Archive for August, 2008
I thought about the Pacific Northwest. And dinosaurs.
0 Comments Published August 22nd, 2008 in Second Edition.The sign said $2.65 for gas and I followed.
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in Second Edition.During the 5 or so minutes we paused at this abandoned gas station, 1) two other vehicles meandered off the highway after us only to find, as we had, that the promisingly low prices on gas were indeed too good to be true, and 2) Kai determined that this place, if any, would be the [...]
It was indeed the most triangular administrative seat.
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in Second Edition.Canon City’s administrative seat is a theme dressed in an enigma wrapped in a triangle. With a crunchy center. Which is what you see. The statue is titled “Good Friends.” I should make it clear at this point that I went on the best tour that Colorado ever offered anybody, lead by a local malcontent [...]
We paused at an ancestral cabin built by hand in 1945.
0 Comments Published August 19th, 2008 in Second Edition.I will at some point get off my duff and learn how to do a tilda in this environment: in this case they are important: Canon City Colorado has a tilda over its N, and continues to after what seems to have been a charged political battle. Here is the window through which I stared [...]
Missiles.
Why? Wyoming!
There is a great deal inexplicability to this one. Kai suggested that this has something to do w/ the town being the “FIRST TO BE POWERED BY NUCLEAR POWER,” which was pretty much the one thing that was communicated by some fading painted signs. The internet may know, and I intend to ask it shortly. [...]
An awful common sight, and an awful easy photo. Nonetheless, thought I’d hoist it up the proverbial flagpole and fly it like a flag: Kai and I are heading east. ‘Nuf said?
