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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-29_094249_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1092" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-28_144512_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1090" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-28_144435_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1089" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-28_145107_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1091" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-29_133326_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1094" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-29_133210_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1093" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-31_121847_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1100" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-31_130130_padre-island-nat-seashore.jpg" id="image-1101" class="picwide caption" />
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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. 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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-22_123826_texas-driving.jpg" id="image-1069" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-19_152431_leasburg-dam.jpg" id="image-1067" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-19_152328_leasburg-dam.jpg" id="image-1066" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-22_122925_texas-driving.jpg" id="image-1068" class="picwide caption" />
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+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.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-22_145014_texas-driving.jpg" id="image-1070" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-23_062404_texas-driving.jpg" id="image-1071" class="picwide caption" />
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+The next morning the government was back in business so we drove up to Carlsbad Caverns and had the place pretty much to ourselves.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-23_092914_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" id="image-1072" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-23_094625_carlsbad-caverns.jpg" id="image-1073" class="picwide" />
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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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+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.
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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.
+
+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.
+
+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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-25_084545_texas-driving.jpg" id="image-1081" class="picwide caption" />
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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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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].
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+There are, in my experience, more people with more "yous" in their lives in the south than elsewhere.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+[^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 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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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+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-05_085340-1_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" id="image-1039" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-04_162601_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" id="image-1038" class="picwide caption" />
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+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.
+
+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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+<img src="images/2018/2017-12-23_083454_mojave-narrows.jpg" id="image-1034" class="picwide caption" />
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+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.
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+<img src="images/2018/2017-12-27_153054_mojave-narrows.jpg" id="image-1035" class="picwide" />
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+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.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-01_150851_mojave-narrows.jpg" id="image-1037" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-05_141823_painted-rocks-petroglyphs.jpg" id="image-1041" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-15_132014_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1056" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-17_145137_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1062" class="picwide" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-16_144817_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1058" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-16_161956_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1059" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-17_143836_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1061" class="picwide caption" />
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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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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-15_110524_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1053" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-15_114646_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1054" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-15_131119-1_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1055" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-15_132129_cochise-stronghold.jpg" id="image-1057" class="picwide caption" />
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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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It’s the best car we’ve ever owned.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/DSC01764.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC01764_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC01764_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC01764_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC01764_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC01764_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/DSC01764_picwide.jpg" alt="1983 Volvo 240 wagon, white photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/DSC01764.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>For five months of this trip we had a second vehicle. For five months we were all together in the bus. 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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Sadly, not nearly as creepy as it should be."> + </a> +<figcaption>On the drive back from my uncle’s house I got to see one thing we missed. Sadly, not nearly as creepy as it should be.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I drove straight through to just outside Phoenix where I stopped at a BLM campground and slept a few hours before driving the rest of the way to Catalina State Park. </p> +<p>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 the best car we've ever owned.
+
+<img src="images/2018/DSC01764.jpg" id="image-1065" class="picwide" />
+
+For five months of this trip we had a second vehicle. For five months we were all together in the bus. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-12_145658_tucson.jpg" id="image-1051" class="picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-12_161536_tucson.jpg" id="image-1052" class="picwide caption" />
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+I drove straight through to just outside Phoenix where I stopped at a BLM campground and slept a few hours before driving the rest of the way to Catalina State Park.
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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. Whatever the case, happy birthday Marge, hope you liked the burgers.</p> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>Greater Roadrunner </li> + + <li>Phainopepla </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/escaping-california" rel="prev" title=" Escaping California">Escaping California</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2018/01/long-errand" rel="next" title=" A Long Errand">A Long Errand</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<p class="comments--header">6 Comments</p> + + + + + + + <div class="comments--wrapper"> + + <div id="comment-2964" 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">January 19, 2018 at 1:24 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Good to see you & yours back at it!!</p> +<p>I took the month of February off work and planning a two - three week, car-camp road trip from arctic Midwest to AZ. 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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+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.
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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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+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.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-09_172159_tucson.jpg" id="image-1049" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-01-09_172211_tucson.jpg" id="image-1050" class="picwide" />
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+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.
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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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+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.
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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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+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. Whatever the case, happy birthday Marge, hope you liked the burgers. |