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Returning Rider
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Oddometer: 12
Boulder, CO to Las Vegas, NV and Back Again
The plan: leave Wednesday afternoon, ride from Boulder to Las Vegas with as little interstate riding as possible, get back by Sunday.
Day 1: Boulder, CO to Ouray, CO (324 miles, riding 2:15PM to 8:00PM)
I wrap up work around 1:45PM, finish packing, and am off the driveway by 2:00PM.
My first stop is still in Boulder, at Mike's Motorcycle for a tire repair kit (better safe than sorry). On the way over, I realize how hot my Icon TiMax gloves are, and decide that a pair of summer weight gloves are in order. I buy the kit and the gloves, and am quickly on my way. The FirstGear gloves, mesh with leather palms, are a definite improvement.
I head down 93 to Morrison, and then onto 285 toward Fairplay. It's pretty, but I'm still trying to dump the last week or two of work from my brain, and to convince myself that I'm where I belong. It's a struggle. Listening to Boz Scaggs on the headphones helps, as does getting into the mountains, and getting some cloud cover.
In a short passing lane, a truck thinks he's fast and stays in the left lane after passing a car. I quickly pass him on the right, and the passing lane ends. Maybe he honked at me. Don't know, don't care. He's behind me, where he belongs.
285 is nice, but unremarkable, and the towns blur into one another. I have my first fill up just past the intersection of 285 and 50, right around 5:30PM. I send a text message to my lovely wife, and go inside to drink some water, have a candy bar, and clear the insects off my face shield. Back on the road, I head west on 50. I go over Monarch Pass. Riding past Blue Mesa Reservoir is pleasant, the only down side being that I'm heading due west, into the setting sun, and its low enough to be an annoyance. But the landscape is finally inspiring me to stop and get out the camera.
Not sure why I like it so much, but I always feel better riding near water. Water and deserted roads.
I keep riding, and my next gas stop is Montrose. It's 7:45PM, the sun is still up, and it's 90 degrees. I decide to push on into the mountains, and head south on 550. Good decision. The road begins ascending, it gets cooler, and the views are better. But unfortunately, it's getting darker, and the last thing I want to meet is a grazing deer or elk around a blind corner. At 8:30, I decide to call it a night in Ouray, and find a room at the Ouray Chalet, trying my best to ignore the assonance. The room is expensive, but it's the mountains. I feel safe leaving the motorcycle in the full parking lot, since there are at least half a dozen Harley and Yamaha touring motorcycles there as well, each worth at least $10,000 more than my ride.
Dinner is an indifferent corned beef sandwich and a cup of Guinness beef stew at the town's Irish pub. TV till 11PM, then sleep.
Returning Rider
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Oddometer: 12
Day 2: Ouray, CO to Las Vegas, NV (640 miles, riding 6:00AM to 6:30PM)
I am up at 5:30 without an alarm. I'm moving around getting organized, and at 5:45, the power goes off. It's still off when I leave the room at 6:00AM and drop the key in the "key drop" (an open mailbox). Once again, I'm eager to get moving.
Ouray's a nice little town...not much traffic at 6:00AM.
The road starts going up seriously at this point, and I'm glad I stopped last night. This doesn't seem to be a great road to do in the dark. Note the lack of guardrails.
I'm on the road to Red Mountain Pass. I'm pretty sure that's Red Mountain up ahead, the sun just hitting the top.
And here we are at the top. Note to self: 11,000 feet at around 7AM is a bit chilly, even in July.
Now there's the descent into Silverton, and the crossing of the Molas Divide, but it's not quite as dramatic, just pleasant early-morning riding over mountains and through forests. And the occasional construction delay. At Durango, I get on the 160 toward Cortez, and there I have breakfast at Denny's. Dennys because (a) it's 9:30, (b) Im hungry, and (c) I dont feel like searching Cortez for a good cafe. I refuel the bike before leaving town.
I follow the 160 west out of Cortez. The road is a bit of a slog, nothing special. Since I'm not quite sure how often the filling stations come out here, I refuel again in Kayenta. At the pump, Im approached by two Native American men within a minute of each other. One trying to sell me tacky Navajo jewelry, the other also trying to sell me jewelry, but with the explanation that they are trying to raise money for gas to get back to the "RV" (reservation?). No doubt to restock supplies of tacky jewelry. When I decline to purchase anything from the second man, he asks if I could put a few dollars of gas in his tank. I decline again.
I had originally thought of taking 160 to 89, but taking 98 appears to be an option that would shave 50 miles off my trip. My main concern is that it might be a bad road, potholed blacktop or worse, but I decide to risk it. Good decision. Its a beautiful and nearly deserted (no pun intended) road, the first 20 miles with fresh blacktop, and the remaining 40+ miles perfectly acceptable.
Highway 98 ends at Page, AZ, near Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border. I stop at a "trading post" (read: grotty convenience store) with 80's-style gas pumps out front, half of them out of order. The middle-aged woman clerking is text messaging when I put my things on the counter, and does not look up for another 30 seconds or so, till she has finished with her text. She rings me up without a word, and returns to her texting. I take my purchases--Gatorade, a Mounds bar, Eclipse gum--outside to a wobbly picnic table under an awning. The Gatorade is cold, but the Mounds bar is melted. On top of the ice machine, I see a clear plastic bag with a pair of jeans and a Safeway discount card showing, and wonder whether someone recently got out of jail and why they wouldnt want their pants.
I dont usually chew gum, but my mouth had been getting dry in the heat, and I thought gum might help. I chew two pieces riding through Page. Once I'm over the Glen Canyon Dam, the gum has lost its flavor and I'm ready to spit it out, but I'm wearing a full face helmet. I figure I'll spit it into my gloved hand, then toss it away. Unfortunately, what I spit into my hand has the consistency and stickiness of warm caramel sauce, and I stop by the side of the road to clean up my glove as best I can with paper towels and Kleenex. What a mess.
89 is seriously dull. Or maybe I'm missing its charm. The map says I'm cutting through the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, but I think I'm at a dull bit (a thought later confirmed). I fill up with gas in Kanab around 3:30. Im not as far as I thought Id be, but Ill get an hour back when I cross into Nevada.
89 out of Kanab, on the other hand, is quite pleasant, and when I get onto 9 toward Zion National Park, there's even less traffic. I use my annual National Parks pass to avoid the $25 fee for driving through the park, and the ranger tells me "the road's a bit rough after the second tunnel." The park is (obviously) beautiful in that southwestern desert canyon way, but it's hot. I find myself stopped at an automated red light where the road narrows to a single lane, and it stays red for at least 10 minutes. And I am baking behind an Escalade, breathing exhaust. We come to the second tunnel, and there's another wait. The man in the car behind me comes up and offers me a cold bottle of water. I decline, since I have water in my pack, but in retrospect wish I hadn't, just as a way of acknowledging how kind the gesture was. We get moving again, through the second tunnel, this one longer, and when we come out, the road turns to loose gravel, and whatever that surface is when you remove the top layer of roadway. What is that again? Dirt? And it stays like that for the rest of the way through the park. Maybe the vistas were magnificent, but I'm looking at the roadway so I can keep the bike upright, and when I look up, I'm in a dust cloud. Meanwhile, it's Thursday afternoon, I see construction equipment, but not a single worker. You're telling me people pay $25 to drive on one of the worst roads I've ever been on? And you're not even TRYING to get it repaired?
Things dont improve after the park. In Springdale, I join a parade of cars carefully going the speed limit. At the head of the parade, a Utah state trooper. After several miles, he pulls off to set up a speed trap, and once he's out of sight, I pass the remaining cars as quickly as I can. But now I'm coming into Virgin, UT, and the signs are saying "Reduce Speed Ahead." Lots of virgin jokes are coming to mind, and none of them concern Richard Branson. Im getting punchy, I think; the heat is becoming unbearable.
Expletives start coming more easily. 110 degrees and St. George is still 30 miles off? Merde. A Reduce Speed Ahead sign...do the town fathers realize that moving and moving quickly is my only chance to get out of the Easy Bake oven they call a town, and maybe get a degree or two cooler? Schiesse. By Hurricane, Im so miserable that I buy a McDonald's milk shake (though in my own defense, I did end up tossing the last third in the trash), and in the parking lot, I pour water on my t-shirt and over my head. I'm starting to get worried. I've still got over 100 miles to go, and it's all interstate through the desert. As Im about to depart, a woman wearing scrubs from an assisted living and hospice facility asks how I'm doing. Turns out she moved down from Ogden to get away from the cold. Glad it worked out for her.
Hurricane to I-15 is multi-lane and unpleasant, cars all eager to get where they're going, driving fast and shifting lanes like people trying to find the fastest checkout line in a supermarket. I-15 is no better. The wind picks up, and it seems like every fifth vehicle is a semi, and passing means getting blown around by the unpredictable gusts of their slipstream. At 80 miles an hour, the only air coming into my helmet is overheated, and I feel like I'm in a convection oven.
My jacket is half-zipped, and the air pressure is pulling the jacket sleeves back, leaving a four centimeter gap between the bottom of my gloves and the jacket sleeves. I can feel the strips of skin on both arms burning. I've never ridden in heat so intense that riding fast offers no relief.
Not much shade through the Virgin River Gorge. The riverbed, from the little I can see, looks completely dry.
Mesquite, Nevada, is just over the Arizona-Nevada border, and is my last scheduled gas stop. I fill the tank at the Chevron, and leave the bike under the canopy while I go inside. I feel awful, overheated and nauseous. I buy Gatorade, 30 SPF sunscreen, and a Chapstick, and drink the Gatorade while staring out into the seriously overheated afternoon. When I've finished, I use the restroom, buy another bottle of water, apply the sunscreen and Chapstick, then go back outside. I pour more water on my shirt, drink the rest, and set off.
All I can do is watch the miles accumulate with agonizing slowness. I can feel my throat drying out and my lips parching. I try to stay with the traffic; everyone is driving at least 80, and many are at 90. All I can think is how hot it is. I tell myself I'll stop at the next gas station and buy another bottle of water, but the next gas station doesn't show up. A rest stop with a tree would be nice, but there are no rest stops, no trees, and no place to stop other than out in the open. There are no insects on my face shield now, only dust; I dont think insects can deal with these temperatures, either.
Im not taking photographs in this portion of the trip. Im not finding the desert photogenic, so the only purpose is to serve as reminders for later writing. But Im feeling physically ill, and dont pull the camera out.
At 5PM, the afternoon sun is high enough to still be fierce, but low enough to catch me full in the face. Im hoping that Feynman was right about UV rays not going through glass (he didn't mention Shoei face shields), because otherwise, my nose is going to be toast. I'm out of options at this point, and the only thing to do is to gut it out.
I'm headed toward Summerlin in western Las Vegas, and am trying a new route this time, taking the beltway (I-215) around to Lake Mead Blvd. As I quickly realize, this is a much longer way to my destination. Maybe a little less traffic than I-15 and 95, but probably 15-30 minutes longer. My throat is closing up, and I stop at the side of the road near an intersection, dig my emergency water out of my tank bag, and drink half of it. If I had a teabag, I could make tea, the water is that hot. But I'm thinking I might be in the beginning stages of heatstroke, and if so, I need to head it off long enough to get to my Mom's house.
And finally, the Lake Mead Blvd exit, and five minutes later I pull up on my mother's driveway. She's been waiting for me, and opens the garage door. I pull in and shut off the bike.
"You look like a Hell's Angel," she exclaims. I dont take it personally, since I know she has very limited experience with bikers. I probably just looked like hell, which was close enough.
"Ice water, please." I follow her into the house and lie down on the living room carpet. I have hiccups, I think from stress, and need to get prone to get rid of them.
The hiccups and nausea pass, we go to the pool and I soak for close to two hours, then spend 10 minutes in the hot tub, thinking it'll help my muscles. A light dinner, and I'm asleep by 10PM.
Returning Rider
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Oddometer: 12
Day 3: Motorcycle sitting in garage
A rest day. My mothers hobby is gambling, so I accompany her to the Rampart. I play blackjack with a $100 stake for well over an hour and am up to $160 at one point. Then I take a break, and when I sit down again, a dealer on a hot streak wipes me out in 15 minutes. We have the lunch buffet at the Red Rock, visit Costco where my Mom buys a Blu-Ray player and a new TV...then I spend the rest of the afternoon hooking up electronics, and removing old devices, remotes, and cables from the clutches of mutant dust bunnies.
Another visit to the pool in the late afternoon, where I try to find the shady bits in the pool, make conversation with my mother's cronies, listen to oldies on the sound system, and think that this must be what its like to be retired.
In the evening, I re-assemble my tank and tail bags and prepare for departure. The daytime temperatures here scare the hell out of me, so I've decided to leave at 5:00AM, to get out of Nevada before the sun even knows I'm gone.
Returning Rider
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Oddometer: 12
Day 4: In Which I Recover From a Healthy Dose of Stupid
Day 4: Las Vegas, NV to Torrey, UT (426 miles, riding 11:30AM to 8:00PM)
I sleep badly, desperately wanting to back on the road, and out of Nevada. My alarm is set for 4:30AM, but I've forgotten to reset my Blackberry from Mountain to Pacific Time, so it's actually 3:30. At 4:15AM, I'm waking my mother to say goodbye. I load up, and notice the rear tire looking low. Really low. Oh well, don't want to worry my Mom. I'll carefully drive to the gas station a mile away and put some air in the tire.
I fill up the gas tank and start putting in air, and after I get to 15-20 PSI, I start hearing hissing. I have a puncture. I start looking for it and notice that my rear tire looks bad. Really bad. Like, no tread, and white threads showing in places. I can't believe I didn't check my tires after my nightmare ride of Day 2, but now I've got a major issue. I can't leave Las Vegas without replacing the tire. I run inside the gas station and check the phone book. Nothing's open until 9AM.
I fix the puncture and take it up to 35 PSI. I'm not hearing hissing, so that's good, but now I have to turn around and head back to my mother's place. The patch seems to be holding.
At 8:15, I set out for Carter Powersports. The most direct route is the beltway, I-215, from Lake Mead down to Decatur. Unfortunately, by the time I hit the Town Center Drive exit, I can feel the rear tire is going flat. At first, I think it's the heavily grooved road, but as I slow, I can feel the rear wheel trying to overtake me. I get off the exit, hoping there's a service station, but there's nothing except a massive appliance store, R C Willey, with an empty parking lot, and some shade on the west side of the building. It's maybe 8:30 and already I need shade.
Cell phone reception is good, and my phone still has half its charge, so I get on the phone to try and fix things. I call AAA. My plan doesn't cover motorcycle towing, but after 20 minutes on hold, they sign me up for a plan that does for an extra $27, waiving the $275 fee for needing it on the same day since I've been a member for 20 years. Then they transfer me to AAA Nevada to arrange for a tow...and it turns out they don't do that. In Nevada, you arrange your own tow and file for reimbursement. Ok, well, thanks for nothing, AAA. 32 minutes, 16 seconds gone (I check my cell phone log after the fact to make sure that call was as long as I thought it was), and my patch of shade is getting smaller.
I call Carter Powersports, and talk to Tim, the service manager. He turns out to be an unusual combination of kind, sympathetic, and helpful. In less than 20 minutes, their pickup truck pulls into the parking lot, Kyle gets out, and hands me a cold bottle of water. We load up the bike and take it the 10 miles to the shop. No one gives me crap for being a noob who doesn't know how to take care of his bike, and for coming to Vegas on tires that, by all rights, should have left me stranded by the side of the interstate in the middle of the desert (assuming that I could manage to bring the bike to a controlled stop if the tire blew out at 80MPH). In 90 minutes or so, I'm out the door with new front and rear Michelin Pilot Powers, a chain lube, and a Cramp Buster. I'm feeling pretty good about this dealership as I roll out at around 11:30AM. Thanks, guys, you were terrific.
I go south on Decatur and pick up the I-215 to the I-15, taking the curves like they're ice-covered while giving the tires a chance to wear in a little (luckily for me this morning, once on the I-15, you can't really do anything except straight for the next 100 miles or so). My experience in Vegas is that the drivers are pretty bad, so I played it safe and used a cage driver doing a steady 65MPH in the middle lane as a blocker, till I got north of Speedway. It was hot and unpleasant, but it was bearable, maybe because I had just had a liter of water and half a liter of Gatorade. Or maybe it was because I am so incredibly happy to by on the road again, no longer worrying about my tires.
After another fill-up at the Chevron in Mesquite (and more Gatorade, more sunscreen for my wrists, and more water poured on my shirt), I continue out of Nevada, across the tiny corner of Arizona, and on past St. George. Toward Cedar City, it finally becomes bearable, and at a rest stop, I put the CrampBuster on my throttle.
At Cedar City, I get on Utah 14, and there my day begins to turn around. No more heat, and I'm riding through the Dixie National Forest. Finally, I'm relaxing again.
14 joins up with 89, and I fill up the tank again at the junction. 89 is pleasant but unexceptional. Perhaps I like this road a bit less because I'm getting rained on, am getting sprayed by the cars and trucks ahead of me, and am having a hard time finding passing opportunities. Finally, I fight my way past the pickups hauling travel and horse trailers, past the rain, and arrive at the junction for the Utah 12, which leads up to Bryce Canyon and beyond.
It's hard to explain how and why the 12 is so spectacular. Certainly the detail map above gives little indication of anything, other than of relative emptiness. It's marked as a Scenic Byway, but that undersells it. There are red rock canyons that you ride through, up close and personal. I skipped Bryce (one of my favorite national parks), but the surrounding forest and rock formations are similar and almost as beautiful. Then you're into Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Photographs fail to do it justice, because it's a landscape of what I think of as "50 mile vistas." There's no focal point for photographs, just these massive, awe-inspiring panoramas that go on forever. In photographs, they look insignificant. The only thing the photograph does is remind you how massive and huge the vista is when you're in the middle of it.
Put another way, it's like photographing Paris from the Eiffel Tower. The photographs show Sacré-Cœur on a hilltop in the distance, a toy Arc de Triomphe, a tiny little Île de la Cité floating in the Seine with a tiny little Notre Dame, and so on. But when you're there, in the moment, the effect is magical: I'm looking out over Paris from the Eiffel Tower!
If you look maybe an inch above the motorcycle seat in the picture below, you can see a ribbon of road down below in this amazing crenellated valley that goes on forever. Gives it a bit of scale.
I have this pullout to myself for five or ten minutes, but then others show up, including three older guys on motorcycles who want to talk. The oldest wants to tell me about a repair they just did to the gas line on his Honda 500 that was leaking fuel past the spark plug. They repaired it using J&B Weld, some sort on binary, epoxy-like compound. They show me the tubes. I excuse myself and get back on the road; typically, the fewer people I encounter on a ride, the happier I am. It's called Avoidant Personality Disorder, and due to the nature of the disorder, there are no support groups.
The road keeps changing. I leave the rock and scrub valley floor, to drive along the top of the canyon above the Escalante River.
More amazing roads that I have to myself, and views that go on to the horizon.
The road changes again, and I'm back in the Dixie National Forest.
And now, aspen groves, and pasture in between.
I ride over the summit at 9600 feet, and then the road descends through more twisty canyons. When the 12 meets the 24 at Torrey, I pull out my map, thinking I'll push on to Green River, still buzzing from the amazing ride. But I see it is nearly 8PM, and over 120 miles to Green River, so I decide to stop at the Days Inn in Torrey. I fill up the gas tank (thinking ahead to my early getaway tomorrow), and check in. The desk clerk tells me I may park under the portico, which seems like a good idea.
I bring dinner back from the Subway/convenience store next door, and am asleep by 9:30.
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Returning Rider
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Oddometer: 12
Day 5: Torrey, UT to Boulder, CO (473 miles, riding 6:15AM to 4:00PM)
My alarm goes off at 5:30AM, and I am in the breakfast room when it opens at 6:00AM. I am eager to get going, so I get only an orange juice and a Nutrigrain bar and go outside to eat. Its windy, but the temperature is perfect, perhaps mid-60s, and the sun is not yet up. I want to get on the road immediately, so I finish my breakfast, grab my stuff from the room, check out, and load up.
I turn on the ignition, press the starter and...nothing. Huh?
Lights are strong, so obviously the battery isn't dead. But there appears to be a new light glowing. The fuel injection light is solid red. This isn't good. I dig out the under-the-seat user manual, which says ominously that if the FI light is red, go cautiously and directly to the nearest Honda dealer. Well, it's Sunday morning in Torrey, Utah, and the nearest Honda dealer is probably in Grand Junction, 200+ miles away. Hes probably got the day off anyway.
Well, let's see if I can get this puppy moving. I try jumpstarting on the small incline out of the parking lot. No dice. Not even a hint of starting. Now I'm getting nervous. I decide to try again, pushing the bike halfway up the steeper driveway of the hotel next door, as far as I can before my meager energy gives out. It's hard to swing my leg over the tailbag while trying to balance the bike, but I manage without dumping everything. I start down the incline, get up some speed, let the clutch out with the bike in third gear...and nothing. Merde. I can't believe this, especially after yesterday. I'm now in the middle of nowhere with a non-functional bike. I guess I'll go back inside, get on the internet, see if I can figure out how to reset the FI computer, and hope that's the problem.
Before getting off, I do a final scan of the bike. Is there anything that could be causing this? Then I notice that the big orange "Engine Stop" button appears to be in the STOP position rather than the RUN position. I flick the switch to RUN, and to my amazement, the FI light goes out. I flip it back to STOP and the light goes back on. Back to RUN, I press the ignition button, and my faithful 919 fires right up. Since I never, ever use the engine stop button, I can only assume that someone, maybe one of the many kids staying at the motel, was checking out my motorcycle the previous evening and casually pressed one of the few buttons they could, and gave me 10 unpleasant minutes to get my day started. Oh well, lesson learned.
(That night back at home, I made a note in the under-the-seat manual as to what the FI lamp means: either (a) take it to the dealer to look at the FI computer, or (b) CHECK THE FREAKIN' ENGINE STOP SWITCH POSITION. Even simpler, remember the FINE acronym from the MSF Basic Course: FuelIgnitionNeutralEngine Cutoff at RUN.)
And I'm off again. More deserted roads through canyons, the sun hitting the tops of the rocks.
The road begins to open up, and gets less interesting. Pleasant in shade, but that isn't going to last much longer.
And now the shade is gone, and it's just desert roads that go on forever.
Shery Crow is wrong. Not every day is a winding road.
And that is the last photo I take. Long straight roads to I-70, refueling in Green River, and the long, boring stretch from Green River to Grand Junction. The western slope is heating up, but I pass through before it gets too bad on its way to 100 degrees. I-70 has its scenic spots (especially Glenwood Canyon and Vail Pass), but plenty of boring sections. At each stop, I remove the dead bugs from my face shield. At the Grizzly Creek rest stop, I spend a while removing a bee-shaped splat the size of a quarter directly over my right eye.
After Dillon, where the climb begins to the Eisenhower Tunnel, everything slows. It is 10-15MPH all the way from Dillon to Idaho Springs. My last fuel stop is in Empire, and I go crawling back onto I-70, getting rained on intermittently until I can get off at Highway 6 for the ride into Golden. Im moving, but caught behind Harleys, with no opportunities to pass; there are very few passing zones heading east on 6.
And finally: home via 93. I feel pretty scrambled by the end of it, but Ive returned in one piece. The motorcycle stayed upright, and no performance awards from the police, so the trip is counted as a success. Or at least as an interesting learning experience.
Returning Rider
Joined: Nov 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Oddometer: 12
Reflections on my first multi-day trip since returning to motorcycling last year.
Final tally: 1863 miles in total
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Anyway...thanks for reading.
Invisible Man
Joined: Jun 2008
Location: Socal near the great 33
Oddometer: 2,427
That's a great little report! And from one of my favorite areas, too. Torrey, Escalante, etc. has such great roads. From straight to curvy, to mountain, etc.
Plus, just enough drama to make it memorable.
Thanks for writing it up!
"Otherwise, its been a carnival of idiots, and Im the f*ckin ringmaster" - RTW Doug
Speed is your friend, it also why you see a bike up in a tree from time to time - WarLlama
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: Oct 2008
Location: Fairfield, CA, USA
Oddometer: 628
Nicely done, thanks!
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Holidaymakers looking for things to do in London could be tempted to head to some of the best museums in the country.
And as 2010 is the Year of the Museum in the south-east, tourists, visitors and locals have been heading to the capital to explore these interesting buildings full of artefacts, history and wonderful works of art.
With more than 300 museums across the city ranging from the traditional to the obscure, people are never short of a thing to do in London.
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The Cartoon Museum on Little Russell Street, for instance, is bound to be a hit with children, with its displays of British caricatures and comics. As well as classic animations, there are also collections of more satirical drawings, including work depicting the relationship between Bush and Blair.
Book fans can check out the Charles Dickens Museum on Dought Street, where they can enter the very house where Dickens once resided.
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Its Holocaust Exhibition is one of the most emotive displays visitors are likely to come across during their London visit and it holds historical material explaining the story behind the Nazi's persecution of the Jews during World War Two.
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Each date consists of two varieties. The first variety of the 1796 issue has 15 obverse stars (Overton 101), while the second variety has 16 stars (Overton 102). The 16 star variety apparently commemorated Tennessee's June 1, 1796 admission to the Union as the 16th state. It is interesting to note, however, that while the dies may have been prepared prior to this date, Mint records indicate that the first Draped Bust Small Eagle half dollars were not delivered by the Chief Coiner until February 28, 1797 under Warrant Number 81. Subsequent deliveries were made on March 21 per Warrant Number 84, and on May 26 under Warrant Number 90. All deliveries were made to the Bank of the United States. Breen (1988) theorizes that the 1796 16 star specimens were included in the March and May deliveries.
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St. John USVI Fauna: Land Crab
Hunting land crabs for food is a part of St. John culture and probably has been so since the first human beings came here about 3,000 years ago. The primary use of the land crab is to provide the essential ingredient for the tasty West Indian dish known simply as crab and rice.
Land crabs, called Cardisoma guanhumi by scientists, pond crabs by British Virgin Islanders and jueyes by people from Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, are the grayish-colored crabs that live in the network of holes found in low-lying areas near mangrove swamps, salt ponds, wetlands and marshes. They are rather large crabs, growing to about four or five inches in diameter not including their formidable claws. During the day you may see them standing just outside a hole into which they will quickly descend as soon as they notice your approach.
Land crabs live inside these holes or burrows, which go down on an angle and lead to a larger living area, where the crab stores food for winter dry spell. Parts of the burrow go down to the water table and there will ultimately be one or more alternate openings to the surface. The crabs only venture away from their holes at night or when it's raining in order to search for food. They eat just about anything they can find including their own young, dead things, garbage and worse. They are not effective predators, however, and as such their diet is usually limited to plants they find near their burrows.
An essential ingredient for the dish "crab and rice" is the crab. They cannot be bought at any store; so you first have to catch some crabs. Crab hunting is usually a group activity that takes place in the spring and summer on a waning moon, a time Virgin Islanders call dark night. This is when the land crab is most likely to be found out of its hole. Crabs are very skittish and have excellent senses of hearing and sight, so normally it is extremely difficult to sneak up on them and catch them. If you shine a bright light on them at night, however, they tend to stop in their tracks, blinded by the glare.
Catching crabs at night is locally called "torching," a name, which comes from the days before flashlights were commonly available and a torch was used instead. Torches were made out of an oily wood, aptly named torchwood or in later years would be made out of a piece of cut up truck or automobile tire tied to a stick.
Torching requires at least one of each of the following, a flashlight, a forked stick and a sack. Usually one person wields the light, another catches the crab and a third holds the sack. The beam of light from the flashlight serves to blind the crab and momentarily stops it from running away. The stick is useful to control the movements of the crab and to block up its hole if it tries to get back in. The goal is to snatch up the crab and put it in the sack. This is done with a quick sweep of the hand grabbing it firmly from the back and tilting it forward to prevent being pinched by the claws. Less confident crab hunters may wear a heavy glove as a semi-protection against this possible pinching, which can be quite painful.
Crabs can also be caught during the day. On method is to lay a noose over the entrance to the crab hole and secure it to a stick pounded into the ground. The crab can exit its hole with no problem, but when it returns it often gets snagged in the noose. Another procedure takes advantage of the fact that the burrow goes down on an angle. First you look down the crab hole and if you see the crab near the entrance you pound a pointed stick into the hole in back of the crab. This prevents him from going deeper in. Then you gradually pry the stick upward forcing the crab to exit his hole and into your waiting sack. There are many other methods including a hook with bait technique and the direct "stick your hand in the hole and grab the crab method." This latter approach can, however, result in a painful experience if not done properly.
Land crabs should always be purged before cooking them. The most important reason is that because they live in habitats where manchaneel trees are also found, and because they are immune to the manchaneel poison, they may have yet undigested manchaneel leaves in their system. Purging also improves the crab's flavor as it rids the crab of anything disgusting it may have eaten. To purge the crab you must put it in a cage with plenty of ventilation and access to food and water. Feed the crabs such things as cornmeal, table scraps, coconut meat, and crab bush. Keep the cage clean and periodically wet the crabs with water.
Enemies of the Land Crab
Although the land crab has a fierce appearance and sharp claws, this is not enough to frighten away all of its enemies.
The land crab's worst foe is the human being. Over the millennia people have devised and practiced many effective methods for capturing these tasty creatures. Even more threatening to the land crabs is the destruction of their habitats caused by land development. On many of the larger and more populated islands, land crab populations have declined dangerously. On St. John, however, where there are not so many humans and development is limited, land crabs are still abundant. Notwithstanding, they no longer enjoy the great proliferation that they did in the past.
Moreover, with their precipitous decline on St. Thomas and Puerto Rico, there is now a hefty price on their heads. St. Thomians and Puerto Ricans have been known to pay as much as five dollars a piece for these increasingly hard to find delicacies. Concern over these stresses on this natural resource, has led the Virgin Islands National Park to prohibit crab hunting in park territory, and crab hunters now must confine this activity to lands that are not under park jurisdiction.
Human beings, however, are not the only enemy faced by the land crab. There is a bird on St. John that hunts land crabs by night. The local name for this bird is "crab bird," but it is more properly known as the yellow-crowned-night-heron. The crab bird actually sticks its formidable beak into the crab hole and pulls the crab out. According to musician and naturalist Mano Boyd, the crab bird is able to kill its prey while the crab is still in its hole. This way they avoid the crab's viscous claws, which become considerably more dangerous outside the confines of the narrow burrow. Also, according to Mr. Boyd, the crab bird makes an ungodly racket as it attempts to break open the crab shell by pecking at it and by wildly swinging the crab against sticks and stones.
Land crabs also face another sneaky and deadly predator, the sly mongoose. The mongoose will try and sneak up on the land crab and, utilizing its great speed, will attack before the crab is aware of the mongoose's presence. Wilmoth King, however, tells a story of how a land crab once turned the tables on a mongoose.
As a youth King lived in Pine Peace and would go to the beach at Great Cruz Bay, which in those pre-Westin days, was a mangrove swamp with one small, but very sandy, beach area.
One day, while walking down the dirt road that led to the beach, King heard a commotion in the mangroves off to the side of the road. Being young and curious, he went into the mangroves to investigate.
About ten yards into the swamp, King came upon a life and death drama, a battle between a mongoose and a crab. The mongoose was stalking the crab, waiting for a time when the crab was not looking so that the mongoose could attack and perhaps bite off a tasty claw and then finish off the defenseless creature. The mongoose finally saw its opportunity. Thinking that the crab was not paying attention, the mongoose made a lightning fast charge.
The crab, however, was fully aware of the mongoose and its evil intentions. With a well-timed sweep of the larger of its two claws, the crab grabbed the mongoose by the neck. The hunter had become the prey. The mongoose squirmed and twisted, and squealed and wailed, but could neither bite the crab nor get away. Meanwhile, still holding firmly to the mongoose's neck, the crab would cut and snip at the mongoose with its other claw at every chance that it got. Within a few minutes there was one less mongoose on the island, and the crab scurried back into the safety of his hole.


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Submission on Vehicle Licensing Reform
Last updated on 31/10/2012 5:00 p.m.
Submissions for Vehicle Licensing Reform are now closed.
The Ministry of Transport and NZ Transport Agency are considering the submissions as part of developing recommendations to the government for Vehicle Licensing Reform.
A summary of submissions will be posted on Ministry of Transport site, when it is completed.
The government wants to find simpler and more efficient ways to run vehicle licensing systems. The project covers proposals to reform the:
- warrant of fitness and certificate of fitness systems
- annual vehicle licensing (commonly known as registration) system
- transport services licensing system.
Progress updates about Vehicle Licensing Reform will be available on the Ministry of Transport website.


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Congratulations to the U11B Blaze for winning the NorCal State Cup Premier 1 title this past weekend in Turlock. The boys defeated Palo Alto Blue 3-1 in the quarterfinals, PAC United 2-1 in the semifinals, and the Alum Rock Lobitos 3-2 in the championship game. Congratulations to the boys and Coach Luciano Fusco on this fantastic accomplishment!
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Mark D'Arcy on what makes a great Facebook campaign
By Arif Durrani, campaignlive.co.uk, Wednesday, 01 May 2013 12:30PM
The way the more successful brands are approaching advertising campaigns on Facebook is evolving fast, with talk of 'likes' being replaced by responsive, narrative-led goals formed by those at the heart of the brand, says Mark D'Arcy, global director of creative solutions at the social network.
Speaking to Campaign in the week the winners of the second annual Facebook Studio Awards were announced, D'Arcy is keen to emphasise the evolution taking place.
"People now are using the native functionality of the platform, it's not just applications that people are building to do one trick as an interesting piece of social engineering," he says. "There's now beautiful examples of people using Timeline, or people doing amazing copywriting and craft in publishing."
Walking away with this year's top Blue Award was the Oreo Daily Twist campaign, created by Draftfcb, New York for Mondelez International (formerly Kraft).
Launched in the summer of 2012, it resulted in 100 ads in 100 days by turning trending news stories into visual promotions. It featured a range of topics, from Pride Week to the Mars Rover landing, but its biggest success came with its "You can still dunk in the dark" ad, posted during the third quarter of the Super Bowl, after a power outage at the Superdome caused the lights to go out.
The campaign spread well beyond Oreo's 27 million fans to make the news headlines itself – featuring in more than 2,600 media articles and triggering over 1.3 million Facebook interactions, including shares, likes and comments.
The speed with which Oreo's core branding team had been able to react to events, coupled with the craft of the copy and imagery, all contributed to its social success.
Reconnecting media with creativity
For D'Arcy, he believes Facebook at its best is about "reconnecting media with creativity on a far more real-time basis". His advice for companies wanting to make a "step-change in what they are doing on Facebook" is to go right back to basics.
"First of all, it's not about intent or talent, it's really about organisational structure, which doesn't sound very sexy, but it's actually a hugely important part of success," he says.
He stresses the importance in making sure the people who create the stories or brand building ideas on Facebook are "deeply connected" with the people who are investing in the media: "It sounds obvious, but often it doesn't happen."
Taking a leaf from more commercial colleagues like Stephen Haines and Carolyn Everson, Facebook's creative chief is also keen to dispell "the myth of free" surrounding how brands can get the best use out of Facebook. He says that while many companies can get excited by the performance of their branding pages, he knows they are missing a trick if they stop there.
"If you look at where you're spiking [having] success with things that are engaging with people, to not amplify to the right people [at that point] is just the silliest thing you can do," he says.
He notes how Facebook's Social Publishing System enables every person invested in a particular campaign – from client to creative agency and PR to media agency – to follow and respond in real-time.
"It's about getting everybody you trust who's driving this brand narrative, and they should be core to the brand… the people who are at the heart of the brand, who are listening to what people are saying, that's the centre of the brand," he says. "And that means when you think about building your marketing structures, put people at the centre of it."
Don't use a stick, build a boat
Noting another change in the way brands are now approaching Facebook, D'Arcy points to "lightweight design", which is less obstrusive and built into a wider narrative. He urges marketers to focus on user experience and consider how people want to receive messages – and that starts with the death of brands adopting 'a Facebook voice' – "no, stop it, just have your voice," he urges.
He adds: "A lot of the energy a year or two ago was in trying to do things to disrupt the flow of how content moved across the platform. So people were trying to build applications that did things to prove a point, and that disruption mentality is actually counter-intuitive to how social sharing works. What you actually want to do is not be the person with a stick. With a river you want to build a boat."
Looking ahead, D'Arcy expects the momentum in developing brand messages on Facebook to continue, and has no qualms in shamelessly flattering the UK's creatives in the process, believing "the tone of Britsh advertising is extraordinarily well-placed for this environment".
He adds: "It's very early days of doing this. I'm so proud of the work this year but I know next year we're going to look back and say, 'oh, look where it went', because we're right on this curve creatively… we're in that stage of experimentation, with people looking to explore the form."
Other campaigns to receive recognition in this year's awards are Nike Academy by AKQA (Gold), You've Got a Case by BBDO (Gold), The Ted Facebook page by Universal Studios (Silver) and the Newcastle Brown Ale Facebook 'No Bollocks' Facebook page by Droga5 (Bronze).
All this year's Facebook Studio winners listed here.
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Homeowners who wish to find out whether they are eligible for mortgage or foreclosure relief as a result of the $25 billion bank settlement can contact the Washington State Attorney General's office at 800-551-4636 or visit Washington Attorney General.
Information is also available at National Mortgage Settlement.
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A state official this week said Washington's portion of the recently announced $25 billion national mortgage settlement could take months to dole out to recipients who lost houses to foreclosure or are on the brink of falling behind.
"The best advice I can give these people is to be patient. You will receive a letter within 60 to 90 days," said Dave Huey, the state's assistant attorney general.
Huey was on the executive team of attorneys general from all 50 states that negotiated the landmark settlement from an investigation of the nation's five largest mortgage servicers, Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc., formerly GMAC.
Troubled Clark County homeowners and foreclosure victims are urged to call the attorney general's office if they carried or still carry a mortgage with one of the five banks, Huey said.
"We'll be issuing progress reports as time goes by," he said.
The deal translates to $648 million in benefits for troubled homeowners and foreclosure victims in Washington, a state earmarked to receive a much smaller slice of the pie than California, where the settlement is expected to generate $18 billion in benefits. With Florida expecting to receive $8.4 billion in benefits, it's clear that the value the states expect to receive from the settlement is more than the official $25 billion price tag.
That's because banks' actions, such as principal reductions, have a financial value in addition to the cash they are contributing to the settlement, Huey said.
Up to $483 million of Washington's money will be used to modify at-risk homeowners' loans by reducing the principal balance and interest rates. About $24 million will be issued as compensation to foreclosure victims in checks of up to $2,000.
Officials used a formula to divvy up the settlement. California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada consistently turned in the highest number of foreclosures during the four-year-long housing downturn.
The investigation was launched in 2010 following an uproar over banks that used false or incomplete documentation and "robo-signers," people who rushed to sign thousands of documents a day without reviewing the details.