Robert and the Bus, Campsite 201 July 19/20, 2018 On Camping I’ve been writing this essay in my head for years, now, and I’ve even told the story on occasion, but I don’t know if I have ever captured it truly, and perhaps that is a high bar to set here, but I’d like to…
On Patience
July 18th (started in San Simeon, finished at home, one month after my first entry) On Patience We spent quite a bit of time among redwoods on this trip, as we always do on the coastal route, and I found myself paying attention to them because I’d been talking about them with a friend…
Home at Last
July 16th, 2018 Home at Last Highland Park, CA. Today is the first day in many days that we have not started the bus up and driven him, even just to town for a short jaunt. Now the town surrounds the bus, the city, really, but he is safe at home. Yes, the bus fits…
Trying Really, Really Hard to Think of a Good Title: Salinas, Woody Guthrie, and San Simeon
American Flag, Best Western parking lot, Salinas, CA. July 11 & 12th: Trying Really, Really Hard to Think of a Good Title: Salinas, Woody Guthrie, and San Simeon Disclaimer: This is a long and discursive story that you may want to skip if reading rambling writing trying to figure out what the writer means is…
Rolling Down the Highways (and freeways, and byways)
Rolling Down the Highways (and freeways, and byways) July 10-11 Mendocino to Point Reyes to Salinas When we started rolling yesterday down Highway 1 from Mendocino to Point Reyes, everything was a bit unexpected. We had thought we might stay another night in Russian Gulch, but as I mentioned, I messed up the reservations. How…
“You will take other trips, but you are going to remember this trip for the rest of your life”
July 9, 2018 “You will take other trips, but you are going to remember this trip for the rest of your life” Russian Gulch State Park, site 26 (best sites=12 and 25). I’m sitting here at the picnic table writing this and the birds are just waking up. It’s a sunny day here on…
Anthropomorphizing: The Bus Edition
July 8th, Russian Gulch State Park How does the sun rise in the forest? Like we roll: slowly. First the birds, just like at home, smaller ones trilling, crows having a discussion, the occasional blue jay chiming in. The light here in this grove is almost imperceptibly changing, but now I can see a…
July 7, 2018: Thinking About Walter Benjamin in the State Park or Don’t Go back to Garberville
I’m guessing most folks are familiar with Larry McMurtry if only because they know The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, or Terms of Endearment, all of which were made into films, but very few people have read Reading Walter Benjamin in the Dairy Queen, his book about doing exactly that, the Dairy Queen being in…
This is the way we roll: slowly, steadily, and safely
Due to lack of internet access and the incredibly slow but free wifi at the Arcata Wildberries market (otherwise an excellent place), picture posting will be delayed so we can roll on down the road. July 6, 2018 This is the way we roll: slowly, steadily, and safely When my father ordered the bus, he…
Going Up the Country, Hopefully
July 5, 2018 Theoretically, Larry is replacing the electrical line with the short even as I write this, and then we will pick up the bus, pack, and head off to Lake Selmac, but as I have realized over the last few days, things do not always go as planned. I still can’t seem…
