The autobody experience experienced we immediately experienced a couple more typical [chill; foggy] February days, though by later Wednesday the sun returned following various errands run in anticipatory hoarding for the week ahead. Boxes of mud, gallons of Walmart’s famously cheap hi-hide white [now rebranded but still as effective as ever] and a replacement spare wheel off a recently rolled Tundra from the wreckers out Green Island Road were all duly sourced on a trip to American Canyon, the next day then dedicated to groceries and loading…

Thursday eve found us in Walnut Creek for an opening at the Bedford Gallery of work in various metals by Linda Fleming, Clay Jensen, Bela Feldman and Yoshi Saito, followed by a late dinner out and home to peruse a most curious Russian catalog in which L. is curiously represented,…

In the morning the tide was out, the fog was in, and I was out of town at 10:18, punching through the overcast east of Sacramento for a pause at Heather Glen and lunch at my usual stop between Truckee and Sierraville.  An hour later it was off the pavement at Doyle and east around the southernmost extremity of Honey Lake…

To finally satisfy decades of curiosity concerning Robert and Shirley M. Foster’s abandoned desert dream, which has survived in remarkably stable condition despite being just inside the eastern boundary of the Sand People Bad Area [said Area extends along both sides of Doyle Road [with exceptions] from the edges of the Fort Sage OHV Area to a bit west of Sand Pass Road], I pulled in…were I not otherwise engaged this sweet little scene, interestingly sited and an hour nearer California, might be [or have been] tempting…

But…onwards!

Sand Pass Road over Sand Pass, through or past Bonham Ranch, the Jolly Roger Ranch, Sheepshead Springs, Smoke Creek, Parker Reservoir, Buffalo Meadows, the “Windy Place”, the Blue Pit, Parker Ranch [none shown, exactly, though portions of the Road appear below]…

…to the Wall Spring Gate, 3:30 p.m., and in to unload.

Partially.

M