — gave out one day and so we drove out to an RV supply shop to get another one and discovered an abandoned mining town on the way.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving near trinidad photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Old coal mining town photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Old coal mining town."> + </a> +<figcaption>Old coal mining town.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Our friend Mike was headed from Paonia, CO to Texas and since Trinidad wasn’t far out of the way he stopped by and camped with us for a night. He happened to have some Elk antlers, which entertained the kids for a good solid 6 hours or so.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Mike photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Our friend mike was passing through the area so he stopped by for a night."> + </a> +<figcaption>Our friend mike was passing through the area so he stopped by for a night.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Elk Antlers photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-19_081844_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Mike travels with elk antlers. And now, so do we. The antler Elliott is holding is part of our traveling bric-à-brac show now."> + </a> +<figcaption>Mike travels with elk antlers. And now, so do we. 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The weekend thing. Saturday night even the "walk up" dry camping sites were booked, because in Colorado state parks "walk up" means whatever hasn't been reserved online. It's a crazy, chaotic system that makes no sense at all. All I know is that we had leave on Saturday because there were no campsites.
+
+We decided, since it was still a little warm at bedtime for the kids, that we'd head higher into the mountains. There were a couple of National Forest campgrounds up higher in the mountains above Trinidad so we booked one and set out.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_102449_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-590" class="picwide" />
+
+Inside my head there are tons of voices, but one dominates the rest most of the time, it's the voice that always says, sure, let's try it, what's the worst that could happen?
+
+Most of the time the answer to that question is very tame. Once you get past your prejudices and irrational fears and give some serious thought to, well, what *is* the worst thing that could happen and how likely is it to occur, you find that it's really not that bad and it's pretty unlikely. The simple truth of life is that most of what you fear is very unlikely to occur. For example, could you fall to your death while hiking a mountain trail? Well, technically yes, but millions of people go hiking in mountains around the world everyday and don't fall to their death, so there's a very good chance you won't either. And so on.
+
+That's just to preface this adventure slightly, or rather to explain my thinking when I tell you that the campground we were headed to was at 10,500 feet.
+
+Did I really think the bus would make it to 10,500 ft? Honestly? No. But I was damn sure going to try. And so we did.
+
+As per our usual these days I left early, around seven, though once I got a few thousand feet I knew air temperature wasn't going to be the problem. The problem was even simpler -- air, or the lack thereof. Internal combustion engines need three basic things -- fuel, fire and compression. The higher you go the less compression. The less compression, the less power. The less power the less a roughly 8000lb 1969 Dodge Travco goes forward.
+
+The drive started well, the bus breezed on up to about 8500 ft like it was nothing, and it was, the grade was mild, the air cool and traffic almost non-existent. I stopped at a tiny store and let the engine rest a while. There were rocking chairs on a nice wooden porch lined with hummingbird feeders. I listen to two locals talk about how they spent the winter, and got the impression that, despite living less than 10 miles apart they hadn't seen each other in months thanks to the snow. As I keep telling Corrinne, it's beautiful here, but if want to know the truth about Colorado mountain towns, check how far up the stovepipes extend. Now you know how much snow sits on your roof all winter.
+
+I enjoyed the country store porch so much I went back to the bus and pulled out a 100-300 zoom lens I bought off eBay back when we were in Dallas. Producing an decent image of a hummingbird hand-holding a massive, heavy, manual focus 100-300 zoom from the early 1980s turns out to be as difficult as it sounds.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_105606_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-591" class="picwide" />
+
+But photography is a lot like fishing in that the fish aren't really that important sometimes, sometimes it's all in the trying. I discovered an interesting thing that happens with digital viewfinders -- the screen refresh rate is far slower than a hummingbird's wings beating, which means that through the viewfinder you get a live-action, slow motion movie of a hummingbird's wings beating. It's gorgeous, but it's only in the viewfinder.
+
+I was about to go dig out my tripod and get serious about taking a hummingbird picture when Corrinne and kids caught up and we all set out up the mountain again. The next 1500 vertical feet happened much faster than the first 1500. I didn't track the mileage, but I doubt it was more than ten. It was hard climbing. The bus just didn't have the power (I was also carrying about 35 gallons of water since it was unclear from our research whether there would be any water at the campground, that added about 300lbs, which I could definitely feel dragging in the rear).
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-17_122600_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-592" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The final grade up to the pass was a long, winding, steady climb with no breaks. It was too much. I dropped to about ten miles an hour and then five and then I felt the transmission slip. Because I am an extremely luck person, the only pull out on the entire grade was about 50 feet back from where I was and so I gave up.
+
+I cut the engine and rolled back down, backing into the turnout (a private dirt road really) and shut the bus down. I probably could have sat there, let the engine rest and cool for a while and the given it another try. But I knew from the maps that the pass wasn't the end of the climbing. After the pass the road went down about 1000 feet and then back up 1500 more to the campground. It just wasn't going to happen.
+
+Like Kenny Rogers' said, you got know when to fold 'em.
+
+I let the engine rest a bit, called Corrinne back and then we started back down. We made it down to a lower, larger pullout and parked the bus so we could scout around and maybe find somewhere to boondock for a few nights. We headed up into some National Forest land on a dirt road that eventually led to a campground, but had plenty of boondocking spots on the way. We know this because they were all full of happy looking van dwellers and RVers. Damn you Colorado in the summer time.
+
+Eventually we made to all the way up to the lower campground, which was still at 9500 ft. It was beautiful, tucked in an aspen grove on the edge of an alpine meadow with crystalline, wildflower-lined streams cascading down the mountainside seemingly everywhere. There aren't many places where you can drive to scenery like that, usually you have to strap on boots and hump it over the mountains on foot to see alpine meadows.
+
+We sat there for a while and debated whether or not the bus could get up the road. I still don't know, it might have. But it turns out there are some consequences to driving, rather than walking, to an elevation like that.
+
+I've never really suffered much from altitude sickness, I get it a little bit, dizziness usually, but I've seen more acute symptoms in plenty of hiking companions -- dizziness, nausea, disorientation, confusion. It's rather difficult to describe if you haven't experienced it. Usually you can just sleep it off and be fine the next morning, but with everyone a little off, and the bus not running as well as I'd like, it was an easy call. We headed back down to Trinidad. If we want to camp in an alpine meadow we'll do it the right way -- by hiking to it.
+
+Getting down the mountain was nerve wracking for me, not because of the drive, but because I was unsure what kind of gas mileage I had been getting on the way up and I had calculated the gas such that we'd just make it to the gas station on the other side (I was trying to keep weight down). Going back the way we came meant adding 20 miles to the drive, which eliminated the 2-3 gallon cushion I'd calculated. I was sweating by the time we neared Trinidad, not entirely from the heat, but I did make it to a gas station. I paid mountain gas prices and was happy to do so.
+
+By then it was near dinner time and everyone was tired, frustrated, hangry and cranky. We grabbed one of the last hotel rooms in Trinidad, took some showers and headed out for burgers. Really good burgers as it turned out, bison burgers and fries at the What A Grind Cafe, which also served up a proper pour of Guinness, something that goes a long way to getting your tail out from between your legs at the end of a long frustrating day.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-18_131243_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-593" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The next morning we decided to go ahead and stay in the Trinidad area for a while. It was sunday so there were campsites available again. And it was warm, about the mid 90s during the day, but it wasn't too bad because there was a reliable breeze to keep things bearable. At night the temperature dropped quickly in the evenings so putting the kids to bed was fine and we could always use the van to head up into the mountains if we really needed to get away from the heat.
+
+We managed to get a campsite with a view at the far end of the campground. We went hiking, I made a few repairs to the bus, I got some work done to pay the bills and just generally relaxed.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_084919_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-596" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_103700_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-597" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_104646_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-598" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_105036-2_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-599" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_115524_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-600" class="picwide" />
+
+The water pump that came with the bus -- which sounded a bit like a jet engine when it was running -- gave out one day and so we drove out to an RV supply shop to get another one and discovered an abandoned mining town on the way.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-20_151520_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-602" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-20_151507_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-601" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Our friend Mike was headed from Paonia, CO to Texas and since Trinidad wasn't far out of the way he stopped by and camped with us for a night. He happened to have some Elk antlers, which entertained the kids for a good solid 6 hours or so.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-19_083108_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-595" class="picwide caption" />
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It’s the longest day of the year, well past 9pm and the last reddish glow of twilight is still clinging to the high mountains of the Spanish Peaks wilderness, a good thirty miles west from our camp here at Trinidad Lake.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/iphone_2017-06-21_210323.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/iphone_2017-06-21_210323_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/iphone_2017-06-21_210323_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/iphone_2017-06-21_210323_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/iphone_2017-06-21_210323_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunset over the lake, trinidad, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/iphone_2017-06-21_210323.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We celebrated the Solstice by heading back up into the Sangre de Christo Mountains, to Bear Lake. We had to see it, even if we couldn’t get the bus to it. It turned out to be a wonderful little glacial lake at the base of Teddy’s Peak<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, with a good view of the Culebra Range. </p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170621_151929.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170621_151929_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170621_151929_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170621_151929_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170621_151929_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170621_151929.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170621_140434.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170621_140434_pic66.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170621_140434.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170621_142149.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170621_142149_pic66.jpg" alt="snow on bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170621_142149.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>The name comes from a large black bear that was causing a lot of havoc back in the early 1900s. An early forest ranger set a trap for it and the next day he went to retrieve the trap but it was gone. He tracked the bear and trap to the middle of the lake. The bear was so big that it had dragged the trap cross-country several miles before dying in the lake. The story serves as a reminder that the pre-Aldo Leopold forest service was not noted for it’s ecological outlook. Arguably, neither is the post-Aldo Leopold forest service.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>A mostly spruce forest, with glades of aspen here and there surround the Bear Lake. A tributary of the Cuchara River runs down the hill and feeds snow melt into Bear Lake. The water is freezing. Even near the end of June there’s still a patch of now and ice lingering in the cool shade of the north shore. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="snow on bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It was way too cold for any of us to give it a try. The kids contented themselves with throwing rocks in the shallow water.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + 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data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_151531_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151531_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151531_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151531_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151531_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_151531_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bear lake, sangre de christo mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I’m late getting this up, I’m running about a month behind right now, bit longer than the week I aim for, but I hope wherever you were, whatever you did, you had a good solstice. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170618_202958.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/2017/20170618_202958_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170618_202958_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170618_202958_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170618_202958_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunset over the lake, trinidad, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170618_202958.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Yes, <a href="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/original/2017/theodore-roosevelt_3QXvPHn.jpg">that</a> Teddy. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" 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It's the longest day of the year, well past 9pm and the last reddish glow of twilight is still clinging to the high mountains of the Spanish Peaks wilderness, a good thirty miles west from our camp here at Trinidad Lake.
+
+<img src="images/2017/iphone_2017-06-21_210323.jpg" id="image-609" class="picwide" />
+
+We celebrated the Solstice by heading back up into the Sangre de Christo Mountains, to Bear Lake. We had to see it, even if we couldn't get the bus to it. It turned out to be a wonderful little glacial lake at the base of Teddy's Peak[^1], with a good view of the Culebra Range.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_145828_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-606" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170621_151929.jpg" id="image-615" class="cluster picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/20170621_140434.jpg" id="image-613" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170621_142149.jpg" id="image-612" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+The name comes from a large black bear that was causing a lot of havoc back in the early 1900s. An early forest ranger set a trap for it and the next day he went to retrieve the trap but it was gone. He tracked the bear and trap to the middle of the lake. The bear was so big that it had dragged the trap cross-country several miles before dying in the lake. The story serves as a reminder that the pre-Aldo Leopold forest service was not noted for it's ecological outlook. Arguably, neither is the post-Aldo Leopold forest service.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_135627_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-604" class="picwide" />
+
+A mostly spruce forest, with glades of aspen here and there surround the Bear Lake. A tributary of the Cuchara River runs down the hill and feeds snow melt into Bear Lake. The water is freezing. Even near the end of June there's still a patch of now and ice lingering in the cool shade of the north shore.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_150128_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-608" class="picwide" />
+
+It was way too cold for any of us to give it a try. The kids contented themselves with throwing rocks in the shallow water.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_145739_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-605" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_150327_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-618" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_150335_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-619" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-617" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_151525_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-620" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-06-21_151628-1_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-621" class="picwide" />
+
+I'm late getting this up, I'm running about a month behind right now, bit longer than the week I aim for, but I hope wherever you were, whatever you did, you had a good solstice.
+
+<img src="images/2017/20170618_202958.jpg" id="image-622" class="picwide" />
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+
+[^1]: Yes, [that][1] Teddy.
+
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I should learn how to compress them, but meh.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="interior, 1969 dodge travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It’s a short drive from the campground into Austin, but it’s not exactly a pretty one, it winds through the massive sprawling suburbs that encircle Austin. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/sprawl.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/sprawl_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sprawl, austin photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/sprawl.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes made of ticky tack / Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes all the same,"> + </a> +<figcaption>Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes made of ticky tack / Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes all the same,</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Corrinne grew up here, before all the sprawl, or perhaps in the first round of sprawl. This round of sprawl has happened shockingly fast. The difference just in the six years since we were last here is astounding. One of the blacksmiths we spoke with at Pioneer Farm had a son in a high school where the freshman class is three times the size of the graduating class.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg" alt="live action ed ruscha photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Live action Ed Ruscha. From one of the many, many planned and half executed subdivisions around Austin."> + </a> +<figcaption>Live action Ed Ruscha. From one of the many, many planned and half executed subdivisions around Austin.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Driving in we got an interesting tour of what’s drawing people to town — mostly high tech companies, particularly hardware makers — and then the suburban sprawl where the employees live. It’s easy to mock that sprawl, it’s pretty ugly, but what other answer is there? Completely change your culture to embrace real, functioning cities? Probably not going to work. Until there’s no other choice.</p> +<p>Athens has had some pretty intense growth as well, and the city tried to combat sprawl by encouraging development downtown, but all that did was bring in a bunch of huge generic high rises that turned downtown into, well, it could be anywhere — there’s nothing left of the downtown Athens I knew and loved. So Austin has sprawl, but still has its downtown. I think that’s the way to do actually because downtown Austin feels and looks about the same as it did when I first drove through a decade ago. </p> +<p>The traffic is crazy though. Our running joke was that nothing was less than a 25 minute drive away. Grocery is four miles? Twenty five minutes. Didn’t matter what time of day it was, traffic was constant. In fact I passed on buying our house batteries because the shop was 15 miles away, but that 15 mile drive was never less than a 1 hour drive (according to Google Maps anyway).</p> +<p>I do still like Austin though. It’s a little hip for its own good, but it has some fabulous food, great camping close to town and tons of stuff to do. It’s hard to beat in that regard. The kids got to see their Gmommy, we took a trip to the coolest swimming pool ever, Barton Springs, and ate at quite a few food trucks.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_113230_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113230_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113230_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113230_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113230_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="barton springs, austin tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_113230_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""> + </a> +<figcaption></figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_113117-1_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113117-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113117-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113117-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_113117-1_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="barton springs, austin tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_113117-1_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_133654_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_133654_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_133654_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_133654_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_133654_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="food trucks, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_133654_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_134227_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_134227_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_134227_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_134227_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-05-31_134227_mckinney-falls-austin_picwide-med.jpg" alt="popsicle food trucks, austin, tx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-05-31_134227_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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/2017/05/austin-part-one" rel="prev" title=" Austin, part one">Austin, part one</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/dallas" rel="next" title=" Dallas">Dallas</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2539" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Gwen" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Gwen</b></span> + <span class="when">June 10, 2017 at 2:07 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Wondering if you’re headed to Dallas? I am considering going to a conference there this fall and wondering if it’s an interesting city to visit. I think I would enjoy seeing downtown Austin from reading your post. If you are headed to Dallas, there is a state park nearby where you can see dinosaur footprints. I think your kids would enjoy that.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2541" 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">June 10, 2017 at 9:55 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Gwen-</p> +<p>We’re actually in Dallas right now, or just north of it in the city of Plano. 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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_133953_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-556" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_135025_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-557" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_133641_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-555" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_132432_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-554" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-28_174134-1_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-551" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/DSC07665.gif" id="image-565" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-29_094602_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-553" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-29_083401_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-552" class="picwide" />
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+It's a short drive from the campground into Austin, but it's not exactly a pretty one, it winds through the massive sprawling suburbs that encircle Austin.
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+<img src="images/2017/sprawl.jpg" id="image-564" class="picwide caption" />
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+Corrinne grew up here, before all the sprawl, or perhaps in the first round of sprawl. This round of sprawl has happened shockingly fast. The difference just in the six years since we were last here is astounding. One of the blacksmiths we spoke with at Pioneer Farm had a son in a high school where the freshman class is three times the size of the graduating class.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-30_142420_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-558" class="picwide caption" />
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+Driving in we got an interesting tour of what's drawing people to town -- mostly high tech companies, particularly hardware makers -- and then the suburban sprawl where the employees live. It's easy to mock that sprawl, it's pretty ugly, but what other answer is there? Completely change your culture to embrace real, functioning cities? Probably not going to work. Until there's no other choice.
+
+Athens has had some pretty intense growth as well, and the city tried to combat sprawl by encouraging development downtown, but all that did was bring in a bunch of huge generic high rises that turned downtown into, well, it could be anywhere -- there's nothing left of the downtown Athens I knew and loved. So Austin has sprawl, but still has its downtown. I think that's the way to do actually because downtown Austin feels and looks about the same as it did when I first drove through a decade ago.
+
+The traffic is crazy though. Our running joke was that nothing was less than a 25 minute drive away. Grocery is four miles? Twenty five minutes. Didn't matter what time of day it was, traffic was constant. In fact I passed on buying our house batteries because the shop was 15 miles away, but that 15 mile drive was never less than a 1 hour drive (according to Google Maps anyway).
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+I do still like Austin though. It's a little hip for its own good, but it has some fabulous food, great camping close to town and tons of stuff to do. It's hard to beat in that regard. The kids got to see their Gmommy, we took a trip to the coolest swimming pool ever, Barton Springs, and ate at quite a few food trucks.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-05-31_113230_mckinney-falls-austin.jpg" id="image-560" class="picwide caption" />
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-07-11T02:46:04" itemprop="datePublished">July <span>11, 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>This story is hard to tell because I am not going to tell all of it. The part you get to hear is that we took the girls for a ride on a narrow gauge steam train for their birthday. There’s some backstory as to why, which involves a very long and, while they don’t know it yet, probably never-ending, story about two girls not unlike them. But also not entirely like them. Suffice to say that the train fits into that story in ways that I will not go into here.</p> +<p>I suppose I could just be like most people, and just tell you we went on the narrow gauge railway from Durango to Silverton. It’s a common enough thing to do around these parts. It draws tourists from all over (one of whom I watched doing their YouTube review right after they got of the train which, while I know is a thing some travelers do, is still so weird to me that I can’t help staring — why are you talking to your phone?) and I still remember it from when I did it as a kid. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_142907-1_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_142907-1_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_142907-1_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_142907-1_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_142907-1_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Silverton, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_142907-1_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_083310_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_083310_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083310_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083310_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083310_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_083310_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_083611_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_083611_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083611_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083611_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083611_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_083611_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_083746_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_083746_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083746_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083746_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_083746_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_083746_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_084129_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_084129_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_084129_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_084129_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_084129_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_084129_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_091129_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_091129_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_091129_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_091129_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_091129_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_091129_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_105108-1_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_105108-1_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105108-1_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105108-1_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105108-1_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_105108-1_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_110308_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_110308_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_110308_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_110308_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_110308_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Steam train to Silverton photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_110308_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_135506_durango-train-ride.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/2017/2017-07-10_135506_durango-train-ride_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_135506_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_135506_durango-train-ride_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-10_135506_durango-train-ride_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Silverton, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-10_135506_durango-train-ride.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Since we didn’t want them to spend their whole birthday stuck on a train, we rode it the day before. Their actual birthday they got up early and pretty much fell over each other in a rush to give each other the gifts they had picked out. </p> +<p>Their birthday was a little bittersweet because our friends whom the kids had been playing with pretty much every day for two weeks, had to leave. They stayed long enough to have birthday breakfast and then hit the road. I’m pretty sure our paths will probably cross again, that tends to happen when you travel, but in the mean time it was suddenly strangely quiet, and a little bit lonely, around camp.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_070501_5th-birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_070501_5th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_070501_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_070501_5th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_070501_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="5th birthday photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_070501_5th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_072608_5th-birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_072608_5th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_072608_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_072608_5th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_072608_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="5th birthday photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_072608_5th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_072747_5th-birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_072747_5th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_072747_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_072747_5th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_072747_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="5th birthday photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_072747_5th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Elliott was fine for 99 percent of the day, but when there were presents for his sisters and not for him, he lost it for a minute.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_074554-1_5th-birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_074554-1_5th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_074554-1_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_074554-1_5th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_074554-1_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="5th birthday photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_074554-1_5th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>But a little while later they were sharing all their new things with him and everything was fine again.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_080030-1_5th-birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_080030-1_5th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_080030-1_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_080030-1_5th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_080030-1_5th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="5th birthday photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_080030-1_5th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_093750_birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_093750_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_093750_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_093750_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_093750_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="5th birthday photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_093750_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Every since we invented chocolate waffle cake the girls have been asking for it for their birthday. The only problem was that we don’t have hookups here and we don’t have an inverter. About 99 percent of the time that doesn’t matter, but today it did. Fortunately the camp hosts, whom we’d made friends with, offered to let us make waffles at their RV. Thank you Tim and Zaida.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_164234_birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_164234_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_164234_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_164234_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_164234_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="chocolate waffle cake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_164234_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>And then, new friends gone, birthday over, it was back to what they do every day, running around, playing in the forest. It never ceases to amaze me how well all three of them get along. They have their moments of course, but by and large they play together all day every day.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_172722_birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_172722_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_172722_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_172722_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_172722_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_172722_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_173543_birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_173543_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_173543_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_173543_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_173543_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_173543_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_173243-1_birthday.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/2017/2017-07-11_173243-1_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_173243-1_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_173243-1_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-11_173243-1_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1969 dodge travco photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-11_173243-1_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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>Black-chinned Hummingbird </li> + + <li>House Wren </li> + + <li>Northern Flicker </li> + + <li>Pygmy Nuthatch </li> + + <li>Townsend's 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/2017/07/junction-creek" rel="prev" title=" Junction Creek">Junction Creek</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/07/mancos-and-mesa-verde" rel="next" title=" Mancos and Mesa Verde">Mancos and Mesa Verde</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2647" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Arva C Weinstein" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Arva C Weinstein</b></span> + <span class="when">August 06, 2017 at 8:13 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Love the look on Elliot’s face on the train, such a look of wonder. And the girls, hanging their heads out of the windows. I want MY next b’day celebration in the big blue bus!!! +Love and hugs, +Arva</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2649" 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">August 06, 2017 at 9:13 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Arva-</p> +<p>Come meet us somewhere. Mexico.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2654" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Denise Meyers" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Denise Meyers</b></span> + <span class="when">August 07, 2017 at 6:18 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>I am so insanely proud of you for following your dream. The bus looks AMAZING. Every time I read about where you have been in that Dodge Travco, a piece of me is with you. What an outstanding gift to have given yourself, and your children. Thank you for being someone who does, not someone who talks about what they would do, if only. You are my hero…..</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2672" 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">August 15, 2017 at 8:00 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Denise-</p> +<p>Wow, thank you, that’s a very nice thing to say.</p> +<p>(Just so everyone else knows, Denise was the previous owner of the big blue bus)</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="208" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833393" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="382f78782ed7415a6fcf49821eeca783cec6254c" 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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The part you get to hear is that we took the girls for a ride on a narrow gauge steam train for their birthday. There's some backstory as to why, which involves a very long and, while they don't know it yet, probably never-ending, story about two girls not unlike them. But also not entirely like them. Suffice to say that the train fits into that story in ways that I will not go into here.
+
+I suppose I could just be like most people, and just tell you we went on the narrow gauge railway from Durango to Silverton. It's a common enough thing to do around these parts. It draws tourists from all over (one of whom I watched doing their YouTube review right after they got of the train which, while I know is a thing some travelers do, is still so weird to me that I can't help staring -- why are you talking to your phone?) and I still remember it from when I did it as a kid.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_142907-1_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-677" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_083310_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-668" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_083611_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-669" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_083746_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-670" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_084129_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-671" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_091129_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-672" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_105108-1_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-673" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_105239_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-674" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_110308_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-675" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-10_135506_durango-train-ride.jpg" id="image-676" class="picwide" />
+
+Since we didn't want them to spend their whole birthday stuck on a train, we rode it the day before. Their actual birthday they got up early and pretty much fell over each other in a rush to give each other the gifts they had picked out.
+
+Their birthday was a little bittersweet because our friends whom the kids had been playing with pretty much every day for two weeks, had to leave. They stayed long enough to have birthday breakfast and then hit the road. I'm pretty sure our paths will probably cross again, that tends to happen when you travel, but in the mean time it was suddenly strangely quiet, and a little bit lonely, around camp.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-11_070501_5th-birthday.jpg" id="image-678" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-11_072608_5th-birthday.jpg" id="image-679" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-11_072747_5th-birthday.jpg" id="image-680" class="picwide" />
+
+Elliott was fine for 99 percent of the day, but when there were presents for his sisters and not for him, he lost it for a minute.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-11_074554-1_5th-birthday.jpg" id="image-681" class="picwide" />
+
+But a little while later they were sharing all their new things with him and everything was fine again.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-11_080030-1_5th-birthday.jpg" id="image-682" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-11_093750_birthday.jpg" id="image-683" class="picwide" />
+
+Every since we invented chocolate waffle cake the girls have been asking for it for their birthday. The only problem was that we don't have hookups here and we don't have an inverter. About 99 percent of the time that doesn't matter, but today it did. Fortunately the camp hosts, whom we'd made friends with, offered to let us make waffles at their RV. Thank you Tim and Zaida.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-11_164234_birthday.jpg" id="image-684" class="picwide" />
+
+And then, new friends gone, birthday over, it was back to what they do every day, running around, playing in the forest. It never ceases to amaze me how well all three of them get along. They have their moments of course, but by and large they play together all day every day.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-07-06T02:34:58" itemprop="datePublished">July <span>6, 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>If you hang your head back over the edge of the chair you can stare straight up at the pine needles overhead, which form a great canopy of thin black fingers reaching into the soft glow of the new moon, which just rose up from behind the western ridge.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-04_150641_durango.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/2017/2017-07-04_150641_durango_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-04_150641_durango_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-04_150641_durango_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-04_150641_durango_picwide-med.jpg" alt="view from the pass photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-04_150641_durango.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>That was what I was doing when Corrinne and I decided that Junction Creek would be a good place to pass the month of July. The campground was nice and spread out, with relatively secluded sites tucked in among a forest of towering Ponderosa pines with a few gambel oaks in the understory. across the dirt road from our site was an open field, something of the meadow that was home to endless flutter of flycatchers and vireos snatching up insects and retreating back to their trees.</p> +<p>Back down the road, which starts paved and ends up dirt here in the National Forest, is Durango. While tourist-filled and mountain-kitschy to some degree, it nevertheless has some cool stuff to do — a wonderful public library where the kids got to see the U.S. National Yoyo champion (yes, really), a really cool indoor water park masquerading as a rec center, complete with a three story water slide, a science museum, and a host of other fun stuff — as one of the camp hosts we befriended put it, in Durango they really know how to do it.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170705_133512.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/2017/20170705_133512_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170705_133512_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170705_133512_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170705_133512_picwide-med.jpg" alt="science museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170705_133512.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-02_111809_durango.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/2017/2017-07-02_111809_durango_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-02_111809_durango_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-02_111809_durango_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-02_111809_durango_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dodge van photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-02_111809_durango.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Some really nice people we met. Not a travco, but same engine and a surprisingly roomy interior."> + </a> +<figcaption>Some really nice people we met. Not a travco, but same engine and a surprisingly roomy interior.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We also needed to have a semi-plan for the near future because my parents were coming to visit us, somewhere in Colorado (thanks for being flexible), and to be honest we were all feeling like we’d been moving a bit faster than we like. It’s always enticing to see what’s around the next bend, as it were, but sometimes you want to stop somewhere and just sink into the soil a bit. Junction Creek seemed like a good place to do that.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + +<figure > + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango_picwide.jpg" alt="wading in junction creek photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-01_174133_durango.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="There's spigots, but no other water at the campground. Bathing in the river was cold, but it got the dust off and left you refreshed at least."></a> +<figcaption>There’s spigots, but no other water at the campground. Bathing in the river was cold, but it got the dust off and left you refreshed at least.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170701_164043.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170701_164043_pic66.jpg" alt="wading in junction creek photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170701_164043.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170701_164417.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170701_164417_pic66.jpg" alt="wading in junction creek photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170701_164417.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-01_174326_durango.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174326_durango_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174326_durango_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174326_durango_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-01_174326_durango_picwide-med.jpg" alt="wading in junction creek photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-01_174326_durango.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>A good part of the reason it seemed that way was because we met some really great people camped next to us. You meet a lot of people traveling, especially if you have a vintage motorhome that draws people to your door on a daily basis (just last night we had dinner with a really great couple who first stopped to admire the bus). Every so often though you run across fellow travelers whom you immediately click with and we were fortunate enough to have that happened at Junction Creek.</p> +<p>What I enjoy about these friendships is that long term travel<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> acts as a kind of crucible in which the mundane is quickly melted away, you can skip past that and get straight to the really fun part where you’re all sharing a room with a bathroom that has no door and everyone has dysentery. Wait, no. That’s not it. Or it is, but not this time. That was last time. </p> +<p>I can say though that if Kate and Josh and their family and ours ever find ourselves in say, El Salvador, and we all have some sort of intestinal parasite it will just make for a lot of laughter. Because that’s how it goes when you’re traveling. Travelers above all seem to just not care about the proprieties of life and get straight to what Thoreau, dramatic man that we was, called the marrow. Still, it’s an apt metaphor though. It helps that our kids were fast friends almost instantly. Kids know what’s what.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-09_170004_durango.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/2017/2017-07-09_170004_durango_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-09_170004_durango_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-09_170004_durango_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-09_170004_durango_picwide-med.jpg" alt="my crayons photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-09_170004_durango.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""My crayons""> + </a> +<figcaption>“My crayons”</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There’s something more grounded in the here and now about these friendships born of the road. We’re all a little more like children perhaps, exploring the world and knowing a little bit more what’s what. It’s rare to have a conversation like you have when you meet strangers in your home town. There’s very little of the “what do you do?” sort of thing because out here no one cares what you do. We tend to talk about that things around us right now. The forest, for instance. The dead pine full of fledgling pygmy chickadees. Our plans for the next few weeks, what we’re doing for dinner, should we hike to the swimming hole, should we check out the rec center, could we live here, for a year, for two, forever, not at all. </p> +<p>I have a few of these friendships nurtured over the years and I feel lucky to have them, I want more, but these things, you cannot seek them. Maybe they come, maybe they do not. It is not for us to say. But when you find them, stop what you’re doing, even if you’re in Vang Vieng, and enjoy them.</p> +<p>So we did, for two weeks, which is the longest you can stay in any one campsite in America’s national forests (or anywhere really). 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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-04_150641_durango.jpg" id="image-663" class="picwide" />
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+That was what I was doing when Corrinne and I decided that Junction Creek would be a good place to pass the month of July. The campground was nice and spread out, with relatively secluded sites tucked in among a forest of towering Ponderosa pines with a few gambel oaks in the understory. across the dirt road from our site was an open field, something of the meadow that was home to endless flutter of flycatchers and vireos snatching up insects and retreating back to their trees.
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+Back down the road, which starts paved and ends up dirt here in the National Forest, is Durango. While tourist-filled and mountain-kitschy to some degree, it nevertheless has some cool stuff to do -- a wonderful public library where the kids got to see the U.S. National Yoyo champion (yes, really), a really cool indoor water park masquerading as a rec center, complete with a three story water slide, a science museum, and a host of other fun stuff -- as one of the camp hosts we befriended put it, in Durango they really know how to do it.
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+<img src="images/2017/20170705_133512.jpg" id="image-667" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-02_111809_durango.jpg" id="image-662" class="picwide caption" />
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+We also needed to have a semi-plan for the near future because my parents were coming to visit us, somewhere in Colorado (thanks for being flexible), and to be honest we were all feeling like we'd been moving a bit faster than we like. It's always enticing to see what's around the next bend, as it were, but sometimes you want to stop somewhere and just sink into the soil a bit. Junction Creek seemed like a good place to do that.
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+A good part of the reason it seemed that way was because we met some really great people camped next to us. You meet a lot of people traveling, especially if you have a vintage motorhome that draws people to your door on a daily basis (just last night we had dinner with a really great couple who first stopped to admire the bus). Every so often though you run across fellow travelers whom you immediately click with and we were fortunate enough to have that happened at Junction Creek.
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+What I enjoy about these friendships is that long term travel[^1] acts as a kind of crucible in which the mundane is quickly melted away, you can skip past that and get straight to the really fun part where you're all sharing a room with a bathroom that has no door and everyone has dysentery. Wait, no. That's not it. Or it is, but not this time. That was last time.
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+I can say though that if Kate and Josh and their family and ours ever find ourselves in say, El Salvador, and we all have some sort of intestinal parasite it will just make for a lot of laughter. Because that's how it goes when you're traveling. Travelers above all seem to just not care about the proprieties of life and get straight to what Thoreau, dramatic man that we was, called the marrow. Still, it's an apt metaphor though. It helps that our kids were fast friends almost instantly. Kids know what's what.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-09_170004_durango.jpg" id="image-664" class="picwide caption" />
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+There's something more grounded in the here and now about these friendships born of the road. We're all a little more like children perhaps, exploring the world and knowing a little bit more what's what. It's rare to have a conversation like you have when you meet strangers in your home town. There's very little of the "what do you do?" sort of thing because out here no one cares what you do. We tend to talk about that things around us right now. The forest, for instance. The dead pine full of fledgling pygmy chickadees. Our plans for the next few weeks, what we're doing for dinner, should we hike to the swimming hole, should we check out the rec center, could we live here, for a year, for two, forever, not at all.
+
+I have a few of these friendships nurtured over the years and I feel lucky to have them, I want more, but these things, you cannot seek them. Maybe they come, maybe they do not. It is not for us to say. But when you find them, stop what you're doing, even if you're in Vang Vieng, and enjoy them.
+
+So we did, for two weeks, which is the longest you can stay in any one campsite in America's national forests (or anywhere really). We went to the rec center, we rode the water slide, we drove up and down the mountain, we watched birds, we swam in the ice cold creek for a bath and we had a blast, doing nothing and everything.
+
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The bus was made to move, its fluids pool, metal rusts, wood decays, the windows smear with dirt and rain, as Chinua Achebe put it, things fall apart. Everything. All the time. Stay too long and the world will settle down on you. The tires will lose air, the chipmunks will come for the avocados. I’m from California, messing with my avocados is messing with my emotions, I don’t care if you’re cute and striped.</p> +<p>So we shook off the cobwebs, pulled out of Junction Creek for a few days, and headed up over the pass to the west, to Mancos and points beyond. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-15_162643-1_mancos-mesa-verde.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/2017/2017-07-15_162643-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-15_162643-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-15_162643-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-15_162643-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mancos valley photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-15_162643-1_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="View from the top, looking out over the Mancos river valley."> + </a> +<figcaption>View from the top, looking out over the Mancos river valley.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We found a nice enough campground, nearly deserted. The only downside was a little road noise — it was up on a hill above the highway and the sound of truck engine brakes was at times annoying. Aside from that though it was much better than Junction Creek. Fewer people and Mancos was much more my speed than Durango.</p> +<p>Mancos consists of one stop light and two paved roads. Or partly paved roads. The rest is dirt and hardly even a stop sign to be found. Still, there’s a decent grocery store, a pretty good sandwich shop and a coffee roaster with the best double espresso I’ve had since we left Athens. There’s also a library with passable internet speeds that I could work at.</p> +<p>Mancos is also only about 20 minutes from the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park. </p> +<p>I knew that after Chaco Canyon Mesa Verde was going to be a let down. You just can’t have crowds and retain the stillness and mystery that Chaco has. I feel strange criticizing a place for it’s crowds because on the one hand if no one is going to our National Parks no one is going to fight for them to continue existing. Still, I did not enjoy Mesa Verde. I am glad that it draws crowds, glad that people are out there visiting natinal parks and I’m glad they aren’t going to Chaco.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde.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/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>If you know me you know I’d sooner chew my leg off than go on a guided tour. And Mesa Verde is all guided tours, you don’t go into the big ruins by yourself anymore. You get a nanny. That’s not for us really so we skipped that part and went to the one smaller ruin you can still explore (somewhat) on your own. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-17_123232_mancos-mesa-verde.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/2017/2017-07-17_123232_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_123232_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_123232_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_123232_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mesa verde photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-17_123232_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-17_123659-1_mancos-mesa-verde.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/2017/2017-07-17_123659-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_123659-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_123659-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-17_123659-1_mancos-mesa-verde_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mesa verde photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-17_123659-1_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It was a nice stroll. It was funny to hear the rangers questioning whether our kids could do it, it was less than a mile and only 300 feet elevation change. The trail was paved. It’s sad that we’ve created a world where it’s considered amazing for five year olds to walk a mile on asphalt.</p> +<p>We left after lunch.</p> +<p>Just hanging around camp was more to our liking. 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The bus was made to move, its fluids pool, metal rusts, wood decays, the windows smear with dirt and rain, as Chinua Achebe put it, things fall apart. Everything. All the time. Stay too long and the world will settle down on you. The tires will lose air, the chipmunks will come for the avocados. I'm from California, messing with my avocados is messing with my emotions, I don't care if you're cute and striped.
+
+So we shook off the cobwebs, pulled out of Junction Creek for a few days, and headed up over the pass to the west, to Mancos and points beyond.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-15_162643-1_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-697" class="picwide caption" />
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+We found a nice enough campground, nearly deserted. The only downside was a little road noise -- it was up on a hill above the highway and the sound of truck engine brakes was at times annoying. Aside from that though it was much better than Junction Creek. Fewer people and Mancos was much more my speed than Durango.
+
+Mancos consists of one stop light and two paved roads. Or partly paved roads. The rest is dirt and hardly even a stop sign to be found. Still, there's a decent grocery store, a pretty good sandwich shop and a coffee roaster with the best double espresso I've had since we left Athens. There's also a library with passable internet speeds that I could work at.
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+Mancos is also only about 20 minutes from the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park.
+
+I knew that after Chaco Canyon Mesa Verde was going to be a let down. You just can't have crowds and retain the stillness and mystery that Chaco has. I feel strange criticizing a place for it's crowds because on the one hand if no one is going to our National Parks no one is going to fight for them to continue existing. Still, I did not enjoy Mesa Verde. I am glad that it draws crowds, glad that people are out there visiting natinal parks and I'm glad they aren't going to Chaco.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-17_122428_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-700" class="picwide" />
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+If you know me you know I'd sooner chew my leg off than go on a guided tour. And Mesa Verde is all guided tours, you don't go into the big ruins by yourself anymore. You get a nanny. That's not for us really so we skipped that part and went to the one smaller ruin you can still explore (somewhat) on your own.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-17_123232_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-701" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-17_123659-1_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-702" class="picwide" />
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+It was a nice stroll. It was funny to hear the rangers questioning whether our kids could do it, it was less than a mile and only 300 feet elevation change. The trail was paved. It's sad that we've created a world where it's considered amazing for five year olds to walk a mile on asphalt.
+
+We left after lunch.
+
+Just hanging around camp was more to our liking. The kids built obstacle courses, made bees out of pine cones and looked up whenever the thunder rumbled up above, somewhere high in the San Juans because after a month here they've learned that the storms come out of the high country.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-12_181825_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-695" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-15_084210_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-696" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-16_144635_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-699" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-15_193426-1_mancos-mesa-verde.jpg" id="image-698" class="picwide caption" />
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+In the evenings we sat around the fire and listened to the nighthawks darting after food between the pines overhead. 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It turned out to be something called Mancos Days. Naturally we couldn’t miss that, so we ended up staying a week longer than we intended and we got to see the Mancos Days parade.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days.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/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days_picwide.jpg" alt="Mancos days fire dept photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_111230_mancos-days.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_111456_mancos-days.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/2017/2017-07-29_111456_mancos-days_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111456_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111456_mancos-days_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111456_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mancos days grand marshall photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_111456_mancos-days.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_111538_mancos-days.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/2017/2017-07-29_111538_mancos-days_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111538_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111538_mancos-days_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_111538_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Mancos days photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_111538_mancos-days.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_113035_mancos-days.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/2017/2017-07-29_113035_mancos-days_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_113035_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_113035_mancos-days_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-29_113035_mancos-days_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Hydrolics photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-29_113035_mancos-days.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Part of the parade was a classic car show, this hydrolic setup was by far the best thing."> + </a> +<figcaption>Part of the parade was a classic car show, this hydrolic setup was by far the best thing.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>One day I trekked up past Mancos to Cortez to do some laundry and discovered a really good Thai restuarant. The next day we all went for Thai food and on the way back we noticed that the Montezuma County Fair started that weekend. This is how we end up spending weeks in the same place, things slowly unfold and there’s always more to see and do. </p> +<p>You can’t miss the fair. I love the fair, especially fairs that aren’t all rides and entertainment, which this one was definitely not. Most of it was devoted to the display and sale of livestock. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_115935_montezuma-county-fair.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/2017/2017-08-05_115935_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_115935_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_115935_montezuma-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_115935_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="goat photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_115935_montezuma-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The kids never believe me when I tell them that goats will eat anything. This is the prize winning market goat trying to eat the bars of its cage."> + </a> +<figcaption>The kids never believe me when I tell them that goats will eat anything. This is the prize winning market goat trying to eat the bars of its cage.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_120257_montezuma-county-fair.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/2017/2017-08-05_120257_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_120257_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_120257_montezuma-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_120257_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_120257_montezuma-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This sheep was extemely fond of Lilah."> + </a> +<figcaption>This sheep was extemely fond of Lilah.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The fair also had a corn shucking contest which I really think we should have entered. Next time.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_105833_montezuma-county-fair.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/2017/2017-08-05_105833_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_105833_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_105833_montezuma-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_105833_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="waiting on the corn shucking contest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_105833_montezuma-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Waiting on the corn shucking contest."> + </a> +<figcaption>Waiting on the corn shucking contest.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_111958_montezuma-county-fair.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/2017/2017-08-05_111958_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_111958_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_111958_montezuma-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_111958_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="corn shucking contest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_111958_montezuma-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_113842_montezuma-county-fair.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/2017/2017-08-05_113842_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_113842_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_113842_montezuma-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_113842_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="antique trackers photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_113842_montezuma-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The girls were really excited about something that I admit did sound fun: the chicken chase. After about 10 seconds in a ring with a bunch of chickens though it was painfully obvious that our kids had no idea what to do with a chicken when the chicken chase turned to the chicken caught.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_113335_montezuma-county-fair.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/2017/2017-08-05_113335_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_113335_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_113335_montezuma-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_113335_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Chicken chase photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_113335_montezuma-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Just to make sure they girls weren’t the only ones with a moment of awkwardness at the fair, I got picked to join in the Ute tribe’s Bear Dance. I thought I held it together okay, but when I was done Corrinne was shaking her head. “You look nothing like a bear,” she said.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_114314_montezuma-county-fair.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/2017/2017-08-05_114314_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_114314_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_114314_montezuma-county-fair_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-05_114314_montezuma-county-fair_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Ute tribe bear dance photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-05_114314_montezuma-county-fair.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>Common Nighthawk </li> + + <li>Western Tanager </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/2017/07/time-and-placement" rel="prev" title=" Time and Placement">Time and Placement</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/08/canyon-ancients" rel="next" title=" Canyon of the Ancients">Canyon of the Ancients</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2675" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Susan" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Susan</b></span> + <span class="when">August 15, 2017 at 10:43 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>I wish there were videos of the chicken chase and the bear dance! I am really enjoying reading about your adventures!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2676" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Jane Sanders" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Jane Sanders</b></span> + <span class="when">August 16, 2017 at 8:54 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Would have loved to see chicken and bear dance events! True memories to keep!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2680" 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">August 17, 2017 at 7:03 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>I wish I had some video, but I don’t. Never occurs to be to shoot video. I need to work on that. I don’t know though, I see people holding out cameras and talking to them and it just seems so weird to me.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2715" 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">September 01, 2017 at 12:56 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>That green car looks like it belongs in “Friday” with Big Perm driving more than in that town.</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="211" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833389" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="974ccf5271b5667ca4fbdd3134f11faaa8533b82" 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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+Our plan was to spend the weekend there and then head on, but one day I drove down to the coffee shop and instead of the quiet little town I'd been expecting, streets were shut down and there were cars and people everywhere. It turned out to be something called Mancos Days. Naturally we couldn't miss that, so we ended up staying a week longer than we intended and we got to see the Mancos Days parade.
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+One day I trekked up past Mancos to Cortez to do some laundry and discovered a really good Thai restuarant. The next day we all went for Thai food and on the way back we noticed that the Montezuma County Fair started that weekend. This is how we end up spending weeks in the same place, things slowly unfold and there's always more to see and do.
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+You can't miss the fair. I love the fair, especially fairs that aren't all rides and entertainment, which this one was definitely not. Most of it was devoted to the display and sale of livestock.
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+The fair also had a corn shucking contest which I really think we should have entered. Next time.
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+The girls were really excited about something that I admit did sound fun: the chicken chase. After about 10 seconds in a ring with a bunch of chickens though it was painfully obvious that our kids had no idea what to do with a chicken when the chicken chase turned to the chicken caught.
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+Just to make sure they girls weren't the only ones with a moment of awkwardness at the fair, I got picked to join in the Ute tribe's Bear Dance. I thought I held it together okay, but when I was done Corrinne was shaking her head. "You look nothing like a bear," she said.
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You could set your watch by it. Except that there’s no need for a watch up here. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents.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/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents_picwide.jpg" alt="forest, junction creek, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The way it cracks high and seems to cascade down the mountains reminds me of Greek or Norse stories, the sound feels thrown by some unseen thing. This evening those thunder gods, whomever they may be, have conspired to produce something a little extra. Thor is pounding a little harder, Zeus throwing a little more than usual. A flash and then seconds later a rolling peel of sound the echoes off to the east, down the mountain side. </p> +<p>Around here they call this the start of the monsoon season<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. The rain comes soft and steady, the kind that leaves no puddles here in the forest, much to my children’s disappointment. Here all the water is captured by something, held in a bed of rotting needles, leaves, and the roots of rice grass, false oats and mountain parsley. What little makes it lower ends up in the roots of gambel oak and snow willows, and finally somewhere deeper still, up to 12 meters down, the ponderosa pine roots and their attendant webs of fungi get what’s left. </p> +<p>Nothing remains on the surface of things. </p> +<p>It is easy here to sink into the soil and disappear for a while, everything here is doing it, you are too. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-24_212533-2_durango-parents.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/2017/2017-07-24_212533-2_durango-parents_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_212533-2_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_212533-2_durango-parents_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-24_212533-2_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg" alt="forest, junction creek, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-24_212533-2_durango-parents.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The valley wall opposite our camp has disappeared in a rainy mist of blue gray nothingness. The light is fading prematurely, leaving a shadowless forest where darkness fades in rather than falling as it does when the sun ducks behind the ridge. </p> +<p>It is silence save the soft pelting of rain and the call and response of two hardy wood peewees, seemingly unfazed by the storm. And then some storm god throws another bolt and the silence is blasted apart.</p> +<p>I am sitting here listening to the rain, feeling the pace of my chair sinking into the soil. It is a slow but steady rain, a slow but steady sinking. </p> +<p>I am listening to the rain because that is what you do when it rains.</p> +<p>In every place the rain sounds different. </p> +<p>Here the rain has a soft and spread out sound. The rain that reaches down here does not do so directly, not much of it anyway. Most of it has hit at least one, probably hundreds, of pine needles on its way to the earth. These drops are small and soft because they have been broken up on their way down. By the time they hit the ground they are more alike than different, every drop having been similarly, but differently bounced through the pine canopy. The result is a steady even sound, occassionally broken up by the rougher splatter of rain coming through a gap in the canopy to land on oak leaves, or the split wood of the picnic table, or the roof of the bus.</p> +<p>Somewhere out there is a forest. It’s too dark now to see more than a few feet in front of me. There are two trees at the edge of what faint light the rising moon offers tonight, locked away as it is, somewhere behind a veil of cloud. There’s just enough glow that I can still make out the roughness of the tree bark. The curve of their trunks hint at the vastness of space behind them. Despite the rain it is dry here next to the trunks of the pines, whatever water has made it through the canopy is already down below the surface of the needles I’m lying on, staring up, trying to see the branches coming together above me.</p> +<p>One of the more remarkable things about lying on your back in the forest is that you can stare up at the trees running together up into the vastness of space and you can feel the planet spinning through the heavens, but at the same time you can smell the warm fecundity of the soil, all the billions of microbes you’re lying on churning their way through the seemingly endless supply of organic material of the forest, one day you. You can feel for fleeting moments the vastness of existence and the minute intimacy of existence at the same time. You find yourself in a web of life and energy that is flowing all around and through you. </p> +<p>It is impossible to tease apart all the links between everything micro and macro, do not even try. In one way you are you, the you you experience, in another you are the joining together of cells of that found it advantageous to become parts of a whole rather than go it alone — which one is you? That’s the wrong question. Know that all of this is you. All those solitary cells within you are now too specialized to survive without the rest of you, they gave up their individuality to all you to exist. As has already been pointed out, hundreds if not thousands of years before we had the language of microbes and devil of the details by the tail, the wiser among realized that the biggest thing is in the smallest thing. </p> +<p>John Muir, who spent his fair share of time lying on his back in pine forests, captures this feeling better than I can when he wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”</p> +<p>I think this is one of the principle realizations travel unpacks for you — that there is no other. You are a part of a whole, interconnected system and joined far more intimately to everything around you than you could ever hope to understand, though attempting to understand it is worth the effort, even if it’s impossible. Travel doesn’t make it any easier to understand it, but sometimes when you travel you can <em>feel</em> it all around you, moving and flowing through you like an invisible wind. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-22_172903_durango-parents.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/2017/2017-07-22_172903_durango-parents_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-22_172903_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-22_172903_durango-parents_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-22_172903_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg" alt="campground, junction creek, co photographed by luxagraf" 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href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-22_155812_durango-parents.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/2017/2017-07-22_155812_durango-parents_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-22_155812_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-22_155812_durango-parents_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-07-22_155812_durango-parents_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1969 dodge travco, junction creek, co photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-07-22_155812_durango-parents.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>I can only assume no one around here has ever been in a real monsoon, because while it does rain a little more, it’s hardly what most of the world 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Your writing continues to impress. Thanks for taking the effort.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2671" 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">August 15, 2017 at 7:58 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@classical_liberal-</p> +<p>Glad you’re enjoying it. I think I might actually get caught up one of these days.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2674" 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">August 15, 2017 at 2:36 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>We were just discussing this on our way to Pink Floyd concert this weekend……</p> +<p>Is this reincarnation?</p> +<p>“microbes you’re lying on churning their way through the seemingly endless supply of organic material of the forest, one day you.”</p> +<p>If so, I guess I believe in it.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2681" 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">August 17, 2017 at 7:09 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew- You guys were discussing luxagraf on your way to the Floyd show? I should probably just drop the mic and walk away. ;-)</p> +<p>I do have some thoughts on reincarnation that I consider publishing from time to time, but that was really more just thinking about the lifecycle of all things, and that the boundary between life and what we call death seems maybe not as hard and fast as we (in the west) have been trained to think. </p> +<p>I’ve been reading several ecology books lately, which have influenced my thinking considerably. I almost added a note to this post crediting David George Haskell’s <cite>The Songs of Trees</cite> (<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/songs-of-trees-stories-from-natures-great-connectors/oclc/993297785?loc=">library link</a>) for some of the ideas. So I’ll add it here, if you like this post or are intruiged by the ideas, I highly recommend his book. It’s a great, very lyrical, not at all technical or dry intro to ecology.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2683" 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">August 18, 2017 at 9:55 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Im too lazy to read- I bought it on audible and will listen to it with Sam on the way to school. Lets see how fast I can make him fall asleep at 630AM… Right now we are listening to Tommy Caldwells “The Push” which is fantastic!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2687" 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">August 21, 2017 at 12:55 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>Nice. I’m the opposite, I can’t handle audiobooks.</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="210" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833391" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="56929e880d4120abbd85e89256098f28548a1932" 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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You could set your watch by it. Except that there's no need for a watch up here.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-24_211753_durango-parents.jpg" id="image-693" class="picwide" />
+
+The way it cracks high and seems to cascade down the mountains reminds me of Greek or Norse stories, the sound feels thrown by some unseen thing. This evening those thunder gods, whomever they may be, have conspired to produce something a little extra. Thor is pounding a little harder, Zeus throwing a little more than usual. A flash and then seconds later a rolling peel of sound the echoes off to the east, down the mountain side.
+
+Around here they call this the start of the monsoon season[^1]. The rain comes soft and steady, the kind that leaves no puddles here in the forest, much to my children's disappointment. Here all the water is captured by something, held in a bed of rotting needles, leaves, and the roots of rice grass, false oats and mountain parsley. What little makes it lower ends up in the roots of gambel oak and snow willows, and finally somewhere deeper still, up to 12 meters down, the ponderosa pine roots and their attendant webs of fungi get what's left.
+
+Nothing remains on the surface of things.
+
+It is easy here to sink into the soil and disappear for a while, everything here is doing it, you are too.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-24_212533-2_durango-parents.jpg" id="image-694" class="picwide" />
+
+The valley wall opposite our camp has disappeared in a rainy mist of blue gray nothingness. The light is fading prematurely, leaving a shadowless forest where darkness fades in rather than falling as it does when the sun ducks behind the ridge.
+
+It is silence save the soft pelting of rain and the call and response of two hardy wood peewees, seemingly unfazed by the storm. And then some storm god throws another bolt and the silence is blasted apart.
+
+I am sitting here listening to the rain, feeling the pace of my chair sinking into the soil. It is a slow but steady rain, a slow but steady sinking.
+
+I am listening to the rain because that is what you do when it rains.
+
+In every place the rain sounds different.
+
+Here the rain has a soft and spread out sound. The rain that reaches down here does not do so directly, not much of it anyway. Most of it has hit at least one, probably hundreds, of pine needles on its way to the earth. These drops are small and soft because they have been broken up on their way down. By the time they hit the ground they are more alike than different, every drop having been similarly, but differently bounced through the pine canopy. The result is a steady even sound, occassionally broken up by the rougher splatter of rain coming through a gap in the canopy to land on oak leaves, or the split wood of the picnic table, or the roof of the bus.
+
+Somewhere out there is a forest. It's too dark now to see more than a few feet in front of me. There are two trees at the edge of what faint light the rising moon offers tonight, locked away as it is, somewhere behind a veil of cloud. There's just enough glow that I can still make out the roughness of the tree bark. The curve of their trunks hint at the vastness of space behind them. Despite the rain it is dry here next to the trunks of the pines, whatever water has made it through the canopy is already down below the surface of the needles I'm lying on, staring up, trying to see the branches coming together above me.
+
+One of the more remarkable things about lying on your back in the forest is that you can stare up at the trees running together up into the vastness of space and you can feel the planet spinning through the heavens, but at the same time you can smell the warm fecundity of the soil, all the billions of microbes you're lying on churning their way through the seemingly endless supply of organic material of the forest, one day you. You can feel for fleeting moments the vastness of existence and the minute intimacy of existence at the same time. You find yourself in a web of life and energy that is flowing all around and through you.
+
+It is impossible to tease apart all the links between everything micro and macro, do not even try. In one way you are you, the you you experience, in another you are the joining together of cells of that found it advantageous to become parts of a whole rather than go it alone -- which one is you? That's the wrong question. Know that all of this is you. All those solitary cells within you are now too specialized to survive without the rest of you, they gave up their individuality to all you to exist. As has already been pointed out, hundreds if not thousands of years before we had the language of microbes and devil of the details by the tail, the wiser among realized that the biggest thing is in the smallest thing.
+
+John Muir, who spent his fair share of time lying on his back in pine forests, captures this feeling better than I can when he wrote, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
+
+I think this is one of the principle realizations travel unpacks for you -- that there is no other. You are a part of a whole, interconnected system and joined far more intimately to everything around you than you could ever hope to understand, though attempting to understand it is worth the effort, even if it's impossible. Travel doesn't make it any easier to understand it, but sometimes when you travel you can *feel* it all around you, moving and flowing through you like an invisible wind.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-22_172903_durango-parents.jpg" id="image-692" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-07-22_155812_durango-parents.jpg" id="image-689" class="picwide" />
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-08-01T16:34:58" itemprop="datePublished">August <span>1, 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>I spend more time than is strictly necessary staring at maps. I have since I was a kid. I used to drag my dad to a map store just to buy 7.5 topo sheets of the High Sierras and desert around southern California. </p> +<p>I like maps, especially blank spots on maps and in the United States there are very few places with as many blank spots as the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. One of the relative blank spots I kept staring at was something called Canyon of the Ancients. After our disappoint experience with Mesa Verde we were anxious to get back to some ruins that were less crowded and I felt like Canyon of the Ancients was a good place to start. Looking up reviews on the web got me tons of negative reviews from people complaining about the lack of signage, getting lost and never seeing anything but private farmland. Perfect.</p> +<p>We started at a museum up in Dolores CO, which exists mostly because in the mid 1980s this area decided it need a reservoir. The problem with filling in a canyon around here is that you’re filling in 2000 years of archaeological treasures. They found so much pottery here that (according to some locals we talked to) the museum put most of it in burlap sacks and smashed them to fit in drawers. Keep that in mind next time you think archaeologists are the best preservers of the past. Personally I’d rather have those pots on someone’s mantel than smashed in a drawer. The rest of us will never see it either way, might as well let at least one person enjoy it.</p> +<p>I didn’t actually know this tidbit when we were at the museum so I was able to enjoy it. It had a good bit of interactive stuff. The kids got to grind some corn, which made me incredibly happy we don’t have to do that these days. Though of course, at the rate we’re going I would not at all be surprised if we’re back to grinding corn before my grandchildren grow old.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients.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/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grinding corn photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The main purpose of stopping at the museum though was to get some better maps of the area, which we did. We decided to go to the best preserved ruin first, which was nice enough, but metal reinforcements and the rest of the modern structural work necessary to stabilize an excavated ruin are, to my mind, distracting (but necessary, I get it).</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients.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/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kiva photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>After that the kids were tired of driving around so we headed back to Mancos.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients.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/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1950s Chevrolet Apache Wagon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="1950s Chevrolet Apache wagon. You don't see these much. We're on the hunt for something better than a minivan, I'd love for it to be one of these but I don't really have a way to fab parts in the bus :)"> + </a> +<figcaption>1950s Chevrolet Apache wagon. You don’t see these much. We’re on the hunt for something better than a minivan, I’d love for it to be one of these but I don’t really have a way to fab parts in the bus :)</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>But then Corrinne and I changed our minds and decided we’d go see one other pueblo, known as Sand Canyon. </p> +<p>After winding through a bizarre patchwork of private and public lands we finally found a tiny turnout with an even tinier sign. We tucked some water in our packs and hit the short trail. Unlike most ruins we’d been to, Sand Canyon was reburied after it was excavated back in the 1960s (if you want something to last out here, you don’t leave it exposed to the elements, you rebury it and leave it like you found it). Instead of walking through buildings and rooms as we did in Chaco, in Sand Canyon you step over vaguely defined walls and crumbs of stones, a bit like my favorite ruin in southeast asia — Beng Melea, which is about two hours north of the rest of Angkor Wat and still mostly just a bunch of stone in the jungle. There’s no jungle in Sand Canyon, but the juniper, prickly pear and rice grass — all of which the kids pointed out, unprompted, as we hiked, so perhaps Mesa Verde was not a total loss — fill the same roll.</p> +<p>Sand Canyon sits on the edge of a juniper strewn mesa with a short trail that winds through it and eventually down that canyon. The pueblo itself was one of the largest in the area, bigger than anything in Mesa Verde. Just about 800 years ago roughly 725 people lived on the edge of this mesa in a singular walled structure. There were 420 rooms, 90 kivas and 14 towers. A spring used to run right through the middle of it, though it didn’t have any water when we were there. There were roofed plazas, kivas connected to towers and some other oddities. Although it doesn’t fit with the park service narrative and therefore wasn’t on any of the signs, in 1290 41 women men and children were massacred here and if anyone survived they moved on. No one has lived here since.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients.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/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ruins photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="See the tower that dates from 900AD?"> + </a> +<figcaption>See the tower that dates from 900AD?</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We wandered around, trying to piece together the structure of things based on the shape of rocks piled here in there in might have been patterns. It’s tough to trust your brain when it comes to patterns though, it’ll see patterns where there are none. Or perhaps patters that aren’t the ones you’re looking for. Still, we picked out a few kivas and what a sign said was the outer wall. We found potsherds. And then we put them back in the ground. </p> +<p>Unlike Chaco this location made sense — there was a commanding view of the canyon and a spring running right through the middle of what became the city. Anyone passing through the area would want to stay here. And a lot of people did pass through here. Over 6,000 sites have been recorded in the area Canyon of the Ancients covers and the best guess is that there are plenty more out there waiting to be found. </p> +<p>Even if you don’t head off into the desert in search of some new ruin — it’s worth bearing in mind that not officially recorded is very different than undiscovered — there’s plenty to find here. All the kids found their own potsherds, including the biggest piece we’ve found yet.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients.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/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Potsherds photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients.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/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Potsherds photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Eventually the heat and the stillness got to us and we headed back to the car for more water. One the way we detoured up to the high point of the mesa overlooking the canyon. We made a stab at a group picture, but mostly we just sat there awhile, listening to the silence of the desert and ruins.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients.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/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients_picwide.jpg" alt="4 months photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-01_152017_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Our trip to the Canyon of the Ancients happened to take place exactly four months after we left Athens. Honestly though, Athens feels a lot farther in the rearview mirror than that to me."> + </a> +<figcaption>Our trip to the Canyon of the Ancients happened to take place exactly four months after we left Athens. 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I have since I was a kid. I used to drag my dad to a map store just to buy 7.5 topo sheets of the High Sierras and desert around southern California.
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+I like maps, especially blank spots on maps and in the United States there are very few places with as many blank spots as the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. One of the relative blank spots I kept staring at was something called Canyon of the Ancients. After our disappoint experience with Mesa Verde we were anxious to get back to some ruins that were less crowded and I felt like Canyon of the Ancients was a good place to start. Looking up reviews on the web got me tons of negative reviews from people complaining about the lack of signage, getting lost and never seeing anything but private farmland. Perfect.
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+We started at a museum up in Dolores CO, which exists mostly because in the mid 1980s this area decided it need a reservoir. The problem with filling in a canyon around here is that you're filling in 2000 years of archaeological treasures. They found so much pottery here that (according to some locals we talked to) the museum put most of it in burlap sacks and smashed them to fit in drawers. Keep that in mind next time you think archaeologists are the best preservers of the past. Personally I'd rather have those pots on someone's mantel than smashed in a drawer. The rest of us will never see it either way, might as well let at least one person enjoy it.
+
+I didn't actually know this tidbit when we were at the museum so I was able to enjoy it. It had a good bit of interactive stuff. The kids got to grind some corn, which made me incredibly happy we don't have to do that these days. Though of course, at the rate we're going I would not at all be surprised if we're back to grinding corn before my grandchildren grow old.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_114616_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-714" class="picwide" />
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+The main purpose of stopping at the museum though was to get some better maps of the area, which we did. We decided to go to the best preserved ruin first, which was nice enough, but metal reinforcements and the rest of the modern structural work necessary to stabilize an excavated ruin are, to my mind, distracting (but necessary, I get it).
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_130613_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-715" class="picwide" />
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+After that the kids were tired of driving around so we headed back to Mancos.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_141900_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-716" class="picwide caption" />
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+But then Corrinne and I changed our minds and decided we'd go see one other pueblo, known as Sand Canyon.
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+After winding through a bizarre patchwork of private and public lands we finally found a tiny turnout with an even tinier sign. We tucked some water in our packs and hit the short trail. Unlike most ruins we'd been to, Sand Canyon was reburied after it was excavated back in the 1960s (if you want something to last out here, you don't leave it exposed to the elements, you rebury it and leave it like you found it). Instead of walking through buildings and rooms as we did in Chaco, in Sand Canyon you step over vaguely defined walls and crumbs of stones, a bit like my favorite ruin in southeast asia -- Beng Melea, which is about two hours north of the rest of Angkor Wat and still mostly just a bunch of stone in the jungle. There's no jungle in Sand Canyon, but the juniper, prickly pear and rice grass -- all of which the kids pointed out, unprompted, as we hiked, so perhaps Mesa Verde was not a total loss -- fill the same roll.
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+Sand Canyon sits on the edge of a juniper strewn mesa with a short trail that winds through it and eventually down that canyon. The pueblo itself was one of the largest in the area, bigger than anything in Mesa Verde. Just about 800 years ago roughly 725 people lived on the edge of this mesa in a singular walled structure. There were 420 rooms, 90 kivas and 14 towers. A spring used to run right through the middle of it, though it didn't have any water when we were there. There were roofed plazas, kivas connected to towers and some other oddities. Although it doesn't fit with the park service narrative and therefore wasn't on any of the signs, in 1290 41 women men and children were massacred here and if anyone survived they moved on. No one has lived here since.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_150613_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-717" class="picwide caption" />
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+We wandered around, trying to piece together the structure of things based on the shape of rocks piled here in there in might have been patterns. It's tough to trust your brain when it comes to patterns though, it'll see patterns where there are none. Or perhaps patters that aren't the ones you're looking for. Still, we picked out a few kivas and what a sign said was the outer wall. We found potsherds. And then we put them back in the ground.
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+Unlike Chaco this location made sense -- there was a commanding view of the canyon and a spring running right through the middle of what became the city. Anyone passing through the area would want to stay here. And a lot of people did pass through here. Over 6,000 sites have been recorded in the area Canyon of the Ancients covers and the best guess is that there are plenty more out there waiting to be found.
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+Even if you don't head off into the desert in search of some new ruin -- it's worth bearing in mind that not officially recorded is very different than undiscovered -- there's plenty to find here. All the kids found their own potsherds, including the biggest piece we've found yet.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_152352_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-719" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-01_152431_canyon-of-the-ancients.jpg" id="image-720" class="picwide" />
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+Eventually the heat and the stillness got to us and we headed back to the car for more water. One the way we detoured up to the high point of the mesa overlooking the canyon. We made a stab at a group picture, but mostly we just sat there awhile, listening to the silence of the desert and ruins.
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It’s not easy to find. The road is unmarked (at least the north end) and there are a series of roads that all basically look the same. After driving back and forth a few times I finally gave up and stopped at the nearest town and asked a woman at chamber of commerce how to get there. I was given some very vague directions with one particular thing to look for, which eventually proved to be the missing piece of information we needed.</p> +<p>Once we found it there was no trouble with getting lost, there was only one road running down a long canyon filled with petrogylphs and ruins that were, for the most part open to the world at large. There was also a fully restored kiva that we went down inside. </p> +<p>In a day’s worth of driving we saw only one other car. It was just about the best canyon exploring I’ve ever done by car (hiking, that’s another story) and the best ruins and petrogylphs we’ve seen. There were even modern houses with people living in them, rock caves used as barns, and enough other oddities to feel a bit like you were on another planet. There were no signs, no fences and no rules. Thank you very much to the women who pointed us here.</p> +<p>In the spirit of this place I do not want to ruin your chance for serendipitous discovery so I have stripped all the geodata from the images and I’m not publishing the name. If you’re headed to the area and you want to be pointed in the right direction, <a href="/contact/">email me</a>.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_115643-1.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/2017/2017-08-11_115643-1_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_115643-1_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_115643-1_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_115643-1_picwide-med.jpg" alt="entrance to the canyon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_115643-1.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The entrance to the canyon."> + </a> +<figcaption>The entrance to the canyon.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_124720.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/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_124720_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ancient house in rock cave photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_124720.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="There are ancient dwellings..."> + </a> +<figcaption>There are ancient dwellings…</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_122712.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/2017/2017-08-11_122712_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_122712_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_122712_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_122712_picwide-med.jpg" alt="house in rock cave photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_122712.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="...and modern ones too."> + </a> +<figcaption>…and modern ones too.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_122159.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/2017/2017-08-11_122159_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_122159_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_122159_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_122159_picwide-med.jpg" alt="vintage trailer in rock cave photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_122159.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Even some that look a little like our home."> + </a> +<figcaption>Even some that look a little like our home.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_125546-1.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/2017/2017-08-11_125546-1_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_125546-1_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_125546-1_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_125546-1_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ancient handholds photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_125546-1.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Ever since I was a kid exploring the west with my parents I've wanted to climb up some ancient handholds, but for one reason or another I never have. Until now."> + </a> +<figcaption>Ever since I was a kid exploring the west with my parents I’ve wanted to climb up some ancient handholds, but for one reason or another I never have. Until now.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_141439.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/2017/2017-08-11_141439_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141439_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141439_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141439_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141439_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141439_picwide.jpg" alt="graineries high on the canyon wall photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_141439.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_141740.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/2017/2017-08-11_141740_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141740_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141740_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_141740_picwide-med.jpg" alt="graineries high on the canyon wall photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_141740.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_140608.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/2017/2017-08-11_140608_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_140608_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_140608_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_140608_picwide-med.jpg" alt="petrogylphs photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_140608.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_143430.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/2017/2017-08-11_143430_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_143430_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_143430_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_143430_picwide-med.jpg" alt="petrogylphs photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_143430.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_150008.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/2017/2017-08-11_150008_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_150008_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_150008_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_150008_picwide-med.jpg" alt="petrogylphs photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_150008.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_152429.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/2017/2017-08-11_152429_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_152429_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_152429_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_152429_picwide-med.jpg" alt="petrogylphs photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_152429.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>By far the highlight of the day for me was getting to go down inside a kiva. I can’t properly convey what it was like to go down there, but what made it really special was that there was no one else around but us.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_160603.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/2017/2017-08-11_160603_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_160603_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_160603_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_160603_picwide-med.jpg" alt="inside kiva photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_160603.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_155022.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/2017/2017-08-11_155022_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_155022_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_155022_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_155022_picwide-med.jpg" alt="inside kiva photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_155022.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_160759.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/2017/2017-08-11_160759_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_160759_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_160759_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-11_160759_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Self portrait in kiva photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-11_160759.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Self portrait in kiva"> + </a> +<figcaption>Self portrait in kiva</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Back at camp the kids wasted no time in finding a nice rock outcropping under which to play ancient puebloans, hunting, grinding corn, building with rocks, even attempting to weave grass sandals.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_154203.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/2017/2017-08-12_154203_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_154203_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_154203_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_154203_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing ancient puebloans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_154203.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_154039.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/2017/2017-08-12_154039_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_154039_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_154039_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_154039_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_154039.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_165852.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/2017/2017-08-12_165852_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_165852_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_165852_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_165852_picwide-med.jpg" alt="weaving sandels photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_165852.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_155206.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/2017/2017-08-12_155206_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_155206_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_155206_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-12_155206_picwide-med.jpg" alt="inside cave photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-12_155206.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" 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Im going to have to get that location from you if im ever out that way- Thats amazing. Without me googling it, do you have any clue how they made petroglyphs? Its almost like they bleached the rock. Surely its not just a carving or scrape technique is it?</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2724" 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">September 03, 2017 at 5:57 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@drew- I emailed you some info on the canyon. </p> +<p>As for petroglyphs, yup they’re carved, the hard way. 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It's not easy to find. The road is unmarked (at least the north end) and there are a series of roads that all basically look the same. After driving back and forth a few times I finally gave up and stopped at the nearest town and asked a woman at chamber of commerce how to get there. I was given some very vague directions with one particular thing to look for, which eventually proved to be the missing piece of information we needed.
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+Once we found it there was no trouble with getting lost, there was only one road running down a long canyon filled with petrogylphs and ruins that were, for the most part open to the world at large. There was also a fully restored kiva that we went down inside.
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+In a day's worth of driving we saw only one other car. It was just about the best canyon exploring I've ever done by car (hiking, that's another story) and the best ruins and petrogylphs we've seen. There were even modern houses with people living in them, rock caves used as barns, and enough other oddities to feel a bit like you were on another planet. There were no signs, no fences and no rules. Thank you very much to the women who pointed us here.
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+In the spirit of this place I do not want to ruin your chance for serendipitous discovery so I have stripped all the geodata from the images and I'm not publishing the name. If you're headed to the area and you want to be pointed in the right direction, [email me][1].
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+By far the highlight of the day for me was getting to go down inside a kiva. I can't properly convey what it was like to go down there, but what made it really special was that there was no one else around but us.
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+Back at camp the kids wasted no time in finding a nice rock outcropping under which to play ancient puebloans, hunting, grinding corn, building with rocks, even attempting to weave grass sandals.
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But, when I walked out of the gas station after paying, I noticed a puddle of liquid under the bus. Crap. There are only two liquids in the back of the bus, water and gas. I crawled under the bus and unfortunately, this was not water.</p> +<p>In fact I could see the gas dripping out of a T-valve that would send gas up to the generator, if we had one. Leaking gas is always bad, but this was leaking gas that was dripping down about four inches from the tailpipe. I have no idea how hot the tail pipe is 20 feet from the engine, but I’d guess it’s hot enough to ignite gasoline vapors.</p> +<p>The gas station had a repair shop attached, though it seemed to mainly do tires. I wandered over and started talking to a couple of the kids that worked there and got their permission to pull the bus over, off to the side so I work under it. They even gave me a couple rags. I got under and decided to start with the rubber hose, which I figured was the most likely candidate to have cracked. Certainly the easiest fix, which is my own personal version of Occam’s razor — start with the easiest possible fix.</p> +<p>I clamped the rubber hose coming out of the tank and cut it lose from the joint, trimmed a couple of inches and stuck it back on with two new hose clamps. The dripping stopped. I went up and started the engine and went back to have a look. Still dripping. Damn. I turned it off and crawled back under to take apart the joint and get some pipe dope in there. I put a good amount of pipe dope on all three pieces, but as I was tightening it I was causing gas to come dripping out. I spun around a connector piece that seemed weak and realized it was cracked, bingo. Bought a new piece from the shop, which had some brass fittings, for $3, doped it all out and tightened everything back up. Started the engine and no leaks. A little over an hour and only $3 — if only all the bus problems were that easily solved.</p> +<p>I took the long way out of Mancos, but we were back on the road by noon.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0089_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/IMG_0089_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0089_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0089_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0089_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1960s International Harvester Travelall photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0089_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Part of the reason I took the long way out was the photograph a couple cool old cars. I'm not sure what year this is, but we'd love to have a mid-1960s International Harvester Travelall like this."> + </a> +<figcaption>Part of the reason I took the long way out was the photograph a couple cool old cars. I’m not sure what year this is, but we’d love to have a mid-1960s International Harvester Travelall like this.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0090.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/IMG_0090_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0090_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0090_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_0090_picwide-med.jpg" alt="1970s dodge Xplorer photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_0090.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Ray Frank, who designed the Travco, sold the Travco company in the late 1970s or so. He went on to create some really cool Dodge-based van/rvs call Xplorers, this is the second one I've seen."> + </a> +<figcaption>Ray Frank, who designed the Travco, sold the Travco company in the late 1970s or so. He went on to create some really cool Dodge-based van/rvs call Xplorers, this is the second one I’ve seen.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Needless to say hitting the road at the crack of noon, while pretty good considering, was not good when we had about four hours to go. We’ve adopted what some fulltimers call the 2, 2, 2 policy (never drive more than two hours, never get there later than 2 o’clock and never stay less than two days). There was no way we were going to make it by two and in this case it was more than arbitrary, we knew a big storm was supposed to roll in to where we were headed that evening. And let’s just say that spending my morning under rather than in the bus took some of my enthusiasm for further struggles away. </p> +<p>By two o’clock we were well on our way to Naturita, but it was hard to tell where Naturita was because a massive and very nasty looking storm had swallowed the horizon. We stopped at the side of the road to regroup and rethink our options. We talked over a couple different plans and ended up deciding to backtrack a few miles to a sign we’d both noticed that said national forest access. Signs like that are all over the place around here, sometimes the national forest ends up being a couple miles, sometimes it’s twenty or thirty. It’s always a gamble, but gambling beats a certain storm so we headed off down a dirt road that, as they tend to do, got progressively worse until it practically dove off a cliff down to the banks of the Dolores river.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river.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/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Storm."> + </a> +<figcaption>Storm.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>At the bottom of the canyon was the most decayed, ramshackle national campground I’ve ever encountered. Perfect. Even the signs were falling apart.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_143027.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/2017/20170807_143027_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_143027_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_143027_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_143027_picwide-med.jpg" alt="signs, dolores river photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_143027.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +<figcaption>image by Corrinne Gilbertson</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river.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/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We found a site way off by itself — not that there was anyone around, in all our time down by the river we only had two other people in the campground — about 30 feet from the water and headed down to the river for a swim. </p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_161821_dolores-river.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_161821_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_152227-1.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_152227-1_pic66.jpg" alt="1969 dodge travco photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_152227-1.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_151658.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170807_151658_pic66.jpg" alt="swimming, dolores river photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170807_151658.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>Hot days, cold water. Just about perfect. There was even a field of sunflowers next to our campsite. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river.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/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We liked it so much in fact that we stayed four days. We might have stayed longer, but one afternoon a couple of women foraging for herbs stopped by and we got to talking about the area and eventually we ended up talking archeology sites and potsherds. These were the women who told the story about the museum smashing pots to fit them in a drawer. But they told us about a place they said we’d have to ourselves that was full of pictographs and houses built into a rock, both new and old. Naturally we had to go so we packed up and left the next day.</p> +<p>I’ll write about that adventure next time, but I’ve been thinking ever since about how if it weren’t for the bus’s fuel line cracking we’d have never seen the Dolores river, and never made it to one of the best canyons we’ve explored in this area. Some people call this coincidence, but those people lack perception. Coincidence only exists when you’re not paying attention. There are no coincidences, just massively complicated intricate patterns we can’t begin to comprehend. At best you can feel them moving around you, moving through you, you can reach out and touch them, bounce from node to node for a while. It’s a bit like lying in a river, everything flowing around, over and through you.</p> +<p>One of the things about living on the road is that the highs tend to be higher and the lows correspondingly lower, which produces an odd kind of balance and has a lot to teach about the center, but you also learn that the highs and lows are not separate things, they’re interrelated and connected in all kinds of interesting and malleable ways. There are not hard and fast lines between high and low moments like our brains would have us pretend there are. Each point in the pattern, each node in the network gets information from all the other. Everything needs everything else. Everything feeds back through to everything else. No broken fuel line, no Dolores river. It just wouldn’t be as fun any other way.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river.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/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river_picwide.jpg" alt="Dolores River Sunrise photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-09_072818_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-10_071640_dolores-river.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/2017/2017-08-10_071640_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-10_071640_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-10_071640_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-10_071640_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-10_071640_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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/2017/08/canyon-ancients" rel="prev" title=" Canyon of the Ancients">Canyon of the Ancients</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/08/canyoneering" rel="next" title=" Canyoneering">Canyoneering</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2692" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Lou" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Lou</b></span> + <span class="when">August 23, 2017 at 12:28 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Every summer we used to camp all over TX, NM and CO when i was growing up. We had an old station wagon and a pop-up camper, and it was the best. This brings back so many great memories! Hope y’all continue to have a wonderful trip, i enjoy reading your blog posts :)</p> +<p>& say hi to Corrinne for me!</p> +<p>~Lou</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2693" 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">August 23, 2017 at 1:04 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Thanks Lou, and Corrinne says hi.</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="213" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833386" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="c1fb849696a6441ee928b69452418bc6b098129a" 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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+
+We set out early from the campground and stopped in Mancos to get some gas and grab a last couple of espressos from Fahrenheit coffee roasters. But, when I walked out of the gas station after paying, I noticed a puddle of liquid under the bus. Crap. There are only two liquids in the back of the bus, water and gas. I crawled under the bus and unfortunately, this was not water.
+
+In fact I could see the gas dripping out of a T-valve that would send gas up to the generator, if we had one. Leaking gas is always bad, but this was leaking gas that was dripping down about four inches from the tailpipe. I have no idea how hot the tail pipe is 20 feet from the engine, but I'd guess it's hot enough to ignite gasoline vapors.
+
+The gas station had a repair shop attached, though it seemed to mainly do tires. I wandered over and started talking to a couple of the kids that worked there and got their permission to pull the bus over, off to the side so I work under it. They even gave me a couple rags. I got under and decided to start with the rubber hose, which I figured was the most likely candidate to have cracked. Certainly the easiest fix, which is my own personal version of Occam's razor -- start with the easiest possible fix.
+
+I clamped the rubber hose coming out of the tank and cut it lose from the joint, trimmed a couple of inches and stuck it back on with two new hose clamps. The dripping stopped. I went up and started the engine and went back to have a look. Still dripping. Damn. I turned it off and crawled back under to take apart the joint and get some pipe dope in there. I put a good amount of pipe dope on all three pieces, but as I was tightening it I was causing gas to come dripping out. I spun around a connector piece that seemed weak and realized it was cracked, bingo. Bought a new piece from the shop, which had some brass fittings, for $3, doped it all out and tightened everything back up. Started the engine and no leaks. A little over an hour and only $3 -- if only all the bus problems were that easily solved.
+
+I took the long way out of Mancos, but we were back on the road by noon.
+
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0089_01.jpg" id="image-733" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/IMG_0090.jpg" id="image-734" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Needless to say hitting the road at the crack of noon, while pretty good considering, was not good when we had about four hours to go. We've adopted what some fulltimers call the 2, 2, 2 policy (never drive more than two hours, never get there later than 2 o'clock and never stay less than two days). There was no way we were going to make it by two and in this case it was more than arbitrary, we knew a big storm was supposed to roll in to where we were headed that evening. And let's just say that spending my morning under rather than in the bus took some of my enthusiasm for further struggles away.
+
+By two o'clock we were well on our way to Naturita, but it was hard to tell where Naturita was because a massive and very nasty looking storm had swallowed the horizon. We stopped at the side of the road to regroup and rethink our options. We talked over a couple different plans and ended up deciding to backtrack a few miles to a sign we'd both noticed that said national forest access. Signs like that are all over the place around here, sometimes the national forest ends up being a couple miles, sometimes it's twenty or thirty. It's always a gamble, but gambling beats a certain storm so we headed off down a dirt road that, as they tend to do, got progressively worse until it practically dove off a cliff down to the banks of the Dolores river.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_153145_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-723" class="picwide caption" />
+
+At the bottom of the canyon was the most decayed, ramshackle national campground I've ever encountered. Perfect. Even the signs were falling apart.
+
+<img src="images/2017/20170807_143027.jpg" id="image-736" class="picwide" />
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_165111_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-726" class="picwide" />
+
+We found a site way off by itself -- not that there was anyone around, in all our time down by the river we only had two other people in the campground -- about 30 feet from the water and headed down to the river for a swim.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_160350_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-724" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-725" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_161821_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-735" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/20170807_152227-1.jpg" id="image-738" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170807_151658.jpg" id="image-737" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+Hot days, cold water. Just about perfect. There was even a field of sunflowers next to our campsite.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-07_170409-1_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-727" class="picwide" />
+
+We liked it so much in fact that we stayed four days. We might have stayed longer, but one afternoon a couple of women foraging for herbs stopped by and we got to talking about the area and eventually we ended up talking archeology sites and potsherds. These were the women who told the story about the museum smashing pots to fit them in a drawer. But they told us about a place they said we'd have to ourselves that was full of pictographs and houses built into a rock, both new and old. Naturally we had to go so we packed up and left the next day.
+
+I'll write about that adventure next time, but I've been thinking ever since about how if it weren't for the bus's fuel line cracking we'd have never seen the Dolores river, and never made it to one of the best canyons we've explored in this area. Some people call this coincidence, but those people lack perception. Coincidence only exists when you're not paying attention. There are no coincidences, just massively complicated intricate patterns we can't begin to comprehend. At best you can feel them moving around you, moving through you, you can reach out and touch them, bounce from node to node for a while. It's a bit like lying in a river, everything flowing around, over and through you.
+
+One of the things about living on the road is that the highs tend to be higher and the lows correspondingly lower, which produces an odd kind of balance and has a lot to teach about the center, but you also learn that the highs and lows are not separate things, they're interrelated and connected in all kinds of interesting and malleable ways. There are not hard and fast lines between high and low moments like our brains would have us pretend there are. Each point in the pattern, each node in the network gets information from all the other. Everything needs everything else. Everything feeds back through to everything else. No broken fuel line, no Dolores river. It just wouldn't be as fun any other way.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2017-08-24T19:06:32" itemprop="datePublished">August <span>24, 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 our <a href="/jrnl/2017/08/canyoneering">adventures in the canyon country</a> we headed north, through the hordes of Moab and back east toward Grand Junction, where we did a bit of resupplying. Around these parts Grand Junction qualifies as a big city and it had some things we needed so we stopped off and ran errands for a day. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park.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/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Arches NP entrance photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The entrance to Arches National Park. No idea how long it takes to wade through that line."> + </a> +<figcaption>The entrance to Arches National Park. No idea how long it takes to wade through that line.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>After that we headed up the valley toward Montrose with the vague idea that we’d spend a night at Ridgway State Park and then find some boondocking spot after that.</p> +<p>As sometimes happens with us, one night turned into a week and then nearly two. It wasn’t that Ridgway State Park was phenomenally nice or anything, it wasn’t at all. Like most Colorado state parks it packs a ton of people in a small space, but it did have a lake with a nice swimming beach beach for the kids and quick access to the town of Ridgway where some people we knew from our old neighborhood had moved last year. The kids hit it off and the adults too so we ended up hanging around almost two weeks. </p> +<p>And one thing Ridgway State Park did have was some amazing views of the Cimmarron Range and the back side of the San Juans (if we didn’t have an ancient, somewhat underpowered Dodge Travco we could have just driven here from Durango in about five hours instead of three weeks, but where’s the fun in that? </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-17_191307_ridgway-state-park_eaPEODQ.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/2017/2017-08-17_191307_ridgway-state-park_eaPEODQ_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-17_191307_ridgway-state-park_eaPEODQ_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-17_191307_ridgway-state-park_eaPEODQ_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-17_191307_ridgway-state-park_eaPEODQ_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The Cimmaron range over Ridgeway state park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-17_191307_ridgway-state-park_eaPEODQ.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park.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/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>One day we attempted the drive up to Owl Creek Pass. We didn’t make it all the way, but the kids did have one of their rare, please take our picture, moments.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park.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/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The Cimmaron range from owl creek pass road photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park.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/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="on the drive to owl creek pass photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park.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/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="When I walked back to get the car Elliott chased after me so I could take a picture of "just me, no one else, just me"."> + </a> +<figcaption>When I walked back to get the car Elliott chased after me so I could take a picture of “just me, no one else, just me”.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I spent the mornings working, sometimes on the kind of work that pays the bills, sometimes on the bus, which has been plagued by a string of small, but irritating problems that were no fun at all. Like a leaking black tank. Happy to say that that one seems solved. The others will rear their head in the next post.</p> +<p>The afternoons were spent by the lake, swimming, digging in the sand, catching strange stomach viruses, all the good things you get from reservoirs.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park.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/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I took one afternoon off to scout the road to Dallas divide. The car did fine, the views of the San Juans were beautiful, but the bus… probably not.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park.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/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The high point of the area for us — aside from visiting with friends — was the town of Ridgway. It’s small, about 1100 I believe, but has a surprisingly diverse collection of people and views packed into it. It’s the sort of place we could pass a few years I suspect. </p> +<p>Just north of it is Ouray, which, while admittedly very pretty and a bit higher in the mountains, was a little touristy for our tastes. 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Around these parts Grand Junction qualifies as a big city and it had some things we needed so we stopped off and ran errands for a day.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-14_114543_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-758" class="picwide caption" />
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+After that we headed up the valley toward Montrose with the vague idea that we'd spend a night at Ridgway State Park and then find some boondocking spot after that.
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+As sometimes happens with us, one night turned into a week and then nearly two. It wasn't that Ridgway State Park was phenomenally nice or anything, it wasn't at all. Like most Colorado state parks it packs a ton of people in a small space, but it did have a lake with a nice swimming beach beach for the kids and quick access to the town of Ridgway where some people we knew from our old neighborhood had moved last year. The kids hit it off and the adults too so we ended up hanging around almost two weeks.
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+And one thing Ridgway State Park did have was some amazing views of the Cimmarron Range and the back side of the San Juans (if we didn't have an ancient, somewhat underpowered Dodge Travco we could have just driven here from Durango in about five hours instead of three weeks, but where's the fun in that?
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-17_191307_ridgway-state-park_eaPEODQ.jpg" id="image-759" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-25_205350-1_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-766" class="picwide" />
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+One day we attempted the drive up to Owl Creek Pass. We didn't make it all the way, but the kids did have one of their rare, please take our picture, moments.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_145807_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-760" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_150140_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-761" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_150541_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-762" class="picwide caption" />
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+I spent the mornings working, sometimes on the kind of work that pays the bills, sometimes on the bus, which has been plagued by a string of small, but irritating problems that were no fun at all. Like a leaking black tank. Happy to say that that one seems solved. The others will rear their head in the next post.
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+The afternoons were spent by the lake, swimming, digging in the sand, catching strange stomach viruses, all the good things you get from reservoirs.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-19_180050_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-763" class="picwide" />
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+I took one afternoon off to scout the road to Dallas divide. The car did fine, the views of the San Juans were beautiful, but the bus... probably not.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-20_140813-1_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-764" class="picwide" />
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+The high point of the area for us -- aside from visiting with friends -- was the town of Ridgway. It's small, about 1100 I believe, but has a surprisingly diverse collection of people and views packed into it. It's the sort of place we could pass a few years I suspect.
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+Just north of it is Ouray, which, while admittedly very pretty and a bit higher in the mountains, was a little touristy for our tastes. We had a fun afternoon, ate some ice cream, people watched and bought some fuses for a bus project, but were never compelled to return.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-08-26_143928_ridgway-state-park.jpg" id="image-767" class="picwide" />
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I’m not alone in that. The Greeks obsessed over them as well, probably because they used Aspen to make shields. The tree owes its name to them, <em>Aspis</em> translates roughly as “shield.” Shields that watch you. Watch over you perhaps. There are three species of shields left in the North America. Around us are Quaking Aspen. The distinctive eyes are places where branches have dropped from the trunk.</p> +<p>These days Aspen grow mainly in the north — Montana, Idaho, Colorado and especially as one of the early succession species in the north arboreal forests of Canada. Some, like the stand we’re camped in here, still manage to succeed as far south as Southern Utah. Aspens have suffered over the last century or so, as humans have greatly decreased the number and size of forest fires. Aspens thrive after a burn and are later crowded out by pines, spruce and fir, which all outstretch the Aspens and steal their light. Aspens have only one real requirement — sunlight, lots of sunlight.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-04_145717_buckboard-abajo-mnts.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/2017/2017-09-04_145717_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-04_145717_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-04_145717_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-04_145717_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Aspen grove midday light photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-04_145717_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Aspens are part of the forest succession cycle, not the beginning or the end, but somewhere in the middle. Interestingly though, Aspens don’t really go away even after they’ve been crowded out by the taller species like spruce and fir. They just stop existing above the soil. </p> +<p>A stand of Aspen is considerably different than most trees in a forest. Aspens are rarely individual trees. Instead they grow like rhizomes, like giant white asparagus. Aspens are not really trees, the trunks we see are not the soul of the plant. The truth of Aspens is under the ground. They are massive root systems, some as large as twenty acres, that send up white trunks, which then sprout leaves. But even the leaves aren’t necessary. Beneath the striking white bark is a there’s a thin photosynthetic green layer that allows the plant to continue synthesizing sugars even without leaves. Winter means little to an Aspen grove.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_080144_buckboard-abajo-mnts.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/2017/2017-09-02_080144_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_080144_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_080144_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_080144_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Aspen grove evening light photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_080144_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-04_124512_buckboard-abajo-mnts.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/2017/2017-09-04_124512_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-04_124512_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-04_124512_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-04_124512_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Aspen sky photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-04_124512_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>All of this means that some Aspen groves have been around a very long time. I have no idea how long this one has been here, clinging to a remaining belt of land in the Abajo Mountains above Monticello Utah, but I do know that a few hundred miles west of here there is a stand of Aspens known as “Pando” in the Fishlake National Forest, just north of Bryce National Park that’s said to be 80,000 years old. This stand, being at the southern edge of the current range of Aspens, likely very old as well, Probably in the 10-20,000 thousand year old range. Possibly older. Either way that’s older than Sequoias, older than Bristlecone Pines, possibly older even than Creosote Bushes, which grow in a similar manner.</p> +<p>These eyes have been watching the world for longer than recorded human history, which is why I spent most of our days up in the Abajo mountains watching them back. I don’t know what Aspens are saying exactly, but I know that they talk in the wind. I know their song is different than most trees, their leaves move more, shimmering and quivering in breezes so slight you wouldn’t otherwise notice them. And I know that they stare in the night, in the day. I know that I have never felt an affinity of any plant like what I feel for the Aspen grove.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-01_165207_buckboard-abajo-mnts.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/2017/2017-09-01_165207_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-01_165207_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-01_165207_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-01_165207_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-01_165207_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-01_080555_buckboard-abajo-mnts.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/2017/2017-09-01_080555_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-01_080555_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-01_080555_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-01_080555_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg" alt="watching the sunrise photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-01_080555_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We passed the better part of a week up here, watching the aspens, playing in the forest and getting a little work done. There was no bus to mess with, which, I’ll be honest, was a bit of a relief. The kids loved being a tent for a while and having some time to play in a forest wonderland.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170906_164514.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/2017/20170906_164514_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170906_164514_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170906_164514_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170906_164514_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the tent photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170906_164514.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" 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+
+All forests have eyes, really, but this one shows them off more than most.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-01_080007_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" id="image-792" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-05_162530_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" id="image-779" class="picwide" />
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+Aspens have always fascinated me. I'm not alone in that. The Greeks obsessed over them as well, probably because they used Aspen to make shields. The tree owes its name to them, *Aspis* translates roughly as "shield." Shields that watch you. Watch over you perhaps. There are three species of shields left in the North America. Around us are Quaking Aspen. The distinctive eyes are places where branches have dropped from the trunk.
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+These days Aspen grow mainly in the north -- Montana, Idaho, Colorado and especially as one of the early succession species in the north arboreal forests of Canada. Some, like the stand we're camped in here, still manage to succeed as far south as Southern Utah. Aspens have suffered over the last century or so, as humans have greatly decreased the number and size of forest fires. Aspens thrive after a burn and are later crowded out by pines, spruce and fir, which all outstretch the Aspens and steal their light. Aspens have only one real requirement -- sunlight, lots of sunlight.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-04_145717_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" id="image-785" class="picwide" />
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+Aspens are part of the forest succession cycle, not the beginning or the end, but somewhere in the middle. Interestingly though, Aspens don't really go away even after they've been crowded out by the taller species like spruce and fir. They just stop existing above the soil.
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+A stand of Aspen is considerably different than most trees in a forest. Aspens are rarely individual trees. Instead they grow like rhizomes, like giant white asparagus. Aspens are not really trees, the trunks we see are not the soul of the plant. The truth of Aspens is under the ground. They are massive root systems, some as large as twenty acres, that send up white trunks, which then sprout leaves. But even the leaves aren't necessary. Beneath the striking white bark is a there's a thin photosynthetic green layer that allows the plant to continue synthesizing sugars even without leaves. Winter means little to an Aspen grove.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_080144_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" id="image-788" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-04_124512_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" id="image-786" class="picwide" />
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+All of this means that some Aspen groves have been around a very long time. I have no idea how long this one has been here, clinging to a remaining belt of land in the Abajo Mountains above Monticello Utah, but I do know that a few hundred miles west of here there is a stand of Aspens known as "Pando" in the Fishlake National Forest, just north of Bryce National Park that's said to be 80,000 years old. This stand, being at the southern edge of the current range of Aspens, likely very old as well, Probably in the 10-20,000 thousand year old range. Possibly older. Either way that's older than Sequoias, older than Bristlecone Pines, possibly older even than Creosote Bushes, which grow in a similar manner.
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+These eyes have been watching the world for longer than recorded human history, which is why I spent most of our days up in the Abajo mountains watching them back. I don't know what Aspens are saying exactly, but I know that they talk in the wind. I know their song is different than most trees, their leaves move more, shimmering and quivering in breezes so slight you wouldn't otherwise notice them. And I know that they stare in the night, in the day. I know that I have never felt an affinity of any plant like what I feel for the Aspen grove.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-01_165207_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" id="image-789" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-01_080555_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" id="image-791" class="picwide" />
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+We passed the better part of a week up here, watching the aspens, playing in the forest and getting a little work done. There was no bus to mess with, which, I'll be honest, was a bit of a relief. The kids loved being a tent for a while and having some time to play in a forest wonderland.
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Alas it was one of those days that did not start well and then got worse from there. I was feeling a bit dizzy all morning, not bad really, just slightly off. Corrinne wanted to stay and leave the next day but I really wanted to go. I should have listened to her, but when I get it in my head to go I tend to plow forward like a tank, come hell or high water. </p> +<p>Things started to really go south when I got the dump station. I was emptying the tank when I noticed fluid leaking out the front of the bus. Quite a lot of fluid. I crawled under to investigate. Transmission fluid. Lots of transmission fluid. Leaking. Again. I had noticed a bit a transmission fluid leaking over the last few weeks, but it wasn’t leaking enough to even hit the ground, just a bit would dribble out on the suspension from time to time. This, however, was something else.</p> +<p>I finished up dumping and pulled over to the day use area to get a closer look. After a bit of digging around I found the problem — a flared compression fitting had cracked. It’s worth here noting that someone had already done a considerable amount of surgery and patching to the transmission cooler lines, which were not single tubes but several connected together, three different diameters and types of hose in fact, all cobbled together. It was a crap job, but it was working. Until now.</p> +<p>It so happens that I installed our propane system on the road, so I have flaring tools. What I needed was 5/8in tubing, but of course that’s pretty much impossible to find outside an auto supply store, which Ridgway lacks. So I rigged up a standard fuel hose with overtightened clamps that seemed like it would hold about five miles into town. And it did. Sort of. I managed to get to the one mechanic shop in town. I explained the situation and the mechanic was nice enough to just give me some 5/8in tubing. </p> +<p>Corrinne took the kids to the playground in the center of Ridgway and I sat down on the curb outside the shop and got to work with the flaring tools. About half an hour later I had it sealed up again. By now it was well past noon and I was hungry and the dizziness, which I attributed to not eating, was much worse. I decided to limp back to Ridgway State Park and try again the next day. Corrinne being right.</p> +<p>I made it back, found a site and parked. I wanted to see how my handiwork was holding up so I crawled under and goddamnit there was transmission fluid pouring out of the hose behind where I had fixed, which was some kind of bizarre flexible hose with a flare at one end and screw fitting at the other. I kicked the tailpipe in anger, while wearing flipflops, which as you can imagine was not a good idea. I instinctively tried to grab my foot where it was burned and sat up, hitting my head on the floor of the bus above me. This would probably have all been hilarious to watch.</p> +<p>Finally I rolled out from under the bus, staggered inside for some water, staggered back outside and lay down on the concrete around the picnic table. I was pretty much over it. I lay there waiting for Corrinne and the kids to be done at the park scheming ways to sell the bus, use the money to by plane tickets and just disappear into the far east somewhere to hide from my failure and shame. Eventually I fell asleep and that’s where I was when Corrinne and kids finally found me. </p> +<p>That’s when Corrinne took my temperature and I realized I was quite sick, with a fever of 103. I stumbled back in the bus, put up my bunk and was pretty much incoherent for the next 18 hours or so. </p> +<figure class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170828_174735.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/2017/20170828_174735_pictall-sm.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170828_174735_pictall-med.jpg Nonew, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170828_174735_pictall.jpg Nonew" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170828_174735_pictall-med.jpg" alt="fever photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170828_174735.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="About 10 seconds after this was taken I fell asleep for about 18 hours."> + </a> +<figcaption>About 10 seconds after this was taken I fell asleep for about 18 hours.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170826_181201.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170826_181201_pic66.jpg" alt="washing dishes photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170826_181201.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Much to my wife's chagrin, when I am sick the kids are helpful <em>and</em> let me sleep."></a> +<figcaption>Much to my wife’s chagrin, when I am sick the kids are helpful <em>and</em> let me sleep.</figcaption> +</figure> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170826_181529.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170826_181529_pic66.jpg" alt="washing dishes photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170826_181529.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>When I finally felt up to it — two days later — I did a bit of research and discovered that the only place with the transmission cooler lines I needed was Summit Racing<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, which I needed to have shipped somewhere, which is one of the challenges of living on the road<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>. I’ve also been wanting to put on shocks for about, oh, five thousand miles now. </p> +<p>A while back the speedometer and odometer broke and I tried putting in a new cable but that promptly got chewed up just like the first one. I pulled the speedometer and took it to a shop down in Montrose that was recommended by some friends. They weren’t able to tell me much, other than recommended a speedometer shop in Denver, but I liked the two mechanics I talked to so when the fever broke and I decided I was tried of spending my days under the bus I called the shop to see about fixing the transmission cooler lines, new shocks, and some other odds and ends I’d been wanting to do, but hadn’t had the time. </p> +<p>Unlike a lot of places I’ve called on this trip, Diamond G repair in Montrose was unfazed by the size of the bus and could start in on it the next day. The only question was — should I tow it or could I rig something up to get it twenty miles down the road? </p> +<p>I’d spent some time patching the black tank a week prior and had discovered this interesting a pretty cool stuff that starts as a flexible tap type material but dries hard as a rock. It gets sold to fix everything from leaky pipes to broken rake handles and in my experience it actually works pretty well. I went back to the hardware store in Ridgway. Again. And grabbed another roll to see what would happen on a flexible hose. I put it on and let it harden for a while. I fired it up and check underneath, no leaks.</p> +<p>I drove down to the dump station, still no leaks. I hit the road. I stopped to check the engine temps — no leaks doesn’t mean tightly sealed vacuum — but, while hot, nothing was over 200 degrees. I kept going and eventually made it to Diamond G without further incident. </p> +<p>We grabbed what we needed for a week’s worth of tent camping, somehow packed it all in the minivan and hit the road. We had mail waiting in Monticello, UT and wanted to get up in the high mountains, to some places the bus couldn’t go. I left a laundry list of fixes for the mechanic and we hit the road, Beverly hillbilly style in a packed-to-the-gills van.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>Could I have used some brake lines instead? Probably. A couple people on Facebook suggested that, but honestly I was tired of rigging things, I wanted the right parts and I wanted them installed properly. More than that, think less of my mechanical abilities if you will, but I wanted to spend time with my family, get some <em>paying</em> work done and not spend my days under the bus. <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>Some companies are fine with what’s called General Delivery, but far more online companies can’t make heads or tails of it. I never wrote about it, but getting our Engle fridge was a two week long exercise in frustration. Amazon is hit or miss, really depends on what you’re ordering. 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Alas it was one of those days that did not start well and then got worse from there. I was feeling a bit dizzy all morning, not bad really, just slightly off. Corrinne wanted to stay and leave the next day but I really wanted to go. I should have listened to her, but when I get it in my head to go I tend to plow forward like a tank, come hell or high water.
+
+Things started to really go south when I got the dump station. I was emptying the tank when I noticed fluid leaking out the front of the bus. Quite a lot of fluid. I crawled under to investigate. Transmission fluid. Lots of transmission fluid. Leaking. Again. I had noticed a bit a transmission fluid leaking over the last few weeks, but it wasn't leaking enough to even hit the ground, just a bit would dribble out on the suspension from time to time. This, however, was something else.
+
+I finished up dumping and pulled over to the day use area to get a closer look. After a bit of digging around I found the problem -- a flared compression fitting had cracked. It's worth here noting that someone had already done a considerable amount of surgery and patching to the transmission cooler lines, which were not single tubes but several connected together, three different diameters and types of hose in fact, all cobbled together. It was a crap job, but it was working. Until now.
+
+It so happens that I installed our propane system on the road, so I have flaring tools. What I needed was 5/8in tubing, but of course that's pretty much impossible to find outside an auto supply store, which Ridgway lacks. So I rigged up a standard fuel hose with overtightened clamps that seemed like it would hold about five miles into town. And it did. Sort of. I managed to get to the one mechanic shop in town. I explained the situation and the mechanic was nice enough to just give me some 5/8in tubing.
+
+Corrinne took the kids to the playground in the center of Ridgway and I sat down on the curb outside the shop and got to work with the flaring tools. About half an hour later I had it sealed up again. By now it was well past noon and I was hungry and the dizziness, which I attributed to not eating, was much worse. I decided to limp back to Ridgway State Park and try again the next day. Corrinne being right.
+
+I made it back, found a site and parked. I wanted to see how my handiwork was holding up so I crawled under and goddamnit there was transmission fluid pouring out of the hose behind where I had fixed, which was some kind of bizarre flexible hose with a flare at one end and screw fitting at the other. I kicked the tailpipe in anger, while wearing flipflops, which as you can imagine was not a good idea. I instinctively tried to grab my foot where it was burned and sat up, hitting my head on the floor of the bus above me. This would probably have all been hilarious to watch.
+
+Finally I rolled out from under the bus, staggered inside for some water, staggered back outside and lay down on the concrete around the picnic table. I was pretty much over it. I lay there waiting for Corrinne and the kids to be done at the park scheming ways to sell the bus, use the money to by plane tickets and just disappear into the far east somewhere to hide from my failure and shame. Eventually I fell asleep and that's where I was when Corrinne and kids finally found me.
+
+That's when Corrinne took my temperature and I realized I was quite sick, with a fever of 103. I stumbled back in the bus, put up my bunk and was pretty much incoherent for the next 18 hours or so.
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+When I finally felt up to it -- two days later -- I did a bit of research and discovered that the only place with the transmission cooler lines I needed was Summit Racing[^1], which I needed to have shipped somewhere, which is one of the challenges of living on the road[^2]. I've also been wanting to put on shocks for about, oh, five thousand miles now.
+
+A while back the speedometer and odometer broke and I tried putting in a new cable but that promptly got chewed up just like the first one. I pulled the speedometer and took it to a shop down in Montrose that was recommended by some friends. They weren't able to tell me much, other than recommended a speedometer shop in Denver, but I liked the two mechanics I talked to so when the fever broke and I decided I was tried of spending my days under the bus I called the shop to see about fixing the transmission cooler lines, new shocks, and some other odds and ends I'd been wanting to do, but hadn't had the time.
+
+Unlike a lot of places I've called on this trip, Diamond G repair in Montrose was unfazed by the size of the bus and could start in on it the next day. The only question was -- should I tow it or could I rig something up to get it twenty miles down the road?
+
+I'd spent some time patching the black tank a week prior and had discovered this interesting a pretty cool stuff that starts as a flexible tap type material but dries hard as a rock. It gets sold to fix everything from leaky pipes to broken rake handles and in my experience it actually works pretty well. I went back to the hardware store in Ridgway. Again. And grabbed another roll to see what would happen on a flexible hose. I put it on and let it harden for a while. I fired it up and check underneath, no leaks.
+
+I drove down to the dump station, still no leaks. I hit the road. I stopped to check the engine temps -- no leaks doesn't mean tightly sealed vacuum -- but, while hot, nothing was over 200 degrees. I kept going and eventually made it to Diamond G without further incident.
+
+We grabbed what we needed for a week's worth of tent camping, somehow packed it all in the minivan and hit the road. We had mail waiting in Monticello, UT and wanted to get up in the high mountains, to some places the bus couldn't go. I left a laundry list of fixes for the mechanic and we hit the road, Beverly hillbilly style in a packed-to-the-gills van.
+
+[^1]: Could I have used some brake lines instead? Probably. A couple people on Facebook suggested that, but honestly I was tired of rigging things, I wanted the right parts and I wanted them installed properly. More than that, think less of my mechanical abilities if you will, but I wanted to spend time with my family, get some *paying* work done and not spend my days under the bus.
+[^2]: Some companies are fine with what's called General Delivery, but far more online companies can't make heads or tails of it. I never wrote about it, but getting our Engle fridge was a two week long exercise in frustration. Amazon is hit or miss, really depends on what you're ordering. 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The portion near us is known as the Needles District is home to, among other things, Newspaper Rock, a huge collection of Petrogylphs. The somewhat better name is the direct translation of the Navajo name — rock that tells a story. It’s not a story that I understand exactly, but if you stare at it long enough you can get some it.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg" alt="newspaper rock photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_112628_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_112628_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_112628_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_112628_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_112628_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="newspaper rock photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_112628_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>From there it was a couple miles further into the Needles district. It was hot, in the mid 90s I believe, but not unbearable so we decided to do a short hike out to see some springs, because nothing is quite so satisfying as walking through to hot dry sand and coming on a nice cool, shaded overhang with actual water running out of the rock.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_134729_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_134729_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_134729_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_134729_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_134729_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_134729_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_134817_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_134817_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_134817_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_134817_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_134817_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_134817_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_143313_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_143313_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_143313_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_143313_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_143313_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_143313_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="An old cattle drive stopover, still furnished."> + </a> +<figcaption>An old cattle drive stopover, still furnished.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144727_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_144727_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144727_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144727_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144727_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144727_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>There were quite a few pictographs back near the springs as well, especially hand prints which the kids were big fans of.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144657_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_144657_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144657_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144657_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144657_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144657_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144143_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_144143_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144143_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144143_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144143_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Ancient hands photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144143_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Ancient hands..."> + </a> +<figcaption>Ancient hands…</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144128_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_144128_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144128_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144128_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_144128_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="modern hands photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_144128_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="...modern hands."> + </a> +<figcaption>…modern hands.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_145000_canyonlands-needles_BgJJsCX.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/2017/2017-09-02_145000_canyonlands-needles_BgJJsCX_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_145000_canyonlands-needles_BgJJsCX_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_145000_canyonlands-needles_BgJJsCX_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_145000_canyonlands-needles_BgJJsCX_picwide-med.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_145000_canyonlands-needles_BgJJsCX.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_145415_canyonlands-needles.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/2017/2017-09-02_145415_canyonlands-needles_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_145415_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_145415_canyonlands-needles_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-02_145415_canyonlands-needles_picwide-med.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-02_145415_canyonlands-needles.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Olivia is still a little disturbed that we only hike in the desert, but she came around at the memtion of ladders.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_125205.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170902_125205_pic66.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_125205.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_140854_ISfy1iC.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170902_140854_ISfy1iC_pic66.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_140854_ISfy1iC.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_140210.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170902_140210_pic66.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_140210.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_140342.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170902_140342_pic66.jpg" alt="canyonlands, needles district photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170902_140342.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>The other best part of hiking through the hot dry desert all day is driving half and hour and ending up back, high in the cool depths on an Aspen grove.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-06_153011-1_buckboard-abajo-mnts.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/2017/2017-09-06_153011-1_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-06_153011-1_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-06_153011-1_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-06_153011-1_buckboard-abajo-mnts_picwide-med.jpg" alt="camping in aspen grove photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-06_153011-1_buckboard-abajo-mnts.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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/2017/09/aspen" rel="prev" title=" Aspens">Aspens</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/09/on-the-road-again" rel="next" title=" On The Road, Again">On The Road, 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The portion near us is known as the Needles District is home to, among other things, Newspaper Rock, a huge collection of Petrogylphs. The somewhat better name is the direct translation of the Navajo name -- rock that tells a story. It's not a story that I understand exactly, but if you stare at it long enough you can get some it.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_113125_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-815" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_112628_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-816" class="picwide" />
+
+From there it was a couple miles further into the Needles district. It was hot, in the mid 90s I believe, but not unbearable so we decided to do a short hike out to see some springs, because nothing is quite so satisfying as walking through to hot dry sand and coming on a nice cool, shaded overhang with actual water running out of the rock.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_134729_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-814" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_134817_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-813" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_143313_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-812" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_144727_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-808" class="picwide" />
+
+There were quite a few pictographs back near the springs as well, especially hand prints which the kids were big fans of.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_144657_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-809" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_144143_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-810" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_144128_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-811" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_145000_canyonlands-needles_BgJJsCX.jpg" id="image-807" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-02_145415_canyonlands-needles.jpg" id="image-803" class="picwide" />
+
+Olivia is still a little disturbed that we only hike in the desert, but she came around at the memtion of ladders.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/20170902_125205.jpg" id="image-820" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170902_140854_ISfy1iC.jpg" id="image-817" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2017/20170902_140210.jpg" id="image-819" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2017/20170902_140342.jpg" id="image-818" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+</div>
+
+The other best part of hiking through the hot dry desert all day is driving half and hour and ending up back, high in the cool depths on an Aspen grove.
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And not in a good Hunter S. Thompson sort of way. </p> +<p>We’d somehow become a bus full of snot, Olivia and I being the primary sources, but Lilah and Elliott were contributing as well. At one point I don’t think we went more than five minutes without a sneeze. Except for Corrinne who somehow managed to avoid the head cold we all acquired, I think, on the trams of Zion. Our immune systems have been isolated for quite a while, going from that to international public transportation did not work out well.</p> +<p>In the end we went right through Vegas, spending one night in the city to say goodbye to Corrinne’s parents before moving on to Red Rock Canyon where we stopped to contemplate our next move and maybe try to drain our noses. We had talked about heading out to Death Valley, but temperatures there were in the triple digits and neither of us were that moved by Death Valley in the first place. Instead, for the first time in a long time, we decided to just drift for a while. North was about the most detailed plan we could commit to.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170927_145259.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/2017/20170927_145259_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170927_145259_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170927_145259_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170927_145259_picwide-med.jpg" alt="great basin desert photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170927_145259.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +<figcaption>image by Corrinne Gilbertson</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We took 95 north, out of Las Vegas and up through the Great Basin Desert. While we did not have any specific destination in mind, we did have some things we wanted to do in the desert. Like spend a night in a ghost town. Back at Valley Fire the ranger had given me a little map of Nevada and a couple brochures about stuff to do. Several things jumped out at us, like the <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clown-motel">creepy clown motel</a> located right next to a graveyard in Tonopah, NV. Fun for the whole family. But the thing that really stuck with us, especially my wife, was the idea of camping in an abandoned town. </p> +<p>We hit the road on a Tuesday, not to early, not too late, heads still stuffed full of snot, pushing our way through a howling head wind, with no particular destination in mind other than North. </p> +<p>The Great Basin is an empty, desolate place just north of Vegas. I was driving through a fog of a cold and boredom and honestly I spent a good portion of the drive dreaming of trading the bus for the sunny beaches of Thailand. Or Mexico. Or really anywhere my head wasn’t full of snot. Corrinne on the other hand was researching ghost towns via the occasional pockets of 4G connection we’d pass through. One of the other things I noticed in the Nevada promotion brochure was that the Nevada State promo app for your phone works offline — this is telling you something about the area it covers. The Great Basic Desert is big and wild and empty, so empty telecom companies can’t be bothered to build towers.</p> +<p>It’s my kind of place really.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point.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/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point_picwide.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Somewhere on the drive Corrinne started talking about some place called Gold Point, which was a ghost town but somehow also had a campground. Ordinarily we’re fine dry camping, boondocking, whatever you want to call it, but we had not filled our water tank in nearly a week so the campground part was compelling. The drive in was compelling too, the roads kept getting narrower and rougher, always a good sign, and they appeared to lead off into nothing but sagebrush and rabbit bush as far at the eye could see. And around here it can see quite a ways. But then you climb a little rise and next thing you know you’re in the middle of the ramshackle, broken down, mostly abandoned town of Gold Point, Nevada.</p> +<p>While not actually a ghost town in the traditional sense of the word — a dozen or some people do live somewhere around here — it’s sufficiently abandoned to make you feel like you’re in the ruins of the past century. We parked the bus amidst a wreckage of old cars and old fire engines (a couple of which were working and really used for fire fighting).</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_154819_gold-point.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/2017/2017-09-27_154819_gold-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_154819_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_154819_gold-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_154819_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_154819_gold-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="For once the bus pretty much fit right in."> + </a> +<figcaption>For once the bus pretty much fit right in.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_155344_gold-point.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/2017/2017-09-27_155344_gold-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155344_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155344_gold-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155344_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_155344_gold-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_155118_gold-point.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/2017/2017-09-27_155118_gold-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155118_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155118_gold-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_155118_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_155118_gold-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Probably the best part of Gold Point is that it’s not “protected” so the kids could climb on things, explore and pick up stuff without fear of someone telling them to stop. That said, it was slightly confusing at times which building were occupied and which were abandoned. We saw some clueless people abuse the hospitality of the residents to the point that it would not surprise me to find quite a few more restriction a few years from now. For now though we had the run of the place. </p> +<p>We spent the afternoon wandering the abandoned streets, exploring the riding bikes and generally enjoying the absolute silence of the desert. </p> +<p>Gold Point has been through quite a few boom and bust cycles, since it was first settled in the 1880s. The initial round only last a couple years and it was abandoned for the better part of a decade. Then in 1908 there was a second round that saw it grow to house some 800 residents, which necessitated 11 saloons. but only lasted two years after which the silver was gone, or rather there wasn’t enough left to sustain 11 saloons. There was a third round in the 1930s that lasted a bit longer and even saw the Post Office show up. That lasted until 1968 after which the town was more or less abandoned for good until stabilization and restoration began in the 1980s.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_160053_gold-point.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/2017/2017-09-27_160053_gold-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160053_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160053_gold-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160053_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_160053_gold-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_160320_gold-point.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/2017/2017-09-27_160320_gold-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160320_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160320_gold-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160320_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_160320_gold-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_160344_gold-point.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/2017/2017-09-27_160344_gold-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160344_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160344_gold-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-27_160344_gold-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-27_160344_gold-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The result is a mishmash of artifacts spanning decades, building styles and what I would call differing views on just how permanent various structures were intended to be. We found glass in varying degrees of purple, most clearly from the more recent 1930s settlement, but a few pieces that were deep enough purple to probably date from the original 1880s settlement (for a while glass was made with manganese which causes the glass to turn a lavender color when exposed sunlight.) We also found quite a few bits of rock with various fossils in them.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170927_150019.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170927_150019_pic66.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170927_150019.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170927_154532.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170927_154532_pic66.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170927_154532.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + +<figure > + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_092313.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_092313_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_092313_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_092313_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_092313_picwide-med.jpg" alt="gold point ghost town, nevada photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_092313.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The kids have a book called Stella's Starliner which has a trailer that looks a lot like this one."></a> +<figcaption>The kids have a book called Stella’s Starliner which has a trailer that looks a lot like this one.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a 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And not in a good Hunter S. Thompson sort of way.
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+We'd somehow become a bus full of snot, Olivia and I being the primary sources, but Lilah and Elliott were contributing as well. At one point I don't think we went more than five minutes without a sneeze. Except for Corrinne who somehow managed to avoid the head cold we all acquired, I think, on the trams of Zion. Our immune systems have been isolated for quite a while, going from that to international public transportation did not work out well.
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+In the end we went right through Vegas, spending one night in the city to say goodbye to Corrinne's parents before moving on to Red Rock Canyon where we stopped to contemplate our next move and maybe try to drain our noses. We had talked about heading out to Death Valley, but temperatures there were in the triple digits and neither of us were that moved by Death Valley in the first place. Instead, for the first time in a long time, we decided to just drift for a while. North was about the most detailed plan we could commit to.
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+We took 95 north, out of Las Vegas and up through the Great Basin Desert. While we did not have any specific destination in mind, we did have some things we wanted to do in the desert. Like spend a night in a ghost town. Back at Valley Fire the ranger had given me a little map of Nevada and a couple brochures about stuff to do. Several things jumped out at us, like the [creepy clown motel](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clown-motel) located right next to a graveyard in Tonopah, NV. Fun for the whole family. But the thing that really stuck with us, especially my wife, was the idea of camping in an abandoned town.
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+We hit the road on a Tuesday, not to early, not too late, heads still stuffed full of snot, pushing our way through a howling head wind, with no particular destination in mind other than North.
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+The Great Basin is an empty, desolate place just north of Vegas. I was driving through a fog of a cold and boredom and honestly I spent a good portion of the drive dreaming of trading the bus for the sunny beaches of Thailand. Or Mexico. Or really anywhere my head wasn't full of snot. Corrinne on the other hand was researching ghost towns via the occasional pockets of 4G connection we'd pass through. One of the other things I noticed in the Nevada promotion brochure was that the Nevada State promo app for your phone works offline -- this is telling you something about the area it covers. The Great Basic Desert is big and wild and empty, so empty telecom companies can't be bothered to build towers.
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+It's my kind of place really.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-27_155723_gold-point.jpg" id="image-870" class="picwide" />
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+Somewhere on the drive Corrinne started talking about some place called Gold Point, which was a ghost town but somehow also had a campground. Ordinarily we're fine dry camping, boondocking, whatever you want to call it, but we had not filled our water tank in nearly a week so the campground part was compelling. The drive in was compelling too, the roads kept getting narrower and rougher, always a good sign, and they appeared to lead off into nothing but sagebrush and rabbit bush as far at the eye could see. And around here it can see quite a ways. But then you climb a little rise and next thing you know you're in the middle of the ramshackle, broken down, mostly abandoned town of Gold Point, Nevada.
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+While not actually a ghost town in the traditional sense of the word -- a dozen or some people do live somewhere around here -- it's sufficiently abandoned to make you feel like you're in the ruins of the past century. We parked the bus amidst a wreckage of old cars and old fire engines (a couple of which were working and really used for fire fighting).
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+Probably the best part of Gold Point is that it's not "protected" so the kids could climb on things, explore and pick up stuff without fear of someone telling them to stop. That said, it was slightly confusing at times which building were occupied and which were abandoned. We saw some clueless people abuse the hospitality of the residents to the point that it would not surprise me to find quite a few more restriction a few years from now. For now though we had the run of the place.
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+We spent the afternoon wandering the abandoned streets, exploring the riding bikes and generally enjoying the absolute silence of the desert.
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+Gold Point has been through quite a few boom and bust cycles, since it was first settled in the 1880s. The initial round only last a couple years and it was abandoned for the better part of a decade. Then in 1908 there was a second round that saw it grow to house some 800 residents, which necessitated 11 saloons. but only lasted two years after which the silver was gone, or rather there wasn't enough left to sustain 11 saloons. There was a third round in the 1930s that lasted a bit longer and even saw the Post Office show up. That lasted until 1968 after which the town was more or less abandoned for good until stabilization and restoration began in the 1980s.
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+The result is a mishmash of artifacts spanning decades, building styles and what I would call differing views on just how permanent various structures were intended to be. We found glass in varying degrees of purple, most clearly from the more recent 1930s settlement, but a few pieces that were deep enough purple to probably date from the original 1880s settlement (for a while glass was made with manganese which causes the glass to turn a lavender color when exposed sunlight.) We also found quite a few bits of rock with various fossils in them.
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We got back a day before it was done and stopped by to drop a few things off and… the car died on us in the parking lot. And from the minute it happened I knew exactly what was wrong — the transmission was dead. I knew this because the Honda’s transmission had died two years earlier and we put a new one in.</p> +<p>The techs were less convinced and I can’t say I blame them — what kind of transmission doesn’t last two years? I’ll tell you want kind the <a href="http://jamestransmission.com/">piece of crap transmissions they sell at James’ transmission in Athens GA</a>. You know what else you won’t get with <a href="http://jamestransmission.com/">the worst transmission you can buy, at James’s transmission in Athens GA</a>? A warranty that works anywhere outside of Athens. He actually said to me on the phone after I told him I was in Colorado, “well, even if you got it here, warranty is only a two years.”</p> +<p>So yeah, me being cheap and going with <a href="http://jamestransmission.com/">the worst transmission you can buy (at James’s transmission in Athens GA)</a> eventually came back to haunt me. And yes, in addition to those inbound links, I left some reviews on Google. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-08_133546_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-08_133546_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-08_133546_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-08_133546_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-08_133546_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating peanut butter photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-08_133546_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Eating peanut butter and wondering, is the bus ready yet?"> + </a> +<figcaption>Eating peanut butter and wondering, is the bus ready yet?</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Since the techs weren’t convinced it was actually the transmission we decided to hang around for the weekend so they could give it through going over the following Monday. We rented a car to run some errands and moved everything into the bus because I already knew and, come Monday, I was right. We left the van in Montrose to donate to a charity and hit the road with everyone and everything in the bus, which was running better than it had in a long time and, get ready for this head scratcher — the new transmission cooler lines have largely solved our overheating problems. Yeah I don’t really get it either.</p> +<p>Once we hit the road we put in some serious miles, much more than we normally do. Towns flew by, Grand Junction, Fruita, Green River and finally, our only two night stop in a place called Castle Rock that’s really just a little canyon off I-70, but was nice enough that we stayed to check out the nearby state park’s petrogylphs.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg" alt="san rafeal swell photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="San Rafeal Swell. Wish we could have stayed a while out here."> + </a> +<figcaption>San Rafeal Swell. Wish we could have stayed a while out here.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-15_103517_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-15_103517_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103517_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103517_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_103517_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" alt="san rafeal swell photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-15_103517_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-10_172904_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-10_172904_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-10_172904_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-10_172904_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-10_172904_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" alt="window, rain photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-10_172904_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-15_184345_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-15_184345_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_184345_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_184345_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-15_184345_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" alt="castle rock photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-15_184345_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Castle Rock was also where I got to meet and talk to the Lonesome Hillbilly, a motorcycle traveler who wrote a book on it, called, naturally, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Motorcycle-Camping-Lonesome-Hillbilly/dp/1545062897">The Book On Motorcycle Camping</a>. And yes, he goes by Lonesome Hillbilly. Before I knew who he was, when we were talking, he left and I told him my name was Scott and he said his was Lone. Which made sense after a little Googling. Unfortunately, while I wanted to chat more with Lone I never got a chance to, but we did take one piece of advice from him that has already, and will more so in the future, work out well for us. </p> +<p>The next day we did a little hiking, saw some petrogylphs, learned how to roast pine nuts from some Paiute volunteers and the kids got to play in a little pithouse. Not bad for a random, let’s stop here, destination.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-16_122205_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-16_122205_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_122205_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_122205_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_122205_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pithouse photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-16_122205_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-16_122915_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-16_122915_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_122915_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_122915_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_122915_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pithouse photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-16_122915_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-16_144849_ridgway-to-castle-rock.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/2017/2017-09-16_144849_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_144849_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_144849_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-16_144849_ridgway-to-castle-rock_picwide-med.jpg" alt="petrogylphs photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-16_144849_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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/2017/09/canyonlands" rel="prev" title=" Canyonlands">Canyonlands</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/09/zion" rel="next" title=" Zion">Zion</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="219" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833384" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="ee3e5e0239449661f2891bd06d499678b8fa4761" 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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We got back a day before it was done and stopped by to drop a few things off and... the car died on us in the parking lot. And from the minute it happened I knew exactly what was wrong -- the transmission was dead. I knew this because the Honda's transmission had died two years earlier and we put a new one in.
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+The techs were less convinced and I can't say I blame them -- what kind of transmission doesn't last two years? I'll tell you want kind the [piece of crap transmissions they sell at James' transmission in Athens GA][1]. You know what else you won't get with [the worst transmission you can buy, at James's transmission in Athens GA][1]? A warranty that works anywhere outside of Athens. He actually said to me on the phone after I told him I was in Colorado, "well, even if you got it here, warranty is only a two years."
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+So yeah, me being cheap and going with [the worst transmission you can buy (at James's transmission in Athens GA)][1] eventually came back to haunt me. And yes, in addition to those inbound links, I left some reviews on Google.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-08_133546_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" id="image-822" class="picwide caption" />
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+Since the techs weren't convinced it was actually the transmission we decided to hang around for the weekend so they could give it through going over the following Monday. We rented a car to run some errands and moved everything into the bus because I already knew and, come Monday, I was right. We left the van in Montrose to donate to a charity and hit the road with everyone and everything in the bus, which was running better than it had in a long time and, get ready for this head scratcher -- the new transmission cooler lines have largely solved our overheating problems. Yeah I don't really get it either.
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+Once we hit the road we put in some serious miles, much more than we normally do. Towns flew by, Grand Junction, Fruita, Green River and finally, our only two night stop in a place called Castle Rock that's really just a little canyon off I-70, but was nice enough that we stayed to check out the nearby state park's petrogylphs.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-15_103350_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" id="image-824" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-15_103517_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" id="image-825" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-10_172904_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" id="image-823" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-15_184345_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" id="image-826" class="picwide" />
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+Castle Rock was also where I got to meet and talk to the Lonesome Hillbilly, a motorcycle traveler who wrote a book on it, called, naturally, [The Book On Motorcycle Camping][2]. And yes, he goes by Lonesome Hillbilly. Before I knew who he was, when we were talking, he left and I told him my name was Scott and he said his was Lone. Which made sense after a little Googling. Unfortunately, while I wanted to chat more with Lone I never got a chance to, but we did take one piece of advice from him that has already, and will more so in the future, work out well for us.
+
+The next day we did a little hiking, saw some petrogylphs, learned how to roast pine nuts from some Paiute volunteers and the kids got to play in a little pithouse. Not bad for a random, let's stop here, destination.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-16_122915_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" id="image-828" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-16_144849_ridgway-to-castle-rock.jpg" id="image-829" class="picwide" />
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+[1]: http://jamestransmission.com/
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Since our guest room is a tent, and since Zion wasn’t to our taste anyway, we decamped for Valley of Fire, a strange collection of red rock piles an hour outside of Las Vegas. A few thousand feet lower Valley of Fire was warmer and, as it turned out, a whole lot more fun.</p> +<p>Valley of Fire is basically the largest playground we’ve been to. Wind and occasional water have combined forces with time to produce piles of red orange rock pocked with holes perfect for climbing. We found a great couple of sites tucked back in the rocks and made ourselves at home.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-22_082038_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-22_082038_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_082038_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_082038_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_082038_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-22_082038_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170921_142834_NKU2cDX.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170921_142834_NKU2cDX_pic66.jpg" alt="climbing, valley of fire photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170921_142834_NKU2cDX.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170921_143040.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170921_143040_pic66.jpg" alt="climbing, valley of fire photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170921_143040.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170924_154856.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170924_154856_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170924_154856_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170924_154856_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170924_154856_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hole in the rocks, valley of fire photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170924_154856.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170921_141029.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170921_141029_pic66.jpg" alt="In the rocks, valley of fire photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170921_141029.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170920_080918.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170920_080918_pic66.jpg" alt="reading, valley of fire photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170920_080918.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_141035_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_141035_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_141035_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_141035_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_141035_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tent, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_141035_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="If you plan to visit us, this is the guest house."> + </a> +<figcaption>If you plan to visit us, this is the guest house.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_133734_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_133734_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_133734_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_133734_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_133734_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="snack time photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_133734_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Snack time."> + </a> +<figcaption>Snack time.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_133621_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_133621_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_133621_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_133621_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_133621_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_133621_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Valley of Fire is perhaps best known for something called the wave, or the wave or fire, something like that. It looks far better in postcards than it does in person, but the hike out to it was nice and in keeping with our running joke — we only hike in deserts.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg" alt="The Wave, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-22_142539_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-22_142539_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_142539_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_142539_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-22_142539_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The Wave, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-22_142539_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>John is up on that rock trying to find the desert bighorn sheep we thought we’d seen. Eventually he did find them in the maze of rock, shrub and canyons. </p> +<p>The next day we saw them again right next to the road (naturally we saw them the day I decided, the 300mm zoom is too heavy, not bringing it). I’ve spent a lot of time in the desert and never caught much more than a glimpse of these creatures, which are far smaller and more secretive than their mountain cousins.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_142249_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_142249_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_142249_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_142249_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_142249_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Desert Big Horn Sheep, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_142249_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Desert Big Horn Sheep are relatively rare and elusive, except apparently in Valley of Fire."> + </a> +<figcaption>Desert Big Horn Sheep are relatively rare and elusive, except apparently in Valley of Fire.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A couple of days later we did another hike down a canyon filled with petroglyphs that eventually led to one of the most important things in the desert — a natural water tank. I had a renewed interest in petroglyphs thanks to a book I’d been reading which suggests they might be mnemonic devices used as part of what Australian Aborigine tribes call songlines and what Giordano Bruno famously called <em>Ars Memorative</em>.</p> +<p>If you don’t have writing to store data, your memory has to be much better. That’s why, for instance, many oral cultures can sing songs that race genealogical lines through centuries, sometimes millennia.</p> +<p>It’s not just oral cultures though, both the Greeks and Roman schools taught some forms of it. The most common techniques in western traditions is to memorize the insides of large buildings according to certain rules, dividing the space into specific loci or “places” and then using those as triggers for whatever information you want to remember. Then you take a mental tour of the place and recall whatever information you need. First nations tend to use outdoor spaces rather than indoor and may in fact be some of the driving force behind many of the roads that used to criss cross the Americas.</p> +<p>In the case of petroglyphs one theory is that they are markers of both the physical — water tank this way, ten people live down that canyon, and so on — and those directions or stories (or song, or dance) have another layer that encodes some very important knowledge that helps cultures survive in environments like this, for example, where the bighorn go to feed in the evenings. In other words, petroglyphs probably have several layers of function and meaning, most of which — without knowing the story or song — is gone forever. Whatever the case the canyon in Valley of Fire was filled with petroglyphs, far more than we’ve seen anywhere else.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_150035_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_150035_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150035_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150035_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150035_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Petroglyphs, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_150035_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_150142_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_150142_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150142_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150142_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150142_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Petroglyphs, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_150142_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_145702_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_145702_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_145702_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_145702_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_145702_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_145702_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_150015_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_150015_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150015_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150015_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_150015_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lizard, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_150015_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_154156_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_154156_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_154156_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_154156_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_154156_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Petroglyphs, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_154156_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_160116_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_160116_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_160116_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_160116_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_160116_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Petroglyphs, Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_160116_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="When you get really close to petroglyphs they lose definition. Making these was probably much harder than we suspect."> + </a> +<figcaption>When you get really close to petroglyphs they lose definition. Making these was probably much harder than we suspect.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_154500_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_154500_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_154500_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_154500_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_154500_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="textures, Valley of Fire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_154500_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_155433_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_155433_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_155433_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_155433_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_155433_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Cholla cactus, Valley of Fire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_155433_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We also spent plenty of time just climbing and exploring the rocks around the campground. I’m pretty sure you could spend your entire life in this campground and not explore all the gulleys, holes and side canyons in these rocks. It really was a kind of wonderland for kids, young and older.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_185507_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-23_185507_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_185507_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_185507_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-23_185507_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="camp, valley of fire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-23_185507_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-24_182448_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-24_182448_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_182448_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_182448_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_182448_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-24_182448_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-24_175457_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-24_175457_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_175457_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_175457_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_175457_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-24_175457_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-24_184213_valley-of-fire.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/2017/2017-09-24_184213_valley-of-fire_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_184213_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_184213_valley-of-fire_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-24_184213_valley-of-fire_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Valley of Fire State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-24_184213_valley-of-fire.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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/2017/09/zion" rel="prev" title=" Zion">Zion</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/09/ghost-town" rel="next" title=" Ghost Town">Ghost Town</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2783" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Gwen" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Gwen</b></span> + <span class="when">October 16, 2017 at 8:14 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Wow! This place looks amazing! Love all the pics of your cute little people in the holes in the rocks.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2784" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Drew" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Drew</b></span> + <span class="when">October 16, 2017 at 9:07 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>That last photo is so good. My only question is who hit the timer button and had to run to their spot?</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2785" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Mikeandpatsywall" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Mikeandpatsywall</b></span> + <span class="when">October 16, 2017 at 9:33 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Love it❤️</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2786" 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">October 16, 2017 at 11:48 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>I have a timer app on my phone, but of course it didn’t work so Corrinne hit the button and ran.</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="221" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833383" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="1c49f5a80cfc83ec069cd72bd7156892a5d9f471" 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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Since our guest room is a tent, and since Zion wasn't to our taste anyway, we decamped for Valley of Fire, a strange collection of red rock piles an hour outside of Las Vegas. A few thousand feet lower Valley of Fire was warmer and, as it turned out, a whole lot more fun.
+
+Valley of Fire is basically the largest playground we've been to. Wind and occasional water have combined forces with time to produce piles of red orange rock pocked with holes perfect for climbing. We found a great couple of sites tucked back in the rocks and made ourselves at home.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-22_082038_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-839" class="picwide" />
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+<div class="cluster">
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+<img src="images/2017/20170924_154856.jpg" id="image-866" class="cluster picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/20170921_141029.jpg" id="image-862" class="cluster pic66" />
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-23_141035_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-847" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-23_133734_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-846" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-23_133621_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-845" class="picwide" />
+
+Valley of Fire is perhaps best known for something called the wave, or the wave or fire, something like that. It looks far better in postcards than it does in person, but the hike out to it was nice and in keeping with our running joke -- we only hike in deserts.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-22_143258_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-842" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-22_142539_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-841" class="picwide" />
+
+John is up on that rock trying to find the desert bighorn sheep we thought we'd seen. Eventually he did find them in the maze of rock, shrub and canyons.
+
+The next day we saw them again right next to the road (naturally we saw them the day I decided, the 300mm zoom is too heavy, not bringing it). I've spent a lot of time in the desert and never caught much more than a glimpse of these creatures, which are far smaller and more secretive than their mountain cousins.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-23_142249_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-848" class="picwide caption" />
+
+A couple of days later we did another hike down a canyon filled with petroglyphs that eventually led to one of the most important things in the desert -- a natural water tank. I had a renewed interest in petroglyphs thanks to a book I'd been reading which suggests they might be mnemonic devices used as part of what Australian Aborigine tribes call songlines and what Giordano Bruno famously called *Ars Memorative*.
+
+If you don't have writing to store data, your memory has to be much better. That's why, for instance, many oral cultures can sing songs that race genealogical lines through centuries, sometimes millennia.
+
+It's not just oral cultures though, both the Greeks and Roman schools taught some forms of it. The most common techniques in western traditions is to memorize the insides of large buildings according to certain rules, dividing the space into specific loci or "places" and then using those as triggers for whatever information you want to remember. Then you take a mental tour of the place and recall whatever information you need. First nations tend to use outdoor spaces rather than indoor and may in fact be some of the driving force behind many of the roads that used to criss cross the Americas.
+
+In the case of petroglyphs one theory is that they are markers of both the physical -- water tank this way, ten people live down that canyon, and so on -- and those directions or stories (or song, or dance) have another layer that encodes some very important knowledge that helps cultures survive in environments like this, for example, where the bighorn go to feed in the evenings. In other words, petroglyphs probably have several layers of function and meaning, most of which -- without knowing the story or song -- is gone forever. Whatever the case the canyon in Valley of Fire was filled with petroglyphs, far more than we've seen anywhere else.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-23_150035_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-851" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-23_150142_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-852" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-23_154156_valley-of-fire.jpg" id="image-853" class="picwide" />
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+We also spent plenty of time just climbing and exploring the rocks around the campground. I'm pretty sure you could spend your entire life in this campground and not explore all the gulleys, holes and side canyons in these rocks. It really was a kind of wonderland for kids, young and older.
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While it’s not exactly secluded, quiet or anything of things we generally like, the logical place to stop in this area is Zion National Park. I have some history in Zion, my family spent many a spring break camping here, hiking up the canyon walls. It, along with Canyonlands and Sequoia, are among the places I remember best.</p> +<p>The Zion of today is so different from the Zion I grew up with they may as well be entirely different places. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-18_150107_zion.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/2017/2017-09-18_150107_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150107_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150107_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150107_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Zion National Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-18_150107_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The view from the Hidden Valley trail."> + </a> +<figcaption>The view from the Hidden Valley trail.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_170220_zion.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/2017/2017-09-20_170220_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_170220_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_170220_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_170220_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Zion National Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_170220_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_153120_zion.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/2017/2017-09-20_153120_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_153120_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_153120_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_153120_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Zion National Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_153120_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>When my family came here in the 1980s few other people did. We’d leave Los Angeles around noon on the Friday before spring break, drive all afternoon (in a 1969 truck and camper by the way) show up at Zion late in the evening and get a campsite no problem. No one went to Zion. </p> +<p>Today, everyone goes to Zion. Well, actually Americans don’t from what I could tell, but everyone else does, especially impossibly hip European couples in rental vans. These days not only can you not just show up on a Friday and get a campsite, you’ll need to get in line at about 5:00 AM even in the off season to even think about getting a campsite. Which, after spending a night in the nearby hotel, I did. The longer I sat in line, the more irritated I got. About what I’m not sure — too many people? That’s sort of a strange thing to be irritated about.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-19_080850_zion.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/2017/2017-09-19_080850_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-19_080850_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-19_080850_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-19_080850_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunrise, Zion National Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-19_080850_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Sunrise from the campground line."> + </a> +<figcaption>Sunrise from the campground line.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Perhaps it was the lines I thought. Lines are degrading to the human spirit, they ask that we do something totally counter to all of biology, which freely mingles, exchanges information and materials. Lines are a purely economic performance, an adherence to an outdated idea of how the world works, an idea that no longer matches the facts on the ground, so to speak. This is perhaps why the entire concept of waiting in line, or queueing as the British would have it, is a purely western phenomena. Travel anywhere in Asia and you find that things get done, tickets are sold, events entered into, all without anyone lining up. </p> +<p>Still, that’s probably not what was irritating me. In the end I decided that what was irritating to me was that the Zion of my childhood is gone and no one can get it back. It’s just gone. Forever. So for that matter are the bluffs along the bay where I grew up, the hills along the coast and myriad other things that don’t really bother me, for whatever reason Zion does. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-18_150136_zion.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/2017/2017-09-18_150136_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150136_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150136_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150136_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Weeping rock, Zion photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-18_150136_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The last day we were there I took the bus up to the end of the canyon and speed hiked to the entrance to the narrows (3 miles round trip in 45 minutes, not bad for an old man). On the way back it finally hit me what irritates me about Zion — my kids will never get to experience the place as I did. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_173428_zion.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/2017/2017-09-20_173428_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_173428_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_173428_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_173428_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Virgin River, Zion photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_173428_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The narrows, just me and 300 of my closest friends."> + </a> +<figcaption>The narrows, just me and 300 of my closest friends.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_173855_zion.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/2017/2017-09-20_173855_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_173855_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_173855_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_173855_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Virgin River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_173855_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion.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/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Virgin River, Zion photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It’s too late for my kids to see the Zion I saw. That was then. That is gone. That is past. They will never get to hear the silences up on the rim of the canyon, listen to the strafing whines of Rufus hummingbirds, the wind in the junipers, the quiet thunk of boot soles on sandstone.. Silence in Zion is a thing of the past. </p> +<p>As Kurt Vonnegut would say, <em>and so it goes</em>. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion.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/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion_picwide.jpg" alt="Zion National Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Intrepid hikers"> + </a> +<figcaption>Intrepid hikers</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>One afternoon Lilah and Elliott and I hiked part way up the Hidden Valley trail. I would guess that, in the mile and half or so that we hiked, we saw probably 80 people. A steady stream of people in fact, most of them seemingly startled to see a man in flipflops with a boy on his shoulders and girl holding his hand attempting the same trail none of them embarked on without half of REI adorning their persons. The looks made me laugh. As politely and discreetly as I could. I have never seen so much hiking gear in my life. All for people hiking on paved trails. Irony doesn’t even begin to cover it. Several times in Zion I considered buying some stock in REI, before remembering that, as a co-op member, in effect, I already own it.</p> +<p>It’s too bad Zion isn’t a co-op. But alas, I do not own Zion. I have no more claim to it — or every bit as much depending on how you want to look at it — than anyone else. It’s too bad it has become what it is, and let’s face we’re dancing around the real issue — overpopulation, but whew is that whole other post — but at this point Zion is what it is and it will probably continue to be that for my lifetime. Maybe in my next life, after the oil is used up and things settle back down I can follow some strange, half-remembered dream of red rock canyons and end up here again, alone, in silence and stillness.</p> +<p>The second day Corrinne’s parents joined us and, despite what the above might sound like, we enjoyed the park. Crowded though it may be, Zion is still a beautiful place. 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While it's not exactly secluded, quiet or anything of things we generally like, the logical place to stop in this area is Zion National Park. I have some history in Zion, my family spent many a spring break camping here, hiking up the canyon walls. It, along with Canyonlands and Sequoia, are among the places I remember best.
+
+The Zion of today is so different from the Zion I grew up with they may as well be entirely different places.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-18_150107_zion.jpg" id="image-837" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-20_170220_zion.jpg" id="image-833" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-20_153120_zion.jpg" id="image-834" class="picwide" />
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+When my family came here in the 1980s few other people did. We'd leave Los Angeles around noon on the Friday before spring break, drive all afternoon (in a 1969 truck and camper by the way) show up at Zion late in the evening and get a campsite no problem. No one went to Zion.
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+Today, everyone goes to Zion. Well, actually Americans don't from what I could tell, but everyone else does, especially impossibly hip European couples in rental vans. These days not only can you not just show up on a Friday and get a campsite, you'll need to get in line at about 5:00 AM even in the off season to even think about getting a campsite. Which, after spending a night in the nearby hotel, I did. The longer I sat in line, the more irritated I got. About what I'm not sure -- too many people? That's sort of a strange thing to be irritated about.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-19_080850_zion.jpg" id="image-835" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Perhaps it was the lines I thought. Lines are degrading to the human spirit, they ask that we do something totally counter to all of biology, which freely mingles, exchanges information and materials. Lines are a purely economic performance, an adherence to an outdated idea of how the world works, an idea that no longer matches the facts on the ground, so to speak. This is perhaps why the entire concept of waiting in line, or queueing as the British would have it, is a purely western phenomena. Travel anywhere in Asia and you find that things get done, tickets are sold, events entered into, all without anyone lining up.
+
+Still, that's probably not what was irritating me. In the end I decided that what was irritating to me was that the Zion of my childhood is gone and no one can get it back. It's just gone. Forever. So for that matter are the bluffs along the bay where I grew up, the hills along the coast and myriad other things that don't really bother me, for whatever reason Zion does.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-18_150136_zion.jpg" id="image-836" class="picwide" />
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+The last day we were there I took the bus up to the end of the canyon and speed hiked to the entrance to the narrows (3 miles round trip in 45 minutes, not bad for an old man). On the way back it finally hit me what irritates me about Zion -- my kids will never get to experience the place as I did.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-20_173428_zion.jpg" id="image-832" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-20_173855_zion.jpg" id="image-831" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion.jpg" id="image-830" class="picwide" />
+
+It's too late for my kids to see the Zion I saw. That was then. That is gone. That is past. They will never get to hear the silences up on the rim of the canyon, listen to the strafing whines of Rufus hummingbirds, the wind in the junipers, the quiet thunk of boot soles on sandstone.. Silence in Zion is a thing of the past.
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+As Kurt Vonnegut would say, *and so it goes*.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-18_150047_zion.jpg" id="image-838" class="picwide caption" />
+
+One afternoon Lilah and Elliott and I hiked part way up the Hidden Valley trail. I would guess that, in the mile and half or so that we hiked, we saw probably 80 people. A steady stream of people in fact, most of them seemingly startled to see a man in flipflops with a boy on his shoulders and girl holding his hand attempting the same trail none of them embarked on without half of REI adorning their persons. The looks made me laugh. As politely and discreetly as I could. I have never seen so much hiking gear in my life. All for people hiking on paved trails. Irony doesn't even begin to cover it. Several times in Zion I considered buying some stock in REI, before remembering that, as a co-op member, in effect, I already own it.
+
+It's too bad Zion isn't a co-op. But alas, I do not own Zion. I have no more claim to it -- or every bit as much depending on how you want to look at it -- than anyone else. It's too bad it has become what it is, and let's face we're dancing around the real issue -- overpopulation, but whew is that whole other post -- but at this point Zion is what it is and it will probably continue to be that for my lifetime. Maybe in my next life, after the oil is used up and things settle back down I can follow some strange, half-remembered dream of red rock canyons and end up here again, alone, in silence and stillness.
+
+The second day Corrinne's parents joined us and, despite what the above might sound like, we enjoyed the park. Crowded though it may be, Zion is still a beautiful place. After three nights though, we were definitely ready to move on.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-20_174641_zion.jpg" id="image-830" class="picwide" />
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We stopped off to briefly see my cousin in Hawthorne before spending a very cold night out at Walker Lake. Walker Lake is one of those places that’s probably not very nice in the high season, but it’s really nice when you have it to yourself. It also has fun conspiracy theories about it which we accidentally discovered why searching for which campground had water (answer to our question: none of them). </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-02_185729_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-02_185729_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_185729_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_185729_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_185729_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walker lake, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-02_185729_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-02_193122_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-02_193122_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_193122_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_193122_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_193122_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walker lake, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-02_193122_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We still don’t have a heater in the bus so whatever the outside temp, the inside temp is about the same, maybe five or ten degrees warmer. One of my goals for this trip was for that to never be an issue because we would follow the weather. For the most part that’s been true, but around here, this time of year, warmth is a rapidly fading thought. I even had to put on shoes. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-02_204113_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-02_204113_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_204113_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_204113_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-02_204113_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walker lake, nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-02_204113_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We’re up here to see my aunt and uncle for the first time in years and for my uncle to help me understand and dial in this engine. </p> +<p>And that’s exactly what we did for nearly three weeks. He and I pulled out the carburetor and reset the float where it should be. That alone solved about 70 percent of our problems. We were ready to leave with that, but then we got to talking and decided to do a few other things as well. The problem was that my uncle had already planned a trip to the California coast with a friend. So we ordered some parts, said goodbye and he headed west to California and we went north for a week.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg" alt="Sunrise, my uncle's house photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Sunrise over the bus at my uncle's house."> + </a> +<figcaption>Sunrise over the bus at my uncle’s house.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The first night we stopped in Carson City. We spent the night in a Casino parking lot and walked around downtown. Carson City actually has one of those that’s still functional and nice, with parks and business and such, unlike most American cities of its size these days. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-07_193304_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-07_193304_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_193304_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_193304_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-07_193304_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The Nugget Casino parking lot. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-07_193304_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Good company."> + </a> +<figcaption>Good company.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The next day we headed north with the vague goal of seeing Reno and maybe checking out Pyramid Lake. That morning we met up with another cousin of mine and took all our kids to the children’s museum in Carson City. After catching up for a couple hours, letting the kids play, we hit the road. But then we were hungry so we stopped at a really good Vietnamese restaurant. And then I spied a Harbor Freight and spent some time replenishing my toolkit with the cheapest, crappiest steel China has to offer.</p> +<p>By the time we actually made it out of Carson City it was mid afternoon and none of us felt like going far. We made it about ten miles up over the hill to Washoe Lake State Park. It was a nice enough place and it had pretty good cell coverage, which is hard to come by in these parts. We ended up staying all week. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_110220_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-13_110220_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_110220_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_110220_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_110220_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="drawing in the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_110220_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-10_085532_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-10_085532_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-10_085532_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-10_085532_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-10_085532_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Smoke from the California fires wafting over the Sierra. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-10_085532_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Smoke from the California fires wafting over the Sierra."> + </a> +<figcaption>Smoke from the California fires wafting over the Sierra.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>With temps forecast down in the mid 20s we decided to pick up a little propane heater, which helps take the edge off mornings. </p> +<p>Washoe Lake was host to some of the least appealing neighbors we’ve had — someone stole my hatchet one night, along with beer, a chair and some other stuff from another person. Itried to tell the kids that whomever took it probably needed it more than we did and they seemed okay with that. I also tried to explain methamphetamines and what they do to you, but I don’t think that sunk in as much. </p> +<p>Despite that we enjoyed Washoe Lake. I got some work done, the kids played and we went for the occasional walk/bike ride to explore the park. Once we were walking over to another side of the lake when we spotted a sign that said, “Beach and Maze” with an arrow point to the shoreline. Maze? Really? Really.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_141812_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-13_141812_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_141812_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_141812_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_141812_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Maze, Washoe Lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_141812_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_141315_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-13_141315_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_141315_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_141315_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_141315_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Maze, Washoe Lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_141315_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_144023_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-13_144023_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_144023_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_144023_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_144023_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Washoe Lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_144023_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_144629_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-13_144629_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_144629_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_144629_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_144629_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Washoe Lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_144629_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_145238_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-13_145238_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_145238_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_145238_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_145238_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Washoe Lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_145238_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_152700_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-13_152700_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_152700_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_152700_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-13_152700_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="spider eating grub photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-13_152700_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-14_175745_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-14_175745_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-14_175745_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-14_175745_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-14_175745_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="campsite, washoe lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-14_175745_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-15_134728_carson-city-washoe-lake.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/2017/2017-10-15_134728_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-15_134728_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-15_134728_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-15_134728_carson-city-washoe-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Washoe Lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-15_134728_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Not a sign you see very often."> + </a> +<figcaption>Not a sign you see very often.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>After a week at Washoe we went back to my uncle’s house and we got to work on the bus. We replaced the spark plugs, the plug wires and the exhaust manifold gaskets. Then we greased the suspension and I knocked a few interior fixes off my list. I installed an inverter, rehung some molding that had nearly come apart thanks to all the bumpy roads we’ve driven. I even finally got serious about fixing the oven. Unfortunately it does seem to be the thermocoupler and it’s a serious pain to even get to it. I shelved that one again. You can’t do it all.</p> +<p>One night the sunset looked like this:</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-19_202446_rons-house.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/2017/2017-10-19_202446_rons-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-19_202446_rons-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-19_202446_rons-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-19_202446_rons-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="snow clouds photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-19_202446_rons-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The next morning the mountains were covered in snow, though nothing stayed on the ground where we were.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-20_093419_rons-house.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/2017/2017-10-20_093419_rons-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-20_093419_rons-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-20_093419_rons-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-20_093419_rons-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="snow on the mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-20_093419_rons-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>When we drove out of my uncle’s house a week later the bus sounded and ran better than it has since I bought it and probably better than it has in decades. It’s not perfect and something will still probably break soon — since I’m writing from the future as it were, I can assure you something will break soon :) — but for now it’s driving better than I ever thought it would. Thanks Ron.</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/2017/10/trains-hot-springs-and-broken-buses" rel="prev" title=" Trains, Hot Springs and Broken Buses">Trains, Hot Springs and Broken Buses</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/10/shadow-lassen" rel="next" title=" The Shadow of Lassen">The Shadow of Lassen</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">1 Comment</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2841" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Drew" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Drew</b></span> + <span class="when">November 15, 2017 at 1:27 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Keep hammering the meth talk and as they get older it will sink in. Sounds like the trip has gotten better and the blood pressure has lowered back to stable. 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We stopped off to briefly see my cousin in Hawthorne before spending a very cold night out at Walker Lake. Walker Lake is one of those places that's probably not very nice in the high season, but it's really nice when you have it to yourself. It also has fun conspiracy theories about it which we accidentally discovered why searching for which campground had water (answer to our question: none of them).
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-02_185729_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-903" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-02_193122_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-904" class="picwide" />
+
+We still don't have a heater in the bus so whatever the outside temp, the inside temp is about the same, maybe five or ten degrees warmer. One of my goals for this trip was for that to never be an issue because we would follow the weather. For the most part that's been true, but around here, this time of year, warmth is a rapidly fading thought. I even had to put on shoes.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-02_204113_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-905" class="picwide" />
+
+We're up here to see my aunt and uncle for the first time in years and for my uncle to help me understand and dial in this engine.
+
+And that's exactly what we did for nearly three weeks. He and I pulled out the carburetor and reset the float where it should be. That alone solved about 70 percent of our problems. We were ready to leave with that, but then we got to talking and decided to do a few other things as well. The problem was that my uncle had already planned a trip to the California coast with a friend. So we ordered some parts, said goodbye and he headed west to California and we went north for a week.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-07_085231_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-906" class="picwide caption" />
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+The first night we stopped in Carson City. We spent the night in a Casino parking lot and walked around downtown. Carson City actually has one of those that's still functional and nice, with parks and business and such, unlike most American cities of its size these days.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-07_193304_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-907" class="picwide caption" />
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+The next day we headed north with the vague goal of seeing Reno and maybe checking out Pyramid Lake. That morning we met up with another cousin of mine and took all our kids to the children's museum in Carson City. After catching up for a couple hours, letting the kids play, we hit the road. But then we were hungry so we stopped at a really good Vietnamese restaurant. And then I spied a Harbor Freight and spent some time replenishing my toolkit with the cheapest, crappiest steel China has to offer.
+
+By the time we actually made it out of Carson City it was mid afternoon and none of us felt like going far. We made it about ten miles up over the hill to Washoe Lake State Park. It was a nice enough place and it had pretty good cell coverage, which is hard to come by in these parts. We ended up staying all week.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-13_110220_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-909" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-10_085532_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-908" class="picwide caption" />
+
+With temps forecast down in the mid 20s we decided to pick up a little propane heater, which helps take the edge off mornings.
+
+Washoe Lake was host to some of the least appealing neighbors we've had -- someone stole my hatchet one night, along with beer, a chair and some other stuff from another person. Itried to tell the kids that whomever took it probably needed it more than we did and they seemed okay with that. I also tried to explain methamphetamines and what they do to you, but I don't think that sunk in as much.
+
+Despite that we enjoyed Washoe Lake. I got some work done, the kids played and we went for the occasional walk/bike ride to explore the park. Once we were walking over to another side of the lake when we spotted a sign that said, "Beach and Maze" with an arrow point to the shoreline. Maze? Really? Really.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-13_141812_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-911" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-13_141315_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-910" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-13_144023_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-912" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-13_144629_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-913" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-13_145238_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-914" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-13_152700_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-915" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-14_175745_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-916" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-15_134728_carson-city-washoe-lake.jpg" id="image-917" class="picwide caption" />
+
+After a week at Washoe we went back to my uncle's house and we got to work on the bus. We replaced the spark plugs, the plug wires and the exhaust manifold gaskets. Then we greased the suspension and I knocked a few interior fixes off my list. I installed an inverter, rehung some molding that had nearly come apart thanks to all the bumpy roads we've driven. I even finally got serious about fixing the oven. Unfortunately it does seem to be the thermocoupler and it's a serious pain to even get to it. I shelved that one again. You can't do it all.
+
+One night the sunset looked like this:
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-19_202446_rons-house.jpg" id="image-918" class="picwide" />
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+The next morning the mountains were covered in snow, though nothing stayed on the ground where we were.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-20_093419_rons-house.jpg" id="image-919" class="picwide" />
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+When we drove out of my uncle's house a week later the bus sounded and ran better than it has since I bought it and probably better than it has in decades. It's not perfect and something will still probably break soon -- since I'm writing from the future as it were, I can assure you something will break soon :) -- but for now it's driving better than I ever thought it would. 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We were climbing one of the five hundred ridges<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> we had to climb to get through the Trinity Alps when I swear the air changed, suddenly it was wetter, salty and with a slight hint of fish. Or it was my imagination looking for something other than the endless loop then running through my head: are the house batteries really going to get us there (the alternator was was still dead).</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_193302_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-26_193302_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_193302_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_193302_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_193302_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_193302_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Whatever the case, eventually we made it over the last ridge and then we really could smell the ocean and the Pacific in this region has a very different smell than say, the Atlantic we left eight months ago. </p> +<p>I didn’t really have any goals or lists of things to do on this trip, but, that said, making it all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific does have a certain feeling of accomplishment to it.</p> +<p>Here’s some meaningless stats: </p> +<ul> +<li>Miles driven: 5866 (give or take 50 miles<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>)</li> +<li>Day on the road: 209</li> +<li>Gallons of gas: I have no idea<sup id="fnref:3"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:3" rel="footnote">3</a></sup></li> +</ul> +<p>The anticlimatic part was that we made it all the way to the Pacific, but when we arrived we couldn’t see it. As is typical up this way, the ocean was wrapped in a blanket of thick fog. After setting up camp we hiked down into the gloom of fog and spent the evening on the beach. The one place that will always feel like home to me. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194219_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-26_194219_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194219_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194219_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194219_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194219_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope 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+</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194454_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-26_194454_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194454_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194454_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194454_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194454_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194923_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-26_194923_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194923_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194923_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194923_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194923_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_195156_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-26_195156_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_195156_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_195156_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_195156_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_195156_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-27_142117_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-27_142117_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_142117_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_142117_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_142117_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-27_142117_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-27_144234_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-27_144234_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_144234_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_144234_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_144234_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-27_144234_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-27_150628_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-27_150628_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_150628_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_150628_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-27_150628_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-27_150628_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This is what it looks like all the time around here."> + </a> +<figcaption>This is what it looks like all the time around here.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>It’s possible there were not that many. <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>our odometer is currently broken so this is an estimate based on Google Maps, hence the possible variation. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +<li 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Beautiful children!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2826" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for gwen macallister" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>gwen macallister</b></span> + <span class="when">November 09, 2017 at 1:53 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Beautiful pictures. This is my favorite landscape on the planet— oh, how I love the Pacific. Congrats on the coast to coast journey.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2827" 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">November 09, 2017 at 5:28 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Mary - Thank you!</p> +<p>@gwen- I’ve missed the Pacific. I’ve come to really like the gulf though, especially Appalachicola area.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2842" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Drew" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Drew</b></span> + <span class="when">November 15, 2017 at 2:02 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>I love that Santa Cruz sweatshirt!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2843" 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">November 15, 2017 at 2:36 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew- </p> +<p>Corrinne found that back in Athens. I hadn’t seen one since I was a kid.</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="226" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833378" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="aa3a955fc1916a0f83e54ca81b821ba9161f24d9" 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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We were climbing one of the five hundred ridges[^1] we had to climb to get through the Trinity Alps when I swear the air changed, suddenly it was wetter, salty and with a slight hint of fish. Or it was my imagination looking for something other than the endless loop then running through my head: are the house batteries really going to get us there (the alternator was was still dead).
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-26_193302_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-936" class="picwide" />
+
+Whatever the case, eventually we made it over the last ridge and then we really could smell the ocean and the Pacific in this region has a very different smell than say, the Atlantic we left eight months ago.
+
+I didn't really have any goals or lists of things to do on this trip, but, that said, making it all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific does have a certain feeling of accomplishment to it.
+
+Here's some meaningless stats:
+
+* Miles driven: 5866 (give or take 50 miles[^2])
+* Day on the road: 209
+* Gallons of gas: I have no idea[^3]
+
+The anticlimatic part was that we made it all the way to the Pacific, but when we arrived we couldn't see it. As is typical up this way, the ocean was wrapped in a blanket of thick fog. After setting up camp we hiked down into the gloom of fog and spent the evening on the beach. The one place that will always feel like home to me.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-26_194219_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-937" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-938" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-26_194454_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-939" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-26_194923_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-940" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-26_195156_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-941" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-27_142117_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-942" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-27_144234_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-943" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-27_150628_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-944" class="picwide caption" />
+
+
+[^1]: It's possible there were not that many.
+[^2]: our odometer is currently broken so this is an estimate based on Google Maps, hence the possible variation.
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Something about this town seems to suck us in. At least there’s really good tacos at a Mexican market on the north east side of the city, we stopped there again for lunch. By the time we were done eating tacos and stocking up on essentials no one had the will to go past Washoe Lake. We pulled in and relaxed for the remainder of the day.</p> +<p>The next day we managed to get on the road reasonably early, heading north on 395, bundled up against the increasingly severe cold in these parts. By noon we had made it to Susanville where we left 395 and headed up into the forests surrounding Mount Lassen. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_182950_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_182950_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_182950_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_182950_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_182950_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mount lassen photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_182950_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Mount Lassen"> + </a> +<figcaption>Mount Lassen</figcaption> +</figure> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_114848-2_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-25_114848-2_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_114848-2_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_114848-2_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_114848-2_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mount shasta photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_114848-2_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Mount Shasta"> + </a> +<figcaption>Mount Shasta</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There’s tons of boondocking spots in this area, all you really need to do is turn on a dirt road and you’ll end up somewhere with some rocks piled in fire rings in the woods. We were actually on our way to a legitimate campground by a lake, but the road was rough enough that we ended up just pulling off at the first flat area we saw. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg" alt="boondocking in lassen photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="inside the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It was a nice spot n the woods, next to a meadow of sorts with plenty of forest for the kids to explore. It was nice enough that we ended up staying two nights. Why not? It’s not like we have anywhere to be. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_173407_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_173407_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_173407_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_173407_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_173407_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="guinea pig photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_173407_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_171259_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_171259_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_171259_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_171259_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_171259_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="fisheye forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_171259_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_181322_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_181322_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_181322_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_181322_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_181322_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="forest explorers photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_181322_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_114818_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-25_114818_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_114818_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_114818_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_114818_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="breathing the forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_114818_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_181227_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_181227_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_181227_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_181227_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_181227_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sitting on a log photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_181227_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_175029_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-23_175029_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_175029_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_175029_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_175029_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="climbing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_175029_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>At some point during our stay here a fuse holder that sits between our charge controller and our battery bank broke. At the time I was blissfully unaware anything was wrong. It wasn’t until the second morning when we got up to leave and the inverter started beeping (which it does when the batteries are too low) that I realized something was wrong. I lifted up the couch and discovered our charge controller was dead. That pissed me off since I bought the expensive charger. But then we were about to drive anyway and could charge off the inverter so at least we’d get our batteries back up. Doesn’t that sound simple? Ha.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_122148-1_shasta-forest.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/2017/2017-10-25_122148-1_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_122148-1_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_122148-1_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_122148-1_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving near mount lassen photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_122148-1_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We drive down out of the forests and into the hot hellhole of Redding, which the rest of my family didn’t find nearly as terrible as I did. I’ve never liked Redding. This time through we got stuck in traffic, then we had to climb a good size hill just out of town and ended up overheating. We stopped for bit, let the engine cool and went on without an issue, but it was just one more strike against Redding in my book.</p> +<p>It was getting late in the day and we spied a sign for a campground off the highway, though it didn’t say how far of the highway. We went for it because we were all sick of being on the road. We ended up driving what seemed like ten miles on a road that kept getting narrower and narrower, weaving through tiny communities until we just about gave up hope of finding anything and then there it was, a really lovely little campground tucked in the woods of the Trinity Alps, right beside the first river we’ve seen that made me really wish I had a fly rod.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_190431_trinity-alps.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/2017/2017-10-25_190431_trinity-alps_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_190431_trinity-alps_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_190431_trinity-alps_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_190431_trinity-alps_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trinity river photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_190431_trinity-alps.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_190827_trinity-alps.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/2017/2017-10-25_190827_trinity-alps_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_190827_trinity-alps_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_190827_trinity-alps_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_190827_trinity-alps_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the bus through the trees. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_190827_trinity-alps.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Long days of driving, sitting at the side of the road, trying to fix electrical problems, all these things take their toll. The best morale booster is good food. One thing I will say for Redding, it had a damn good Thai/Lao restaurant with portions big enough that the kids could have Pad Thai in the middle of the forest, as forest fairies do.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_193123_trinity-alps.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/2017/2017-10-25_193123_trinity-alps_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_193123_trinity-alps_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_193123_trinity-alps_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-25_193123_trinity-alps_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinner in the trinity alps photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-25_193123_trinity-alps.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</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/2017/10/dialed-in" rel="prev" title=" Dialed In">Dialed In</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/10/pacific" rel="next" title=" Pacific Sense">Pacific Sense</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">1 Comment</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2820" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy and Mike Wall" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Patsy and Mike Wall</b></span> + <span class="when">November 05, 2017 at 8:15 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Love reading your blog, seeing the children and seeing your fabulous photos. 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Something about this town seems to suck us in. At least there's really good tacos at a Mexican market on the north east side of the city, we stopped there again for lunch. By the time we were done eating tacos and stocking up on essentials no one had the will to go past Washoe Lake. We pulled in and relaxed for the remainder of the day.
+
+The next day we managed to get on the road reasonably early, heading north on 395, bundled up against the increasingly severe cold in these parts. By noon we had made it to Susanville where we left 395 and headed up into the forests surrounding Mount Lassen.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_182950_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-923" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-25_114848-2_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-921" class="picwide caption" />
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+There's tons of boondocking spots in this area, all you really need to do is turn on a dirt road and you'll end up somewhere with some rocks piled in fire rings in the woods. We were actually on our way to a legitimate campground by a lake, but the road was rough enough that we ended up just pulling off at the first flat area we saw.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_174352_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-928" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-931" class="picwide" />
+
+It was a nice spot n the woods, next to a meadow of sorts with plenty of forest for the kids to explore. It was nice enough that we ended up staying two nights. Why not? It's not like we have anywhere to be.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_173407_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-929" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_171259_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-930" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_181322_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-924" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-25_114818_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-922" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_181227_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-925" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-23_175029_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-926" class="picwide" />
+
+At some point during our stay here a fuse holder that sits between our charge controller and our battery bank broke. At the time I was blissfully unaware anything was wrong. It wasn't until the second morning when we got up to leave and the inverter started beeping (which it does when the batteries are too low) that I realized something was wrong. I lifted up the couch and discovered our charge controller was dead. That pissed me off since I bought the expensive charger. But then we were about to drive anyway and could charge off the inverter so at least we'd get our batteries back up. Doesn't that sound simple? Ha.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-25_122148-1_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-920" class="picwide" />
+
+We drive down out of the forests and into the hot hellhole of Redding, which the rest of my family didn't find nearly as terrible as I did. I've never liked Redding. This time through we got stuck in traffic, then we had to climb a good size hill just out of town and ended up overheating. We stopped for bit, let the engine cool and went on without an issue, but it was just one more strike against Redding in my book.
+
+It was getting late in the day and we spied a sign for a campground off the highway, though it didn't say how far of the highway. We went for it because we were all sick of being on the road. We ended up driving what seemed like ten miles on a road that kept getting narrower and narrower, weaving through tiny communities until we just about gave up hope of finding anything and then there it was, a really lovely little campground tucked in the woods of the Trinity Alps, right beside the first river we've seen that made me really wish I had a fly rod.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-25_190431_trinity-alps.jpg" id="image-932" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-25_190827_trinity-alps.jpg" id="image-933" class="picwide" />
+
+Long days of driving, sitting at the side of the road, trying to fix electrical problems, all these things take their toll. The best morale booster is good food. One thing I will say for Redding, it had a damn good Thai/Lao restaurant with portions big enough that the kids could have Pad Thai in the middle of the forest, as forest fairies do.
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When you can see it. One evening the setting sun conspired with the fog to let a few rays of light through.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_195634_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-29_195634_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_195634_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_195634_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_195634_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_195634_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Most of the time though, it’s enveloped in cloud.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194221_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-26_194221_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194221_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194221_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194221_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194221_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_172743_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_172743_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172743_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172743_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172743_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_172743_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Having driven in on a broken alternator (draining our starting battery to dead and our house batteries way down) we really needed sun. Instead we got not just overcast skies but swirling mists of fog that create an artificial night around the entire point. It was like living in a cloud. Every morning I got up, and, while stowing our bedding under the couch, stared at the ever-dropping voltage readings on our batteries. </p> +<p>After three days it became apparent that I either had to do something today or we were going to be stuck. The nearest auto parts store with a new alternator in stock was about 35 miles away in Eureka. The nearest bus stop was six miles away but assuming it was even remotely on time I’d be gone about 16 hours round trip. Maybe. U.S. bus systems tables are completely inscrutable<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> so it was also possible there was no bus running at all. I could risk driving, but if the battery died the whole family would be stuck. </p> +<p>I ended up with a compromise. I rented a car from the airport which was only a six mile walk and ten mile bus ride and would, theoretically get me back to the bus by dinner time. I threw on some warm clothes, packed water and, at my daughters’ insistence, some snacks in my backpack, and set off for Trinidad. </p> +<p>I really did not want to walk to Trinidad. It just wasn’t on my list of things to do when I woke up that morning. A bus or even a really expensive cab ride was much more appealling. At the same time, perverse though this sounds, I like these little breakdowns. I like putting myself in situations where I’m well outside my comfort zone and have the scramble a bit to solve problems. How else do you know what you’re capable of?</p> +<p>I don’t generally try to teach my kids “life lessons” or any of that crap. Words are cheap. As a professional writer, I can tell you with some authority just how cheap they are. Children learn by watching . They absorb. The world around them gets organized into a patterns right before their eyes. One of them, that I have tried to cultivate to some degree, is that you should meet life head on. Good or bad you have to go through, not around. This is easy when life is good. When there are problems it gets more difficult. But still. The only way out is through.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_171101_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_171101_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_171101_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_171101_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_171101_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="banana slug photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_171101_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>You cannot avoid. You can not ignore. You cannot put your head in the ground. The minute you pull it up and look around, there’s everything you were avoiding, waiting for you. Similarly, there are no shortcuts, there are no easy escapes. No one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. You save yourself by going through. Whether life gives you fear and sadness, or joy and wonder, there’s no escaping it, there’s no way around it, you go through it. You can choose to accept what comes and deal with it accordingly moving through it or you can lay down and die. It’s really that simple. </p> +<p>And usually what we think is going to be so awful isn’t that bad<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>. We’re pretty terrible at telling what is good from what is bad in the midst of things. I am anyway. Many of my favorite moments in this life aren’t ones I’m in a hurry to re-live, but doesn’t make them any less wonderful to me. Whatever it is though, these experiences are here for you now. You put them on, you sit with them, so to speak, you live them. And then something else comes along. Some of it will be hard, unpleasant, involuntarily thrust upon you, not really what you wanted to do when you woke up that morning, but you get up and you do it anyway because it is life, whether you want to call it good or bad is up to you, but all of it is life and without it, there’s no reason to be here. The only way out is through.</p> +<p>That’s what I was thinking about walking through the damp cold dreary world of Patrick’s Point, at least when I wasn’t concentrating on the sound of cars to avoid being run over by insane California drivers. I also thought about the millions of people all over the world (most of them women) who were also at that very moment walking further than me to get water. And they have to do it again tomorrow. I don’t have to walk for water, I don’t have to beg for food. I don’t really have any problems at all, just a burned out coil of wire that needed to be replaced. No big deal. </p> +<p>I also thought about how if I were in the south someone would have stopped to give me a ride before I made it a mile. Everywhere we’ve been recently has served to reinforce something I already knew: the only place still alive in America is the south.</p> +<p>I made it to the bus station about half an hour ahead of the bus, time enough to grab some pastor tacos from the gas station, which was way better than you’re thinking. I have my beefs with California — lots of beefs in fact — but damn if you can’t get a decent taco at a gas station. Eventually the bus showed up only ten minutes late, which is almost Germanicly on-time by the LA public transport standards I grew up with. I made it to the airport, picked up the car, drove to Eureka, bought an alternator and drove back in time for dinner. </p> +<p>The next day I installed the alternator and took the bus for a drive to charge the batteries. It wasn’t enough to stop us from needing to conserve energy, but it kept us afloat a little longer, it got us out of our energy jam. It got us through. And that’s all we really need. Eventually the sun even came out for day.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_172400_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_172400_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172400_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172400_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172400_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_172400_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point_picwide.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_173651_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_173651_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_173651_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_173651_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_173651_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_173651_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_154657_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_154657_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_154657_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_154657_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_154657_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sunny day, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_154657_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_163418_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_163418_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_163418_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_163418_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_163418_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_163418_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_161506_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-30_161506_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_161506_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_161506_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-30_161506_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, tinidad, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-30_161506_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-31_160655_patricks-point.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/2017/2017-10-31_160655_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-31_160655_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-31_160655_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-31_160655_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-31_160655_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>I have ridden the bus in 16 countries, reading over bus schedules through the fog of half a dozen different language barriers and I’ve never had so difficult at time as I have at every bus stop in the U.S — MTA New York being the notable exception to that rule. <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>By the same token, things that seems so great at first often turn 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When you can see it. One evening the setting sun conspired with the fog to let a few rays of light through.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-29_195634_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-946" class="picwide" />
+
+Most of the time though, it's enveloped in cloud.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-26_194221_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-945" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_172743_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-952" class="picwide" />
+
+Having driven in on a broken alternator (draining our starting battery to dead and our house batteries way down) we really needed sun. Instead we got not just overcast skies but swirling mists of fog that create an artificial night around the entire point. It was like living in a cloud. Every morning I got up, and, while stowing our bedding under the couch, stared at the ever-dropping voltage readings on our batteries.
+
+After three days it became apparent that I either had to do something today or we were going to be stuck. The nearest auto parts store with a new alternator in stock was about 35 miles away in Eureka. The nearest bus stop was six miles away but assuming it was even remotely on time I'd be gone about 16 hours round trip. Maybe. U.S. bus systems tables are completely inscrutable[^1] so it was also possible there was no bus running at all. I could risk driving, but if the battery died the whole family would be stuck.
+
+I ended up with a compromise. I rented a car from the airport which was only a six mile walk and ten mile bus ride and would, theoretically get me back to the bus by dinner time. I threw on some warm clothes, packed water and, at my daughters' insistence, some snacks in my backpack, and set off for Trinidad.
+
+I really did not want to walk to Trinidad. It just wasn't on my list of things to do when I woke up that morning. A bus or even a really expensive cab ride was much more appealling. At the same time, perverse though this sounds, I like these little breakdowns. I like putting myself in situations where I'm well outside my comfort zone and have the scramble a bit to solve problems. How else do you know what you're capable of?
+
+I don't generally try to teach my kids "life lessons" or any of that crap. Words are cheap. As a professional writer, I can tell you with some authority just how cheap they are. Children learn by watching . They absorb. The world around them gets organized into a patterns right before their eyes. One of them, that I have tried to cultivate to some degree, is that you should meet life head on. Good or bad you have to go through, not around. This is easy when life is good. When there are problems it gets more difficult. But still. The only way out is through.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_171101_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-950" class="picwide" />
+
+You cannot avoid. You can not ignore. You cannot put your head in the ground. The minute you pull it up and look around, there's everything you were avoiding, waiting for you. Similarly, there are no shortcuts, there are no easy escapes. No one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. You save yourself by going through. Whether life gives you fear and sadness, or joy and wonder, there's no escaping it, there's no way around it, you go through it. You can choose to accept what comes and deal with it accordingly moving through it or you can lay down and die. It's really that simple.
+
+And usually what we think is going to be so awful isn't that bad[^2]. We're pretty terrible at telling what is good from what is bad in the midst of things. I am anyway. Many of my favorite moments in this life aren't ones I'm in a hurry to re-live, but doesn't make them any less wonderful to me. Whatever it is though, these experiences are here for you now. You put them on, you sit with them, so to speak, you live them. And then something else comes along. Some of it will be hard, unpleasant, involuntarily thrust upon you, not really what you wanted to do when you woke up that morning, but you get up and you do it anyway because it is life, whether you want to call it good or bad is up to you, but all of it is life and without it, there's no reason to be here. The only way out is through.
+
+That's what I was thinking about walking through the damp cold dreary world of Patrick's Point, at least when I wasn't concentrating on the sound of cars to avoid being run over by insane California drivers. I also thought about the millions of people all over the world (most of them women) who were also at that very moment walking further than me to get water. And they have to do it again tomorrow. I don't have to walk for water, I don't have to beg for food. I don't really have any problems at all, just a burned out coil of wire that needed to be replaced. No big deal.
+
+I also thought about how if I were in the south someone would have stopped to give me a ride before I made it a mile. Everywhere we've been recently has served to reinforce something I already knew: the only place still alive in America is the south.
+
+I made it to the bus station about half an hour ahead of the bus, time enough to grab some pastor tacos from the gas station, which was way better than you're thinking. I have my beefs with California -- lots of beefs in fact -- but damn if you can't get a decent taco at a gas station. Eventually the bus showed up only ten minutes late, which is almost Germanicly on-time by the LA public transport standards I grew up with. I made it to the airport, picked up the car, drove to Eureka, bought an alternator and drove back in time for dinner.
+
+The next day I installed the alternator and took the bus for a drive to charge the batteries. It wasn't enough to stop us from needing to conserve energy, but it kept us afloat a little longer, it got us out of our energy jam. It got us through. And that's all we really need. Eventually the sun even came out for day.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_172400_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-951" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_172924_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-953" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_173651_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-954" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_154657_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-947" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_163418_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-949" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-30_161506_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-948" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-31_160655_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-955" class="picwide" />
+
+[^1]: I have ridden the bus in 16 countries, reading over bus schedules through the fog of half a dozen different language barriers and I've never had so difficult at time as I have at every bus stop in the U.S -- MTA New York being the notable exception to that rule.
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I came up with something I thought was pretty good: take highway 266 west from Gold Point, grab highway 168, go over the White Mountains, drop down into Big Pine and follow 395 up to my aunt and uncle’s house up in Wellington. It seems simple when you type it out. I bet it made the gods chuckle anyway.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-28_115350_bishop.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/2017/2017-09-28_115350_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-28_115350_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-28_115350_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-28_115350_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="driving in nevada photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-28_115350_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Highway 266 was uneventful, a little climb up into the White Mountains, through a ghost town and down into a small town called Oasis. It was when we turned on 168 that we got some hints of what was to come. The signs read steep, winding roads ahead. Okay, no biggie, probably. Then there was a sign that said one lane road ahead, trucks not recommended. But we’re on a two digit state highway in California, those don’t narrow down to one lane. I thought maybe it meant there was no passing lane. It did not mean that.</p> +<p>Up and over the second pass was not too bad either, though it was the windiest road we’ve been on. Down the back side despite my best efforts at downshifting the brakes started to smell. We took a break to let them rest and enjoy the view. Of absolute nothing. Excepting perhaps some portions of route 50 (the so-called loneliest highway) route 168 is the most remote road I’ve ever been on. There’s no civilization for its entire run over the White Mountains. Just empty desert and one lone building set way back from the road with a huge sign that says “no telephone available.” The only other vehicles we saw were a few empty hay trucks driving way too fast for the road.</p> +<p>We had snack and a road work crew we’d passed up the mountain came down and pulled into the same turnout we were in. I took the opportunity to ask them about the next pass. They seemed to think we’d be fine, though one of them did say, “there’s one part we call the narrows, it’s only one lane through there.” I just stared at him for a minute. “Seriously?” “Seriously.” “Don’t tell my wife that.”</p> +<p>We said goodbye and hit the road again. Climbing the third pass I started to smell that sweet smell of radiator fluid and pulled into the next turn out. The bus sat boiling over for a bit, maybe a quart, and then it stopped. We climbed out to sit for a while and consider our options. Except that there weren’t any really. With no cell reception to call a tow truck, no real way to turn around, and no where else to go even if we did, we had to get over the pass. At one point an older gentleman on a Harley stopped at see if we were okay. We chatted for a bit and he told us the top of the pass was only about four or five miles ahead, which was encouraging.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_121417.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/2017/20170928_121417_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_121417_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_121417_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_121417_picwide-med.jpg" alt="overheated photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_121417.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Overheating. Again."> + </a> +<figcaption>Overheating. Again. | image by Corrinne Gilbertson</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>After an hour or so the bus, and I, had cooled enough to tackle the pass again. And the Harley guy turned out to be right. It wasn’t that bad and we didn’t overheat again. Shortly after the top of Westguard Pass though with very little warning the road did indeed become one lane. It turned out to be less than half a mile, just a stretch where they simply couldn’t blast the cut any wider. Fortunately we didn’t meet any hay trucks going through.</p> +<p>The downhill grade on the other side of the pass was 10 percent all the way down which had us stopping to rest the brakes four or five times, but eventually, around dinner time, we finally made it to Big Pine. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-28_162100_bishop.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/2017/2017-09-28_162100_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-28_162100_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-28_162100_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-28_162100_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="overheated photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-28_162100_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Resting the brakes."> + </a> +<figcaption>Resting the brakes.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We grabbed some gas and found a small county park with no one in it. Perfect way to end a long day. We parked for the night in the shadow of the High Sierra and ate dinner looking up at the mountains.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The High Sierrra photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_181253.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/2017/20170928_181253_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_181253_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_181253_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_181253_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Big Pine high sierra photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_181253.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Our plan for the next day was to check out the Laws Railroad Museum and then head to a local hot spring. Every morning while the bus warms up I walk around it and check things out, make sure all windows and vents are closed, no fluids are leaking and so on. This morning the rear wheel well caught my eye. It seemed someone closer to the wheels than I’d ever noticed. But that’s virtually impossible, how often do axles move? Has to be my imagination. I walked around the other side. Not my imagination. I crawled under and saw this:</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_20170929_091850014.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/IMG_20170929_091850014_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_20170929_091850014_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_20170929_091850014_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/IMG_20170929_091850014_picwide-med.jpg" alt="broken bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/IMG_20170929_091850014.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>That’s when I called my uncle. He’s already helped me fix a few thing via the phone. I sent over some pictures and he told me what to do, but I had neither tools nor jack to do it so he offered to come down and help. A couple hours later had some bolts, some beer and something like a plan. Or at least he did. I had hope.</p> +<p>And the next day we did it. Or my uncle did anyway. We lifted the bus with a grossly underpowered jack, pounded on the spring joint until it slowly slid back into place and then we put new bolts in. It was a long day, but we got it done. Thanks again Ron.</p> +<p>The kids, generally oblivious to our breakdowns, found plenty of mud to get them through the day.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-30_161835_bishop.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_161835_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_161835_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_161835_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_161835_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the mud photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-30_161835_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170930_143614.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170930_143614_pic66.jpg" alt="playing in campground photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170930_143614.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170930_143604.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170930_143604_pic66.jpg" alt="playing in campground photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170930_143604.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-30_163026_bishop.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_163026_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_163026_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_163026_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-09-30_163026_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-09-30_163026_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + +<figure class="pic66"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_180308.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_180308_pic66.jpg" alt="playing in campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_180308.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Snorkel costumes. We really need to get back to the beach."></a> +<figcaption>Snorkel costumes. We really need to get back to the beach.</figcaption> +</figure> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170929_115229_Vbt4mZF.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170929_115229_Vbt4mZF_pic66.jpg" alt="playing in campground photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170929_115229_Vbt4mZF.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The High Sierrra photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_090912_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_184719.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_184719_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_184719_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_184719_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/20170928_184719_picwide-med.jpg" alt="reading photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/20170928_184719.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>After that adventure we finally made it to the Laws Railroad Museum, which turned out to be a lot of fun for the kids, plenty of stuff to climb on, in and round and no one to tell them not to. Well, except for one old crone volunteering in the station house who proceeded to chastise the children before they were hardly in the door. I turned around and walked out because if I’d stayed I’d have involuntarily backhanded her. I sat on the porch listening to her tell visitors a completely false story about the origin of the Murphy bed. Some people I don’t know, they won’t leave you alone.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_140243_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_140243_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140243_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140243_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140243_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="laws railroad museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_140243_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_131818_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_131818_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_131818_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_131818_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_131818_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="laws railroad museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_131818_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_132924_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_132924_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_132924_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_132924_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_132924_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="laws railroad museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_132924_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_132207_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_132207_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_132207_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_132207_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_132207_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="laws railroad museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_132207_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_133310_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_133310_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_133310_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_133310_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_133310_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="laws railroad museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_133310_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_135524_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_135524_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_135524_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_135524_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_135524_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="laws railroad museum photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_135524_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Specialization is for insects."> + </a> +<figcaption>Specialization is for insects.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop_picwide.jpg" alt="The High Sierrra photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_140133_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>That afternoon we trekked over to Keough Hot Springs. There are a lot of hot springs in this part of the country, but not many of them have a really cool old pool. We ended up spending the night and the kids and I spent all afternoon in the pool.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_190450_bishop.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/2017/2017-10-01_190450_bishop_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_190450_bishop_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_190450_bishop_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-01_190450_bishop_picwide-med.jpg" alt="keough hot springs photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-01_190450_bishop.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Most of the appeal of Keough Hot Springs was this pool, built in 1912."> + </a> +<figcaption>Most of the appeal of Keough Hot Springs was this pool, built in 1912.</figcaption> +</figure> + </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/2017/09/ghost-town" rel="prev" title=" Ghost Town">Ghost Town</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/10/dialed-in" rel="next" title=" Dialed In">Dialed In</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">3 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2810" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Jeena" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://jeena.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeena</a></b></span> + <span class="when">October 29, 2017 at 4:02 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>I love your long posts with many pictures. Although I often don’t really read the text because the pictures alone tell a comprehensive story already :)</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2839" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Drew" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Drew</b></span> + <span class="when">November 15, 2017 at 12:57 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Do you just stay pissed off? That lady would of had it coming.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-2840" 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">November 15, 2017 at 1:07 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@Drew-</p> +<p>I walked out because if I’d stayed I’d punched her in the face and we live in times when that is not acceptable. 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I came up with something I thought was pretty good: take highway 266 west from Gold Point, grab highway 168, go over the White Mountains, drop down into Big Pine and follow 395 up to my aunt and uncle's house up in Wellington. It seems simple when you type it out. I bet it made the gods chuckle anyway.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-28_115350_bishop.jpg" id="image-881" class="picwide" />
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+Highway 266 was uneventful, a little climb up into the White Mountains, through a ghost town and down into a small town called Oasis. It was when we turned on 168 that we got some hints of what was to come. The signs read steep, winding roads ahead. Okay, no biggie, probably. Then there was a sign that said one lane road ahead, trucks not recommended. But we're on a two digit state highway in California, those don't narrow down to one lane. I thought maybe it meant there was no passing lane. It did not mean that.
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+Up and over the second pass was not too bad either, though it was the windiest road we've been on. Down the back side despite my best efforts at downshifting the brakes started to smell. We took a break to let them rest and enjoy the view. Of absolute nothing. Excepting perhaps some portions of route 50 (the so-called loneliest highway) route 168 is the most remote road I've ever been on. There's no civilization for its entire run over the White Mountains. Just empty desert and one lone building set way back from the road with a huge sign that says "no telephone available." The only other vehicles we saw were a few empty hay trucks driving way too fast for the road.
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+We had snack and a road work crew we'd passed up the mountain came down and pulled into the same turnout we were in. I took the opportunity to ask them about the next pass. They seemed to think we'd be fine, though one of them did say, "there's one part we call the narrows, it's only one lane through there." I just stared at him for a minute. "Seriously?" "Seriously." "Don't tell my wife that."
+
+We said goodbye and hit the road again. Climbing the third pass I started to smell that sweet smell of radiator fluid and pulled into the next turn out. The bus sat boiling over for a bit, maybe a quart, and then it stopped. We climbed out to sit for a while and consider our options. Except that there weren't any really. With no cell reception to call a tow truck, no real way to turn around, and no where else to go even if we did, we had to get over the pass. At one point an older gentleman on a Harley stopped at see if we were okay. We chatted for a bit and he told us the top of the pass was only about four or five miles ahead, which was encouraging.
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+<img src="images/2017/20170928_121417.jpg" id="image-894" class="picwide caption" />
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+After an hour or so the bus, and I, had cooled enough to tackle the pass again. And the Harley guy turned out to be right. It wasn't that bad and we didn't overheat again. Shortly after the top of Westguard Pass though with very little warning the road did indeed become one lane. It turned out to be less than half a mile, just a stretch where they simply couldn't blast the cut any wider. Fortunately we didn't meet any hay trucks going through.
+
+The downhill grade on the other side of the pass was 10 percent all the way down which had us stopping to rest the brakes four or five times, but eventually, around dinner time, we finally made it to Big Pine.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-09-28_162100_bishop.jpg" id="image-884" class="picwide caption" />
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+We grabbed some gas and found a small county park with no one in it. Perfect way to end a long day. We parked for the night in the shadow of the High Sierra and ate dinner looking up at the mountains.
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+Our plan for the next day was to check out the Laws Railroad Museum and then head to a local hot spring. Every morning while the bus warms up I walk around it and check things out, make sure all windows and vents are closed, no fluids are leaking and so on. This morning the rear wheel well caught my eye. It seemed someone closer to the wheels than I'd ever noticed. But that's virtually impossible, how often do axles move? Has to be my imagination. I walked around the other side. Not my imagination. I crawled under and saw this:
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+<img src="images/2017/IMG_20170929_091850014.jpg" id="image-902" class="picwide" />
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+That's when I called my uncle. He's already helped me fix a few thing via the phone. I sent over some pictures and he told me what to do, but I had neither tools nor jack to do it so he offered to come down and help. A couple hours later had some bolts, some beer and something like a plan. Or at least he did. I had hope.
+
+And the next day we did it. Or my uncle did anyway. We lifted the bus with a grossly underpowered jack, pounded on the spring joint until it slowly slid back into place and then we put new bolts in. It was a long day, but we got it done. Thanks again Ron.
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+The kids, generally oblivious to our breakdowns, found plenty of mud to get them through the day.
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+After that adventure we finally made it to the Laws Railroad Museum, which turned out to be a lot of fun for the kids, plenty of stuff to climb on, in and round and no one to tell them not to. Well, except for one old crone volunteering in the station house who proceeded to chastise the children before they were hardly in the door. I turned around and walked out because if I'd stayed I'd have involuntarily backhanded her. I sat on the porch listening to her tell visitors a completely false story about the origin of the Murphy bed. Some people I don't know, they won't leave you alone.
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+That afternoon we trekked over to Keough Hot Springs. There are a lot of hot springs in this part of the country, but not many of them have a really cool old pool. We ended up spending the night and the kids and I spent all afternoon in the pool.
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Not that it was warm mind you, but at least we saw the sun for two days in a row.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg" alt="beach, fort bragg, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-04_150705_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-04_150705_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_150705_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_150705_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_150705_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="harbor seals photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-04_150705_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-04_151110_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-04_151110_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_151110_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_151110_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-04_151110_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="beach, fort bragg, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-04_151110_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_162602_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-06_162602_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162602_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162602_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162602_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="beach, fort bragg, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_162602_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_162744_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-06_162744_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162744_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162744_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162744_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="beach, fort bragg, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_162744_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_162854_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-06_162854_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162854_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162854_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_162854_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="beach, fort bragg, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_162854_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_163056_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-06_163056_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_163056_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_163056_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-06_163056_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-06_163056_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I never wrote about it here, but Corrinne and I visited this area about a decade ago and went to a little, out of the way, somewhat inaccesible beach called Glass Beach. The name refered to the fact that the entire shoreline was glass shards, the soft, sea-polished variety some people call seaglass. If I remember correctly it was there because there used to be a wrecking yard or a garbage dump or some combination of those things on the bluff above. At the time, 2009 , the glass was several feet deep and covered from the low tide line well up past high tide. It looked like this:</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/glass.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/glass_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/glass_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/glass_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/glass_picwide-med.jpg" alt="glass beach back in the day photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/glass.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Today it is all gone. People came and carted it home in buckets. We read about the loss of glass beach on the internet, but I confess I didn’t really believe it until I saw it. It really is gone. I even saw two people trying to fill a bucket with the tiny amount of glass that still remains here and there. I have no idea what people do with a bucket of seaglass, presumably it all sits in garages and dens around the country, forgotten. Somehow, to me, this perfectly encapsulates America today: steal what’s everyone’s for yourself and then never even use it. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="assholes with buckets. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Assholes with buckets. Greed. This is why we can't have nice things people."> + </a> +<figcaption>Assholes with buckets. Greed. This is why we can’t have nice things people.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>At least there were still tidepools to explore. There wasn’t much life in them, but give a kid some puddles and rocks and they’ll be occupied for hours.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="throwing rocks photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="throwing rocks photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Because it’s Northern California in the Autumn the rain inevitably returned. People always ask, what do you do when it rains? Answer: we get wet. If you look closely at the left edge of the image below there’s a deer, also getting wet.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg.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/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walking in the rain photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Fort Bragg also turned out to be home to the third Travco we’ve run across in our travels. 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Not that it was warm mind you, but at least we saw the sun for two days in a row.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-04_145016_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-969" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-04_150705_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-970" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-04_151110_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-971" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-06_162602_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-972" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-06_162744_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-973" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-06_162854_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-974" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-06_163056_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-975" class="picwide" />
+
+I never wrote about it here, but Corrinne and I visited this area about a decade ago and went to a little, out of the way, somewhat inaccesible beach called Glass Beach. The name refered to the fact that the entire shoreline was glass shards, the soft, sea-polished variety some people call seaglass. If I remember correctly it was there because there used to be a wrecking yard or a garbage dump or some combination of those things on the bluff above. At the time, 2009 , the glass was several feet deep and covered from the low tide line well up past high tide. It looked like this:
+
+<img src="images/2017/glass.jpg" id="image-981" class="picwide" />
+
+Today it is all gone. People came and carted it home in buckets. We read about the loss of glass beach on the internet, but I confess I didn't really believe it until I saw it. It really is gone. I even saw two people trying to fill a bucket with the tiny amount of glass that still remains here and there. I have no idea what people do with a bucket of seaglass, presumably it all sits in garages and dens around the country, forgotten. Somehow, to me, this perfectly encapsulates America today: steal what's everyone's for yourself and then never even use it.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-07_130047_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-976" class="picwide caption" />
+
+At least there were still tidepools to explore. There wasn't much life in them, but give a kid some puddles and rocks and they'll be occupied for hours.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-07_132503_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-977" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-07_132541-fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-978" class="picwide" />
+
+Because it's Northern California in the Autumn the rain inevitably returned. People always ask, what do you do when it rains? Answer: we get wet. If you look closely at the left edge of the image below there's a deer, also getting wet.
+
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-09_103203_fort-bragg.jpg" id="image-979" class="picwide" />
+
+Fort Bragg also turned out to be home to the third Travco we've run across in our travels. This one, sadly, is unlikely to ever move again.
+
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It’s got all the good elements of ritual to it, costumes, masks, sounds, night, and obliquely somewhere in there, veneration of the dead. For one moment, one evening, everyone is something they’re not and somehow more themselves for it. The masks of everyday life get replaced with masks of our choosing, if only for one night. Plus, candy. </p> +<p>Back in Athens the kids really loved going to Boo at the Zoo, the local zoo gets all Halloween fun so it’s like a trip to the zoo plus costumes. Turns out Athens is far from the only place to have one of these so we crashed the Boo and the Zoo festival in Eureka.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween.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/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween_picwide.jpg" alt="fairies photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_162937_halloween.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/2017/2017-10-29_162937_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_162937_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_162937_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_162937_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="fairies and a dragon photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_162937_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_164821_halloween.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/2017/2017-10-29_164821_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_164821_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_164821_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_164821_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dragon love photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_164821_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_171318_halloween.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/2017/2017-10-29_171318_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_171318_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_171318_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-29_171318_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="otter photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-29_171318_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We even managed to get some trick-or-treating in down in nearby Trinidad, which was completely enveloped in fog (natch) and just spooky enough to be fun.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-31_182821_halloween.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/2017/2017-10-31_182821_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-31_182821_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-31_182821_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-31_182821_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trick or treating photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-31_182821_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We kept the car I rented to get the alternator for a few extra days because we decided we didn’t want to head north to check out the Redwoods proper with the bus. It’s been nice to see the ocean and all, but we also wanted to see the sun. Still, you can’t come all the way up here without showing the kids the tallest trees on earth. </p> +<p>We left the bus at Patrick’s Point and made a day trip up to the Redwood State and National parks. We hiked a few miles through a grove of the giant trees.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-01_121202_redwoods.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-01_121202_redwoods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-01_121202_redwoods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-01_121202_redwoods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-11-01_121202_redwoods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="redwoods photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-01_121202_redwoods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2". + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-11-01_115401_redwoods.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " 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It's got all the good elements of ritual to it, costumes, masks, sounds, night, and obliquely somewhere in there, veneration of the dead. For one moment, one evening, everyone is something they're not and somehow more themselves for it. The masks of everyday life get replaced with masks of our choosing, if only for one night. Plus, candy.
+
+Back in Athens the kids really loved going to Boo at the Zoo, the local zoo gets all Halloween fun so it's like a trip to the zoo plus costumes. Turns out Athens is far from the only place to have one of these so we crashed the Boo and the Zoo festival in Eureka.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-29_154402_halloween.jpg" id="image-956" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-29_162937_halloween.jpg" id="image-957" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-29_164821_halloween.jpg" id="image-958" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-29_171318_halloween.jpg" id="image-959" class="picwide" />
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+We even managed to get some trick-or-treating in down in nearby Trinidad, which was completely enveloped in fog (natch) and just spooky enough to be fun.
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-10-31_182821_halloween.jpg" id="image-961" class="picwide" />
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+We kept the car I rented to get the alternator for a few extra days because we decided we didn't want to head north to check out the Redwoods proper with the bus. It's been nice to see the ocean and all, but we also wanted to see the sun. Still, you can't come all the way up here without showing the kids the tallest trees on earth.
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+We left the bus at Patrick's Point and made a day trip up to the Redwood State and National parks. We hiked a few miles through a grove of the giant trees.
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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.</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" 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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.
+
+<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" />
+
+Being centrally located also allowed us to explore the town and see the aquarium.
+
+<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" />
+
+I'm probably just a twisted person, but after a few hours at the Monterey Bay Aquarium I was starving and really craving sushi.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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/2017/2017-12-01_173929_king-city.jpg" id="image-1014" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-30_170836_king-city.jpg" id="image-1012" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-30_170657_king-city.jpg" id="image-1011" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-30_164105_king-city.jpg" id="image-1010" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-30_174503_king-city.jpg" id="image-1013" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-12-03_120616_king-city.jpg" id="image-1015" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-30_160548_king-city.jpg" id="image-1009" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-30_160426_king-city.jpg" id="image-1008" class="picwide" />
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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.</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" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-13_140115_christmas_FJ3YFaF.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-13_145534_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/2017/2017-12-13_145534_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-13_145534_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-13_145534_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-12-13_145534_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Early Chrismas in orange county photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-13_145534_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-12-17_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 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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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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-18_151337_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-995" class="picwide" />
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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.
+
+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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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-18_171206_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-985" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-18_171850-1_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-986" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-18_170634_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-983" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-18_170747_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-984" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-19_114028_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-987" class="picwide caption" />
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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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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-20_124138_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-992" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-20_124223_san-francisco.jpg" id="image-993" class="picwide" />
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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.
+
+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.
+
+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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+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-23_073510_thanksgiving.jpg" id="image-997" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2017/2017-11-23_110251_thanksgiving.jpg" id="image-998" class="picwide caption" />
+
+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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datetime="2017-04-10T22:53:43-04:00">Apr 10, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/04/storming" title="Storming">Storming</a> + <time datetime="2017-04-06T01:46:56-04:00">Apr 06, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/04/edge-continent" title="The Edge of the Continent">The Edge of the Continent</a> + <time datetime="2017-04-04T01:32:48-04:00">Apr 04, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/04/april-fools" title="April Fools">April Fools</a> + <time datetime="2017-04-01T23:58:12-04:00">Apr 01, 2017</time> + </li> + </ul> + </li> + <li class="dater"><span>May 2017</span> + <ul> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/austin-part-one" title="Austin, part one">Austin, part one</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-30T02:12:19-04:00">May 30, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/keeps-rainin" title="Keeps on A-Rainin'">Keeps on A-Rainin’</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-23T22:14:46-04:00">May 23, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/little-black-train" title="Little Black Train">Little Black Train</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-19T21:38:05-04:00">May 19, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/palmetto-island-state-park" title="Palmetto Island State Park">Palmetto Island State Park</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-18T14:27:18-04:00">May 18, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/new-orleans-instrumental-number-2" title="New Orleans Instrumental Number 2">New Orleans Instrumental Number 2</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-15T23:02:43-04:00">May 15, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/new-orleans-instrumental-number-1" title="New Orleans Instrumental Number 1">New Orleans Instrumental Number 1</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-12T14:52:02-04:00">May 12, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/davis-bayou" title="Davis Bayou">Davis Bayou</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-08T15:59:32-04:00">May 08, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/05/dauphin-island" title="Dauphin Island">Dauphin Island</a> + <time datetime="2017-05-03T11:50:25-04:00">May 03, 2017</time> + </li> + </ul> + </li> + <li class="dater"><span>June 2017</span> + <ul> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/arc-time" title="Arc of Time">Arc of Time</a> + <time datetime="2017-06-28T16:45:21-04:00">Jun 28, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/solstice" title="Solstice">Solstice</a> + <time datetime="2017-06-21T19:08:45-04:00">Jun 21, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/high-country" title="The High Country">The High Country</a> + <time datetime="2017-06-18T19:09:06-04:00">Jun 18, 2017</time> + </li> + <li class="arc-item"> + <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/escaping-texas" title="Escaping Texas">Escaping 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