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That said, there are some very different, call them personalities, and ecologies to different oceans, different shores, in different parts of the world. My favorite in these parts is the Gulf of Mexico. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg" alt="Beach, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We’re a little way from warm, but it sure is nice to have sun and sand at least. If the wind died down it probably would be warm. Not bad for January.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_144512_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144512_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144512_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144512_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144512_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beach, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_144512_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_144435_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144435_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144435_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144435_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_144435_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beach, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_144435_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_145107_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_145107_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_145107_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_145107_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_145107_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beach, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_145107_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>If the wind died down though it’d be because we were somewhere else. Wind swept barrier island is a phrase that gets used a lot when you read about the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s the defining factor of these islands. The wind brings the waves, the waves bring the sand. No wind, no islands. </p> -<p>The wind shapes the land too, controlling what can grow here. Anything that grows out here has to deal with poorly drained soil, endless winding bending it and the occasional large dump of salt water from hurricanes — the wind again. Once you get beyond the dunes, the sea oats, prairie senna, and gulf croton, the island is like one continuous marshy sea of bulrush, cattails, and cordgrass. Hardly anything is taller than my waist.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-29_133326_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133326_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133326_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133326_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133326_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Marshes, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-29_133326_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-29_133210_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133210_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133210_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133210_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-29_133210_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Marshes, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-29_133210_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It’s a beautiful, if somewhat stark and, yes, windswept. We had warm and sunny though. Cold and rainy too. But if the sun was out, we were on the beach.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-31_121847_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_121847_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_121847_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_121847_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_121847_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beach, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-31_121847_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Beach faeries"> - </a> -<figcaption>Beach faeries</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-31_130130_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_130130_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_130130_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_130130_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_130130_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-31_130130_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Hey what are you doing? "Playing game where you try to hit the other person with a stick." Oh, okay. Have fun."> - </a> -<figcaption>Hey what are you doing? “Playing game where you try to hit the other person with a stick.” Oh, okay. Have fun.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The kids had been bugging me to take them fishing for, oh, two years now. A while back I finally got around to buying a fishing pole. Then I read up on surf fishing rigs, since I’ve never fished from the shore<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p> -<p>I just bought a one day license since I knew we wouldn’t be in Texas long. Naturally it was the coldest day we’d seen. But, after a suitable lecture on how fishing requires patience, we’re probably not going to catch anything, etc, etc, we tossed the line out. It was out for about two minutes when Lilah announced she’d caught a fish. I didn’t believe her, because seriously, I cast the line, It turned around to arrange my chair and she said she had a fish. No way. But, sure enough. She had a fish. Shows you what I know.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01_30_071249_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01_30_071249_padre-island-nat-seashore_pic5.jpg" alt="fishing, padre island national seashore photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01_30_071249_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01_31_071249_padre-island-nat-seashore_lPVqe02.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01_31_071249_padre-island-nat-seashore_lPVqe02_pic5.jpg" alt="ocean catfish, padre island national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01_31_071249_padre-island-nat-seashore_lPVqe02.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>It did rain from time to time, never very hard, but enough to force a break from the beach. Fortunately there’s plenty to do inside bus, like learning to sew. And no, no one gets stir crazy anymore. After our long sickness, when no one went outside for a week, being cooped up inside for one day is nothing.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_121839_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_121839_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_121839_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_121839_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_121839_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="learning to sew, padre island national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_121839_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_122619_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122619_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122619_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122619_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122619_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="learning to sew, padre island national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_122619_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_122748_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122748_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122748_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122748_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-28_122748_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="learning to sew, padre island national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-28_122748_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-26_130517_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-26_130517_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-26_130517_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-26_130517_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-26_130517_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dinner is served photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-26_130517_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Dinner is served. This is why it's so cheap to live in an RV, you just eat sand and rocks."> - </a> -<figcaption>Dinner is served. This is why it’s so cheap to live in an RV, you just eat sand and rocks.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-30_081927_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_081927_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_081927_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_081927_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_081927_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Missing teeth photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-30_081927_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="They each lost a tooth on the same day."> - </a> -<figcaption>They each lost a tooth on the same day.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The weather cooperated nicely to let us see the lunar eclipse, which was a super blue blood moon. Because in astronomy adjectives are cheap apparently. But it was really neat. We all got up early to see it, though the kids were considerably less enthusiastic about 5 AM moon viewing than I thought they would be. Go figure. I thought was pretty amazing to see the moon disappear into the darkness of the earth’s shadow and then turn around and see the sun rising behind us a few minutes later.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-31_050824_padre-island-nat-seashore_MXGlLw9.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_050824_padre-island-nat-seashore_MXGlLw9_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_050824_padre-island-nat-seashore_MXGlLw9_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_050824_padre-island-nat-seashore_MXGlLw9_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-31_050824_padre-island-nat-seashore_MXGlLw9_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Blood, blue moon, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-31_050824_padre-island-nat-seashore_MXGlLw9.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Lunar eclipse in progress."> - </a> -<figcaption>Lunar eclipse in progress.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-30_055628_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_055628_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_055628_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_055628_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-30_055628_padre-island-nat-seashore_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunrise, Padre Island National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-30_055628_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>On a totally unrelated note, several people have asked me for more writing and more photos so I’ve added a couple things to the bottom of this post (and future posts). One is all the animals and plants we see in a given place. Frankly that’s probably overly ambitions, but I’ve been recording the birds I see for quite a while, because I’m nerdy like that, so there’s plenty of birds. In the future you can click on a bird and you might read a story or two about it, but I haven’t had time to add them just yet.</p> -<p>I also started posting shorter notes, things that were interesting, but don’t fit the narrative of a post. So far they’re mostly about stuff that happens on drives, or things I think about on drives. I call them field notes. They’re not edited and the photos are blurrier, but if you want more luxagraf, there you go. If you’re clever with URLs you can figure out where a full list of notes resides. One of these days maybe I’ll add a menu item for notes, but in the mean time…</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>Like everything else fun, in California you can’t do that. <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>American Kestrel </li> - - <li>American White Pelican </li> - - <li>Blue-winged Teal </li> - - <li>Brown Pelican </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li>Great-tailed Grackle </li> - - <li>House Wren </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/laughing-gull">Laughing Gull</a> </li> - - <li>Long-billed Curlew </li> - - <li>Ring-billed Gull </li> - - <li>Ruddy Turnstone </li> - - <li>Sanderling </li> - - <li>Snowy Egret </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/coastal">Coastal</a></li> - - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/safari-trek">Safari Trek</a></li> - - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/01/harvey">Harvey</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/01/eastbound-down" rel="prev" title=" Eastbound & Down">Eastbound & Down</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast" rel="next" title=" Hugging the Coast">Hugging the Coast</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">3 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3015" 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">February 14, 2018 at 6:03 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Love the lunar eclipse picture.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3039" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Bret and Laura" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Bret and Laura</b></span> - <span class="when">February 24, 2018 at 7:13 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Absolutely love the entire thing, the restoration of a vintage coach, the experience these wonderful children are getting that is above and beyond an education.</p> -<p>We met them all at Padre, what a great family. I (Bret) witnessed the fishing experience from a short distance, as I was fishing and getting skunked, and saw it exactly as it unfolded. Too bad as now those kids will think there will always be a fish on the end of the line. Even from afar it played exactly as described above in the post.</p> -<p>Wicked good, -Bret and Laura</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3040" 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">February 25, 2018 at 9:15 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Bret and Laura-</p> -<p>Thanks, glad we got to meet you. And yes, they kids are pretty routinely disappointed when we don’t land a fish in the first five minutes or so.</p> -<p>Unfortunately we haven’t landed anything since then.</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="239" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833363" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="b22b8c0681753f5bf623686f96707e99c44ac42b" 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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That said, there are some very different, call them personalities, and ecologies to different oceans, different shores, in different parts of the world. My favorite in these parts is the Gulf of Mexico.
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-We're a little way from warm, but it sure is nice to have sun and sand at least. If the wind died down it probably would be warm. Not bad for January.
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-If the wind died down though it'd be because we were somewhere else. Wind swept barrier island is a phrase that gets used a lot when you read about the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico, it's the defining factor of these islands. The wind brings the waves, the waves bring the sand. No wind, no islands.
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-The wind shapes the land too, controlling what can grow here. Anything that grows out here has to deal with poorly drained soil, endless winding bending it and the occasional large dump of salt water from hurricanes -- the wind again. Once you get beyond the dunes, the sea oats, prairie senna, and gulf croton, the island is like one continuous marshy sea of bulrush, cattails, and cordgrass. Hardly anything is taller than my waist.
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-It's a beautiful, if somewhat stark and, yes, windswept. We had warm and sunny though. Cold and rainy too. But if the sun was out, we were on the beach.
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-The kids had been bugging me to take them fishing for, oh, two years now. A while back I finally got around to buying a fishing pole. Then I read up on surf fishing rigs, since I've never fished from the shore[^1].
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-I just bought a one day license since I knew we wouldn't be in Texas long. Naturally it was the coldest day we'd seen. But, after a suitable lecture on how fishing requires patience, we're probably not going to catch anything, etc, etc, we tossed the line out. It was out for about two minutes when Lilah announced she'd caught a fish. I didn't believe her, because seriously, I cast the line, It turned around to arrange my chair and she said she had a fish. No way. But, sure enough. She had a fish. Shows you what I know.
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-It did rain from time to time, never very hard, but enough to force a break from the beach. Fortunately there's plenty to do inside bus, like learning to sew. And no, no one gets stir crazy anymore. After our long sickness, when no one went outside for a week, being cooped up inside for one day is nothing.
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-The weather cooperated nicely to let us see the lunar eclipse, which was a super blue blood moon. Because in astronomy adjectives are cheap apparently. But it was really neat. We all got up early to see it, though the kids were considerably less enthusiastic about 5 AM moon viewing than I thought they would be. Go figure. I thought was pretty amazing to see the moon disappear into the darkness of the earth's shadow and then turn around and see the sun rising behind us a few minutes later.
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-On a totally unrelated note, several people have asked me for more writing and more photos so I've added a couple things to the bottom of this post (and future posts). One is all the animals and plants we see in a given place. Frankly that's probably overly ambitions, but I've been recording the birds I see for quite a while, because I'm nerdy like that, so there's plenty of birds. In the future you can click on a bird and you might read a story or two about it, but I haven't had time to add them just yet.
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-I also started posting shorter notes, things that were interesting, but don't fit the narrative of a post. So far they're mostly about stuff that happens on drives, or things I think about on drives. I call them field notes. They're not edited and the photos are blurrier, but if you want more luxagraf, there you go. If you're clever with URLs you can figure out where a full list of notes resides. One of these days maybe I'll add a menu item for notes, but in the mean time...
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We had a choice — head further south, into Mexico, or head east and south, back to the Gulf Coast. We really wanted to go to Mexico, but the Georgia DMV lost our registration papers for the better part of two months and it was looking like they were never going to get to us. No registration, no Mexico<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p> -<p>We ended up deciding to head back to what remains one of our favorite places — the southern Gulf Coast.</p> -<p>We loved the southwest desert, especially the our corners area, but generally most of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado. If the weather were different we’d have headed north into northern Arizona and southern Utah again. But we go where the weather is warm and so we’re headed back to the south for now.</p> -<p>While Mexico still has a strong pull on our future, there are few things in this country quite as nice as spring in the south. We’re looking forward to it. Especially because we felt like we had to rush through Louisiana on our way out west. </p> -<p>It is of course, a long way from here to there. We hit the road for some long driving days across New Mexico and Texas. We rarely do more than 200 miles a day and hardly ever drive back to back days. But from the time we left the Dragoons we covered roughly 1200 miles in five days with only one weekend as a break.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-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/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving_picwide.jpg" alt="Driving west Texas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>One night, the day we left the Dragoons, the forecast called for 18 degrees overnight so we got a hotel in Deming NM. I ended up sleeping in the bus anyway and it wasn’t that bad, but we try to err on the side of caution for the kids. From there we went on to Las Cruces, ostensibly for the night, but we knew we wanted to head up to the Guadalupe Mountains and Carlsbad Caverns the next day and that area was having winds in the 60-70 mile and hour range. </p> -<p>I wanted to see what the bus would be like in those kinds of winds, but Corrinne wasn’t having it. We holed up at a state park outside Las Cruces for the weekend. Even there the wind was bad enough that one day I don’t think we left the bus for more than 20 minutes. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-19_152431_leasburg-dam.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152431_leasburg-dam_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152431_leasburg-dam_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152431_leasburg-dam_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152431_leasburg-dam_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playground, Leasburg Damn, MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-19_152431_leasburg-dam.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-19_152328_leasburg-dam.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152328_leasburg-dam_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152328_leasburg-dam_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152328_leasburg-dam_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-19_152328_leasburg-dam_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playground, Leasburg Dam, NM photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-19_152328_leasburg-dam.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>When things finally calmed down we hit the road again and made the Guadalupe Mountains only to discover that — despite what the news was saying — the park was closed for the government shutdown. I really didn’t care because I was still so excited the bus had actually made it over Guadalupe Pass without incident that the whole world could have been on fire and I wouldn’t have cared. I made it over the hill damn it.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-22_122925_texas-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/2018/2018-01-22_122925_texas-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_122925_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_122925_texas-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_122925_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-22_122925_texas-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Western Texas grassland"> - </a> -<figcaption>Western Texas grassland</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>We ended up camping in a parking lot just down the road for the night, along with a few other rigs in the same situation.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-22_145014_texas-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/2018/2018-01-22_145014_texas-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_145014_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_145014_texas-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-22_145014_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camping, Guadalupe Mountains photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-22_145014_texas-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_062404_texas-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/2018/2018-01-23_062404_texas-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_062404_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_062404_texas-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_062404_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="West Texas sunrise photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_062404_texas-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="First light over the West Texas plains"> - </a> -<figcaption>First light over the West Texas plains</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The next morning the government was back in business so we drove up to Carlsbad Caverns and had the place pretty much to ourselves. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_092914_carlsbad-caverns.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_092914_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_092914_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_092914_carlsbad-caverns_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_092914_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Natural Entrance to Carlsbad Cavern photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_092914_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_094625_carlsbad-caverns.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_094625_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_094625_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_094625_carlsbad-caverns_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_094625_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Carlsbad Caverns, NM photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_094625_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Carlsbad was just like Corrinne and I remembered it from our childhoods, with one exception — there’s almost no water in any of the pools now. Turns out the park service was artificially filling those pools the keep visitors enthralled, but at some point it thought better of that and now lets nature run its course, which means very little water.</p> -<p>It’s a very strange thing to descend 800 feet underground, but what surprised me the most was how quickly the kids became hushed and whispered in the darkness.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_112457_carlsbad-caverns.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112457_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112457_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112457_carlsbad-caverns_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112457_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Carlsbad Caverns, NM photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_112457_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_113742_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_113742_carlsbad-caverns_pic5.jpg" alt="Carlsbad Caverns, NM photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_113742_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_115633_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_115633_carlsbad-caverns_pic5.jpg" alt="Carlsbad Caverns, NM photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_115633_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_112626_carlsbad-caverns.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112626_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112626_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112626_carlsbad-caverns_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-23_112626_carlsbad-caverns_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Carlsbad Caverns, NM photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-23_112626_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We spent the morning underground. Part of the reason there was no one in the cave was because the elevator wasn’t working. We’d been told that it would be fixed around 10, but that turned out to not be true. There was about half an hour there where we thought we’d have to hike out. Not the end of the world, but not really what the kids were looking forward to. Just about the time we were going to give up and start hiking out we heard the hiss of elevator doors and we ended up escaping the underworld the easy way. So long Hades, Persephone, Dionysus and all the rest of the vegetation cycle personifications around the world. The underworld is fun to visit, but I wouldn’t want to stay.</p> -<p>We had a quick bite to eat in the parking lot and then continued on our way. The drive south from Carlsbad to Fort Stockton was the single worst road we’ve driven, and I’ll go ahead and say it’s in the top ten worst roads I’ve driven anywhere in the world. The reason? The fracking industry. This is west Texas, the water table won’t support fracking, so water is trucked in. Hundreds and hundreds of trucks all day every day will absolutely destroy a road. And of course whatever water table was available here is full of chemicals now and, from a human perspective, forever. </p> -<p>Fracking is bit like burning the furniture to keep the house warm, and all you need to know about the current state of oil in the world is to drive though an area where the old oil pumps are rusted and collapsing and water trucks are rolling by in the steady stream — we’re getting desperate and nothing illustrates that so well as a fracking field. This is the third we’ve driven through and by far the worst. </p> -<p>After a night in Fort Stockton we continued on toward Kerrville and somewhere on that drive, I can almost pin it down to single climb over a single hill, you’re no longer in the west. You’re also not yet in the east. Nor are you in the Midwest. You’re in something uniquely Texas for a while. By Kerrville though you’re more or less back in the south. I got a little giddy at the grocery store walking the aisle and seeing okra, collards, grits, Duke’s Mayonnaise and all the other things I love about the south. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-25_084545_texas-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/2018/2018-01-25_084545_texas-driving_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-25_084545_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-25_084545_texas-driving_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-25_084545_texas-driving_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-25_084545_texas-driving.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="That bathroom in the background? Yeah, it's got soap in it."> - </a> -<figcaption>That bathroom in the background? Yeah, it’s got soap in it.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Westerners and Northerners always look at me funny when I say the south is my favorite part of America. Doubly so when they find out I actually grew up in Los Angeles. Whatever the case, it’s good to be back in the south. And yes, there’s more to it than a few foods that I’ve come to love. For example southern campgrounds put soap in the bathrooms, you really need to look into this westerners. </p> -<p>To be totally honest I’ve never been able to put my finger on exactly what it is I love about the south beyond saying that the people are kinder, more open, and friendlier. If you want to be left alone and never have to talk to anyone at the grocery store, head to the west. If you prefer to engage with your fellow spaceship travelers you’ll have a more rewarding time of it in the south. </p> -<p>Sometimes this gets called “southern politeness”, but I dislike that term. I prefer kindness. What I mean by that is that you say hello to people when you can, yes, strangers. You hold the door for them if you can, you pause to let them go first, you wait for them when they walk and you’re in a car, you respect them and treat them as people even if you don’t like them at all. This last point is especially important. Even if you thoroughly dislike someone, perhaps especially if you thoroughly dislike them, you still treat them with respect, you treat them as if you loved them. </p> -<p>The reason I prefer to term kindness is that the whole politeness thing gets obsessed over by northerners and westerners who think it’s somehow quaint and charming. It’s neither. It’s much simpler than that. It’s something that used to be called common decency, which you would extend to anyone — anyone with whom you have an I-you relationship. That is, anyone you consider a “person”. When people get rude and people get dangerous it’s because they have convinced themselves that you are an “it” not a “you”<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>.</p> -<p>That’s why I don’t like the term polite. In fact even the term kindness should be unnecessary. I would prefer to call the kindness nothing at all and instead define northern and western behavior what it is — coarse and rude. </p> -<p>One thing we’ve painfully noticed in 8000 miles of travel around the U.S. is that the lack of respect, the lack the treating the world around you and what’s in it as equals, is a huge part of so many of the problems our country is having just now. When you deal with the world outside yourself as a collection of “its” things have a way of turning ugly rather quickly. </p> -<p>There are, in my experience, more people with more “yous” in their lives in the south than elsewhere.</p> -<p>This is part of why, despite the economic strife, lingering racial prejudices, and the arrogant dismissal of the rest of the nation, southerners remain a generally happier, friendlier bunch than most. And of course it’s doubly impressive when you consider that there are more differences among people in the south than in much the rest of the country. </p> -<p>That’s not to say the south doesn’t have terrible people or is somehow a paradise. It’s flawed like everything else. It’s a mess too, but the people in it have at least retain the ability to go about the daily lives with a certain grace, dignity, and kindness that I find missing elsewhere. I should also probably say that, by the same token, we’ve met very nice, kind people in the west and are glad to call many of them friends at this point.</p> -<p>One of the interesting outgrowths of leaving the south has been discovering that southern culture extends beyond its borders. I can’t tell you how many people have come up to us to talk because they saw our license plate. We’ve met Georgians, Carolinians, Louisianans, Alabamans and others who wanted to talk simply because we were also from the south, because they knew we would talk, because they knew we would treat them with respect, and perhaps because there is an unwritten understanding among those from the south that we must stick together in the face of the unkindness that has engulfed the rest of the nation.</p> -<p>Truth be told I feel like, unfortunately, many of the things I like about the south — nebulous and difficult to define though they may be — are fast disappearing. They seem already gone in many larger cities, except perhaps New Orleans, but New Orleans is really it’s own thing, not exactly part of the south. </p> -<p>Still, if you stick to the small towns, particularly those lining the gulf of Mexico, the further out from the interstate and cities the better, you can still find some of the south Henry Miller describes in his 1939 drive across America.</p> -<p>For the foreseeable future, that’s our plan — visit the small towns, the backwaters, the places in the south that time forgot so to speak. </p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>Our registration eventually showed up and got to us in Tucson, but by then we’d already made reservations all along the Gulf Coast (the one downside of the Gulf is that you can’t just show up and expect to get a campsite in most places). <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>I’m borrowing those terms from philosopher Martin Buber because I think they work quite well, so long as you keep in mind that all dualities are concealing a third possibility. <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/2018/01/ghost-cochise" rel="prev" title=" The Ghost of Cochise">The Ghost of Cochise</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/01/almost-warm" rel="next" title=" Almost Warm">Almost Warm</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3007" 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">February 09, 2018 at 6:45 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>We found San Miguel to be very much like the south. One of the reasons we loved it.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3008" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy Wall" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Patsy Wall</b></span> - <span class="when">February 09, 2018 at 8:36 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Good read, glad you guys are headed back south!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3014" 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">February 14, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I agree that the South is a more friendly place. Lovely reflections on the importance of treating people with respect. I appreciated the reference to Buber, though I prefer his use of thou, as it better suggests to me the sacredness of human beings.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3020" 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">February 17, 2018 at 7:54 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Gwen-</p> -<p>I can see what you’re saying, but I think Thou ends up awkward and distracting for modern readers, especially relatively out of context like it would be here. The translation I read of Buber used Thou though.</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="238" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833365" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="84d204145ee027fd79efdee03dbea879cc146190" 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 had a choice -- head further south, into Mexico, or head east and south, back to the Gulf Coast. We really wanted to go to Mexico, but the Georgia DMV lost our registration papers for the better part of two months and it was looking like they were never going to get to us. No registration, no Mexico[^1].
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-We ended up deciding to head back to what remains one of our favorite places -- the southern Gulf Coast.
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-We loved the southwest desert, especially the our corners area, but generally most of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado. If the weather were different we'd have headed north into northern Arizona and southern Utah again. But we go where the weather is warm and so we're headed back to the south for now.
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-While Mexico still has a strong pull on our future, there are few things in this country quite as nice as spring in the south. We're looking forward to it. Especially because we felt like we had to rush through Louisiana on our way out west.
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-It is of course, a long way from here to there. We hit the road for some long driving days across New Mexico and Texas. We rarely do more than 200 miles a day and hardly ever drive back to back days. But from the time we left the Dragoons we covered roughly 1200 miles in five days with only one weekend as a break.
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-One night, the day we left the Dragoons, the forecast called for 18 degrees overnight so we got a hotel in Deming NM. I ended up sleeping in the bus anyway and it wasn't that bad, but we try to err on the side of caution for the kids. From there we went on to Las Cruces, ostensibly for the night, but we knew we wanted to head up to the Guadalupe Mountains and Carlsbad Caverns the next day and that area was having winds in the 60-70 mile and hour range.
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-I wanted to see what the bus would be like in those kinds of winds, but Corrinne wasn't having it. We holed up at a state park outside Las Cruces for the weekend. Even there the wind was bad enough that one day I don't think we left the bus for more than 20 minutes.
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-When things finally calmed down we hit the road again and made the Guadalupe Mountains only to discover that -- despite what the news was saying -- the park was closed for the government shutdown. I really didn't care because I was still so excited the bus had actually made it over Guadalupe Pass without incident that the whole world could have been on fire and I wouldn't have cared. I made it over the hill damn it.
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-Carlsbad was just like Corrinne and I remembered it from our childhoods, with one exception -- there's almost no water in any of the pools now. Turns out the park service was artificially filling those pools the keep visitors enthralled, but at some point it thought better of that and now lets nature run its course, which means very little water.
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-We spent the morning underground. Part of the reason there was no one in the cave was because the elevator wasn't working. We'd been told that it would be fixed around 10, but that turned out to not be true. There was about half an hour there where we thought we'd have to hike out. Not the end of the world, but not really what the kids were looking forward to. Just about the time we were going to give up and start hiking out we heard the hiss of elevator doors and we ended up escaping the underworld the easy way. So long Hades, Persephone, Dionysus and all the rest of the vegetation cycle personifications around the world. The underworld is fun to visit, but I wouldn't want to stay.
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-We had a quick bite to eat in the parking lot and then continued on our way. The drive south from Carlsbad to Fort Stockton was the single worst road we've driven, and I'll go ahead and say it's in the top ten worst roads I've driven anywhere in the world. The reason? The fracking industry. This is west Texas, the water table won't support fracking, so water is trucked in. Hundreds and hundreds of trucks all day every day will absolutely destroy a road. And of course whatever water table was available here is full of chemicals now and, from a human perspective, forever.
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-Fracking is bit like burning the furniture to keep the house warm, and all you need to know about the current state of oil in the world is to drive though an area where the old oil pumps are rusted and collapsing and water trucks are rolling by in the steady stream -- we're getting desperate and nothing illustrates that so well as a fracking field. This is the third we've driven through and by far the worst.
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-After a night in Fort Stockton we continued on toward Kerrville and somewhere on that drive, I can almost pin it down to single climb over a single hill, you're no longer in the west. You're also not yet in the east. Nor are you in the Midwest. You're in something uniquely Texas for a while. By Kerrville though you're more or less back in the south. I got a little giddy at the grocery store walking the aisle and seeing okra, collards, grits, Duke's Mayonnaise and all the other things I love about the south.
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-Westerners and Northerners always look at me funny when I say the south is my favorite part of America. Doubly so when they find out I actually grew up in Los Angeles. Whatever the case, it's good to be back in the south. And yes, there's more to it than a few foods that I've come to love. For example southern campgrounds put soap in the bathrooms, you really need to look into this westerners.
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-To be totally honest I've never been able to put my finger on exactly what it is I love about the south beyond saying that the people are kinder, more open, and friendlier. If you want to be left alone and never have to talk to anyone at the grocery store, head to the west. If you prefer to engage with your fellow spaceship travelers you'll have a more rewarding time of it in the south.
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-Sometimes this gets called "southern politeness", but I dislike that term. I prefer kindness. What I mean by that is that you say hello to people when you can, yes, strangers. You hold the door for them if you can, you pause to let them go first, you wait for them when they walk and you're in a car, you respect them and treat them as people even if you don't like them at all. This last point is especially important. Even if you thoroughly dislike someone, perhaps especially if you thoroughly dislike them, you still treat them with respect, you treat them as if you loved them.
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-The reason I prefer to term kindness is that the whole politeness thing gets obsessed over by northerners and westerners who think it's somehow quaint and charming. It's neither. It's much simpler than that. It's something that used to be called common decency, which you would extend to anyone -- anyone with whom you have an I-you relationship. That is, anyone you consider a "person". When people get rude and people get dangerous it's because they have convinced themselves that you are an "it" not a "you"[^2].
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-That's why I don't like the term polite. In fact even the term kindness should be unnecessary. I would prefer to call the kindness nothing at all and instead define northern and western behavior what it is -- coarse and rude.
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-One thing we've painfully noticed in 8000 miles of travel around the U.S. is that the lack of respect, the lack the treating the world around you and what's in it as equals, is a huge part of so many of the problems our country is having just now. When you deal with the world outside yourself as a collection of "its" things have a way of turning ugly rather quickly.
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-There are, in my experience, more people with more "yous" in their lives in the south than elsewhere.
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-This is part of why, despite the economic strife, lingering racial prejudices, and the arrogant dismissal of the rest of the nation, southerners remain a generally happier, friendlier bunch than most. And of course it's doubly impressive when you consider that there are more differences among people in the south than in much the rest of the country.
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-That's not to say the south doesn't have terrible people or is somehow a paradise. It's flawed like everything else. It's a mess too, but the people in it have at least retain the ability to go about the daily lives with a certain grace, dignity, and kindness that I find missing elsewhere. I should also probably say that, by the same token, we've met very nice, kind people in the west and are glad to call many of them friends at this point.
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-One of the interesting outgrowths of leaving the south has been discovering that southern culture extends beyond its borders. I can't tell you how many people have come up to us to talk because they saw our license plate. We've met Georgians, Carolinians, Louisianans, Alabamans and others who wanted to talk simply because we were also from the south, because they knew we would talk, because they knew we would treat them with respect, and perhaps because there is an unwritten understanding among those from the south that we must stick together in the face of the unkindness that has engulfed the rest of the nation.
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-Truth be told I feel like, unfortunately, many of the things I like about the south -- nebulous and difficult to define though they may be -- are fast disappearing. They seem already gone in many larger cities, except perhaps New Orleans, but New Orleans is really it's own thing, not exactly part of the south.
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-Still, if you stick to the small towns, particularly those lining the gulf of Mexico, the further out from the interstate and cities the better, you can still find some of the south Henry Miller describes in his 1939 drive across America.
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-For the foreseeable future, that's our plan -- visit the small towns, the backwaters, the places in the south that time forgot so to speak.
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-[^1]: Our registration eventually showed up and got to us in Tucson, but by then we'd already made reservations all along the Gulf Coast (the one downside of the Gulf is that you can't just show up and expect to get a campsite in most places).
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It’s not a place we like. As my daughter put it, neatly summing up some nebulous feelings I was struggling to describe — <em>everything is dead in California, there’s no flowers or butterflies, I love flowers and butterflies</em>.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-04_162601_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-04_162601_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-04_162601_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-04_162601_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-04_162601_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Colorado River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-04_162601_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Flowers and butterflies all live right over there in Arizona, where everything is alive. This scene actually reminded me of crossing the river at Huey Xui, Laos, something about the light, the shape of the river, the plants, I don't know, but for a minute I thought I was back in SEAsia."> - </a> -<figcaption>Flowers and butterflies all live right over there in Arizona, where everything is alive. This scene actually reminded me of crossing the river at Huey Xui, Laos, something about the light, the shape of the river, the plants, I don’t know, but for a minute I thought I was back in SEAsia.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>I actually wrote 2,500 words on what I don’t like about California, but I deleted it in favor of this. I prefer to focus on the positive — California and all the problems we encountered there… it’s all in the rearview mirror now. </p> -<p>We got the bus back just before Christmas. We’d only been back in it for a day when we all came down with the flu. All five of us similtaneously. That’s never happened before and it was every bit as miserable as it sounds. Luckily we were able to hole up at a campground in Victorville and wait it out. When we pulled in I figured we’d be stuck for the weekend. It was two weeks before we pulled out. A rather miserable two weeks I might add, I didn’t take a single picture Christmas morning, I’m not even sure I was out of bed for more than an hour. It was not fun.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2017-12-23_083454_mojave-narrows.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-23_083454_mojave-narrows_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-23_083454_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-23_083454_mojave-narrows_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-23_083454_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg" alt="stuck in the bus, sick photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2017-12-23_083454_mojave-narrows.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This is around day 4 stuck inside, lots of movies, but everyone was still going a little crazy."> - </a> -<figcaption>This is around day 4 stuck inside, lots of movies, but everyone was still going a little crazy.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>After about a week we finally ventured outside again. The kids road their bikes a bit, had epic coughing fits and then rode some more. There’s nothing quite like that first day outside after a bad illness.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2017-12-27_153054_mojave-narrows.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153054_mojave-narrows_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153054_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153054_mojave-narrows_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153054_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2017-12-27_153054_mojave-narrows.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2017-12-27_153345_mojave-narrows.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153345_mojave-narrows_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153345_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153345_mojave-narrows_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2017-12-27_153345_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mojave narrows regional park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2017-12-27_153345_mojave-narrows.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>By New Year’s Day we were feeling well enough to get our proper New Year’s meal together. Or sort of together. Collards are hard to come by out here so we settled for Kale, closest we could find in this desolate, dreary part of the world.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-01_150851_mojave-narrows.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-01_150851_mojave-narrows_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-01_150851_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-01_150851_mojave-narrows_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-01_150851_mojave-narrows_picwide-med.jpg" alt="New year's day. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-01_150851_mojave-narrows.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>When we finally did get back on the road the bus purred across the desert and even the kids hardly raised a complaint when we did back to back five hour drives. They were just happy to be out of California. It’s warmer down here too, a little anyway. Warm enough to get back to our usual stuff, sitting around campfires, walking around looking at petrogylphs and digging in the dirt.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-02_173015_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-02_173015_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-02_173015_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-02_173015_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-02_173015_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" alt="campfire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-02_173015_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-05_141823_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141823_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141823_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141823_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141823_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Petroglyphs, Painted Rocks BLM area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-05_141823_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-05_141911_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141911_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141911_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141911_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_141911_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Petroglyphs, Painted Rocks BLM area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-05_141911_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-05_151942_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_151942_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_151942_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_151942_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-05_151942_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the dirt. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-05_151942_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Drawing their own petroglyphs."> - 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<span class="when">March 11, 2018 at 4:22 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I swell with pride every time I read one of your posts. I feel like I am there with you, that I can’t believe I got to be a conduit between your dream, the Travco, and life on the road with your children, that, even when the chips are down, you find a way to overcome, that you didn’t just say you wanted to do this, you did it, and watching your family grow through these posts always brings me to tears, but in a good way. You are my hero.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3071" 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">March 14, 2018 at 9:25 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Denise-</p> -<p>That’s a very nice thing to say, thank you. Glad you’re still following along. 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-California wore us down. It's not a place we like. As my daughter put it, neatly summing up some nebulous feelings I was struggling to describe -- *everything is dead in California, there's no flowers or butterflies, I love flowers and butterflies*.
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-We got the bus back just before Christmas. We'd only been back in it for a day when we all came down with the flu. All five of us similtaneously. That's never happened before and it was every bit as miserable as it sounds. Luckily we were able to hole up at a campground in Victorville and wait it out. When we pulled in I figured we'd be stuck for the weekend. It was two weeks before we pulled out. A rather miserable two weeks I might add, I didn't take a single picture Christmas morning, I'm not even sure I was out of bed for more than an hour. It was not fun.
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-When we finally did get back on the road the bus purred across the desert and even the kids hardly raised a complaint when we did back to back five hour drives. They were just happy to be out of California. It's warmer down here too, a little anyway. Warm enough to get back to our usual stuff, sitting around campfires, walking around looking at petrogylphs and digging in the dirt.
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The tires crunch and rumble as we creep over the moderately — by Arizona standards — washboard road. The road winds its way through dry desert grassland, interspersed with yucca and thorny mesquite trees, up into the foothills of the Dragoon Mountains where Arizona Oaks and Alligator Juniper cluster around the dry river beds and on up the rocky slopes of the mountains.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_132014_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132014_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132014_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132014_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132014_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking, dragoon mountains, AZ photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_132014_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I’ve been into Dragoon Mountains several times, from both the east and west side. The west is my favorite, but that road is far too rough for both the big blue bus and the Volvo. Both sides have access to the same central cluster of rock gardens and peaks in the middle, but the east is home to Cochise Stronghold, the place where Chihuicahui leader Cochise lived, later hid and eventually died and was buried. </p> -<p>By all accounts this is where Cochise loved to be and I happen to believe Cochise still wanders this place. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-17_145137_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_145137_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_145137_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_145137_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_145137_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="yucca, cochise stronghold photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-17_145137_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Every time I’ve been here odd things have happened. I have seen strange shapes in the shadows, heard whispers whipping through the wind, and found some downright hard to explain things. If I were of the scientific-materialist type I’d have a really hard time reconciling my experiences in the Dragoons with my worldview. Whatever the case, there is something here. As happens with some places, there is something more here than is elsewhere. Call it what you will.</p> -<p>Our plan was to boondock a few nights at some spots on the way into Cochise Stronghold, but they ended up being already occupied by the time we go there, late afternoon on a Friday. We continued up the road and snagged a spot in the campground proper, which is a little densely packed, but it isn’t too bad. The cold drove most people away in short order anyway. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-16_144817_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_144817_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_144817_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_144817_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_144817_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="campsite, cochise stronghold photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-16_144817_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-16_161956_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_161956_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_161956_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_161956_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-16_161956_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Just one more chip photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-16_161956_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""Just one more chip, then we go.""> - </a> -<figcaption>“Just one more chip, then we go.”</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-17_143836_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_143836_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_143836_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_143836_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-17_143836_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing in the sand, cochise stronghold photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-17_143836_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Dry riverbed are the best sandboxes."> - </a> -<figcaption>Dry riverbed are the best sandboxes.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>And it was cold, down near freezing nearly every night and well below it for a couple of them. We have a propane heater that we use to take the edge of morning, but during the night all we can do is pile on the blankets. Fortunately we have a lot of blankets.</p> -<p>During the day the temperatures were nice, great for hiking. We trekked up above the stronghold area into the canyons and passes.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg" alt="hiking, dragoon mountains, AZ photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Snack break with a view."> - </a> -<figcaption>Snack break with a view.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_114646_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_114646_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_114646_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_114646_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_114646_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_114646_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_131119-1_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_131119-1_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_131119-1_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_131119-1_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_131119-1_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking, dragoon mountains, AZ photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_131119-1_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_132129_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132129_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132129_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132129_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-15_132129_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="aligator juniper photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-15_132129_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Aligator Junipers are well named."> - </a> -<figcaption>Aligator Junipers are well named.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>It’s hard to walk in this place though without thinking of the Chiricahua.</p> -<p>As with most of American history, learning about what happened to Cochise and the Chihuicahui-Chiricahua makes for a dismal read. The United States suffered heavy losses every time it engaged with the Chiricahua, and eventually managed to capture leaders only by resorting the lying and murder under white flags.</p> -<p>Cochise was once almost captured for a crime he didn’t commit, but he slashed his way out of an Army tent and escaped. The Army held some of his relatives though and later killed them, which marked the beginning of what would best be called relentless guerrilla warfare, which Cochise kept up for 11 years, reducing, as Dan Thrapp <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3749289W/Conquest_of_Apacheria_(Civilization_of_American_Indian)">puts it</a>, “most of the Mexican/American settlements in southern Arizona to a burned-out wasteland”. Thrapp estimates the total death toll of settlers and travelers in the region may have reached 5,000, but that’s apparently a controversial figure. </p> -<p>Cochise was never captured or defeated by the U.S Army. In 1872 the Army negotiated a treaty granting Cochise and his band some land here in the Dragoons. That land was later taken away, but Cochise died of natural causes before that happened. Geronimo continued to fight long after Cochise had moved on from the obvious parts this world.</p> -<p>The less obvious, who knows.</p> -<p>We decided to move on when the temperatures in the area threaten to drop below 20 degrees. We wanted to get over to the Chiricahua Mountains, but they were even colder at the time so we decided it was time to hit the road again, bound for warmer climes.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-18_093529_cochise-stronghold.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-18_093529_cochise-stronghold_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-18_093529_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-18_093529_cochise-stronghold_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-18_093529_cochise-stronghold_picwide-med.jpg" alt="earth fissures possible photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-18_093529_cochise-stronghold.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="On the drive out we went by a couple of these signs. I'm still trying to figure out what they're referring to. Perhaps out here the earth just opens up and reclaims its own."> - </a> -<figcaption>On the drive out we went by a couple of these signs. I’m still trying to figure out what they’re referring to. Perhaps out here the earth just opens up and reclaims its own.</figcaption> -</figure> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>Acorn Woodpecker </li> - - <li>Bridled Titmouse </li> - - <li>Dark-eyed Junco </li> - - <li>Mexican Jay </li> - - <li>Rock Wren </li> - - <li>Ruby-crowned Kinglet </li> - - <li>Spotted Towhee </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/2018/01/long-errand" rel="prev" title=" A Long Errand">A Long Errand</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/01/eastbound-down" rel="next" title=" Eastbound & Down">Eastbound & Down</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-4050" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Catherine Carter" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Catherine Carter</b></span> - <span class="when">April 06, 2019 at 6:32 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>In 1984 my family and I,in July that year came to camp in Cochise’s stronghold campground. I remember the long trek of a drive on gravel road,approx 10 Mike’s in thru thicket of sorts. We arrived at mid afternoon, and had a late picnic lunch after paying the drop in a envelope $5 to stay overnight. There were no other campers. After lunch I alone, as my two children and husband were resting in our rv I, alone preceded to clean food items,etc from outside table. To the sites right I remember the dry creek bed, that day. As I looked up I saw the ghost of a man,approx 25 to30yrs of age, all dressed in the most magnificent native American dress. Beautiful white feathered headdress the length of his body. He stood out in the dry creek bed and never moved, just looking at me. In questioning myself on what I was seeing, I twice thereafter took about 5seconds looking down, before again looking up again at him. The second time in doing so he was gone. I have never forgotten that of which I experienced there, due mostly because of the beautiful snow white native attire, he wore. Do I believe I was lucky to have seen the spirit of Cochise, in a prime year of age? Oh yes, I do believe it was his spirit. That stronghold campground,former home of his tribe, does put across a spiritual peace, about it.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-4063" 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 11, 2019 at 1:10 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Catherine-</p> -<p>Great story, thank you for sharing. What I’ve seen out here was similar, though different in some aspects as well. Interesting to me, I’ve main had these experiences on the west side, once in about 92 or so and again in 96.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-4337" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="9cb8a0da2aab57e32d679775c653c134"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/9cb8a0da2aab57e32d679775c653c134.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Niki" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Niki</b></span> - <span class="when">July 21, 2019 at 5:15 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>My aunt owns land on the ranch near the camp site and has access to the dragoon mountains. We went up to see the ancient Native American cave paintings and I saw a dark/black figure jump behind a large boulder, looked like it was in Native American dress due to the length of the outfit around its legs. It was however like a black shadow, but standing up like a human not on the ground.</p> -<p>I got back to her adobe house and looked at my photos on my DSLR, I caught two orbs following my aunt down as we were going back ( past the boulder where I definitely saw the shadow 40 seconds after taking the photo ) I took two in immediate succession and it follows her and I do not move.</p> -<p>Just after I see the shadow a snake crosses our path.</p> -<p>Was it warning us of the snake or was is doing something more malicious ?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-4341" 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">July 24, 2019 at 8:34 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Niki-</p> -<p>Fascinating, thank you for sharing. 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The tires crunch and rumble as we creep over the moderately -- by Arizona standards -- washboard road. The road winds its way through dry desert grassland, interspersed with yucca and thorny mesquite trees, up into the foothills of the Dragoon Mountains where Arizona Oaks and Alligator Juniper cluster around the dry river beds and on up the rocky slopes of the mountains.
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-I've been into Dragoon Mountains several times, from both the east and west side. The west is my favorite, but that road is far too rough for both the big blue bus and the Volvo. Both sides have access to the same central cluster of rock gardens and peaks in the middle, but the east is home to Cochise Stronghold, the place where Chihuicahui leader Cochise lived, later hid and eventually died and was buried.
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-By all accounts this is where Cochise loved to be and I happen to believe Cochise still wanders this place.
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-Every time I've been here odd things have happened. I have seen strange shapes in the shadows, heard whispers whipping through the wind, and found some downright hard to explain things. If I were of the scientific-materialist type I'd have a really hard time reconciling my experiences in the Dragoons with my worldview. Whatever the case, there is something here. As happens with some places, there is something more here than is elsewhere. Call it what you will.
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-Our plan was to boondock a few nights at some spots on the way into Cochise Stronghold, but they ended up being already occupied by the time we go there, late afternoon on a Friday. We continued up the road and snagged a spot in the campground proper, which is a little densely packed, but it isn't too bad. The cold drove most people away in short order anyway.
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-And it was cold, down near freezing nearly every night and well below it for a couple of them. We have a propane heater that we use to take the edge of morning, but during the night all we can do is pile on the blankets. Fortunately we have a lot of blankets.
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-During the day the temperatures were nice, great for hiking. We trekked up above the stronghold area into the canyons and passes.
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-It's hard to walk in this place though without thinking of the Chiricahua.
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-As with most of American history, learning about what happened to Cochise and the Chihuicahui-Chiricahua makes for a dismal read. The United States suffered heavy losses every time it engaged with the Chiricahua, and eventually managed to capture leaders only by resorting the lying and murder under white flags.
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-Cochise was once almost captured for a crime he didn't commit, but he slashed his way out of an Army tent and escaped. The Army held some of his relatives though and later killed them, which marked the beginning of what would best be called relentless guerrilla warfare, which Cochise kept up for 11 years, reducing, as Dan Thrapp [puts it](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3749289W/Conquest_of_Apacheria_(Civilization_of_American_Indian)), "most of the Mexican/American settlements in southern Arizona to a burned-out wasteland". Thrapp estimates the total death toll of settlers and travelers in the region may have reached 5,000, but that's apparently a controversial figure.
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-Cochise was never captured or defeated by the U.S Army. In 1872 the Army negotiated a treaty granting Cochise and his band some land here in the Dragoons. That land was later taken away, but Cochise died of natural causes before that happened. Geronimo continued to fight long after Cochise had moved on from the obvious parts this world.
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-The less obvious, who knows.
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-We decided to move on when the temperatures in the area threaten to drop below 20 degrees. We wanted to get over to the Chiricahua Mountains, but they were even colder at the time so we decided it was time to hit the road again, bound for warmer climes.
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There are things we liked about each. We liked being altogether in the bus, but it’s nice to explore areas nearby without having to pack up the bus. </p> -<p>What would be the best of both worlds would be to tow something behind the bus, but the bus engine just isn’t capable of towing anything that we’d want to drive. Yes, we’re picky about vehicles. </p> -<p>When we were at my uncle’s house last year we spied the 240 wagon sitting in the weeds behind the house. We got to talking about and eventually came up with a way to fix it up without having to spend too much time in the Nevada winter.</p> -<p>A couple months later I got on a plane — despite swearing I would never fly again — and now I have two projects to work on.</p> -<p>The Volvo project got under way on the way back from Reno. The thermostat started sticking somewhere on the way there, so it was a slow drive back, waiting for the car to cool down every 20 miles or so. A little overheating didn’t bother me much comsidering we raised the Volvo from the dead — it had been setting for five years. With a little TLC, some new fluids and basic parts it was running well, all things considered, thanks to Thomas and Ron for all the hard work.</p> -<p>That afternoon my uncle and I put in a new thermostat and ordered a water pump since it was leaking as well. The next morning we put in the water pump and, after a couple test drives, I hit the road for Tucson. 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-What would be the best of both worlds would be to tow something behind the bus, but the bus engine just isn't capable of towing anything that we'd want to drive. Yes, we're picky about vehicles.
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-That afternoon my uncle and I put in a new thermostat and ordered a water pump since it was leaking as well. The next morning we put in the water pump and, after a couple test drives, I hit the road for Tucson. It ran a little hot the whole way, but the temperature was stable.
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-In all I was gone two days, the longest I've been apart from Corrinne or the kids since they were born. The car still needs some work, mostly cosmetic and body stuff, at some point we'll probably give it a new coat of paint, but for something that spent five years in the weeds, it runs beautifully. 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It’s worth remembering that Nature is everywhere, even downtown Manhattan, there is in fact nothing but Nature. That said, it’s undeniably nicer for those of us who enjoy them, to be in less inhabited, vast tracts of wild, which is exactly what we had outside of Gila Bend, AZ. </p> -<p>We spent the weekend out in the wild, getting back into our groove, which had been thrown off considerably by California. I worked the mornings, and sat around playing with the kids in the afternoon. We had fires, we stared up at the milky way. We did very little other than relax and slow down the pace of life. </p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg" alt="Sunrise, Painted Rocks BLM area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-08_072553_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_194633_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_194633_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_pic5.jpg" alt="milky way, Painted Rocks BLM area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_194633_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_195157_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_195157_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_pic5.jpg" alt="night sky, Painted Rocks BLM area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_195157_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_141614_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141614_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141614_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141614_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141614_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Painted Rocks BLM area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_141614_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_141654_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141654_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141654_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141654_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-07_141654_painted-rocks-petroglyphs_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Painted Rocks BLM area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-07_141654_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>The pace of life in California is so dissimilar to how we live that it produces this background tension in me, like static on the radio that you barely hear, but is there when you listen for it. I know it sounds crazy, but I can’t explain what a weight was lifted from my shoulders when we drove out of California. It’s like being free again, like I imagine that first breath of air would be if you were trapped under an icy lake. </p> -<p>When Monday rolled around we drove into Tucson to visit some family, run some errands, one particularly long errand that I’m saving for the next post, and provision ourselves for some extended time out in the wild and on the road. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-09_172159_tucson.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172159_tucson_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172159_tucson_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172159_tucson_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172159_tucson_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunset, catalina state park, tucson photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-09_172159_tucson.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-09_172211_tucson.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172211_tucson_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172211_tucson_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172211_tucson_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-01-09_172211_tucson_picwide-med.jpg" alt="catalina foothills, catalina state park, tucson photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-01-09_172211_tucson.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We re-grouped and re-stocked. And of course enjoyed ourselves as best we could amidst the traffic and jumble of consumer experiences that constitutes modern city life.</p> -<p>One of the interesting things about living in a self-contained RV, camping mostly out in relatively remote natural areas, is that we have very little need of the sort of consumer experiences that make up modern American life. We very seldom buy things. We’re very seldom in places where there are in fact things to buy. We don’t have a house to buy stuff for, which eliminates a huge amount of shopping. We very seldom buy new clothes. We very seldom go to restaurants. The last time I went to a bar Big Papi was still on the Red Sox. All of which is to say we very seldom have consumer experiences anymore. </p> -<p>Once you stop shuffling around the retail world for a while doing so becomes much more horribly tedious than it ever seemed when I did it regularly. I can feel the hours of my life slipping away at stoplights in strange cities. I can watch the strange packages of things we call food rotting away as I wait in line at the supermarket. I stare at retail endcaps for far to long trying to workout why in the world I would want any of this stuff. In fact I walk around stores in a kind of stupor, working out in my head different ways we might be able to run errands even less than we already do. I find myself in line thinking surely the freezer and icebox could hold enough food for 10 days instead of 7? Perhaps I should start fishing along way to supplement the freezer? Is there a farmer’s market near camp? Maybe we can forage for veggies?</p> -<p>Those things are fun to contemplate, but the biggest way to avoid spending your days running errands is to embrace a very simple philosophy: <strong>If you don’t have it, you don’t need it</strong>. </p> -<p>Out of garlic? It’ll still taste okay. Nozzle of your hose broken? Water still comes out, you’ll get by. Radiator overflow tank blow a hole? By pass it with produce bag twist ties, an old spark plug and some bent hoses. Back on the road. Just find a way to make it work. In almost every case you can think of, you have a choice, you can use some ingenuity and find a way to make things work with what you have, or you can get in your car and go shopping. Choose wisely.</p> -<p>Don’t feel bad if you’re the shopping type. There’s nothing wrong with that, sometimes you have to. Out of salt? Yeah it’s probably not going to taste very good. Hose leaking non-potable water all over the place? Yeah that’s probably not good. Radiator hose has an actual hole? Well, that might still be fixable. You’d be amazed how long an engine will run with duct tape on a hose. Trust me.</p> -<p>But the extremely poor quality of goods these days means you’ll be doing fair bit of shopping even if your ingenuity is in overdrive. Still, before you grab your keys, always sit down for a bit, take stock of what you have and try to figure out how you could make things work with what you have rather than heading straight to the store. </p> -<p>In Tucson we had to run the sorts of errands there’s no getting out of, stocking up on food, picking up the bus registration which was “overnighted” to us (it took three days to get to us “overnight”, thanks USPS), getting medications, and one more big one that I’m just going to keep teasing you with again. </p> -<p>We also set aside an afternoon to catch up with some my extended family who live around here, including my great aunt who just turned 95. If you want to bend your brain a bit sit down next to 95 year old and watch a couple five year olds run around and contemplate everything that’s changed in those 90 intervening years. It’ll split your head open. I got caught up thinking about the speed of movement that’s changed in the last 90 years. In 1927 the car was still a thing that went about 40 MPH over rutted dirt roads. To start the engine you got out, opened the engine and cranked it with a long metal rod. Of course if you’re me you still start your bus by opening the engine and lifting the choke flap with your finger, so maybe less has changed than I think. In some cases anyway. 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Main destination is to visit some family for a couple of days who “snow bird” to Tuscon area, but I plan to spend at least a week in AZ bumming around & car camping. Any location suggestions for my limited time?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-2969" 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">January 21, 2018 at 9:19 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@classical_liberal-</p> -<p>I have a couple suggestions, but it’d really depend on the weather. Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains is about a hour from Tucson. It’s really nice, lots of good hiking, but it can be cold. We were there four nights and left when temps dropped down into the teens at night. </p> -<p>Chiricahua national monument is a bit further, but one of my favorite places in the area. It too can get cold though, just depends on when you’re there.</p> -<p>In Tucson I’d say check out Sabino Canyon; there’s no camping, but it’s a good desert hike. Catalina state park is nice too, though unless you have a reservation you’ll be stuck in the overflow campground which is sort of just a parking lot.</p> -<p>Anyway, that’s what comes to mind right now. Hope you have a good trip wherever you end up.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-2973" 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">January 23, 2018 at 9:12 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>“and one more big one that I’m just going to keep teasing you with”……</p> -<p>Is it triplets?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-2976" 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">January 24, 2018 at 8:02 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew-</p> -<p>No.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-2985" 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">January 29, 2018 at 1:18 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Beautiful photos of the night sky.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-2988" 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">January 31, 2018 at 8:39 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Gwen-</p> -<p>Thank you. That was actually my first try doing that. I was pretty happy with it. I’d do a few things different next time, but now I won’t have any dark skies to shoot for a while.</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="235" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833369" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="1ed8a2c778d41f9bc6f0ae72aff5954258e6b5e6" 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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It's worth remembering that Nature is everywhere, even downtown Manhattan, there is in fact nothing but Nature. That said, it's undeniably nicer for those of us who enjoy them, to be in less inhabited, vast tracts of wild, which is exactly what we had outside of Gila Bend, AZ.
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-The pace of life in California is so dissimilar to how we live that it produces this background tension in me, like static on the radio that you barely hear, but is there when you listen for it. I know it sounds crazy, but I can't explain what a weight was lifted from my shoulders when we drove out of California. It's like being free again, like I imagine that first breath of air would be if you were trapped under an icy lake.
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-One of the interesting things about living in a self-contained RV, camping mostly out in relatively remote natural areas, is that we have very little need of the sort of consumer experiences that make up modern American life. We very seldom buy things. We're very seldom in places where there are in fact things to buy. We don't have a house to buy stuff for, which eliminates a huge amount of shopping. We very seldom buy new clothes. We very seldom go to restaurants. The last time I went to a bar Big Papi was still on the Red Sox. All of which is to say we very seldom have consumer experiences anymore.
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-Once you stop shuffling around the retail world for a while doing so becomes much more horribly tedious than it ever seemed when I did it regularly. I can feel the hours of my life slipping away at stoplights in strange cities. I can watch the strange packages of things we call food rotting away as I wait in line at the supermarket. I stare at retail endcaps for far to long trying to workout why in the world I would want any of this stuff. In fact I walk around stores in a kind of stupor, working out in my head different ways we might be able to run errands even less than we already do. I find myself in line thinking surely the freezer and icebox could hold enough food for 10 days instead of 7? Perhaps I should start fishing along way to supplement the freezer? Is there a farmer's market near camp? Maybe we can forage for veggies?
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-Those things are fun to contemplate, but the biggest way to avoid spending your days running errands is to embrace a very simple philosophy: **If you don't have it, you don't need it**.
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-Out of garlic? It'll still taste okay. Nozzle of your hose broken? Water still comes out, you'll get by. Radiator overflow tank blow a hole? By pass it with produce bag twist ties, an old spark plug and some bent hoses. Back on the road. Just find a way to make it work. In almost every case you can think of, you have a choice, you can use some ingenuity and find a way to make things work with what you have, or you can get in your car and go shopping. Choose wisely.
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-Don't feel bad if you're the shopping type. There's nothing wrong with that, sometimes you have to. Out of salt? Yeah it's probably not going to taste very good. Hose leaking non-potable water all over the place? Yeah that's probably not good. Radiator hose has an actual hole? Well, that might still be fixable. You'd be amazed how long an engine will run with duct tape on a hose. Trust me.
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-In Tucson we had to run the sorts of errands there's no getting out of, stocking up on food, picking up the bus registration which was "overnighted" to us (it took three days to get to us "overnight", thanks USPS), getting medications, and one more big one that I'm just going to keep teasing you with again.
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After a week on Padre Island we headed north, hugging the coastline up to Matagorda Beach, which supposedly had a beach where bums like us could park for free. </p> -<p>It did turn out to have just that, but it would have meant driving out on sand that was way too soft for the bus. We ended up at a rather pricey RV park for the night. Fortunately it was right by the beach, so we at least had a nice sunny afternoon playing on the sand.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_144056_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_142033_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143128_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143453_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach_picwide.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-01_143522_matagorda-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>A couple people have asked how we find the places we go, and, after giving this some thought I think I finally have an answer. There are three ways we find stuff. The best is when Corrinne finds something. I don’t know how she does it, but she’ll sit there with her phone for a while researching things while we drive (I can only recount what I observed before we had the dingy) and next thing I know we’re at some really great, cheap campground. That’s about 40 percent of where we stay.</p> -<p>Another 20-30 percent of what we find is word of mouth. We meet someone, they say, oh you have to go to ______. So we do. The rest of what we find is pretty mundane, we look for green spots on maps, and sometimes we use freecampsites.net, wikicamp, guidebooks, etc. That’s about it.</p> -<p>Matagorda Beach was a green spot I had noticed halfway between Padre Island and Holly Beach, LA. </p> -<p>While we were there I met a couple on a beach who told me about a good county park up on Galveston Island. Under normal circumstances that would probably have become out next stop, but the weather forecast for Galveston was rain and wind for several days so we pressed on, up into Louisiana, to a place called Holly Beach.</p> -<p>The drive took us through Houston, which, like most cities, was largely forgettable except for one thing, the massive, ugly and rather ominous looking oil refineries and storage tanks the litter the coast for what feels like forever, but is probably only 20 miles or so. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o_picwide-med.jpg" alt="refineries, houston, tx photographed by Ken Lund, Flickr" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/16075485289_005828a107_o.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Photograph by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16075485289/in/photolist-qPTdqx-c42qn-BByaSd-8h5Xy8-9HfknG-81eodb-bF4356-8h9cnd-8h9cmG-9qHyzk-bF48RK-bs9bs7-bF455B-qux4Ht">Ken Lund, Flickr</a>"> - </a> -<figcaption>Photograph by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16075485289/in/photolist-qPTdqx-c42qn-BByaSd-8h5Xy8-9HfknG-81eodb-bF4356-8h9cnd-8h9cmG-9qHyzk-bF48RK-bs9bs7-bF455B-qux4Ht">Ken Lund, Flickr</a> | image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16075485289/in/photolist-qPTdqx-c42qn-BByaSd-8h5Xy8-9HfknG-81eodb-bF4356-8h9cnd-8h9cmG-9qHyzk-bF48RK-bs9bs7-bF455B-qux4Ht" itemprop="author">Ken Lund, Flickr</a></figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Sometimes it gives me great pause to see what we humans have done to our world. I hate that we need oil to do this. I hate that without all that ugliness this would not be possible. I have all kinds of stats about how little energy we use, how 65 gallons of water can last us a week, but in the end, we feed those refineries as much as anyone. We need a boat.</p> -<p>I was thinking about energy, oil and the end of abundant cheap oil all the way to Holly Beach. I don’t know why I wanted to go to Holly Beach. I’d first read about it in Peter Jenkins book, <cite>Along the Edge of America</cite>, which is a good read if you have any interest in the Gulf Coast. But I have no idea why Holly Beach stuck out, it doesn’t really figure in the book much at all, but for whatever reason my brain latched onto it and I wanted to go.</p> -<p>It turned out to be a sad little place. Broken down houses, a few renovated as rentals, but hardly anyone around anymore. There was free camping on the sand, but again soft sand so we just pulled to the side of the road and spent one night. The dead dolphin washed up on the beach didn’t really make me want to fish and by the time the sun went down it was cold, raining and somewhat miserable. This is why Corrinne is usually in charge of where we stay.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143654_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="matagorda beach, TX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143534_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_071500_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-02_143831_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Holly Beach, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_084511_holly-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="One thing Holly Beach had in spades was stop signs."> - </a> -<figcaption>One thing Holly Beach had in spades was stop signs.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Of course, a cold, rainy day on the beach is still better than most days so it’s not that I’m complaining, I’m just saying, if you want to find the really good camping spots, hit my wife up for advice, not me.</p> - 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<span class="who"><b>DREW</b></span> - <span class="when">February 19, 2018 at 2:04 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I have a morbid curiosity…. Did the Dolphin “feel” like you were standing over an animal or more like a person? Its so big and strange, and its a mammal…. Who found it?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3023" 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">February 19, 2018 at 9:53 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew-</p> -<p>To be honest it was pretty damn cold and Corrinne and kids found it and wanted me to come see it so I did, took a picture, because, I don’t know, it seemed like something to record, and that was about the end of it.</p> -<p>Reflecting on it now I think it didn’t feel much like an animal at all. 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After a week on Padre Island we headed north, hugging the coastline up to Matagorda Beach, which supposedly had a beach where bums like us could park for free.
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-It did turn out to have just that, but it would have meant driving out on sand that was way too soft for the bus. We ended up at a rather pricey RV park for the night. Fortunately it was right by the beach, so we at least had a nice sunny afternoon playing on the sand.
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-A couple people have asked how we find the places we go, and, after giving this some thought I think I finally have an answer. There are three ways we find stuff. The best is when Corrinne finds something. I don't know how she does it, but she'll sit there with her phone for a while researching things while we drive (I can only recount what I observed before we had the dingy) and next thing I know we're at some really great, cheap campground. That's about 40 percent of where we stay.
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-Another 20-30 percent of what we find is word of mouth. We meet someone, they say, oh you have to go to ______. So we do. The rest of what we find is pretty mundane, we look for green spots on maps, and sometimes we use freecampsites.net, wikicamp, guidebooks, etc. That's about it.
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-Matagorda Beach was a green spot I had noticed halfway between Padre Island and Holly Beach, LA.
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-While we were there I met a couple on a beach who told me about a good county park up on Galveston Island. Under normal circumstances that would probably have become out next stop, but the weather forecast for Galveston was rain and wind for several days so we pressed on, up into Louisiana, to a place called Holly Beach.
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-The drive took us through Houston, which, like most cities, was largely forgettable except for one thing, the massive, ugly and rather ominous looking oil refineries and storage tanks the litter the coast for what feels like forever, but is probably only 20 miles or so.
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-Sometimes it gives me great pause to see what we humans have done to our world. I hate that we need oil to do this. I hate that without all that ugliness this would not be possible. I have all kinds of stats about how little energy we use, how 65 gallons of water can last us a week, but in the end, we feed those refineries as much as anyone. We need a boat.
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-I was thinking about energy, oil and the end of abundant cheap oil all the way to Holly Beach. I don't know why I wanted to go to Holly Beach. I'd first read about it in Peter Jenkins book, <cite>Along the Edge of America</cite>, which is a good read if you have any interest in the Gulf Coast. But I have no idea why Holly Beach stuck out, it doesn't really figure in the book much at all, but for whatever reason my brain latched onto it and I wanted to go.
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-It turned out to be a sad little place. Broken down houses, a few renovated as rentals, but hardly anyone around anymore. There was free camping on the sand, but again soft sand so we just pulled to the side of the road and spent one night. The dead dolphin washed up on the beach didn't really make me want to fish and by the time the sun went down it was cold, raining and somewhat miserable. This is why Corrinne is usually in charge of where we stay.
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Like most of the nation, for us Mardi Gras was just another Tuesday. Once we realized that our timing would put us there though we knew we had to go, preferably out deep in the Cajun/Acadian region from which Mardi Gras originates.</p> -<p>I won’t pretend to understand Mardi Gras, or where it comes from, though at least some of what we saw apparently dates from the Middle Ages when various guilds and small secret societies would celebrate, er, something? Some say it goes back to the feast of begging, in medieval France, but a good argument can be made that it’s much older than that. Whatever its origins, it’s insular enough that if you aren’t part of the culture, I don’t think you’ll ever really understand it. That won’t stop you from enjoying it though.</p> -<p>Part of what makes it complicated is that there are so many different ways people celebrate Mardi Gras. What you see in one place often bears no resemblance to what you see in another.</p> -<p>The only thing historians of Mardi Gras seem to agree upon is that at some point Mardi Gras became intertwined with the Catholic celebration of Lent. Mardi Gras became a celebration of excess in preparation for the deprivation of Lent. I think. Beads, heavy drinking and most of the other things we outsiders associate with Mardi Gras are apparently quite recent though, starting some time in the late 1940s, or ‘50s, or ‘60s, depending on who you ask.</p> -<p>The basis of most celebrations these days are the parades, huge floats full of people decorated with beads marching through towns, throwing out candy, toys and beads to those of us who gather to watch. We got beads, so many beads.</p> -<p>We attended two Mardi Gras celebrations, the first was a children’s parade in Lafayette. It wasn’t the best day for a parade, rain poured down just as it was about to get underway, but that didn’t stop anyone, including us.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_122604.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_122604_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_122604.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_123913.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_123913_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_123913.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_124216.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/2018/20180210_124216_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_124216_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_124216_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_124216_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_124216.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_124609.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_124609_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_124609.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - 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<img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180210_125649_pic5.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180210_125649.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125435-1_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125431_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_125431_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w" alt="mardi gras children's parade lafayette, la photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_125431_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We managed to make it back to the campground in time for the golf cart parade. Like I said, Mardi Gras is all about the parades, even when they’re small.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="palmetto island mardi gras photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144943_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mardi gras palmetto island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145046_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bus decorated for mardi gras photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_144055_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mardi gras palmetto island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-10_145540_mardi-gras.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Before there were beads there was the Courir de Mardi Gras, which is Cajun French for “Fat Tuesday Run”. As with so many things in America over the last century, “run” morphed into “drive” and (probably) this is where the whole parade thing started. The biggest home of the old style “Courir” is in Mamou, where, apparently we <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfJ1JZkH0dA/">might have seen Anthony Bourdain</a>, but we decide to go to Iota for a Tee Mamou, or small mamou.</p> -<p>There was plenty of food and two stages with various Cajun bands.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_131516_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_122307_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_124005_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_123706_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Before the main run, or drive in this case, there was a children’s version that led up to stage for some dancing.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_135443-1_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Then the main run started, costumed people descended on the downtown area, chasing chickens, dancing, and begging for loose change. There’s plenty of drunkenness, going on, but it’s not the chaos you might expect. There’s a Capitaine in charge of keeping people in line and he has a whip to back up whatever the rules are.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143757_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143739_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143734_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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<img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143820_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tee mamou, Iota, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-13_143836-1_tee-mamou.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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I’d never been to NOLA, you gave it rave reviews, so I figured what the heck. I spent Sunday evening through Wednesday there. I really enjoyed the people, talked to a bunch of locals. Enjoyed a night of debauchery as well.</p> -<p>I’d really like to see the city in more normal circumstances, its definitely on my list for a travel nurse assignment. I tried to describe the culture to my GF as a combination of southern hospitality, but with a libertarian twist.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3058" 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">March 08, 2018 at 9:23 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@classical_liberal-</p> -<p>That’s awesome, glad you had a good time. And from what I’ve seen, New Orleans on Mardi Gras just has a few more parades than usual, otherwise it seems the same. 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Like most of the nation, for us Mardi Gras was just another Tuesday. Once we realized that our timing would put us there though we knew we had to go, preferably out deep in the Cajun/Acadian region from which Mardi Gras originates.
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-I won't pretend to understand Mardi Gras, or where it comes from, though at least some of what we saw apparently dates from the Middle Ages when various guilds and small secret societies would celebrate, er, something? Some say it goes back to the feast of begging, in medieval France, but a good argument can be made that it's much older than that. Whatever its origins, it's insular enough that if you aren't part of the culture, I don't think you'll ever really understand it. That won't stop you from enjoying it though.
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-Part of what makes it complicated is that there are so many different ways people celebrate Mardi Gras. What you see in one place often bears no resemblance to what you see in another.
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-The only thing historians of Mardi Gras seem to agree upon is that at some point Mardi Gras became intertwined with the Catholic celebration of Lent. Mardi Gras became a celebration of excess in preparation for the deprivation of Lent. I think. Beads, heavy drinking and most of the other things we outsiders associate with Mardi Gras are apparently quite recent though, starting some time in the late 1940s, or '50s, or '60s, depending on who you ask.
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-The basis of most celebrations these days are the parades, huge floats full of people decorated with beads marching through towns, throwing out candy, toys and beads to those of us who gather to watch. We got beads, so many beads.
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-We attended two Mardi Gras celebrations, the first was a children's parade in Lafayette. It wasn't the best day for a parade, rain poured down just as it was about to get underway, but that didn't stop anyone, including us.
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-We managed to make it back to the campground in time for the golf cart parade. Like I said, Mardi Gras is all about the parades, even when they're small.
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-Before there were beads there was the Courir de Mardi Gras, which is Cajun French for "Fat Tuesday Run". As with so many things in America over the last century, "run" morphed into "drive" and (probably) this is where the whole parade thing started. The biggest home of the old style "Courir" is in Mamou, where, apparently we [might have seen Anthony Bourdain](https://www.instagram.com/p/BfJ1JZkH0dA/), but we decide to go to Iota for a Tee Mamou, or small mamou.
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-Then the main run started, costumed people descended on the downtown area, chasing chickens, dancing, and begging for loose change. There's plenty of drunkenness, going on, but it's not the chaos you might expect. There's a Capitaine in charge of keeping people in line and he has a whip to back up whatever the rules are.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-02-08T10:04:24" itemprop="datePublished">February <span>8, 2018</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>Avery Island is best known to me as the title of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Avery_Island">Neutral Milk Hotel album</a>, but for most people it’s probably better known as the home of Tabasco. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg" alt="Tabasco factory, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I love hot sauce, all kinds of hot sauce. A quick inventory of the pantry just now produced seven different bottle of hot sauce, including one home made ghost pepper sauce. Despite that I’ve never really like Tabasco, it’s too vinegary to me. Still, people love it and it’s been made more or less the same way, by the same family, since shortly after the Civil War. That’s a longer, more storied history than any of the bottles in my pantry.</p> -<p>My father-in-law grew up on this area and toured Avery Island in grade school, we put the kids in his footsteps. Or sort of. Back in the fifties they let you actually go in the salt mines, today you get to walk through a Disneylandesque replica. Otherwise though I doubt much as changed. For as widely distributed, and seemingly huge as the Tabasco company seems, production is decidedly down home.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tabasco tour, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tabasco tour, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tabasco tour, Avery Island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Not a salt mine."> - </a> -<figcaption>Not a salt mine.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Part of the reason Tabasco is on Avery Island is that the island — which is just barely deserving of the name island — is made mostly of salt. When Tabasco was founded everything was right there, plant peppers, mine salt and you’re away. </p> -<p>Avery Island also happens to be one of the tallest points in southern Louisiana, sitting at 163 feet above sea level. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s allowed the structures on the island to survive over a hundred years of hurricanes. Apparently that’s changing though. Rita, which hit this area hard in 2005, flooded the marshes and much of the island, and things are getting worse every year.</p> -<p>The marsh that protects the island loses about 30 feet per year as saltwater from rising seas seeps in and kills off the fresh water plants. As those plants die the soil loosens and dissolves, washing out the sea. Dredging for shipping canals and oil exploration canals abandoned by the oil companies also hasten erosion of the marshes. Without the buffer of the marsh the storm surge of the more frequent and stronger storms reaches further inland, up onto the island.</p> -<p>The McIlhenny family has been working hard to combat the soil loss, planting cordgrass and building its own levee and pumps system, which is not uncommon down here. There’s simply too much coastline and it’s disappearing too fast for the government of Louisiana to deal with, towns and companies in the area are <a href="http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/08/levee-ing_the_odds_southwest_l.html">building their own systems</a>. In the end nothing is going to stop the sea, some places will survive just fine, and Avery Island may well be one of them, but even the current heads of the McIlhenny family admit they might have to <a href="http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/tabascos_homeland_is_in_a_figh.html">move</a> someday.</p> -<p>In the mean time, the hot sauce is still too vinegary in my opinion, but the factory tour is well worth it, even the finished product isn’t your thing.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/two-photos">Two Photos</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/on-the-beach" rel="prev" title=" On the Beach">On the Beach</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/mardi-gras-deux-facons" rel="next" title=" Mardi Gras Deux Façons">Mardi Gras Deux Façons</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="242" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833359" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="80c81230781424cbb7dffdb879abfad1fefaafa1" 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/2018/2018-02-08_105718_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1130" class="picwide" />
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-I love hot sauce, all kinds of hot sauce. A quick inventory of the pantry just now produced seven different bottle of hot sauce, including one home made ghost pepper sauce. Despite that I've never really like Tabasco, it's too vinegary to me. Still, people love it and it's been made more or less the same way, by the same family, since shortly after the Civil War. That's a longer, more storied history than any of the bottles in my pantry.
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-My father-in-law grew up on this area and toured Avery Island in grade school, we put the kids in his footsteps. Or sort of. Back in the fifties they let you actually go in the salt mines, today you get to walk through a Disneylandesque replica. Otherwise though I doubt much as changed. For as widely distributed, and seemingly huge as the Tabasco company seems, production is decidedly down home.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-08_112314_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1131" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-08_112710_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1132" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-08_114010_palmetto-tabasco.jpg" id="image-1133" class="picwide caption" />
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-Part of the reason Tabasco is on Avery Island is that the island -- which is just barely deserving of the name island -- is made mostly of salt. When Tabasco was founded everything was right there, plant peppers, mine salt and you're away.
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-Avery Island also happens to be one of the tallest points in southern Louisiana, sitting at 163 feet above sea level. It doesn't sound like much, but it's allowed the structures on the island to survive over a hundred years of hurricanes. Apparently that's changing though. Rita, which hit this area hard in 2005, flooded the marshes and much of the island, and things are getting worse every year.
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-The marsh that protects the island loses about 30 feet per year as saltwater from rising seas seeps in and kills off the fresh water plants. As those plants die the soil loosens and dissolves, washing out the sea. Dredging for shipping canals and oil exploration canals abandoned by the oil companies also hasten erosion of the marshes. Without the buffer of the marsh the storm surge of the more frequent and stronger storms reaches further inland, up onto the island.
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-The McIlhenny family has been working hard to combat the soil loss, planting cordgrass and building its own levee and pumps system, which is not uncommon down here. There's simply too much coastline and it's disappearing too fast for the government of Louisiana to deal with, towns and companies in the area are [building their own systems](http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/08/levee-ing_the_odds_southwest_l.html). In the end nothing is going to stop the sea, some places will survive just fine, and Avery Island may well be one of them, but even the current heads of the McIlhenny family admit they might have to [move](http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/01/tabascos_homeland_is_in_a_figh.html) someday.
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What could go wrong? </p> -<p>If you want a view like this though, you have to park in places like this:</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg" alt="The bus on rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_112402_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Ordinarily I probably wouldn’t have done it, but when we pulled in there was another rig parked further down and its own came over and offered to pull us out with his truck should anything go wrong. I walked the sand it seemed firm enough so we went for it and it all worked out fine. There’s nothing like free ocean front camping.</p> -<p>If you use the websites I mentioned in the last post, notably freecampsites.net, and you zoom in on the south Louisiana coast there are basically two places to camp, Holly Beach and Rutherford Beach. After not finding much to like about <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast">Holly Beach</a> we were prepared to be disappointed by Rutherford a well, but it turned out to be pretty near perfect. It’s also listed as one of the best shell beaches around and it definitely has more shells than anywhere I’ve ever been.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shells of rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111909_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shells of rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-06_142435_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shells of rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-03_111841_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We spent five days on the beach. It stormed a good bit and fog would roll in pretty much every night, hiding the lights both onshore and off, making it feel like we were all alone in the world. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="fishing rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093500_rutherford-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This was about ten minutes before the tide ate our sand spike."> - </a> -<figcaption>This was about ten minutes before the tide ate our sand spike.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The bus on rutherford beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-04_093520_rutherford-beach.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 Coot </li> - - <li>American White Pelican </li> - - <li>Belted Kingfisher </li> - - <li>Boat-tailed Grackle </li> - - <li>Brown Pelican </li> - - <li>Canada Goose </li> - - <li>Cattle Egret </li> - - <li>Crested Caracara </li> - - <li>Double-crested Cormorant </li> - - <li>Eastern Meadowlark </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li>Great Egret </li> - - <li>Green Heron </li> - - <li>Neotropic Cormorant </li> - - <li>Northern Shoveler </li> - - <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> - - <li>Roseate Spoonbill </li> - - <li>Snowy Egret </li> - - <li>White Ibis </li> - - <li>Wilson's Snipe </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/camping">Camping</a></li> - - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/02/ferry">Ferry</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast" rel="prev" title=" Hugging the Coast">Hugging the Coast</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/on-avery-island" rel="next" title=" On Avery Island">On Avery Island</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3026" 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">February 21, 2018 at 3:10 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I wish I could post a photo of my cubicle right now to make you feel that much better about your decisions. I click on this page almost daily hoping to find you all are still fighting the good fight. All alone in the world with your family seems like a pretty content place to be. God speed.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3028" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy Wall" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Patsy Wall</b></span> - <span class="when">February 21, 2018 at 8:25 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Love the shells and the deserted beach. Your pictures are amazing!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3031" 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">February 22, 2018 at 3:10 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew-</p> -<p>You got to get out of that cubicle man. Also, we may be in your neck of the woods early summer. Just an FYI. I’d start now, try to fill up your driveway and eliminate any other large parking spaces in your immediate area. You don’t want to end up with some giant motorhome blocking your house. :-)</p> -<p>@Patsy-</p> -<p>Thank you.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3034" 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">February 23, 2018 at 8:43 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Were moving to the other side of Signal this coming Monday. Its a bigger house with full basement, etc. Plenty of room for you all to crash assuming you can make it up Signal mntn. LOL…. Its not big (maybe 1200 ft gain, but its steep). Maybe park the bus at Walmart at the foot and bring the dingy up. 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-Soft sand? Ten thousand pound vehicle? What could go wrong?
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-Ordinarily I probably wouldn't have done it, but when we pulled in there was another rig parked further down and its own came over and offered to pull us out with his truck should anything go wrong. I walked the sand it seemed firm enough so we went for it and it all worked out fine. There's nothing like free ocean front camping.
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-If you use the websites I mentioned in the last post, notably freecampsites.net, and you zoom in on the south Louisiana coast there are basically two places to camp, Holly Beach and Rutherford Beach. After not finding much to like about [Holly Beach](/jrnl/2018/02/hugging-coast) we were prepared to be disappointed by Rutherford a well, but it turned out to be pretty near perfect. It's also listed as one of the best shell beaches around and it definitely has more shells than anywhere I've ever been.
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I parked the bus in a camp site at Bayou Segnette, jumped in the car and we headed into the city. No one used the word “brakes”. It was a perfect day.</p> -<p>Somewhere on the drive in we’d crossed over the little line dividing the Gulf air from the lower edge of the jet stream<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. On the other side of that line is warmth. So, despite being February, New Orleans was the only way it’s ever been in the eight times I’ve been here, as far as I can tell, the only way it ever is, the way it should be, the way it was meant to be: hot, humid, sweltering. I wouldn’t want it any other way.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_141636_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/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_141636_new-orleans_picwide.jpg" alt="walking the streets of new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_141636_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/2018/2018-02-20_154547_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/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154547_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Windows, New Orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_154547_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/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_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/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walking, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_154636-1_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>This time around we hit some of our favorite spots, crepes in the French Market, swings and Storyland out at City Park, but we also spent more time in one of my favorite parts of New Orleans, Faubourg Treme. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_145959_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/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="crepes in the french market photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_145959_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Crepes in the french market"> - </a> -<figcaption>Crepes in the french market</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_142124_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/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_142124_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_142124_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/2018/2018-02-20_131936_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/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tomb of the unknown slave, faubourg treme photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_131936_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Tomb of the unknown slave, Faubourg Treme"> - </a> -<figcaption>Tomb of the unknown slave, Faubourg Treme</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>I ended up finding a good coffee shop to work at in the heart of Treme. It also served Sno-balls with an absurd amount of syrup on them, which kept the kids on a good sugar high while we wandered the streets.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_144813_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/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="blue tongue photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-20_144813_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>While I was working Corrinne and the kids went to the Children’s Museum, which they all said was the best they’ve ever been to. Good enough that they went back a couple of times.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103834.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103834_picwide-med.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103834.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114805.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_114805_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114805.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114621.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_114621_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_114621.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_110452.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_110452_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_110452.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180220_102944.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180220_102944_pic5.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180220_102944.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - -<figure > - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103209.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/2018/20180221_103209_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103209_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103209_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180221_103209_picwide-med.jpg" alt="children's museum, new orleans photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180221_103209.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Going native."></a> -<figcaption>Going native.</figcaption> -</figure> - - -</div> - -<p>I’d be hard pressed to come up with a more kid-friendly city than New Orleans, but then I think our kids may be a bit unusual. </p> -<p>One day at the campground I was working and Corrinne took the kids to the little playground. There ended up being some other kids there and they were all playing together. I wasn’t there but apparently the parents were complaining about how dirty New Orleans was (homeless people! Poop on the street! The horror!) and one of the kids told Lilah she didn’t like New Orleans. Later, when they were walking back to the bus Lilah whispered to Corrinne, <em>I just don’t think I could be friends with someone who doesn’t like New Orleans</em>.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_152213_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/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_152213_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_152213_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/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_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/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="carousel, city park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_145948-2_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The world's fastest carousel did not seem quite as fast this year. Maybe it's just us."> - </a> -<figcaption>The world’s fastest carousel did not seem quite as fast this year. Maybe it’s just us.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_151844_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/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_151844_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_151844_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/2018/2018-02-24_153451_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/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, new orleans photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-24_153451_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>While it would have been nice to ignore the brake situation completely, it did need to be dealt with. I got in touch with a shop that said they could do it and drove it over one morning. They got it apart and for the first time I saw the front shoes, and yep, we need new shoes, badly. Unfortunately the shoes are a bit of an oddity and the shop couldn’t get a shoe that fit. We ended up sleeping in the bus in the driveway of the shop with one tire off that night. Probably our oddest campsite thus far.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_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/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-21_062821-1_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>In the end though, two different shoes were ordered and neither ended up fitting. The next day we limped back to the campground to wait on a third set that was on order, but wouldn’t get here for five days. That meant an extra few days in New Orleans, but we’ve certainly been stranded in far less interesting places. No one was complaining this time.</p> -<p>We spent more time hanging around the campground this time around. Sometimes it’s good to spend a few days doing nothing. I worked, the kids played, we cooked lots of blackend redfish, ate crawfish boudin, and waited out a rainstorm or two. Once I even tricked the kids into letting me take portraits of them.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165700_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/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165700_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Bayou Segnette photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165700_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/2018/2018-02-26_163708_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/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163708_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing at the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-26_163708_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/2018/2018-02-26_163407_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/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-26_163407_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grumpy boy photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-26_163407_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/2018/2018-02-19_065121_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/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-19_065121_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="rainy days photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-19_065121_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/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Blackened Redfish photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180223_171840109.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="No we didn't catch it."> - </a> -<figcaption>No we didn’t catch it.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Nice Airstream photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180223_121855119.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="No offense to anyone who owns an Airstream, but, while they're cool, they're a dime a dozen. This, however, was utterly remarkable. Far and away the best homemade camper I've seen, anywhere. The skill and attention to detail on this thing was amazing. Plus, he can climb mountains without ever thinking about it. Possibly the first rig I've been jealous of."> - </a> -<figcaption>No offense to anyone who owns an Airstream, but, while they’re cool, they’re a dime a dozen. This, however, was utterly remarkable. Far and away the best homemade camper I’ve seen, anywhere. The skill and attention to detail on this thing was amazing. Plus, he can climb mountains without ever thinking about it. Possibly the first rig I’ve been jealous of.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165811_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/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165811_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl smiling photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165811_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/2018/2018-02-18_170006_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/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_170006_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_170006_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/2018/2018-02-18_165747_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/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl smiling photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_165747_new-orleans.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>At the end of five days of waiting… that shoe didn’t fit either. I eventually tracked down shoes for the front, but it’d be another five days to have them shipped down and that would mean missing out on our reservations at Fort Pickens. We decided that, if we stuck to the interstate and avoided the stop and go traffic, it’d be fine. I also had a list of shops in Pensacola that I was pretty sure could help us out.</p> -<p>After ten days in New Orleans we were ready to move on anyway. It’s a lovely city, it’d still be top of our list to move to if we were interested in living in a city. But we’re not. Right now we’re more interested in discovering what’s around the next corner.</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>Not mentioned in my summary of our planning tools were a couple of weather-related websites. We use <a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-86.26,31.40,3000">https://earth.nullschool.net/</a> obsessively, or at least I do. Pretty sure my wife has better things to do with her life. But between that site and <a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/large">the University of Wisconsin’s various weather data</a> you can get a pretty definitive understanding of why the weather is what it is where you are and where you need to go to improve 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> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> - - <li>Fish Crow </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li>Inca Dove </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> - - <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> - - <li>White Ibis </li> - - <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - - <aside id="recommended-reading" " > - <h3>Recommended Reading</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/book-notes/teche-a-history-of-louisianas-most-famous-bayou"><img src="/media/images//book-covers/teche_W6An1Xt_small.jpg" /></a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/vermilionville-grand-isle" rel="prev" title=" Vermilionville & Grand Isle">Vermilionville & Grand Isle</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/island-sun" rel="next" title=" Island in the Sun">Island in the Sun</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3068" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy Wall" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Patsy Wall</b></span> - <span class="when">March 13, 2018 at 3:23 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Love reading your blogs, but love the pictures of the children even more. 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I parked the bus in a camp site at Bayou Segnette, jumped in the car and we headed into the city. No one used the word "brakes". It was a perfect day.
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-Somewhere on the drive in we'd crossed over the little line dividing the Gulf air from the lower edge of the jet stream[^1]. On the other side of that line is warmth. So, despite being February, New Orleans was the only way it's ever been in the eight times I've been here, as far as I can tell, the only way it ever is, the way it should be, the way it was meant to be: hot, humid, sweltering. I wouldn't want it any other way.
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-This time around we hit some of our favorite spots, crepes in the French Market, swings and Storyland out at City Park, but we also spent more time in one of my favorite parts of New Orleans, Faubourg Treme.
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-I ended up finding a good coffee shop to work at in the heart of Treme. It also served Sno-balls with an absurd amount of syrup on them, which kept the kids on a good sugar high while we wandered the streets.
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-While I was working Corrinne and the kids went to the Children's Museum, which they all said was the best they've ever been to. Good enough that they went back a couple of times.
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-I'd be hard pressed to come up with a more kid-friendly city than New Orleans, but then I think our kids may be a bit unusual.
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-One day at the campground I was working and Corrinne took the kids to the little playground. There ended up being some other kids there and they were all playing together. I wasn't there but apparently the parents were complaining about how dirty New Orleans was (homeless people! Poop on the street! The horror!) and one of the kids told Lilah she didn't like New Orleans. Later, when they were walking back to the bus Lilah whispered to Corrinne, *I just don't think I could be friends with someone who doesn't like New Orleans*.
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-While it would have been nice to ignore the brake situation completely, it did need to be dealt with. I got in touch with a shop that said they could do it and drove it over one morning. They got it apart and for the first time I saw the front shoes, and yep, we need new shoes, badly. Unfortunately the shoes are a bit of an oddity and the shop couldn't get a shoe that fit. We ended up sleeping in the bus in the driveway of the shop with one tire off that night. Probably our oddest campsite thus far.
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-In the end though, two different shoes were ordered and neither ended up fitting. The next day we limped back to the campground to wait on a third set that was on order, but wouldn't get here for five days. That meant an extra few days in New Orleans, but we've certainly been stranded in far less interesting places. No one was complaining this time.
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-We spent more time hanging around the campground this time around. Sometimes it's good to spend a few days doing nothing. I worked, the kids played, we cooked lots of blackend redfish, ate crawfish boudin, and waited out a rainstorm or two. Once I even tricked the kids into letting me take portraits of them.
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-At the end of five days of waiting... that shoe didn't fit either. I eventually tracked down shoes for the front, but it'd be another five days to have them shipped down and that would mean missing out on our reservations at Fort Pickens. We decided that, if we stuck to the interstate and avoided the stop and go traffic, it'd be fine. I also had a list of shops in Pensacola that I was pretty sure could help us out.
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-After ten days in New Orleans we were ready to move on anyway. It's a lovely city, it'd still be top of our list to move to if we were interested in living in a city. But we're not. Right now we're more interested in discovering what's around the next corner.
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-[^1]: Not mentioned in my summary of our planning tools were a couple of weather-related websites. We use [https://earth.nullschool.net/][1] obsessively, or at least I do. Pretty sure my wife has better things to do with her life. But between that site and [the University of Wisconsin's various weather data][2] you can get a pretty definitive understanding of why the weather is what it is where you are and where you need to go to improve it.
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-[1]: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-86.26,31.40,3000
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-02-21T16:18:55" itemprop="datePublished">February <span>21, 2018</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>Just before Mardi Gras we had planned to head up to Lafayette, LA. There was a nice county park there that would have put us walking distance to some of the Mardi Gras things we wanted to do, but on the way there the brakes went out on the bus. I found a shop, put in a new master cylinder, but to accommodate that we ended up staying in Palmetto Island. Not a big deal, but it did mean we missed out on a couple things we wanted to do in Lafayette.</p> -<p>The main one was visiting <a href="http://www.vermilionville.org/vermilionville/index-old.html">Vermilionville</a>, so on our way to Grand Isle we swung north to Vermilionville for the morning. Vermilionville is a little bit like <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/05/austin-part-one">Pioneer Farm near Austin</a>, except that instead of Texas history, Vermilionville is preserving some of the Cajun and Acadian culture that once dominated the area. There’s a bayou, some old bayou-style acadian homes that have been brought here, restored and once again face the bayou.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Vermilionville, Louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Vermilionville, Louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Vermilionville, Louisiana photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="It was this big..."> - </a> -<figcaption>It was this big…</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The brakes still weren’t quite where I wanted them, so I spent a bit of time in the Vermilionville parking lot tinkering, testing and mostly failing and sighing a lot. Eventually I decided to just go for it. We were only planning to go about a hour down the road, to a campsite we’d been told about by someone at Bayou Segnette. It was all highway driving, so the stop and go would be minimal. I made it, but by the time we got to our camp I’d died several times and knew what my problem was — vacuum leak. </p> -<p>It was too late to run anywhere for parts so I just parked it in our campsite and took the kids over to the playground. When in doubt it’s best to relax and think things over. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Burn's Point Campground, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="burn's point park, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sunset, burn's point park, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="You don't see many sunsets over the water along the gulf coast, but when you do..."> - </a> -<figcaption>You don’t see many sunsets over the water along the gulf coast, but when you do…</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The next day we set out for Grand Isle. Corrinne and kids went ahead to run some errands along the way while I limped along behind them. I pulled into a Walmart parking lot to see if I could track down the vacuum leak. I ended up spending a few hours under the bus, running around getting some new hoses, failing to find new hoses and just generally failing. I cut down the main rubber hose that connects the engine side to vacuum line running back to the booster, reconnected it. Hit all the connections toward the back with starter fluid, hit the engine connections with WD40 and nothing ever sent the engine revving up or otherwise indicated I’d found the problem. </p> -<p>By then it was 3 o’clock and we still had a good hour of driving to do so I fired it and when it didn’t immediately die, decided that was good enough for the day. Clearly my standards have slipped. At the time I was thinking well, if I have to spend all day under the bus, in the heat, at least I want to be able to jump in the ocean when I’m done, so let’s get to Grand Isle and then I’ll work on it some more. It was a pretty good plan, except that I didn’t anticipate the mosquitoes.</p> -<p>Grand Isle is a strange little place, one of those places whose heyday is well in time’s rearview mirror, but has managed in the mean time to develop a dilapidated charm all its own. Certainly an impressive amount of engineering and roadwork went into making it even possible to get out here. It’s way, way out here. From here the next point south is the Yucatan. On the drive out you pass through some gorgeous marshland and get a tour of all the various efforts to stop the effects of rising seas and increasing hurricane frequency. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The first day we were there I ignored the bus and spent the day at the beach like a regular tourist.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle_picwide.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Because it's so close to the mouth of the Mississippi the sand at Grand Isle is really more like silt, getting it off your hands so you can have a snack is an ordeal."> - </a> -<figcaption>Because it’s so close to the mouth of the Mississippi the sand at Grand Isle is really more like silt, getting it off your hands so you can have a snack is an ordeal.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The next day I got back to work on the vacuum lines. Or rather I work my day job in the morning, waiting for the wind to pick up and then once it did, it drove the mosquitoes away and I could get to work on the bus. The mosquitoes on Grand Isle were the worst we’ve seen anywhere. They were massive, flew in swarms so thick you could see them coming and seemed totally immune to all the bug repellents we own. At times they made an otherwise quite nice place into a pretty miserable one. Fortunately during the day there was enough of an onshore breeze to drive them away.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - -<figure class="pic5"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180215_115105.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180215_115105_pic5.jpg" alt="engine repair photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180215_115105.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="All the necessary tools for engine work."></a> -<figcaption>All the necessary tools for engine work.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - -<figure class="pic5"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180214_175949.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180214_175949_pic5.jpg" alt="playing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180214_175949.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Meanwhile, basket construction."></a> -<figcaption>Meanwhile, basket construction.</figcaption> -</figure> - - -</span> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_170606_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grand isle, LA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-02-16_173407_grand-isle.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I started by checking every hose on top of the engine and found a cracked heater hose I’d been avoiding dealing with for some time. When I bent it back to get it out of the way it ruptured and dumped a considerably amount of coolant all over the engine. Fortunately there was plenty of slack in the hose so, after giving the rest of it a thorough inspection, I was able to cut off the bad end and reattach it. </p> -<p>Then I decided to replace the fuel filter because I’d been meaning to for about 1000 miles now. I started to do that realized one of the small rubber fuel hoses was cracked, so I swapped that out as well. Then I went rhough tightening all the bolts I could find and, by the end of the day, I’d done next to nothing to fix the vacuum leak, but had put in a good few hours of repairs.</p> -<p>The next day when the breeze kicked in again I got serious and pulled out the entire main vacuum line from engine to rear booster and inspected it thoroughly, finding nothing. However, when I put it back together again I had 20in of pressure and the engine was purring right where I like it to be. Alas, the brakes were still soft and would lock up sometimes, which probably means there’s still a vacuum leak in there somewhere. I also knew we needed new shoes, which I wasn’t about to do on an island in the middle of nowhere. </p> -<p>That, combined with the mosquitoes, made the decision easy. We left Grand Isle after three nights. It’s a nice place, well worth a visit, but we needed to get to New Orleans.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/03/signs-times">Signs of the Times</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/mardi-gras-deux-facons" rel="prev" title=" Mardi Gras Deux Façons">Mardi Gras Deux Façons</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/02/trapped-inside-song" rel="next" title=" Trapped Inside the Song">Trapped Inside the Song</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">1 Comment</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3060" 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">March 08, 2018 at 10:11 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>“Clearly my standards have slipped”….. making lemonade.</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="244" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833358" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="cc0129983c10f4c1fdc2df0922ff3955146e9dde" 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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There was a nice county park there that would have put us walking distance to some of the Mardi Gras things we wanted to do, but on the way there the brakes went out on the bus. I found a shop, put in a new master cylinder, but to accommodate that we ended up staying in Palmetto Island. Not a big deal, but it did mean we missed out on a couple things we wanted to do in Lafayette.
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-The main one was visiting [Vermilionville](http://www.vermilionville.org/vermilionville/index-old.html), so on our way to Grand Isle we swung north to Vermilionville for the morning. Vermilionville is a little bit like [Pioneer Farm near Austin](https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/05/austin-part-one), except that instead of Texas history, Vermilionville is preserving some of the Cajun and Acadian culture that once dominated the area. There's a bayou, some old bayou-style acadian homes that have been brought here, restored and once again face the bayou.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_125846_vermilionville.jpg" id="image-1161" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_125640-1_vermilionville.jpg" id="image-1159" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_125737_vermilionville.jpg" id="image-1160" class="picwide caption" />
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-The brakes still weren't quite where I wanted them, so I spent a bit of time in the Vermilionville parking lot tinkering, testing and mostly failing and sighing a lot. Eventually I decided to just go for it. We were only planning to go about a hour down the road, to a campsite we'd been told about by someone at Bayou Segnette. It was all highway driving, so the stop and go would be minimal. I made it, but by the time we got to our camp I'd died several times and knew what my problem was -- vacuum leak.
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-It was too late to run anywhere for parts so I just parked it in our campsite and took the kids over to the playground. When in doubt it's best to relax and think things over.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_171359_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1162" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_171706_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1163" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-14_174922_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1165" class="picwide caption" />
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-The next day we set out for Grand Isle. Corrinne and kids went ahead to run some errands along the way while I limped along behind them. I pulled into a Walmart parking lot to see if I could track down the vacuum leak. I ended up spending a few hours under the bus, running around getting some new hoses, failing to find new hoses and just generally failing. I cut down the main rubber hose that connects the engine side to vacuum line running back to the booster, reconnected it. Hit all the connections toward the back with starter fluid, hit the engine connections with WD40 and nothing ever sent the engine revving up or otherwise indicated I'd found the problem.
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-By then it was 3 o'clock and we still had a good hour of driving to do so I fired it and when it didn't immediately die, decided that was good enough for the day. Clearly my standards have slipped. At the time I was thinking well, if I have to spend all day under the bus, in the heat, at least I want to be able to jump in the ocean when I'm done, so let's get to Grand Isle and then I'll work on it some more. It was a pretty good plan, except that I didn't anticipate the mosquitoes.
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-Grand Isle is a strange little place, one of those places whose heyday is well in time's rearview mirror, but has managed in the mean time to develop a dilapidated charm all its own. Certainly an impressive amount of engineering and roadwork went into making it even possible to get out here. It's way, way out here. From here the next point south is the Yucatan. On the drive out you pass through some gorgeous marshland and get a tour of all the various efforts to stop the effects of rising seas and increasing hurricane frequency.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-18_104315_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1172" class="picwide" />
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-The first day we were there I ignored the bus and spent the day at the beach like a regular tourist.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_102624_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1166" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_102853_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1167" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_103027_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1168" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-02-16_110308_grand-isle.jpg" id="image-1169" class="picwide caption" />
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-The next day I got back to work on the vacuum lines. Or rather I work my day job in the morning, waiting for the wind to pick up and then once it did, it drove the mosquitoes away and I could get to work on the bus. The mosquitoes on Grand Isle were the worst we've seen anywhere. They were massive, flew in swarms so thick you could see them coming and seemed totally immune to all the bug repellents we own. At times they made an otherwise quite nice place into a pretty miserable one. Fortunately during the day there was enough of an onshore breeze to drive them away.
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-I started by checking every hose on top of the engine and found a cracked heater hose I'd been avoiding dealing with for some time. When I bent it back to get it out of the way it ruptured and dumped a considerably amount of coolant all over the engine. Fortunately there was plenty of slack in the hose so, after giving the rest of it a thorough inspection, I was able to cut off the bad end and reattach it.
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-Then I decided to replace the fuel filter because I'd been meaning to for about 1000 miles now. I started to do that realized one of the small rubber fuel hoses was cracked, so I swapped that out as well. Then I went rhough tightening all the bolts I could find and, by the end of the day, I'd done next to nothing to fix the vacuum leak, but had put in a good few hours of repairs.
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-The next day when the breeze kicked in again I got serious and pulled out the entire main vacuum line from engine to rear booster and inspected it thoroughly, finding nothing. However, when I put it back together again I had 20in of pressure and the engine was purring right where I like it to be. Alas, the brakes were still soft and would lock up sometimes, which probably means there's still a vacuum leak in there somewhere. I also knew we needed new shoes, which I wasn't about to do on an island in the middle of nowhere.
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-That, combined with the mosquitoes, made the decision easy. We left Grand Isle after three nights. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-03-28T06:08:50" itemprop="datePublished">March <span>28, 2018</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 went for a walk in the woods one afternoon during our time at Camel Lake. It was a mixed slash pine and palmetto forest, probably not more than ten years old in most of places, heavily logged and replanted. After you walk in enough woods it’s not hard to tell the re-planted areas, they’re a little too orderly, a little too deliberate, not quite as chaotic and wild as an untouched area, of which there are, at this point, very few. Especially around here.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-forest_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_150939_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Not that I was complaining, they’re still beautiful woods. I went out to try to take some pictures of the bright greenish yellow butterflies we’d been watching drift through camp for the past few days. They look like someone colored them in with a highlighter and then brought them to life. I don’t know their name, but they look like green Cabbage Whites, except bright yellow, so I call them Cabbage Yellows. </p> -<p>Even in the woods though they never stopped long enough to get a good look so I thought I’d go into the woods and see if I could find one to photograph. It turned out though, that they just don’t stop. Wherever they are headed they’re in a hurry to get there. In the week we were in this place I never saw one land.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_080018_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_080018_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_080018_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_080018_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_080018_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_080018_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_145516_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_145516_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_145516_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_145516_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_145516_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_145516_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_144009_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_144009_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_144009_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_144009_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_144009_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_144009_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-31_064916_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-31_064916_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-31_064916_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-31_064916_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-31_064916_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-31_064916_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>At some point on my walk I slipped off my flip flops and walked barefoot down the trail, feeling the soft sand and pine needles of the forest floor. This is something I’ve been doing for several weeks now. It all started when we were back at Fort Pickens. I was sitting round one day and happened to see some kids running barefoot down the road and one wince and stopped and wiped something off her foot. I smiled because I had a distinct memory of that, those early summer days when you’re free, but your feet are still tender from being cooped up all winter in shoes. I got to thinking though about how by the end of the summer you’d run across the same burning hot blacktop without ever feeling the heat or stopping to get the thorns out because your feet had grown so tough you know longer felt those things. I got to thinking about and decided there was really no reason I couldn’t make my feet tough like that again, it would just take some practice. And so ever since I’ve been going barefoot as much as I could. </p> -<p>That afternoon in the woods my feet were still on the tender side. Twice I had to stop to pick pine needs out of the arch of my foot. And it limited my ability to go crashing through the undergrowth chasing butterflies, but you have to have patience about these things.</p> -<p>I never did get a picture of my Cabbage Yellows, though I discovered that swallowtails do in fact land. Not very often and only atop the big, thorny, purple flowers of Purple Thistles. The thistles are thorny enough to have been named <em>Cirsium horridulum</em>, but the Swallowtails don’t seem to mind. They balance atop the thorns and dig into the flower, which they proceed to work over in a very orderly fashion, probing for nectar from one side to the other, millimeter by millimeter, until, I presume, they’ve either had their fill or exhausted the nectar from that flower, at which point they alight again in their grand looping flight that seems to have a kind of rhythm to it, though any actual pattern to their floating bouncing flutters remains just beyond my brain’s ability to recognize it.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-28_141511_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-28_141511_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-28_141511_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-28_141511_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-28_141511_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-28_141511_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>What you don’t want to do is walk barefoot into a bunch of Cirsium horridulum. Not until the end of summer anyway. And perhaps not even then, there are limits everything you know. </p> -<p>The interesting thing about being barefoot that I do not remember from my youth is the sense of energy you get from it. It’s not exactly a discovery on my part, there are lots of very old names out there for this, martial arts tend to call it qi or chi, yoga calls it prana, druids have the best name in my opinion, the telluric current, one of the two great currents of nwyfre (life energy). Whatever you want to call it, you can feel it. Take off your shoes and put your feet on the dirt or grass or what have you and sit or stand with your eyes closed for about five minutes everyday for a few weeks and pay attention to sensations you notice. It’s interesting.</p> -<p>Unless you come here for stories of travel, in which case this may not be interesting. But I spent a lot of time here at Camel Lake thinking about it. There wasn’t a lot else to do. There was a small beach, a few fish in the lake, fish so small I don’t even have a hook small enough to get it in their mouths. I had fun trying to convince them to open a little wider though, dangling worm after worm and watching them snatch it away without ever getting on the hook. So if you go to Camel Lake one day and land a fat lazy bass that seems like it must have been hand fed, you’re welcome.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-26_144609_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-26_144609_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-26_144609_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-26_144609_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-26_144609_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-26_144609_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_080109_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_080109_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_080109_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_080109_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_080109_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_080109_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There’s nothing to really draw you here, save a desire for peace and quiet. We ended up here partly because our luck with cancellations in the crowded beaches of the Panhandle finally ran out, or at least partly ran out. There were a few campgrounds at various places around St. Andrew Bay, just north a Grayton and Topsail that we could have stayed. And a few more down in the mess of Panama City, but we wanted to come inland for a bit. I’ve nothing against Panama City. It seems quite fashionable to look down on it these days, the white trash riviera as some call it. I’ve always rather liked the place, it has a unique charm. I’ve eaten the hell out of some oysters at Shuck’ums. I have the cup to prove it. Panama City Beach was the first place I came to in the Panhandle. I thought it was great then and I still like it now. </p> -<p>What I don’t like is the new development west of it, all the gated communities and faux mixed development. Places with names like Royal Palms of Laguna Beach Shores or Laguna Beach Estates. Places that are all planned and new and clean and brightly lit and lifeless. A vast oasis devoid of magic. I’m glad everyone else goes there though, that way I can enjoy the redneck beaches full of biting midges, dilapidated bait shacks, abandoned buildings and people who are there to fish and sit and think and enjoy the silence, not serve up iced frappes and air conditioned smiles.</p> -<p>But that wasn’t what drove us inland really. We just wanted something different for a while. A forest rather than a beach. Too much of one thing — even when that one thing is some of the most perfect beaches in the U.S. — gets repetitive after a while. Sometime you need a change for no other reason than you just feel like it. </p> -<p>When I got back from my walk the kids came running up wanting to go for a walk too. So I set out again, this time with them, though only Lilah stayed with me for more than a few minutes. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_144103_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_144103_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_144103_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_144103_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_144103_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_144103_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_143921_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_143921_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_143921_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_143921_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_143921_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_143921_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_150459_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_150459_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150459_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150459_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150459_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_150459_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_150316_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-30_150316_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150316_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150316_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-30_150316_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-30_150316_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We ended up across the road, following a trail that seemed to head into the darker, denser, older parts of the forest, but it turned out to be a river bottom, we soon crossed over and came up the other side into another logged area. She pointed out flowers and the curled, curved fern fronds just starting to stretch themselves out for the spring. She wanted to know why the ferns were lighter at the tip and much darker green toward the stalk.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-31_065113_camel-lake-nat-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/2018/2018-03-31_065113_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-31_065113_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-31_065113_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-31_065113_camel-lake-nat-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-31_065113_camel-lake-nat-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>When a cell divides each new cell has only half the number of chloroplasts in it compared to the parent cell. It takes time for the chloroplasts themselves to divide so the cells as the tip of the new frond don’t have as many chloroplasts and aren’t therefore as dark green as those back at the base. For the record, my explanation to her at the time was not quite that coherent, but she seemed to be satisfied with it anyway. We got distracted shortly after by a pink and red and purple moth that was quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.</p> -<p>Later that night the sunset turned a deep rich red that seemed to rise right up out of the forest and then faded into a gradient of purple that turned progressively darker shades of blue until it faded up into the blue-black clouds. A cardinal chirped through the woods just beyond the fire, grabbing a last seed or two before settling down the roost for the night. I watched it through the trees, standing next to the fire, hands cupped over it for warmth, wondering if this winter would ever end. At least the cold kept the <a href="/jrnl/2015/05/tates-hell">Yellow Flies</a> at bay, otherwise this little lake in the woods, tucked somewhere in the Apalachicola river basin, might be miserable. </p> -<p>The next morning we packed up and headed on south again, tracing the river on down to the sea.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>Carolina Wren </li> - - <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> - - <li>Red-bellied Woodpecker </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/swallow-tailed-kite">Swallow-tailed Kite</a> </li> - - <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/04/the-nothing-that-is">The Nothing That Is</a></li> - - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/03/texture">Texture</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside id="recommended-reading" class="rr-clear" > - <h3>Recommended Reading</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/book-notes/the-forest-unseen"><img src="/media/images//book-covers/the-forest-unseen_5DD9FbX_small.jpg" /></a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/old-school" rel="prev" title=" Old School">Old School</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/04/cape-san-blas" rel="next" title=" Cape San Blas">Cape San Blas</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">5 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3156" 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">April 16, 2018 at 8:15 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Did you get a new lens or lighting? Your DOF on macro is getting really good! Also, barefoot is FL is great- but they have that little clump of cooka burrow grass down there that will cripple a man. No clue what its called- but it sucks.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3157" 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 16, 2018 at 10:05 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew-</p> -<p>I hate those burr things.</p> -<p>And for the life of me I can’t find out what they’re called, it’s like Google has no idea what I’m talking about. But yes, they really hurt. At this point though I have enough callouses that they only get me in the arch of my foot. Which hurts like hell, but luckily hasn’t happened much lately. </p> -<p>As for the lens, nothing new, just my 2 100mms. The busier bokeh is a Minolta and the smoother is an Olympus. Neither is technically a macro. I usually use the Minolta for portraits because it’s a little softer, but it happened to be on my camera when I went for a walk and I sorta liked the results. In a couple cases I went back with the Olympus and a tripod. I keep thinking about getting a proper macro lens, but my lens collection is in danger of surpassing the wife’s shoe collection, which is not allowed.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3162" 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">April 18, 2018 at 8:36 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>That busy bokeh like on the photo where the childs hand is reaching for the fern is intense. Its almost like a oil painting- It seems very random. </p> -<p>You dont need another new expensive lens. Just get some decent extension tubes that maintain your auto focus. You can find them from $40 to $150 depending. I have found the cheaper ones work just fine though.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3163" 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 18, 2018 at 10:08 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew- That’s the minolta 100 f/2.5 I think. Maybe f/2.8. And yeah, it goes a little crazy sometimes. It does better with a long distance between fore and background, like a portrait with a distance background.</p> -<p>I need to check out extension tubes, I just picked up a teleconverter to turn my 200 into a 400, so next I’ll have to go the other way with an extention tube.</p> -<p>No autofocus though, I don’t currently own a single autofocus lens.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3166" 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">April 18, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Even better- you just need a ring that will get the lens off the camera. Manual focus is fine and at that level I usually use auto to get me close and manual to dial it in.</p> -<p>You should be able to get a manual focus tube for very cheap. Get a set of 3 that you can stack for different ranges of macro.</p> -<p>You’ll just need a lot of natural light- or you can build a snoot which is what I ended up doing later on.</p> -<p>I have no clue what mount your camera needs, but you can find something like this for $15- and if it sucks you’re only out $15 <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Minolta+MD+Mount+Extension+Tube+set">eBay extension tubes</a></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="250" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833348" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="90c767b92270c6d129971304c1013b87740c3da9" 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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It was a mixed slash pine and palmetto forest, probably not more than ten years old in most of places, heavily logged and replanted. After you walk in enough woods it's not hard to tell the re-planted areas, they're a little too orderly, a little too deliberate, not quite as chaotic and wild as an untouched area, of which there are, at this point, very few. Especially around here.
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-Not that I was complaining, they're still beautiful woods. I went out to try to take some pictures of the bright greenish yellow butterflies we'd been watching drift through camp for the past few days. They look like someone colored them in with a highlighter and then brought them to life. I don't know their name, but they look like green Cabbage Whites, except bright yellow, so I call them Cabbage Yellows.
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-Even in the woods though they never stopped long enough to get a good look so I thought I'd go into the woods and see if I could find one to photograph. It turned out though, that they just don't stop. Wherever they are headed they're in a hurry to get there. In the week we were in this place I never saw one land.
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-At some point on my walk I slipped off my flip flops and walked barefoot down the trail, feeling the soft sand and pine needles of the forest floor. This is something I've been doing for several weeks now. It all started when we were back at Fort Pickens. I was sitting round one day and happened to see some kids running barefoot down the road and one wince and stopped and wiped something off her foot. I smiled because I had a distinct memory of that, those early summer days when you're free, but your feet are still tender from being cooped up all winter in shoes. I got to thinking though about how by the end of the summer you'd run across the same burning hot blacktop without ever feeling the heat or stopping to get the thorns out because your feet had grown so tough you know longer felt those things. I got to thinking about and decided there was really no reason I couldn't make my feet tough like that again, it would just take some practice. And so ever since I've been going barefoot as much as I could.
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-That afternoon in the woods my feet were still on the tender side. Twice I had to stop to pick pine needs out of the arch of my foot. And it limited my ability to go crashing through the undergrowth chasing butterflies, but you have to have patience about these things.
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-I never did get a picture of my Cabbage Yellows, though I discovered that swallowtails do in fact land. Not very often and only atop the big, thorny, purple flowers of Purple Thistles. The thistles are thorny enough to have been named *Cirsium horridulum*, but the Swallowtails don't seem to mind. They balance atop the thorns and dig into the flower, which they proceed to work over in a very orderly fashion, probing for nectar from one side to the other, millimeter by millimeter, until, I presume, they've either had their fill or exhausted the nectar from that flower, at which point they alight again in their grand looping flight that seems to have a kind of rhythm to it, though any actual pattern to their floating bouncing flutters remains just beyond my brain's ability to recognize it.
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-What you don't want to do is walk barefoot into a bunch of Cirsium horridulum. Not until the end of summer anyway. And perhaps not even then, there are limits everything you know.
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-The interesting thing about being barefoot that I do not remember from my youth is the sense of energy you get from it. It's not exactly a discovery on my part, there are lots of very old names out there for this, martial arts tend to call it qi or chi, yoga calls it prana, druids have the best name in my opinion, the telluric current, one of the two great currents of nwyfre (life energy). Whatever you want to call it, you can feel it. Take off your shoes and put your feet on the dirt or grass or what have you and sit or stand with your eyes closed for about five minutes everyday for a few weeks and pay attention to sensations you notice. It's interesting.
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-Unless you come here for stories of travel, in which case this may not be interesting. But I spent a lot of time here at Camel Lake thinking about it. There wasn't a lot else to do. There was a small beach, a few fish in the lake, fish so small I don't even have a hook small enough to get it in their mouths. I had fun trying to convince them to open a little wider though, dangling worm after worm and watching them snatch it away without ever getting on the hook. So if you go to Camel Lake one day and land a fat lazy bass that seems like it must have been hand fed, you're welcome.
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-There's nothing to really draw you here, save a desire for peace and quiet. We ended up here partly because our luck with cancellations in the crowded beaches of the Panhandle finally ran out, or at least partly ran out. There were a few campgrounds at various places around St. Andrew Bay, just north a Grayton and Topsail that we could have stayed. And a few more down in the mess of Panama City, but we wanted to come inland for a bit. I've nothing against Panama City. It seems quite fashionable to look down on it these days, the white trash riviera as some call it. I've always rather liked the place, it has a unique charm. I've eaten the hell out of some oysters at Shuck'ums. I have the cup to prove it. Panama City Beach was the first place I came to in the Panhandle. I thought it was great then and I still like it now.
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-What I don't like is the new development west of it, all the gated communities and faux mixed development. Places with names like Royal Palms of Laguna Beach Shores or Laguna Beach Estates. Places that are all planned and new and clean and brightly lit and lifeless. A vast oasis devoid of magic. I'm glad everyone else goes there though, that way I can enjoy the redneck beaches full of biting midges, dilapidated bait shacks, abandoned buildings and people who are there to fish and sit and think and enjoy the silence, not serve up iced frappes and air conditioned smiles.
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-But that wasn't what drove us inland really. We just wanted something different for a while. A forest rather than a beach. Too much of one thing -- even when that one thing is some of the most perfect beaches in the U.S. -- gets repetitive after a while. Sometime you need a change for no other reason than you just feel like it.
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-When I got back from my walk the kids came running up wanting to go for a walk too. So I set out again, this time with them, though only Lilah stayed with me for more than a few minutes.
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-We ended up across the road, following a trail that seemed to head into the darker, denser, older parts of the forest, but it turned out to be a river bottom, we soon crossed over and came up the other side into another logged area. She pointed out flowers and the curled, curved fern fronds just starting to stretch themselves out for the spring. She wanted to know why the ferns were lighter at the tip and much darker green toward the stalk.
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-When a cell divides each new cell has only half the number of chloroplasts in it compared to the parent cell. It takes time for the chloroplasts themselves to divide so the cells as the tip of the new frond don't have as many chloroplasts and aren't therefore as dark green as those back at the base. For the record, my explanation to her at the time was not quite that coherent, but she seemed to be satisfied with it anyway. We got distracted shortly after by a pink and red and purple moth that was quite unlike anything I've ever seen before.
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-Later that night the sunset turned a deep rich red that seemed to rise right up out of the forest and then faded into a gradient of purple that turned progressively darker shades of blue until it faded up into the blue-black clouds. A cardinal chirped through the woods just beyond the fire, grabbing a last seed or two before settling down the roost for the night. I watched it through the trees, standing next to the fire, hands cupped over it for warmth, wondering if this winter would ever end. At least the cold kept the [Yellow Flies][1] at bay, otherwise this little lake in the woods, tucked somewhere in the Apalachicola river basin, might be miserable.
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-The next morning we packed up and headed on south again, tracing the river on down to the sea.
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In between those places though we left a month to wander around and see what we found. The first stop in our wander was a free campground on East Bay, which is part of Pensacola Bay.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia_picwide.jpg" alt="sunset over east bay, Pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-03_174415_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I’ve seen more than a few full time RVers complaining on the internet that there’s no free camping in Florida or the Gulf Coast in general. I can’t decide if I should correct this ignorance or not. I’m going to take the middle ground and say there’s plenty of free camping all along the Gulf Coast you, but you do have to know where to look. We’ve found great free camping in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. It’s harder to find, that’s true, but it’s definitely there. And while I’m on the subject, the whole free camping thing is not, at least for us, really about being free. That is nice, but what free camping almost always means is fewer people and wilder places, which is the main appeal for us.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-02_160656_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_160656_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_160656_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_160656_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_160656_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Escambia bay, controlled burn. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-02_160656_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-02_162307_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_162307_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_162307_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_162307_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-02_162307_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing escambia bay, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-02_162307_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-01_143849_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-01_143849_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-01_143849_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-01_143849_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-01_143849_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing near escabia bay photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-01_143849_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_133929_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133929_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133929_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133929_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133929_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_133929_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The place we stayed on the shore of East Bay is a small campground at the end of a dusty dirt road made of dried Florida red clay. The rains turned it to mud, but not so bad we couldn’t get in and out. Follow the road long enough through the pine flats, bayous and marshes and you’ll find a little campground on the bay. There’s only 12 sites and a crazy online reservation system that ensure most of them will be unoccupied at any given time (despite being “full” if you look online)<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. We stayed a total of 10 nights there in two separate trips and never saw the place full. .</p> -<p>So there is free camping in Florida, plenty of it in fact, you just have to find it. That said, this place is probably somewhat unique. It’s a little slice of wild Florida that doesn’t seem like it’s changed much since the Choctaw were living here a few hundred years ago. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_133709_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133709_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133709_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133709_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_133709_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_133709_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_135006_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_135006_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_135006_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_135006_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_135006_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_135006_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_104530_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_104530_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_104530_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_104530_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-13_104530_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Window Marker art photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-13_104530_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="These days there are ways to do the things we used to get yelled at for doing, without getting yelled at."> - </a> -<figcaption>These days there are ways to do the things we used to get yelled at for doing, without getting yelled at.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>It was nice to get back to something a little wilder. I love the south, and it does have some very wild spots, but they’re fewer and further between than the west. East Bay felt wilder than any place we’d been in a long time, probably since Rutherford Beach.</p> -<p>We first visited the area a week earlier on our way to Fort Pickens. The day we arrived they were doing a controlled burn in the pine flats (our neighbor told me there’s a pine around here that only germinates with fire, which could be the reason). The air was filled with smoke and ash rained down on us all afternoon which made the place feel even wilder. That night we had a campfire, but real fire was beyond our camp in the woods. For the most part it was a steady red glow through the trees, but occasionally a dead palm would suddenly bursting into flame with a great crashing roar.</p> -<p>When we came back there were no nearby fires. The first couple days we were there it rained off and on most of the day. The cloud cover never broke. Then one afternoon the sun finally came out and the whole campground turned out. I heard the squeak of Vanagon doors and the zipper of tents being thrown open and pretty soon folding chairs were pulled out to the shoreline, shirts came off and we all sort of sat in silence and enjoyed the sunshine. We do this sort of thing all the time — just sit and do nothing — so I think nothing of it until we get to a campground where people are always off seeing the sights, fishing, doing stuff and all the sudden I feel conspicuous in my doing nothingness. I knew I had found my people when I noticed that everyone here was just sitting, doing nothing, staring out at the sea. There was something about the place that seemed to inspire you to just sit and think. Perhaps it was the droop of the Spanish Moss, or the glaring Florida sun, or the dead oaks along the shore, limbs reaching out like gnarled fingers clawing at the sky. Whatever the case, it was an excellent place to simply sit and feel the warmth of the sun. Or have a water fight.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-15_133349_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-15_133349_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-15_133349_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-15_133349_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-15_133349_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy fishing east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-15_133349_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_132753_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_132753_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_132753_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_132753_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_132753_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_132753_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_134952_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_134952_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_134952_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_134952_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_134952_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="water fight, east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_134952_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_135008_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135008_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135008_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135008_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135008_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="water fight, east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_135008_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_135039_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135039_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135039_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135039_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135039_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="water fight, east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_135039_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_135042_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135042_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135042_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135042_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_135042_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="water fight, east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_135042_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>You had to snatch that sun though. The rain was off and on all week. Mornings started off looking like rain, but by 10 it’d be sunny, which would last until around 2PM, at which point clouds would roll in, the wind would kick up and it would feel like a squall was coming, but then nothing ever made it all the way across the bay and by sundown it was clear enough to watch the sunset.</p> -<p>A couple of mornings a strange warm fog covered the bay, just before dawn the world looked flat and blurred, sea and sky become one and suffused with a blue glow.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_060509_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_060509_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_060509_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_060509_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_060509_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="early morning fog, east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_060509_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-18_063002_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-18_063002_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-18_063002_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-18_063002_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-18_063002_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="morning fog, east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-18_063002_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The gloom burned off quickly once the sun was up and the last few days we were there the weather was perfect, even if the fish weren’t biting.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_140330_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_140330_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_140330_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_140330_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-17_140330_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl fishing, east bay, pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-17_140330_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-19_174839_escabia.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-19_174839_escabia_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-19_174839_escabia_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-19_174839_escabia_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-19_174839_escabia_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sunset over east bay, Pensacola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-19_174839_escabia.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>While we were there the online system was changed a bit and now you’re supposed to call when you arrive or you forfeit your reservations and the site is available to walk ups. This seemed to be only about half implemented and unevenly enforced, but they’re trying anyway. <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>Brewer's Blackbird </li> - - <li>Brown Pelican </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/laughing-gull">Laughing Gull</a> </li> - - <li>Mourning Dove </li> - - <li>Osprey </li> - - <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> - - <li>Yellow-bellied Sapsucker </li> - - <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/03/commons">Commons</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/island-sun" rel="prev" title=" Island in the Sun">Island in the Sun</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/stone-crabs" rel="next" title=" Stone Crabs">Stone Crabs</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3111" 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">April 01, 2018 at 3:15 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Someday your kids, probably in a couple of decades once they realize how different their childhood was from others, are going to sincerely thank you for these experiences.</p> -<p>Free campsites.net has clued me into a few places I wouldn’t have thought to look, but appears very weak overall (in that is misses a ass-ton of good possibilities I’ve found accidently). How do you guys find the good freebies?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3117" 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 02, 2018 at 11:32 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@classic_liberal-</p> -<p>I sent you an email with a more detailed answer, but here’s the short version:</p> -<p>Freecampsites.net is okay, but doesn’t seem to get much use anymore -(info is often very out of date). I also use wikicamp a good bit, but -it’s phone-only for some reason, which irritates me. </p> -<p>https://www.usa.wikicamps.co/</p> -<p>Still, it was great out west, less so lately.</p> -<p>A good bit of our research is just looking for green spots on the map and using DuckDuckGo to search for “free camping”.</p> -<p>Honestly though, our best finds have been happy accidents and blind luck (one of my top five favorite spots we found because we didn’t feel like driving through a storm and just turned off the main road to look around).</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="247" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833353" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="ee7728a4a69dbb35dfe57752b8144c0bc692a9c2" 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 between those places though we left a month to wander around and see what we found. The first stop in our wander was a free campground on East Bay, which is part of Pensacola Bay.
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-I've seen more than a few full time RVers complaining on the internet that there's no free camping in Florida or the Gulf Coast in general. I can't decide if I should correct this ignorance or not. I'm going to take the middle ground and say there's plenty of free camping all along the Gulf Coast you, but you do have to know where to look. We've found great free camping in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. It's harder to find, that's true, but it's definitely there. And while I'm on the subject, the whole free camping thing is not, at least for us, really about being free. That is nice, but what free camping almost always means is fewer people and wilder places, which is the main appeal for us.
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-The place we stayed on the shore of East Bay is a small campground at the end of a dusty dirt road made of dried Florida red clay. The rains turned it to mud, but not so bad we couldn't get in and out. Follow the road long enough through the pine flats, bayous and marshes and you'll find a little campground on the bay. There's only 12 sites and a crazy online reservation system that ensure most of them will be unoccupied at any given time (despite being "full" if you look online)[^1]. We stayed a total of 10 nights there in two separate trips and never saw the place full. .
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-So there is free camping in Florida, plenty of it in fact, you just have to find it. That said, this place is probably somewhat unique. It's a little slice of wild Florida that doesn't seem like it's changed much since the Choctaw were living here a few hundred years ago.
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-It was nice to get back to something a little wilder. I love the south, and it does have some very wild spots, but they're fewer and further between than the west. East Bay felt wilder than any place we'd been in a long time, probably since Rutherford Beach.
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-We first visited the area a week earlier on our way to Fort Pickens. The day we arrived they were doing a controlled burn in the pine flats (our neighbor told me there's a pine around here that only germinates with fire, which could be the reason). The air was filled with smoke and ash rained down on us all afternoon which made the place feel even wilder. That night we had a campfire, but real fire was beyond our camp in the woods. For the most part it was a steady red glow through the trees, but occasionally a dead palm would suddenly bursting into flame with a great crashing roar.
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-When we came back there were no nearby fires. The first couple days we were there it rained off and on most of the day. The cloud cover never broke. Then one afternoon the sun finally came out and the whole campground turned out. I heard the squeak of Vanagon doors and the zipper of tents being thrown open and pretty soon folding chairs were pulled out to the shoreline, shirts came off and we all sort of sat in silence and enjoyed the sunshine. We do this sort of thing all the time -- just sit and do nothing -- so I think nothing of it until we get to a campground where people are always off seeing the sights, fishing, doing stuff and all the sudden I feel conspicuous in my doing nothingness. I knew I had found my people when I noticed that everyone here was just sitting, doing nothing, staring out at the sea. There was something about the place that seemed to inspire you to just sit and think. Perhaps it was the droop of the Spanish Moss, or the glaring Florida sun, or the dead oaks along the shore, limbs reaching out like gnarled fingers clawing at the sky. Whatever the case, it was an excellent place to simply sit and feel the warmth of the sun. Or have a water fight.
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-You had to snatch that sun though. The rain was off and on all week. Mornings started off looking like rain, but by 10 it'd be sunny, which would last until around 2PM, at which point clouds would roll in, the wind would kick up and it would feel like a squall was coming, but then nothing ever made it all the way across the bay and by sundown it was clear enough to watch the sunset.
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-A couple of mornings a strange warm fog covered the bay, just before dawn the world looked flat and blurred, sea and sky become one and suffused with a blue glow.
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-The gloom burned off quickly once the sun was up and the last few days we were there the weather was perfect, even if the fish weren't biting.
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I can live with that when the beach looks like this.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_135924_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_135924_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_135924_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_135924_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_135924_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Gulf Islands National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_135924_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-09_143522_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - 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</a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg" alt="Gulf Islands National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_152225_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_152417_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152417_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152417_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152417_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152417_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Gulf Islands National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_152417_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_152659_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152659_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152659_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152659_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-04_152659_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-04_152659_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-05_113613-1_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-05_113613-1_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-05_113613-1_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-05_113613-1_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-05_113613-1_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Gulf Islands National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-05_113613-1_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>This time around there were no Blue Angels flying overhead, but we did make a trip across the bay one day to check out the naval aviation museum. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-10_111549-1_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111549-1_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111549-1_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111549-1_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111549-1_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="blue angels, naval air museum, pensacola photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-10_111549-1_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-10_111420_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111420_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111420_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111420_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_111420_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="at the naval air museum, pensacola photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-10_111420_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-10_104650_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_104650_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_104650_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_104650_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-10_104650_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Navy recruitment sign, 1920s photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-10_104650_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Navy recruitment sign, 1920s"> - </a> -<figcaption>Navy recruitment sign, 1920s</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The kids were into the various Blue Angel planes, but otherwise seemed bored with the place. I thought it was moderately interesting until Corrinne pointed out that all the planes had been sanitized, not a single pin-up, or any nose art at all to be found in the whole place. </p> -<p>I asked one of the docents about it and he told me it was done to make the place more family-friendly. Because building a monument to the various ways to kill people from the air is totally family-friendly, but anything hinting at sex, the way, if you recall, you actually get families, is not<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. One of the things I hope foreign guidebooks to our strange land prepare visitors for is that sometimes American logic will make your head explode.</p> -<p>We beat a haste retreat back across the bay to the beach.</p> -<p>I took a break from the brake problem, but of course that didn’t mean there was nothing to do on the bus. The awning ratchet broke one afternoon, which I mention mostly because in my quest to find a replacement part I had to visit the worst store ever: Camping World. What a racket. If you can, avoid it. I did manage to get the awning fixed though. Just in time for the wind and rain.</p> -<p>The last day we were on the island it suddenly turned quite cold and rained most of the day, but we still managed to get some time in the sand.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-08_162417_fort-pickens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-08_162417_fort-pickens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-08_162417_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-08_162417_fort-pickens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-08_162417_fort-pickens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Gulf Islands National Seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-08_162417_fort-pickens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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-<img src="images/2018/2018-03-09_151035_fort-pickens.jpg" id="image-1223" class="picwide" />
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-The danger with reminiscing from a long way away is you tend to forget the negative things, but in this case the only downside is the campground, which is little more than a parking lot. I can live with that when the beach looks like this.
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-This time around there were no Blue Angels flying overhead, but we did make a trip across the bay one day to check out the naval aviation museum.
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-The kids were into the various Blue Angel planes, but otherwise seemed bored with the place. I thought it was moderately interesting until Corrinne pointed out that all the planes had been sanitized, not a single pin-up, or any nose art at all to be found in the whole place.
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-I asked one of the docents about it and he told me it was done to make the place more family-friendly. Because building a monument to the various ways to kill people from the air is totally family-friendly, but anything hinting at sex, the way, if you recall, you actually get families, is not[^1]. One of the things I hope foreign guidebooks to our strange land prepare visitors for is that sometimes American logic will make your head explode.
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-We beat a haste retreat back across the bay to the beach.
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-I took a break from the brake problem, but of course that didn't mean there was nothing to do on the bus. The awning ratchet broke one afternoon, which I mention mostly because in my quest to find a replacement part I had to visit the worst store ever: Camping World. What a racket. If you can, avoid it. I did manage to get the awning fixed though. Just in time for the wind and rain.
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-The last day we were on the island it suddenly turned quite cold and rained most of the day, but we still managed to get some time in the sand.
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They occur in Australia, Madagascar, New Zealand, South Carolina and here in Florida, more specifically, in Walton County. There were a handful of dune lakes at <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/stone-crabs">Topsail</a> and a couple more at our next destination, Grayton State Park.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-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/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-park_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide.jpg" alt="grayton beach state park, florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-25_142317_grayton-beach-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>These lakes are more than 10,000 years old, and play an important role in making this coastline look the way it looks. Unlike most dunes, these areas have pretty good soil. When it rains hard the lakes fill and the water escapes through what’s known as an outfall, which is where the lake overwhelms the berm that separates it from the sea. When that happens fresh water floods out over the dunes, delivering nutrients, along with plants and animals that would otherwise not be on dunes. </p> -<p>The lakes are also individually disinct, with varying levels of salinity and different specifies of life in each one. Probably the most popular of the lakes, from what I could tell, is here in Grayton, known as Western Lake.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-25_142654_grayton-beach-st-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/2018/2018-03-25_142654_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142654_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142654_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_142654_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grayton beach state park, florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-25_142654_grayton-beach-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We were again, somehow, able to get in on some cancellations and spent four days wandering the lakeside and seashore of Grayton State Park. This time there was no RV Park, no pool and the people were mostly like us. One morning some kids from another site wandered over and started playing with our kids. Eventually the parents came by to check on their children and we got to talking. The mom told me about how she let her son, who was seven, wander wherever he wanted. He’d walked to the beach (about a mile) the day before. </p> -<p>I was impressed because I often feel like we’re the only people who let our kids do that sort of thing. But then the woman expressed my one great fear, that some meddling adult would end up calling the cops or otherwise harrassing our kids about doing their own thing. It’s never actually happened, but I’m constantly worried about it given the average American’s inability to mind their own damn business. Neither of us had any solution, but it was at least comforting to know that other parents have the same concerns. </p> -<p>Eventually the other family had to go (our kids have an unfortunate knack for making friends with kids that are leaving that day). </p> -<p>Not ten minutes later some woman came up to Corrinne talking about some kids she had seen “just walking down by the water” and how “someone should be watching them.” Luckily for that woman she talked to Corrinne who shrugged and politely turned away. I’m not nearly as polite.</p> -<p>Another blog I read regularly writes quite a bit about this meddling phenomena in other contexts and has suggested reviving the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aemays/5547187616/">Anti-Poke-Nose society</a> in response to people who can’t seem to stop from poking their noses in other people’s business. I’d love join. And seriously world, if no one’s bleeding, just stay the hell out of my kids’ business.</p> -<p>Free ranging children wasn’t the only old school thing we did at Grayton. One day we even managed to go super old school and spend all day in the sun, like I did growing up, a good six hours of sunshine, back when we weren’t scared of the sun. We still aren’t. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-24_123953_grayton-beach-st-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/2018/2018-03-24_123953_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-24_123953_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-24_123953_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-24_123953_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grayton beach state park, florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-24_123953_grayton-beach-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There were plenty of sandcastles built, water fights had, and games of freeze tag played. And yes, we all got a little bit of a sunburn, but I’m pretty sure we’ll live. And that night, everyone, even me, was asleep before the sky had even gone dark.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-25_105857_grayton-beach-st-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/2018/2018-03-25_105857_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_105857_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_105857_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-25_105857_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grayton beach state park, florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-25_105857_grayton-beach-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - 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</a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-24_130858_grayton-beach-st-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/2018/2018-03-24_130858_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-24_130858_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-24_130858_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-24_130858_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="grayton beach state park, florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-24_130858_grayton-beach-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-23_151106_grayton-beach-st-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/2018/2018-03-23_151106_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-23_151106_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-23_151106_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-23_151106_grayton-beach-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="stingrays, grayton beach state park, florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-23_151106_grayton-beach-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="If you look closely you can see a couple of the stingrays that cruised up and down the beach all day long."> - </a> -<figcaption>If you look closely you can see a couple of the stingrays that cruised up and down the beach all day long.</figcaption> -</figure> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>Bald Eagle </li> - - <li>Blue Jay </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> - - <li>Eastern Towhee </li> - - <li>Gray Catbird </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/laughing-gull">Laughing Gull</a> </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> - - <li>Ring-billed Gull </li> - - <li>Ruby-crowned Kinglet </li> - - <li>Sanderling </li> - - <li>Snowy Egret </li> - </ul> - - <li class="grouper">Reptiles<ul> - - <li>Blue Tailed Skink </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/2018/03/stone-crabs" rel="prev" title=" Stone Crabs">Stone Crabs</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - 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<span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> - <span class="when">April 09, 2018 at 3:40 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew-</p> -<p>I like that, but it already has a title I like a little bit more.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3154" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Rick McQuiston" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Rick McQuiston</b></span> - <span class="when">April 14, 2018 at 1:56 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I am a resident on Alligator Lake, suburb of Grayton State park. Here is a reply to Athenian Arva Weinstein who sent me the link to Luxagraf:</p> -<p>Interesting is an understatement. Particularly Old School, right here at home.</p> -<p>What a guy! Scott Gilbertson is very much the Renaissance man — photographer, bird watcher, wood-working craftsman, courageous nomad who would travel deserts and mountains in an antique motor home, a father who is not raising PC snowflake snotnoses (free range children). Not to mention, having a fine way with words.</p> -<p>I’ve read much of Luxagraf and intend to read more. Their travels have taken them to many places near and dear to us.</p> -<p>Arva, I’ll bet you have many stories to tell about this guy and his family.</p> -<p>Thanks, bigtime. I will share with many, beginning with friends here on the Emerald Coast, no longer the pristine Redneck Riviera you recall.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3164" 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 18, 2018 at 10:23 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Rick-</p> -<p>Thanks, that’s a nice thing to say. I’m glad you like the site and any friend of Arva’s in a friend of ours.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3370" 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">August 10, 2018 at 3:14 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>We just spent a few days in Panama City Beach. We’d never been to that part of Florida before and wouldn’t stay in Panama City again. I was looking back and reading your posts from that area of Florida. On our last day we drove by Grayton State Park. Looks like a nice area. That’s where we would go if we came back again. We did love seeing the sea life in the Gulf. Your picture here of the stingrays turned out much better than the one I took last week!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3372" 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 10, 2018 at 5:25 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Gwen-</p> -<p>Panama City Beach is the first place I ever went down here, and I went for spring break no less. I think everyone should do it at least once, but yes there are much nicer places. Grayton is nice, but if you come back go to St. George Island over by Apalachicola. That’s the best place on the entire Gulf side of Florida in my experience.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3374" 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">August 11, 2018 at 6:43 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Why do you like St. George the best? How does it compare to Grayton area?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3375" 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 11, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Gwen-</p> -<p>I like it because it’s less developed. St George has very few hotels, half the island is a state park, and there’s just not much out there. I also really like Apalachicola, which is just across the bay. </p> -<p>The whole coastline down there is pretty similar though, there’s not a huge difference between Grayton and anywhere else within 50 miles east and west, at least in terms of the beaches. It’s all about the towns around them, I happen to like Apalachicola a lot more than the rest. 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They occur in Australia, Madagascar, New Zealand, South Carolina and here in Florida, more specifically, in Walton County. There were a handful of dune lakes at [Topsail][1] and a couple more at our next destination, Grayton State Park.
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-These lakes are more than 10,000 years old, and play an important role in making this coastline look the way it looks. Unlike most dunes, these areas have pretty good soil. When it rains hard the lakes fill and the water escapes through what's known as an outfall, which is where the lake overwhelms the berm that separates it from the sea. When that happens fresh water floods out over the dunes, delivering nutrients, along with plants and animals that would otherwise not be on dunes.
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-We were again, somehow, able to get in on some cancellations and spent four days wandering the lakeside and seashore of Grayton State Park. This time there was no RV Park, no pool and the people were mostly like us. One morning some kids from another site wandered over and started playing with our kids. Eventually the parents came by to check on their children and we got to talking. The mom told me about how she let her son, who was seven, wander wherever he wanted. He'd walked to the beach (about a mile) the day before.
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-I was impressed because I often feel like we're the only people who let our kids do that sort of thing. But then the woman expressed my one great fear, that some meddling adult would end up calling the cops or otherwise harrassing our kids about doing their own thing. It's never actually happened, but I'm constantly worried about it given the average American's inability to mind their own damn business. Neither of us had any solution, but it was at least comforting to know that other parents have the same concerns.
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-Eventually the other family had to go (our kids have an unfortunate knack for making friends with kids that are leaving that day).
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-Another blog I read regularly writes quite a bit about this meddling phenomena in other contexts and has suggested reviving the [Anti-Poke-Nose society][2] in response to people who can't seem to stop from poking their noses in other people's business. I'd love join. And seriously world, if no one's bleeding, just stay the hell out of my kids' business.
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-Free ranging children wasn't the only old school thing we did at Grayton. One day we even managed to go super old school and spend all day in the sun, like I did growing up, a good six hours of sunshine, back when we weren't scared of the sun. We still aren't.
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And yes, it really was an RV Resort — full hookups, pool, the whole bit, but inside a state park. It was the strangest campground we’ve been in and not really our scene you could say. When my wife asked if there was a trail to the beach the woman at the counter looked at her like she was crazy and apparently the first person here to contemplate walking a whole mile. There was naturally a road, complete with shuttle, that could take you to beach.</p> -<p>The minute Corrinne said there was a pool I knew I’d never see the beach anyway. For the kids, at this point, white sand beaches happen pretty much all the time, but pools? 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Topsail drew in the snow birds. I lost count of midwestern license plates, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and South Dakota, but those are fulltime people<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. And there were some truly massive rigs, with square footage well over the average Parisian apartment. I’ve nothing against big rigs really, it seems very limiting to me, but hey, to each their own, still, it was odd to be around such mammoth vehicles.</p> -<p>I’m not really sure how we ended up with a spot here in the first place. Corrinne had been refreshing the reservation page the whole time we were at East Bay and finally found something, a cancellation we were able to snatch up for a couple of days.</p> -<p>The pool entertained the kids, and we did make it out the beach one afternoon. We walked. It was a nice beach, though pretty crowded with people and high-rise hotels just down the shore in either direction. But if you stared out at the sea and squinted a bit, it looked more or less like Gulf Islands National Seashore.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-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/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-state-park_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-state-park_picwide.jpg" alt="Pelicans, Topsail State Beach, Florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_152901_topsail-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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<img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152318_topsail-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152318_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152318_topsail-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152318_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Topsail State Beach, Florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_152318_topsail-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/2018/2018-03-21_152414_topsail-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/2018/2018-03-21_152414_topsail-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152414_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152414_topsail-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152414_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Topsail State Beach, Florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_152414_topsail-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/2018/2018-03-21_152256_topsail-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/2018/2018-03-21_152256_topsail-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152256_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152256_topsail-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_152256_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Topsail State Beach, Florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_152256_topsail-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The influx of Northerners and Midwesterns brought a return of what I call the stone-faced walk-by, which I thought we’d left behind in California. </p> -<p>Imagine you’re walking down a trail, or a path, a nice sun-bleached wood plank boardwalk over some dunes say, and someone else is approaching you. Now nearly everywhere I’ve been on this planet, in dozens of cultures, with dozens of language barriers, in nearly every case, everyone at least smiles and maybe attempts to exchange pleasantries, even if the latter are not maybe completely understood. </p> -<p>In parts of America though there’s another approach: the stone-faced walk-by. </p> -<p>In this scenario you not only don’t smile or exchange pleasantries. Instead you don’t acknowledge the other person at all. You completely avoid making eye contact because you’re very concerned about something over… there, anywhere really, except the direction of the approaching person. You find this spot to stare at, like it’s the guiding light that will get you through, past the terror of interacting with other people, without actually interacting, like a child who closes her eyes and momentarily pretends that nothing around her exists. And then you slide on by the other person without acknowledging their existence in any way. </p> -<p>It’s fascinating to watch, bizarre and a little disconcerting to experience. It helps to narrate the whole thing in your head using the voice of David Attenborough. Sometimes I swear you can almost hear the approaching person’s subvocalization: please don’t talk to please don’t talk to me please don’t talk to me.</p> -<p>It’s strange, very strange. But then maybe it’s the place, not the people. I didn’t notice it the time, but I ended up with pictures of the kids looking hilariously (and unintentionally) angsty while playing on the beach. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_150504_topsail-state-park_JgU1k4V.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_150504_topsail-state-park_JgU1k4V_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_150504_topsail-state-park_JgU1k4V_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_150504_topsail-state-park_JgU1k4V_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_150504_topsail-state-park_JgU1k4V_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Topsail State Beach, Florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_150504_topsail-state-park_JgU1k4V.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_150528_topsail-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/2018/2018-03-21_150528_topsail-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_150528_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_150528_topsail-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-21_150528_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Topsail State Beach, Florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-21_150528_topsail-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Different places bring out different things in you. I have a post about that, but that’s for another day. For now I’ll just say that Topsail was an oddball place; we didn’t dislike it exactly, but I think we were all ready to move on when our three nights were up.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-23_062841_topsail-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/2018/2018-03-23_062841_topsail-state-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-23_062841_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-23_062841_topsail-state-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-03-23_062841_topsail-state-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Alban Eilir eggs, Topsail State Beach, Florida photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-03-23_062841_topsail-state-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Equinox eggs"> - </a> -<figcaption>Equinox eggs</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>A lot of full time people make South Dakota their state of residence. Just as Delaware attracts corporations with tax breaks and easy incorporation processes, South Dakota has (purposefully or not, I’m not sure) made it easy to be a resident, and even get mail, without needing to actually be in the state more than once every few years. So when you see an RV with South Dakota plates, chances are, that’s a full timer. <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>Brown Pelican </li> - - <li>Eastern Towhee </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/laughing-gull">Laughing Gull</a> </li> - - <li>Least Tern </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> - - <li>Ring-billed Gull </li> - </ul> - - <li class="grouper">Mammals<ul> - - <li>Eastern gray squirrel </li> - - <li>Cottontail rabbit </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/03/big-rigs">Big Rigs</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/green-sea-days" rel="prev" title=" Green Sea Days">Green Sea Days</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/03/old-school" rel="next" title=" Old School">Old School</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">4 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3118" 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">April 02, 2018 at 1:29 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I have missed seeing y’all’s cute camper when I drive down Holman, but really enjoyed reading about your adventures. If you have a slideshow party (I guess it’d be more of a PowerPoint party?) when you get back, please invite me :) ~Lou</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3126" 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">April 04, 2018 at 8:45 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I’ve spent some time is South Dakota. In the West around Rapid City it’s dominated with Libertarian types. Preppers, tattooed bikers, the modern hippy. On the East near Sioux Falls are the more socially “proper” Red Staters. In between you have Indian Reservations and ranchers. None of these folks like government being in their business, so it makes for a very deregulated state. Nice for RVer’s… could also be a good state of “residence” (as defined by SD law in a very deregulated manner) for travel nurses who like a place which allows for a multi-state RN license without continuing education requirements and no income taxes. If one were so inclined :)</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3127" 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 04, 2018 at 9:51 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@lou-</p> -<p>We’ll be in Athens next month, we’d love to meet up with you at some point. We thought about having some sort of party, I don’t know about a slideshow :-), but a party at least. </p> -<p>So far though we haven’t gone beyond just thinking, oh, hey, that’d be good idea. But if we do get our act together I’ll let you know.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3128" 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 04, 2018 at 9:53 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@classic_liberal-</p> -<p>As much as I will be sorry to no longer officially be a Georgian, it just doesn’t make financial sense for us to have residency anywhere but South Dakota. We’ll probably change it this summer, we’re headed that way anyway.</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="248" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833352" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="1ff72e1190c2c04529b3e411225cf7c580b8c1e3" 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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-As we headed back to the coastline we found ourselves among two peculiar breeds of American tourist, spring break partygoers in rented convertibles and snow birds in massive RVs.
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-To provide maximum contrast between wild and crowded, we headed first to a place called Topsail State Park and RV Resort. And yes, it really was an RV Resort -- full hookups, pool, the whole bit, but inside a state park. It was the strangest campground we've been in and not really our scene you could say. When my wife asked if there was a trail to the beach the woman at the counter looked at her like she was crazy and apparently the first person here to contemplate walking a whole mile. There was naturally a road, complete with shuttle, that could take you to beach.
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-The minute Corrinne said there was a pool I knew I'd never see the beach anyway. For the kids, at this point, white sand beaches happen pretty much all the time, but pools? Pools are exotic and enticing, even when they're the coldest pool any of us had ever set foot in.
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-Topsail certainly isn't a destination for Spring Breakers, though we drove through plenty of that crowd on our way, especially in Destin. Topsail drew in the snow birds. I lost count of midwestern license plates, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and South Dakota, but those are fulltime people[^1]. And there were some truly massive rigs, with square footage well over the average Parisian apartment. I've nothing against big rigs really, it seems very limiting to me, but hey, to each their own, still, it was odd to be around such mammoth vehicles.
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-I'm not really sure how we ended up with a spot here in the first place. Corrinne had been refreshing the reservation page the whole time we were at East Bay and finally found something, a cancellation we were able to snatch up for a couple of days.
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-The pool entertained the kids, and we did make it out the beach one afternoon. We walked. It was a nice beach, though pretty crowded with people and high-rise hotels just down the shore in either direction. But if you stared out at the sea and squinted a bit, it looked more or less like Gulf Islands National Seashore.
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-The influx of Northerners and Midwesterns brought a return of what I call the stone-faced walk-by, which I thought we'd left behind in California.
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-Imagine you're walking down a trail, or a path, a nice sun-bleached wood plank boardwalk over some dunes say, and someone else is approaching you. Now nearly everywhere I've been on this planet, in dozens of cultures, with dozens of language barriers, in nearly every case, everyone at least smiles and maybe attempts to exchange pleasantries, even if the latter are not maybe completely understood.
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-In parts of America though there's another approach: the stone-faced walk-by.
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-In this scenario you not only don't smile or exchange pleasantries. Instead you don't acknowledge the other person at all. You completely avoid making eye contact because you're very concerned about something over... there, anywhere really, except the direction of the approaching person. You find this spot to stare at, like it's the guiding light that will get you through, past the terror of interacting with other people, without actually interacting, like a child who closes her eyes and momentarily pretends that nothing around her exists. And then you slide on by the other person without acknowledging their existence in any way.
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-It's fascinating to watch, bizarre and a little disconcerting to experience. It helps to narrate the whole thing in your head using the voice of David Attenborough. Sometimes I swear you can almost hear the approaching person's subvocalization: please don't talk to please don't talk to me please don't talk to me.
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-It's strange, very strange. But then maybe it's the place, not the people. I didn't notice it the time, but I ended up with pictures of the kids looking hilariously (and unintentionally) angsty while playing on the beach.
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-Different places bring out different things in you. I have a post about that, but that's for another day. For now I'll just say that Topsail was an oddball place; we didn't dislike it exactly, but I think we were all ready to move on when our three nights were up.
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There’s a state park out at the end of the cape with a nice enough campground and by far the nicest beach on this stretch of the Panhandle. 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I don’t know what it is about this stretch of Florida. Maybe it’s me. To me then everything seems just a little bit nicer here, sharper here, clearer here, the sand a little whiter, the sea a little calmer, the sun a little brighter, the bugs a little fewer. Okay that’s a lie. There’s plenty of biting midges here just like the rest of the coast.</p> -<p>Winter seems to have left anyway, finally, a brief rainstorm on our first day giving up a week of perfect 75 and sunny days at the beach. </p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-02_120414__.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/2018/2018-04-02_120414___picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-02_120414___picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-02_120414___picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-02_120414___picwide-med.jpg" alt="St Joseph State Park, Cape San Blas, FL photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-02_120414__.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-02_124324__.jpg" title="view larger image (photo by Corrinne Gilbertson)"> - 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Time is a vast swirling whirlpool, spinning us all around and around, each time a little different than the last, but themes emerge, patterns emerge, events repeat, for us, in the world around us. It’s spring again, the birds are migrating back from the Yucatan and points south, just as they did last year. We’ve returned from our own migration. In couple of months the storms will begin to spin across the ocean, gather speed and rush toward the land. Animals, people, natural systems, everything is moving through cycles that have been repeating endlessly for longer than anyone can calculate. Don’t like where things are today? Wait a week, it’ll all change.</p> -<p>There are cycles within cycles. From Ice Ages to Civilizations, everything rises and fall following roughly the same cyclical trajectories. Travelers rise and fall. 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-After our time [in the forest][1] we headed back down to the coast, picking up the main highway in Port St. Joe before heading out, way out, on to the long peninsula known as Cape San Blas. There's a state park out at the end of the cape with a nice enough campground and by far the nicest beach on this stretch of the Panhandle. It doesn't hurt that it's only a few steps from the campground.
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-This is just around the corner from what I think is still our favorite spot in the Panhandle, St. George Island, Apalachicola Bay. I don't know what it is about this stretch of Florida. Maybe it's me. To me then everything seems just a little bit nicer here, sharper here, clearer here, the sand a little whiter, the sea a little calmer, the sun a little brighter, the bugs a little fewer. Okay that's a lie. There's plenty of biting midges here just like the rest of the coast.
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-Winter seems to have left anyway, finally, a brief rainstorm on our first day giving up a week of perfect 75 and sunny days at the beach.
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-A year later we're very close to right back where we started, which feels natural to me.
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-Everything moves in cycles. Time is a vast swirling whirlpool, spinning us all around and around, each time a little different than the last, but themes emerge, patterns emerge, events repeat, for us, in the world around us. It's spring again, the birds are migrating back from the Yucatan and points south, just as they did last year. We've returned from our own migration. In couple of months the storms will begin to spin across the ocean, gather speed and rush toward the land. Animals, people, natural systems, everything is moving through cycles that have been repeating endlessly for longer than anyone can calculate. Don't like where things are today? Wait a week, it'll all change.
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-There are cycles within cycles. From Ice Ages to Civilizations, everything rises and fall following roughly the same cyclical trajectories. Travelers rise and fall. It's been a year worth of rises and falls, with any luck we'll have a many more years, many more seasons, many more migrations, many more rises and yes, many more falls.
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You’re not very waterproof and sink like a stone, albeit a small one. But over the ocean stopping is not an option, barring a lucky piece of driftwood or a boat. Eventually you’d make it to some Florida barrier island in state roughly similar to what those doomed early polar explorers looked like shortly before they collapsed and died. </p> -<p>But, assuming you make it, you just might find yourself, exhausted and starving, on the shores of St George Island. </p> -<div class="picfull"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-18_121302_st-george-st-park.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/2018/2018-04-18_121302_st-george-st-park_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-18_121302_st-george-st-park_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="Sanderling, St George Island State Park, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-18_121302_st-george-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>St George Island is an important stopover for dozens of species of birds coming up from Cuba, the Yucatan and points well south of there, all the way to central South America in some cases. But of course most of St. George is covered in houses and not a very good place to try to find food. If you’re a bird. Or a person for that matter.</p> -<p>Luckily for the birds, the east end of the island is a state park with a few square miles of land set aside to be something like it was before Europeans arrived, what I imagine the birds, somewhat like the Hopi, refer to as “the previous world”. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_120802_st-george-st-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/2018/2018-04-17_120802_st-george-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_120802_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_120802_st-george-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_120802_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Laughing Gull, St George Island State Park, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_120802_st-george-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-18_122718-1_st-george-st-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/2018/2018-04-18_122718-1_st-george-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-18_122718-1_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-18_122718-1_st-george-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-18_122718-1_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="willet, st george st park, fl photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-18_122718-1_st-george-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_112922_st-george-st-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/2018/2018-04-17_112922_st-george-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_112922_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_112922_st-george-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_112922_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Great Blue Heron, St George state park, fl photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_112922_st-george-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-16_163019_st-george-st-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/2018/2018-04-16_163019_st-george-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-16_163019_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-16_163019_st-george-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-16_163019_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cattle egret, st george st park, fl photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-16_163019_st-george-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Alas we all live in this world, so if you want to see birds, to the state park you go. </p> -<p>And we did. Another short travel day, six miles and we were done, a campsite among the birds. And, as you can see by the list at the bottom of the page, birds there were. And birders there were as well. We weren’t in camp more than hour before a couple different fellow bird watchers stopped by to let us know where the good spots were. I think sometimes birders hesitate to tell us anything because they’re more or less sending small children into the woods, and birds like quiet, whereas small children do not. But at least some of them take the risk, for which I’m thankful.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_115818__.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_115818___pic5.jpg" alt="Hummingbird, St George Island State Park, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_115818__.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_115145__.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_115145___pic5.jpg" alt="campground, st george state park, fl photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_115145__.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_114144_st-george-st-park.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_114144_st-george-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_114144_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_114144_st-george-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-17_114144_st-george-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="St George Island State Park, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-17_114144_st-george-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>I find it a little odd to know that, as I sit comfortably on the beach, sipping ice cold beverages and munching on peanuts and pork skins, somewhere overhead the drama of migration is playing out and tiny little things like Indigo Buntings are completing a journey far more impressive and grand than any I’m likely to undertake<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. </p> -<p>Higher up, above the buntings and warblers there’s even more impressive migrations happening, though many of them are accidental. The sky is full of insects. Spiders in the clouds, insects on the high winds, tons and tons of biomass moving over our heads all the time. All these concurrent lives of which we know almost nothing passing overhead, almost unnoticed save for the moments when you stop and consider them for a moment or two. </p> -<p>Do they consider us from up there, looking down at the strange meaty, fleshy creatures lying in the sand, apparently doing nothing but snacking? Or do they too largely just pass on by, ignoring everything else in their own quest for their version of peanuts and pork skins?</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>Aside from our impressive feats of seafaring, humans are not big travelers, as a species anyway. We got everywhere eventually, a testament to our adaptability, but also something that took a very long time to happen relative to the rest of the animal kingdom. And compared to epic twice yearly migrations of birds, insects, even some mammals, we’re more or less homebodies. <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>Black-and-white Warbler </li> - - <li>Blue-winged Warbler </li> - - <li>Boat-tailed Grackle </li> - - <li>Brown Pelican </li> - - <li>Carolina Wren </li> - - <li>Cattle Egret </li> - - <li>Common Ground-Dove </li> - - <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> - - <li>Eastern Towhee </li> - - <li>Gray Catbird </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li>Great Crested Flycatcher </li> - - <li>Great Egret </li> - - <li>Hooded Warbler </li> - - <li>Indigo Bunting </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/laughing-gull">Laughing Gull</a> </li> - - <li>Least Bittern </li> - - <li>Least Tern </li> - - <li>Mourning Dove </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> - - <li>Osprey </li> - - <li>Palm Warbler </li> - - <li>Pine Warbler </li> - - <li>Ring-billed Gull </li> - - <li>Royal Tern </li> - - <li>Sanderling </li> - - <li>Willet </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - - <aside id="recommended-reading" " > - <h3>Recommended Reading</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/book-notes/the-sibley-guide-to-birds-second-edition"><img src="/media/images//book-covers/sibleys_small.jpg" /></a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/04/st-george" rel="prev" title=" St George">St George</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/04/too-much-sunshine" rel="next" title=" Too Much Sunshine">Too Much Sunshine</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3196" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Rick McQuiston" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Rick McQuiston</b></span> - <span class="when">May 12, 2018 at 3:02 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Good perspective, different perspective.</p> -<p>I’ve had the great pleasure of seeing both the indigo and painted buntings here, where you visited in Old School. That was before we got generally wonderful felines and removed the bird feeders.</p> -<p>Haven’t heard in a while. Are you guys back in Athens?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3199" 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 13, 2018 at 1:12 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@rick-</p> -<p>That’s awesome you’ve had a chance to see painted buntings. Someday I’ll run across then. </p> -<p>And yes, we are in Athens now, saw Arva the other day. 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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-16_154928_st-george-st-park_01.jpg" id="image-1317" class="picfull" />
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-If you were an Indigo bunting and you were down on the west coast of Costa Rica, spending winter where it was nice and warm, and you decided it was time to head north again, you'd first fly across Costa Rica, then Nicaragua, and then perhaps stopover for a bit in Honduras, and then maybe go for the short hop over the water to Cuba, but, to get to the woodlands of the Great Lakes area, which is where all your bunting friends are spending the summer these days, at some point you'd have to head out over the Gulf of Mexico, starting from either Cuba or Honduras.
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-Either way, it's going to be a long flight over water.
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-You are, just for reference, about five inches long, weigh a couple ounces, have a heart about the size of your pinky nail and are about to fly several hundred miles without stopping, day and night. You're not very waterproof and sink like a stone, albeit a small one. But over the ocean stopping is not an option, barring a lucky piece of driftwood or a boat. Eventually you'd make it to some Florida barrier island in state roughly similar to what those doomed early polar explorers looked like shortly before they collapsed and died.
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-But, assuming you make it, you just might find yourself, exhausted and starving, on the shores of St George Island.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-18_121302_st-george-st-park.jpg" id="image-1322" class="picfull" />
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-St George Island is an important stopover for dozens of species of birds coming up from Cuba, the Yucatan and points well south of there, all the way to central South America in some cases. But of course most of St. George is covered in houses and not a very good place to try to find food. If you're a bird. Or a person for that matter.
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-Luckily for the birds, the east end of the island is a state park with a few square miles of land set aside to be something like it was before Europeans arrived, what I imagine the birds, somewhat like the Hopi, refer to as "the previous world".
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-17_120802_st-george-st-park.jpg" id="image-1321" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-18_122718-1_st-george-st-park.jpg" id="image-1323" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-17_112922_st-george-st-park.jpg" id="image-1319" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-16_163019_st-george-st-park.jpg" id="image-1318" class="picwide" />
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-Alas we all live in this world, so if you want to see birds, to the state park you go.
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-And we did. Another short travel day, six miles and we were done, a campsite among the birds. And, as you can see by the list at the bottom of the page, birds there were. And birders there were as well. We weren't in camp more than hour before a couple different fellow bird watchers stopped by to let us know where the good spots were. I think sometimes birders hesitate to tell us anything because they're more or less sending small children into the woods, and birds like quiet, whereas small children do not. But at least some of them take the risk, for which I'm thankful.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-17_115818__.jpg" id="image-1325" class="cluster pic5" />
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-I find it a little odd to know that, as I sit comfortably on the beach, sipping ice cold beverages and munching on peanuts and pork skins, somewhere overhead the drama of migration is playing out and tiny little things like Indigo Buntings are completing a journey far more impressive and grand than any I'm likely to undertake[^1].
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-Higher up, above the buntings and warblers there's even more impressive migrations happening, though many of them are accidental. The sky is full of insects. Spiders in the clouds, insects on the high winds, tons and tons of biomass moving over our heads all the time. All these concurrent lives of which we know almost nothing passing overhead, almost unnoticed save for the moments when you stop and consider them for a moment or two.
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-Do they consider us from up there, looking down at the strange meaty, fleshy creatures lying in the sand, apparently doing nothing but snacking? Or do they too largely just pass on by, ignoring everything else in their own quest for their version of peanuts and pork skins?
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-[^1]: Aside from our impressive feats of seafaring, humans are not big travelers, as a species anyway. We got everywhere eventually, a testament to our adaptability, but also something that took a very long time to happen relative to the rest of the animal kingdom. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-04-12T20:54:50" itemprop="datePublished">April <span>12, 2018</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>Someone who witnessed Corrinne and I trying to figure out what day of the week it was asked if we often forgot what day of the week it is. The answer is yes, yes we do. Often. There’s really no need to know in our lives. We avoid driving on Sundays (fewer auto parts stores and mechanics open), but otherwise dates and days of the week are not real pertinent to our lives. </p> -<p>All which is long-winded way of saying we recently ended up with a night between the end of one reservation and the beginning of another with nowhere to go. We spent it here:</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-05_170032_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-05_170032_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-05_170032_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-05_170032_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-05_170032_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-05_170032_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It was better than it looks. There was a park across the street that kept the kids busy and there’s a marina just behind where I took this picture, which always provides for entertaining characters. We met two brothers who’d been sailing for I don’t know how long, but they grew up on more or less the same street I did and remembered when it was full of boat builders. There wasn’t a boat builder left by the time I was born. </p> -<p>They had stories though, good stories. Most of which I’m not at liberty to repeat here. But if you ever see a couple sun worn men driving a golf cart around Apalachicola, talk to them if you can. And watch out. The one driving is technically blind.</p> -<p>The next day we headed over to St. George Island where we had rented a beach house to meet up with some of Corrinne’s family. The weather did not cooperate, but we still had fun.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-07_071631_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-07_071631_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_071631_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_071631_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_071631_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-07_071631_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The roughest surf I think I've ever seen on St. George."> - </a> -<figcaption>The roughest surf I think I’ve ever seen on St. George.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-10_091526_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-10_091526_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-10_091526_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-10_091526_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-10_091526_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dark storm clouds, St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-10_091526_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-07_071349_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-07_071349_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_071349_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_071349_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_071349_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-07_071349_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We rented the house so there would be room for everyone, but it’s a little odd for us to be anywhere but the bus. Even when we plan it. It was also very strange to spend so much time indoors. I’d never really thought about how much we’re outside until we were inside for a week. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-13_072806_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-13_072806_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-13_072806_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-13_072806_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-13_072806_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Fort, St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-13_072806_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-08_120144_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-08_120144_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-08_120144_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-08_120144_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-08_120144_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ballet, St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-08_120144_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>As soon as Corrinne’s family left it got nice and warm and sunny again, though the wind took a couple more days to die down completely. We managed to get in some beach time anyway.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-19_114728_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-19_114728_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-19_114728_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-19_114728_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-19_114728_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-19_114728_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-13_142633__.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-13_142633___pic5.jpg" alt="St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-13_142633__.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-12_115456__.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-12_115456___pic5.jpg" alt="St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-12_115456__.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-11_114306___rMxnhuN.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-11_114306___rMxnhuN_pic5.jpg" alt="boogie boarding, St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-11_114306___rMxnhuN.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-10_114631__.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-10_114631___pic5.jpg" alt="shaved ice, St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-10_114631__.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-house_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg" alt="Laughing Gull, St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-07_072049_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-11_102037_pink-beach-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/2018/2018-04-11_102037_pink-beach-house_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-11_102037_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-11_102037_pink-beach-house_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-11_102037_pink-beach-house_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Fishing boat, St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-11_102037_pink-beach-house.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Once the wind died down the Gulf went back to being bathtub calm."> - </a> -<figcaption>Once the wind died down the Gulf went back to being bathtub calm.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-09_105231_pink-beach-house_gqx1j52.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-09_105231_pink-beach-house_gqx1j52_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-09_105231_pink-beach-house_gqx1j52_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-09_105231_pink-beach-house_gqx1j52_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-09_105231_pink-beach-house_gqx1j52_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-09_105231_pink-beach-house_gqx1j52.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="We just don't do good group shots."> - </a> -<figcaption>We just don’t do good group shots.</figcaption> -</figure> - 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-It was better than it looks. There was a park across the street that kept the kids busy and there's a marina just behind where I took this picture, which always provides for entertaining characters. We met two brothers who'd been sailing for I don't know how long, but they grew up on more or less the same street I did and remembered when it was full of boat builders. There wasn't a boat builder left by the time I was born.
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-They had stories though, good stories. Most of which I'm not at liberty to repeat here. But if you ever see a couple sun worn men driving a golf cart around Apalachicola, talk to them if you can. And watch out. The one driving is technically blind.
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We always love to meet up with friends, but by this time we’d discovered something interesting about ourselves that we sort of already knew, we don’t particularly like staying outside the bus. </p> -<p>I know most people think we’re crazy for living in such a small space, but for us it’s not even something we think about, it’s home. We’re also used to being outside all the time. And I mean that pretty close to literally. If we’re awake, we’re generally outside, it’s the best thing about the way we live. The thing is, it turns out that even we will stay indoors given the opportunity. Even though we know we’re happier outside. I don’t really have a good explanation or solution, other than having a tiny house. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii_picwide.jpg" alt="St George Island, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>In the end though I know I probably sound like an asshole. Having access to a beach house, as well as an open-ended schedule that allows a more or less unlimited amount of time in this area, and yet deciding that we’ve had enough of the beach isn’t going to endear me to anyone. But there it is.</p> -<p>Sometimes you need a change, no matter how nice it is where you are.</p> -<p>There were also a couple practical considerations that drove us to leave about 10 days before we’d originally planned. </p> -<p>The first was that it’s starting to get hot down here. The second, and far more important reason, is that the bus needs new brakes. I called at least a dozen mechanics between New Orleans and Apalachicola and not one of them was willing or able to do the job.<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> Just outside of Athens, however, there’s a truck mechanic whose been working on m300 series Dodge chassis since they were coming off the factory line. We also have friends and family willing to put us up in Athens, so to Athens we went.</p> -<p>But not before we went to a classic car and boat show over in Apalachicola.</p> -<p>I’m not really much impressed by cars these days, I was in it for the boats. Unfortunately there were only a couple boats, very nice boats, extremely well preserved/made/taken care of, but only three of them. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_083547_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083547_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083547_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083547_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083547_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Classic car and boat show, Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_083547_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_083532_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083532_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083532_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083532_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083532_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Classic car and boat show, Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_083532_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_084038_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_084038_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_084038_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_084038_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_084038_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Classic car and boat show, Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_084038_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There are plenty of people keeping cars alive, but far too few keeping maritime traditions going. Future generations will suffer because we’ve turned our back on the sea as a culture. But so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut would say. </p> -<p>If you want classic boats and maritime history though, Apalachicola has you covered. The Maritime Museum has quite a few restorations and a few more in progress.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_091417_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_091417_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_091417_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_091417_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_091417_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Maritime Museum, Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_091417_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Small wooden boat similar to what would have been used as an oyster boat in these parts, back when the wind was all you had."> - </a> -<figcaption>Small wooden boat similar to what would have been used as an oyster boat in these parts, back when the wind was all you had.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The museum’s current big restoration project is The Golden Ball, a 50 foot wooden sloop, designed by L. Francis Hereschoff and built especially for the west coast of Florida, thanks to its shallow draw (2.5 ft) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeboard">leeboard</a> stabilizing system (controlled with block and tackle, no winches or motors). There’s a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXpUJQhrJM">video on YouTube</a> of her arrival in Apalachicola (on the back of a truck) along with the donor talking a little about the boat.</p> -<p>It’s a far larger boat than I would want — should we ever decide we want a boat — but boy would it be awesome to sail a wooden ship around the world. Nothing says fun like a family struggling to careen a worm-eaten 50-ft wood ship on some south pacific atoll. The family that careens together stays together. Probably not actually. When you come down to it, fiberglass was a pretty brilliant invention, probably up there with the ability to calculate longitude reliable on the things-that-revolutionized-seafaring scale.</p> -<p>Anyway our friends had never really spent any time in Apalachicola so we wandered the town for a bit, walked around the Maritime Museum and docks, along with the old canneries and warehouses that line Water Street. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_083044_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083044_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083044_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083044_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_083044_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_083044_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_093503_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093503_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093503_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093503_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093503_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_093503_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_093647_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093647_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093647_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093647_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093647_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_093647_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Since no one else was interested, I wandered off to stick my head in the tent where the Golden Ball was being restored. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_093605_apalachicola.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093605_apalachicola_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093605_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093605_apalachicola_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-21_093605_apalachicola_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The Golden Ball, Apalachicola, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-21_093605_apalachicola.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There was no one around, it was just a big canvas shed that I guessed was covering a boat. I poked my head in, snapped a few pictures and was getting ready to head off to catch up with everyone else when a voice said, “you can go in”. I turned around and an older gentleman was crossing the street coming toward me. He gestured to the giant tent and said go in. </p> -<p>I said I already had. It’s a beautiful ship I told him. </p> -<p>He said, “thanks, but it still needs a lot of work.”</p> -<p>“True,” I said, “but that’s the fun part.” I told him a little about restoring the bus, far simpler than his project, but the only restoration I’ve ever done. We talked about the beauty of fiberglass over wood and metal when it comes to surviving long-term exposure to the elements. </p> -<p>He looked at me for a bit and then squinted a little and said, “you want to help restore this thing?”</p> -<p>“Absolutely,” I said. Learning wooden ship building is one of those things I’ve always wanted to do, along with welding, sewing, sailing, tracking, hunting, and several dozen other skills I’ve yet to pick up. “The problem is I don’t live around here. Worse than that I don’t really live anywhere.” </p> -<p>“Well, that’s easy to fix.” He smiled, “you need to move here.”</p> -<p>I laughed. “True, that would be the simple solution.” And it’s not often someone more or less offers to teach you wooden ship restoration. It was tempting. The most tempting settle-down-in-one-place offer I’ve had. “Someday we might,” I told him, “we do love Apalachicola, but right now we’re having too much fun on the road. Good luck with her though.”</p> -<p>“Thank you. 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We always love to meet up with friends, but by this time we'd discovered something interesting about ourselves that we sort of already knew, we don't particularly like staying outside the bus.
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-I know most people think we're crazy for living in such a small space, but for us it's not even something we think about, it's home. We're also used to being outside all the time. And I mean that pretty close to literally. If we're awake, we're generally outside, it's the best thing about the way we live. The thing is, it turns out that even we will stay indoors given the opportunity. Even though we know we're happier outside. I don't really have a good explanation or solution, other than having a tiny house.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-22_143546_beach-house-ii.jpg" id="image-1326" class="picwide" />
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-In the end though I know I probably sound like an asshole. Having access to a beach house, as well as an open-ended schedule that allows a more or less unlimited amount of time in this area, and yet deciding that we've had enough of the beach isn't going to endear me to anyone. But there it is.
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-Sometimes you need a change, no matter how nice it is where you are.
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-There were also a couple practical considerations that drove us to leave about 10 days before we'd originally planned.
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-The first was that it's starting to get hot down here. The second, and far more important reason, is that the bus needs new brakes. I called at least a dozen mechanics between New Orleans and Apalachicola and not one of them was willing or able to do the job.[^1] Just outside of Athens, however, there's a truck mechanic whose been working on m300 series Dodge chassis since they were coming off the factory line. We also have friends and family willing to put us up in Athens, so to Athens we went.
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-But not before we went to a classic car and boat show over in Apalachicola.
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-I'm not really much impressed by cars these days, I was in it for the boats. Unfortunately there were only a couple boats, very nice boats, extremely well preserved/made/taken care of, but only three of them.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_083547_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1329" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_083532_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1328" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_084038_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1330" class="picwide" />
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-There are plenty of people keeping cars alive, but far too few keeping maritime traditions going. Future generations will suffer because we've turned our back on the sea as a culture. But so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut would say.
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-If you want classic boats and maritime history though, Apalachicola has you covered. The Maritime Museum has quite a few restorations and a few more in progress.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_091417_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1331" class="picwide caption" />
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-The museum's current big restoration project is The Golden Ball, a 50 foot wooden sloop, designed by L. Francis Hereschoff and built especially for the west coast of Florida, thanks to its shallow draw (2.5 ft) and [leeboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeboard) stabilizing system (controlled with block and tackle, no winches or motors). There's a [video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXpUJQhrJM) of her arrival in Apalachicola (on the back of a truck) along with the donor talking a little about the boat.
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-It's a far larger boat than I would want -- should we ever decide we want a boat -- but boy would it be awesome to sail a wooden ship around the world. Nothing says fun like a family struggling to careen a worm-eaten 50-ft wood ship on some south pacific atoll. The family that careens together stays together. Probably not actually. When you come down to it, fiberglass was a pretty brilliant invention, probably up there with the ability to calculate longitude reliable on the things-that-revolutionized-seafaring scale.
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-Anyway our friends had never really spent any time in Apalachicola so we wandered the town for a bit, walked around the Maritime Museum and docks, along with the old canneries and warehouses that line Water Street.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_083044_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1327" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_093503_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1332" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_093647_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1334" class="picwide" />
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-Since no one else was interested, I wandered off to stick my head in the tent where the Golden Ball was being restored.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-04-21_093605_apalachicola.jpg" id="image-1333" class="picwide" />
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-There was no one around, it was just a big canvas shed that I guessed was covering a boat. I poked my head in, snapped a few pictures and was getting ready to head off to catch up with everyone else when a voice said, "you can go in". I turned around and an older gentleman was crossing the street coming toward me. He gestured to the giant tent and said go in.
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-I said I already had. It's a beautiful ship I told him.
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-He said, "thanks, but it still needs a lot of work."
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-"True," I said, "but that's the fun part." I told him a little about restoring the bus, far simpler than his project, but the only restoration I've ever done. We talked about the beauty of fiberglass over wood and metal when it comes to surviving long-term exposure to the elements.
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-He looked at me for a bit and then squinted a little and said, "you want to help restore this thing?"
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-"Absolutely," I said. Learning wooden ship building is one of those things I've always wanted to do, along with welding, sewing, sailing, tracking, hunting, and several dozen other skills I've yet to pick up. "The problem is I don't live around here. Worse than that I don't really live anywhere."
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-"Well, that's easy to fix." He smiled, "you need to move here."
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-I laughed. "True, that would be the simple solution." And it's not often someone more or less offers to teach you wooden ship restoration. It was tempting. The most tempting settle-down-in-one-place offer I've had. "Someday we might," I told him, "we do love Apalachicola, but right now we're having too much fun on the road. Good luck with her though."
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-"Thank you. And if you ever change your mind, come on down, I'm sure I'll still be here." He smiled.
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-We shook hands and he ducked inside the tent.
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-I set off down the street, walking fast to catch up with the family.
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We hugged the coast for a while before pointing our nose north, toward our former hometown, Athens, GA.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_095547_beach-house-ii.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_095547_beach-house-ii_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_095547_beach-house-ii_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_095547_beach-house-ii_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_095547_beach-house-ii_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Rest area, near carrabelle, FL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_095547_beach-house-ii.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The cars have changed, but otherwise this little rest area near Carrabelle, FL probably didn't look much different when it was built half a century or more ago."> - </a> -<figcaption>The cars have changed, but otherwise this little rest area near Carrabelle, FL probably didn’t look much different when it was built half a century or more ago.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>It was a slow drive, the mushy brakes never far from my mind, which gave things an edge, made it far more interesting than it should have been. But, and I know this sounds crazy, I really don’t use the brakes much in the bus. Take your foot off the gas and 10,000 lbs (or so) will stop pretty damn quickly. That’s no excuse for letting the brakes get as bad as I did, but it might explain how I made it to Athens in one piece.</p> -<p>We stopped overnight at Reed Bingham State Park in south Georgia. It had been several months since we’d driven more than 100 miles in a day and we were out of practice, after driving for two hours, we needed a break. </p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_145319_reed-bingham.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_145319_reed-bingham_pic5.jpg" alt="Reed Bingham State Park, George photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_145319_reed-bingham.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_145431-2_reed-bingham.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_145431-2_reed-bingham_pic5.jpg" alt="Reed Bingham State Park, George photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_145431-2_reed-bingham.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_143704_reed-bingham.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_143704_reed-bingham_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_143704_reed-bingham_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_143704_reed-bingham_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-24_143704_reed-bingham_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Reed Bingham State Park, George photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-24_143704_reed-bingham.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>After a little time on the playground, a good night’s rest in the forest, and a dump of the tanks, we managed to make it the rest of the way to Athens.</p> -<p>We had couple nights in town before I dropped the bus off at the mechanic’s, so I spent the first few days in town frantically trying to get a dozen or so bus projects done. I pulled several panels of wood in the front (the little scoop air vents leak and I’m pretty sure they’ll never stop so I cut new wood and sealed with fiberglass resin, if it’s not waterproof now, it never will be), completely gutted our step area (the porch I call it), ran some new wires for new electrical outlet, repainted the kids’ room in the back, and took care of at least a dozen other little “paper cut” annoyances that needed to be solved.</p> -<p>And then we dropped off the bus at the truck mechanic’s shop and became homeless for about three weeks. It was our longest stretch of homelessness to date, but at least we knew it was coming and we had friends and family to take us in.</p> -<p>We spent a week at my in-laws’, a week with our friends who run <a href="http://www.easternriverexpeditions.com/">Eastern River Expeditions</a> and have a house on the river, a few days in our trusty tent (the guest house, should you meet up with us on the road) and then back to the in-laws, back to our friends’ house, and so on.</p> -<p>Many thanks to everyone who put us up. Somewhere in there we managed to celebrated a birthday, have a mother’s day water balloon fight, and beat the unseasonably warm temps playing in sprinklers.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-28_112128_athens-ga.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_112128_athens-ga_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_112128_athens-ga_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_112128_athens-ga_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_112128_athens-ga_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-28_112128_athens-ga.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-05_105439_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105439_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105439_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105439_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105439_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Water Balloon Fight, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-05_105439_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-05_105441_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105441_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105441_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105441_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105441_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Water Balloon Fight, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-05_105441_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-05_105955_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105955_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105955_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105955_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-05_105955_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Water Balloon Fight, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-05_105955_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_135127_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_135127_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_135127_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_135127_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_135127_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sprinklers, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_135127_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_123308_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_123308_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_123308_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_123308_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_123308_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="River 2, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_123308_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_150105_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_150105_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_150105_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_150105_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_150105_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pirate, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_150105_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_144150_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_144150_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_144150_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_144150_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_144150_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Spaceman, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_144150_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-26_103313_athens-ga.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-26_103313_athens-ga_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-26_103313_athens-ga_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-26_103313_athens-ga_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-26_103313_athens-ga_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-26_103313_athens-ga.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-28_115632_athens-ga.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_115632_athens-ga_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_115632_athens-ga_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_115632_athens-ga_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-04-28_115632_athens-ga_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-04-28_115632_athens-ga.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We also made sure to stick close to a river. We have two friends that live backed up to rivers and Watson Mill State Park has a river running through it as well so we had plenty of water to keep cool in. Lilah and I even managed to catch a small bass and a sunfish of some sort. Neither was any bigger than my hand, but they were the first we’ve managed to land since Texas.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4_picwide.jpg" alt="Sunrise on the river, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-02_051015_athens_MJHGOe4.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_084820-1_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_084820-1_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_084820-1_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_084820-1_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_084820-1_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="River, Watson Mill State Park, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_084820-1_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_085528_athens_Uitqb5t.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_085528_athens_Uitqb5t_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_085528_athens_Uitqb5t_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_085528_athens_Uitqb5t_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-13_085528_athens_Uitqb5t_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tadpoles, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-13_085528_athens_Uitqb5t.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-12_065850-1_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-12_065850-1_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-12_065850-1_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-12_065850-1_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-12_065850-1_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Frog, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-12_065850-1_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="We were in Athens so long the tadpoles above this picture turned into frogs."> - </a> -<figcaption>We were in Athens so long the tadpoles above this picture turned into frogs.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-02_123714_athens.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_123714_athens_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_123714_athens_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_123714_athens_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-02_123714_athens_picwide-med.jpg" alt="rRiver, Athens, GA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-02_123714_athens.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180503_155321420.jpg " title="view larger image"> - 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</a> -</div> - -<p>The bus brakes ended up taking about three weeks. Not because they were that complicated, but because the mechanic is essentially the only truck mechanic around and he’s very, very busy. The brakes turned out to be less complicated, and less expensive than I thought they would be. In the end the main problem was that the rear self adjusting screws froze up. Or rather they got so gunked up they no longer worked. When this happened I’m not sure. I know the rear brakes were smoking coming down the pass into California, but that could have been due to the axle issues. It’s possible, likely even, that we’ve never had rear brakes. That meant the front brakes were the only thing stopping the bus for quite some time, which then wore down those shoes much faster than it should have.</p> -<p>Now that we have new shoes in the front and working adjusters in the back I have a full pedal of brakes and she stops like a nice lightweight sedan.</p> -<p>Three weeks of bouncing between houses and camping, with stuff here, stuff there, projects half finished in three locations, eventually it takes its toll. I can’t tell you what a relief it was to have the bus back, I don’t know about the kids, they seemed more or less fine, but I was approaching desperation by the end of those three weeks. </p> -<p>We got it back on a Monday and for about 48 hours all I did was eat, sleep and work on the bus. I re-installed all the panels, ran new wiring, fixed the dinnette seat cushion, and gave it a good tune up and an oil change. Just for good measure I got some new rear shocks installed on the Volvo and changed its oil too (many thanks to John and Mike for help with the shocks).</p> -<p>We had a perfect weather window lined up for a Monday departure, but then somehow I got talked into staying until Wednesday, which brought plenty of rain. It was, as Snoopy would say, a dark and stormy morning when we finally pulled out of Athens. </p> -<p>It was nice to see our friends and family and spend some quality time with everyone, but if anyone was wondering if we’d decide to move back, uh, yeah, that’d be a very emphatic no. We love the bus and we’re still looking forward to what’s around the next bend.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Robin </li> - - <li>Blue Jay </li> - - <li>Brown-headed Cowbird </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> - - <li>Canada Goose </li> - - <li>Carolina Chickadee </li> - - <li>Chipping Sparrow </li> - - <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> - - <li>Eastern Bluebird </li> - - <li>Eastern Towhee </li> - - <li>Gray Catbird </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li>Hooded Warbler </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> - - <li>Red-bellied Woodpecker </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/summer-tanager">Summer Tanager</a> </li> - - <li>Tufted Titmouse </li> - - <li>Wood Duck </li> - - <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/05/singing-bayou">Singing on the Bayou</a></li> - - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/04/these-old-houses">These Old Houses</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/04/too-much-sunshine" rel="prev" title=" Too Much Sunshine">Too Much Sunshine</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/05/thunder-road" rel="next" title=" Thunder Road">Thunder Road</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3219" 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">May 29, 2018 at 11:05 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Which direction are you headed now? NE for the summer?</p> -<p>We will be in the Glacier area come late July if we happen to cross paths that would be awesome.</p> -<p>Your photography is on point these days. Bravo!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3222" 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 30, 2018 at 11:00 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew-</p> -<p>We really wanted to get up to see y’all, but I didn’t want to push the bus over the mountains. We went west and then up. In central Tenn at the moment. </p> -<p>We’re headed to the great lakes area for the summer, Wisconsin and Michigan UP mostly, then west, Minnesota, Dakotas, etc. No time frame though, I’ll keep you posted.</p> -<p>And thanks, glad you like the photos.</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="256" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833343" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="f1c8a7f2d84b12bdff26d9b75fd43aa8881da56b" 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 hugged the coast for a while before pointing our nose north, toward our former hometown, Athens, GA.
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-It was a slow drive, the mushy brakes never far from my mind, which gave things an edge, made it far more interesting than it should have been. But, and I know this sounds crazy, I really don't use the brakes much in the bus. Take your foot off the gas and 10,000 lbs (or so) will stop pretty damn quickly. That's no excuse for letting the brakes get as bad as I did, but it might explain how I made it to Athens in one piece.
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-We stopped overnight at Reed Bingham State Park in south Georgia. It had been several months since we'd driven more than 100 miles in a day and we were out of practice, after driving for two hours, we needed a break.
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-After a little time on the playground, a good night's rest in the forest, and a dump of the tanks, we managed to make it the rest of the way to Athens.
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-We had couple nights in town before I dropped the bus off at the mechanic's, so I spent the first few days in town frantically trying to get a dozen or so bus projects done. I pulled several panels of wood in the front (the little scoop air vents leak and I'm pretty sure they'll never stop so I cut new wood and sealed with fiberglass resin, if it's not waterproof now, it never will be), completely gutted our step area (the porch I call it), ran some new wires for new electrical outlet, repainted the kids' room in the back, and took care of at least a dozen other little "paper cut" annoyances that needed to be solved.
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-And then we dropped off the bus at the truck mechanic's shop and became homeless for about three weeks. It was our longest stretch of homelessness to date, but at least we knew it was coming and we had friends and family to take us in.
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-We spent a week at my in-laws', a week with our friends who run [Eastern River Expeditions](http://www.easternriverexpeditions.com/) and have a house on the river, a few days in our trusty tent (the guest house, should you meet up with us on the road) and then back to the in-laws, back to our friends' house, and so on.
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-Many thanks to everyone who put us up. Somewhere in there we managed to celebrated a birthday, have a mother's day water balloon fight, and beat the unseasonably warm temps playing in sprinklers.
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-We also made sure to stick close to a river. We have two friends that live backed up to rivers and Watson Mill State Park has a river running through it as well so we had plenty of water to keep cool in. Lilah and I even managed to catch a small bass and a sunfish of some sort. Neither was any bigger than my hand, but they were the first we've managed to land since Texas.
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-The bus brakes ended up taking about three weeks. Not because they were that complicated, but because the mechanic is essentially the only truck mechanic around and he's very, very busy. The brakes turned out to be less complicated, and less expensive than I thought they would be. In the end the main problem was that the rear self adjusting screws froze up. Or rather they got so gunked up they no longer worked. When this happened I'm not sure. I know the rear brakes were smoking coming down the pass into California, but that could have been due to the axle issues. It's possible, likely even, that we've never had rear brakes. That meant the front brakes were the only thing stopping the bus for quite some time, which then wore down those shoes much faster than it should have.
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-Now that we have new shoes in the front and working adjusters in the back I have a full pedal of brakes and she stops like a nice lightweight sedan.
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-Three weeks of bouncing between houses and camping, with stuff here, stuff there, projects half finished in three locations, eventually it takes its toll. I can't tell you what a relief it was to have the bus back, I don't know about the kids, they seemed more or less fine, but I was approaching desperation by the end of those three weeks.
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-We got it back on a Monday and for about 48 hours all I did was eat, sleep and work on the bus. I re-installed all the panels, ran new wiring, fixed the dinnette seat cushion, and gave it a good tune up and an oil change. Just for good measure I got some new rear shocks installed on the Volvo and changed its oil too (many thanks to John and Mike for help with the shocks).
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-We had a perfect weather window lined up for a Monday departure, but then somehow I got talked into staying until Wednesday, which brought plenty of rain. It was, as Snoopy would say, a dark and stormy morning when we finally pulled out of Athens.
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-It was nice to see our friends and family and spend some quality time with everyone, but if anyone was wondering if we'd decide to move back, uh, yeah, that'd be a very emphatic no. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-05-30T14:52:12" itemprop="datePublished">May <span>30, 2018</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 was a line of thunderheads just north of us and another just south, but we managed to slide right through Atlanta with hardly a drop of rain on the windshield. </p> -<p>Sometimes I forget that most people drive cars that allow them to more or less disregard the weather. We don’t. I can drive the bus through a storm, and I have, but if we can avoid it by staying put for a day or leaving a day early, we usually do. When we slide right between two of them, I won’t lie, we feel a little more clever than usual. </p> -<p>We spent our first night back on the road at a small campground somewhere in Alabama. We got up the next day and hit the road early. As is par for the course, we didn’t realize it was Memorial Day until it was really too late to plan for it. Most campgrounds we could find that took reservations were already full. We went with our usual plan, find a campground with no electricity. Take away people’s ability to run the air conditioning and televisions 24/7 and you’re pretty much guaranteed to find an empty campground. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-24_144414-1_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-24_144414-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-24_144414-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-24_144414-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-24_144414-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Natchez Trace Parkway photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-24_144414-1_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>And we did, right in the middle of the Natchez Trace, one of the oldest thoroughfares on the continent. It probably started with big game during the last ice age and then various tribes picked it up as well. By the time Europeans arrived it was pretty much a highway connecting the Choctaw, Natchez and Chickasaw nations. These days it’s a smoothly paved road that doesn’t allow trucks.</p> -<p>The Meriwether Lewis campground is somewhere in the middle, a bit toward Nashville. It’s where the explorer lived and died I believe, though honestly we never made it to the monument. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_072726_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_072726_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_072726_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_072726_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_072726_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_072726_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Definitely the most backwoods rig we've seen. I'd have taken a better picture, but they wanted money for it, which, uh, yeah, no."> - </a> -<figcaption>Definitely the most backwoods rig we’ve seen. I’d have taken a better picture, but they wanted money for it, which, uh, yeah, no.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The campground was one of those head scratchers for me. It’s really nice, up on a ridge in the middle of a mostly beech and oak forest, cool breezes, plenty of shade and pretty level sites, a water spigot, bathrooms with flush toilets, trash pickup and yet totally free. I mean I get it, my tax dollars at work, but why not charge a few bucks to cover some of the costs? Like everyone else, I love free camping, but when something is free I don’t expect luxuries like picnic tables and bathrooms. I expect to not be hassled about where I’m parked and not much else. Amenities and free together doesn’t seem sustainable to me, but then I’ve never been over the Interior Department’s books, so what do I know?</p> -<p>Whatever the case we claimed a spot on Thursday and didn’t leave all through the weekend. Memorial Day, survived. We didn’t get a lot of sun, but we managed. By the time we left nearly a week later our batteries were way lower than you should ever let your batteries get. Somehow though ours keep on going though, sorta.</p> -<p>We sat out some thunderstorms, sweating a bit in the bus. Those gloriously huge windows don’t do you much good with it’s storming too hard to have the awning out. </p> -<p>It wasn’t all rain though, usually just a couple of thundershowers around midday and then it would be overcast, but plenty warm enough to head down to the creek and cool off playing in the water, catching frogs, chasing minnows, throwing rocks. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_131850-1_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_133424_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_133424_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_133424_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_133424_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_133424_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="little swan creek, Meriwether Lewis campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_133424_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_135453_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135453_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135453_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135453_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135453_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="little swan creek, Meriwether Lewis campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_135453_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_135615_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135615_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135615_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135615_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_135615_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="little swan creek, Meriwether Lewis campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_135615_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_141141-1_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_141141-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_141141-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_141141-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-25_141141-1_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="little swan creek, Meriwether Lewis campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-25_141141-1_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We tried to get in the water every day to make sure we got the ticks off us. This part of Tennessee has ticks like nowhere I’ve ever been. Most of them are not deer ticks thankfully, but ticks suck even if they don’t carry some disease.</p> -<p>One afternoon I drove a few miles up the road to dump the tanks at a nearby RV park and couldn’t help noticing how badly rusted our black tank straps had become. It was on my mind because someone in a Facebook group that Corrinne belongs to posted a story about their black tank falling off and smashing all over the ground while they drove through a campground. Awkward. </p> -<p>We already refer to small towns we can’t remember the name of by saying things like, “you know, the one where the fuel line cracked?” or “What was that place, where the rear transmission mount almost fell off?”; “What was that place where you hitchhiked to get a new alternator?” </p> -<p>I really did not want to have one of these that went, “you know, that campground where we dropped the black tank on the ground?” </p> -<p>When I got back from dumping I crawled under the tank with a flashlight to get serious about things and realized that one of our straps was already cracked about halfway through. It is 1969 steel so it probably had some life left in it, but I didn’t want to risk it. </p> -<p>I called a few auto parts stores in the area looking for fuel tank straps, but no one had anything. I ended up driving the Volvo to the nearest good size town, which had a Lowes, and bought some aluminum, some large sheet metal screws and two long drill bit extensions. A couple hours under the black tank and I had a nice new strap in place. The only problem was that when I jacked up the tank to lift it off the old strap, I cracked it. So two days later I was back at the RV park dumped it again, dried the outside and got busy with the fiberglass and resin. Fun times.</p> -<p>Nothing makes a creek bath feel sweet like an afternoon of sweating, fiberglass, and resin. </p> -<p>That night we were sitting around the fire after dinner when a pair of summer tanagers flew right up to us, chatting away as if we didn’t exist. The male sat up in the tree, chirping away, almost like he was giving suggestions to the female that was down on the ground gather sticks and pine needles in her beak. Then they’d fly away and come back a bit later for more. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-27_131014_meriwether-lewis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-27_131014_meriwether-lewis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-27_131014_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-27_131014_meriwether-lewis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-27_131014_meriwether-lewis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Summer Tanager, meriwether lewis campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-27_131014_meriwether-lewis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The whole time they didn’t seem bothered by our presence, even the kids playing quite loudly, at all. It was the start of something of a running theme the last couple weeks in Tennessee — birds just fly right up to us. This morning a hawk landed about 10 feet from us and just sat there on the ground, occasionally looking over at us, but for the most part seemingly unconcerned about our existence.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Crow </li> - - <li>American Robin </li> - - <li>Black Vulture </li> - - <li>Blue Jay </li> - - <li>Brown-headed Cowbird </li> - - <li>Carolina Wren </li> - - <li>Chipping Sparrow </li> - - <li>Eastern Wood-Pewee </li> - - <li>Indigo Bunting </li> - - <li>Mourning Dove </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/scarlet-tanager">Scarlet Tanager</a> </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/summer-tanager">Summer Tanager</a> </li> - - <li>Tufted Titmouse </li> - - <li>White-breasted Nuthatch </li> - </ul> - - <li class="grouper">Mammals<ul> - - <li>Eastern gray squirrel </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/2018/05/keep-on-keeping-on" rel="prev" title=" Keep on Keeping on">Keep on Keeping on</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/06/alberto-and-land-between-lakes" rel="next" title=" Alberto and the Land Between the Lakes">Alberto and the Land Between the Lakes</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">3 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3230" 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 06, 2018 at 1:18 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>David was planning to bike pack the Natchez Trace with a friend this past week, but ended up cancelling….</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3231" 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 06, 2018 at 3:02 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I had my first run in with seed ticks last year. Id say a hundred or so on my torso. I walked out of the woods and my arm was crawling with what I thought were mites. My friend told me differently. I had them embedded in my back and just gave Mia (10 at the time) a knife and told her to scrape them off… “Move the knife up to down, not side to side!” She decided she couldnt do it- so I held the knife and she guided my hand.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3232" 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 06, 2018 at 3:59 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>@Drew-</p> -<p>Ugh, that sounds awful.</p> -<p>Apparently Rose Geranium oil will keep them away, we just got some so I’ll let you know. 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-Sometimes I forget that most people drive cars that allow them to more or less disregard the weather. We don't. I can drive the bus through a storm, and I have, but if we can avoid it by staying put for a day or leaving a day early, we usually do. When we slide right between two of them, I won't lie, we feel a little more clever than usual.
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-We spent our first night back on the road at a small campground somewhere in Alabama. We got up the next day and hit the road early. As is par for the course, we didn't realize it was Memorial Day until it was really too late to plan for it. Most campgrounds we could find that took reservations were already full. We went with our usual plan, find a campground with no electricity. Take away people's ability to run the air conditioning and televisions 24/7 and you're pretty much guaranteed to find an empty campground.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-05-24_144414-1_meriwether-lewis.jpg" id="image-1363" class="picwide" />
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-And we did, right in the middle of the Natchez Trace, one of the oldest thoroughfares on the continent. It probably started with big game during the last ice age and then various tribes picked it up as well. By the time Europeans arrived it was pretty much a highway connecting the Choctaw, Natchez and Chickasaw nations. These days it's a smoothly paved road that doesn't allow trucks.
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-The Meriwether Lewis campground is somewhere in the middle, a bit toward Nashville. It's where the explorer lived and died I believe, though honestly we never made it to the monument.
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-The campground was one of those head scratchers for me. It's really nice, up on a ridge in the middle of a mostly beech and oak forest, cool breezes, plenty of shade and pretty level sites, a water spigot, bathrooms with flush toilets, trash pickup and yet totally free. I mean I get it, my tax dollars at work, but why not charge a few bucks to cover some of the costs? Like everyone else, I love free camping, but when something is free I don't expect luxuries like picnic tables and bathrooms. I expect to not be hassled about where I'm parked and not much else. Amenities and free together doesn't seem sustainable to me, but then I've never been over the Interior Department's books, so what do I know?
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-Whatever the case we claimed a spot on Thursday and didn't leave all through the weekend. Memorial Day, survived. We didn't get a lot of sun, but we managed. By the time we left nearly a week later our batteries were way lower than you should ever let your batteries get. Somehow though ours keep on going though, sorta.
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-We sat out some thunderstorms, sweating a bit in the bus. Those gloriously huge windows don't do you much good with it's storming too hard to have the awning out.
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-It wasn't all rain though, usually just a couple of thundershowers around midday and then it would be overcast, but plenty warm enough to head down to the creek and cool off playing in the water, catching frogs, chasing minnows, throwing rocks.
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-We tried to get in the water every day to make sure we got the ticks off us. This part of Tennessee has ticks like nowhere I've ever been. Most of them are not deer ticks thankfully, but ticks suck even if they don't carry some disease.
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-One afternoon I drove a few miles up the road to dump the tanks at a nearby RV park and couldn't help noticing how badly rusted our black tank straps had become. It was on my mind because someone in a Facebook group that Corrinne belongs to posted a story about their black tank falling off and smashing all over the ground while they drove through a campground. Awkward.
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-We already refer to small towns we can't remember the name of by saying things like, "you know, the one where the fuel line cracked?" or "What was that place, where the rear transmission mount almost fell off?"; "What was that place where you hitchhiked to get a new alternator?"
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-I really did not want to have one of these that went, "you know, that campground where we dropped the black tank on the ground?"
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-When I got back from dumping I crawled under the tank with a flashlight to get serious about things and realized that one of our straps was already cracked about halfway through. It is 1969 steel so it probably had some life left in it, but I didn't want to risk it.
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-I called a few auto parts stores in the area looking for fuel tank straps, but no one had anything. I ended up driving the Volvo to the nearest good size town, which had a Lowes, and bought some aluminum, some large sheet metal screws and two long drill bit extensions. A couple hours under the black tank and I had a nice new strap in place. The only problem was that when I jacked up the tank to lift it off the old strap, I cracked it. So two days later I was back at the RV park dumped it again, dried the outside and got busy with the fiberglass and resin. Fun times.
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-Nothing makes a creek bath feel sweet like an afternoon of sweating, fiberglass, and resin.
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-That night we were sitting around the fire after dinner when a pair of summer tanagers flew right up to us, chatting away as if we didn't exist. The male sat up in the tree, chirping away, almost like he was giving suggestions to the female that was down on the ground gather sticks and pine needles in her beak. Then they'd fly away and come back a bit later for more.
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-The whole time they didn't seem bothered by our presence, even the kids playing quite loudly, at all. It was the start of something of a running theme the last couple weeks in Tennessee -- birds just fly right up to us. This morning a hawk landed about 10 feet from us and just sat there on the ground, occasionally looking over at us, but for the most part seemingly unconcerned about our existence. diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/alberto-and-land-between-lakes.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/alberto-and-land-between-lakes.html deleted file mode 100644 index f466e5a..0000000 --- a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/alberto-and-land-between-lakes.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,547 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html -class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> - -<head> - <title>Alberto And The Land Between The Lakes - by Scott Gilbertson</title> - <meta charset="utf-8"> - <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - <meta name="description" - content="Land between the Lakes is what is says it is: a huge chunk of land wedged between two large reservoirs. 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We spent a couple nights at Mousetail Landing campground, mostly because it was on a ridge, no flooding to worry about. We got there early, barely lunch time. On the way up we passed this sign, which gave me pause.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sign, mousetail landing, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Uh..."> - </a> -<figcaption>Uh…</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>I dropped it in first and we made the top. It was a pretty good grade, but not that bad. We had the campground to ourselves the first night, well most of the night. I took the kids down to the playground for a while before the rain started. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playground, mousetail landings, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The rain kicked in about three that afternoon and didn’t let up for about twelve hours. Luckily we keep plenty of rainy day activities on hand, though no matter how much there is to do eventually patience wears thin.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103637.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180528_103637_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103637.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103625.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180528_103625_pic5.jpg" alt="drawing in the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103625.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -<span class="row-2"> - - -<figure class="pic5"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180529_131902.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180529_131902_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180529_131902.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Rain makes people grumpy."></a> -<figcaption>Rain makes people grumpy.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - -<figure class="pic5"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180530_123814.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180530_123814_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180530_123814.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The first day at the playground the kids discovered tetherball, but Elliott was a little short. The next day he came prepared."></a> -<figcaption>The first day at the playground the kids discovered tetherball, but Elliott was a little short. The next day he came prepared.</figcaption> -</figure> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>At some point in the night ranger had to move Larry, the only other camper around, from the lower campground up to the ridge because the river flooded. We didn’t actually know anything about it until the next morning when we met Larry, but he had a far soggier night than we did. Aside from the front window seals, which have always leaked, there was hardly any water coming in the bus. Which means nothing, but until you remember that it makes you feel good.</p> -<p>The next day was still a soggy, humid one outside. We plugged in the air conditioner and tried to de-humidify and dry things out. We did a little laundry, gave Larry a ride to a grocery store (he was paddling down the Tennessee River and had no ride for a week, and no where to go now the river was way too high to run) and hung out around camp. The next morning we said our goodbyes and continued on to Land Between the Lakes, which is a rarity for American names, it is what it says on the tin.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg" alt="travco, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The fifth Travco we've run across. These are called Travco Esprit, they're sort of the cousin Eddie of the Travco family, but it does says Travco on the back."> - </a> -<figcaption>The fifth Travco we’ve run across. These are called Travco Esprit, they’re sort of the cousin Eddie of the Travco family, but it does says Travco on the back.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Land Between the Lakes is one of the places we run across every so often that draws in semi-permanent residents. You find people well settled for the summer, rigs with full size refrigerators next to them, grills bigger than the one I had at our old house and golf carts, oh the golf carts. </p> -<p>We stick out like sore thumbs at these places, but that’s fine, at this point we’re pretty well used to the attention. I’m not sure it’d feel like camping if half the campground didn’t stop by to say hi and ask about the bus. Meeting new people is why I travel so I like it. Usually. I do wonder about the people who come up to me at the dump station, but otherwise. What interests me about these semi-permanent residents at campgrounds like this is that they’re actually living the way the semi-nomadic people of the world have always lived — winter in something designed for warmth, summer in something with easier access to outside. I often wonder why more of us don’t do that, it’s still fairly common in much of the world.</p> -<p>Land Between the Lakes is what is says it is, a huge chunk of land wedged between two large reservoirs. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Most people seem to come for the fishing and boating. We drove around a bit and more or less felt like we had the place to ourselves. We discovered a road with a bridge that was out, found a herd of buffalo, saw a bright yellow flock of Goldfinches flying through a field of wildflowers that looked like you’d imagine a prairie should look if you didn’t know what a prairie looked like, which I don’t. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_150310.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Buffalo, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_150310.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Somewhere beyond that fence, lost in the grass, are buffalo."> - </a> -<figcaption>Somewhere beyond that fence, lost in the grass, are buffalo.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Then we stopped at the 1850’s era farm that’s been preserved. I find these places somewhat tedious, but Corrinne and the kids love it. I like the history aspect, especially in this case because people are actually still running the farm as it would have been run in the 1850s, in period correct clothing no less. It’s living history, and that’s pretty cool. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Farmhouse, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>That said, it’s probably no surprise that my interests lie with the more nomadic people of history. I like the mystery of people who left only fire rings and animal bones here and there. The sort of people that left archaeological finds that tell little other than the obvious — the ship lost its anchor in this little cove, the hunting party paused for a fire in the shelter of this cave, the hazelnuts were processed at this camp by the river, the clam shells where dumped in a mound here and so on. What these people thought, believed, loved, hated, revered, despised, or just did all day — all lost in the fog of time. </p> -<p>As one of my favorite characters says, referring to her desire to not have a gravestone: “I do not need a marker of my passage, for my creator knows where I am…. I lived a good life, my hair turned to snow, I saw my great grandchildren, I grew my garden. That is all.” </p> -<p>Still, I completely understand why the rest of my family loves to visit places like the farm. It’s a way to step into the past and momentarily feel like you’re part of it. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We’re probably something of a letdown to the re-enactors though. We shuffle into a two room house and they say something to kids along the lines of “can you imagine if you all had to live in something this small?” The kids stare and don’t know what to say and then we explain that we actually live in something smaller right now and that two rooms is fairly palatial by our standards. Then there’s an awkward moment of silence.</p> -<p>And it is interesting to see how the various European immigrants did things a little differently depending on what they were used to back home. But in every case so far, when I see how people chose to live I can’t help sitting there thinking, why…? Why were you fighting against the land? Why spend all this effort reshaping the land to meet your preconceived ideas of what it should be when others had been living off it for millennia working considerably less than the average newly arrived agriculturist? </p> -<p>One thing that becomes apparent quickly when rummaging around in the European immigrant history of America is that only one among millions seems to have ever bothered to find out what the people already living in any area were doing. And for whatever reason those one in a million turn out pretty frequently to be French. The guiding light of settlement in most of the US seems to have been hubris and a misplaced sense of self assuredness. Basically the two American qualities that continue to irritate the rest of the world.</p> -<p>That’s not to say the farm didn’t have its clever ideas, and clever uses of limited resources. It certainly did and I’m glad there are people out there keeping these ideas alive. But it’s sort of funny that many of the things we do for fun — hunting, fishing, hiking/walking, going to picking berries and other fruits, etc — are the things hunting and foraging tribes, well, just do. Something to think about.</p> -<p>Whatever the case, the kids had fun wandering the farm and we happened to be there when they were feeding the animals and putting them in the barns for the night. We watched chickens and ducks get driven into the coop, sheep and pigs fed and led to the barn and we even managed to get let back into the big barns to see the largest mules I’ve ever come across.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161434.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_161434_pic5.jpg" alt="Toys from 1850, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161434.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161118.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_161118_pic5.jpg" alt="Toys from 1850, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161118.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>And of course there was the hawk I mentioned in the last post. It just flew in a hung out one morning. The minute we left Tennessee the birds stopped being so friendly. I have no explanation for that.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Hawk, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>On a totally different note, a couple luxagraf readers have asked where we’re headed this summer. We’re not entirely sure, but the rough plan is to visit Wisconsin, go around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, then back west into Minnesota and the Dakotas, then south through Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and down to either Texas/New Mexico. 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We spent a couple nights at Mousetail Landing campground, mostly because it was on a ridge, no flooding to worry about. We got there early, barely lunch time. On the way up we passed this sign, which gave me pause.
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-I dropped it in first and we made the top. It was a pretty good grade, but not that bad. We had the campground to ourselves the first night, well most of the night. I took the kids down to the playground for a while before the rain started.
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-The rain kicked in about three that afternoon and didn't let up for about twelve hours. Luckily we keep plenty of rainy day activities on hand, though no matter how much there is to do eventually patience wears thin.
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-At some point in the night ranger had to move Larry, the only other camper around, from the lower campground up to the ridge because the river flooded. We didn't actually know anything about it until the next morning when we met Larry, but he had a far soggier night than we did. Aside from the front window seals, which have always leaked, there was hardly any water coming in the bus. Which means nothing, but until you remember that it makes you feel good.
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-The next day was still a soggy, humid one outside. We plugged in the air conditioner and tried to de-humidify and dry things out. We did a little laundry, gave Larry a ride to a grocery store (he was paddling down the Tennessee River and had no ride for a week, and no where to go now the river was way too high to run) and hung out around camp. The next morning we said our goodbyes and continued on to Land Between the Lakes, which is a rarity for American names, it is what it says on the tin.
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-Land Between the Lakes is one of the places we run across every so often that draws in semi-permanent residents. You find people well settled for the summer, rigs with full size refrigerators next to them, grills bigger than the one I had at our old house and golf carts, oh the golf carts.
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-We stick out like sore thumbs at these places, but that's fine, at this point we're pretty well used to the attention. I'm not sure it'd feel like camping if half the campground didn't stop by to say hi and ask about the bus. Meeting new people is why I travel so I like it. Usually. I do wonder about the people who come up to me at the dump station, but otherwise. What interests me about these semi-permanent residents at campgrounds like this is that they're actually living the way the semi-nomadic people of the world have always lived -- winter in something designed for warmth, summer in something with easier access to outside. I often wonder why more of us don't do that, it's still fairly common in much of the world.
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-Land Between the Lakes is what is says it is, a huge chunk of land wedged between two large reservoirs.
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-Most people seem to come for the fishing and boating. We drove around a bit and more or less felt like we had the place to ourselves. We discovered a road with a bridge that was out, found a herd of buffalo, saw a bright yellow flock of Goldfinches flying through a field of wildflowers that looked like you'd imagine a prairie should look if you didn't know what a prairie looked like, which I don't.
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-Then we stopped at the 1850's era farm that's been preserved. I find these places somewhat tedious, but Corrinne and the kids love it. I like the history aspect, especially in this case because people are actually still running the farm as it would have been run in the 1850s, in period correct clothing no less. It's living history, and that's pretty cool.
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-That said, it's probably no surprise that my interests lie with the more nomadic people of history. I like the mystery of people who left only fire rings and animal bones here and there. The sort of people that left archaeological finds that tell little other than the obvious -- the ship lost its anchor in this little cove, the hunting party paused for a fire in the shelter of this cave, the hazelnuts were processed at this camp by the river, the clam shells where dumped in a mound here and so on. What these people thought, believed, loved, hated, revered, despised, or just did all day -- all lost in the fog of time.
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-As one of my favorite characters says, referring to her desire to not have a gravestone: "I do not need a marker of my passage, for my creator knows where I am.... I lived a good life, my hair turned to snow, I saw my great grandchildren, I grew my garden. That is all."
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-Still, I completely understand why the rest of my family loves to visit places like the farm. It's a way to step into the past and momentarily feel like you're part of it.
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-We're probably something of a letdown to the re-enactors though. We shuffle into a two room house and they say something to kids along the lines of "can you imagine if you all had to live in something this small?" The kids stare and don't know what to say and then we explain that we actually live in something smaller right now and that two rooms is fairly palatial by our standards. Then there's an awkward moment of silence.
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-And it is interesting to see how the various European immigrants did things a little differently depending on what they were used to back home. But in every case so far, when I see how people chose to live I can't help sitting there thinking, why...? Why were you fighting against the land? Why spend all this effort reshaping the land to meet your preconceived ideas of what it should be when others had been living off it for millennia working considerably less than the average newly arrived agriculturist?
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-One thing that becomes apparent quickly when rummaging around in the European immigrant history of America is that only one among millions seems to have ever bothered to find out what the people already living in any area were doing. And for whatever reason those one in a million turn out pretty frequently to be French. The guiding light of settlement in most of the US seems to have been hubris and a misplaced sense of self assuredness. Basically the two American qualities that continue to irritate the rest of the world.
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-That's not to say the farm didn't have its clever ideas, and clever uses of limited resources. It certainly did and I'm glad there are people out there keeping these ideas alive. But it's sort of funny that many of the things we do for fun -- hunting, fishing, hiking/walking, going to picking berries and other fruits, etc -- are the things hunting and foraging tribes, well, just do. Something to think about.
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-Whatever the case, the kids had fun wandering the farm and we happened to be there when they were feeding the animals and putting them in the barns for the night. We watched chickens and ducks get driven into the coop, sheep and pigs fed and led to the barn and we even managed to get let back into the big barns to see the largest mules I've ever come across.
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-And of course there was the hawk I mentioned in the last post. It just flew in a hung out one morning. The minute we left Tennessee the birds stopped being so friendly. I have no explanation for that.
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We’re generally okay until about 95 during the day, after that it’s rough without air conditioning in this humidity. There were no electric sites left at the St. Louis campground so we headed north, to a campground just over the river in Illinois. Unfortunately that one turned out to be full, so we pushed on further north and found Beaver Dam State Park.</p> -<p>One of the few guidebook series I actually like is Smithsonian’s various guides to “natural” America<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. The one for Illinois starts off with something to the affect: “Only one state has less public land than Illinois”. I read that back when we were in Athens and I thought, okay, well, how bad can it be really? Turns out… While it does have a few places in the southern part of the state, generally speaking, Illinois got used up before the push for public land preservation of the late 19th century could get much of it set aside. </p> -<p>For the most part, Illinois is a desert of corn.</p> -<p>From researching the seed strains and brands I saw advertised it would seem that the vast majority of the corn is not for food, but goes to the production of ethanol which (unless you’re lucky) ends up in your gas tank. Author and adventurer Craig Childs has an essay about hiking through these lifeless fields of corn in his book, <cite>Apocalyptic Planet</cite>. After two days of hiking in Iowa cornfields the only living things Childs finds, besides himself and corn, are two spiders and a species of fungus.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-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/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Illinois, this is what it looks like. All of it. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Illinois, this is what it looks like. All of it. Seriously."> - </a> -<figcaption>Illinois, this is what it looks like. All of it. Seriously.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Dotted around, almost as if someone salted some green on the map as an afterthought, are little pockets of land generally just large enough for a small lake to draw in fisherman, the bare minimum of forest necessary to grant two hunting permits a year, and a little room left over for a campground. There are generally no other attractions, nothing that warrants a ranger station, nothing that needs a map. At Beaver Dam, if you opt for the back edge of the campground, you’ll have one row of trees and then the endless expanse of cornfields spread out before you.</p> -<p>The kids loved Beaver Dam though, so we stayed a few days. They loved it because it was full of kids. For the first time in quite a while they made new friends. And for the first time they got to run about in a gang of kids, roaming the campground the way we used to roam the neighborhood before everyone got scared of everything and started tracking their kids’ every movement. </p> -<p>The kids would jump up out of bed in the morning and run to the front of the bus and tear down the curtains to see if any of their friends were out riding their bikes yet. We tried to explain to them that most people sleep past six, but they just don’t really have an context to understand that. Once there was someone else up and about they’d take off not to be heard from again until evening, except when they needed snacks. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-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/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beaver Dam State Park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-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/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beaver Dam State Park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Corrinne and I mostly sat around and read, there’s wasn’t anything else to do really. There were a ton of red headed woodpeckers in the campground, probably because it had the only trees for hundreds of miles, so I took probably 200 photos until I got a couple I was happy with..</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-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/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg" alt="Red Headed Woodpecker, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We’d made plans to meet my parents down in the southern part of the state, so after the families went home Sunday afternoon and the kid gang shrank in size to just three, we packed it up and headed south to the auspiciously named Garden of the Gods. No, not the one in Colorado. This one is the limestone remnants of where the Gulf of Mexico’s waters used to lap at the sand.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Garden of the Gods gives something of a glimpse of what the wooded parts of Illinois were probably like hundreds of years ago. There’s a campground up on a ridge overlooking the area, which also manages to catch a little more breeze than most of the surrounding area. There were also some pines and junipers mixed in with the hardwoods, which made it feel more like being in the mountains.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The geology here is such that a lot of iron got mixed into the rock and formed interesting patterns. We hiked around one day, had lunch in the woods and let the kids climb rocks for a while. If you squinted hard enough and ignored the humidity it was almost like our time in Colorado last summer.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The first campsite we had was right next to a pretty good size blackberry patch. They weren’t really ripe, but tart berries you picked yourself still beat ripe ones from the store any day.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Garden of the Gods was the nicest place we saw in Illinois, but it was still brutally hot and humid. Normally I don’t complain about the heat, but here’s the thing, if it’s going to be hot there needs to be a payoff — ancient ruins, beautiful beaches, spectacular deserts, or what have you. Illinois has some trees and lots of biting insects. </p> -<p>So when I found out my parents might not be able to make their trip due to illness anyway, we jumped at the chance to have them reschedule to meet us elsewhere. Fortunately they were able to do it, so while the kids were disappointed they’d have to wait to see their grandparents, we were all thankful to have no reason to stay in Illinois. </p> -<p>Unfortunately, the minute we hit the road north, a heat wave plowed through and send the temps into the triple digits, which made our drives miserable. We somehow traversed the rest of the state in two days, but we finally gave up just outside Chicago where we got a campsite with electricity, cranked the air to high and barricaded ourselves against the heat for a few days.</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>I really wish they also had a series, Guide to Unnatural America. 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We're generally okay until about 95 during the day, after that it's rough without air conditioning in this humidity. There were no electric sites left at the St. Louis campground so we headed north, to a campground just over the river in Illinois. Unfortunately that one turned out to be full, so we pushed on further north and found Beaver Dam State Park.
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-One of the few guidebook series I actually like is Smithsonian's various guides to "natural" America[^1]. The one for Illinois starts off with something to the affect: "Only one state has less public land than Illinois". I read that back when we were in Athens and I thought, okay, well, how bad can it be really? Turns out... While it does have a few places in the southern part of the state, generally speaking, Illinois got used up before the push for public land preservation of the late 19th century could get much of it set aside.
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-For the most part, Illinois is a desert of corn.
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-From researching the seed strains and brands I saw advertised it would seem that the vast majority of the corn is not for food, but goes to the production of ethanol which (unless you're lucky) ends up in your gas tank. Author and adventurer Craig Childs has an essay about hiking through these lifeless fields of corn in his book, <cite>Apocalyptic Planet</cite>. After two days of hiking in Iowa cornfields the only living things Childs finds, besides himself and corn, are two spiders and a species of fungus.
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-Dotted around, almost as if someone salted some green on the map as an afterthought, are little pockets of land generally just large enough for a small lake to draw in fisherman, the bare minimum of forest necessary to grant two hunting permits a year, and a little room left over for a campground. There are generally no other attractions, nothing that warrants a ranger station, nothing that needs a map. At Beaver Dam, if you opt for the back edge of the campground, you'll have one row of trees and then the endless expanse of cornfields spread out before you.
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-The kids loved Beaver Dam though, so we stayed a few days. They loved it because it was full of kids. For the first time in quite a while they made new friends. And for the first time they got to run about in a gang of kids, roaming the campground the way we used to roam the neighborhood before everyone got scared of everything and started tracking their kids' every movement.
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-The kids would jump up out of bed in the morning and run to the front of the bus and tear down the curtains to see if any of their friends were out riding their bikes yet. We tried to explain to them that most people sleep past six, but they just don't really have an context to understand that. Once there was someone else up and about they'd take off not to be heard from again until evening, except when they needed snacks.
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-Corrinne and I mostly sat around and read, there's wasn't anything else to do really. There were a ton of red headed woodpeckers in the campground, probably because it had the only trees for hundreds of miles, so I took probably 200 photos until I got a couple I was happy with..
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-We'd made plans to meet my parents down in the southern part of the state, so after the families went home Sunday afternoon and the kid gang shrank in size to just three, we packed it up and headed south to the auspiciously named Garden of the Gods. No, not the one in Colorado. This one is the limestone remnants of where the Gulf of Mexico's waters used to lap at the sand.
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-Garden of the Gods gives something of a glimpse of what the wooded parts of Illinois were probably like hundreds of years ago. There's a campground up on a ridge overlooking the area, which also manages to catch a little more breeze than most of the surrounding area. There were also some pines and junipers mixed in with the hardwoods, which made it feel more like being in the mountains.
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-The geology here is such that a lot of iron got mixed into the rock and formed interesting patterns. We hiked around one day, had lunch in the woods and let the kids climb rocks for a while. If you squinted hard enough and ignored the humidity it was almost like our time in Colorado last summer.
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-The first campsite we had was right next to a pretty good size blackberry patch. They weren't really ripe, but tart berries you picked yourself still beat ripe ones from the store any day.
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-Garden of the Gods was the nicest place we saw in Illinois, but it was still brutally hot and humid. Normally I don't complain about the heat, but here's the thing, if it's going to be hot there needs to be a payoff -- ancient ruins, beautiful beaches, spectacular deserts, or what have you. Illinois has some trees and lots of biting insects.
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-So when I found out my parents might not be able to make their trip due to illness anyway, we jumped at the chance to have them reschedule to meet us elsewhere. Fortunately they were able to do it, so while the kids were disappointed they'd have to wait to see their grandparents, we were all thankful to have no reason to stay in Illinois.
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-Unfortunately, the minute we hit the road north, a heat wave plowed through and send the temps into the triple digits, which made our drives miserable. We somehow traversed the rest of the state in two days, but we finally gave up just outside Chicago where we got a campsite with electricity, cranked the air to high and barricaded ourselves against the heat for a few days.
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It’s about five miles of abandoned buildings slowly being taken over by vegetation.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The bus, illinois photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="If you ever wondered what the bus would look like from atop a Mississippian mound, now you know."> - </a> -<figcaption>If you ever wondered what the bus would look like from atop a Mississippian mound, now you know.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Cairo, Illinois photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We stopped for one night at the Trail of Tears State Park, which had a campground right on the Mississippi River. We ate an early dinner and spent the evening down by the shore, watching the tugboats pushing their loads up and down the river. I managed to refrain from any <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNMmSbkAG8">Clarke Griswold impersonations</a>.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mississippi river, trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>And there was a train, you can’t go wrong with kids and trains (which fortunately did not go by in the middle of the night, because you can go wrong with grownups and trains).</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train, trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>By the time we made it to St. Louis it was back to being hot and humid, doubly so because it’s a city and cities are always 10 degrees hotter than anything else. </p> -<p>We came to St. Louis pretty much for one reason — the City Museum. Everyone who said we had to go there, and there were half a dozen of you, became real vague when we asked what it was like. And now it’s my turn to be real vague — I can’t really say what the City Museum is exactly.</p> -<p>It’s like <a href="https://www.archdaily.com/519298/happy-birthday-antoni-gaudi">Antoni Gaudí</a> and Jules Verne got together and built an amusement park. </p> -<p>It’s sort of for kids. There are definitely things only kids were small enough to do, but then there’s plenty for adults too, enough that every evening it becomes 18+ and stays open until midnight. Normally I’d say that a picture is worth a thousand words and insert of few here, but it’s also a really difficult place to photograph, it’s massive, full of dark areas with hidden passageways and tunnels. </p> -<p>There’s a bunch of slides and wire scaffolding stretching up about five stories on the outside, with an old fire engine, a wire rocket, an old cutaway airplane and a few other odds and ends mounted near the top. It’s all connected by narrow scaffolds and slides. It’s full of sharp edges, metal stairways and a good old fashioned modicum of danger you don’t usually find in the United States of Safe and Boring. </p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113742_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_113742_st-louis_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113742_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114801.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114801_pic5.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114801.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114908.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114908.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_115038.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_115038_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_115038.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114911.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114911_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114911.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>Then there’s the inside. The City Museum occupies a 13 story building, though only about four of those stories are currently open to the public, others are open, but still in the process of being built. There was even an art gallery of some sort that was blocked off behind drapes and locked doors, no idea if it even had anything to do with the City Museum. It’s a very open space meant for exploring. </p> -<p>The best part of the inside part is a kind of dark, cave-like labyrinth, that extends for at least two, possibly three floors, with connecting tunnels you have to crawl through made of rebar and driftwood, cement, plastic, metal ribs, you name it. They sell knee pads near the ticket windows at the entrance.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_105454.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_105454_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_105454.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130608_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130608_st-louis_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130608_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_125546.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_125546.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Inside is also has these really, really fun spinning top chairs. If we had a house, we'd have one of these."> - </a> -<figcaption>Inside is also has these really, really fun spinning top chairs. If we had a house, we’d have one of these.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Then there’s the roof, which costs a little extra, but is worth it. There’s a full size bus mounted on the corner of the roof, 13 stories up, with a door that opens into a sheer drop off (blocked off, but you can look straight down). The roof also has a Ferris wheel and a giant praying mantis.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picfull-sm.jpg 750w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122922_01.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_122922_01_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122922_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122821_FslAdlr.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_122821_FslAdlr_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122821_FslAdlr.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>The roof is also the place to catch the 10 story high spiral slide. It’s long, but not actually as much fun as some of the other slides, especially the slides so steep you briefly free-fall or the others so narrow you spend your time really hoping you don’t get stuck. </p> -<p>Then there’s also random things, like a 19th century-style natural history specimen collection, a barbecue joint on the patio (it is St. Louis), and a place you can train to be a circus performer. </p> -<p>The City Museum is unlike anywhere I’ve ever been anywhere in the world and it’s pretty damn amazing. If you’re ever in St. Louis you should go, even if you don’t have kids. 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More humid than I've ever experienced, including [Angkor Wat, Cambodia][1]. It put us in the mood for something, well, cooler. Or at least less humid. So we headed to St. Louis. Because we're not that bright.
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-Actually it was strange, we drove north, up through Kentucky, and the minute we crossed the state line the humidity dropped about 50 percent and it was actually tolerable again. I didn't look it up, but I know what [earth.nullschool.net][2] would have told me -- we'd just crossed into a mass of air moving down from the north. It was short-lived, but welcome nonetheless.
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-We stopped off at a mounds site on the way, and went through the somewhat creepy town of [Cairo][4], which has more or less been abandoned. It's about five miles of abandoned buildings slowly being taken over by vegetation.
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-We stopped for one night at the Trail of Tears State Park, which had a campground right on the Mississippi River. We ate an early dinner and spent the evening down by the shore, watching the tugboats pushing their loads up and down the river. I managed to refrain from any [Clarke Griswold impersonations][3].
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-And there was a train, you can't go wrong with kids and trains (which fortunately did not go by in the middle of the night, because you can go wrong with grownups and trains).
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-By the time we made it to St. Louis it was back to being hot and humid, doubly so because it's a city and cities are always 10 degrees hotter than anything else.
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-We came to St. Louis pretty much for one reason -- the City Museum. Everyone who said we had to go there, and there were half a dozen of you, became real vague when we asked what it was like. And now it's my turn to be real vague -- I can't really say what the City Museum is exactly.
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-It's like [Antoni Gaudí][5] and Jules Verne got together and built an amusement park.
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-It's sort of for kids. There are definitely things only kids were small enough to do, but then there's plenty for adults too, enough that every evening it becomes 18+ and stays open until midnight. Normally I'd say that a picture is worth a thousand words and insert of few here, but it's also a really difficult place to photograph, it's massive, full of dark areas with hidden passageways and tunnels.
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-There's a bunch of slides and wire scaffolding stretching up about five stories on the outside, with an old fire engine, a wire rocket, an old cutaway airplane and a few other odds and ends mounted near the top. It's all connected by narrow scaffolds and slides. It's full of sharp edges, metal stairways and a good old fashioned modicum of danger you don't usually find in the United States of Safe and Boring.
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-Then there's the inside. The City Museum occupies a 13 story building, though only about four of those stories are currently open to the public, others are open, but still in the process of being built. There was even an art gallery of some sort that was blocked off behind drapes and locked doors, no idea if it even had anything to do with the City Museum. It's a very open space meant for exploring.
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-The best part of the inside part is a kind of dark, cave-like labyrinth, that extends for at least two, possibly three floors, with connecting tunnels you have to crawl through made of rebar and driftwood, cement, plastic, metal ribs, you name it. They sell knee pads near the ticket windows at the entrance.
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-Then there's the roof, which costs a little extra, but is worth it. There's a full size bus mounted on the corner of the roof, 13 stories up, with a door that opens into a sheer drop off (blocked off, but you can look straight down). The roof also has a Ferris wheel and a giant praying mantis.
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-The roof is also the place to catch the 10 story high spiral slide. It's long, but not actually as much fun as some of the other slides, especially the slides so steep you briefly free-fall or the others so narrow you spend your time really hoping you don't get stuck.
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-Then there's also random things, like a 19th century-style natural history specimen collection, a barbecue joint on the patio (it is St. Louis), and a place you can train to be a circus performer.
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-The City Museum is unlike anywhere I've ever been anywhere in the world and it's pretty damn amazing. If you're ever in St. Louis you should go, even if you don't have kids. Maybe especially if you don't have kids.
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-[1]: https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2006/03/angkor-wat
-[2]: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-92.74,40.99,3000
-[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNMmSbkAG8
-[4]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cairo-illinois
-[5]: https://www.archdaily.com/519298/happy-birthday-antoni-gaudi diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/wisconsin.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/wisconsin.html deleted file mode 100644 index 492d99c..0000000 --- a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/wisconsin.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,491 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html -class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> - -<head> - <title>Wisconsin - by Scott Gilbertson</title> - <meta charset="utf-8"> - <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - <meta name="description" - content="Going from northern Illinois into Wisconsin was the most dramatic climatic and seasonal change we've yet experienced on this trip. One day it was 103 and sunny, the next it was overcast and 60. 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It was partly weather related, but we went from temps of over 100 with 72 percent humidity to 60 degrees and not much humidity at all once the rain stopped. It was a rather amazing and welcome transition.</p> -<p>We stopped at Harrington because it gave reasonably easy access to Milwaukee and because if you run your finger along the edge of Lake Michigan starting at Chicago, it’s the first green spot you hit. The day we arrived it was overcast, cold enough to pull out sweatshirts and pretty much exactly what we were looking for after weeks of sweating through Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois. We ended up staying almost a week.</p> -<p>As soon as we arrived and got settled I took the kids down to see the lake. We are, I think, with one possible exception, water people. Put us on a shoreline and chances are we’ll be happy. There’s one of us that insists the shoreline have salt water, but the rest of us aren’t that picky. By the time we got to the shore of Lake Michigan the storm we’d been just ahead of all day finally caught up. There was a steady drizzle and the wind was blowing hard enough to drive even the kids back the bus in short order.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It wasn’t only the temperature that changed, we reset the seasonal clock by a good month or two as well. Up here wildflowers still carpet the hillsides, trees haven’t been leafed out for very long and the mosquitoes haven’t hit cloud status quite yet. All the song birds are newly arrived too, still setting up house. Yellow Warblers and Cedar Waxwings were busy building nests in the trees and bushes around our site. It was the sort of campsite we haven’t seen since Patrick’s Point, heavy shrubs, most of which looked to be blueberries, or something very similar, about two feet taller than a person and far too thick to see though. The sites themselves were carved out and probably required regular maintenance to stay that way.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Wildflowers, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It was still storming a little the next day so we decided to run our errands in Milwaukee and then we met up with some friends from Athens who recently moved to Milwaukee to take over the Woodland Pattern. We met up with them at Woodland Pattern and then headed out for Thai food. We only spent a few hours in Milwaukee, but we enjoyed it. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Door to nowhere, Milwakee photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Milwaukee has a certain whimsy and chaos to it that reminded me of the old Athens I used to love."> - </a> -<figcaption>Milwaukee has a certain whimsy and chaos to it that reminded me of the old Athens I used to love.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>We ended up hanging around Harrington Beach for a few more days so I could get some work done. I’d work in the mornings and in the afternoon we’d hike or head down to the beach for a swim. We hiked a trail called the Bobolink trail and saw bobolinks, we hiked the White-Tailed trail and saw white-tailed deer. After that I decided I had to go far enough down the birch trail to see a few birch trees. </p> -<div class="cluster" - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150039.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150039.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150117.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150117.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_145656_01.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_145656_01_pic66.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_145656_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_133317.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_133317_pic66.jpg" alt="Birch Trees, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_133317.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Butterfly wings, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>Once the storm that followed us in was gone we had gloriously sunny days, highs in the mid 70s, pretty close to perfect. We ended up spending a lot of time down at the beach. Unlike the first couple of days, once the sun came out we did not have the beach to ourselves.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/pano-lakemichigan.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan Panorama, Harringtion State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/pano-lakemichigan.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Note to self, always put on bathing suits when headed to the water, cold is not going to keep them from getting in."> - </a> -<figcaption>Note to self, always put on bathing suits when headed to the water, cold is not going to keep them from getting in.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing at Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-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/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing at Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_050408.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_050408_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_050408_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_050408_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_050408_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_050408_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_050408_picwide.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_050408.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -<figcaption>image by Corrinne Gilbertson</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_052057.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_052057.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -<figcaption>image by Corrinne Gilbertson</figcaption> -</figure> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - 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-It was still storming a little the next day so we decided to run our errands in Milwaukee and then we met up with some friends from Athens who recently moved to Milwaukee to take over the Woodland Pattern. We met up with them at Woodland Pattern and then headed out for Thai food. We only spent a few hours in Milwaukee, but we enjoyed it.
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The first night we stopped at a place we’d intended to go after Wisconsin, but skipped in favor of Pictured Rocks. And I’m glad we did. It was all right for a night, but there was nothing much to make us linger for longer than that. </p> -<p>There are three basic things our kids can find pretty much anywhere: 1) water the swim in, 2) things to jump off, 3) mud to dig in. Little Bay de Noc had all three.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_131053_little-bay-de-noc.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_131053_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_131053_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_131053_little-bay-de-noc_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_131053_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg" alt="little bay de noc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_131053_little-bay-de-noc.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_132817_little-bay-de-noc.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_132817_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_132817_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_132817_little-bay-de-noc_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_132817_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg" alt="little bay de noc. MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_132817_little-bay-de-noc.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_135446-3_little-bay-de-noc.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_135446-3_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_135446-3_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_135446-3_little-bay-de-noc_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_135446-3_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg" alt="jumping, little bay de noc, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_135446-3_little-bay-de-noc.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It also had something of a rarity in our limited experience up here — west facing beaches with sunsets.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc_picwide.jpg" alt="beach, little bay de noc, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-22_201527_little-bay-de-noc.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The next day we headed north again, toward Lake Superior, but also west, back into Wisconsin. We had another one-night stopover at a place called Imp Lake, which is notable for having a nesting colony of Loons on the island in the middle of it. We were serenaded all afternoon and into the evening, if serenade is the right word for loon calls. I really wanted some of the deeper howls to be wolves, but they weren’t.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_082843_imp-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/2018/2018-07-24_082843_imp-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_082843_imp-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_082843_imp-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_082843_imp-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Imp Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_082843_imp-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_083321_imp-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/2018/2018-07-24_083321_imp-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_083321_imp-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_083321_imp-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_083321_imp-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Imp Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_083321_imp-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Quite a few people have asked if the mosquitoes are bad up here. In general no. At Imp Lake, yes. Bad enough that we didn’t really go out much that night. Which was fine since we got up early and hit the road again the next morning.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_123032_imp-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/2018/2018-07-24_123032_imp-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_123032_imp-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_123032_imp-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_123032_imp-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Imp Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_123032_imp-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="I've never seen toilet paper used in road repair before, but that is indeed toilet paper on top of tar patches. I have no idea why."> - </a> -<figcaption>I’ve never seen toilet paper used in road repair before, but that is indeed toilet paper on top of tar patches. I have no idea why.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>We pulled into Memorial Park in Washburn WI around 2 in the afternoon and grabbed spot. It was something of a change for us. After having been in the woods, largely alone for the better part of six weeks it was odd to be in a campground with neighbors a short distance from our door and downtown Washburn a mere five minute walk away. Luckily this part of Wisconsin is full of friendly people and we enjoyed ourselves in spite of the more crowded campground.</p> -<p>The campground dated from at least the 1930s from what I read on some of the signs scattered around. It had a feel to it that you don’t find much anymore. It still had an old lunch counter stand with these ingenious folding tables and chairs. No one knows who built it, the source of ingenuity is lost to the fog of time, but the lunch stand is still there, though, disappointingly, not in use anymore.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-islands_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg" alt="memorial park, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_165810_apostle-islands.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/2018/2018-07-28_165735_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-28_165735_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165735_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165735_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_165735_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="memorial park, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_165735_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The campground also had the kids of old school playground that was made of metal and tires and wasn’t padded everywhere like some kind of outdoor asylum, which is what the modern plastic playgrounds always remind me of, the sort of you’d find outside Bedlam. Thank you Washburn for resisting, in however small a way, the notion that children should be coddled in padded plastic playgrounds. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playground, memorial park, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg" alt="Playground, memorial park, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We came mainly because it was the closest campground to the Madeline Island ferry, but we were also glad to be back on the shores of Lake Superior. I’ve never seen a shoreline I didn’t like, but, that said, there are certain bodies of water that seem to draw us in more than others and Lake Superior is one of them. Perhaps it’s the clarity, though it’s not nearly as clear over here, or the cold, though it’s not nearly as cold here, or maybe some more vague, impossible to define quality. 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The first night we stopped at a place we'd intended to go after Wisconsin, but skipped in favor of Pictured Rocks. And I'm glad we did. It was all right for a night, but there was nothing much to make us linger for longer than that.
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-There are three basic things our kids can find pretty much anywhere: 1) water the swim in, 2) things to jump off, 3) mud to dig in. Little Bay de Noc had all three.
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-It also had something of a rarity in our limited experience up here -- west facing beaches with sunsets.
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-The next day we headed north again, toward Lake Superior, but also west, back into Wisconsin. We had another one-night stopover at a place called Imp Lake, which is notable for having a nesting colony of Loons on the island in the middle of it. We were serenaded all afternoon and into the evening, if serenade is the right word for loon calls. I really wanted some of the deeper howls to be wolves, but they weren't.
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-Quite a few people have asked if the mosquitoes are bad up here. In general no. At Imp Lake, yes. Bad enough that we didn't really go out much that night. Which was fine since we got up early and hit the road again the next morning.
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-We pulled into Memorial Park in Washburn WI around 2 in the afternoon and grabbed spot. It was something of a change for us. After having been in the woods, largely alone for the better part of six weeks it was odd to be in a campground with neighbors a short distance from our door and downtown Washburn a mere five minute walk away. Luckily this part of Wisconsin is full of friendly people and we enjoyed ourselves in spite of the more crowded campground.
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-The campground dated from at least the 1930s from what I read on some of the signs scattered around. It had a feel to it that you don't find much anymore. It still had an old lunch counter stand with these ingenious folding tables and chairs. No one knows who built it, the source of ingenuity is lost to the fog of time, but the lunch stand is still there, though, disappointingly, not in use anymore.
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-The campground also had the kids of old school playground that was made of metal and tires and wasn't padded everywhere like some kind of outdoor asylum, which is what the modern plastic playgrounds always remind me of, the sort of you'd find outside Bedlam. Thank you Washburn for resisting, in however small a way, the notion that children should be coddled in padded plastic playgrounds.
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-We came mainly because it was the closest campground to the Madeline Island ferry, but we were also glad to be back on the shores of Lake Superior. I've never seen a shoreline I didn't like, but, that said, there are certain bodies of water that seem to draw us in more than others and Lake Superior is one of them. Perhaps it's the clarity, though it's not nearly as clear over here, or the cold, though it's not nearly as cold here, or maybe some more vague, impossible to define quality. Whatever the case, the shores of Lake Superior is our favorite place to be up here. diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/07/house-lake.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/07/house-lake.html deleted file mode 100644 index 77641eb..0000000 --- a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/07/house-lake.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,561 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html -class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> - -<head> - <title>House By The Lake - by Scott Gilbertson</title> - <meta charset="utf-8"> - <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - <meta name="description" - content="On our way southeast to Lake Huron, where we were meeting up with family, we first went northwest. Because that’s how we roll. 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Because that’s how we roll. We wanted to see Whitefish point, which had a lighthouse and shipwreck museum we wanted to see. When we got there no one was into it, so we ended up skipping the indoor stuff to spend some time on the beach. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-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/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg" alt="Whitefish point, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_093421_whitefish-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/2018/2018-07-16_093421_whitefish-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093421_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093421_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093421_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Whitefish point, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_093421_whitefish-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180716_110612.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180716_110612_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180716_110612_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180716_110612_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180716_110612_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Whitefish point, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180716_110612.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Corrinne wandered off in search of rocks, I stayed to keep and eye on the kids, who were amusing themselves climbing up a rock retaining wall, or embankment really, not a wall, then they’d run over to edge and jump or slide down the sandy embankment next to it. The wall was adjacent to a little boardwalk area that you could get a view of the beach without getting any sand on you, something I’ve never really understood, but whatever. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_095011_whitefish-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/2018/2018-07-16_095011_whitefish-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_095011_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_095011_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_095011_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Whitefish point, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_095011_whitefish-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_094935_whitefish-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/2018/2018-07-16_094935_whitefish-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_094935_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_094935_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_094935_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Whitefish point, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_094935_whitefish-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_095029_whitefish-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/2018/2018-07-16_095029_whitefish-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_095029_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_095029_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_095029_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Whitefish point, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_095029_whitefish-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>At one point a family with a couple of kids came out onto the viewing platform and I overheard one of the kids ask their mom what my kids were doing. “It looks like they’re climbing,” she said. But the way she said it, there was such disdain in her voice that made it sound like climbing was the worst thing in the world. </p> -<p>Naturally the little boy instantly said, “I want to climb.” I was thinking, cool, maybe the kids can make a friend. And then the mom said, no, you can’t climb up that you’d hurt yourself. I felt bad for the kid, but what can you do? I wanted to say, let him climb, let him find out what he can and can’t do, let him hurt himself if he needs to, but I didn’t. I sat there and felt bad for the kid. Then his mom added, “you’ll get all dirty.”</p> -<p>That got me to stand up and turn around to see what sort of monster was near me. I have as much patience, and love, for these so-called helicopter parents as I do mosquitoes. Alas you cannot swat the former, so I glanced up and tried to focus on giving them my friendliest smile. It’s not their fault really, this culture handed them a bum deal, made them afraid of everything. But I hate to see them passing it on to the next generation. Sorry kid, better luck next time.</p> -<p>I sat back down and watched my kids climbing, getting dirty and possibly even hurting themselves. Such is life. It got me thinking about an even sadder possibility though. Possibly that parent knew their kids limitations quite well, knew they didn’t have experience climbing sharp, quarried granite rocks, and knew they really would hurt themselves badly. Maybe those parents know their kids aren’t capable of it. That’s even sadder though. Get your kids outside, let them explore and learn for themselves. Let them fall down and get scraped up, that’s how they learn. Pain tells you where the edges are so to speak, that’s where you learn the edge of your current abilities and how to get even better. You fall down, and fall down, and fall down, until eventually you stop falling down.</p> -<p>After we’d had our fill of Whitefish Point we finally headed south toward Huron. It wasn’t a long drive, a little over an hour and we were setting up camp at Carp River, which alas, did not have easy swimming access.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-19_064743_carp-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/2018/2018-07-19_064743_carp-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-19_064743_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-19_064743_carp-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-19_064743_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Carp river campground, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-19_064743_carp-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Instead we headed over to the cottage on the marsh that my parents had rented for the week. The first thing the kids noticed, aside from their grandparents was the spiral staircase. I shudder to think what that lady would have done when confronted with a narrow all metal staircase perfect for climbing. And climb our kids did. Up and down, up and down, up and down. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_135249_carp-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/2018/2018-07-16_135249_carp-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_135249_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_135249_carp-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_135249_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pine river mouth, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_135249_carp-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I retreated to the porch and watched the red winged blackbirds diving in and out of the reeds and cattails. Whenever I see cattail fluff now I always think about how it’s perfect for lining a babies diaper, that was the go-to material for nearly any tribe who had access to it. I grew up by a marsh full of cattails and I’d never even thought of that before. Necessity is the engine of ingenuity.</p> -<p>We spent most of the week playing in and around the house my parents rented. It came, as most everything up here does, with a couple of canoes and kayaks, which we used to explore the river a little bit. Lilah even wanted to paddle on her own, so I dropped off the other kids and let her take me on a little canoe ride. All I did was steer, and even that I only had to do because of the wind. It reminded me of the unfortunate truth of parenting, in a few years they won’t need me around much anymore. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-18_104435_carp-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/2018/2018-07-18_104435_carp-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_104435_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_104435_carp-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_104435_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="paddling canoes, pine river, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-18_104435_carp-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-18_105158_carp-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/2018/2018-07-18_105158_carp-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_105158_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_105158_carp-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_105158_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="paddling canoes, pine river, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-18_105158_carp-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-18_112310_carp-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/2018/2018-07-18_112310_carp-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_112310_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_112310_carp-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-18_112310_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="paddling canoes, pine river, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-18_112310_carp-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I finally gave in and went full tourist and picked up some smoked whitefish and lake trout, all of which turned out to be really damn good. I think we plowed through about four pounds in as many days. It took several more before the smell of smoked fish was completely gone from my fingers.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-20_135628_carp-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/2018/2018-07-20_135628_carp-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-20_135628_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-20_135628_carp-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-20_135628_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Carp river campground, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-20_135628_carp-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-20_134951_carp-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/2018/2018-07-20_134951_carp-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-20_134951_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-20_134951_carp-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-20_134951_carp-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Carp river campground, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-20_134951_carp-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The $20 Sigma 28mm I bought off Ebay turns out to have pretty decent macro capabilities. And the map on this beer eventually led us to the north shore of Lake Superior, how's that for travel research?"> - </a> -<figcaption>The $20 Sigma 28mm I bought off Ebay turns out to have pretty decent macro capabilities. And the map on this beer eventually led us to the north shore of Lake Superior, how’s that for travel research?</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>I took advantage of the grassy field surrounding the rental house to give our solar panels a full day’s sun, something they had not had in nearly a month. I took care of a few bus tasks as well, pulled my spark plugs and check them out, tightened some hose clamps, a few bolts and even pulled apart the wiring to the temperature gauge, which I’d still like to get working. </p> -<p>I figure the gauge consists of three basic parts, the sensor and sending unit, which I can’t get to, if that’s the problem I’m screwed, the wiring, which is horrid and needs to be re-run, and gauge in the dash. Any one, or several of them could be the problem. The easiest place to start is the wiring, so I pulled out a ton of electrical tape (why do people use that stuff?) traced the wire, and realized the metal inside the little covered end that fits onto the sensor is cracked, not connected and may well be the solution to the problem. I made a note to stop in the next auto parts store I see and pick up something similar and see if that fixes the problem. Right when I figured that out though the kids needed me to do something and I went off and promptly forgot all about it until now, when I was looking over my notes and remembered. So still no working gauge, but the next auto parts store I see, I’m going to get that wire, I swear.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180717_163034.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180717_163034_pic66.jpg" alt="dolls photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180717_163034.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180717_162924.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180717_162924_pic66.jpg" alt="dolls photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180717_162924.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - -<figure > - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180717_163312.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180717_163312_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180717_163312_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180717_163312_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180717_163312_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180717_163312.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The closest thing the world has to <em>Birchbark House</em> dolls."></a> -<figcaption>The closest thing the world has to <em>Birchbark House</em> dolls.</figcaption> -</figure> - - -</div> - -<p>There wasn’t much of a swimming beach at the rental house so one day we loaded everyone in the car and headed down the coast to Hessel, which had a little marina and swimming beach (and a wooden boat festival we’d just miss, damn it). We couldn’t leave the shores of Lake Huron without going for a swim. It turned out to be like the middle lake it is — warmer than Superior, colder than Michigan.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Black Duck </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/american-redstart">American Redstart</a> </li> - - <li>Barn Swallow </li> - - <li>Blackburnian Warbler </li> - - <li>Brown Creeper </li> - - <li>Cliff Swallow </li> - - <li>Common Tern </li> - - <li>Hermit Thrush </li> - - <li>Osprey </li> - - <li>Pine Warbler </li> - - <li>Red-breasted Nuthatch </li> - - <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> - - <li>Ring-billed Gull </li> - - <li>Song Sparrow </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/yellow-warbler">Yellow Warbler</a> </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/2018/07/lakeside-park" rel="prev" title=" Lakeside Park">Lakeside Park</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/07/crystal-lake" rel="next" title=" The Crystal Lake">The Crystal Lake</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">3 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3359" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy Wall" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Patsy Wall</b></span> - <span class="when">August 02, 2018 at 9:27 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Love the pictures of the kids playing, and yes climbing and getting dirty. Darn good parenting if ask me. Get them outside let them be little!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3418" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Andre Herrera" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Andre Herrera</b></span> - <span class="when">August 31, 2018 at 9:04 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Your family is so lovely.. and you’re a great story teller! We were your neighbors for a couple of nights while boondocking in the badlands. I wish we would have approached you guys earlier, so we could have shared some stories… Maybe next time we meet along the way. Take care and keep enjoying your journey.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3420" 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 01, 2018 at 8:17 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Patsy-</p> -<p>Thanks, we try to get em out as much as we can.</p> -<p>Andre-</p> -<p>Wish we could have spent more time with you and your family, I followed you on Instagram, we’ll be in Mexico for 6 months, but we’ll be back on the road in March, perhaps our paths will cross again at some point. 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Because that's how we roll. We wanted to see Whitefish point, which had a lighthouse and shipwreck museum we wanted to see. When we got there no one was into it, so we ended up skipping the indoor stuff to spend some time on the beach.
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-Corrinne wandered off in search of rocks, I stayed to keep and eye on the kids, who were amusing themselves climbing up a rock retaining wall, or embankment really, not a wall, then they'd run over to edge and jump or slide down the sandy embankment next to it. The wall was adjacent to a little boardwalk area that you could get a view of the beach without getting any sand on you, something I've never really understood, but whatever.
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-At one point a family with a couple of kids came out onto the viewing platform and I overheard one of the kids ask their mom what my kids were doing. "It looks like they're climbing," she said. But the way she said it, there was such disdain in her voice that made it sound like climbing was the worst thing in the world.
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-Naturally the little boy instantly said, "I want to climb." I was thinking, cool, maybe the kids can make a friend. And then the mom said, no, you can't climb up that you'd hurt yourself. I felt bad for the kid, but what can you do? I wanted to say, let him climb, let him find out what he can and can't do, let him hurt himself if he needs to, but I didn't. I sat there and felt bad for the kid. Then his mom added, "you'll get all dirty."
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-That got me to stand up and turn around to see what sort of monster was near me. I have as much patience, and love, for these so-called helicopter parents as I do mosquitoes. Alas you cannot swat the former, so I glanced up and tried to focus on giving them my friendliest smile. It's not their fault really, this culture handed them a bum deal, made them afraid of everything. But I hate to see them passing it on to the next generation. Sorry kid, better luck next time.
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-I sat back down and watched my kids climbing, getting dirty and possibly even hurting themselves. Such is life. It got me thinking about an even sadder possibility though. Possibly that parent knew their kids limitations quite well, knew they didn't have experience climbing sharp, quarried granite rocks, and knew they really would hurt themselves badly. Maybe those parents know their kids aren't capable of it. That's even sadder though. Get your kids outside, let them explore and learn for themselves. Let them fall down and get scraped up, that's how they learn. Pain tells you where the edges are so to speak, that's where you learn the edge of your current abilities and how to get even better. You fall down, and fall down, and fall down, until eventually you stop falling down.
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-After we'd had our fill of Whitefish Point we finally headed south toward Huron. It wasn't a long drive, a little over an hour and we were setting up camp at Carp River, which alas, did not have easy swimming access.
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-Instead we headed over to the cottage on the marsh that my parents had rented for the week. The first thing the kids noticed, aside from their grandparents was the spiral staircase. I shudder to think what that lady would have done when confronted with a narrow all metal staircase perfect for climbing. And climb our kids did. Up and down, up and down, up and down.
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-I retreated to the porch and watched the red winged blackbirds diving in and out of the reeds and cattails. Whenever I see cattail fluff now I always think about how it's perfect for lining a babies diaper, that was the go-to material for nearly any tribe who had access to it. I grew up by a marsh full of cattails and I'd never even thought of that before. Necessity is the engine of ingenuity.
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-We spent most of the week playing in and around the house my parents rented. It came, as most everything up here does, with a couple of canoes and kayaks, which we used to explore the river a little bit. Lilah even wanted to paddle on her own, so I dropped off the other kids and let her take me on a little canoe ride. All I did was steer, and even that I only had to do because of the wind. It reminded me of the unfortunate truth of parenting, in a few years they won't need me around much anymore.
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-I finally gave in and went full tourist and picked up some smoked whitefish and lake trout, all of which turned out to be really damn good. I think we plowed through about four pounds in as many days. It took several more before the smell of smoked fish was completely gone from my fingers.
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-I took advantage of the grassy field surrounding the rental house to give our solar panels a full day's sun, something they had not had in nearly a month. I took care of a few bus tasks as well, pulled my spark plugs and check them out, tightened some hose clamps, a few bolts and even pulled apart the wiring to the temperature gauge, which I'd still like to get working.
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-I figure the gauge consists of three basic parts, the sensor and sending unit, which I can't get to, if that's the problem I'm screwed, the wiring, which is horrid and needs to be re-run, and gauge in the dash. Any one, or several of them could be the problem. The easiest place to start is the wiring, so I pulled out a ton of electrical tape (why do people use that stuff?) traced the wire, and realized the metal inside the little covered end that fits onto the sensor is cracked, not connected and may well be the solution to the problem. I made a note to stop in the next auto parts store I see and pick up something similar and see if that fixes the problem. Right when I figured that out though the kids needed me to do something and I went off and promptly forgot all about it until now, when I was looking over my notes and remembered. So still no working gauge, but the next auto parts store I see, I'm going to get that wire, I swear.
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-There wasn't much of a swimming beach at the rental house so one day we loaded everyone in the car and headed down the coast to Hessel, which had a little marina and swimming beach (and a wooden boat festival we'd just miss, damn it). We couldn't leave the shores of Lake Huron without going for a swim. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-07-19T12:07:23" itemprop="datePublished">July <span>19, 2018</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--double" itemprop="articleBody"> - <div class="col"> -<p>After the girls’ birthday we had a few extra days before we needed to head south to meet up with my parents. We decided to stick around Andrus Lake a while longer. Who can say no to your own personal beach?</p> - -<p>We spent most of the time enjoying the warm lake water (relative to Superior). It’s not a big lake, it’s not a deep lake, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in character. I don’t think I ever looked out at it and saw the same lake twice.</p> - -<p>Over the course of a full week we saw it choppy, red and frothy in the wind, glassy and mirrored, with morning fog softening the edges, silent and blue in the evenings, and completely obscured in a gray blanket of fog on our one rainy day.</p> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano_picwide.jpg" alt="Andrus Lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-09_141735_andrus-lake-pano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-12_060053_andrus-lake-pano.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-12_060053_andrus-lake-pano_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-12_060053_andrus-lake-pano_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-12_060053_andrus-lake-pano_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-12_060053_andrus-lake-pano_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lakeside camping, andrus lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-12_060053_andrus-lake-pano.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-lake_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg" alt="lakeside camping, andrus lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-10_061327_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_052017_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-14_052017_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_052017_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_052017_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_052017_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="fog, Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_052017_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Most days though, it was sunny and warm, making out little private beach just about perfect.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_144143_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-11_144143_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_144143_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_144143_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_144143_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swimming at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_144143_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-09_150344_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-09_150344_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_150344_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_150344_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_150344_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lakeside camping, andrus lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-09_150344_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_150700_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-11_150700_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_150700_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_150700_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_150700_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swimming at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_150700_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_150839_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-11_150839_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_150839_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_150839_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_150839_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swimming at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_150839_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There was also plenty of time for breaking in the new bikes.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-13_120949_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-13_120949_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-13_120949_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-13_120949_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-13_120949_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="camping, Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-13_120949_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-13_121100_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-13_121100_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-13_121100_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-13_121100_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-13_121100_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="camping, Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-13_121100_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-12_111907_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-12_111907_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-12_111907_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-12_111907_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-12_111907_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="camping, Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-12_111907_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-15_111817_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-15_111817_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-15_111817_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-15_111817_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-15_111817_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="tiny frogs, Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-15_111817_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="All along the shore at our campsite there were tons of tiny little baby frogs."> - </a> -<figcaption>All along the shore at our campsite there were tons of tiny little baby frogs.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>There were a few reasons we came up this way in the first place, one of them was to see a couple sets of friends who’d moved up this way in the past year or so. Another was reason was a book series I’d read to the kids. We picked up a copy of Louise Erdrich’s <cite><a href="https://birchbarkbooks.com/louise-erdrich/the-birchbark-house">The Birchbark House</a></cite> for the kids for Christmas, and they loved it. They obsess over it with the kind of enthusiasm and depth that only children and Shakespearean stage actors have.</p> -<p><cite>The Birchbark House</cite> takes place on Madeline Island and is the story of a young Ojibwe<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> girl living through the changes that happened in this part of the world between roughly 1840-1870. It’s part one of a five book series and we’ve read them all and, by popular demand, are re-reading them currently. So when Corrinne noticed there was an small Ojibwe powwow and re-enactment happening in nearby St. Ignace, we had to go.</p> -<p>The Ojibwa Cultural Center in St Ignace turned out to be a really nice museum, complete with replica birchbark buildings, and the powwow had a bunch of stuff for kids. Ours got to make some necklaces out of beads and sinew and could have done something I couldn’t parse out with porcupine quills. They also got the best face painting they’ve had on this trip.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_105512_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_105512_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_105512_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_105512_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_105512_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ojibwe festival, st ignace, mi photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_105512_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180714_112056.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180714_112056_pic66.jpg" alt="ojibwe festival, st ignace, mi photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180714_112056.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180714_115612.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180714_115612_pic66.jpg" alt="ojibwe festival, st ignace, mi photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180714_115612.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_102141_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_102141_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_102141_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_102141_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_102141_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ojibwe festival, st ignace, mi photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_102141_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>The fascinating part for me was realizing that in the course of reading the five books to the kids I’d picked up about the same amount of Ojibwe as I ever did Thai, Laos or even French. Which is to say that when Ojibwe speakers greeted each other, said thank you, good morning, afternoon, and all the other sorts of small greetings and polite interactions you pick up when you travel in another language, I understood them. It was sort of odd since until that day I’d never knowing met any Ojibwe before in my life.</p> -<p>The re-enactment portion of the festival was less captivating to the kids, but I picked up a bottle of real maple syrup that’s so dark you can’t see through it and tastes like pouring a tree on your pancakes. It has a wonderfully smokey flavor to it and is by far the best maple syrup I’ve ever had (sorry Vermont, previous home of the best maple syrup I’ve ever had). The only problem with it is that it has made all store bought syrup seem like bland sugar water. This bottle isn’t going to last forever and I have no way to get anymore like it. Always buy two.</p> -<p>The Ojibwe powwow itself didn’t get going until midday. We saw what I would call the opening ceremony and then our friends from Traverse City got there and we headed out to walk the streets of St Ignace. It can get pretty warm up here if you don’t have shade — the temperature difference between the sunny and shady side of the street is striking up here. We ducked in an antique store to cool off for a bit, (our friend also collects 78 records and I’m never against looking for used camera lenses. One of these days I’ll find that dusty Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.2 for $50).</p> -<p>After that we decided that we needed to just sit outside in the shade and enjoy the beautiful afternoon, maybe drink a couple of beers while we’re at it. Michigan is noted for its plethora of local of breweries; we’ve been in towns with fewer than a 1000 residents that nevertheless had its own brewery. But in St Ignace the best place we could come up was a restaurant which, if it would throw a few shrimp shell buckets in the center of its table, could easily pass for a Florida seafood shack. Fortunately it had a decent selection of Michigan beers.</p> -<p>It’s strange to sit around “all afternoon” up here, because at 5 o’clock it still looks and feels like it’s about 2 in the afternoon. But it’s not. 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-<p>After the girls' birthday we had a few extra days before we needed to head south to meet up with my parents. We decided to stick around Andrus Lake a while longer. Who can say no to your own personal beach?</p>
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-<p>We spent most of the time enjoying the warm lake water (relative to Superior). It's not a big lake, it's not a deep lake, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in character. I don't think I ever looked out at it and saw the same lake twice.</p>
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-<p>Over the course of a full week we saw it choppy, red and frothy in the wind, glassy and mirrored, with morning fog softening the edges, silent and blue in the evenings, and completely obscured in a gray blanket of fog on our one rainy day.</p>
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-Most days though, it was sunny and warm, making out little private beach just about perfect.
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-There was also plenty of time for breaking in the new bikes.
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-There were a few reasons we came up this way in the first place, one of them was to see a couple sets of friends who'd moved up this way in the past year or so. Another was reason was a book series I'd read to the kids. We picked up a copy of Louise Erdrich's <cite>[The Birchbark House](https://birchbarkbooks.com/louise-erdrich/the-birchbark-house)</cite> for the kids for Christmas, and they loved it. They obsess over it with the kind of enthusiasm and depth that only children and Shakespearean stage actors have.
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-<cite>The Birchbark House</cite> takes place on Madeline Island and is the story of a young Ojibwe[^1] girl living through the changes that happened in this part of the world between roughly 1840-1870. It's part one of a five book series and we've read them all and, by popular demand, are re-reading them currently. So when Corrinne noticed there was an small Ojibwe powwow and re-enactment happening in nearby St. Ignace, we had to go.
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-The Ojibwa Cultural Center in St Ignace turned out to be a really nice museum, complete with replica birchbark buildings, and the powwow had a bunch of stuff for kids. Ours got to make some necklaces out of beads and sinew and could have done something I couldn't parse out with porcupine quills. They also got the best face painting they've had on this trip.
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-The fascinating part for me was realizing that in the course of reading the five books to the kids I'd picked up about the same amount of Ojibwe as I ever did Thai, Laos or even French. Which is to say that when Ojibwe speakers greeted each other, said thank you, good morning, afternoon, and all the other sorts of small greetings and polite interactions you pick up when you travel in another language, I understood them. It was sort of odd since until that day I'd never knowing met any Ojibwe before in my life.
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-The re-enactment portion of the festival was less captivating to the kids, but I picked up a bottle of real maple syrup that's so dark you can't see through it and tastes like pouring a tree on your pancakes. It has a wonderfully smokey flavor to it and is by far the best maple syrup I've ever had (sorry Vermont, previous home of the best maple syrup I've ever had). The only problem with it is that it has made all store bought syrup seem like bland sugar water. This bottle isn't going to last forever and I have no way to get anymore like it. Always buy two.
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-The Ojibwe powwow itself didn't get going until midday. We saw what I would call the opening ceremony and then our friends from Traverse City got there and we headed out to walk the streets of St Ignace. It can get pretty warm up here if you don't have shade -- the temperature difference between the sunny and shady side of the street is striking up here. We ducked in an antique store to cool off for a bit, (our friend also collects 78 records and I'm never against looking for used camera lenses. One of these days I'll find that dusty Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.2 for $50).
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-After that we decided that we needed to just sit outside in the shade and enjoy the beautiful afternoon, maybe drink a couple of beers while we're at it. Michigan is noted for its plethora of local of breweries; we've been in towns with fewer than a 1000 residents that nevertheless had its own brewery. But in St Ignace the best place we could come up was a restaurant which, if it would throw a few shrimp shell buckets in the center of its table, could easily pass for a Florida seafood shack. Fortunately it had a decent selection of Michigan beers.
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-It's strange to sit around "all afternoon" up here, because at 5 o'clock it still looks and feels like it's about 2 in the afternoon. But it's not. And we all had about an hour and half of driving to do, so we said our goodbyes, they gave us a basket of what turned out to be the best cherries we've ever had, and we all hit the road.
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Perfect. We checked the weather and made reservations for the next warm sunny day.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_083442_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_083442_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_083442_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_083442_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_083442_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shipwreck tour, near pictured rocks national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_083442_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="There is no reason for that line behind Corrinne. She just projects that former schoolteacher kind of authority that most people have been conditioned to respond to. So when she stood there, people queued up. Got us the best seats on the boat anyway."> - </a> -<figcaption>There is no reason for that line behind Corrinne. She just projects that former schoolteacher kind of authority that most people have been conditioned to respond to. So when she stood there, people queued up. Got us the best seats on the boat anyway.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Somewhat surprisingly the weather was actually correct and we had sun, blue skies and just enough breeze to keep things from getting too hot.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg" alt="Shipwreck tour, near pictured rocks national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_094628_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_094628_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_094628_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_094628_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_094628_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shipwreck tour, near pictured rocks national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_094628_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>As I’ve written before, I generally eschew guided tours because most of them suck. In this case, however, it did not suck at all. The tour guide knew her stuff and we learned a ton of stuff about Lake Superior navigation and some of its less successful practitioners. The details are mostly unimportant if you’re not actually here, but there’s one important detail that makes this place unique, perhaps in the world — the water temperature.</p> -<p>On average Lake Superior is 42 degrees, the day we were there it was about 55. That makes for cold swims, but it also means that most of the organisms that eat wood don’t live in Superior. That has two major side effects — the water is insanely clear, and wood lasts a really, really long time underwater because there are no organisms the eat. Lake Superior is, I’d guess, one of the very few places in the world in intact wrecks of wooden ships from the mid 19th century. </p> -<p>The first wreck we floated over in the glass bottom boat sunk in 1870 and was almost completely intact until a couple of years ago when one of the harshest winters on record froze the water all the way down to the wreck (7 feet of ice) and snapped off the stern railing.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_093350_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093350_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093350_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093350_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093350_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Glass bottom boat, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_093350_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_093639_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093639_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093639_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093639_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_093639_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Glass bottom boat, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_093639_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Stern of <em>The Bermuda</em>, sunk in 1870"> - </a> -<figcaption>Stern of <em>The Bermuda</em>, sunk in 1870</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_102610.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shipwreck tour, near pictured rocks national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_102610.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - -<figure class="pic5"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_113313.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_113313_pic5.jpg" alt="Shipwreck tour, near pictured rocks national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_113313.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The toilet from the captain's quarters aboard the <em>Herman Hettler</em>, sunk 1926."></a> -<figcaption>The toilet from the captain’s quarters aboard the <em>Herman Hettler</em>, sunk 1926.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_112207.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_112207_pic5.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_112207.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>I found the first wreck to be the most interesting because it was a canal boat, a little reminder reaching across time to remind us that the only renewable kinds of energy on the planet are wind, water and animals. All three would have been used to moved this boat from Superior down to Lake Erie, across that, and then down the Erie canal to New York. Before interstate highways and fossil fuels good moved by water. After interstate highways and fossil fuels are gone I suspect the waterways will return to their former glory and boatmen will once again be able to make a living. We happen to be living in a brief span of history in which we don’t have to navigate rivers.</p> -<p>We didn’t do the tour out to the cliffs that give Pictured Rocks its name, but we did come up alongside some smaller ones that line the coast of Grand Island. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lighthouse, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_104941_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104941_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104941_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104941_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104941_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_104941_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Cottages on Grand Island, still no power, no running water, just like in the good old days."> - </a> -<figcaption>Cottages on Grand Island, still no power, no running water, just like in the good old days.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>One afternoon I took the kids on a hike up through the Sable Dunes, a large dune area that’s about half way to being not dune. Come back in a couple thousand, maybe even a few hundred years and you won’t even notice there are dunes here. Like almost no one notices that the entire midwest is a giant dune, temporary held down by about ten feet of soil. At the moment though there’s still a good bit of sand. </p> -<p>The trail was closed in some fashion, though the only clue at to which parts were closed were some tiny, faded pieces of paper printed out and nailed to trees inside plastic baggies. Apparently, that’s a real thing in Michigan. But closing an area by typing out a physical description is, well, hell if I know where they were talking about. Possibly we walked right through the closed area, possibly we did not. It was a nice hike anyway, and took us about as high above Lake Superior as you can get.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_142814_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_142814_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_142814_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_142814_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_142814_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sand dunes, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_142814_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_145841_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_145841_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_145841_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_145841_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_145841_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_145841_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The last few days we spent down by the lake, where the river comes in. I’ve noticed an increasing number of rock stacks in the world. Up here they’re everywhere, including in the middle of the river where the kids were playing. Apparently people <a href="https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-call-for-an-end-to-cairns-leave-the-stones-alone">like to stack rocks</a>. We like to knock down stacks of rocks. Win-win.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180708_151451461.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180708_151451461_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180708_151451461_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180708_151451461_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180708_151451461_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180708_151451461.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180708_145439412.jpg " title="view larger image"> - 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-As I've written before, I generally eschew guided tours because most of them suck. In this case, however, it did not suck at all. The tour guide knew her stuff and we learned a ton of stuff about Lake Superior navigation and some of its less successful practitioners. The details are mostly unimportant if you're not actually here, but there's one important detail that makes this place unique, perhaps in the world -- the water temperature.
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-On average Lake Superior is 42 degrees, the day we were there it was about 55. That makes for cold swims, but it also means that most of the organisms that eat wood don't live in Superior. That has two major side effects -- the water is insanely clear, and wood lasts a really, really long time underwater because there are no organisms the eat. Lake Superior is, I'd guess, one of the very few places in the world in intact wrecks of wooden ships from the mid 19th century.
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-The first wreck we floated over in the glass bottom boat sunk in 1870 and was almost completely intact until a couple of years ago when one of the harshest winters on record froze the water all the way down to the wreck (7 feet of ice) and snapped off the stern railing.
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-One afternoon I took the kids on a hike up through the Sable Dunes, a large dune area that's about half way to being not dune. Come back in a couple thousand, maybe even a few hundred years and you won't even notice there are dunes here. Like almost no one notices that the entire midwest is a giant dune, temporary held down by about ten feet of soil. At the moment though there's still a good bit of sand.
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-The trail was closed in some fashion, though the only clue at to which parts were closed were some tiny, faded pieces of paper printed out and nailed to trees inside plastic baggies. Apparently, that's a real thing in Michigan. But closing an area by typing out a physical description is, well, hell if I know where they were talking about. Possibly we walked right through the closed area, possibly we did not. It was a nice hike anyway, and took us about as high above Lake Superior as you can get.
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-The last few days we spent down by the lake, where the river comes in. I've noticed an increasing number of rock stacks in the world. Up here they're everywhere, including in the middle of the river where the kids were playing. Apparently people [like to stack rocks][2]. We like to knock down stacks of rocks. Win-win.
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We couldn’t stay in Pictured Rocks anymore, we’d hit our two week limit the day before their birthday. We considered trying to stay anyway, bribe the camp hosts or something. In the end we rolled the dice and drove on east, out to the edge of the upper peninsula hoping that the campground we’d found on the map would have a nice enough spot. </p> -<p>It worked out perfectly. We ended up with a spot off to ourselves, beside a smallish lake, with our own private beach — the perfect place for a sixth birthday party.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-lake_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg" alt="lakeside camping, andrus lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-09_131411_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The kids tend to be up by 6AM these days, but on their birthday it was about 5. Don’t let the light fool you, it’s early. It’s only truly dark up here for about five hours a day. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_045643_6th-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/2018/2018-07-11_045643_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_045643_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_045643_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_045643_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_045643_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_044825_6th-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/2018/2018-07-11_044825_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_044825_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_044825_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_044825_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_044825_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_044854_6th-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/2018/2018-07-11_044854_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_044854_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_044854_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_044854_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_044854_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_045519_6th-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/2018/2018-07-11_045519_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_045519_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_045519_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_045519_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_045519_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>One of the upper peninsula’s endearing charms is its decided lack of consumer stuff. There’s not much in the way of stores. I had to drive almost two hours and very nearly into Canada to find the girls their new bikes.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_055421-2_6th-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/2018/2018-07-11_055421-2_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_055421-2_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_055421-2_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_055421-2_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_055421-2_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Elliott is still at the age where it’s really hard to accept that there’s a birthday and it’s not his. We tried to cheer him up by pointing out that we’ll be in Mexico for his birthday and that in Mexico they have exciting things like piñatas. Of course the minute that came out of my mouth the girls had to have a piñatas. You think it’s hard to find bike in the UP, try finding a piñata. Somehow though Corrinne managed to come up with the perfect tiny piñata for our tiny home.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_103307_6th-birthday.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103307_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103307_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103307_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103307_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pinata, Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_103307_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_103151_6th-birthday.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103151_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103151_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103151_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103151_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pinata, 6th Birthday photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_103151_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_103229_6th-birthday.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103229_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103229_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103229_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_103229_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pinata, Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_103229_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - -<figure class="pic66"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180711_114055.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180711_114055_pic66.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180711_114055.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Pretty sure I have never looked worse than this."></a> -<figcaption>Pretty sure I have never looked worse than this.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180711_113832.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180711_113832_pic66.jpg" alt="Pinata, Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180711_113832.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>We have still never fixed our oven. It can probably be done, but at this point we’ve already adapted. I’m going to be buying a waffle iron in Mexico because Elliott won’t hear of not having waffle cake for his birthday. See what you started Taylor and Beth? Thanks for that.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_130117_6th-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/2018/2018-07-11_130117_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_130117_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_130117_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_130117_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_130117_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_130252_6th-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/2018/2018-07-11_130252_6th-birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_130252_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_130252_6th-birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-11_130252_6th-birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birthday at Andrus Lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-11_130252_6th-birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""Olivia, did you just lick the cake?" 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We couldn't stay in Pictured Rocks anymore, we'd hit our two week limit the day before their birthday. We considered trying to stay anyway, bribe the camp hosts or something. In the end we rolled the dice and drove on east, out to the edge of the upper peninsula hoping that the campground we'd found on the map would have a nice enough spot.
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From down here it’s a confusion of light, color, motion, and shadow. What’s it like up there though? What would it be like to stand among those slender branches that would probably, some of them, support my weight? What kind of perspective on the world would you get up there? </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_141942_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_141942_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_141942_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_141942_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_141942_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_141942_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>People climb trees, adults I mean. Probably kids aren’t allowed to climb trees anymore. But some adults do. There are even groups that get together and go climb trees. So I’ve been told.</p> -<p>John Muir writes about climbing a tree in storm to see what it felt like to be blown around. He climbed a 220 foot sugar pine in a storm. “Climbing these grand trees, especially when they are waving and singing in worship in wind-storms, is a glorious experience,” writes Muir in <cite>The Yosemite</cite>. “Ascending from the lowest branch to the topmost is like stepping up stairs through a blaze of white light, every needle thrilling and shining as if with religious ecstasy.”</p> -<p>I plan to do that some day, but I probably won’t start with 220 foot sugar pines in the midst of a storm. I’ll probably work my way up to tall trees in storms, but I’d like to try it. One of the nice things about this life is that I can lie here in this hammock and stare up at the trees. I can think about climbing them. I can think about other trees, other hammocks. </p> -<p>Last summer, Colorado. A very similar vertical view. This summer it’s birch rather than aspen, jack pine rather than lodgepole and ponderosa, but the overall feel of the place is very similar to Colorado and the vertical view is very close.</p> -<p>A friend of luxagraf, who lives in Iran, but has traveled the desert southwest of the U.S. quite a bit has an interesting article about the <a href="http://newslinemagazine.com/is-it-california-or-is-it-sindh/">visual and ecological similarities</a> between the Sindh desert in Iran (where he lives) and the high desert region of eastern California into western Arizona.</p> -<p>These similarities exist everywhere. I have no doubt that if you beamed me and this hammock into the right elevation of Ural mountains in Russia or the Andes in Peru or the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, I would have a similar view of similar tress. The world is made up of similarities more than differences I find, and I think that’s true whether you speak of ecology, culture, religion or my preferred starting point for philosophical reflections — the vertical view from a hammock.</p> -<p>Significant ecological, cultural and religious differences exist as well. I think to certain extent that’s the part of traveling that I like the best, discovering these similarities and differences and holding them up before you and trying to make sense of them, finding the threads that connect places, the threads that exist only in one place and then weaving them together until in some way your journey makes sense to you. Why does the jack pine thrive here, and lodgepole pine thrive in Colorado? Why is there a massive body of fresh water here and a huge range of mountains there? Why do men and women hold hands here, men and men hold hands in India and no one holds hands in China? Why does the idea of reincarnation thrive in Himachal Pradesh and not here? Why is the arboreal forest that used to be here now over one hundred miles north of here?</p> -<p>It’s wrestling with these things that makes travel interesting to me. Seeing things is part of that, part of finding the unique threads of a place, the threads that bind things but that’s not the end of it by any means. Round the world sailor and author <a href="http://teresacarey.com/">Teresa Carey</a> calls this kind of inquiry “a far greater adventure” than just traveling. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_141004_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_141004_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_141004_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_141004_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_141004_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Laying in the hammock, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_141004_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>If you only have two weeks in a place, I guess I understand that drive to get out there and try to see everything you can. We watch people pulling out every morning to go do things while we’re still cooking breakfast<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. A lot of people seem to go somewhere every morning. But then if your time is limited, you want to see what you came to see, I suppose. I’d still probably spend at least half my time “sitting around” because without the chance to daydream and reflect, to pull it all together what’s the point?</p> -<p>But then we’re fortunate enough to be able to more or less stay anywhere we like as long as we choose. Camping limitations do exist, but otherwise we’re pretty open ended. Consequently we don’t tend to rush out and see everything right away, if we see it at all. For instance, we’ve been in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore for well over a week and haven’t seen the eponymous rocks yet. And I’ll be fine if we never do, that’s not a thread that happens to interest me.</p> -<p>These days I’m content with trees, hammocks (when I get some time in one), sitting here in the forest, watching the wind play in the leaves, the birds sharing food and building nests, the kids digging up earthworms for pets. As more than a few writers have <a href="/books/gathering-moss">demonstrated</a>, you can spend years obsessing over a <a href="/books/the-forest-unseen">single square meter</a> of forest and not exhaust everything it has to teach<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_124025_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_124025_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_124025_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_124025_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_124025_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_124025_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_151224_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_151224_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_151224_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_151224_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_151224_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_151224_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_140218_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_140218_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_140218_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_140218_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-03_140218_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-03_140218_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>At the same time, you can take that too far. We don’t sit around all the time, we don’t refuse to “see the sights”. Some long term travelers I’ve met seem to look down on seeing things, like that’s the status symbol that sets them above the common traveler — they’re too cool to see the sights. I think that’s equally as silly as running around like the proverbial headless chicken trying to see it all. The opposite of one bad idea is often another bad idea. If I no long care what’s around the next bend, over the top of that rise or on the other side of the horizon then I’d stop traveling. There is always a third option; some sitting around, some seeing what’s around the bend. </p> -<p>In our case we walk around quite a bit. I walk slowly, the rest of my family not so much. Sometimes I can convince Lilah to hang back with me though, that makes for nice hikes. The world is more fun when you have someone to share it with.</p> -<p>Here there’s a good 3 mile round trip trail out to a lighthouse. That’s about what Elliott is comfortable doing these days, three to four miles. At the end there was a lighthouse and a few outbuildings connected with the lighthouse. We forgot the money for the tour of the lighthouse, but it seemed closed anyway. We marched right on past and scrambled down some rocks to the lake shore for a little lunch. The sandstone shelf we sat on extended nearly half mile out into the water without getting much more than six feet deep. Hence the need for a lighthouse.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_111802_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_111802_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_111802_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_111802_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_111802_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_111802_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There was a fog bank to the east of the lighthouse that day, a thin layer that obscured all but the top of the dunes just to east of us, dunes that sit some five hundred feet above the lake. The first four hundred feet were hidden by a fog bank that stretched out over the lake and curved back toward the lighthouse, losing density as it neared the point we sat on. We ate our food and watched wisps of wet cloud blow by us and down the coast, seemingly circling back down toward the dunes.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_120330_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120330_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120330_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120330_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120330_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_120330_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_120309_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120309_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120309_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120309_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_120309_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_120309_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It wasn’t particularly warm and only Lilah and I hung around after lunch we finished lunch. We explored the shoreline to the east for a while, looking for interesting signs of life. There weren’t many. Lake Superior is cold, clear, and not exactly teeming with life. I’ve seen a few fish, including a huge trout in very shallow water, and Lilah and I found some curious insects, around the rocks, but for the most part it’s pretty quiet around here, biologically speaking. At least on the water. The water average 42 degrees, there’s just enough life to support a fair number of fish, and the birds that feed on them, but not much more than that.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_153904_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153904_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153904_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153904_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153904_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_153904_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="It's difficult to convey just how absolutely clear the water of Lake Superior is, this is the best I could come up with, that's about six feet deep."> - </a> -<figcaption>It’s difficult to convey just how absolutely clear the water of Lake Superior is, this is the best I could come up with, that’s about six feet deep.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>But what it lacks in life it makes up for in weather. The weather here is the most unusual and dramatically changing weather I’ve ever experienced anywhere on the planet thus far. It’s completely left field. One minute it’s hot, the next it’s cold. And a good percent of the time that’s just barely hyperbolic.</p> -<p>A good bit of my early travels were in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. I’ve backpacked several hundred miles worth of trails and seen a good bit of “interesting weather”. Lightning so close your hair stands up? Check. Hail the size of small oranges? Check. Snow in mid July? Check. Rapid drops in temperature as a storm approaches? Check. Well, maybe not check.</p> -<p>I thought I had experiences some rapid temperature drops, but Lake Superior is a different class with those. One morning, a particularly warm, humid morning, it was 8 AM and the temperature was already climbing steadily. It can get surprisingly hot and muggy around here, and I figured it was going to be a really hot day. But then, about five minutes later the sky was so dark it looked more like night than night, the temperature had dropped well below 55, and the wind was tossing the leafy crowns of the birch trees around like a salad spinner. It was the most complete reversal of weather I’ve ever experienced anywhere in the world. </p> -<p>It was also very localized and didn’t last long. The wind faded quickly and within an hour the nice cool temperatures were gone as if it had never happened. Curiously though, it happened again around 2PM and again around 8PM. My best guess is that somewhere inland it’s heating up enough to pull some air off the middle of the lake and the lake is definitely cold enough to drop the air temp by 30-40 degrees. That particular day the last lake effect cooling timed nicely with bedtime. I still woke up sweating by 1AM, but at least we got to go to bed with a nice cool breeze blowing through.</p> -<p>When it is hot here, and it is more than I expected it would be, especially after our experience in Wisconsin, at least there’s a freezing cold lake to cool off in. And it is cold, cold enough that even the kids haven’t been past their waists. I went under, but it took some effort. Lake Superior is the coldest large body of water I’ve ever swam in. The water temp right now is 55 degrees, but honestly it feels even colder. It’s almost as cold as the Sierra lakes I used to swim in during the early season when there were still fields of snow leading down into them on the north facing slopes. </p> -<p>When its 85-90 out though Superior feels refreshing and nice. At least for a minute or two. Then you get out and the air around you feels insanely humid and hot and you want to slip back into the lake, but then it starts to be too much, you get a sort of pins and needles sensation in your feet after a while. So you climb out, sit on the rocks, and play with the kids until you get hot enough that you want to try getting back in the lake again.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_135811_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_135811_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_135811_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_135811_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_135811_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_135811_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_153851_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153851_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153851_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153851_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-27_153851_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-27_153851_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The second time we went down to the shore line to beat the heat we learned something else about the wind in these parts. When it blows onshore it keeps the black flies at bay. When it blows offshore, look out. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing in Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing in Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>For whatever reason I have no problem with mosquitoes. Some recently asked what we do about mosquitoes and I told them we have Thermacell, which works well enough, and we use it during the times of day the mozzies are really bad, but the rest of the time, honestly, I don’t bother much. They bite me. I swat them when it hurts, and if I’m in malaria/dengue/etc areas I take mosquitoes more seriously, but mosquitoes are supposed to bite, that’s what they do. </p> -<p>Where I come from though flies are completely benign, perhaps that’s why biting flies bother me. It seems extra cruel to take an ubiquitous and already fairly annoying creature and then make it capable of a painful bite. Screw that. I hate black flies. But then I hate when black flies drive me away from something I want to do, so I tend to stick it out until they get real bad. If you keep moving they don’t bother you as much, so we spent most of our beach time walking, climbing rocks, looking for agates, good skipping rocks, gnarled driftwood, birds, fish and whatever else captures out attention.</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>Not that we’re late risers, by the time we make breakfast I’ve usually been out birding, meditated and drank my way through at least two moka pots worth of coffee and Corrinne has generally walked 5 miles or so. <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>This is, to me, the best argument against traveling — it doesn’t allow for the sort of depth of study, be it ecological, cultural, whatever, that’s possible when you stay in one place. For me though, staying in one place leads to complacency, less awareness and a tendency to take the world for granted. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p> -</li> -</ol> -</div> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/american-redstart">American Redstart</a> </li> - - <li>American Robin </li> - - <li>Black-and-white Warbler </li> - - <li>Blackburnian Warbler </li> - - <li>Black-throated Green Warbler </li> - - <li>Cedar Waxwing </li> - - <li>Common Raven </li> - - <li>Golden-crowned Kinglet </li> - - <li>House Wren </li> - - <li>Red-eyed Vireo </li> - - <li>Sandhill Crane </li> - - <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/07/travcos">Travcos of the UP</a></li> - - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/07/forest-service">The Forest Service</a></li> - - <li><a href="/field-notes/2018/06/boondocking-michigan">Boondocking Michigan</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/06/wisconsin" rel="prev" title=" Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/07/shipwrecks" rel="next" title=" Shipwrecks">Shipwrecks</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3327" 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">July 16, 2018 at 11:07 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I am 100% the chicken with its head cut off traveler. I sit here in my cube 50% of my waking hours on this planet it seems. The other 50% im trying to see as much as possible. On our upcoming trip the sun rises at 5AM and sets at 1030pm and I plan to use it all.</p> -<p>Awesome perspective- if I had the time- I would love to chill and reflect. But ill wait until im back in my cube to do that. -Until then, I will continue to live through you all- Carry on!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3347" 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">July 26, 2018 at 10:19 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>DREW-</p> -<p>I’m naturally drawn to the chicken approach myself. It’s taken me about 10 months to let go of that need to always be doing something. I’m still not entirely there. We’ll be passing through a huge city later this year, we have about 5, maybe 7 days. 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From down here it's a confusion of light, color, motion, and shadow. What's it like up there though? What would it be like to stand among those slender branches that would probably, some of them, support my weight? What kind of perspective on the world would you get up there?
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-People climb trees, adults I mean. Probably kids aren't allowed to climb trees anymore. But some adults do. There are even groups that get together and go climb trees. So I've been told.
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-John Muir writes about climbing a tree in storm to see what it felt like to be blown around. He climbed a 220 foot sugar pine in a storm. "Climbing these grand trees, especially when they are waving and singing in worship in wind-storms, is a glorious experience," writes Muir in <cite>The Yosemite</cite>. "Ascending from the lowest branch to the topmost is like stepping up stairs through a blaze of white light, every needle thrilling and shining as if with religious ecstasy."
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-I plan to do that some day, but I probably won't start with 220 foot sugar pines in the midst of a storm. I'll probably work my way up to tall trees in storms, but I'd like to try it. One of the nice things about this life is that I can lie here in this hammock and stare up at the trees. I can think about climbing them. I can think about other trees, other hammocks.
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-Last summer, Colorado. A very similar vertical view. This summer it's birch rather than aspen, jack pine rather than lodgepole and ponderosa, but the overall feel of the place is very similar to Colorado and the vertical view is very close.
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-A friend of luxagraf, who lives in Iran, but has traveled the desert southwest of the U.S. quite a bit has an interesting article about the [visual and ecological similarities][4] between the Sindh desert in Iran (where he lives) and the high desert region of eastern California into western Arizona.
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-These similarities exist everywhere. I have no doubt that if you beamed me and this hammock into the right elevation of Ural mountains in Russia or the Andes in Peru or the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, I would have a similar view of similar tress. The world is made up of similarities more than differences I find, and I think that's true whether you speak of ecology, culture, religion or my preferred starting point for philosophical reflections -- the vertical view from a hammock.
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-Significant ecological, cultural and religious differences exist as well. I think to certain extent that's the part of traveling that I like the best, discovering these similarities and differences and holding them up before you and trying to make sense of them, finding the threads that connect places, the threads that exist only in one place and then weaving them together until in some way your journey makes sense to you. Why does the jack pine thrive here, and lodgepole pine thrive in Colorado? Why is there a massive body of fresh water here and a huge range of mountains there? Why do men and women hold hands here, men and men hold hands in India and no one holds hands in China? Why does the idea of reincarnation thrive in Himachal Pradesh and not here? Why is the arboreal forest that used to be here now over one hundred miles north of here?
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-It's wrestling with these things that makes travel interesting to me. Seeing things is part of that, part of finding the unique threads of a place, the threads that bind things but that's not the end of it by any means. Round the world sailor and author [Teresa Carey][3] calls this kind of inquiry "a far greater adventure" than just traveling.
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-If you only have two weeks in a place, I guess I understand that drive to get out there and try to see everything you can. We watch people pulling out every morning to go do things while we're still cooking breakfast[^1]. A lot of people seem to go somewhere every morning. But then if your time is limited, you want to see what you came to see, I suppose. I'd still probably spend at least half my time "sitting around" because without the chance to daydream and reflect, to pull it all together what's the point?
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-But then we're fortunate enough to be able to more or less stay anywhere we like as long as we choose. Camping limitations do exist, but otherwise we're pretty open ended. Consequently we don't tend to rush out and see everything right away, if we see it at all. For instance, we've been in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore for well over a week and haven't seen the eponymous rocks yet. And I'll be fine if we never do, that's not a thread that happens to interest me.
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-These days I'm content with trees, hammocks (when I get some time in one), sitting here in the forest, watching the wind play in the leaves, the birds sharing food and building nests, the kids digging up earthworms for pets. As more than a few writers have [demonstrated][1], you can spend years obsessing over a [single square meter][2] of forest and not exhaust everything it has to teach[^2].
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-At the same time, you can take that too far. We don't sit around all the time, we don't refuse to "see the sights". Some long term travelers I've met seem to look down on seeing things, like that's the status symbol that sets them above the common traveler -- they're too cool to see the sights. I think that's equally as silly as running around like the proverbial headless chicken trying to see it all. The opposite of one bad idea is often another bad idea. If I no long care what's around the next bend, over the top of that rise or on the other side of the horizon then I'd stop traveling. There is always a third option; some sitting around, some seeing what's around the bend.
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-Here there's a good 3 mile round trip trail out to a lighthouse. That's about what Elliott is comfortable doing these days, three to four miles. At the end there was a lighthouse and a few outbuildings connected with the lighthouse. We forgot the money for the tour of the lighthouse, but it seemed closed anyway. We marched right on past and scrambled down some rocks to the lake shore for a little lunch. The sandstone shelf we sat on extended nearly half mile out into the water without getting much more than six feet deep. Hence the need for a lighthouse.
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-There was a fog bank to the east of the lighthouse that day, a thin layer that obscured all but the top of the dunes just to east of us, dunes that sit some five hundred feet above the lake. The first four hundred feet were hidden by a fog bank that stretched out over the lake and curved back toward the lighthouse, losing density as it neared the point we sat on. We ate our food and watched wisps of wet cloud blow by us and down the coast, seemingly circling back down toward the dunes.
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-It wasn't particularly warm and only Lilah and I hung around after lunch we finished lunch. We explored the shoreline to the east for a while, looking for interesting signs of life. There weren't many. Lake Superior is cold, clear, and not exactly teeming with life. I've seen a few fish, including a huge trout in very shallow water, and Lilah and I found some curious insects, around the rocks, but for the most part it's pretty quiet around here, biologically speaking. At least on the water. The water average 42 degrees, there's just enough life to support a fair number of fish, and the birds that feed on them, but not much more than that.
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-But what it lacks in life it makes up for in weather. The weather here is the most unusual and dramatically changing weather I've ever experienced anywhere on the planet thus far. It's completely left field. One minute it's hot, the next it's cold. And a good percent of the time that's just barely hyperbolic.
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-A good bit of my early travels were in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. I've backpacked several hundred miles worth of trails and seen a good bit of "interesting weather". Lightning so close your hair stands up? Check. Hail the size of small oranges? Check. Snow in mid July? Check. Rapid drops in temperature as a storm approaches? Check. Well, maybe not check.
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-I thought I had experiences some rapid temperature drops, but Lake Superior is a different class with those. One morning, a particularly warm, humid morning, it was 8 AM and the temperature was already climbing steadily. It can get surprisingly hot and muggy around here, and I figured it was going to be a really hot day. But then, about five minutes later the sky was so dark it looked more like night than night, the temperature had dropped well below 55, and the wind was tossing the leafy crowns of the birch trees around like a salad spinner. It was the most complete reversal of weather I've ever experienced anywhere in the world.
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-It was also very localized and didn't last long. The wind faded quickly and within an hour the nice cool temperatures were gone as if it had never happened. Curiously though, it happened again around 2PM and again around 8PM. My best guess is that somewhere inland it's heating up enough to pull some air off the middle of the lake and the lake is definitely cold enough to drop the air temp by 30-40 degrees. That particular day the last lake effect cooling timed nicely with bedtime. I still woke up sweating by 1AM, but at least we got to go to bed with a nice cool breeze blowing through.
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-When it is hot here, and it is more than I expected it would be, especially after our experience in Wisconsin, at least there's a freezing cold lake to cool off in. And it is cold, cold enough that even the kids haven't been past their waists. I went under, but it took some effort. Lake Superior is the coldest large body of water I've ever swam in. The water temp right now is 55 degrees, but honestly it feels even colder. It's almost as cold as the Sierra lakes I used to swim in during the early season when there were still fields of snow leading down into them on the north facing slopes.
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-When its 85-90 out though Superior feels refreshing and nice. At least for a minute or two. Then you get out and the air around you feels insanely humid and hot and you want to slip back into the lake, but then it starts to be too much, you get a sort of pins and needles sensation in your feet after a while. So you climb out, sit on the rocks, and play with the kids until you get hot enough that you want to try getting back in the lake again.
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-For whatever reason I have no problem with mosquitoes. Some recently asked what we do about mosquitoes and I told them we have Thermacell, which works well enough, and we use it during the times of day the mozzies are really bad, but the rest of the time, honestly, I don't bother much. They bite me. I swat them when it hurts, and if I'm in malaria/dengue/etc areas I take mosquitoes more seriously, but mosquitoes are supposed to bite, that's what they do.
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-Where I come from though flies are completely benign, perhaps that's why biting flies bother me. It seems extra cruel to take an ubiquitous and already fairly annoying creature and then make it capable of a painful bite. Screw that. I hate black flies. But then I hate when black flies drive me away from something I want to do, so I tend to stick it out until they get real bad. If you keep moving they don't bother you as much, so we spent most of our beach time walking, climbing rocks, looking for agates, good skipping rocks, gnarled driftwood, birds, fish and whatever else captures out attention.
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-[1]: /books/gathering-moss
-[2]: /books/the-forest-unseen
-[3]: http://teresacarey.com/
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Once you’ve spent a while surrounded by nothing but grass and sky you start to feel closed in whenever there is something else near you. We tried to go back to regular campgrounds, but you find yourself wanting more space, asking why are these things blocking my sky?</p> -<p>It took me a while, but I eventually I realized that what draws me in about the prairie is that it’s the only landscape that offers the vast unbroken horizon of the sea. This is why almost no one can come here without remarking on the “sea of grass” or the “islands” of trees within it. The grasslands are the land playing at being the sea.</p> -<p>We went to the other side of Buffalo Gap National Grasslands to a little campground called French Creek. It was a strange little campground, surrounded by a fence, but with a big gate. I figured it was tent-only, but there were no signs saying that, and the gate was open. As a U.S. taxpayer this is technically speaking, my land, so I drove the bus in and parked next to picnic table.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-23_090213_nebraska.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-23_090213_nebraska_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-23_090213_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-23_090213_nebraska_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-23_090213_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the bus, french creek campground, buffalo gap national grasslands photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-23_090213_nebraska.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Seems like a legit place to camp to me."> - </a> -<figcaption>Seems like a legit place to camp to me.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The ranger who came by the next morning did not like that one bit. I wasn’t rude, but I did tell him if he didn’t want people parking in the campground then maybe consider signs and a lock.</p> -<p>French Creek is near the town of Fairburn, home to about 100 people. We came here because Corrinne is a rock hound and this is the one and only place on earth to find something called a Fairburn agate. Corrinne went rock hunting the first evening we were there, but came up empty. The next morning she took the kids out to the agate beds and Olivia promptly found a Fairburn. She spent the rest of day teaching everyone else how to find one. <em>Daddy, you have to <strong>look</strong>…</em></p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180823_143947.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180823_143947_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180823_143947.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-24_170934_nebraska.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-24_170934_nebraska_pic5.jpg" alt="fairburn agate photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-24_170934_nebraska.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -</div> - -<p>We left the next day, headed for another national grassland in Nebraska. Corrinne and kids drove ahead to the campground while I dumped and filled our water tank in the nearby town of Crawford NE. I was just about to head down the 20 miles of dirt road when Corrinne called to say it was tent-only. Hey, at least this one had signs.</p> -<p>We ended up staying in Crawford at the city park. It was deserted, pretty close to free, had two playgrounds and a livestock auction that was could listen to all afternoon. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-24_150647_nebraska.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-24_150647_nebraska_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-24_150647_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-24_150647_nebraska_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-24_150647_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City park, Crawford, NE photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-24_150647_nebraska.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_105113_nebraska.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_105113_nebraska_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_105113_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_105113_nebraska_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_105113_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Livestock auction, Crawford, NE photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_105113_nebraska.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="A few of the brands on sale at the Crawford livestock market."> - </a> -<figcaption>A few of the brands on sale at the Crawford livestock market.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_125935_nebraska.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_125935_nebraska_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_125935_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_125935_nebraska_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_125935_nebraska_picwide-med.jpg" alt="random buttes, near crawforn, NE photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_125935_nebraska.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The next day we pushed on to the third grassland on our list, Pawnee Grassland, just over the Colorado border. Here, finally, we again found something as nice as Buffalo Gap near Wall. The road in was one of the roughest we’ve done, but we made it more or less intact. The first night we just pulled off the road, but then the rig that had been on the ridge overlooking the whole grasslands packed up and left so we swooped in and grabbed the spot.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_141826_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_141826_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_141826_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_141826_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_141826_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Welcome to Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_141826_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_180745-1_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_180745-1_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_180745-1_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_180745-1_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_180745-1_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_180745-1_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_181026_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_181026_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_181026_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_181026_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_181026_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The bus, near Pawnee Buttes, Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_181026_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_193827_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_193827_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_193827_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_193827_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-25_193827_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Cow, Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-25_193827_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-27_104402_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-27_104402_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-27_104402_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-27_104402_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-27_104402_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Cows, Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-27_104402_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It was a pleasant place to stay for a week. I could work, the kids played. The cows came by to investigate us. There’s something about this sea of grass that makes it seem as though just watching it is enough. You don’t need to do anything, just observe the land, the sky, the ever changing light. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-26_143241_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_143241_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_143241_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_143241_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_143241_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pawnee Buttes, Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-26_143241_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg" alt="Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-26_190122_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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<img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190930_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190930_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190930_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190930_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The bus, near Pawnee Buttes, Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-26_190930_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-26_190147_pawnee-grassland.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190147_pawnee-grassland_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190147_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190147_pawnee-grassland_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-26_190147_pawnee-grassland_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pawnee Buttes, Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-26_190147_pawnee-grassland.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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Once you've spent a while surrounded by nothing but grass and sky you start to feel closed in whenever there is something else near you. We tried to go back to regular campgrounds, but you find yourself wanting more space, asking why are these things blocking my sky?
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-It took me a while, but I eventually I realized that what draws me in about the prairie is that it's the only landscape that offers the vast unbroken horizon of the sea. This is why almost no one can come here without remarking on the "sea of grass" or the "islands" of trees within it. The grasslands are the land playing at being the sea.
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-We went to the other side of Buffalo Gap National Grasslands to a little campground called French Creek. It was a strange little campground, surrounded by a fence, but with a big gate. I figured it was tent-only, but there were no signs saying that, and the gate was open. As a U.S. taxpayer this is technically speaking, my land, so I drove the bus in and parked next to picnic table.
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-The ranger who came by the next morning did not like that one bit. I wasn't rude, but I did tell him if he didn't want people parking in the campground then maybe consider signs and a lock.
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-French Creek is near the town of Fairburn, home to about 100 people. We came here because Corrinne is a rock hound and this is the one and only place on earth to find something called a Fairburn agate. Corrinne went rock hunting the first evening we were there, but came up empty. The next morning she took the kids out to the agate beds and Olivia promptly found a Fairburn. She spent the rest of day teaching everyone else how to find one. *Daddy, you have to **look**...*
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-We left the next day, headed for another national grassland in Nebraska. Corrinne and kids drove ahead to the campground while I dumped and filled our water tank in the nearby town of Crawford NE. I was just about to head down the 20 miles of dirt road when Corrinne called to say it was tent-only. Hey, at least this one had signs.
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-We ended up staying in Crawford at the city park. It was deserted, pretty close to free, had two playgrounds and a livestock auction that was could listen to all afternoon.
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-The next day we pushed on to the third grassland on our list, Pawnee Grassland, just over the Colorado border. Here, finally, we again found something as nice as Buffalo Gap near Wall. The road in was one of the roughest we've done, but we made it more or less intact. The first night we just pulled off the road, but then the rig that had been on the ridge overlooking the whole grasslands packed up and left so we swooped in and grabbed the spot.
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-It was a pleasant place to stay for a week. I could work, the kids played. The cows came by to investigate us. There's something about this sea of grass that makes it seem as though just watching it is enough. You don't need to do anything, just observe the land, the sky, the ever changing light.
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-We'd have stayed longer, but unlike our spot outside of Wall, in Pawnee Buttes the nearest water and dump facilities are over an hour away, and it's a rough road in and out. Too rough to risk when your main goal is get to a specific place at a specific time. 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Already though the sunlight is warm on our backs. The crisp, clean smell of Lake Superior’s cold waters fills the air. Ring-billed gulls fight over pier pylons. Occasionally one launches out over the lake, perhaps in search of a less contested perch. Beyond the pier sailboats are already unfurling sails and heading north, up the coast, currently downwind. The ferry shudders underfoot, the diesel engine coming to life for the short passage to Madeline Island.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Madeline Island Ferry, Bayside, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_104144_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-27_104144_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_104144_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_104144_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_104144_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Superior on the way to Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_104144_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180727_153809.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180727_153809_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180727_153809_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180727_153809_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180727_153809_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Madeline Island Ferry, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180727_153809.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_103442_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-27_103442_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_103442_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_103442_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_103442_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Madeline Island Ferry, Bayside, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_103442_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Fellow paper map users unite!"> - </a> -<figcaption>Fellow paper map users unite!</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The Ojibwe, who were here when the first Europeans paddled through, call Madeline Island <em>Moningwanekaaning</em>, which translates to Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker. Today, a more literal translation might be Island of the Northern Flicker, but that just doesn’t have the same ring to it.</p> -<p>Moningwanekaaning is one of twelve islands clustered near the western end of Lake Superior, off the coast of present day Wisconsin. Moningwanekaaning is the only one that’s not part of the Apostle Islands National Seashore (the name Apostle Islands comes courtesy of the Jesuits). This is where the bulk of the action takes place in the first three novels of Louise Erdrich’s <cite><a href="https://birchbarkbooks.com/louise-erdrich/the-birchbark-house">Birchbark House</a></cite> Series, which, as I’ve mentioned before, our kids are obsessed with. It’s one of the reasons that we came up here, to see where the characters of those books walked and ate and slept and swam. </p> -<p>To some people that might sound strange, traveling somewhere because a historical novel happens to be set there, but it’s not the first time I’ve done it. All the little “how do you decide where to go” things I’ve written about previously take a backseat the number of times I’ve gone somewhere because I read a book about it.</p> -<p>Books fire the imagination in ways that travel guides and glossy magazines can’t. If I’d never read Henry Miller I’d probably have cared less about Paris. Prague would have meant less to me without Kafka. I couldn’t help noticing all the places in London that I knew about because Slothrop had affairs near them. And I’m never in New Orleans or near the Louisiana coast without thinking of The Awakening, A Confederacy of Dunces and The Yellow Wallpaper. </p> -<p>The desire to visit more than a few places I’d still like to visit can be traced to novels I’ve read — Tangier Morocco, Dublin Ireland, and Varanasi India to name a few.</p> -<p>The only problem with going to places you’ve read about is that they’ll never measure up to what you’ve read, which is to say they’ll never compare to what you’ve created for them in your imagination. I’ve spent the last month or so making sure the kids understood that Madeline Island is not currently like Moningwanekaaning is in the books.</p> -<p>They didn’t seem disappointed wandering around Madeline Island. Part of that could be that Madeline Island, save for the town of Laporte, actually hasn’t changed much since the 1830s, when the novel is set.</p> -<p>After a short ferry ride over we stopped in at the Madeline Island Museum, which traces the history of the island, but is also part of that history. The museum was made by joining four historic log structures end to end, part of a small 1835 American Fur Company warehouse, the former La Pointe jail, a Scandinavian-style barn of somewhat mysterious origin, and a building known as the Old Sailors’ Home, which was apparently a memorial to a sailor who drown. From what I could tell the museum is in four of the oldest remaining buildings on the island.</p> -<figure class="picfull"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/madelineislandmuseum.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/2018/madelineislandmuseum_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/madelineislandmuseum_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="Madeline Island Museum, WI photographed by Madeline Island Museum" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/madelineislandmuseum.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -<figcaption>image by <a href="https://madelineislandmuseum.wisconsinhistory.org/" itemprop="author">Madeline Island Museum</a></figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The museum was somewhat unique in our experience for having by far the most knowledgable, friendly staff we’ve encountered anywhere. I didn’t ask a single question that someone didn’t know the answer to. At one point I was pretty sure there was a private tour happening in one of the rooms, the guide was going into way too much detail and answered way too many questions, but no, it turned out to just be one of the staff whose sole job appeared to be hanging out on the artifacts room answering questions and telling stories. He was an Ojibwe historian and seemed to know not only the origin of every artifact in the room, but roughly the year it would have been created and used. </p> -<p>One of the women who worked there gave us a kind of personalized tour, pointing out artifacts and telling us not only the story of the artifact, what it was, where it came from and so on, but also how it came to be in the museum’s hands. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_115703_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-27_115703_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_115703_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_115703_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_115703_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Birchbark House, Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_115703_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="After reading about birchbark houses and seeing a few mockups, the kids finally got to go inside one."> - </a> -<figcaption>After reading about birchbark houses and seeing a few mockups, the kids finally got to go inside one.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_114033_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-27_114033_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_114033_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_114033_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_114033_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Deer antlers locked together, Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_114033_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="My favorite exhibit at the museum had nothing to do with artifacts. These deer locked antlers while fighting and died that way. There's a lesson here."> - </a> -<figcaption>My favorite exhibit at the museum had nothing to do with artifacts. These deer locked antlers while fighting and died that way. There’s a lesson here.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>I’ll be honest, I don’t generally like museums much because everything is under glass and out of context. I’d rather find a tiny potsherd hiking in the backcountry than see a whole pot in a museum. Even the best museums that do try to get some context in their displays still leave out the modern context, who found it? What were they doing when the found it and so on. While none of the context is necessarily on display at the Madeline Island Museum, the staff seem to have all the information in their heads and if they see you studying something there’s a good chance they’ll come up and offer the full story of the artifact, what it is, what it was for, where it was found, who found it, what they were doing when they found it and how it ended up in the museum.</p> -<p>I would have stayed another couple hours in the museum and really it was only three rooms, but the kids were hungry and wanting to swim so at the advice of one of the museum staff, we wandered down to a little park with a nice beach the kids could swim at. We made sandwiches and went swimming to cool off. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There’s a hand drawn map at the beginning of each of the Birchbark Series books, showing roughly where the birchbark house was, where other characters lived and where various events took place. I, perhaps more than the kids even, wanted to see some of the places. I’d spent enough time studying the map to know roughly where they were. </p> -<p>After the kids had swam for awhile I convinced them to get out of the water (no small task) and we drove around the island to roughly where one of their favorite character’s house would have been. We walked through the wood along the shoreline and wondered about what it all would have looked like in 1837. Probably, I’d guess, not all that different than it does now.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145321_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145321_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145321_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145321_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145321_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145321_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145628_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145020_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145020_apostle-islands_pic66.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145020_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_051843_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_051843_apostle-islands_pic66.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_051843_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>We’d looked into camping on the island, and the campground happens to be roughly where one of the character’s houses was, but it was booked full for the entire month of August. We had to content ourselves with a day trip and after our short hike, we headed back to catch the ferry back to the mainland.</p> -<p>The next day was supposed to be our last day at Lake Superior. We set out reasonably early for a little beach a local woman told us about and spent the morning playing on the shore and swimming. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_120307_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-28_120307_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_120307_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_120307_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_120307_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lake superior near, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_120307_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_122030_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-28_122030_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_122030_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_122030_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_122030_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lake superior near, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_122030_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_122319_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-28_122319_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_122319_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_122319_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_122319_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lake superior near, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_122319_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_125409_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-28_125409_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125409_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125409_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125409_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lake superior near, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_125409_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lake superior near, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>At lunch time Corrinne went back to the bus and brought some food over to the beach because no one wanted to leave yet. I realized I was really going to miss Lake Superior. I don’t know what it is exactly, some bodies of water just get under your skin. The UP is nice, Wisconsin was fun too, but really the best part of our summer was Lake Superior. Somehow we just couldn’t bear the thought of saying goodbye to it just yet. And since we’re fortunate enough to not really have to be anywhere, we decided to change our plans a bit and head up into Minnesota to check out one more side of Lake Superior — the north shore.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>Bald Eagle </li> - - <li>Ring-billed Gull </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/2018/07/crystal-lake" rel="prev" title=" The Crystal Lake">The Crystal Lake</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/08/northern-sky" rel="next" title=" Northern Sky">Northern Sky</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">3 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3387" 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, 2018 at 2:59 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Ill raise you one “buck”. I had read about this years ago. -https://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/deer-hunting/2010/12/triple-tragedy-three-bucks-drown-antlers-locked</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3388" 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">August 19, 2018 at 2:46 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Love the name of this island! Just wondering why you think of The Yellow Wallpaper when you are in Louisiana…</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3389" 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 19, 2018 at 6:10 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>That’s a much more confusing lesson.</p> -<p>Gwen-</p> -<p>Ha! I was wondering if anyone would notice that. There’s one person, who I think reads this site, who will understand it. 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Already though the sunlight is warm on our backs. The crisp, clean smell of Lake Superior's cold waters fills the air. Ring-billed gulls fight over pier pylons. Occasionally one launches out over the lake, perhaps in search of a less contested perch. Beyond the pier sailboats are already unfurling sails and heading north, up the coast, currently downwind. The ferry shudders underfoot, the diesel engine coming to life for the short passage to Madeline Island.
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-The Ojibwe, who were here when the first Europeans paddled through, call Madeline Island <em>Moningwanekaaning</em>, which translates to Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker. Today, a more literal translation might be Island of the Northern Flicker, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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-Moningwanekaaning is one of twelve islands clustered near the western end of Lake Superior, off the coast of present day Wisconsin. Moningwanekaaning is the only one that's not part of the Apostle Islands National Seashore (the name Apostle Islands comes courtesy of the Jesuits). This is where the bulk of the action takes place in the first three novels of Louise Erdrich's <cite>[Birchbark House][1]</cite> Series, which, as I've mentioned before, our kids are obsessed with. It's one of the reasons that we came up here, to see where the characters of those books walked and ate and slept and swam.
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-To some people that might sound strange, traveling somewhere because a historical novel happens to be set there, but it's not the first time I've done it. All the little "how do you decide where to go" things I've written about previously take a backseat the number of times I've gone somewhere because I read a book about it.
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-Books fire the imagination in ways that travel guides and glossy magazines can't. If I'd never read Henry Miller I'd probably have cared less about Paris. Prague would have meant less to me without Kafka. I couldn't help noticing all the places in London that I knew about because Slothrop had affairs near them. And I'm never in New Orleans or near the Louisiana coast without thinking of The Awakening, A Confederacy of Dunces and The Yellow Wallpaper.
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-The desire to visit more than a few places I'd still like to visit can be traced to novels I've read -- Tangier Morocco, Dublin Ireland, and Varanasi India to name a few.
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-The only problem with going to places you've read about is that they'll never measure up to what you've read, which is to say they'll never compare to what you've created for them in your imagination. I've spent the last month or so making sure the kids understood that Madeline Island is not currently like Moningwanekaaning is in the books.
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-They didn't seem disappointed wandering around Madeline Island. Part of that could be that Madeline Island, save for the town of Laporte, actually hasn't changed much since the 1830s, when the novel is set.
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-After a short ferry ride over we stopped in at the Madeline Island Museum, which traces the history of the island, but is also part of that history. The museum was made by joining four historic log structures end to end, part of a small 1835 American Fur Company warehouse, the former La Pointe jail, a Scandinavian-style barn of somewhat mysterious origin, and a building known as the Old Sailors’ Home, which was apparently a memorial to a sailor who drown. From what I could tell the museum is in four of the oldest remaining buildings on the island.
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-The museum was somewhat unique in our experience for having by far the most knowledgable, friendly staff we've encountered anywhere. I didn't ask a single question that someone didn't know the answer to. At one point I was pretty sure there was a private tour happening in one of the rooms, the guide was going into way too much detail and answered way too many questions, but no, it turned out to just be one of the staff whose sole job appeared to be hanging out on the artifacts room answering questions and telling stories. He was an Ojibwe historian and seemed to know not only the origin of every artifact in the room, but roughly the year it would have been created and used.
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-One of the women who worked there gave us a kind of personalized tour, pointing out artifacts and telling us not only the story of the artifact, what it was, where it came from and so on, but also how it came to be in the museum's hands.
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-I'll be honest, I don't generally like museums much because everything is under glass and out of context. I'd rather find a tiny potsherd hiking in the backcountry than see a whole pot in a museum. Even the best museums that do try to get some context in their displays still leave out the modern context, who found it? What were they doing when the found it and so on. While none of the context is necessarily on display at the Madeline Island Museum, the staff seem to have all the information in their heads and if they see you studying something there's a good chance they'll come up and offer the full story of the artifact, what it is, what it was for, where it was found, who found it, what they were doing when they found it and how it ended up in the museum.
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-I would have stayed another couple hours in the museum and really it was only three rooms, but the kids were hungry and wanting to swim so at the advice of one of the museum staff, we wandered down to a little park with a nice beach the kids could swim at. We made sandwiches and went swimming to cool off.
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-There's a hand drawn map at the beginning of each of the Birchbark Series books, showing roughly where the birchbark house was, where other characters lived and where various events took place. I, perhaps more than the kids even, wanted to see some of the places. I'd spent enough time studying the map to know roughly where they were.
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-After the kids had swam for awhile I convinced them to get out of the water (no small task) and we drove around the island to roughly where one of their favorite character's house would have been. We walked through the wood along the shoreline and wondered about what it all would have looked like in 1837. Probably, I'd guess, not all that different than it does now.
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-We'd looked into camping on the island, and the campground happens to be roughly where one of the character's houses was, but it was booked full for the entire month of August. We had to content ourselves with a day trip and after our short hike, we headed back to catch the ferry back to the mainland.
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-The next day was supposed to be our last day at Lake Superior. We set out reasonably early for a little beach a local woman told us about and spent the morning playing on the shore and swimming.
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-At lunch time Corrinne went back to the bus and brought some food over to the beach because no one wanted to leave yet. I realized I was really going to miss Lake Superior. I don't know what it is exactly, some bodies of water just get under your skin. The UP is nice, Wisconsin was fun too, but really the best part of our summer was Lake Superior. Somehow we just couldn't bear the thought of saying goodbye to it just yet. And since we're fortunate enough to not really have to be anywhere, we decided to change our plans a bit and head up into Minnesota to check out one more side of Lake Superior -- the north shore.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-08-05T17:33:16" itemprop="datePublished">August <span>5, 2018</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>Unable to leave Lake Superior behind, we decided to head west and north, out of Wisconsin, into Minnesota, through Duluth and up to the north shore of Lake Superior. </p> -<p>Here, for the first time in our Lake Superior travels, we hit real crowds. There aren’t that many camping spots along the shore up here and nearly all of them offer online reservations, which means they’re full most of the summer.</p> -<p>We ended up heading inland, further north, up toward the Boundary Waters area. Once you get away from highway 61, which hugs the shore of Superior, it’s mostly wilderness up here, and mostly dirt roads, which keeps the summer tourists away. We cut inland without any real clue where we were headed, but you rarely go wrong with fourteen miles of dirt road that looks like this: </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-29_133754-1_nine-mile-lake_01_wn2DTLE.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_133754-1_nine-mile-lake_01_wn2DTLE_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_133754-1_nine-mile-lake_01_wn2DTLE_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_133754-1_nine-mile-lake_01_wn2DTLE_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_133754-1_nine-mile-lake_01_wn2DTLE_picwide-med.jpg" alt="drive into nine mile lake, MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-29_133754-1_nine-mile-lake_01_wn2DTLE.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Eventually we found a campground on the edge of a smallish lake. It was relatively secluded and the water was plenty warm for swimming.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-31_145600_nine-mile-lake_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/2018/2018-07-31_145600_nine-mile-lake_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-31_145600_nine-mile-lake_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-31_145600_nine-mile-lake_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-31_145600_nine-mile-lake_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="nine mile lake, MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-31_145600_nine-mile-lake_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The only downside was that Lake Superior was the better part of an hour away. We ended up only going down once, to Tettegouche State Park, to have one last day on the lake and say goodbye to Superior. I stopped in at the visitor center and asked the ranger if there was a good swimming beach around and she directed us a “nice beach, good for kids,” at a little oxbow a ways up the river. Uh, yeah, we don’t want to swim in a river. I had another of those increasingly common moments when I realize how much people underestimate children these days.</p> -<p>I studied the map and didn’t see any reason we couldn’t hike the cliff side trail and figure out some way down to the water. As it turned out, plenty of people have had the very same idea and there was a well worn trail that led down to a nice rocky point sticking out into Superior. The kids scrambled over the rocks and were out of their clothes and into bathing suits fast enough to put a superhero to shame. </p> -<p>And then they stuck their feet in the water. Cold, very, very cold. The north shore of Superior is much colder than around Madeline Island. No one went in past their knees, but we did have a nice lunch and a rocky point all to ourselves for most of the day.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_115824.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/2018/20180730_115824_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_115824_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_115824_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_115824_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_115824_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_115824_picwide.jpg" alt="Tettegouche State Park,MN photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_115824.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-30_125147_nine-mile-lake.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-30_125147_nine-mile-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-30_125147_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-30_125147_nine-mile-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-30_125147_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tettegouche State Park,MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-30_125147_nine-mile-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_120219.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_120219_pic66.jpg" alt="Tettegouche State Park,MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_120219.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_124229.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_124229_pic66.jpg" alt="Tettegouche State Park,MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_124229.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_120349.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/2018/20180730_120349_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_120349_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_120349_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_120349_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Tettegouche State Park,MN photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_120349.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>You can’t have the most prominent rocky headland to yourself for long in these parts though. By the time we were done eating there were a dozen other people on the beach and rocks around us. We packed it up and headed back up the dirt road to Ninemile Lake for warmer swimming.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-31_145359_nine-mile-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/2018/2018-07-31_145359_nine-mile-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-31_145359_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-31_145359_nine-mile-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-31_145359_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="nine mile lake, MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-31_145359_nine-mile-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180731_105007.jpg " title="view larger image"> - 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-Here, for the first time in our Lake Superior travels, we hit real crowds. There aren't that many camping spots along the shore up here and nearly all of them offer online reservations, which means they're full most of the summer.
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-We ended up heading inland, further north, up toward the Boundary Waters area. Once you get away from highway 61, which hugs the shore of Superior, it's mostly wilderness up here, and mostly dirt roads, which keeps the summer tourists away. We cut inland without any real clue where we were headed, but you rarely go wrong with fourteen miles of dirt road that looks like this:
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-Eventually we found a campground on the edge of a smallish lake. It was relatively secluded and the water was plenty warm for swimming.
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-The only downside was that Lake Superior was the better part of an hour away. We ended up only going down once, to Tettegouche State Park, to have one last day on the lake and say goodbye to Superior. I stopped in at the visitor center and asked the ranger if there was a good swimming beach around and she directed us a "nice beach, good for kids," at a little oxbow a ways up the river. Uh, yeah, we don't want to swim in a river. I had another of those increasingly common moments when I realize how much people underestimate children these days.
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-I studied the map and didn't see any reason we couldn't hike the cliff side trail and figure out some way down to the water. As it turned out, plenty of people have had the very same idea and there was a well worn trail that led down to a nice rocky point sticking out into Superior. The kids scrambled over the rocks and were out of their clothes and into bathing suits fast enough to put a superhero to shame.
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-And then they stuck their feet in the water. Cold, very, very cold. The north shore of Superior is much colder than around Madeline Island. No one went in past their knees, but we did have a nice lunch and a rocky point all to ourselves for most of the day.
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-You can't have the most prominent rocky headland to yourself for long in these parts though. By the time we were done eating there were a dozen other people on the beach and rocks around us. We packed it up and headed back up the dirt road to Ninemile Lake for warmer swimming.
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-The lake was enough to entertain the kids for a few days, but eventually the weather took a turn.
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-Faced with three more days of rain and a dirt road out, we decided to go ahead and push on, south, out of the north woods and into the plains, which just so happens to parallel the journey that makes up the last three books of the Birchbark House series. diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/08/range-life.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/08/range-life.html deleted file mode 100644 index 14757b9..0000000 --- a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/08/range-life.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,718 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html -class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> - -<head> - <title>Range Life - by Scott Gilbertson</title> - <meta charset="utf-8"> - <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - <meta name="description" - content="Two weeks on a grassy expanse of earth at the edge of the badlands. It doesn't sound like much, but there's something about wide open spaces that make time slow down. 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The sky was often hazy from the smoke of fires in California and elsewhere in the west.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands_picwide.jpg" alt="Sunset over the Badlands, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-08_200216_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-08_200458_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200458_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200458_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200458_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_200458_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the bus, buffalo gap national grasslands, wall, sd photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-08_200458_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_065130_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065130_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065130_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065130_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065130_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="panorama, buffalo gap national grasslands, wall, sd photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_065130_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-10_154816_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_154816_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_154816_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_154816_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_154816_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the bus, buffalo gap national grasslands, wall, sd photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-10_154816_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Camping in Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, the area south of Wall SD, known as “the wall” is unique. Free camping with a view, less than ten minutes from to a town that has a dump station, free water, free swimming pool and a small, but decent grocery store is not something you find very often, which might explain why we stayed two weeks. </p> -<p>The first week we were out here was hot, in the high 90s. We can only run our air conditioner if we have hookups, which we obviously did not have, so the free public pool in Wall was a daily necessity. Every afternoon the kids and I would pile in the car and drive the ten minutes to Wall and go swimming in the deliciously icy cold pool for a couple of hours.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180808_180329.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180808_180329_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180808_180329_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180808_180329_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180808_180329_picwide-med.jpg" alt="buffalo gap, near Wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180808_180329.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180808_171223.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180808_171223_pic5.jpg" alt="buffalo gap, near Wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180808_171223.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180809_092135.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180809_092135_pic5.jpg" alt="the bus, buffalo gap national grasslands, wall, sd photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180809_092135.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - -<figure > - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-11_170749_badlands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_170749_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_170749_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_170749_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_170749_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="snake, buffalo gap, near Wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-11_170749_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This little guy seemed to think the magnatiles box was the best collection of rocks he'd ever slithered through, I must have chased him (or her) out five times."></a> -<figcaption>This little guy seemed to think the magnatiles box was the best collection of rocks he’d ever slithered through, I must have chased him (or her) out five times.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180808_143355923.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180808_143355923_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180808_143355923_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180808_143355923_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20180808_143355923_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pool, wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20180808_143355923.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_154634_badlands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_154634_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_154634_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_154634_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_154634_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="pool, wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_154634_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - -<figure > - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-13_200859_badlands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_200859_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_200859_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_200859_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_200859_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating pork chops photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-13_200859_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="I love this photo because there's no plate, no silverware, no napkins. It makes it seem like we just eat giant slabs of greasy meat with our hands. Which, apparently, we do."></a> -<figcaption>I love this photo because there’s no plate, no silverware, no napkins. It makes it seem like we just eat giant slabs of greasy meat with our hands. Which, apparently, we do.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - -<figure > - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-13_201312_badlands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_201312_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_201312_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_201312_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-13_201312_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating pork chops photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-13_201312_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="And this is how we all look most of the time, wild-eyed, feral and covered in grease."></a> -<figcaption>And this is how we all look most of the time, wild-eyed, feral and covered in grease.</figcaption> -</figure> - - -</div> - -<p>Lest you think we’ve given up on seeing the sights, we did one day drive into the Badlands National Park proper. The first overlook on the drive in gives you a view of the other side of the Badlands from what we could see at our camp. After that you wind down into some of the more colorful of the formations.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_123157_badlands_6aDWWQY.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_123157_badlands_6aDWWQY_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_123157_badlands_6aDWWQY_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_123157_badlands_6aDWWQY_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_123157_badlands_6aDWWQY_picwide-med.jpg" alt="panorama, badlands np overlook. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_123157_badlands_6aDWWQY.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Sorry for the poor panoramic stitching, but this was the only photo that even halfway turned out."> - </a> -<figcaption>Sorry for the poor panoramic stitching, but this was the only photo that even halfway turned out.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_133337_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_133337_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_133337_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_133337_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_133337_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Badlands NP photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_133337_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_124702_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_124702_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_124702_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_124702_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_124702_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Badlands NP photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_124702_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It was pretty, but also very crowded. I’ll take a slightly less expansive view and no crowds any day. We did get to have a close encounter with some big horned sheep though. It started off normal enough, Olivia spotted some bighorns up on a hill and we stopped to watch them for a minute. They’d wandered by our camp a few times already, but they never got too close. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_125547_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_125547_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_125547_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_125547_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_125547_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Bit Horned Sheep, Badlands NP photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_125547_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Eventually a Yellowstone-style traffic jam started to happen as more and more cars stopped to watch the sheep. We jumped back in the car and went on to the visitor center. On our way back the sheep had decided to come down to the road.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_145756_badlands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_145756_badlands_pic5.jpg" alt="Big Horned Sheep, Badlands NP photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_145756_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180814_140030.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180814_140030_pic5.jpg" alt="Big Horned Sheep, Badlands NP photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180814_140030.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>One day Lilah and Elliott and I decided to go for a hike in the Badlands. We found a trail that lead out to a juniper flat about three miles away and was somewhat off the beaten path. It turns out though that nearly everything beyond pavement is well off the beaten path in the Badlands. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_103537_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_103537_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_103537_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_103537_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_103537_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking, Badlands NP photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_103537_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_104958_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_104958_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_104958_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_104958_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_104958_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="hiking, Badlands NP photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_104958_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>This is not a place people hike. It might be that after mid morning there’s absolutely no shade anywhere until late evening. The midday sun is fairly intense, and after an hour or two you want a break. We went a couple of miles and in that distance saw no one and found only a single cottonwood tree to rest under. It was the only shade for miles and all the grass under it was trampled down and matted with clumps of fur from sheep, cattle and quite a few other things that had rested under the same tree. </p> -<p>We ate our snacks, contemplated going the rest of the way to the juniper flats, but we remembered <a href="/jrnl/2017/06/arc-time">resting under a juniper tree in Chaco</a> and decided the cottonwood was a good as it was going to get for shade, so we started back. </p> -<p>Lilah’s shoes were giving her a blister so she walked all the way back barefoot, which I think made to two hikers we met at the trailhead, who were geared up with all the latest tech from REI, feel a little foolish, which, let’s face it, they should.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_120224_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_120224_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_120224_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_120224_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_120224_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_120224_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_122716-1_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_122716-1_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_122716-1_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_122716-1_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_122716-1_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="baby cliff swallow, badlands, np photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_122716-1_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="At the trailhead there was a pair of cliff swallows nesting under the overhang of the sign."> - </a> -<figcaption>At the trailhead there was a pair of cliff swallows nesting under the overhang of the sign.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>A day or two after our hike, storms started to blow in more regularly and we got not just a break from the heat, but downright chilly, especially at night when it started dropping into the 40s — a little reminder that winter comes early up here.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-18_173401_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-18_173401_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-18_173401_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-18_173401_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-18_173401_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Storms over the Badlands, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-18_173401_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>From our campsite at Buffalo Gap we watched a lot people come and go. Most people only stayed the night, but a few hung around longer. The sort of people who come camp out in a place like this for more than a night are generally our sort of people, which is to say, people who live full time on the road. </p> -<p>One day a family with some kids pulled past us and parked their rig in a spot a little ways beyond us. They stopped by to say hi one evening and we got to talking and next thing you know all the kids had made friends and were roaming the range in a pack, the way I think kids should. </p> -<p>If I have any hesitations about living the way we do its the occasional thought that I should be giving our kids more opportunities to roam the neighborhood with a pack of friends the way we did growing up. There’s two problems with this notion of mine though. One is that no one back home lets their kids roam anywhere, let alone wander the neighborhood by themselves, so if we hadn’t done this our kids still wouldn’t be roaming the world in packs they way I think they should. </p> -<p>The other problem is that the whole idea that this is what kids should do is predicated on the assumption that my childhood was somehow a “correct” one, which, for all I know, is completely wrong. </p> -<p>One thing I do know is that this trip has erased any sense of shyness in our kids. They’ll march up to pretty much any kid they see and try to make friends with them, which they didn’t do before we left, and is really more than I can say for myself.</p> -<p>Whatever the case, I do love it when we meet people our kids can hang out with for a while, it’s even better when we get along with the parents too, which we did. We hung around Buffalo Gap a little longer so the kids could have more time together. Community is harder to come by when you live on the road, but when you find it, it tends to be tighter knit and you value it more I think. At least I do. </p> -<p>At the same time those moments of friendship and community don’t last as long and before too long we needed to start south and Mike, Jeri and their family needed to get to west before the cold comes, and it comes early up here. </p> -<p>After two weeks Buffalo Gap had started to feel a bit like home, much like every place where we’ve spent more than a few days. But we did what travelers do: we pack up, say our goodbyes, and head down the road for the next place we’ll call home.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Crow </li> - - <li>Blue Grosbeak </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> - - <li>Cedar Waxwing </li> - - <li>Cliff Swallow </li> - - <li>Common Nighthawk </li> - - <li>Eastern Kingbird </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li>Killdeer </li> - - <li>Lark Sparrow </li> - - <li>Mountain Bluebird </li> - - <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> - - <li>Rock Wren </li> - - <li>Spotted Sandpiper </li> - </ul> - - <li class="grouper">Mammals<ul> - - <li>Pronghorn </li> - - <li>Bighorn Sheep </li> - - <li>Black-tailed Prairie Dog </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - - <aside id="recommended-reading" " > - <h3>Recommended Reading</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/book-notes/a-geography-of-time"><img src="/media/images//book-covers/geography-of-time_small.jpg" /></a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/08/wall-drug" rel="prev" title=" West to Wall Drug">West to Wall Drug</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/08/grassland" rel="next" title=" Grassland">Grassland</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">8 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3447" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="ce6e2211749c6b68e66301ded129d3af"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/ce6e2211749c6b68e66301ded129d3af.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Jeri" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Jeri</b></span> - <span class="when">September 16, 2018 at 10:31 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Beautifully written article Scott! I didn’t even know you wrote!</p> -<p>We loved meeting you and the girls still talk about their “friends in the blue camper” all the time. I hope you have a great trip to Mexico and that we can meet up again in the spring!</p> -<p>Jeri</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3448" 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 16, 2018 at 2:26 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Jeri-</p> -<p>Thanks for stopping by, tell your kids that ours say hi. Hope y’all have fun making your way west. We’ll email you when we get back to the states. hopefully we can meet up again somewhere.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3449" 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">September 16, 2018 at 3:33 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Great pictures. David and I loved the Badlands.</p> -<p>I just want to say that my kids and their friends roam the neighborhood on bikes and scooters and on foot, sometimes armed with Nerf guns. 🙂</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3450" 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 17, 2018 at 2:22 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Gwen-</p> -<p>That’s awesome. I hope that more kids do than my experience would lead me to believe. I lived in Athens for over ten years and I’m pretty sure I only ever saw one kid who roamed the neighborhood we lived in. But then, that’s part of why we sold our house, it just wasn’t the neighborhood for us.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3451" 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><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluber_constrictor_flaviventris#/media/File:Coluber_constrictor_flaviventris.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DREW ELDRIDGE</a></b></span> - <span class="when">September 17, 2018 at 2:40 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Your snake- juvenile Eastern Yellow-Bellied Racer</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3452" 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 17, 2018 at 3:17 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>Nice. That means I finally caught a racer. </p> -<p>I once chased a really mean black racer around a pile of rocks in Arizona for about two hours (because what else is there to do in AZ when you’re 12?). It bit me like ten times, but it was so damn fast I could never get more than a hand on it (which would send it whipping around to bite my arm, once my face, which is when I finally quit). Good times. Anyway, thanks for IDing it.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3456" 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 18, 2018 at 11:22 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Black racers are very “spirited”- I have a pic somewhere that Sam took of my reaching toward one and it in full strike. It didnt hit me, but it was darn close. I leave the getting bit part to 12 year olds!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3460" 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 19, 2018 at 7:52 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Yeah I haven’t caught a single snake we’ve seen, but mostly because I think the kids are a bit young to be chasing after them and I already know they’ll do pretty much anything I do.</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="272" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833326" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="a71bf3e2435362ca0cbb84214db9ba056e7f80db" 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 vastness of the sky stretching around the endless hoop of the horizon overwhelms and dims our sense of clock time. There are only four times out here: sunrise, sunset, night and day. After that all is one open expanse of light and land dancing around together, indifferent to anything so mundane as the railroad time schedules that form the basis of our concept of "time".
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-The vastness and timelessness of the Badlands makes the improbable seem less. Wall Drug, I'm pretty sure, would never have worked anywhere else.
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-After land and light there is only wind. It never stops, or at least it didn't in the two weeks we were here. It ranged from a gentle breeze to a howl that drowned out every other sound and whipped a fine dust into the air. The sky was often hazy from the smoke of fires in California and elsewhere in the west.
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-Camping in Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, the area south of Wall SD, known as "the wall" is unique. Free camping with a view, less than ten minutes from to a town that has a dump station, free water, free swimming pool and a small, but decent grocery store is not something you find very often, which might explain why we stayed two weeks.
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-The first week we were out here was hot, in the high 90s. We can only run our air conditioner if we have hookups, which we obviously did not have, so the free public pool in Wall was a daily necessity. Every afternoon the kids and I would pile in the car and drive the ten minutes to Wall and go swimming in the deliciously icy cold pool for a couple of hours.
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-Lest you think we've given up on seeing the sights, we did one day drive into the Badlands National Park proper. The first overlook on the drive in gives you a view of the other side of the Badlands from what we could see at our camp. After that you wind down into some of the more colorful of the formations.
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-It was pretty, but also very crowded. I'll take a slightly less expansive view and no crowds any day. We did get to have a close encounter with some big horned sheep though. It started off normal enough, Olivia spotted some bighorns up on a hill and we stopped to watch them for a minute. They'd wandered by our camp a few times already, but they never got too close.
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-One day Lilah and Elliott and I decided to go for a hike in the Badlands. We found a trail that lead out to a juniper flat about three miles away and was somewhat off the beaten path. It turns out though that nearly everything beyond pavement is well off the beaten path in the Badlands.
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-This is not a place people hike. It might be that after mid morning there's absolutely no shade anywhere until late evening. The midday sun is fairly intense, and after an hour or two you want a break. We went a couple of miles and in that distance saw no one and found only a single cottonwood tree to rest under. It was the only shade for miles and all the grass under it was trampled down and matted with clumps of fur from sheep, cattle and quite a few other things that had rested under the same tree.
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-We ate our snacks, contemplated going the rest of the way to the juniper flats, but we remembered [resting under a juniper tree in Chaco](/jrnl/2017/06/arc-time) and decided the cottonwood was a good as it was going to get for shade, so we started back.
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-Lilah's shoes were giving her a blister so she walked all the way back barefoot, which I think made to two hikers we met at the trailhead, who were geared up with all the latest tech from REI, feel a little foolish, which, let's face it, they should.
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-A day or two after our hike, storms started to blow in more regularly and we got not just a break from the heat, but downright chilly, especially at night when it started dropping into the 40s -- a little reminder that winter comes early up here.
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-From our campsite at Buffalo Gap we watched a lot people come and go. Most people only stayed the night, but a few hung around longer. The sort of people who come camp out in a place like this for more than a night are generally our sort of people, which is to say, people who live full time on the road.
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-One day a family with some kids pulled past us and parked their rig in a spot a little ways beyond us. They stopped by to say hi one evening and we got to talking and next thing you know all the kids had made friends and were roaming the range in a pack, the way I think kids should.
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-If I have any hesitations about living the way we do its the occasional thought that I should be giving our kids more opportunities to roam the neighborhood with a pack of friends the way we did growing up. There's two problems with this notion of mine though. One is that no one back home lets their kids roam anywhere, let alone wander the neighborhood by themselves, so if we hadn't done this our kids still wouldn't be roaming the world in packs they way I think they should.
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-The other problem is that the whole idea that this is what kids should do is predicated on the assumption that my childhood was somehow a "correct" one, which, for all I know, is completely wrong.
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-One thing I do know is that this trip has erased any sense of shyness in our kids. They'll march up to pretty much any kid they see and try to make friends with them, which they didn't do before we left, and is really more than I can say for myself.
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-Whatever the case, I do love it when we meet people our kids can hang out with for a while, it's even better when we get along with the parents too, which we did. We hung around Buffalo Gap a little longer so the kids could have more time together. Community is harder to come by when you live on the road, but when you find it, it tends to be tighter knit and you value it more I think. At least I do.
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-At the same time those moments of friendship and community don't last as long and before too long we needed to start south and Mike, Jeri and their family needed to get to west before the cold comes, and it comes early up here.
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-After two weeks Buffalo Gap had started to feel a bit like home, much like every place where we've spent more than a few days. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-08-14T09:47:51" itemprop="datePublished">August <span>14, 2018</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>In the coldest parts of Lake Superior it takes discipline to convince yourself to swim. Just walking out knee deep in that water which looks no cloudier than air, but feels like a vise of cold squeezing at ever pore of your skin, takes concerted effort. </p> -<p>After a few steps your feet are numb. A few more and they begin to hurt. I never made it deep enough dive in at the coldest of the beaches, around Pictured Rocks, instead you lie down quickly, and then jump up, more of a baptism than a swim.</p> -<p>After the gasping subsides, and you climb back out of the water to lie on the warm brown and apricot rocks, the sun slowing draws the blood out of your core and back to the edges of yourself with a prickling, almost painful feeling, like the rock is needling at your skin.</p> -<p>This is the story of Lake Superior: water, rock, weather, and life.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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</a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing in Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing in Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180630_160952.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180630_160952_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180630_160952_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180630_160952_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180630_160952_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Swimming in Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180630_160952.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>This is of course the story of everywhere as well. The world we experience with our senses is made up of water, rock, weather, life, and the relationships between them. Or, to use more familiar, but perhaps less fashionable terms, Water, Earth, Fire, Air and Spirit.</p> -<p>On the shores of Lake Superior, Water and Earth are the most obvious. Nothing is written here without taking them into account. The shoreline is the story of rock and water moving through time. “The journey of the rock is never ended,” writes poet Lorine Niedecker in a journal kept during a 1966 road trip around Lake Superior. “In every tiny part of any living thing are materials that once were rock that turned to soil,” she reminds us. “Your teeth and bones were once coral.”</p> -<p>Niedecker does something here that few have done in recent times — she makes us part of the story. Because we are part of the story, and have always been part of the story. Especially here. The “environmental” historian<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> William Cronon writes of what he calls “historical wilderness,”<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup> an effort to remember that no matter what our ideologies and beliefs may claim, we are nature. Nature is not something outside of us and to pretend otherwise is to sell yourself a pack of lies that will leave you very confused about your place in the world.</p> -<p>We have always been part of the story, the question is <em>how</em> are we part of the story? </p> -<p>As California is slowly starting to realize, John Muir’s vision of untrammeled wilderness has always been about personal ideology more than anything else — Man as the special snowflake that lies outside nature, though in this case the snowflake ruins everything. The problem with that vision is that it’s demonstrably wrong. Muir’s beloved Yosemite Valley was the beautiful vast meadow he writes about because the people who lived in it used controlled burns to keep it that way. It was a garden because they made it a garden. Muir and his ilk kicked those people out, put fences around the trees and now wonder why it all burns down. </p> -<p>Here on the shores of Superior humans have been part of the story for longer than anyone can remember, which helps stop ideologies that espouse otherwise. Once this was the land of the people we call Sioux, who were driven out by the Ojibwe, who in turn were driven out by European settlers, who in turn will be driven out by someone. We’re all temporary.</p> -<p>Right now though, this moment in history, is a good one for Superior. Somewhere in the elaborate dance between people and place that’s been happening here for thousands of years is a feeling that’s difficult to pin down, but is clear when you experience it.</p> -<p>Lake Superior is one of those places where we immediately felt at home. The landscape, the forests, the water, the towns, everything up here feels welcoming and, for lack of the better word, good. In the 1960s, when it was still widely acknowledged that there were human experiences that did not fit into the world as defined by modern industrial society, people called this the “vibe” of a place (or person, or thing).</p> -<p>The more closely you examine this feeling, the more complex the experience of it becomes. For those of us passing through it often feels more like a color or hue that seems to hand over the place. And Lake Superior is a place of many hues, literally and figuratively. Its water alone can be twenty different shades of blue and green in a single day.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_102610.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180706_102610_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Shipwreck tour, near pictured rocks national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180706_102610.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lighthouse, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour_picwide.jpg" alt="Shipwreck tour, near pictured rocks national seashore photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_120219.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180730_120219_pic5.jpg" alt="Tettegouche State Park,MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180730_120219.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145020_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_145020_apostle-islands_pic5.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_145020_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lake superior near, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Madeline Island Ferry, Bayside, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_051843_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_051843_apostle-islands_pic5.jpg" alt="Madeline Island, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_051843_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_120437_apostle-islands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-28_120437_apostle-islands_pic5.jpg" alt="lake superior near, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-28_120437_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>The notion that Lake Superior has a single vibe to it is of course a simplification. It has many shores, many faces, many vibes. It’s also a place of moods that can turn on a dime. Sometimes it’s warm and humid and icy waters are a relief, but then ten minutes later you might find the sky shrouded in clouds that bring near darkness and leave you shivering in the wind. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-07_145127_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-07_145127_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-07_145127_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-07_145127_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-07_145127_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-07_145127_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-08_141644_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141644_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141644_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141644_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141644_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-08_141644_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-08_141828_picture-rocks.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141828_picture-rocks_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141828_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141828_picture-rocks_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-08_141828_picture-rocks_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-08_141828_picture-rocks.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-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/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point_picwide.jpg" alt="Whitefish point, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Part of Lake Superior’s charm is that it has somehow escaped the “progress” of the world since about the early 1980s. Don’t get me wrong, I think humans are part of the story, but lately I think we’ve been doing a really bad job of writing it. Curiously though, much of the crap that’s come to infest our lives in the past few decades hasn’t come here.</p> -<p>It’s not just that there’s no Starbucks, no strip malls, almost no chain companies at all, though for the most part there are not, it’s more that it has somehow retained that previous world, carried it through the recent past and left it alone. Old metal playgrounds abound, the family-owned single story motel still provides 99 percent of the lodging, supermarkets are usually locally owned, co-ops are common, and even elements of far older eras persist, like the supper clubs that still seem to function. Houses remain simple, small and cozy, the McMansions found in most other parts of the country simply aren’t here.</p> -<p>It’s a place that seem to have recognized the difference between genuine human progress and technological advancement for its own sake and opted to stick with the former. Like the denizens of the Lake Superior region, I don’t think we’ve seen much of real progress in technology since about 1978<sup id="fnref:3"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:3" rel="footnote">3</a></sup> and even that would be pushing it. I can make a strong case for the early 1940s being the peak of human technological advancement, but I won’t bore you with it.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-29_122623-4_nine-mile-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/2018/2018-07-29_122623-4_nine-mile-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_122623-4_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_122623-4_nine-mile-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_122623-4_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="old school motel photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-29_122623-4_nine-mile-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-10_090902_andrus-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/2018/2018-07-10_090902_andrus-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_090902_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_090902_andrus-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-10_090902_andrus-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="vagabond motel, near andrus lake, MI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-10_090902_andrus-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide.jpg" alt="sign, st ignace, mi photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_115916_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115916_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115916_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115916_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-14_115916_st-ignace-ojibwe_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sign, st ignace, mi photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-14_115916_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-29_114257-2_nine-mile-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/2018/2018-07-29_114257-2_nine-mile-lake_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_114257-2_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_114257-2_nine-mile-lake_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-29_114257-2_nine-mile-lake_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Signs near Duluth, MN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-29_114257-2_nine-mile-lake.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playground, memorial park, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-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/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands_picwide.jpg" alt="Playground, memorial park, washburn, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We would probably have lingered in the Lake Superior area longer, but unlike last year’s completely open-ended travels, this year we have an appointment to keep. We must be in Dallas by September 26th and we needed to pass through South Dakota on our way. Eventually we packed it up, took a last look at Lake Superior as we drove down the Minnesota coast, and then headed west, away from the water, the forest, the rock, the water, the weather and the life of Lake Superior.</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>Environmental historian is an interesting term, it implies, correctly I’d argue, that our conception of history is so woefully incompletely we neglect to even include the environment in our reckoning of it. It’s no wonder we completely fail to understand the past in any meaningful way — we can’t even construct a reasonably complete story of it. <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>Cronon, William. “The Riddle of the Apostle Islands: How do you manage a wilderness full of human stories?” Orion May-June 2003: 36-42 <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p> -</li> -<li id="fn:3"> -<p>But what about the internet? I give it a maybe. Future generations can decide that one. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:3" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 3 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>Ring-billed Gull </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/2018/08/northern-sky" rel="prev" title=" Northern Sky">Northern Sky</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/08/wall-drug" rel="next" title=" West to Wall Drug">West to Wall Drug</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">3 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3422" 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">September 03, 2018 at 2:24 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>“Go’en Up Nort”. That’s what a native Minnesotan calls their trip from the Twin Cities to Superior. </p> -<p>Glad you enjoyed your time up here and a soon to be congrats on your shiny new SD residency?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3426" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Jonathan" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Jonathan</b></span> - <span class="when">September 03, 2018 at 10:44 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>What do you mean by “the world as defined by modern industrial society”</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3427" 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 04, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>classic_liberal-</p> -<p>We did, we loved it. In 50-100 years, when the winters aren’t so bad, I’d move up there. :)</p> -<p>And yes, we did get SD licenses, almost a month ago now, but I look so old apparently that no one has asked for it yet.</p> -<p>jonathan-</p> -<p>That is a bit vague isn’t it? I mean the fairly narrowly defined world of scientific materialism and the general idea that everything is progressing toward something. I have nothing against scientific materialism though, it’s very good at what it defines. What I reject is its premise that that’s <em>all</em> there is in the world.</p> -<p>And I very much have a problem with the belief that time is somehow the inevitable march of progress. 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Just walking out knee deep in that water which looks no cloudier than air, but feels like a vise of cold squeezing at ever pore of your skin, takes concerted effort.
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-After a few steps your feet are numb. A few more and they begin to hurt. I never made it deep enough dive in at the coldest of the beaches, around Pictured Rocks, instead you lie down quickly, and then jump up, more of a baptism than a swim.
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-After the gasping subsides, and you climb back out of the water to lie on the warm brown and apricot rocks, the sun slowing draws the blood out of your core and back to the edges of yourself with a prickling, almost painful feeling, like the rock is needling at your skin.
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-This is the story of Lake Superior: water, rock, weather, and life.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-06-28_115528_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1479" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-06-27_153834_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1475" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-06-30_143747_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1486" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-06-30_151316_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1487" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/20180630_160952.jpg" id="image-1617" class="picwide" />
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-This is of course the story of everywhere as well. The world we experience with our senses is made up of water, rock, weather, life, and the relationships between them. Or, to use more familiar, but perhaps less fashionable terms, Water, Earth, Fire, Air and Spirit.
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-On the shores of Lake Superior, Water and Earth are the most obvious. Nothing is written here without taking them into account. The shoreline is the story of rock and water moving through time. "The journey of the rock is never ended," writes poet Lorine Niedecker in a journal kept during a 1966 road trip around Lake Superior. "In every tiny part of any living thing are materials that once were rock that turned to soil," she reminds us. "Your teeth and bones were once coral."
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-Niedecker does something here that few have done in recent times -- she makes us part of the story. Because we are part of the story, and have always been part of the story. Especially here. The "environmental" historian[^1] William Cronon writes of what he calls "historical wilderness,"[^2] an effort to remember that no matter what our ideologies and beliefs may claim, we are nature. Nature is not something outside of us and to pretend otherwise is to sell yourself a pack of lies that will leave you very confused about your place in the world.
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-We have always been part of the story, the question is *how* are we part of the story?
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-As California is slowly starting to realize, John Muir's vision of untrammeled wilderness has always been about personal ideology more than anything else -- Man as the special snowflake that lies outside nature, though in this case the snowflake ruins everything. The problem with that vision is that it's demonstrably wrong. Muir's beloved Yosemite Valley was the beautiful vast meadow he writes about because the people who lived in it used controlled burns to keep it that way. It was a garden because they made it a garden. Muir and his ilk kicked those people out, put fences around the trees and now wonder why it all burns down.
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-Here on the shores of Superior humans have been part of the story for longer than anyone can remember, which helps stop ideologies that espouse otherwise. Once this was the land of the people we call Sioux, who were driven out by the Ojibwe, who in turn were driven out by European settlers, who in turn will be driven out by someone. We're all temporary.
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-Right now though, this moment in history, is a good one for Superior. Somewhere in the elaborate dance between people and place that's been happening here for thousands of years is a feeling that's difficult to pin down, but is clear when you experience it.
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-Lake Superior is one of those places where we immediately felt at home. The landscape, the forests, the water, the towns, everything up here feels welcoming and, for lack of the better word, good. In the 1960s, when it was still widely acknowledged that there were human experiences that did not fit into the world as defined by modern industrial society, people called this the "vibe" of a place (or person, or thing).
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-The more closely you examine this feeling, the more complex the experience of it becomes. For those of us passing through it often feels more like a color or hue that seems to hand over the place. And Lake Superior is a place of many hues, literally and figuratively. Its water alone can be twenty different shades of blue and green in a single day.
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-<img src="images/2018/20180706_102610.jpg" id="image-1507" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-06_104925_shipwreck-tour_BD8R8mK.jpg" id="image-1501" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-05_141625_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1500" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-06_103844_shipwreck-tour.jpg" id="image-1499" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-06_090619_shipwreck-tour.jpg" id="image-1495" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-27_132328_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1587" class="picwide" />
-<div class="cluster">
-<span class="row-2">
-<img src="images/2018/20180730_120219.jpg" id="image-1602" class="cluster pic5" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-27_145020_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1590" class="cluster pic5" />
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-28_125454_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1596" class="cluster picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-27_102831_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1579" class="cluster picwide" />
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-28_051843_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1591" class="cluster pic5" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-28_120437_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1619" class="cluster pic5" />
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-The notion that Lake Superior has a single vibe to it is of course a simplification. It has many shores, many faces, many vibes. It's also a place of moods that can turn on a dime. Sometimes it's warm and humid and icy waters are a relief, but then ten minutes later you might find the sky shrouded in clouds that bring near darkness and leave you shivering in the wind.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-07_145127_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1612" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-08_141644_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1613" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-08_141828_picture-rocks.jpg" id="image-1505" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-16_093403_whitefish-point.jpg" id="image-1551" class="picwide" />
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-Part of Lake Superior's charm is that it has somehow escaped the "progress" of the world since about the early 1980s. Don't get me wrong, I think humans are part of the story, but lately I think we've been doing a really bad job of writing it. Curiously though, much of the crap that's come to infest our lives in the past few decades hasn't come here.
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-It's not just that there's no Starbucks, no strip malls, almost no chain companies at all, though for the most part there are not, it's more that it has somehow retained that previous world, carried it through the recent past and left it alone. Old metal playgrounds abound, the family-owned single story motel still provides 99 percent of the lodging, supermarkets are usually locally owned, co-ops are common, and even elements of far older eras persist, like the supper clubs that still seem to function. Houses remain simple, small and cozy, the McMansions found in most other parts of the country simply aren't here.
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-It's a place that seem to have recognized the difference between genuine human progress and technological advancement for its own sake and opted to stick with the former. Like the denizens of the Lake Superior region, I don't think we've seen much of real progress in technology since about 1978[^3] and even that would be pushing it. I can make a strong case for the early 1940s being the peak of human technological advancement, but I won't bore you with it.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-29_122623-4_nine-mile-lake.jpg" id="image-1616" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-10_090902_andrus-lake.jpg" id="image-1538" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-14_115834_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" id="image-1550" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-14_115916_st-ignace-ojibwe.jpg" id="image-1614" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-29_114257-2_nine-mile-lake.jpg" id="image-1615" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-24_154053_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1576" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-07-24_153542_apostle-islands.jpg" id="image-1575" class="picwide" />
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-We would probably have lingered in the Lake Superior area longer, but unlike last year's completely open-ended travels, this year we have an appointment to keep. We must be in Dallas by September 26th and we needed to pass through South Dakota on our way. Eventually we packed it up, took a last look at Lake Superior as we drove down the Minnesota coast, and then headed west, away from the water, the forest, the rock, the water, the weather and the life of Lake Superior.
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-[^1]: Environmental historian is an interesting term, it implies, correctly I'd argue, that our conception of history is so woefully incompletely we neglect to even include the environment in our reckoning of it. It's no wonder we completely fail to understand the past in any meaningful way -- we can't even construct a reasonably complete story of it.
-[^2]: Cronon, William. “The Riddle of the Apostle Islands: How do you manage a wilderness full of human stories?” Orion May-June 2003: 36-42
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This is how the Ojibwe left when they were driven out by the United States, how the Sioux went when they were driven out by the Ojibwe, and how whomever the Sioux drove out probably went as well. These days we have it easy, we get driven out by our own engines. </p> -<p>Over the course of a couple of days driving, the trees disappear and then, rather suddenly, you find yourself surrounded by sky, on the seemingly limitless plains of South Dakota. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-05_132309_snake-river-rec_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/2018/2018-08-05_132309_snake-river-rec_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-05_132309_snake-river-rec_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-05_132309_snake-river-rec_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-05_132309_snake-river-rec_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Welcome to south dakota photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-05_132309_snake-river-rec_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The first night out of the Great Lakes region every campground we tried was full. We ended up in a hotel. Driven out by crowds.</p> -<p>After that we spent a couple nights at a South Dakota state park, mainly for the receipt, which we needed to become residents of South Dakota. </p> -<p>Just as Delaware is home to corporations, who come for the tax breaks and whatnot, South Dakota is home for full time RVers who don’t want to pay state taxes anymore. All you need to do is sign up for a mailing address (which forwards your mail to you), stay one night in a hotel, RV park or anywhere that give you a receipt with your name on it, and your previous ID. We’re now legally residents of South Dakota, though we’ll always be Georgians in our hearts.</p> -<p>With our receipt in hand we headed west, stopping off at the Missouri river for a night.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-07_161119_snake-river-rec.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161119_snake-river-rec_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161119_snake-river-rec_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161119_snake-river-rec_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161119_snake-river-rec_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swimming in the missouri river, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-07_161119_snake-river-rec.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-07_161817_snake-river-rec.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161817_snake-river-rec_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161817_snake-river-rec_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161817_snake-river-rec_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-07_161817_snake-river-rec_picwide-med.jpg" alt="swimming in the missouri river, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-07_161817_snake-river-rec.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-08_065835_snake-river-rec.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_065835_snake-river-rec_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_065835_snake-river-rec_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_065835_snake-river-rec_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-08_065835_snake-river-rec_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sunset over the missouri river, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-08_065835_snake-river-rec.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>After that we abandoned the back roads we usually stick to and headed down I-90 toward the Badlands and South Dakota’s other famous landmark: Wall Drug.</p> -<p>Wall SD is one of those places that no one would have ever stopped in were it not for one woman who gave them a reason to stop there. Ted Hustead bought Wall Drug in 1931. At the time Wall had 231 residents and pretty much nothing to entice anyone else to ever come into Hustead’s new drug store. His wife hit on the idea of offering free ice water to travelers headed for the newly opened <span class="strike">travesty</span> monument, Mount Rushmore. Back before air conditioning, ice water was no small enticement in these parts and it worked. And if water worked, think how many more people 5¢ coffee will bring, think how many more a giant jackalope will bring and so on until the tourist phenomena of Wall Drug had become something significantly more than a drug store should ever really hope to be.</p> -<p>Today Wall somehow manages to be terribly touristy, yet charming in its quaintness, even if that quaintness is itself a well-crafted enticement. Some things when examined too closely threaten to accidentally unravel the entire universe. Don’t dig too deep into these things. Still, the billboards are small, understated and feature photos of food seemingly lifted straight out of the illustrated pages of the 1953 Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog. It’s quaint.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_114036_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_114036_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_114036_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_114036_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_114036_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Wall Drug billboard photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_114036_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_113820_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_113820_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_113820_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_113820_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_113820_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Wall Drug billboard photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_113820_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Not lying, the coffee really is 5&cent; and it's on the honor system, drop a nickel in the wooden box, grab a cup."> - </a> -<figcaption>Not lying, the coffee really is 5¢ and it’s on the honor system, drop a nickel in the wooden box, grab a cup.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The even stranger part is that inside the display cases of Wall Drug — the cases themselves looking not unlike something that might have been sold in that 1953 catalog — the food really does look just like the pictures. I still can’t figure out how they pull that off.</p> -<p>Wall Drug is more or less a full city block of tourist junk and food, and yes there’s still free ice water, and the coffee is still 5 cents. The donuts are pretty good too. Bill Bryson sums up Wall Drug perfectly in <cite>The Lost Continent</cite>: “It’s an awful place, one of the world’s worst tourist traps, but I loved it and I won’t have a word said against it.”</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-10_150417-1_badlands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_150417-1_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_150417-1_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_150417-1_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_150417-1_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="wall drug, wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-10_150417-1_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180810_130844.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_130844_pic5.jpg" alt="wall drug, wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180810_130844.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180810_125946.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_125946_pic5.jpg" alt="wall drug, wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180810_125946.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180810_124024.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_124024_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_124024_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_124024_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_124024_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_124024_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180810_124024_picwide.jpg" alt="wall drug, wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180810_124024.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands_picwide.jpg" alt="wall drug, wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-10_145754_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>You can’t pass through these parts without stopping at Wall Drug. Something will entice you in. For me it was the donuts, though later I discovered the gas station sold them too, so I didn’t have the wade through Wall Drug just to buy a donut in the morning.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_171311_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_171311_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_171311_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_171311_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-14_171311_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="view of the badlands, buffalo gap national grasslands, wall, sd photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-14_171311_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Head due south of Wall and you’ll run into the west entrance to Badlands National Park. About a mile before you get to the national park entrance there’s an unmarked dirt road with a barbed wire gate and small sign that says “Please Close Gate” and has a small logo of the National Forest Service. Open that gate — close it behind you! — and then you’re free to camp just about anywhere inside Buffalo Gap National Grasslands. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180809_092144.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180809_092144_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180809_092144_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180809_092144_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180809_092144_picwide-med.jpg" alt="buffalo gap, near Wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180809_092144.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>There are “campsites” along the dirt road, which threads the edge main ridge that becomes the center of the Badlands. Pretty much anywhere there’s enough space to pull off the dirt road and not slide down the cliff there’s signs of someone having camped. We grabbed a small pullout about half way down the road that had amazing views of the canyons and ridges that make up the Badlands.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_182125-1_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_182125-1_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_182125-1_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_182125-1_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-16_182125-1_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playground with a view, buffalo gap national grasslands, wall, sd photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-16_182125-1_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Playing with a view."> - </a> -<figcaption>Playing with a view.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-11_064619_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_064619_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_064619_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_064619_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-11_064619_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunrise over the Badlands, Wall, SD photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-11_064619_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands_picwide.jpg" alt="sunrise over the bus, buffalo gap national grasslands, wall, sd photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-08-22_065325_badlands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We liked it so much we stayed for two weeks. We’d have stayed even longer if we could have, but two weeks is the limit for federal land. It’s probably just as well, otherwise we might be there still.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Crow </li> - - <li>Blue Grosbeak </li> - - <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> - - <li>Cedar Waxwing </li> - - <li>Cliff Swallow </li> - - <li>Common Nighthawk </li> - - <li>Eastern Kingbird </li> - - <li>Great Blue Heron </li> - - <li>Killdeer </li> - - <li>Lark Sparrow </li> - - <li>Mountain Bluebird </li> - - <li>Red-winged Blackbird </li> - - <li>Rock Wren </li> - - <li>Spotted Sandpiper </li> - </ul> - - <li class="grouper">Mammals<ul> - - <li>Pronghorn </li> - - <li>Bighorn Sheep </li> - - <li>Black-tailed Prairie Dog </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/2018/08/superior" rel="prev" title=" Superior">Superior</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/08/range-life" rel="next" title=" Range Life">Range Life</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">6 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3438" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Patsy Wall" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Patsy Wall</b></span> - <span class="when">September 12, 2018 at 12:30 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Loved the pictures, we were at Wall Drugstore in June on our trek to Yellowstone. Yes we did get the free water and 5 cent coffee. It was fun and the badlands are amazingly beautiful. Enjoy your journey!</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3439" 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 12, 2018 at 8:08 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Patsy-</p> -<p>Glad you made it to Wall Drug, it’s well worth the visit. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3440" 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 13, 2018 at 10:35 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Have you read Neil Gaimans American Gods?</p> -<p>If so, Wall Drug should have def been a setting in that book- its a place that pulls you in although it really shouldnt. Things are at play there that you cant see.</p> -<p>If not, I think you would like it. Its a fun read.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3441" 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 13, 2018 at 12:22 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>That’s the one and only audiobook I’ve ever listened to and I hated it (the audiobook part) enough that I’ve blocked it out. But I sort of remember the book seemed pretty good. I should go back and read it, thanks for the suggestion.</p> -<p>For all my obsession with the nature of places and the way they affect us, I actually hadn’t really given it much though with regard to Wall Drug. I’ll have to ponder that. I mean I thought all it took to get me in was a picture of donuts and 5¢ coffee, but perhaps there was something more at work there.</p> -<p>The book I kept thinking about out here was Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. And Willa Cather’s pioneer stories.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3445" 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">September 16, 2018 at 1:20 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Glad you enjoyed the badlands. A wholey unappreciated area for most travelers IMO. I love it there. ND badlands are equally enticing, but with more wildlife.</p> -<p>Wall drug… after hundreds of miles of flat land and signs, anyone who doesn’t stop is a communist! Still, the only thing there I really enjoy is all of the old photos. The lives that were once lived on those prairies are amazing and thought provoking. </p> -<p>Were you in Chamberlain, SD in the Mo river pictures? I actual did a short contract at the critical access hospital there.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3446" 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 16, 2018 at 8:41 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>classical_liberal-</p> -<p>Wish we’d have had time to make it to north dakota, but you know, you have to save something for next time.</p> -<p>And no, we were south of Chamberlain in those images, but that morning we cut up from 44 up to 90 and went through Chamberlain. I remember it becaase there’s that big sculpture, Dignity, at the rest area on the other side of the river that’s pretty cool.</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="270" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833328" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="7b53504d55b4844521577e55442e5ccfd28e1f60" 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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-To be truly historically correct you must be driven out by someone else. This is how the Ojibwe left when they were driven out by the United States, how the Sioux went when they were driven out by the Ojibwe, and how whomever the Sioux drove out probably went as well. These days we have it easy, we get driven out by our own engines.
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-Over the course of a couple of days driving, the trees disappear and then, rather suddenly, you find yourself surrounded by sky, on the seemingly limitless plains of South Dakota.
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-The first night out of the Great Lakes region every campground we tried was full. We ended up in a hotel. Driven out by crowds.
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-After that we spent a couple nights at a South Dakota state park, mainly for the receipt, which we needed to become residents of South Dakota.
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-Just as Delaware is home to corporations, who come for the tax breaks and whatnot, South Dakota is home for full time RVers who don't want to pay state taxes anymore. All you need to do is sign up for a mailing address (which forwards your mail to you), stay one night in a hotel, RV park or anywhere that give you a receipt with your name on it, and your previous ID. We're now legally residents of South Dakota, though we'll always be Georgians in our hearts.
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-With our receipt in hand we headed west, stopping off at the Missouri river for a night.
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-After that we abandoned the back roads we usually stick to and headed down I-90 toward the Badlands and South Dakota's other famous landmark: Wall Drug.
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-Wall SD is one of those places that no one would have ever stopped in were it not for one woman who gave them a reason to stop there. Ted Hustead bought Wall Drug in 1931. At the time Wall had 231 residents and pretty much nothing to entice anyone else to ever come into Hustead's new drug store. His wife hit on the idea of offering free ice water to travelers headed for the newly opened <span class="strike">travesty</span> monument, Mount Rushmore. Back before air conditioning, ice water was no small enticement in these parts and it worked. And if water worked, think how many more people 5¢ coffee will bring, think how many more a giant jackalope will bring and so on until the tourist phenomena of Wall Drug had become something significantly more than a drug store should ever really hope to be.
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-Today Wall somehow manages to be terribly touristy, yet charming in its quaintness, even if that quaintness is itself a well-crafted enticement. Some things when examined too closely threaten to accidentally unravel the entire universe. Don't dig too deep into these things. Still, the billboards are small, understated and feature photos of food seemingly lifted straight out of the illustrated pages of the 1953 Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog. It's quaint.
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-The even stranger part is that inside the display cases of Wall Drug -- the cases themselves looking not unlike something that might have been sold in that 1953 catalog -- the food really does look just like the pictures. I still can't figure out how they pull that off.
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-Wall Drug is more or less a full city block of tourist junk and food, and yes there's still free ice water, and the coffee is still 5 cents. The donuts are pretty good too. Bill Bryson sums up Wall Drug perfectly in <cite>The Lost Continent</cite>: "It's an awful place, one of the world's worst tourist traps, but I loved it and I won't have a word said against it."
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-You can't pass through these parts without stopping at Wall Drug. Something will entice you in. For me it was the donuts, though later I discovered the gas station sold them too, so I didn't have the wade through Wall Drug just to buy a donut in the morning.
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-Head due south of Wall and you'll run into the west entrance to Badlands National Park. About a mile before you get to the national park entrance there's an unmarked dirt road with a barbed wire gate and small sign that says "Please Close Gate" and has a small logo of the National Forest Service. Open that gate -- close it behind you! -- and then you're free to camp just about anywhere inside Buffalo Gap National Grasslands.
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-There are "campsites" along the dirt road, which threads the edge main ridge that becomes the center of the Badlands. Pretty much anywhere there's enough space to pull off the dirt road and not slide down the cliff there's signs of someone having camped. We grabbed a small pullout about half way down the road that had amazing views of the canyons and ridges that make up the Badlands.
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-We liked it so much we stayed for two weeks. We'd have stayed even longer if we could have, but two weeks is the limit for federal land. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-09-29T11:56:19" itemprop="datePublished">September <span>29, 2018</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>The blue-gray light of the distant dawn filters down the canyons of building to the city streets outside the window. I’ve been awake for hours already, listening to the city. The grinding staccato of diesel engines, the pop and sharp hiss of hydraulic arms raised and lowered, the clatter of metal doors rolling up, the clanging rattle of chains banging against them, shops entered, and the rattle and clang again as the doors close behind the shop keepers.</p> -<p>Later comes the soft hiss of brooms on the sidewalk, the splash of water thrown out a bucket, and the louder hiss of the broom in the soapy water, the jangle of handcart wheels rolling over uneven stone of sidewalks. Last comes the rush of cars, the muted voices of workers emptying trash, and the blue gray light turning to the white of day.</p> -<p>This is no longer the largest city on earth. Last time I was here it was, but that, as my wife regularly reminds me, was a long time ago. Now Chongqing China is three times as large as this. Still, Mexico City is a hell of a city. Larger than any other on this continent. And there is something about here that is more alive than anywhere else on the continent. It is big, loud, overwhelming, incomprehensible. Wonderful in its way. </p> -<p>We arrived yesterday afternoon, made it through customs and caught a cab to our rental apartment. The first thing we did was head out for tacos. Just kidding. The first food we went for was Indian. Corrinne and I have a kind of tradition of eating in immigrant restaurants. Our first meal in Nicaragua was at a Palestinian restaurant. Our favorite meal in Paris was at an Iraqi restaurant. For Mexico City we went Indian. Then we walked down to the zócalo and watched the sun fade away and the blue twilight descend.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg" alt="Zocala, Mexico city, Mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192316_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Zocala, Mexico city, Mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192520_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Zocala, Mexico city, Mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192034_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It was a great end cap to a long day of travel, which was surprisingly smooth all things considered. Our kids are pretty great at entertaining themselves anywhere, using almost nothing, so airports and airplanes were, relatively speaking, pretty much non-stop entertainment. Just the notion that <em>we’re floating above the planet</em> was enough to keep them enthralled for a three hour flight. </p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dallas airport, leaving on a jet plane photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-27_172551_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_112822.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180925_112822_pic66.jpg" alt="dallas airport, waiting on a jet plane photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_112822.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_125244.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180925_125244_pic66.jpg" alt="flying to mexico city. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180925_125244.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="on the plane to mexico city photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_122019_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>I was a little worried about going through customs, someone saying the wrong thing, being grumpy and throwing a fit, etc, but everyone was fine, we coasted right on through without missing a beat.</p> -<p>I won’t lie, I felt my spirits lift considerably after the rather bored customs official stamped the last of our stack of passports and waved us out of no-man’s-land and into Mexico. I get a giddy feeling every time I leave the United States, a feeling that I’ve somehow managed to survive something, though exactly what is unclear to me. </p> -<p>I don’t want to write some cliche bit about how the United States sucks or what have you. I like the United States, it has its upsides — mostly that nearly everyone we know and love lives there — but one thing that I think universally irks travelers and expats is the smug satisfaction that folks back home have about how “free” they are. If Americans have a blind spot, it’s this. We <em>believe</em> we’re free. </p> -<p>We are not free at all relative to the rest of the world. Oh sure, we have the right to assemble, which is often lacking elsewhere, but in terms of daily life, the United States is the most micromanaged, regulated country I’ve ever been to.</p> -<p>I’ll be honest, it feels good to leave that behind for a while. And that’s all I’m going to say about that.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192837-1_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_192837-1_la-ciudad-mexico_pic66.jpg" alt="Walking the streets of Mexico City photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_192837-1_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180927_090630.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180927_090630_pic66.jpg" alt="mural, mexico city photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180927_090630.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mural, mexico city, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-25_105829_la-ciudad-mexico.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</div> - -<p>We explored Mexico City for a few days, adjusted to city life as opposed to roaming the wilds of the United States, and then, we were done. Or rather we weren’t done, but we were ready to get to something more permanent. We ended up cutting our time in Mexico City a little short and jumping a bus for San Miguel de Allende. 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I've been awake for hours already, listening to the city. The grinding staccato of diesel engines, the pop and sharp hiss of hydraulic arms raised and lowered, the clatter of metal doors rolling up, the clanging rattle of chains banging against them, shops entered, and the rattle and clang again as the doors close behind the shop keepers.
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-Later comes the soft hiss of brooms on the sidewalk, the splash of water thrown out a bucket, and the louder hiss of the broom in the soapy water, the jangle of handcart wheels rolling over uneven stone of sidewalks. Last comes the rush of cars, the muted voices of workers emptying trash, and the blue gray light turning to the white of day.
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-This is no longer the largest city on earth. Last time I was here it was, but that, as my wife regularly reminds me, was a long time ago. Now Chongqing China is three times as large as this. Still, Mexico City is a hell of a city. Larger than any other on this continent. And there is something about here that is more alive than anywhere else on the continent. It is big, loud, overwhelming, incomprehensible. Wonderful in its way.
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-We arrived yesterday afternoon, made it through customs and caught a cab to our rental apartment. The first thing we did was head out for tacos. Just kidding. The first food we went for was Indian. Corrinne and I have a kind of tradition of eating in immigrant restaurants. Our first meal in Nicaragua was at a Palestinian restaurant. Our favorite meal in Paris was at an Iraqi restaurant. For Mexico City we went Indian. Then we walked down to the zócalo and watched the sun fade away and the blue twilight descend.
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-It was a great end cap to a long day of travel, which was surprisingly smooth all things considered. Our kids are pretty great at entertaining themselves anywhere, using almost nothing, so airports and airplanes were, relatively speaking, pretty much non-stop entertainment. Just the notion that *we're floating above the planet* was enough to keep them enthralled for a three hour flight.
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-I was a little worried about going through customs, someone saying the wrong thing, being grumpy and throwing a fit, etc, but everyone was fine, we coasted right on through without missing a beat.
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-I won't lie, I felt my spirits lift considerably after the rather bored customs official stamped the last of our stack of passports and waved us out of no-man's-land and into Mexico. I get a giddy feeling every time I leave the United States, a feeling that I've somehow managed to survive something, though exactly what is unclear to me.
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-I don't want to write some cliche bit about how the United States sucks or what have you. I like the United States, it has its upsides -- mostly that nearly everyone we know and love lives there -- but one thing that I think universally irks travelers and expats is the smug satisfaction that folks back home have about how "free" they are. If Americans have a blind spot, it's this. We *believe* we're free.
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-We are not free at all relative to the rest of the world. Oh sure, we have the right to assemble, which is often lacking elsewhere, but in terms of daily life, the United States is the most micromanaged, regulated country I've ever been to.
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-I'll be honest, it feels good to leave that behind for a while. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
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Once it cooled down we broke from our usual back roads ways, jumped on the interstate and spent the next two weeks slowly working our way across Kansas, which we really liked, then down through Oklahoma, which we were less fond of, and finally to Dallas to visit family. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving in Kansas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Old hwy 40, Kansas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="I ended up on this stretch of road that was labeled old highway 40, but was just off present day I70. Guessing that I70 took over and I40 was built to the south."> - </a> -<figcaption>I ended up on this stretch of road that was labeled old highway 40, but was just off present day I70. Guessing that I70 took over and I40 was built to the south.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>It was about 900 miles in all, which we spread out over two weeks. The first two weeks of September were a wet two weeks in this part of the country. I think we saw the sun maybe two days in that time, and even then, not for long. It was probably the least interesting two weeks of our trip thus far. At least for me. I was either working or driving, which quickly makes Jack a dull boy as it were. I didn’t realize just how busy I had been until I went back and looked for pictures to post and realized I only had a few.</p> -<p>It probably wasn’t a whole lot more exciting for Corrinne and the kids, though they did sneak off into Wichita to a children’s museum once, and the kids made some friends in our favorite weekend stopover, the small town of Ellis Kansas, where we met a lot of really nice people.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cardboard Chinese New Year dragoon. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Chinese New Year dragoon."> - </a> -<figcaption>Chinese New Year dragoon.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cardboard Chinese New Year dragoon. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma_picwide.jpg" alt="scooter gang photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>You might be wondering, why did they spend two weeks doing almost nothing, driving through the midwest? </p> -<p>Well, first off, I would say that until we got to Wichita, Kansas is very much the west. It looks like the west, it feels like the west. And then somewhere in there you cross that invisible line, which some say is the 100th meridian, but which I think is far too ephemeral and shifting to pin down that precisely, and the humidity is back, the undergrowth lusher, and you’re in the east again.</p> -<p>But, the real answer to that question requires going back to the very beginning, before we ever had the bus.</p> -<p>One day Corrinne came into my office at our house in Athens and said she thought we should move abroad, to Nicaragua, which we both enjoyed when we spent a couple months there. A friend of ours had moved down there recently and really liked it. At the time the girls were still babies and Elliott hadn’t been born yet. I said sure, let’s move to Nicaragua. I mean why not?</p> -<p>But I’ve always thought the United States, despite its many flaws, is a very beautiful place and I wanted the kids to see it before we left. So I said, okay, let’s move abroad, but first let’s get an old camper and drive around the U.S for a while so the kids can see it. My wife, as I recall, said, I don’t know about that. But I started to do some research on old trailers.</p> -<p>In the process I discovered the bus. Not our bus, not right away anyway, but the Travco more generally, and, well, you know how that ends. But this was just before Elliott was born, Corrinne wasn’t sold on the bus idea yet. It wasn’t until about four months later, we were down in Apalachicola, and one day Corrinne came up from the beach and said, okay, I could travel for a while. About a month later we found the bus for sale and bought it.</p> -<p>The rest of the story is documented here already. The point is though that, for us, traveling around the U.S. was always a temporary precursor to going abroad. </p> -<p>So, after over a year and half of living in the bus we decided the time had come to head abroad for a while. In those 19 months though many things have changed. We’re not going to Nicaragua, which has become decidedly unstable in recent months, but we are storing the bus for a few months and heading down the Mexico. Corrinne’s parents retired to San Miguel de Allende earlier this year and we thought we’d visit and let the presence of loved ones ease the transition a little for the kids. We are, in other words, sticking to what has always been our rough plan<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p> -<p>We could have driven the bus down to Mexico, and someday we might. In fact I’d really like to do the west coast of Mexico in the bus as some point. But since our plan is to stay in one place for a while, bringing the bus didn’t make sense. My brother-in-law’s parents have some land outside Dallas that they said we could store the bus on, so we decided to leave it for a while (many thanks to Terry and Gram for taking care of our baby while we’re gone). No, we’re not done with it yet. I don’t think. Certainly no one wanted to leave it, but different places demand different travel strategies, and the bus was not the best strategy for what we want to do for the next six months. We’ll miss the bus, it still feels like our home, but now it’s time for something different. </p> -<p>Before we caught a flight south though we got to spend a week with family around Dallas, swimming, running some last minutes errands and somehow managing to squeak in some fishing and swimming time out at the lake.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-21_110232_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="One Halloween my brother-in-l;aw dressed up as cousin Eddie from the vacation series so we recreated the famous "shitter's full" scene with the bus."> - </a> -<figcaption>One Halloween my brother-in-l;aw dressed up as cousin Eddie from the vacation series so we recreated the famous “shitter’s full” scene with the bus.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="belongings photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_102203_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Our life in six boxes. Not pictured: the three medium size bags and two daypack that we brought to Mexico, and cooking stuff in the bus. But otherwise this is it."> - </a> -<figcaption>Our life in six boxes. Not pictured: the three medium size bags and two daypack that we brought to Mexico, and cooking stuff in the bus. But otherwise this is it.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas_picwide.jpg" alt="The beach at the lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The beach at the lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Cousins."> - </a> -<figcaption>Cousins.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Fishing at the lake photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>And then, before we really knew it, we were in the air.</p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>The idea that we have a plan is completely laughable. What we have is more like a collection of ideas that float around our heads like balloons and every now and then we grab one and float away on it for a while. These ideas are often contradictory and impossible. 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Once it cooled down we broke from our usual back roads ways, jumped on the interstate and spent the next two weeks slowly working our way across Kansas, which we really liked, then down through Oklahoma, which we were less fond of, and finally to Dallas to visit family.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-04_115807_kansas.jpg" id="image-1681" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-01_132219_kansas.jpg" id="image-1680" class="picwide caption" />
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-It was about 900 miles in all, which we spread out over two weeks. The first two weeks of September were a wet two weeks in this part of the country. I think we saw the sun maybe two days in that time, and even then, not for long. It was probably the least interesting two weeks of our trip thus far. At least for me. I was either working or driving, which quickly makes Jack a dull boy as it were. I didn't realize just how busy I had been until I went back and looked for pictures to post and realized I only had a few.
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-It probably wasn't a whole lot more exciting for Corrinne and the kids, though they did sneak off into Wichita to a children's museum once, and the kids made some friends in our favorite weekend stopover, the small town of Ellis Kansas, where we met a lot of really nice people.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-06_174252_kansas.jpg" id="image-1682" class="picwide caption" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-06_174401_kansas.jpg" id="image-1683" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-12_170702_oklahoma.jpg" id="image-1684" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-13_152633_oklahoma.jpg" id="image-1685" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-13_152739_oklahoma.jpg" id="image-1686" class="picwide" />
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-You might be wondering, why did they spend two weeks doing almost nothing, driving through the midwest?
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-Well, first off, I would say that until we got to Wichita, Kansas is very much the west. It looks like the west, it feels like the west. And then somewhere in there you cross that invisible line, which some say is the 100th meridian, but which I think is far too ephemeral and shifting to pin down that precisely, and the humidity is back, the undergrowth lusher, and you're in the east again.
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-But, the real answer to that question requires going back to the very beginning, before we ever had the bus.
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-One day Corrinne came into my office at our house in Athens and said she thought we should move abroad, to Nicaragua, which we both enjoyed when we spent a couple months there. A friend of ours had moved down there recently and really liked it. At the time the girls were still babies and Elliott hadn't been born yet. I said sure, let's move to Nicaragua. I mean why not?
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-But I've always thought the United States, despite its many flaws, is a very beautiful place and I wanted the kids to see it before we left. So I said, okay, let's move abroad, but first let's get an old camper and drive around the U.S for a while so the kids can see it. My wife, as I recall, said, I don't know about that. But I started to do some research on old trailers.
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-In the process I discovered the bus. Not our bus, not right away anyway, but the Travco more generally, and, well, you know how that ends. But this was just before Elliott was born, Corrinne wasn't sold on the bus idea yet. It wasn't until about four months later, we were down in Apalachicola, and one day Corrinne came up from the beach and said, okay, I could travel for a while. About a month later we found the bus for sale and bought it.
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-The rest of the story is documented here already. The point is though that, for us, traveling around the U.S. was always a temporary precursor to going abroad.
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-So, after over a year and half of living in the bus we decided the time had come to head abroad for a while. In those 19 months though many things have changed. We're not going to Nicaragua, which has become decidedly unstable in recent months, but we are storing the bus for a few months and heading down the Mexico. Corrinne's parents retired to San Miguel de Allende earlier this year and we thought we'd visit and let the presence of loved ones ease the transition a little for the kids. We are, in other words, sticking to what has always been our rough plan[^1].
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-We could have driven the bus down to Mexico, and someday we might. In fact I'd really like to do the west coast of Mexico in the bus as some point. But since our plan is to stay in one place for a while, bringing the bus didn't make sense. My brother-in-law's parents have some land outside Dallas that they said we could store the bus on, so we decided to leave it for a while (many thanks to Terry and Gram for taking care of our baby while we're gone). No, we're not done with it yet. I don't think. Certainly no one wanted to leave it, but different places demand different travel strategies, and the bus was not the best strategy for what we want to do for the next six months. We'll miss the bus, it still feels like our home, but now it's time for something different.
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-Before we caught a flight south though we got to spend a week with family around Dallas, swimming, running some last minutes errands and somehow managing to squeak in some fishing and swimming time out at the lake.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-20_081419_dallas.jpg" id="image-1688" class="picwide" />
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-22_145326_dallas.jpg" id="image-1691" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-22_145712_dallas.jpg" id="image-1692" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-23_133906_dallas.jpg" id="image-1696" class="picwide caption" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-22_165300_dallas.jpg" id="image-1693" class="picwide" />
-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-23_140435_dallas.jpg" id="image-1694" class="picwide" />
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-And then, before we really knew it, we were in the air.
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We grabbed the fancy fast bus from MXCD to San Miguel, which came complete with seat-back movie screens that the kids used to watch some cartoons in Spanish. I watched the countryside roll by and, by force of habit, kept track of campgrounds via the <a href="http://ioverlander.com/">ioverlander</a> site.</p> -<p>Since we got to San Miguel four days early, we had nowhere to stay. Fortunately Corrinne’s parents squeezed us in and we spent the next day wandering around, getting a feel for our new home.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_115239_alborada-festival.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_115239_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_115239_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_115239_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_115239_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walking the streets of san miguel photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_115239_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_132826_alborada-festival.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_132826_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_132826_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_132826_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_132826_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="bell tower, san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_132826_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_114011_alborada-festival.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_114011_alborada-festival_pic66.jpg" alt="main square san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_114011_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_194548_alborada-festival.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_194548_alborada-festival_pic66.jpg" alt="Jardin at night, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_194548_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>A day later the Alborada began. At 4 AM in the morning. Actually it was closer to 2 AM. The Jardin was packed, there was plenty of music and then thousands and thousands of fireworks. Not that I saw it, but I did periodically wake up to volleys of fireworks between 3 and 5 AM. </p> -<p>I’ve been in quite a few large scale parties — Songkran, Chinese New Year, New Year’s Eve in New York. San Miguel’s Alborada deserves a spot among those, it’s a hell of a party and it lasts for four or five days.</p> -<p>There’s way too much to keep track of as an outsider, but we managed to see a couple parades, hours and hours of dancing, drumming and music, a blessing of the horses, which saw at least a thousand horses and riders come into town one afternoon (technically I don’t think the horses are part of Alborada, but it happened the same weekend this year), giant paper maché dolls dancing, and the “Voladores de Papantla” which are people spinning on ropes around a 100 foot high pole, slowly lowering to the ground.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_112530_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_112530_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_112530_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_112530_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_112530_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Alborada festival, san miguel de allende, mexico photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_112530_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_124201_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_124201_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_124201_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_124201_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_124201_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="blessing of the horses san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_124201_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_125834_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_125834_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_125834_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_125834_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_125834_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="blessing of the horses san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_125834_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>From what I’ve read, the central premise of the festival/party is, well, it depends a little on who you are, how Catholic you are and how far back into history you want to reach. Ostensibly though the parade at least is the story of St Michael, patron saint of San Miguel, defeating um, something. How exactly the very indigenous parts of the festival — the Chichimecas are the local tribe in this area — fit with that is a little mysterious to me. </p> -<p>The dancing groups are highly organized in a hierarchy of seniority, with each group of dancers having two elders who represent the Aztec gods Cipactonal and Oxomoco, who handed down the various rites to humanity. And at least some of the dances represent the various tribes asking for forgiveness for “misunderstandings and mistreatments” from the other tribes.</p> -<p>That much a bit of research can teach you, but how that all fits together with the post-conquest Catholic symbolism and the festival of St Miguel is something you’d have to be born into to really understand in any meaningful way. </p> -<p>As an outsider all you can really do is watch. So we did. And there were conchero dancers, huge xúchiles (floral arrangements with palm fronds and lots of marigolds mounted on bamboo frames), and more traditional parade-style floats, all going up our street to the church and square at the top of the hill, the parroquia.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_171455_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171455_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171455_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171455_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171455_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_171455_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_171517-1_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171517-1_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171517-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171517-1_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_171517-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_171517-1_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_172613_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172613_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172613_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172613_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172613_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_172613_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_172930-2_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172930-2_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172930-2_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172930-2_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_172930-2_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_172930-2_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_173522_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_173522_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_173522_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_173522_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-29_173522_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-29_173522_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>The dancing lasts late into the night. We, for most part, did not last very late into the night. One night after the kids were asleep Corrinne and I walked up to the parroquia and watched the Voladores. </p> -<div> - <video poster="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/videos/2018/out2_aw5czsl.jpg" controls="true" loop="false" preload="auto" id="3" class="vidautovid"> - <source src="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/videos/2018/volvodores_iIw6XK1.webm" type="video/webm"> - <source src="https://luxagraf.net/media/images/videos/volvodores_3SRa8nL.mp4" type="video/mp4"> - Your browser does not support video playback via HTML5. - </video> -</div> - -<p>The next day everyone was back up in the parroquia area and the dancing picked up roughly where it left off. We went up so the kids could see the Voladores, but their patience isn’t quite up to Mexican standards just yet.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_153242_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_153242_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_153242_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_153242_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_153242_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="watching the dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_153242_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161048-3_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161048-3_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161048-3_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161048-3_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161048-3_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161048-3_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161100_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161100_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161100_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161100_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161100_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161100_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_160638_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160638_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160638_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160638_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160638_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_160638_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This guy was on of the best best dancers in this group, plus, red contacts."> - </a> -<figcaption>This guy was on of the best best dancers in this group, plus, red contacts.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161041-2_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161041-2_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161041-2_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161041-2_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161041-2_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161041-2_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_160614-1_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160614-1_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160614-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160614-1_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_160614-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_160614-1_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="I imagine dancing all day and all night is exhausting, especially in these clothes, in this sun. By day three not everyone was into it anymore."> - </a> -<figcaption>I imagine dancing all day and all night is exhausting, especially in these clothes, in this sun. By day three not everyone was into it anymore.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161126-1_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161126-1_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161126-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161126-1_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161126-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161126-1_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161212-1_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161212-1_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161212-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161212-1_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161212-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161212-1_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161314_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161314_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161314_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161314_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_161314_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_161314_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival_picwide.jpg" alt="dancers, Alborada festival, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-09-30_164020-1_alborada-festival.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It went on for at least one more day, in some cases two, perhaps even three, depending on who you are and what you were celebrating. We pretty much gave up after Saturday night, we were exhausted. Clearly we’ll have to work ourselves up to Mexican levels of celebration before Día de Muertos rolls around.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Coot </li> - - <li>Bewick's Wren </li> - - <li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher </li> - - <li>Broad-billed Hummingbird </li> - - <li>Cassin's Kingbird </li> - - <li>Cattle Egret </li> - - <li>Crested Caracara </li> - - <li>House Sparrow </li> - - <li>House Wren </li> - - <li>Inca Dove </li> - - <li>Northern Shoveler </li> - - <li>Ring-necked Duck </li> - - <li>Ruddy Duck </li> - - <li>Vermilion Flycatcher </li> - - <li>Violet-crowned Hummingbird </li> - - <li>White-faced Ibis </li> - - <li>White-tailed Kite </li> - - <li>White-winged Dove </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/2018/09/big-exit" rel="prev" title=" Big Exit">Big Exit</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/10/como-se-goza-en-el-barrio" rel="next" title=" Como Se Goza En El Barrio">Como Se Goza En El Barrio</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3573" 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 25, 2018 at 8:33 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Thanks for the fascinating description of the Alborada festival. I love all the vibrant colors in your pictures, and the video of the Volardores was great.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3574" 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 25, 2018 at 10:22 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Gwen-</p> -<p>Thanks, glad you enjoyed the post.</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="276" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833319" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="fc6a326efb7ac60f6500d8dbbfcec7bcb4ef543d" 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 grabbed the fancy fast bus from MXCD to San Miguel, which came complete with seat-back movie screens that the kids used to watch some cartoons in Spanish. I watched the countryside roll by and, by force of habit, kept track of campgrounds via the [ioverlander](http://ioverlander.com/) site.
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-Since we got to San Miguel four days early, we had nowhere to stay. Fortunately Corrinne's parents squeezed us in and we spent the next day wandering around, getting a feel for our new home.
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-A day later the Alborada began. At 4 AM in the morning. Actually it was closer to 2 AM. The Jardin was packed, there was plenty of music and then thousands and thousands of fireworks. Not that I saw it, but I did periodically wake up to volleys of fireworks between 3 and 5 AM.
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-I've been in quite a few large scale parties -- Songkran, Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve in New York. San Miguel's Alborada deserves a spot among those, it's a hell of a party and it lasts for four or five days.
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-There's way too much to keep track of as an outsider, but we managed to see a couple parades, hours and hours of dancing, drumming and music, a blessing of the horses, which saw at least a thousand horses and riders come into town one afternoon (technically I don't think the horses are part of Alborada, but it happened the same weekend this year), giant paper maché dolls dancing, and the "Voladores de Papantla" which are people spinning on ropes around a 100 foot high pole, slowly lowering to the ground.
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-<img src="images/2018/2018-09-29_112530_alborada-festival.jpg" id="image-1717" class="picwide" />
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-From what I've read, the central premise of the festival/party is, well, it depends a little on who you are, how Catholic you are and how far back into history you want to reach. Ostensibly though the parade at least is the story of St Michael, patron saint of San Miguel, defeating um, something. How exactly the very indigenous parts of the festival -- the Chichimecas are the local tribe in this area -- fit with that is a little mysterious to me.
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-The dancing groups are highly organized in a hierarchy of seniority, with each group of dancers having two elders who represent the Aztec gods Cipactonal and Oxomoco, who handed down the various rites to humanity. And at least some of the dances represent the various tribes asking for forgiveness for "misunderstandings and mistreatments" from the other tribes.
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-That much a bit of research can teach you, but how that all fits together with the post-conquest Catholic symbolism and the festival of St Miguel is something you'd have to be born into to really understand in any meaningful way.
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-As an outsider all you can really do is watch. So we did. And there were conchero dancers, huge xúchiles (floral arrangements with palm fronds and lots of marigolds mounted on bamboo frames), and more traditional parade-style floats, all going up our street to the church and square at the top of the hill, the parroquia.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-10-23T21:00:00" itemprop="datePublished">October <span>23, 2018</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>Every morning I get up, put on my coffee, and walk all the way to the front of the house to swing open the two oaken doors that serve as our window onto the street below. I can tell the time by what’s happening outside. Usually the eastern sky is already glowing pink behind the hill, but the streetlights are still on and the western sky a deep purplish blue with three stars still visible. The rock pigeons and white-winged doves will be just arriving, pausing here and there on rooftops as they make their way uphill. Most mornings a quiet pair of little Inca doves sit on drain pipes two stories up, eye level with me, watching the street below. Sometimes we watch each other, the doves and I.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-14_072906_around-san-miguel.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-14_072906_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-14_072906_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-14_072906_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-14_072906_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Early morning, Canal st, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-14_072906_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Even in the half light the street is always filled with people. If it’s very early I’ll see the sweepers making their way up, cleaning the night’s debris. After them come the workers, walking up the hill to their jobs, munching tamales or breads, rolls, containers of fruit, some with cups of coffee or bottles of coke. There’s a rhythm to their movement, like rivulets of water bouncing over stone sidewalks. It’s a rhythm that’s matched by another coming down the hill — buses wheeze and groan making the turn onto San Antonio just before our house, and cars and motorcycles weave in and out and around, dropping off spouses to work, children to school. Snatches of conversation drift up to the window where I sit, goodbyes and hellos floating around the ever-brightening day. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_071223_around-san-miguel.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_071223_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_071223_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_071223_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_071223_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Early morning, Canal st, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_071223_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_074222_around-san-miguel.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074222_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074222_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074222_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074222_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Early morning, Canal st, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_074222_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Sometimes, if I’m late to the window the vendors are already pulling in their carts, setting up for the day — the fruit sellers, the juice lady, and somewhere down the street, the tamale lady. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg" alt="Early morning, Canal st, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_074428_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Nearly always there is music. It is loudest between 12AM and 2AM when people seem to leave the bars and head back out to wherever they live, speakers throbbing. But people walk with music playing on phones in the morning too. No one plays music quietly. It’s my kind of place in that sense because even if I don’t like the music, which I usually do, but even if I don’t, I still like it loud. Occasionally someone walks up the street playing guitar and singing. Once Elliott and I sat in a chair at the window and watched a lone drummer come up in the middle of the day, pounding out a beat for no apparent reason other than he wanted to play the drum. This morning a small parade of indecipherable origin or destination wandered by with horns, drums and guitars.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <video poster="/media/images/videos/2018/poster051.jpg" controls="true" loop="false" preload="auto" id="4" class="vidautovid"> - <source src="/media/images/videos/2018/0051-web2.webm" type="video/webm"> - <source src="/media/images/videos/2018/051-web_vJQHktQ.mp4" type="video/mp4"> - Your browser does not support video playback via HTML5. - </video> -</div> - -<p>For all its constancy though, we get little continuity. Music drifts up from the street and into our house in little staccato bursts, the time it takes for a car or bus or motorcycle to pass by with its ranchero, samba, salsa or more modern, less drifting, more wall shaking sounds of pop, rock and rap, and then it’s gone, on down the hill.</p> -<p>At first the constant noise was annoying, but we adjusted. Now it feels slightly strange on the rare occasions when I hear no squeal of worn brakes, rattle and growl of engines in various states of collapse, or shouts or cries or clangs or dings or clamor, when I hear silence. </p> -<p>It might sound strange, given how much time we’ve spent away from the clamor of cities, to know that I like it. It surprises me a bit, but there are some qualifications worth mentioning. For instance, this is a real city, not a sanitized one. The streets here are where people live out their lives to a large degree. People rule the streets, not cars. Food is everywhere. There are no huge stores, there are tiny stores selling single things well. To get everything you need you’ll need to visit a dozen of them, talk to dozen people, interact with a dozen more coming and going. Life is more public, but more fun too. There’s only one place in America I can think of that even comes close — New Orleans, but even it lacks the street food.</p> -<p>We do miss being outside all the time, and it might bother me more if I didn’t know that I’ll be returning to outside life again.</p> -<p>And it did take a little adjusting to being in a city. </p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173753_around-san-miguel.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173753_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173753_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173753_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173753_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Bar Casanova, Canal st, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173753_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - -<figure class="pic66"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173607_around-san-miguel_zIuxRi0.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173607_around-san-miguel_zIuxRi0_pic66.jpg" alt="Wiring, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173607_around-san-miguel_zIuxRi0.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This one is for my friend Clay who's an electrician."></a> -<figcaption>This one is for my friend Clay who’s an electrician.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173953_around-san-miguel.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173953_around-san-miguel_pic66.jpg" alt="Church dome, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173953_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>There is always that period of shock when you first arrive somewhere new, especially if its outside your birth culture. I think what people mean when they say “culture shock” is the severe cognitive dissidence that comes from realizing that everything you think is true, and “just the way things are” turns out to be neither. </p> -<p>Everything you believe, do, say, and think is relative to the culture you were raised in. </p> -<p>We say that a lot — everything is relative — and we think we know what it means, but by and large we don’t <em>live</em> it. Go abroad and you will suddenly live it.</p> -<p>The simplest things in life become grand adventures. You either thrive on this or you have a rough time until you figure out the new world you’re in. Or you go home. Even if you enjoy it like I do, it can still be overwhelming at times.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/DSC08128.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC08128_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC08128_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC08128_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC08128_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Canal st, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/DSC08128.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/DSC08134.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC08134_pic66.jpg" alt="Streets San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/DSC08134.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_191411_around-san-miguel.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_191411_around-san-miguel_pic66.jpg" alt="Sunset from the jardin, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_191411_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>This is why, generally speaking, people spend their vacation in little islands of their own culture that have established themselves abroad. People from the United States go to Cancun because there’s an entire industry set up to insulate them from having to deal with the vast difference between their culture and the local culture. Australians go to Bali for the same reason. The British love India. The Japanese have enclaves that put a little bit of Tokyo in Bangkok. You can rest assured that every place you think of as a tourist destination, every place that’s on the cover of a glossy travel magazine, is a place your culture has established a kind of bulkhead. </p> -<p>A lot of people on the internet turn up their noses at these sort of places, “tourist traps” is the snob’s term for them. Some people seem to think they lack authenticity, as if some things in the world were somehow more real than others. That doesn’t mean you should spend your time (or any money) in tourist traps. I don’t. But they have their place and they have value. </p> -<p>Tourist traps — bulkheads if you will — are important gateways between worlds. If there wasn’t some way to smooth over cultural differences nearly everyone who ever left their own culture would be back the next day. I know this because I made the rookie mistake of avoiding tourist traps on my first trip abroad, and my first week in India was pretty rough.</p> -<p>It’s really hard to relearn every assumption you’ve ever made about the world. No one wants to spend their precious two to six weeks of vacation a year doing that. It’s not most people’s idea of fun. Good tourist bulkheads smooth some of this over, allow in just enough outside culture to whet your appetite for more, but not so much that you spend an entire day struggling to find toothpaste.</p> -<p>I happen to be one of those weird people that thrives on turning my world upside down. I like spending the day trying to figure out how the hell to buy toothpaste. Then the next day, you don’t have to worry about toothpaste, you can move on to the next thing. Little by little you find the things you want and you form these little patterns, you walk over here to get tortillas, over here to get coffee, over there to get roast pollo, up the hill for the gordita lady, around the corner to the flouta lady, to the market downhill for veggies, but the market uphill for fruit and meat. You figure things out, day by day, little by little. Until, if you’re me, you start to notice your little patterns.</p> -<p>Sometimes I see myself like I imagine a hawk sees the patterns of a field mouse moving to and fro, getting seeds here, roots other there, all by traveling well-worn trenches in the grass that are obvious to good eyes even 2000 feet in the air. If you’re me you notice these trails and you force yourself out of them, force yourself to find a new fruit vendor, a new butcher, a new gordita stand, a new place with better salsa, a new queso stand in the mercado, a new pollo rostizado seller. Actually, no, I’m loyal to the chicken lady. We have an understanding. You have to have some patterns.</p> -<p>Eventually though you parse out a place and start to find yourself in it, start to understand it in some way. Not the way the people born into it do, but in your way. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173435_around-san-miguel.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173435_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173435_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173435_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-26_173435_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" alt="El pollo rostizado, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-26_173435_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Left to my own devices I'd just get a chicken from here every other day and live happily ever after. Alas, the rest of my family believes in this thing called variety."> - </a> -<figcaption>Left to my own devices I’d just get a chicken from here every other day and live happily ever after. Alas, the rest of my family believes in this thing called variety.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>That’s a common expat mistake, thinking you understand a place like the locals. That’s impossible. I will never understand San Miguel the way the locals do. And they’ll never understand the Los Angeles area the way I do. But you do start to develop your own understanding. Finding your places helps you find your place. And surprisingly quickly a place can come to feel like home, whether it’s the wilds of Lake Superior, the barren emptiness of the Badlands, or the main drag in San Miguel de Allende. Home is where you are.</p> -<p><small>[Note: Most of the titles on luxagraf come from songs, I rarely point it out, but in this case, since it’s in Spanish, I thought I’d mention the translation: <em>Como Se Goza En El barrio</em> translates literally to “how you enjoy in the neighborhood”. The song is by the great Cuban musician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenio_Rodríguez">Arsenio Rodríguez</a> and comes from the album of the same name, which is well worth getting if you enjoy Cuban son, mambo and similar styles of music.]</small></p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Coot </li> - - <li>Bewick's Wren </li> - - <li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher </li> - - <li>Broad-billed Hummingbird </li> - - <li>Cassin's Kingbird </li> - - <li>Cattle Egret </li> - - <li>Crested Caracara </li> - - <li>House Sparrow </li> - - <li>House Wren </li> - - <li>Inca Dove </li> - - <li>Northern Shoveler </li> - - <li>Ring-necked Duck </li> - - <li>Ruddy Duck </li> - - <li>Vermilion Flycatcher </li> - - <li>Violet-crowned Hummingbird </li> - - <li>White-faced Ibis </li> - - <li>White-tailed Kite </li> - - <li>White-winged Dove </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/2018/10/alborada" rel="prev" title=" Alborada">Alborada</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/11/friday" rel="next" title=" Friday">Friday</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">2 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3591" 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">November 01, 2018 at 8:42 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>I love the gateway analogy! Awesome article.</p> -<p>If I were in your situation right now I think I would have to draw a map of the hood so I didnt forget my way and cool things I saw day to day.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3593" 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 01, 2018 at 11:40 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>That’s a good idea, I have not done that. I’ve been walking different routes in specific patterns to organize things in my head, and taking random bus routes just to see what’s along them. 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I can tell the time by what's happening outside. Usually the eastern sky is already glowing pink behind the hill, but the streetlights are still on and the western sky a deep purplish blue with three stars still visible. The rock pigeons and white-winged doves will be just arriving, pausing here and there on rooftops as they make their way uphill. Most mornings a quiet pair of little Inca doves sit on drain pipes two stories up, eye level with me, watching the street below. Sometimes we watch each other, the doves and I.
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-Even in the half light the street is always filled with people. If it's very early I'll see the sweepers making their way up, cleaning the night's debris. After them come the workers, walking up the hill to their jobs, munching tamales or breads, rolls, containers of fruit, some with cups of coffee or bottles of coke. There's a rhythm to their movement, like rivulets of water bouncing over stone sidewalks. It's a rhythm that's matched by another coming down the hill -- buses wheeze and groan making the turn onto San Antonio just before our house, and cars and motorcycles weave in and out and around, dropping off spouses to work, children to school. Snatches of conversation drift up to the window where I sit, goodbyes and hellos floating around the ever-brightening day.
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-Sometimes, if I'm late to the window the vendors are already pulling in their carts, setting up for the day -- the fruit sellers, the juice lady, and somewhere down the street, the tamale lady.
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-Nearly always there is music. It is loudest between 12AM and 2AM when people seem to leave the bars and head back out to wherever they live, speakers throbbing. But people walk with music playing on phones in the morning too. No one plays music quietly. It's my kind of place in that sense because even if I don't like the music, which I usually do, but even if I don't, I still like it loud. Occasionally someone walks up the street playing guitar and singing. Once Elliott and I sat in a chair at the window and watched a lone drummer come up in the middle of the day, pounding out a beat for no apparent reason other than he wanted to play the drum. This morning a small parade of indecipherable origin or destination wandered by with horns, drums and guitars.
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-For all its constancy though, we get little continuity. Music drifts up from the street and into our house in little staccato bursts, the time it takes for a car or bus or motorcycle to pass by with its ranchero, samba, salsa or more modern, less drifting, more wall shaking sounds of pop, rock and rap, and then it's gone, on down the hill.
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-At first the constant noise was annoying, but we adjusted. Now it feels slightly strange on the rare occasions when I hear no squeal of worn brakes, rattle and growl of engines in various states of collapse, or shouts or cries or clangs or dings or clamor, when I hear silence.
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-It might sound strange, given how much time we've spent away from the clamor of cities, to know that I like it. It surprises me a bit, but there are some qualifications worth mentioning. For instance, this is a real city, not a sanitized one. The streets here are where people live out their lives to a large degree. People rule the streets, not cars. Food is everywhere. There are no huge stores, there are tiny stores selling single things well. To get everything you need you'll need to visit a dozen of them, talk to dozen people, interact with a dozen more coming and going. Life is more public, but more fun too. There's only one place in America I can think of that even comes close -- New Orleans, but even it lacks the street food.
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-We do miss being outside all the time, and it might bother me more if I didn't know that I'll be returning to outside life again.
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-There is always that period of shock when you first arrive somewhere new, especially if its outside your birth culture. I think what people mean when they say "culture shock" is the severe cognitive dissidence that comes from realizing that everything you think is true, and "just the way things are" turns out to be neither.
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-Everything you believe, do, say, and think is relative to the culture you were raised in.
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-We say that a lot -- everything is relative -- and we think we know what it means, but by and large we don't *live* it. Go abroad and you will suddenly live it.
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-The simplest things in life become grand adventures. You either thrive on this or you have a rough time until you figure out the new world you're in. Or you go home. Even if you enjoy it like I do, it can still be overwhelming at times.
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-This is why, generally speaking, people spend their vacation in little islands of their own culture that have established themselves abroad. People from the United States go to Cancun because there's an entire industry set up to insulate them from having to deal with the vast difference between their culture and the local culture. Australians go to Bali for the same reason. The British love India. The Japanese have enclaves that put a little bit of Tokyo in Bangkok. You can rest assured that every place you think of as a tourist destination, every place that's on the cover of a glossy travel magazine, is a place your culture has established a kind of bulkhead.
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-A lot of people on the internet turn up their noses at these sort of places, "tourist traps" is the snob's term for them. Some people seem to think they lack authenticity, as if some things in the world were somehow more real than others. That doesn't mean you should spend your time (or any money) in tourist traps. I don't. But they have their place and they have value.
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-Tourist traps -- bulkheads if you will -- are important gateways between worlds. If there wasn't some way to smooth over cultural differences nearly everyone who ever left their own culture would be back the next day. I know this because I made the rookie mistake of avoiding tourist traps on my first trip abroad, and my first week in India was pretty rough.
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-It's really hard to relearn every assumption you've ever made about the world. No one wants to spend their precious two to six weeks of vacation a year doing that. It's not most people's idea of fun. Good tourist bulkheads smooth some of this over, allow in just enough outside culture to whet your appetite for more, but not so much that you spend an entire day struggling to find toothpaste.
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-I happen to be one of those weird people that thrives on turning my world upside down. I like spending the day trying to figure out how the hell to buy toothpaste. Then the next day, you don't have to worry about toothpaste, you can move on to the next thing. Little by little you find the things you want and you form these little patterns, you walk over here to get tortillas, over here to get coffee, over there to get roast pollo, up the hill for the gordita lady, around the corner to the flouta lady, to the market downhill for veggies, but the market uphill for fruit and meat. You figure things out, day by day, little by little. Until, if you're me, you start to notice your little patterns.
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-Sometimes I see myself like I imagine a hawk sees the patterns of a field mouse moving to and fro, getting seeds here, roots other there, all by traveling well-worn trenches in the grass that are obvious to good eyes even 2000 feet in the air. If you're me you notice these trails and you force yourself out of them, force yourself to find a new fruit vendor, a new butcher, a new gordita stand, a new place with better salsa, a new queso stand in the mercado, a new pollo rostizado seller. Actually, no, I'm loyal to the chicken lady. We have an understanding. You have to have some patterns.
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-Eventually though you parse out a place and start to find yourself in it, start to understand it in some way. Not the way the people born into it do, but in your way.
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-That's a common expat mistake, thinking you understand a place like the locals. That's impossible. I will never understand San Miguel the way the locals do. And they'll never understand the Los Angeles area the way I do. But you do start to develop your own understanding. Finding your places helps you find your place. And surprisingly quickly a place can come to feel like home, whether it's the wilds of Lake Superior, the barren emptiness of the Badlands, or the main drag in San Miguel de Allende. Home is where you are.
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-<small>[Note: Most of the titles on luxagraf come from songs, I rarely point it out, but in this case, since it's in Spanish, I thought I'd mention the translation: *Como Se Goza En El barrio* translates literally to "how you enjoy in the neighborhood". The song is by the great Cuban musician [Arsenio Rodríguez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenio_Rodríguez) and comes from the album of the same name, which is well worth getting if you enjoy Cuban son, mambo and similar styles of music.]</small> diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/11/food-table-tonight.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/11/food-table-tonight.html deleted file mode 100644 index 1d3199b..0000000 --- a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/11/food-table-tonight.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,603 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html -class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> - -<head> - <title>There’ll Be Food On The Table Tonight - by Scott Gilbertson</title> - <meta charset="utf-8"> - <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - <meta name="description" - content="Food powers economies, shapes ecology, dictates religious rituals, causes wars, drives the explorations of the unknown, determines the size and shape of our bodies, and, to an extent we are only beginning to realize, shapes how we act, how we think, and ev"> - <meta name="author" content="Scott Gilbertson"> - <link rel="alternate" - type="application/rss+xml" - title="Luxagraf RSS feed" - href="https://luxagraf.net/rss/"> - <link rel="stylesheet" - href="/media/screenv9.css" - media="screen"> - <link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/print.css" media="print" title="print" /> - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> - <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json" /> - <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://stats.luxagraf.net"> - - <link rel="canonical" href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2018/11/food-table-tonight" /> - <meta name="ICBM" content="20.911754362547363, -100.75172764876405" /> - <meta name="geo.position" content="20.911754362547363; 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-11-26T10:27:53" itemprop="datePublished">November <span>26, 2018</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 abandoned all pretense of traditional American fare for Thanksgiving this year and instead went full Mexican — tamale pie, chayote squash, ensalda pepino and plenty of salsas. This was partly because none of us like roast turkey anyway and partly because we wanted to eat what was around us. To me if you aren’t eating what’s around you, if you’re always hunting out the familiar foods from back home, you’re missing out on one of the best things about travel. </p> -<p>There are, to my mind three great things in the physical world: <em>phylos</em><sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, sex and food. There are many other great things, but most of them are subcategories of these three. The first two you’ll have to figure out for yourself, but food… food is life. Food powers economies, shapes ecology, dictates religious rituals, causes wars, drives the explorations of the unknown, determines the size and shape of our bodies, and, to an extent we are only beginning to realize, shapes how we act, how we think, and even how we see the world. </p> -<p>Food has always been a big part of our travels, even if I don’t often write about it much. Sometimes we refer to places we’ve been by which foods were really good there. Colorado and its Palisade peaches. The UP and its cherries. Louisiana and its boudin. Florida and its gulf shrimp. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141200_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141200_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141200_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141200_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141200_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141200_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>In Mexico it’s the guavas and green apples and strawberries. But even more than any specific foods, in Mexico food permeates nearly every aspect of life. Food is everywhere all the time. Sometimes for just dinner, sometimes for ceremony, sometimes for sale. I doubt you could walk more than 20 feet down any street without passing some sort of food. There are so many things to try that we’ve been here months and I haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s available. </p> -<p>Partly that’s because I tend toward a slow, systematic exploration of food. While I love eating prepared food, especially street food, what I really love is the markets. I didn’t plan it, but it just some happened that our first place was a block from one of the bigger markets in town. It’s not necessarily the nicest, nor does it have the best stuff, but <em>Mercado de San Juan de Dios</em> is still my favorite.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_142003_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_142003_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_142003_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_142003_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_142003_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_142003_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141134_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141134_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141134_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141134_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141134_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141134_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_123558_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_123558_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_123558_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_123558_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_123558_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_123558_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I like to go and search out things I don’t recognize, and then buy them. But then rather than rush in I get one new thing every time I go. I always start with fruit because there’s really no such thing as a bad fruit. Once I’ve tried all the fruit on offer I move into vegetables and after that different cuts of meat. Lately I’ve been exploring Mexican cheeses, working my way through a variety of queso oaxaca, quesa fresca, and some other round one I haven’t even learned the name of yet. I’m also on the hunt for a good cotija cheese. </p> -<p>But it’s not just exploring the variety of foods, I also like to try things from each vendor to see who has what I like the best, at the best price. I get perhaps a little obsessed. I’ve had dreams about buying fruit. I recognize that this is a little odd to most people. </p> -<p>But sampling and talking to people is what makes it fun. To me that’s the point of exploring food in another culture, to get to understand the people growing it, selling it and making it. It’s a way into a culture, for me particularly I guess. I’m not always that outgoing so sometimes I can make connections with people through food much easier than talking. And to me there is no better way to start to understand the daily lives of the people around you than to go to the local market and see what’s there, the food, the people, how it all fits together.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141304-1_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141304-1_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141304-1_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141304-1_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141304-1_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141304-1_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado_picwide.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141231_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>When I first got here I went to the center of the market, bought a couple tacos and a coke and sat and watched. I watched what people bought, how they examined it, what they picked, what they rejected, what they asked the vendor to get, what they insisted on getting themselves. I watched how they handled it, what was delicate, what was not, who was careful with what they were picking out, who was not (the latter were probably buying it for someone else). </p> -<p>I came back the next day and spent another half hour watching. Then another. Then I walked around the every stall, looking things over, figuring out who had the best of what, how things changed from day to day, what time the new stuff arrived, how it was rotated, who cared if you grabbed the fresh stuff in the bins under the display and who didn’t, who pulled their their borderline fruits and veggies, who didn’t, which butcher got whole animals and cut them down, which got the halves and quarters already cut. All these details tell you stories about the people behind them, and if you want the best possible local ingredients you have to go out and learn these stories. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141244-1_mercado_hixGkHl.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141244-1_mercado_hixGkHl_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141244-1_mercado_hixGkHl_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141244-1_mercado_hixGkHl_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_141244-1_mercado_hixGkHl_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_141244-1_mercado_hixGkHl.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Sometimes of course you do things even though you know better. I buy most of my fruit from a woman who is slow to rotate things and I have to carefully look over every piece I buy, but I like her, she teaches me the Spanish words of veggies I don’t know and I sometimes help her translate words in her daughter’s English homework. People are more important than ingredients.</p> -<p>When I finally had a few ideas about what was going on in the market, I dove in. I started to buy all the things I didn’t recognize, didn’t understand, and didn’t normally eat. I figured out how to eat cactus — it’s delicious, though tricky, like a strange combination of asparagus and okra — then I went for chayote, except that while I was studying it there on the counter at home, trying to decide what to do with it, Corrinne dove in and fried it up with potatoes, onions, garlic and mint. The kids, who had never seen a guava until about two months ago now plow through about 10 a day. At first we scooped the seeds out, but then we noticed the locals never do that so now we just eat them whole, seeds and all. They’re also big fans of the <em>elote</em>, boiled corn on the cob you can get on just about every corner.</p> -<p>I head over to market generally every day, partly to get out of the house, but partly because there’s still so much there I don’t understand yet, so many foods in so many stalls, it’ll take me months to get through them all, and that’s only one market in one town. It would take years just to even scratch the surface of one place. Because after I figure out what I like and where to get it I like to figure out where it’s coming from, who’s growing it? What do they do? Why? How? You pull at one tiny thread and you can follow it forever. Like I said, I recognize that this is a little odd, even obsessive.</p> -<p>Luckily my family is usually game to go with me and try new foods. The other day I came back from the big market outside of town with a cup full of dried, salted, chili-covered sardines and even my kids all had one. Only one of them actually like it, and in this case, I think she liked them more than even I did, but it makes me happy that they’re all willing to at least try new things. That’s long been my motto: try anything twice.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_135339_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135339_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135339_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135339_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135339_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating tacos in mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_135339_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_135311_mercado.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135311_mercado_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135311_mercado_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135311_mercado_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_135311_mercado_picwide-med.jpg" alt="eating tacos in mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_135311_mercado.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="My daughter's favorite taco stand in the market. You can get 5 little tacos for 30 pesos (about $1.50 US). She's on her second plate in this photo."> - </a> -<figcaption>My daughter’s favorite taco stand in the market. You can get 5 little tacos for 30 pesos (about $1.50 US). She’s on her second plate in this photo.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>A lot of people seem to obsess over food in other ways. Like health. I seems like nearly everyday there’s some new food discovery that either kills you or cures you of everything. Then there’s the whole fear of foreign food. You see this when chefs <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/craving-the-other-0">talk</a> about “elevating” street food (so they can overcharge you for it). You also see it in people’s fear of getting sick from food they’re not totally comfortable with. I’ve overheard tourists around here telling each other not to the street food, but yet they go to the restaurant up the hill and sit down to a dinner made from the same ingredients, from the same markets, coming from a kitchen they <em>can’t</em> see. That’s far more likely to get you sick than the stalls in the market where you can see for yourself every step of the process. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_134116_mercado_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/2018/2018-12-26_134116_mercado_01_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_134116_mercado_01_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_134116_mercado_01_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-12-26_134116_mercado_01_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mercado san juan de dio, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-12-26_134116_mercado_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="This is what a clean kitchen looks like. Yes, it's a stall in a market, but trust me, this is where you should eat if you don't want to get sick."> - </a> -<figcaption>This is what a clean kitchen looks like. Yes, it’s a stall in a market, but trust me, this is where you should eat if you don’t want to get sick.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Sometimes it blows my mind how little people understand food and, more importantly, food preparation. I do have an advantage I suppose, having worked in the restaurant industry for about six years, but most of what helps me comes from learning the basics of microbiology. All the restaurant experience did was provide practical examples of microbiology in action. If you food is bad, you’ll smell it. Trust me.</p> -<p>Contrary to what you’ve probably seen on TV, most of running a restaurant does not involve cooking. There is some of that, but mostly you stand around and wait. Technically you’re chopping stuff, but after a few years you can do that without thinking about it. So really you’re just standing around. Then for about three hours you’re so busy and focused it feels like only ten minutes went by. But mostly you wait. You smoke a lot and stand around a lot. And for me, standing around smoking, I needed something to read. There’s not a lot to read in restaurant, so I read all the bizarre food industry trade magazines that would arrive every day in the mail. </p> -<p>One of the things that you learn from reading these bizarre magazines — which would have cover stories on strange things like how to entice millennials with foods that remind them of their favorite sitcoms — is that real food poisoning, the outbreaks that the CDC tracks, not the ones where you mistakenly attribute some diarrhea to whatever bizarre food you ate most recently, the real outbreaks, almost always come from vegetables, particularly vegetables that grow on the ground and have to be harvested by hand. Because the people harvesting the food don’t get paid enough to take bathroom breaks, so, well, you do the math. From my anecdotal observations, if you really want genuine food poisoning, a bout of salmonella say, eat asparagus, preferably raw. </p> -<p>Which is why I find it hilarious that so many people here are deathly afraid of street food, but in the next breath tell me how they don’t need to wash their veggies because they get them at the organic market. WAT?! And no, I never say anything. It’s not my place to shatter anyone’s carefully constructed delusions. Though I did write this. So now you know. Wash your veggies, eat where you can see the kitchen. You’ll mostly likely be fine.</p> -<p>That said, I eat unwashed strawberries all the time and regularly get gorditas from a place where they use dirty rags from god knows where to sop up the grease just before handing it to you. But I have a stomach of steel. I’m not sure which came first though, my stomach of steel or my willingness to eat anything at least twice.</p> -<p>But more importantly than a strong stomach, I eat at that place because I see the people around me doing it too. They’re still here so it must be fine. That’s the part of food that a lot of people seem to forget — ingredients are nothing, people are what matter. I could spend the next ten years practicing making tamales, but I’ll never be as good at it as the abuelas sitting on every street corner here (don’t buy their tamales though, they aren’t selling the good ones).</p> -<p>When Thanksgiving rolled around we wanted the foods we were excited about and that happened to be tamales, chayote and tomatillos, so that’s what we made, and man was it good. So good it makes you thankful that you have the opportunity to explore food rather than be ruled by it, by the need for it, as so many are here and everywhere. Thankful that another country would even let you come to it, let alone have free run of the place to meet its people enjoy its foods. </p> -<div class="footnote"> -<hr> -<ol> -<li id="fn:1"> -<p>Greek, “to love”. <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>American Coot </li> - - <li>Bewick's Wren </li> - - <li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher </li> - - <li>Broad-billed Hummingbird </li> - - <li>Cassin's Kingbird </li> - - <li>Cattle Egret </li> - - <li>Crested Caracara </li> - - <li>House Sparrow </li> - - <li>House Wren </li> - - <li>Inca Dove </li> - - <li>Northern Shoveler </li> - - <li>Ring-necked Duck </li> - - <li>Ruddy Duck </li> - - <li>Vermilion Flycatcher </li> - - <li>Violet-crowned Hummingbird </li> - - <li>White-faced Ibis </li> - - <li>White-tailed Kite </li> - - <li>White-winged Dove </li> - </ul> - </ul> - </aside> - - <aside class="margin-left-none" id="field_notes"> - <h3>Field Notes</h3> - <ul> - <li><a href="/field-notes/2019/01/drinking-water-mexico">Drinking Water in Mexico</a></li> - </ul> - </aside> - - </div> - </article> - - - <div class="nav-wrapper"> - <nav id="page-navigation" > - <ul> - <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/11/lets-go-ride" rel="prev" title=" Let's Go For a Ride">Let's Go For a Ride</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/12/mary-wild-moor" rel="next" title=" Mary of the Wild Moor">Mary of the Wild Moor</a> - </li> - </ul> - </nav> - </div> - - - - - - -<p class="comments--header">6 Comments</p> - - - - - - - <div class="comments--wrapper"> - - <div id="comment-3694" class="comment"> - <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> - <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Jonathan" /> - </noscript> - <div class="comment--head"> - <span class="who"><b>Jonathan</b></span> - <span class="when">December 27, 2018 at 7:45 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Midnight Oil?</p> -<p>Also, did you ask people if you could take those photos :)</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3695" 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, 2018 at 7:49 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Jonathan-</p> -<p>Yes, not one of my favorite songs of theirs, but it happened to come on Pandora while I was writing it, and it fit.</p> -<p>As for the photos, no I did not. But I didn’t shove my camera in anyone’s face. I wasn’t talking about street photography in that piece. </p> -<p>While cultural norms regarding public spaces vary, I haven’t seen anyone here balk at being in the background in anyone’s photos so I don’t think anyone cares.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3703" 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">January 02, 2019 at 2:36 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>All good thoughts on the “street meat”, but what about the water? When in India they didnt warn us too much about the food, but the water on the other hand could and would clean you out.</p> -<p>So, if you are washing your veggies in waste water, whats the point, and you may be doing more harm than good in some cases.</p> -<p>Are you sticking to bottled and filtered, or are you all drinking whatever, whenever?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3704" 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">January 02, 2019 at 2:57 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>So, water. Definitely more complex than meat. Short answer, we use bottled water. The longer answer ended up too long for a comment, so I put up a new article on <a href="/field-notes/2019/01/drinking-water-mexico">drinking water in Mexico</a></p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3705" 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">January 03, 2019 at 9:14 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>You just happened to sit next to a PhD student studying water management heading to San Miguel….. I guess now you know why you got on the flight you got on. Maybe by making that contact it will save you or your family some tummy aches down the road. Good stuff.</p> -<p>So weird how everything seems connected at times. I always think of the article you wrote on the Aspen grove. there is an Aspen grove feel to this world.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3706" 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">January 03, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>True enough. Another thing I learned, 44 is approaching the age where you can stop worrying about metals in your body. By 50-55, you’re unlikely to ingest enough heavy metal to have any effect before you die anyway (statistically speaking anyway). Unless you’re somewhere things are off the charts, like Detroit. Or on a Navajo reservation. For the kids though, metals/chemicals in the water definitely matters.</p> -<p>As for the Aspen grove, I also think about about that all time. That idea is actually one of the cornerstones of the book I’m working on. I definitely think everything is connected. And even if it’s often very difficult or even impossible to see the connections, the process of looking for them makes life a lot more fun and exciting. To me anyway.</p> -<p>[For anyone else reading this, that does not mean everything happens for a reason, the world is far more complex than empty platitudes will ever allow for.]</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="280" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833315" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="787bef4da03663ee0252f02e0c1224fd410e1a3e" 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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This was partly because none of us like roast turkey anyway and partly because we wanted to eat what was around us. To me if you aren't eating what's around you, if you're always hunting out the familiar foods from back home, you're missing out on one of the best things about travel.
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-There are, to my mind three great things in the physical world: *phylos*[^1], sex and food. There are many other great things, but most of them are subcategories of these three. The first two you'll have to figure out for yourself, but food... food is life. Food powers economies, shapes ecology, dictates religious rituals, causes wars, drives the explorations of the unknown, determines the size and shape of our bodies, and, to an extent we are only beginning to realize, shapes how we act, how we think, and even how we see the world.
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-Food has always been a big part of our travels, even if I don't often write about it much. Sometimes we refer to places we've been by which foods were really good there. Colorado and its Palisade peaches. The UP and its cherries. Louisiana and its boudin. Florida and its gulf shrimp.
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-In Mexico it's the guavas and green apples and strawberries. But even more than any specific foods, in Mexico food permeates nearly every aspect of life. Food is everywhere all the time. Sometimes for just dinner, sometimes for ceremony, sometimes for sale. I doubt you could walk more than 20 feet down any street without passing some sort of food. There are so many things to try that we've been here months and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's available.
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-Partly that's because I tend toward a slow, systematic exploration of food. While I love eating prepared food, especially street food, what I really love is the markets. I didn't plan it, but it just some happened that our first place was a block from one of the bigger markets in town. It's not necessarily the nicest, nor does it have the best stuff, but *Mercado de San Juan de Dios* is still my favorite.
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-I like to go and search out things I don't recognize, and then buy them. But then rather than rush in I get one new thing every time I go. I always start with fruit because there's really no such thing as a bad fruit. Once I've tried all the fruit on offer I move into vegetables and after that different cuts of meat. Lately I've been exploring Mexican cheeses, working my way through a variety of queso oaxaca, quesa fresca, and some other round one I haven't even learned the name of yet. I'm also on the hunt for a good cotija cheese.
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-But it's not just exploring the variety of foods, I also like to try things from each vendor to see who has what I like the best, at the best price. I get perhaps a little obsessed. I've had dreams about buying fruit. I recognize that this is a little odd to most people.
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-But sampling and talking to people is what makes it fun. To me that's the point of exploring food in another culture, to get to understand the people growing it, selling it and making it. It's a way into a culture, for me particularly I guess. I'm not always that outgoing so sometimes I can make connections with people through food much easier than talking. And to me there is no better way to start to understand the daily lives of the people around you than to go to the local market and see what's there, the food, the people, how it all fits together.
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-When I first got here I went to the center of the market, bought a couple tacos and a coke and sat and watched. I watched what people bought, how they examined it, what they picked, what they rejected, what they asked the vendor to get, what they insisted on getting themselves. I watched how they handled it, what was delicate, what was not, who was careful with what they were picking out, who was not (the latter were probably buying it for someone else).
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-I came back the next day and spent another half hour watching. Then another. Then I walked around the every stall, looking things over, figuring out who had the best of what, how things changed from day to day, what time the new stuff arrived, how it was rotated, who cared if you grabbed the fresh stuff in the bins under the display and who didn't, who pulled their their borderline fruits and veggies, who didn't, which butcher got whole animals and cut them down, which got the halves and quarters already cut. All these details tell you stories about the people behind them, and if you want the best possible local ingredients you have to go out and learn these stories.
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-Sometimes of course you do things even though you know better. I buy most of my fruit from a woman who is slow to rotate things and I have to carefully look over every piece I buy, but I like her, she teaches me the Spanish words of veggies I don't know and I sometimes help her translate words in her daughter's English homework. People are more important than ingredients.
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-When I finally had a few ideas about what was going on in the market, I dove in. I started to buy all the things I didn't recognize, didn't understand, and didn't normally eat. I figured out how to eat cactus -- it's delicious, though tricky, like a strange combination of asparagus and okra -- then I went for chayote, except that while I was studying it there on the counter at home, trying to decide what to do with it, Corrinne dove in and fried it up with potatoes, onions, garlic and mint. The kids, who had never seen a guava until about two months ago now plow through about 10 a day. At first we scooped the seeds out, but then we noticed the locals never do that so now we just eat them whole, seeds and all. They're also big fans of the *elote*, boiled corn on the cob you can get on just about every corner.
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-I head over to market generally every day, partly to get out of the house, but partly because there's still so much there I don't understand yet, so many foods in so many stalls, it'll take me months to get through them all, and that's only one market in one town. It would take years just to even scratch the surface of one place. Because after I figure out what I like and where to get it I like to figure out where it's coming from, who's growing it? What do they do? Why? How? You pull at one tiny thread and you can follow it forever. Like I said, I recognize that this is a little odd, even obsessive.
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-Luckily my family is usually game to go with me and try new foods. The other day I came back from the big market outside of town with a cup full of dried, salted, chili-covered sardines and even my kids all had one. Only one of them actually like it, and in this case, I think she liked them more than even I did, but it makes me happy that they're all willing to at least try new things. That's long been my motto: try anything twice.
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-A lot of people seem to obsess over food in other ways. Like health. I seems like nearly everyday there's some new food discovery that either kills you or cures you of everything. Then there's the whole fear of foreign food. You see this when chefs [talk](https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/craving-the-other-0) about "elevating" street food (so they can overcharge you for it). You also see it in people's fear of getting sick from food they're not totally comfortable with. I've overheard tourists around here telling each other not to the street food, but yet they go to the restaurant up the hill and sit down to a dinner made from the same ingredients, from the same markets, coming from a kitchen they *can't* see. That's far more likely to get you sick than the stalls in the market where you can see for yourself every step of the process.
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-Sometimes it blows my mind how little people understand food and, more importantly, food preparation. I do have an advantage I suppose, having worked in the restaurant industry for about six years, but most of what helps me comes from learning the basics of microbiology. All the restaurant experience did was provide practical examples of microbiology in action. If you food is bad, you'll smell it. Trust me.
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-Contrary to what you've probably seen on TV, most of running a restaurant does not involve cooking. There is some of that, but mostly you stand around and wait. Technically you're chopping stuff, but after a few years you can do that without thinking about it. So really you're just standing around. Then for about three hours you're so busy and focused it feels like only ten minutes went by. But mostly you wait. You smoke a lot and stand around a lot. And for me, standing around smoking, I needed something to read. There's not a lot to read in restaurant, so I read all the bizarre food industry trade magazines that would arrive every day in the mail.
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-One of the things that you learn from reading these bizarre magazines -- which would have cover stories on strange things like how to entice millennials with foods that remind them of their favorite sitcoms -- is that real food poisoning, the outbreaks that the CDC tracks, not the ones where you mistakenly attribute some diarrhea to whatever bizarre food you ate most recently, the real outbreaks, almost always come from vegetables, particularly vegetables that grow on the ground and have to be harvested by hand. Because the people harvesting the food don't get paid enough to take bathroom breaks, so, well, you do the math. From my anecdotal observations, if you really want genuine food poisoning, a bout of salmonella say, eat asparagus, preferably raw.
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-Which is why I find it hilarious that so many people here are deathly afraid of street food, but in the next breath tell me how they don't need to wash their veggies because they get them at the organic market. WAT?! And no, I never say anything. It's not my place to shatter anyone's carefully constructed delusions. Though I did write this. So now you know. Wash your veggies, eat where you can see the kitchen. You'll mostly likely be fine.
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-That said, I eat unwashed strawberries all the time and regularly get gorditas from a place where they use dirty rags from god knows where to sop up the grease just before handing it to you. But I have a stomach of steel. I'm not sure which came first though, my stomach of steel or my willingness to eat anything at least twice.
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-But more importantly than a strong stomach, I eat at that place because I see the people around me doing it too. They're still here so it must be fine. That's the part of food that a lot of people seem to forget -- ingredients are nothing, people are what matter. I could spend the next ten years practicing making tamales, but I'll never be as good at it as the abuelas sitting on every street corner here (don't buy their tamales though, they aren't selling the good ones).
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-When Thanksgiving rolled around we wanted the foods we were excited about and that happened to be tamales, chayote and tomatillos, so that's what we made, and man was it good. So good it makes you thankful that you have the opportunity to explore food rather than be ruled by it, by the need for it, as so many are here and everywhere. Thankful that another country would even let you come to it, let alone have free run of the place to meet its people enjoy its foods.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-11-03T23:34:04" itemprop="datePublished">November <span>3, 2018</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>It was a week of Fridays. Some weeks are like that, you’re forever on the edge of a weekend, but never quite there.</p> -<p>The first Friday that week was a Tuesday. I got fired from the programming job I’ve had for a couple years now. I wasn’t particularly surprised, companies are made of people, when the people change, the companies change. These things happen. But hey, if <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4tbZ7xnEjk">you ain’t got no job…</a> it’s Friday. I walked down to the tienda and grabbed a Modelo. As you do. Maybe it was two. It could have been three. But no more. Their fridge is much colder than ours and they’re only thirty feet from the front door. Never buy more than you need.</p> -<div class="cluster"> - -<figure > - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_pic5.jpg 648w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_picwide.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181002_074946260.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Some days you're the spectator, some days you're the spectacle, some days you're both."></a> -<figcaption>Some days you’re the spectator, some days you’re the spectacle, some days you’re both.</figcaption> -</figure> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - -<figure class="pic66"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20181010_181546.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20181010_181546_pic66.jpg" alt="flexible photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20181010_181546.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Pretty sure I was never this flexible."></a> -<figcaption>Pretty sure I was never this flexible.</figcaption> -</figure> - - - - -<figure class="pic66"> - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181112_162020720.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181112_162020720_pic66.jpg" alt="Jumping photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181112_162020720.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption=""Elliott, are you jumping off the book shelf onto the bed again?" "...""></a> -<figcaption>“Elliott, are you jumping off the book shelf onto the bed again?” “…”</figcaption> -</figure> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>The next Friday was Wednesday, Halloween. </p> -<p>It’s not much of a holiday down here and honestly, aside from some candy corn I brought down for Elliott, who has been obsessed with the stuff ever since he discovered it last year at Ron’s house, we were pretty much going to skip Halloween this year. </p> -<p>That said, the girls’ dance teacher wanted to take all the kids down the Parrochia/Jardin area after class on Halloween, where, apparently, the expats hand out candy. I thought, well isn’t that creepy of them. But then I’m always slagging the expats and I’ve been trying to do that less so I didn’t say anything. It turned out to be way creepier than even I had imagined, but the kids got to walk around town in their costumes and really didn’t care about anything else. They had a ball. </p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-31_175853_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/2018/2018-10-31_175853_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-31_175853_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-31_175853_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-10-31_175853_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="halloween, san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-10-31_175853_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>After the girls’ dance class was over all the kids changed into their Halloween costumes and Michelle, their teacher, the six or so other kids, their families, and the five of us all walked the half mile or so down to the Jardin. There, in exchange for candy, a bunch of older expats took pictures of the all the kids. Not weird at all. Uh…</p> -<p>I might not have thought anything of it if the expats had been taking pictures of <em>all</em> the kids in the Jardin, but they weren’t. They were taking pictures of the Mexican kids. That our kids were taken for Mexican was an accident of assumptions — since we were walking with a group of Mexican families, we must be Mexicans. </p> -<p>It got me thinking about <em>why</em> we all take all the pictures we take. The kids — regardless of nationality — didn’t seem to care, by the end they had buckets full of candy and for children, candy transcends all. </p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181031_180431569.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181031_180431569_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181031_180431569_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181031_180431569_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181031_180431569_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181031_180431569.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Who watches the watchers? Um, me. The guy in the middle is innocent he's a professional hired by a local children's charity, he's the only one here who knows what a speed light is. The rest are guilty."> - </a> -<figcaption>Who watches the watchers? Um, me. The guy in the middle is innocent he’s a professional hired by a local children’s charity, he’s the only one here who knows what a speed light is. The rest are guilty.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>The next Friday was Thursday, Dia de Muertes. Despite the name, around here celebrating Dia de Muertes takes two days. </p> -<p>Day of the dead is a colorful holiday, lots of marigolds, elaborate family shrines, candles and, at night, fireworks. We went out wandering the town in the morning, watching people set up all the painstakingly handmade decorations. I hardly took any pictures though. The expats with their cameras in the Jardin the night before was still in my mind and then, unfortunately, we kept running across more people with cameras behaving badly. Normally I hardly notice expats or tourists, but for some reason they were all over the place for day of the dead, and behaving obnoxiously.</p> -<p>We watched people shoving cameras in the locals’ faces while they tried to make shrines for their dead, the parents they missed, the children they’d lost. And let’s be clear, it wasn’t “people” it was, in all three cases I witnessed, white males of a certain age. And it wasn’t just any locals. They sure as hell weren’t shoving cameras in the face of the guy covered in tattoos with a prominent 13 on the back of his head, no they were doing it to the grandmothers and grandfathers, the people who, again, were least likely to protest. </p> -<p>And I point that out not because the guy has gang tattoos, but because his tattoos make him photographically interesting, more so than a grandmother to my mind. But then he’s intimidating and the grandmother isn’t. Or so you’d think. But the only public act of violence I’ve seen in Mexico was grandmother beating a guy with her purse when he got in her way at a parade, so it’s not like old Mexican women are helpless. </p> -<p>Still, you have to wonder what makes people think it’s okay walk around shoving your camera in a grandma’s face, while she’s in the midst of a celebration designed to honor the dead. It’s rude any day of the week. And, after the experience in the Jardin the night before, I couldn’t help thinking — to what end? Why are we even taking all these pictures? To remember? Are our memories that bad? To show others? To impress our friends with… what exactly? How little you understand the culture that’s been kind enough to allow you to visit it? I don’t understand how anyone comes to think it’s okay to behave this way. </p> -<p>I do know where the idea for the image comes from though — National Geographic. But National Geographic photographers don’t get those images by rudely shoving a camera in someone’s face. Shoving cameras in someone’s face is something shitty photographers do — the people who take pictures no one will ever care about precisely because they have no empathy, no feeling, no soul, lack even the self-awareness to recognize that there is a soul. These are crappy selfies in which the self just happens to be outside the frame.</p> -<p>The people making art out of the beauty they see around them, the people whose images could actually end up in National Geographic don’t take pictures like that because there’s no beauty to be had that way. They don’t take pictures without permission, they don’t take pictures without first getting to know a person, even if only for a few moments. </p> -<p>On Dia de Muertes I watched shit photographer after shit photographer behaving like asses and I didn’t want to be like them, which is why there’s so few images in this post. I’m too shy to go out and meet people and ask to take their photographs, so I took the other sensible path — I put my camera away. The only pictures I have of Dia de Muertes are of me, my family, and few of the public decorations we saw while walking around. </p> -<div class="cluster"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-01_121201_halloween.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_121201_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_121201_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_121201_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_121201_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="graveyard, dia de muertes, San Miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-01_121201_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-01_120716_halloween.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_120716_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_120716_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_120716_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_120716_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="halloween, san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-01_120716_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-01_181758-1_halloween.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_181758-1_halloween_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_181758-1_halloween_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_181758-1_halloween_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-01_181758-1_halloween_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dia de muertes, san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-01_181758-1_halloween.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -<span class="row-2"> - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181101_175814520.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/IMG_20181101_175814520_pic66.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/IMG_20181101_175814520.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>I think that’s how Dia de Muertes is supposed to be anyway. It isn’t the huge party I thought it was. I always thought of it as a Mexican Halloween, but it’s not. It’s a celebration of <em>your</em> dead. Like everything in this country it’s about your family, your history, your people. There are public aspects to it, certainly fireworks and parties, but it’s primarily a more personal holiday. There’s an essay I really like, <cite><a href="https://claritamannion.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/dia-de-muertos/">Let Me Die like a Mexican</a></cite>, which calls Dia de Muertes a “bittersweet reflection on love, loss and life well lived.” That’s very much what it felt like to me.</p> -<p>It’s also the day the dead come back to visit the loved ones they’ve left behind. That’s not metaphorical and it’s not taken lightly. Everything that’s done is done to make their journey back from the underworld more pleasant — the food, the offerings, the alcohol, it’s all for the returning family members. Any student of the world’s bardo literature knows that coming out of the underworld is no easy task. You’re going to want a drink afterward. </p> -<p>Walking around during the day I spent a fair bit of time contemplating how Dia de Muertes managed to survive the Catholic church. It’s the most overtly pagan celebration I’ve ever seen. Sometimes the older pagan ways are too strong to be denied I guess — what comes from below outlasts what is imposed from above. Surprisingly, the recent movie, Coco, does a pretty decent job of capturing what the celebrations here are actually like.</p> -<p>I, on the other hand, cannot do a decent job of explaining what Dia de Muertes was like because I decided I wasn’t invited. My dead are nowhere near here and I’ve got nothing for them even if they came. I’d never really thought about it until that night, but I’m a crap descendant in that regard. I’ve never done anything to honor the dead in my family, certainly nothing of the sort that happens on Dia De Muertes here. I don’t even think about them much if I’m honest. I didn’t even make to their funerals in most cases, what business do I have being out on day of the dead?</p> -<p>So I went back to our apartment. I sat in the little covered outdoor area between the two rooms, listening to the fireworks, watching the flickering colors in the window. I drank a Modelo. Maybe two. It could have been three. I mumbled something about it being Friday, and it was actually Friday by then, and I ain’t got no job. 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And your girls are beautiful and growing like weeds- </p> -<p>As far as taking pictures I am 110% guilty- I never even thought about it until I went to India. I def felt shameful over there especially in Nepal at the temples. It was so heavy and personal, yet I snapped away. There were some I took when I waited for the subject to be unaware- but does that make it better or worse? </p> -<p>One subject in particular was on a skate board begging for money- I had read where the pimps over there would maim homeless children to make them more pitiful in order to have better chances of getting money. I figured this was how the kid without legs ended up on the skateboard wheeling around town pulling on skirts begging for money- (In reality I have no clue what happened to his legs- he may have been born without legs, wealthy, and trolling tourists for extra cash- doubtful, but possible) Either way, it was pitiful and I took the picture anyway. But not until he turned his head. Im not sure if I waited for his sake or mine.</p> -<p>Either way, I appreciate the article and checking myself one more time.</p> -<p>Sorry about the job- that sucks. But just like Modelos one and two- This too shall pass.</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3650" 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 06, 2018 at 3:22 p.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>I don’t think it’s always wrong to take pictures. I think usually it’s pretty obvious actually. I did not take pictures of the Sadus at the burning ghats in Nepal, but only because I didn’t feel right paying them to do so and they clearly wanted money. Now that I think about it though I did give these kids money to take their picture, which maybe is just as weird as they people taking pictures in San Miguel. Hmm.</p> -<p>Anyway, I think street photography is very different than street photography during ritual/ceremony. </p> -<p>I also think it’s entirely possible that the people in question in San Miguel didn’t care that cameras were being shoved in their face as much as I cared that cameras were being shoved in their face, which might be every bit as colonialist of me to assume as it is of the photographers to do that. 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Some weeks are like that, you're forever on the edge of a weekend, but never quite there.
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-The first Friday that week was a Tuesday. I got fired from the programming job I've had for a couple years now. I wasn't particularly surprised, companies are made of people, when the people change, the companies change. These things happen. But hey, if [you ain't got no job...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4tbZ7xnEjk) it's Friday. I walked down to the tienda and grabbed a Modelo. As you do. Maybe it was two. It could have been three. But no more. Their fridge is much colder than ours and they're only thirty feet from the front door. Never buy more than you need.
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-The next Friday was Wednesday, Halloween.
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-It's not much of a holiday down here and honestly, aside from some candy corn I brought down for Elliott, who has been obsessed with the stuff ever since he discovered it last year at Ron's house, we were pretty much going to skip Halloween this year.
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-That said, the girls' dance teacher wanted to take all the kids down the Parrochia/Jardin area after class on Halloween, where, apparently, the expats hand out candy. I thought, well isn't that creepy of them. But then I'm always slagging the expats and I've been trying to do that less so I didn't say anything. It turned out to be way creepier than even I had imagined, but the kids got to walk around town in their costumes and really didn't care about anything else. They had a ball.
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-After the girls' dance class was over all the kids changed into their Halloween costumes and Michelle, their teacher, the six or so other kids, their families, and the five of us all walked the half mile or so down to the Jardin. There, in exchange for candy, a bunch of older expats took pictures of the all the kids. Not weird at all. Uh...
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-I might not have thought anything of it if the expats had been taking pictures of *all* the kids in the Jardin, but they weren't. They were taking pictures of the Mexican kids. That our kids were taken for Mexican was an accident of assumptions -- since we were walking with a group of Mexican families, we must be Mexicans.
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-It got me thinking about *why* we all take all the pictures we take. The kids -- regardless of nationality -- didn't seem to care, by the end they had buckets full of candy and for children, candy transcends all.
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-The next Friday was Thursday, Dia de Muertes. Despite the name, around here celebrating Dia de Muertes takes two days.
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-Day of the dead is a colorful holiday, lots of marigolds, elaborate family shrines, candles and, at night, fireworks. We went out wandering the town in the morning, watching people set up all the painstakingly handmade decorations. I hardly took any pictures though. The expats with their cameras in the Jardin the night before was still in my mind and then, unfortunately, we kept running across more people with cameras behaving badly. Normally I hardly notice expats or tourists, but for some reason they were all over the place for day of the dead, and behaving obnoxiously.
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-We watched people shoving cameras in the locals' faces while they tried to make shrines for their dead, the parents they missed, the children they'd lost. And let's be clear, it wasn't "people" it was, in all three cases I witnessed, white males of a certain age. And it wasn't just any locals. They sure as hell weren't shoving cameras in the face of the guy covered in tattoos with a prominent 13 on the back of his head, no they were doing it to the grandmothers and grandfathers, the people who, again, were least likely to protest.
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-And I point that out not because the guy has gang tattoos, but because his tattoos make him photographically interesting, more so than a grandmother to my mind. But then he's intimidating and the grandmother isn't. Or so you'd think. But the only public act of violence I've seen in Mexico was grandmother beating a guy with her purse when he got in her way at a parade, so it's not like old Mexican women are helpless.
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-Still, you have to wonder what makes people think it's okay walk around shoving your camera in a grandma's face, while she's in the midst of a celebration designed to honor the dead. It's rude any day of the week. And, after the experience in the Jardin the night before, I couldn't help thinking -- to what end? Why are we even taking all these pictures? To remember? Are our memories that bad? To show others? To impress our friends with... what exactly? How little you understand the culture that's been kind enough to allow you to visit it? I don't understand how anyone comes to think it's okay to behave this way.
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-I do know where the idea for the image comes from though -- National Geographic. But National Geographic photographers don't get those images by rudely shoving a camera in someone's face. Shoving cameras in someone's face is something shitty photographers do -- the people who take pictures no one will ever care about precisely because they have no empathy, no feeling, no soul, lack even the self-awareness to recognize that there is a soul. These are crappy selfies in which the self just happens to be outside the frame.
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-The people making art out of the beauty they see around them, the people whose images could actually end up in National Geographic don't take pictures like that because there's no beauty to be had that way. They don't take pictures without permission, they don't take pictures without first getting to know a person, even if only for a few moments.
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-On Dia de Muertes I watched shit photographer after shit photographer behaving like asses and I didn't want to be like them, which is why there's so few images in this post. I'm too shy to go out and meet people and ask to take their photographs, so I took the other sensible path -- I put my camera away. The only pictures I have of Dia de Muertes are of me, my family, and few of the public decorations we saw while walking around.
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-I think that's how Dia de Muertes is supposed to be anyway. It isn't the huge party I thought it was. I always thought of it as a Mexican Halloween, but it's not. It's a celebration of *your* dead. Like everything in this country it's about your family, your history, your people. There are public aspects to it, certainly fireworks and parties, but it's primarily a more personal holiday. There's an essay I really like, <cite>[Let Me Die like a Mexican](https://claritamannion.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/dia-de-muertos/)</cite>, which calls Dia de Muertes a "bittersweet reflection on love, loss and life well lived." That's very much what it felt like to me.
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-It's also the day the dead come back to visit the loved ones they've left behind. That's not metaphorical and it's not taken lightly. Everything that's done is done to make their journey back from the underworld more pleasant -- the food, the offerings, the alcohol, it's all for the returning family members. Any student of the world's bardo literature knows that coming out of the underworld is no easy task. You're going to want a drink afterward.
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-Walking around during the day I spent a fair bit of time contemplating how Dia de Muertes managed to survive the Catholic church. It's the most overtly pagan celebration I've ever seen. Sometimes the older pagan ways are too strong to be denied I guess -- what comes from below outlasts what is imposed from above. Surprisingly, the recent movie, Coco, does a pretty decent job of capturing what the celebrations here are actually like.
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-I, on the other hand, cannot do a decent job of explaining what Dia de Muertes was like because I decided I wasn't invited. My dead are nowhere near here and I've got nothing for them even if they came. I'd never really thought about it until that night, but I'm a crap descendant in that regard. I've never done anything to honor the dead in my family, certainly nothing of the sort that happens on Dia De Muertes here. I don't even think about them much if I'm honest. I didn't even make to their funerals in most cases, what business do I have being out on day of the dead?
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-So I went back to our apartment. I sat in the little covered outdoor area between the two rooms, listening to the fireworks, watching the flickering colors in the window. I drank a Modelo. Maybe two. It could have been three. I mumbled something about it being Friday, and it was actually Friday by then, and I ain't got no job. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> - </div> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2018-11-17T18:28:51" itemprop="datePublished">November <span>17, 2018</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>The goggles barely fit over my glasses, they’re pressed tight against the bridge of my nose — in a few hours I’ll have a headache. But unlike last time I found myself <a href="https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2006/03/ticket-ride">hurling down dusty tracks</a> through the bush, this time I can see. This time I have two extra wheels and loads more stability. It’s also an automatic so I rip into to tight turns with far more recklessness than I ever did on a Honda Dream. </p> -<p>I won’t lie, it feels good to be astride an engine again.</p> -<p>There’s no cool mask for this trip though. Mike asked for a bandana and got one. I stuck with the little white painter’s mask the guide gave me. It reminds me of sanding down the bus. The dust isn’t that bad out here anyway. Half the time we’re in mud and at one point we very nearly submerge our quads in the lake. I would never have dreamed of putting an engine through what the guide seemed happy to lead us through, but who am I to argue?</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_122656_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122656_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122656_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122656_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122656_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="riding quads in the country side, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_122656_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_113504_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_113504_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_113504_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_113504_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_113504_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="country side around san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_113504_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Without the bus I’ve lost the understanding of surrounding terrain that was part of life in the bus. In the bus we’d have been coming from somewhere and we’d have to figure out the best way from point A to point B, which might not have been the main road. In any case I’d have looked at all of the roads into San Miguel before making a decision. I’d have a map, I’d have looked at elevations in my own online mapping tool. I’d have figured out the outlying roads, how they connected San Miguel to points around it. Corrinne would have planned where we were going, what we’d do. We’d know the best way into the city, what to avoid, and where to go once we got there. Most of that research wouldn’t have been very formal, we’d have just kind of absorbed it a little bit at the time as we looked and talked. </p> -<p>Instead we were handed a bus ticket in Mexico City, and then we sat back and chatted until we magically appeared in the middle of town a few hours later. There’s very little context when someone else is driving, and almost no planning. Since then we’ve only been places we can reach either on foot or on the local bus, which hasn’t added to my understanding of the overall picture very much.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg" alt="san miguel from malequin area photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_130447_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We have been to the botanical gardens at the top of the hill a couple times. It offers a pretty good view to the north and east. The kids and I once rode the number 10 bus to its end point in the neighborhood of Malanquin, where we found a playground atop a hill with really good views to the south, but otherwise my sense of the lay of the land is very vague. I know roughly where various neighborhoods are, but no sense of how they connect, and hardly any sense of what the surrounding country side looks like.</p> -<p>That’s one of the reasons, when my friend Mike suggested we rent ATVs and go riding, I immediately said yes. The other reason was, even if it’s not a motorcycle, at least I’d be riding an engine again and I never pass up the chance to do that.</p> -<p>Right off the bat we drove through a neighborhood I’d only heard of from seeing for rent ads on Craigslist. I quickly realized why I hadn’t been there —it’s the suburbs, and rich suburbs at that, not my part of town, but I’m glad I know where it is now. We quickly rode on through and down to the lake shore past this crazy Gaudi-esque house that came up so fast and was so close I couldn’t get a good picture, but it’s on the list of things to get back to, eventually.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_112958_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_112958_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_112958_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_112958_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_112958_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="country side around san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_112958_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We continued on down to the lake, stopping at a little church that I believe, if my Spanish isn’t failing me, is the original structure that started San Miguel de Allende. And it was built atop the ruins of a pyramid that was, until the day the Spanish arrived, not in ruins.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114806_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114806_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114806_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114806_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114806_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lake, san miguel de allende area, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114806_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114703_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114703_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114703_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114703_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114703_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="church outside san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114703_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114535_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114535_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114535_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114535_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114535_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="stone cross, outside san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114535_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114640_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114640_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114640_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114640_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_114640_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dead vermillian flycatcher photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_114640_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Outside the stone wall of the church courtyard someone had laid this dead vermilion flycatcher, almost like an offering."> - </a> -<figcaption>Outside the stone wall of the church courtyard someone had laid this dead vermilion flycatcher, almost like an offering.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<p>Normally I’d have wondered off to think on the history and architecture and stone and water and dead birds, but on this particular trip I wasn’t in the mood. Actually I did sit for a while and think on the dead bird. I’d never see a vermilion flycatcher that close, dead or alive, they’re even more beautiful than they look from a distance, even dead.</p> -<p>I’d like to do another trip, slower, maybe on a horse, and bring an archaeologist or historian back to the church and find out how it fits into the structure and system of the world we’re in here. And since we actually met an archaeologist/historian there’s a good chance that will happen eventually, but on this particular day I just wanted to feel the wind in my face, see the country side rushing past, and maybe try to get all four wheels off the ground a time or two. I wasn’t in the frame of mind to explore the details, I was after the high level overview — the frame, not the picture.</p> -<p>After a while at the church we rode on, at one point, for the sheer fun of it, we road through water deep enough to flood the engines, which somehow did not die. Still puzzling that out in my free time. </p> -<p>We went past little town, clusters of houses really, always with a small tienda where everyone, and every dog, seemed to be gathered to talk and relax on a Sunday afternoon. I would have like to stop in a few, buy a Coke or a beer and talk to the people, but we kept on. We went past enormous restaurants that seemed far larger than was necessary given the nearby population was near nil, but perhaps people come out from San Miguel, who knows. I filed that, along with many other questions away for another day. </p> -<p>At some point we passed an RV, a beat up old thing, probably a late 80s or maybe early 90s model. It was clearly functional though, and hooked up to both sewer and water in the middle of nowhere. I filed it away to think on later and punched it over the railroad tracks.</p> -<p>We stopped for some water and a huge flock of either ravens or crows came circling overhead. I like to think they were crows, since that would make them a murder of crows, but I couldn’t say for sure, I had no binoculars on me.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_122458_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122458_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122458_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122458_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122458_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="el campo, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_122458_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_122519_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122519_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122519_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122519_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_122519_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="crows, in the countryside around san miguel de allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_122519_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Eventually we circled back around, up past the train station I knew must be around — we’d heard the trains — but hadn’t seen yet, and finally up the hill with the giant cross. When I said that to some people who have been here a few years they looked at me like I was an idiot — which hill, which cross? Right, every hill has a cross. In this Catholic, yet not quite Catholic, world every neighborhood has a church, every hill has a cross. Oh, you know, the one with nice views of San Miguel and the lake.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-22_qF68qFJ.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-22_qF68qFJ_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-22_qF68qFJ_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-22_qF68qFJ_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-22_qF68qFJ_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mike and i quad ride, san miguel photographed by our guide." data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-22_qF68qFJ.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -<figcaption>image by our guide.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_130458_quad-ride-sma.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130458_quad-ride-sma_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130458_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130458_quad-ride-sma_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-11-18_130458_quad-ride-sma_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The country side around san miguel de allende, MX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-11-18_130458_quad-ride-sma.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I still don’t know the area like I would if I had the bus, but I know where things are better than I did before. And I did, I think, manage to get all four wheels off the ground at least once. Those quads are no Honda Dreams, but they’ll do for now. 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But unlike last time I found myself [hurling down dusty tracks](https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2006/03/ticket-ride) through the bush, this time I can see. This time I have two extra wheels and loads more stability. It's also an automatic so I rip into to tight turns with far more recklessness than I ever did on a Honda Dream.
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-I won't lie, it feels good to be astride an engine again.
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-There's no cool mask for this trip though. Mike asked for a bandana and got one. I stuck with the little white painter's mask the guide gave me. It reminds me of sanding down the bus. The dust isn't that bad out here anyway. Half the time we're in mud and at one point we very nearly submerge our quads in the lake. I would never have dreamed of putting an engine through what the guide seemed happy to lead us through, but who am I to argue?
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-Without the bus I've lost the understanding of surrounding terrain that was part of life in the bus. In the bus we'd have been coming from somewhere and we'd have to figure out the best way from point A to point B, which might not have been the main road. In any case I'd have looked at all of the roads into San Miguel before making a decision. I'd have a map, I'd have looked at elevations in my own online mapping tool. I'd have figured out the outlying roads, how they connected San Miguel to points around it. Corrinne would have planned where we were going, what we'd do. We'd know the best way into the city, what to avoid, and where to go once we got there. Most of that research wouldn't have been very formal, we'd have just kind of absorbed it a little bit at the time as we looked and talked.
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-Instead we were handed a bus ticket in Mexico City, and then we sat back and chatted until we magically appeared in the middle of town a few hours later. There's very little context when someone else is driving, and almost no planning. Since then we've only been places we can reach either on foot or on the local bus, which hasn't added to my understanding of the overall picture very much.
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-We have been to the botanical gardens at the top of the hill a couple times. It offers a pretty good view to the north and east. The kids and I once rode the number 10 bus to its end point in the neighborhood of Malanquin, where we found a playground atop a hill with really good views to the south, but otherwise my sense of the lay of the land is very vague. I know roughly where various neighborhoods are, but no sense of how they connect, and hardly any sense of what the surrounding country side looks like.
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-That's one of the reasons, when my friend Mike suggested we rent ATVs and go riding, I immediately said yes. The other reason was, even if it's not a motorcycle, at least I'd be riding an engine again and I never pass up the chance to do that.
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-Right off the bat we drove through a neighborhood I'd only heard of from seeing for rent ads on Craigslist. I quickly realized why I hadn't been there --it's the suburbs, and rich suburbs at that, not my part of town, but I'm glad I know where it is now. We quickly rode on through and down to the lake shore past this crazy Gaudi-esque house that came up so fast and was so close I couldn't get a good picture, but it's on the list of things to get back to, eventually.
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-We continued on down to the lake, stopping at a little church that I believe, if my Spanish isn't failing me, is the original structure that started San Miguel de Allende. And it was built atop the ruins of a pyramid that was, until the day the Spanish arrived, not in ruins.
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-Normally I'd have wondered off to think on the history and architecture and stone and water and dead birds, but on this particular trip I wasn't in the mood. Actually I did sit for a while and think on the dead bird. I'd never see a vermilion flycatcher that close, dead or alive, they're even more beautiful than they look from a distance, even dead.
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-I'd like to do another trip, slower, maybe on a horse, and bring an archaeologist or historian back to the church and find out how it fits into the structure and system of the world we're in here. And since we actually met an archaeologist/historian there's a good chance that will happen eventually, but on this particular day I just wanted to feel the wind in my face, see the country side rushing past, and maybe try to get all four wheels off the ground a time or two. I wasn't in the frame of mind to explore the details, I was after the high level overview -- the frame, not the picture.
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-After a while at the church we rode on, at one point, for the sheer fun of it, we road through water deep enough to flood the engines, which somehow did not die. Still puzzling that out in my free time.
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-We went past little town, clusters of houses really, always with a small tienda where everyone, and every dog, seemed to be gathered to talk and relax on a Sunday afternoon. I would have like to stop in a few, buy a Coke or a beer and talk to the people, but we kept on. We went past enormous restaurants that seemed far larger than was necessary given the nearby population was near nil, but perhaps people come out from San Miguel, who knows. I filed that, along with many other questions away for another day.
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-At some point we passed an RV, a beat up old thing, probably a late 80s or maybe early 90s model. It was clearly functional though, and hooked up to both sewer and water in the middle of nowhere. I filed it away to think on later and punched it over the railroad tracks.
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-We stopped for some water and a huge flock of either ravens or crows came circling overhead. I like to think they were crows, since that would make them a murder of crows, but I couldn't say for sure, I had no binoculars on me.
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-Eventually we circled back around, up past the train station I knew must be around -- we'd heard the trains -- but hadn't seen yet, and finally up the hill with the giant cross. When I said that to some people who have been here a few years they looked at me like I was an idiot -- which hill, which cross? Right, every hill has a cross. In this Catholic, yet not quite Catholic, world every neighborhood has a church, every hill has a cross. Oh, you know, the one with nice views of San Miguel and the lake.
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I would have settled for a birthday in the bus, but even that doesn’t seem to happen for us. Luckily he let the beach idea go a while back because I didn’t have the heart to break it to him that generally speaking, those of us with birthdays in December do not get to spend them at the beach. Unless we go to Australia.</p> -<p>It might be warm enough for the beach down in the Yucatan, but around here winter is much colder than I expected. I’m not alone. It’s common to see tourists shivering in thin jackets because they thought Mexico was always warm, even in December. But here it’s in the 30s at night. By the middle of the afternoon it’s typically 75, but the combination of long shadows and concrete construction often conspires to leave you shivering in the sunshine. Not beach weather by any stretch of the imagination. Still, it beats last year by a long shot. </p> -<p>One day Elliott and I will spend a birthday in the bus, but this year, like last, we were homeless for our birthday. This year, like last, we spent our birthday in a friend’s house. This time though we had it to ourselves. We were fortunate they offered it to us while they went back to the states for December because otherwise I’m not sure what we’d have done. Our Airbnb rental ended and our longer term place wasn’t ready when we were told it was going to be ready. The latter wasn’t surprising, but for some reason we were naive enough to think it would be different for us. When our friends said hey, you can stay in our place, we jumped at the opportunity. Who says no to a place up on a hill overlooking the city? Life is rough on the fun side of the wall.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_204311_around-san-miguel.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_204311_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-22_204311_around-san-miguel.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-22_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-22_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-22_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-22_204311_around-san-miguel_picwide-med.jpg" alt="San miguel de Allende at night photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-22_204311_around-san-miguel.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_20181213_070022502.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_20181213_070022502_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_20181213_070022502_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_20181213_070022502_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_20181213_070022502_picwide-med.jpg" alt="San miguel de Allende at dawn photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_20181213_070022502.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>This year I got to play Santa Claus — which we have never done because we don’t like lying to our kids. To their credit, thus far, our kids, despite knowing Santa is not real, have never told any other kids that he didn’t exist. That I know of anyway. This year I made a quick trip up to Denver just before our birthday, and, while officially a work trip, it became a way to haul a load of birthday and Christmas gifts back down to Mexico, which left me feeling a bit like Santa.</p> -<p>Before Christmas though, two birthdays. We did our balloon ritual but in the vastness of a house it somehow loses something compared to the bus. This time though the girls helped me inflate balloons and pile them on top of Elliott in the morning.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_102550_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/2019/2018-12-20_102550_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_102550_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_102550_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_102550_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_102550_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_135345_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/2019/2018-12-20_135345_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135345_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135345_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135345_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_135345_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_135414_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/2019/2018-12-20_135414_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135414_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135414_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135414_birthday_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135414_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_135414_birthday_picwide.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_135414_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140351_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/2019/2018-12-20_140351_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140351_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140351_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140351_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140351_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140726_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/2019/2018-12-20_140726_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140726_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140726_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140726_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140726_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140443-1_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/2019/2018-12-20_140443-1_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140443-1_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140443-1_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140443-1_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140443-1_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_141119_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/2019/2018-12-20_141119_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_141119_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_141119_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_141119_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_141119_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140808_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/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday_picwide-med.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-20_140808_birthday.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>It wouldn’t be a birthday in Mexico without a pinata. This one was somewhat easier to come by than the pinata we somehow managed to come up with in the UP, but no less appreciated.</p> -<div class="cluster"> -<span class="row-2"> - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_20181220_135007301.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_20181220_135007301_pic66.jpg" alt="birthday, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_20181220_135007301.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - - - - <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_20181220_135546956.jpg" title="view larger image "> - <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/IMG_20181220_135546956_pic66.jpg" alt="eating candy photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/IMG_20181220_135546956.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> - - -</span> -</div> - -<p>Happy birthday little man and one day, I promise, we’ll spend our birthday at a nice, warm, tropical beach.</p> - </div> - <div class="entry-footer"> - <aside id="wildlife"> - <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> - - <ul> - - <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> - - <li>American Coot </li> - - <li>Bewick's Wren </li> - - <li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher </li> - - <li>Broad-billed Hummingbird </li> - - <li>Cassin's Kingbird </li> - - <li>Cattle Egret </li> - - <li>Crested Caracara </li> - - <li>House Sparrow </li> - - <li>House Wren </li> - - <li>Inca Dove </li> - - <li>Northern Shoveler </li> - - <li>Ring-necked Duck </li> - - <li>Ruddy Duck </li> - - <li>Vermilion Flycatcher </li> - - <li>Violet-crowned Hummingbird </li> - - <li>White-faced Ibis </li> - - <li>White-tailed Kite </li> - - <li>White-winged Dove </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/2018/12/mary-wild-moor" rel="prev" title=" Mary of the Wild Moor">Mary of the Wild Moor</a> - </li> - <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> - <a href="/jrnl/2018/12/sparkle-city" rel="next" title=" Sparkle City">Sparkle City</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="282" id="id_object_pk"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833311" id="id_timestamp"> - - - - <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="f2b938e287de56a91194bb7686241eb4bef82bdd" 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 would have settled for a birthday in the bus, but even that doesn't seem to happen for us. Luckily he let the beach idea go a while back because I didn't have the heart to break it to him that generally speaking, those of us with birthdays in December do not get to spend them at the beach. Unless we go to Australia.
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-It might be warm enough for the beach down in the Yucatan, but around here winter is much colder than I expected. I'm not alone. It's common to see tourists shivering in thin jackets because they thought Mexico was always warm, even in December. But here it's in the 30s at night. By the middle of the afternoon it's typically 75, but the combination of long shadows and concrete construction often conspires to leave you shivering in the sunshine. Not beach weather by any stretch of the imagination. Still, it beats last year by a long shot.
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-One day Elliott and I will spend a birthday in the bus, but this year, like last, we were homeless for our birthday. This year, like last, we spent our birthday in a friend's house. This time though we had it to ourselves. We were fortunate they offered it to us while they went back to the states for December because otherwise I'm not sure what we'd have done. Our Airbnb rental ended and our longer term place wasn't ready when we were told it was going to be ready. The latter wasn't surprising, but for some reason we were naive enough to think it would be different for us. When our friends said hey, you can stay in our place, we jumped at the opportunity. Who says no to a place up on a hill overlooking the city? Life is rough on the fun side of the wall.
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-This year I got to play Santa Claus -- which we have never done because we don't like lying to our kids. To their credit, thus far, our kids, despite knowing Santa is not real, have never told any other kids that he didn't exist. That I know of anyway. This year I made a quick trip up to Denver just before our birthday, and, while officially a work trip, it became a way to haul a load of birthday and Christmas gifts back down to Mexico, which left me feeling a bit like Santa.
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-Before Christmas though, two birthdays. We did our balloon ritual but in the vastness of a house it somehow loses something compared to the bus. This time though the girls helped me inflate balloons and pile them on top of Elliott in the morning.
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-It wouldn't be a birthday in Mexico without a pinata. This one was somewhat easier to come by than the pinata we somehow managed to come up with in the UP, but no less appreciated.
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She then asked him to have a church built on that site to honor “her native religion”. </p> -<p>Diego then went to the archbishop of Mexico City several times with the message, but the archbishop did not believe him. Finally, three days later, after some other trials, a miraculous death bed recovery, and non-native roses blooming at 7500 feet in December, Diego delivered a shroud with an imprint of the Virgin Mary to the archbishop who finally believed him and thus was born the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Marian vision that is the cornerstone of Mexican Catholicism. </p> -<p>This, far more than Christmas, is what Mexicans celebrate in December. In San Miguel the neighborhood of San Antonio is home a blessing of the horses, which involves basically every horse in the nearby countryside coming into San Antonio to be blessed. </p> -<p>I think. The truth is, we lacked the necessary Mexican sense of patience to see this one through. We saw the horses lined up, but even our horse obsessed daughter was ready to go long before any of them were actually blessed.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-12_142407_blessing-horses.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_142407_blessing-horses_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_142407_blessing-horses_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_142407_blessing-horses_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_142407_blessing-horses_picwide-med.jpg" alt="blessing of the horses, San Miguel de Allende, MX photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-12_142407_blessing-horses.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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</a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-12_144836_blessing-horses.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_144836_blessing-horses_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_144836_blessing-horses_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_144836_blessing-horses_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-12_144836_blessing-horses_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the streets of san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-12_144836_blessing-horses.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>I never did figure out what Guadalupe has to do with horses, other than she has to do with everything in some way, but I did do a good bit of research on her, in part because I think 300 years from now she will be the focal point of this religion.</p> -<p>The story above is the purely Catholic version of events. Alas, any other version of these events, including that of Juan Diego in his own words, is lost to time. I mention this not because I do not believe the story as it is, it is, to my mind, as likely as any other. For historical completeness it might be worth noting though that even most Catholic historians doubt the authenticity of story of Diego. Still I’m happy to accept the story in full, it’s the name of the goddess that I think is worth quibbling about. </p> -<p>One of the reasons Catholicism was so successful is that no other sect of Christianity is so good at taking what’s already in place and tweaking it slightly to fit with Catholic doctrine. And prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the very same hill where Mary appeared to Diego was rather well know for as the home of the goddess Tonantzin, who regularly appeared to travelers. While there is no English translation, I have seen several second hand sources quote Juan de Torquemada — whose epic tome <em>Monarquía India</em> is apparently one of the more complete histories of early Mexico — as saying that the goddess Tonantzin regularly appeared to the natives on that hill “in the form of a young girl in a white robe.”</p> -<p>If you wanted to tweak that existing story to fit Catholic doctrine all you need to do is swap some names and you’re away. Next thing you know you’re feeling quite justified in tearing down the temple of Tonantzin to build a church for Our Lady of Guadalupe, as she is now known. </p> -<p>Monotheistic religions that want sole claim to the capital T truth have a hard time accepting this, but religions are always changing, always in flux. Gods and goddesses come and go throughout time. Whatever essential mystery is behind them seems to remain. One of the advantages of polytheism is that this truth can be easily accepted. </p> -<p>I point this out not to mock anyone’s faith, but because I find the Mexican version of Catholicism fascinating and a bit confusing because, well it isn’t what most Americans or Europeans would recognize as Catholicism. Here Catholicism seems to be the thinnest of veneers over a much, much older set of gods, goddesses and religious practices. </p> -<p>But Mexicans are adept at adapting and incorporating, so it all blends and molds together into a cohesive whole that makes sense when you see it, even if you probably couldn’t put it in words. Still, everything is changing and I think if you come back in 300 hundred years you’ll find worship of Jesus has been replaced with worship of Maria — and only those of us on the outside would think this odd. Arguably it’s already that way. </p> -<p>That’s not to say Mexico does not celebrate Navidad. It does, complete with lit up trees and all the rest of the trimmings. We were on hand to see the tree light up in Plaza Civica and lights come on in Centro.</p> -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195028_tree-lighting.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195028_tree-lighting_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195028_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195028_tree-lighting_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195028_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lighting the tree, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195028_tree-lighting.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Waiting for the light."> - </a> -<figcaption>Waiting for the light.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195531_tree-lighting.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195531_tree-lighting_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195531_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195531_tree-lighting_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195531_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lighting the tree, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195531_tree-lighting.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<figure class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195537_tree-lighting.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195537_tree-lighting_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195537_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195537_tree-lighting_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195537_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lighting the tree, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195537_tree-lighting.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Nothing happens in Mexico without some fireworks."> - </a> -<figcaption>Nothing happens in Mexico without some fireworks.</figcaption> -</figure> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195852_tree-lighting.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195852_tree-lighting_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195852_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195852_tree-lighting_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_195852_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg" alt="christmas lights in centro san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_195852_tree-lighting.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_200440_tree-lighting.jpg " title="view larger image"> - <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_200440_tree-lighting_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_200440_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_200440_tree-lighting_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-06_200440_tree-lighting_picwide-med.jpg" alt="christmas lights in centro san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-06_200440_tree-lighting.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>We tried to see another tree light up in San Antonio the next night, but we got there a bit late. We were in time to see another round of fireworks though, so we stopped and watched those instead. 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She then asked him to have a church built on that site to honor "her native religion".
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-Diego then went to the archbishop of Mexico City several times with the message, but the archbishop did not believe him. Finally, three days later, after some other trials, a miraculous death bed recovery, and non-native roses blooming at 7500 feet in December, Diego delivered a shroud with an imprint of the Virgin Mary to the archbishop who finally believed him and thus was born the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Marian vision that is the cornerstone of Mexican Catholicism.
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-This, far more than Christmas, is what Mexicans celebrate in December. In San Miguel the neighborhood of San Antonio is home a blessing of the horses, which involves basically every horse in the nearby countryside coming into San Antonio to be blessed.
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-I think. The truth is, we lacked the necessary Mexican sense of patience to see this one through. We saw the horses lined up, but even our horse obsessed daughter was ready to go long before any of them were actually blessed.
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-I never did figure out what Guadalupe has to do with horses, other than she has to do with everything in some way, but I did do a good bit of research on her, in part because I think 300 years from now she will be the focal point of this religion.
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-The story above is the purely Catholic version of events. Alas, any other version of these events, including that of Juan Diego in his own words, is lost to time. I mention this not because I do not believe the story as it is, it is, to my mind, as likely as any other. For historical completeness it might be worth noting though that even most Catholic historians doubt the authenticity of story of Diego. Still I'm happy to accept the story in full, it's the name of the goddess that I think is worth quibbling about.
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-One of the reasons Catholicism was so successful is that no other sect of Christianity is so good at taking what's already in place and tweaking it slightly to fit with Catholic doctrine. And prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the very same hill where Mary appeared to Diego was rather well know for as the home of the goddess Tonantzin, who regularly appeared to travelers. While there is no English translation, I have seen several second hand sources quote Juan de Torquemada -- whose epic tome *Monarquía India* is apparently one of the more complete histories of early Mexico -- as saying that the goddess Tonantzin regularly appeared to the natives on that hill "in the form of a young girl in a white robe."
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-If you wanted to tweak that existing story to fit Catholic doctrine all you need to do is swap some names and you're away. Next thing you know you're feeling quite justified in tearing down the temple of Tonantzin to build a church for Our Lady of Guadalupe, as she is now known.
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-Monotheistic religions that want sole claim to the capital T truth have a hard time accepting this, but religions are always changing, always in flux. Gods and goddesses come and go throughout time. Whatever essential mystery is behind them seems to remain. One of the advantages of polytheism is that this truth can be easily accepted.
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-I point this out not to mock anyone's faith, but because I find the Mexican version of Catholicism fascinating and a bit confusing because, well it isn't what most Americans or Europeans would recognize as Catholicism. Here Catholicism seems to be the thinnest of veneers over a much, much older set of gods, goddesses and religious practices.
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-But Mexicans are adept at adapting and incorporating, so it all blends and molds together into a cohesive whole that makes sense when you see it, even if you probably couldn't put it in words. Still, everything is changing and I think if you come back in 300 hundred years you'll find worship of Jesus has been replaced with worship of Maria -- and only those of us on the outside would think this odd. Arguably it's already that way.
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-That's not to say Mexico does not celebrate Navidad. It does, complete with lit up trees and all the rest of the trimmings. We were on hand to see the tree light up in Plaza Civica and lights come on in Centro.
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At least ours don’t. The minute they discover something new they love, they must have it ALL THE TIME. </p> -<p>Pretty much nothing in Mexico happens without fireworks. Luckily actual fireworks are hard to come by, at least here. Sparklers though, they’re everywhere. I picked some up for Christmas Eve, which kicked off an episode of <em>this is the greatest thing ever</em>, which of course means we must have sparklers ALL THE TIME. </p> -<p>And for a while we did, pretty much every night through the new year. If you look closely you’ll notice that these are not your average American sparklers, some of them are about three feet long. 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<img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-31_200407_new-years-eve_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-31_200407_new-years-eve_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-31_200407_new-years-eve_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-31_200407_new-years-eve_picwide-med.jpg" alt="new years sparklers, San miguel de Allende photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-31_200407_new-years-eve.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Mexico is more serious about fireworks than it is about Christmas. It seems to be a much less significant a day than Three Kings day, which comes later, in January and is when most families exchange presents. Most expats go home for the holidays it seems, but fortunately some of our friends stayed and we got together for a little cookie baking party.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-23_155224-1_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/2019/2018-12-23_155224-1_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155224-1_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155224-1_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155224-1_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cookie baking photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-23_155224-1_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-23_155151_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/2019/2018-12-23_155151_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155151_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155151_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155151_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cookie baking photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-23_155151_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-23_155028_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/2019/2018-12-23_155028_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155028_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155028_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-23_155028_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="cookie baking photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-23_155028_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<p>Christmas stockings are unheard of down here. What’s Christmas without stockings? Maybe this is why Three Kings day is a bigger deal. Corrinne came up with a substitute to get us through — some nice ceramic pots. When in Rome, adapt.</p> -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-25_072027_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/2019/2018-12-25_072027_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_072027_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_072027_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_072027_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="christmas, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-25_072027_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-25_073357_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/2019/2018-12-25_073357_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_073357_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_073357_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_073357_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="christmas, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-25_073357_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - </a> -</div> - -<div class="picwide"> - <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-25_072257_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/2019/2018-12-25_072257_christmas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_072257_christmas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_072257_christmas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2019/2018-12-25_072257_christmas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="christmas, san miguel de allende, mx photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2019/2018-12-25_072257_christmas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > - 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At what point are you an ExPat? I assume Linda and John are considered X-Pats. But are you? When is it just a nice long vacation and when do you cross that grey line into?</p> -<p>Like, do you walk around town and see other English speakers and Identify as Expats vs. tourists?</p> - - </div> - </div> - - <div id="comment-3733" 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">January 23, 2019 at 10:21 a.m.</span> - </div> - - <div class="comment--body"> - - <p>Drew-</p> -<p>I don’t know exactly what the dividing line between expat and tourist is, once upon a time I’d have probably said hotel vs house, but Airbnb ruined that. Now, I don’t know. </p> -<p>I guess I would say expats are people with no fixed plans to return to wherever their home used to be? But I don’t know, technically we don’t have any fixed plans and yet I wouldn’t probably call us expats. Not because I’m avoiding the term, but because we do intend to leave eventually. 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At least ours don't. The minute they discover something new they love, they must have it ALL THE TIME.
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-Pretty much nothing in Mexico happens without fireworks. Luckily actual fireworks are hard to come by, at least here. Sparklers though, they're everywhere. I picked some up for Christmas Eve, which kicked off an episode of *this is the greatest thing ever*, which of course means we must have sparklers ALL THE TIME.
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-And for a while we did, pretty much every night through the new year. If you look closely you'll notice that these are not your average American sparklers, some of them are about three feet long. Mexico is serious about its fireworks.
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-Mexico is more serious about fireworks than it is about Christmas. It seems to be a much less significant a day than Three Kings day, which comes later, in January and is when most families exchange presents. Most expats go home for the holidays it seems, but fortunately some of our friends stayed and we got together for a little cookie baking party.
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-Christmas stockings are unheard of down here. What's Christmas without stockings? Maybe this is why Three Kings day is a bigger deal. Corrinne came up with a substitute to get us through -- some nice ceramic pots. When in Rome, adapt.
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