LEAVING ON A...LEAVING IN A TACOMA

Color

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Friday morning, Michael and I head out for this summer's road trip. (Sing it now!) The camper's packed. I'm ready to go. That's really the only part of the song that works, because there's not a jet plane and I am not lonesome. But I am ready to go. Sort of. There's the whole actually packing a bag of clothes that needs to happen. That should take up a good ten minutes of my evening. I have had some time this week to do some research on Atlas Obscura, a site Talaura turned me onto years ago. Now it has become a reference guide for every trip. I got a little excited about the possibilities ahead, like a Lincoln Totem Pole and maybe sneaking into an abandoned amusement park in Kentucky. There's also Dinosaur World, which is dog friendly and I think I'm going to drag us all to this place. There's a pterodactyl flying out of the opening and they've totally mimicked the Jurassic Park font for their website. 

Look... the largest ball of twine is a road side attraction made for people like me. I once paid a dollar to see the oldest Cyprus tree in the US. It was dead because it had been struck by lightening the year before. 

I will be posting pictures when I can, but I am also banking on not having decent cell signal. Michael has plans to teach me how to play backgammon. I have plans to look at a screen as little as possible. I have been spending too much time looking at a screen, doing nothing productive. If I get my iPad out, it will be to read a book or maybe color. I haven't done that in while. I've packed the small spirograph kit that Heather sent me and my yoga mat and I am looking forward to some stillness. Maybe even get to a place where my brain doesn't catch fire while holding some yoga poses for five minutes at a time. I am so excited about the adventures ahead!

So, consider this my Gone Fishin' sign. More like Gone Adventurin'. I'll be back eventually, hopefully with some new stories and most definitely with some new images.

I'M NOT DEAD

I stood on the San Andreas fault

See this Instagram photo by @elephant_soap

I went to California for a whole week and for at least two of those days, I had very little cell service. I have pictures and stories. They are all unorganized which seems to be my theme for December. I came back all discombobulated and slightly weepy. Every where you go in San Francisco, you can smell pot. I think I'm still experiencing a contact high because my brain is clouded over and it feels like I'm thinking through pea soup. While I'm trying to get my thoughts and pictures and Christmas (dear lordy, I've got twelve days to figure out Christmas) you guys can watch this video Heather and I made. We reenacted the earthquake of 1906 in Olema that separated this fence. I particularly like the end when we remember to curtsy for the camera.