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+ <h2 class="post-subtitle">The peculiar habit of leaving home for fun.</h2>
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+ <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-01-22T20:43:18" itemprop="datePublished">January <span>22, 2020</span></time>
+ <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span>
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+ <p>I dislike traveling. </p>
+<p>This will seem like a strange comment coming from someone like me, but it&#8217;s true. I don&#8217;t like traveling. By traveling I mean leaving home, leaving your sanctuary, your familiar. To leave is to disconnect, to be adrift. It&#8217;s exhilarating in one way, draining and tragic in another. </p>
+<p>Maybe it&#8217;s neither and I complain too much. Still, I have never seen living in the big blue bus as traveling. My home is like yours. I am just as connected to it. It may move from place to place, but I never leave home. Or I try not to anyway. Sometimes you do though. </p>
+<p>First I went to Las Vegas for work. Las Vegas is America turned to 11. It&#8217;s awful, but also hard to look away. The Strip, where I stayed, is strange place, like being inside a pinball machine, bouncing from bright light to bright light. At least there was good Thai food. I got to see some old friends and make some new ones. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be, but Las Vegas is still just&#8230; too much.</p>
+<p>The last night I was there I walked a couple miles to try to get a better sense of the city. I started from my hotel, went down the strip, and turned west at the first street. The desert air was sharp and clear, so dry you worry it&#8217;ll start crackling.</p>
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+<p>Once you&#8217;re fifty feet away from the strip Las Vegas becomes an ordinary western city. I walked broad highway-like streets designed never to be walked. I took a convoluted freeway overpass walkway lined with the tents of a homeless village. It was a warm night for January. Several people returned my hello from beneath nylon tarps.</p>
+<p>After a while time ran out for my walk and I called a ride. I met some old friends for dinner. It was nice to be around normal people after a week on the strip. It&#8217;s exhausting being in crowds in Vegas. The desperation and longing are palpable and it seeps into you. Later I caught another ride straight back to the hotel. I took a cold shower and caught a plane back home before the sun rose.</p>
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+<p>A couple a weeks later the kids and I boarded a plane for Los Angeles to visit my parents. Corrinne went to Mexico to visit her parents.</p>
+<p>Newport Beach, where my parents live, was warm. Warmth in January? Yes, please. The kids got to spend a week with their grandparents, nearly every day of it at the beach. It wasn&#8217;t always sunny, but it was never cold, and that was all that mattered.</p>
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+<p>Even the gray, overcast didn&#8217;t dampen anyone&#8217;s enthusiasm for the beach. We tried going inland one day, to the La Brea Tar Pits, but despite the bones and fossils, it failed to generate much enthusiasm.</p>
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+<p>It was funny how much the drive and L.A. traffic dampened the kids&#8217; enthusiasm for it. I&#8217;d never really considered it before, but our kids hardly ever spend time in a car. True, we drive all over the country, but it&#8217;s rare that they&#8217;re in the car for more than a couple hours. On the rare occassionas that they are, at the end of it there&#8217;s a whole new world to explore. And it doesn&#8217;t happen again for weeks after that. </p>
+<p>Our kids have no idea what it&#8217;s like to sit in a car seat for hours on end, stuck in traffic after school, or running errands around a city, and the taste they got on this trip left them unimpressed. After that experience we stuck to the beach. Whole worlds to explore there. Even foggy days at the beach beat a car ride any day.</p>
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+ <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing on the jetty, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" >
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+<p>Luckily the gloom only lasted two days. The rest of the time we got to live that luxury that is a southern California January &#8212; sunny and 75. We explored the jetties, ate plenty of tacos, and even managed to get some swimming in on the warmest day of our stay.</p>
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+<p>I am convinced that future generations will look back, long after the cheap oil is gone and flying is a luxury, if it&#8217;s possible at all, and marvel at our extravagances and peculiar habit of air travel, wondering why we did it at all, and ostensibly for fun.</p>
+<p>Which is to say, we were all glad to be back home, together.</p>
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+ <li>Allen&#x27;s Hummingbird </li>
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+ <li>Marbled Godwit </li>
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+ <li>Ring-billed Gull </li>
+
+ <li>Western Gull </li>
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+ <p>Really enjoyed the writing of your travel and your description of Las Vegas and the plane going home is right on</p>
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+Traveling
+=========
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2020/01/traveling>
+ Wednesday, 22 January 2020
+
+I dislike traveling.
+
+This will seem like a strange comment coming from someone like me, but it's true. I don't like traveling. By traveling I mean leaving home, leaving your sanctuary, your familiar. To leave is to disconnect, to be adrift. It's exhilarating in one way, draining and tragic in another.
+
+Maybe it's neither and I complain too much. Still, I have never seen living in the big blue bus as traveling. My home is like yours. I am just as connected to it. It may move from place to place, but I never leave home. Or I try not to anyway. Sometimes you do though.
+
+First I went to Las Vegas for work. Las Vegas is America turned to 11. It's awful, but also hard to look away. The Strip, where I stayed, is strange place, like being inside a pinball machine, bouncing from bright light to bright light. At least there was good Thai food. I got to see some old friends and make some new ones. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be, but Las Vegas is still just... too much.
+
+The last night I was there I walked a couple miles to try to get a better sense of the city. I started from my hotel, went down the strip, and turned west at the first street. The desert air was sharp and clear, so dry you worry it'll start crackling.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas.jpg" id="image-2273" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas.jpg" id="image-2272" class="picwide" />
+
+Once you're fifty feet away from the strip Las Vegas becomes an ordinary western city. I walked broad highway-like streets designed never to be walked. I took a convoluted freeway overpass walkway lined with the tents of a homeless village. It was a warm night for January. Several people returned my hello from beneath nylon tarps.
+
+After a while time ran out for my walk and I called a ride. I met some old friends for dinner. It was nice to be around normal people after a week on the strip. It's exhausting being in crowds in Vegas. The desperation and longing are palpable and it seeps into you. Later I caught another ride straight back to the hotel. I took a cold shower and caught a plane back home before the sun rose.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas.jpg" id="image-2274" class="picwide" />
+
+<hr />
+
+A couple a weeks later the kids and I boarded a plane for Los Angeles to visit my parents. Corrinne went to Mexico to visit her parents.
+
+Newport Beach, where my parents live, was warm. Warmth in January? Yes, please. The kids got to spend a week with their grandparents, nearly every day of it at the beach. It wasn't always sunny, but it was never cold, and that was all that mattered.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport.jpg" id="image-2275" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport.jpg" id="image-2281" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport.jpg" id="image-2282" class="picwide" />
+
+Even the gray, overcast didn't dampen anyone's enthusiasm for the beach. We tried going inland one day, to the La Brea Tar Pits, but despite the bones and fossils, it failed to generate much enthusiasm.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport.jpg" id="image-2276" class="picwide" />
+
+It was funny how much the drive and L.A. traffic dampened the kids' enthusiasm for it. I'd never really considered it before, but our kids hardly ever spend time in a car. True, we drive all over the country, but it's rare that they're in the car for more than a couple hours. On the rare occassionas that they are, at the end of it there's a whole new world to explore. And it doesn't happen again for weeks after that.
+
+Our kids have no idea what it's like to sit in a car seat for hours on end, stuck in traffic after school, or running errands around a city, and the taste they got on this trip left them unimpressed. After that experience we stuck to the beach. Whole worlds to explore there. Even foggy days at the beach beat a car ride any day.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport.jpg" id="image-2285" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport.jpg" id="image-2284" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport.jpg" id="image-2277" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport.jpg" id="image-2279" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport.jpg" id="image-2278" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport.jpg" id="image-2280" class="picwide" />
+
+Luckily the gloom only lasted two days. The rest of the time we got to live that luxury that is a southern California January -- sunny and 75. We explored the jetties, ate plenty of tacos, and even managed to get some swimming in on the warmest day of our stay.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport.jpg" id="image-2283" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport.jpg" id="image-2286" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport.jpg" id="image-2289" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport.jpg" id="image-2288" class="picwide" />
+
+And then just when we'd found a bit of familiar we were yanked back out of it, disconnected. Slammed in a metal tube and shot back across the country.
+
+I am convinced that future generations will look back, long after the cheap oil is gone and flying is a luxury, if it's possible at all, and marvel at our extravagances and peculiar habit of air travel, wondering why we did it at all, and ostensibly for fun.
+
+Which is to say, we were all glad to be back home, together.
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+ <h2 class="post-subtitle">The world is large, feet are small, better get started.</h2>
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+ <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-01-08T17:13:20" itemprop="datePublished">January <span>8, 2020</span></time>
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+ <p>We&#8217;ve never stayed at the beach front campground in Edisto. We prefer the marsh campground, back from the beach, on the inland side of the salt grass marsh. It&#8217;s not any less crowded, but there&#8217;s at least some vegetation between sites.</p>
+<p>There&#8217;s a trail that makes a roughly mile long loop through the marsh. It&#8217;s partly boardwalk built over the water, and partly a sandy trail that follows a series of hammocks running half the length of the marsh. I managed to get out on it most mornings, partly for the birding, partly to experiment with a walking form of meditation. I tried to time it so I&#8217;d be in the middle of the marsh at or around dawn.</p>
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+<p>It&#8217;s winter, which means many of the birds are well south, but there were enough around the make it interesting. I sat most mornings on the edge of the marsh for a few minutes marking all the slow waders that would disappear the minute I stepped out of the shadows. A kingfisher never cared what I did, it just fished and shrieked. As you do fishing.</p>
+<p>I stumbled upon and startled the same hooded merganzer couple three mornings in a row. The first time it was a true surprise to all present when I rounded a corner and there they were. The second time we were all more startled that it had happened again, than startled I think. By the third morning it was no longer shocking, none of us flinched, we merely regarded each other for a while before moving on, they deeper into the water channels tracing their way through the marsh, me to the sandy side of the marsh walk. </p>
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+<p>One morning there was almost no bird life at all. I was standing in the middle of the boardwalk, wondering where everyone had gone, when a black glimmer of shadow shot across the water beside me. I knew it was an eagle before I ever looked up. I spent some time later trying to work out how I knew that, but I never arrived at anything beyond: I felt it. </p>
+<p>By the time I found it with the binoculars it was on the far side of the marsh perched exactly where you&#8217;d expect an eagle to land, near the top of a huge dead pine, sitting on the most gnarled, skeletal branch. It sat watching the marsh, feathers ruffled, head cocked, unperturbed by cars passing on the road below. </p>
+<p>As long as it was out there bird life in the marsh ceased. The kingfisher was still out fishing, but he was decidedly quite. Everything else made itself scarce. I walked the rest of the way back to the campground without touching my binoculars. When you see a bald eagle you see little else. It&#8217;s worth the trade off.</p>
+<hr />
+
+<p>Charleston is a good town for wandering. The main street is mostly shopping, but if you duck off on the side streets you&#8217;ll stumble across all sort of odd things, little parks, squares, churches, centuries old buildings abound. </p>
+<p>We&#8217;ve always used the lack of laundry in Edisto as an excuse to drive up to Charleston. It&#8217;s like a tradition at this point &#8212; we do our laundry, eat some Thai or Vietnamese, and wander the streets of downtown, seeing what we see, including something new for us in our travels: a sunscreen dispenser. </p>
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+<p>I don&#8217;t know why I find this so disturbing but I do. There&#8217;s some kind of cautionary metaphor in this disgusting clump of caked white paste, but I&#8217;m not exactly sure what it is yet.</p>
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+<p>Sometimes, when you&#8217;re young, you&#8217;ve just had enough of walking. You just want to stand still and fish. Our friends Charlie and Allison have been coming down here for decades and they showed us the best fishing spots. This one was ridiculous. I&#8217;ve never fished somewhere you could throw out a line, wait less than five minutes and reel in a fish. Consistently. For hours. Best place to take your kids fishing ever.</p>
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+<p>Standing still has its place, but if you&#8217;re young and you happen to live with us, you&#8217;ll probably be walking again before too long. The world is too big to see standing still.</p>
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+ <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1050.jpg" title="view larger image ">
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+Walking
+=======
+
+ by Scott Gilbertson
+ </jrnl/2020/01/walking>
+ Wednesday, 08 January 2020
+
+We've never stayed at the beach front campground in Edisto. We prefer the marsh campground, back from the beach, on the inland side of the salt grass marsh. It's not any less crowded, but there's at least some vegetation between sites.
+
+There's a trail that makes a roughly mile long loop through the marsh. It's partly boardwalk built over the water, and partly a sandy trail that follows a series of hammocks running half the length of the marsh. I managed to get out on it most mornings, partly for the birding, partly to experiment with a walking form of meditation. I tried to time it so I'd be in the middle of the marsh at or around dawn.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto.jpg" id="image-2251" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto.jpg" id="image-2252" class="picwide" />
+
+It's winter, which means many of the birds are well south, but there were enough around the make it interesting. I sat most mornings on the edge of the marsh for a few minutes marking all the slow waders that would disappear the minute I stepped out of the shadows. A kingfisher never cared what I did, it just fished and shrieked. As you do fishing.
+
+I stumbled upon and startled the same hooded merganzer couple three mornings in a row. The first time it was a true surprise to all present when I rounded a corner and there they were. The second time we were all more startled that it had happened again, than startled I think. By the third morning it was no longer shocking, none of us flinched, we merely regarded each other for a while before moving on, they deeper into the water channels tracing their way through the marsh, me to the sandy side of the marsh walk.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto.jpg" id="image-2261" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto.jpg" id="image-2260" class="picwide" />
+
+One morning there was almost no bird life at all. I was standing in the middle of the boardwalk, wondering where everyone had gone, when a black glimmer of shadow shot across the water beside me. I knew it was an eagle before I ever looked up. I spent some time later trying to work out how I knew that, but I never arrived at anything beyond: I felt it.
+
+By the time I found it with the binoculars it was on the far side of the marsh perched exactly where you'd expect an eagle to land, near the top of a huge dead pine, sitting on the most gnarled, skeletal branch. It sat watching the marsh, feathers ruffled, head cocked, unperturbed by cars passing on the road below.
+
+As long as it was out there bird life in the marsh ceased. The kingfisher was still out fishing, but he was decidedly quite. Everything else made itself scarce. I walked the rest of the way back to the campground without touching my binoculars. When you see a bald eagle you see little else. It's worth the trade off.
+
+<hr />
+
+Charleston is a good town for wandering. The main street is mostly shopping, but if you duck off on the side streets you'll stumble across all sort of odd things, little parks, squares, churches, centuries old buildings abound.
+
+We've always used the lack of laundry in Edisto as an excuse to drive up to Charleston. It's like a tradition at this point -- we do our laundry, eat some Thai or Vietnamese, and wander the streets of downtown, seeing what we see, including something new for us in our travels: a sunscreen dispenser.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto.jpg" id="image-2253" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto.jpg" id="image-2255" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto.jpg" id="image-2254" class="picwide" />
+
+I don't know why I find this so disturbing but I do. There's some kind of cautionary metaphor in this disgusting clump of caked white paste, but I'm not exactly sure what it is yet.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto.jpg" id="image-2256" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto.jpg" id="image-2257" class="picwide" />
+
+Sometimes, when you're young, you've just had enough of walking. You just want to stand still and fish. Our friends Charlie and Allison have been coming down here for decades and they showed us the best fishing spots. This one was ridiculous. I've never fished somewhere you could throw out a line, wait less than five minutes and reel in a fish. Consistently. For hours. Best place to take your kids fishing ever.
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+Standing still has its place, but if you're young and you happen to live with us, you'll probably be walking again before too long. The world is too big to see standing still.
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