or, winter returned, February’s last gasp being quite wet
with only a brief respite as March began of a Friday
while up above things got shitty pretty quickly
and stayed that way way into the night
…shitty enough to dishevele a dog [no, wait – she’s naturally disheveled!].
With the upper reaches for all intents abandoned it made for some interesting Saturday
CCTV as the storm wore on anyway. Sunday morning, much the same, it began
to seem,
[unlike here] what
with commercial traffic piling up on both sides, that this was a problem not about to go away.
It certainly hadn’t by Monday with everything still shut down in both directions until they
ill-advisedly if briefly opened it which only ended up much much worse.
Tuesday finally saw some improvements and by the time my brother went over that afternoon the chain controls had been lifted and the road dry…until they tried to get to Incline on 89.
Me I slowly if laboriously packed and Wednesday despite unexpected rain loaded up,
reached escape velocity [and the equally unexpected sun] around 10:11,
stopped at the Vacaville Outlet Stores and although I couldn’t find the jacket
I’ve been looking for only added twenty minutes
to a fairly effortless trip
over the hill
and down the other side.
Gas in Wadsworth, practically no one all the way up 447
to a brief stop at the Limbo turn on the way into Gerlach, small errands,
rain out of town and so
Wall Spring to unload, wearily. That night it rained again on the way to dinner at Parker,
where Dave and I had a lot to talk about including but not limited to Andrea’s movie. After that, though, no more and now, days later, we are poised to “lose” an hour, allowing eventually for more beer to be sold during that “extra” time waiting for those excruciating summer days to begin cooling down.
Hah.
Looks like a nice ride over after the big mess for everyone else. The movie looks really interesting. I hope it will be available in North America! Keep me posted.
I heard once it hits a few more film festivals they’ll release on youtube…will let everyone know. Kirk and Brenda skipped the mess the day before I sailed over, although apparently from Truckee to Incline was a bit dicey.
Andrea’s movie seems intriguing, your walk out on the desert quite particular too, would like to know more about when and where it’s happening
I’ve always loved maps too, and the next time west would really like to go to Stanford and see the Rumsey wing, many years ago I got to see some of it in his basement and was astonished, now it must be a treasure trove
A treasure trove indeed…we’re seeing a screening of Andrea’s film April 1, may know more then. The walkout referred to was in October of 1978 from Dickshooter Ridge in the Owyhee Desert….Idaho, I think.
Along with having my curiosity about how you plan your departure satisfied, I enjoyed watching the very intriguing film clips. Other highlights, the Soviet Space Dog book and of course the two pole pics.
Of course, J., you’ve seen the Space Dog book here, yes? we’ve had it around awhile.