Fire festival consists of daiko drumming (drummers from Winnipeg), Japanese food (fried or grilled), and a team of locals in robes carrying a stump carved in the likeness of the Grand Teton. Later they light some pyres on fire. But not, so far as I could tell, the wooden mountain. Related posts The Chef (1) [...]
Tagged fire, Food, Tetons, WyomingAfter staying up far too late packing too much stuff, we awoke to heavy and unceasing rain. Ridiculous amount of rain. Rain! After a use-up-things-in-fridge omelette, packed the car in the rain, wrestled things into place in the trunk and backseat, and rolled off to the chain drugstore two blocks away where we had to [...]
Tagged Oregon, rainWhen passing through Bruneau, Idaho, why not stop by the Bruneau One Stop? Related posts The McFarthest Place (0) The Written Test (3) The Wikipedia of Maps (1) The Border (0) Museum of the Phantom City (0)
Tagged driving, googlemaps, idaho, MapsAn article after my own (cheap) heart. Related posts Wolf Creek Pass (0) The McFarthest Place (0) The Border (0) Seat Guru (0) Overheard After We had Landed and were Taxiing to the Gate (0)
Tagged cheap, frugal, travel, useful websitesThe Packwood Administrative Site is located in downtown Packwood, Washington on U.S. Highway 12. The property is approxiamtely 20.50 acres and contains 2 individual tax lots with 22 buildings. No bids yet, but minimum is $250K, auction closes 3/3/2010. link fixed. Related posts Bigfoot! (2)
Tagged for sale, ranger station, Washington stateThe Keong Mas is the only IMAX theater in Indonesia. It looks like a golden snail, after the famous Indonesian legend. Related posts Hacking is Easy (1) Floating-flying Lanterns (2) Ed on TV (2) Cookie O’Puss (1)
Tagged golden snails, videoWell dressed twenty-something pulls out her phone the second they say we can and starts making calls. The call that begins “hi daddy” continues: Yeah (pause) Yeah the flight was okay. (pause) Well it’s just so cramped, you know it’s been a long time since I’ve been on a public airplane. Related posts Seat Guru [...]
Tagged airplane, airport, cellphones, overheard, travelIf you’re like me (not if you like me, which of course you must), you wanna pick your seats on an airplane with some sense of where the bathrooms and bulkheads and, most important, where the view-obscuring wing is. Seat Guru let’s you look at the layouts of tons of airlines and comment on the [...]
Tagged airplane, travelApproaching Portland from the east, near Biggs along the Columbia River. We have arriveded. Related posts Woodring Tree (3) Canyoneering down Eagle Creek (1) Useless GIF (5) The Written Test (3) The McFarthest Place (0)
Tagged Columbia Gorge, Oregon, photoDrove up from Moab through the desert and up into the mountains at Price and Helper, UT. Then down the winding US 6 through the Wasatch mts to Provo, up through the sprawl of Provo/Salt Lake City/Ogden (and some pretty aggressive/bad drivers), then onto 84 west into Idaho. The landscape changes here into the Columbia [...]
Tagged idahoTechnically, petroglyphs (carvings) and pictographs (paintings). Along the Colorado River canyon near Moab there are lots of drawings and carvings made by ancient and more recent native peoples. We got a little guide book at the excellent Back of Beyond bookstore and got to see a half-dozen sites on both sides of the river just [...]
Tagged archeology, petroglyph, pictographI have fallen several days behind. An overview: – Mesa Verde [see below] – Moab (some excellent food) – Canyonlands: Island in the Sky – Arches: rainbows through arches, sunsets, hike along fins Related posts No related posts.
We return to Mesa Verde and sign up for a tour of Cliff Palace, the largest of the cliff dwellings/observatories/storehouses/temples built by the ancient Pueblo culture. They had fields (growing squash, beans, and corn) on top of the mesa and houses and other structures beneath. The backs of some of the caves acted as a [...]
Tagged archeology, Colorado, Mesa VerdeSo we were feeling all cool and prepared from our Durango shopping and ready to take on another chilly night in our next stop, Mancos, CO. The campground was unmanned and completely empty. The reservoir, Jackson Gulch Lake, was so low that the boat ramp ran out before you reached the water. We drove around [...]
Tagged camping, Colorado, Mesa VerdeFrom windy Navaho Lake we make our way to Durango. I was expecting some kind of cowboy town; instead we got a 6 lane highway and a super Walmart. We did find an outdoors store, of the sort that only carries Coleman gear, sports junk, and guns. Assault rifles, from the looks of things. We [...]
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