A naked thigh!
A truck under a portable carport!
Eight hundred seventy two lost or stolen bicycles!
In the center of each these images is our campsite. We erected the carport Monday (Aug 31st) after sundown during a rising wind. Imagine tying two hundred square feet of waterproofed canvas down to a brace of lightweight aluminum poles while the wind kicks up to thirty and brings about a pound of dust per cubic yard of air with it. But once it was staked and roped and the truck was under it, all set up for campin', it was quite comfy.
The scene on Monday September 1st:
The scene on Saturday September 5th:
Now for fun that will engage your favorite eight year old for hours and hours!
Find the above location on these two images!
Satellite photo, Sep 1st
Satellite photo, Sep 5th
Better yet, pour a strong drink and crawl around these crazy wacked-out scenes yourself.
All right, here's a Burner's-eye view. Tame. We're not up to the level of creative camping yet, we just like to survive. But it's hecka comfortable in there. (Supportive carpentry illustrated here.)
Some more general notes:
A - Our little campsite
B - Camp shower, trailer mounted, cold water from 55-gallon drums, complete with surrounding evaporation pond
C - Some weird art car made out of a golf cart that showed up one night
D - Li'l Pearl the Turtle, about which more later maybe
E - Open bar and general mess-around dome tent for our neighbors the Karma Chickens (another Sac crew)
More random shit will follow as it hits me to slack off at work and post it.
2 comments:
This reminds me that I used to think the original satellite photos of Palo Alto that I saw on Google were in some ways superior to the ones they have now. The first ones were from the Sixties or Seventies, and I figured somewhere on them was a picture of my car (albeit 1 meter resolution,) Since I didn't have a garage, it HAD to be somewhere on that picture. Never found it, of course. Well, there was a little column of smoke on El Camino . . . .
I like finding old sat photos and seeing how the landscape has changed as gummint has come in and laid down more and more boulevards. Not gummint, the tycoons who run things, but anyway. The pix they have now annoy me for they're much more useful for seeing what was in my neighbors' yards two years ago than for actual navigation.
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