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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Day 8 - June 22
Day 8
Sleep in a bit after late night. Up about 9, meet Ken and Charlotte from Victoria on a very farkled DL1000. Looks like they do quite a lot of this. They're just arriving and like my spot so pull in to take it as I head out.
They had all the bells and whistles - metal side cases, crash bars, extra fuel tanks on hardpoints, front projector beam lights, GPS mount... it all looks pretty cool, but I'm not sure if I want the extra weight, and I sure don't want the extra cost.
Before leaving town, I got the requisite photo in front of the DC-3 windvane: [Canon SX130]
Leave southbound 10:30. Snack break at rest area near Jake's Corner. Mixed sun and clouds but not very warm.
Today I just decided to make some distance back to the south. I briefly contemplated a side trip to Atlin, but decided it's for another time.
Refuel in Teslin at 12:50, then across The Bridge. This time I'm not so lucky, meeting two oncoming vehicles, but the bike stays upright and I'm across safely.
Into Rancheria 2:15. Decide to splurge and buy lunch while I study the map and decide which way to go at Junction 37. The mozza bacon burger was not bad. Talk a bit with the owner; they've been doing a lot of renovating and sounds like business is pretty steady.
Leave Rancheria 2:45. By 3:15 coming into what looks like heavy rain. Watson Lake and a motel, maybe? About 30 min rain (timed to occur as I hit one of the 20 km gravel patches, well, this makes it less dusty but more mucky) then into sun. Got a bit wet through the suit but not too bad. Gas at Junction 37, 3:51. Decide to push south towards Dease Lake.
4:20, photos at Blue Lakes. Sunny and hot here, open the suit vents to cool and also dry out!
The lakes were more greenish, really. [Canon SX130]
This entire section along the north part of 37 had clearly had a forest fire run through in the last couple of years - just charred, scorched lifeless trunks either side of the road and around Blue Lakes, with very lush undergrowth taking advantage of the sun exposure afforded by the forest being gone. [Canon SX130]
Mountain goat herd - including a couple of very small kids - right on the road at Good Hope Lake. Get a few pictures. [Canon SX130]
Stop at the jade store, look around a bit, then back on the road.
They have a 'companion store', run by the sister, just outside of Vancouver here at Britannia Beach. A few months back I'd taken Lu there, she wanted to buy some jade. I picked her up some matching earrings here, right from the source. They have a nice little museum to the (now closed off) town of Cassiar.
View of some of the cutting wheels and jade blocks. [Canon SX130]
Right at the highway sign saying 84 km to Dease Lake, the sky goes black and just unleashes a downpour. I slow way down to see the road and the cold trickles start creeping in all the vent zippers on the suit. Ugh. Only lasts about 15 minutes but pretty much makes me decide not to camp tonight. I want to shower, wash clothes, and dry things out.
7:05 into Northway Motor Inn, Dease Lake. A room is $109 but I take it. A shower and fresh dry clothes feel great and I wash the dirty clothes in the sink basin, even before eating - want to give them as much time as possible to dry.
There is an electric kettle in the lobby - use it to boil water and make dinner (dehydrated beef lasagna; it comes out really good!)
Send a few emails and a position update using the hotel wifi, then into bed.
Total 661.1 km
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Day 9 - June 23
Day 9
Up and fold clothes - they dried ok, I should be good rest of trip now. Give a last thought to telegraph creek but the road description puts me off.
Telegraph Creek is about 100 km out from Dease Lake - down a dirt road with tight switchbacks, no guard rails, and inclines of 20%. I've also heard there's a lot of beer cans along the side of the road. As much as it sounds scenic, it also sounded a little risky to tackle alone. One drunk driver in a pickup going to fast comes around a corner on my side, I slide on the gravel, and I'm over the edge. Next time, with a wingman...
One drunk local in a pickup on the wrong side of a corner could put me off a cliff. Wait for the gas station to open at 9, refill spare tank and I'm off. Stop at Upper Gnat Lakes for pictures then on.
It's not hard to guess how they got their name. It was completely true - no mosquitos, no no-see-ums, but swarms of tiny gnats. Have to wonder why one particular insect species so predominated. Very scenic today in spite of the swarms. [Rolleiflex 6008i, 50mm Distagon]
At this point I ran out of Reala film, and had to switch to Lomography. I have had really mixed success with it - sometimes great, sometimes, not so great. This is a 'not so great', it's a nice shot but there are tiny flecks of crud everywhere They don't show up much at the size you see here, though. [Rolleiflex 6008i, 50mm Distagon]
One more metal bridge deck over the Stikine. Through Iskut (a motel and a restaurant anda place with cabins, plus gas? I didn't recall so many services here). Tattoga Lodge also looks active - gas, lodging, restaurant.
5 years ago, I don't recall there being much of anything here - it looks like things are much livelier now (relatively speaking!)
Past Kinaskin Lake the road surface improves - fresh paving, brush cut most places, new wooden bridge decks, and painted lines. Stop for a snack at Eastman Creek rest area, just after encountering a bear cub who ran out in front of me, stared, then ran back off the road.
Major power line construction south of Bob Quinn. Just missed a big lumbering boxy twin tail, twin engine air freighter taking off from the dirt airstrip along the road.
Obviously, there's something going on here. About 50 km of the road has this massive power line being constructed, so I suspect there is an increase in mining activity someplace around Bob Quinn. Helps to explain why the whole road seems busier than before, maybe.
Too bad I just missed the airplane takeoff - the highway is directly alongside the dirt runway, and there was a lot of dust left from the propwash - would have been a great photo of it taking off, I think.
On towards Meziadin Junction and Stewart/Hyder.
12:40 into Bell II for gas ($1.55, better than I remember). They now have a beer and wine store and fresh bakery goods as well.
On to Stewart
At Bear Glacier, just before Stewart. [Cannon SX130]
and through to Hyder. There's no US side customs - you just reach a sign saying you're in Alaska. I pull into the Sealaska Inn and ask about camping - they're known as a good tenting spot. The woman at the bar laughs and tells me no tenting - there's a lease issue and they no longer have the space; but more importantly, the town is crawling with bears. "You don't want to tent here," she says. "Stewart has a nice tent ground". It's all of 5 km back. I step out of the bar and just to prove her right, an unattended black bear cub walks by about 100 metres from the hotel. I mention this to the bartender and she shrugs. "There's a sow with three newborns wandering around the town". She was right, this isn't the place to tent. I explore the town
Hyder is an interesting place. There is a US post office, but as noted, no US Customs; electricty is BC Hydro; and there's no services, with gas, police, hospital/ambulance, hardware sore, restaurants, and school all being in Stewart. [Canon SX130]
The post office:
Dean's Groceries - Duty Free for Canadians! (It's seen better days)
Main Street. There was a street sign, telling you so.
The Sealaska Inn - Mile 0 of the Alaska-Yukon Highway
Building in Hyder
I rode out on a worn out wooden wharf out towards a boat launch, to look around a bit at the Portland Canal.
Right by the border, stands a tiny masonry building. This, it turns out, is the first masonry building made in Alaska - Storehouse #4, built by the US Army Corps of Engineers under Capt. David Galliard (who later became famous for his work on the Panama Canal; part of the canal is now named for him). Four small storehouses were built as part of a survey of the Portland Canal and the US - Can border here; remnants of all four still exist, although two are now on the Canadian side as a result of the 1903 Boundary Tribunal. [Abbreviated from the plaque at the site].
Looking from Storehouse #4 at the lonely Canadian-side customs station.
and then head out into the Tongass forest towards the glaciers. Unfortunately, the dirt road has just been graded and topped with fresh, soft gravel. My tires really don't handle this well and after about 3 km of sliding all over I regretfully give up and turn around.
Again, not the right tires and I just don't have the skill and confidence on the big VStrom on soft gravel when the front wheel wanders all over. I did get some photos in the Tongass Forest, though. It's beautiful.
Tongass National Forest, by Hyder [Canon SX130]
[Rolleiflex 6008i, 50mm Distagon]
I stop in a souveneir shop in Hyder to det a decal for the bike luggage. As I pay with Canadian money, the owner comments how she pays her electric bill in Canadian anyhow (I guess Hyder is on BC Hydro grid?). It's a unique place. Back towards Stewart to get a tent site.
Canada does run Customs here (why????). It's a very low key conversational crossing.
One has to really question why there is a customs office here, at all. The road dead ends - there's nothing to buy - and you can walk from one town to the other in maybe 45 minutes, if you're slow. I get the usual question of "any firearms, weapons, etc?" and report I'm carrying bear spray. While legal, this will still usually get you a lot of questions. Here, the officer just shrugs like "well yeah, to be expected".
I was told later in the town, while talking to the bartender, that the Canada customs is always staffed by 2, and is open 24/7. That really can't be the best use of my tax dollar.
Back in Stewart I get a tent site (note the bear warning signs here, too)
An unreassuring juxtaposition! I slept with the bear spray in the tent, in quick reach. [Canon SX130]
then walk the few blocks to "downtown" and treat myself to a cold beer and plate of poutine. The locals are complaining about the heat - it is probably over 30C out there.
Some photos around Stewart [Canon SX130].
Buildings from the 1920's era, when mining first started here.
Closer view of the glacier hanging over the town - you can see this in the top edge of the last photo, too.
Find the camp has metal "bear lockers" so put my food drybag in there for the night.
Glad to have these. [Canon SX130].
Have another beer and fish and chips at the King Edward, then call it an early night.
The campground here, by the way, is very nice. Free wifi (satellite link, so slow, but works for email), showers, nice soft grassy spots, shady, right on the edge of "town" and a 5 minute walk to all of it.
Today's total: 421.1
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Aug 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Oddometer: 356
Thank you for the trip so far, it has been great! Looking for more to come.
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Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Glad you're enjoying it!
I like your tag line, by the way.
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Day 10 - June 24
Day 10
Slept well. Warm night. Up 7:30 with sun on tent. Usual breakfast oatmeal and coffee. Just a little over half the methyl hydrate gone, should make the rest of trip. Pack up, refuel, on road by 9:30.
11:30 into Kitwancool and photo the totem poles.
Now known as Gitanyow. A few km off the highway, and well worth it. The village has been here for a long time, and the village and Gitanyow people have maintained a strong since of tribal identity. There's a short but interesting section on them, along with a 1924 photo of the village, here: http://www.sfu.ca/brc/virtual_villag.../gitanyow.html
The totems are very impressive, all the more so because they're not here as tourism draws - they still have significance for the tribal families. They're hard to photograph though, being very tall and narrow, and since they're right in the town, among buildings, the background is distracting. Some examples [Canon SX130]
There's some less skilled examples, too - but still kind of interesting, in the sake of real authenticity:
I was in luck - the carvers were working on a new totem pole while I was there. I got into a conversation with them - they said each figure on a pole takes 2-3 carvers about a month to complete, varying of course with the complexity.
They asked where I was from. The fellow in the blue shirt commented, "Vancouver? It must be very noisy. How do you hear yourself think in all that?" I smiled and understood what he meant, and replied that it was precisely for that, that I tried to get away on rides like this. Time to let the mind run through things it can't, with all the distractions usually facing it.
[Rolliflex 6008i, 80mm planar]
Closer look at the wood grain as it's worked [Rolliflex 6008i, 80mm Planar]
Through Kitwanga (photos of church)
Old church, with an interesting separate bell tower. [Canon SX130]
Required photo by the 37 junction... [Canon SX130]
and on to Smithers - refuel. It's super hot, even just stopping to fuel is unpleasant in the suit. Open all the vents and on to Tyhee Lake Park at Telkwa for lunch. Discover the margarine has totally liquified and leaked from tub - fortunately I had bagged it so mess is contained but decide to ditch it here before it gets on everything.
Brief rain squall looks like it could be bad, set up tarp as gear shelter and look at map. Weak cell signal but enough to get weather forecasts. Looks drier as I head towards Prince George. Decide to head on - at least to Burns Lake.
Fraser Lake has a sushi restaurant? Really?
Somehow looked rather incongrous....
Coyote runs out after bike near there - seemed like it was playing? By time I stopped was too far past to get a good picture.
So, this sounds a bit odd, but it's basically what my log says. Just past Fort Fraser, as I came into a long slight uphill stretch, I saw a coyote on the far edge of the road, standing there. As I got close, it launched itself onto the road diagonally at me, and ran trying to catch me. Somehow I got the impression it was playing just like dogs who like to chase cars; I was just something moving fast, and a challenge, could he catch me? I hit the brakes as I went past, stopping a bit down the road, but it was a bit too far for a decent photo of him standing now on my side and watching me, and there was traffic going both ways so I didn't feel like making a U-turn. By the time I'd get there and get a camera out, he'd likely be gone anyhow. It was a kind of neat experience.
Really bad winds start about 50 km west of Vanderhoof - struggle to keep lane position. Sky gets very dark. I know what's coming and pull over to close the suit vents. When the rain hits about 25 km later it's a downpour and into the suit anyhow within a few minutes. Cold and wet when I reach Vanderhoof. Inquire at one motel but I don't like the price
(or the attitude of the proprietor, for that matter. Guy gave me the creeps instantly.)
so decide to add on all my layers and push on the last 100 km to Prince George. Weather starts improving with only occasional rain patches as I make it into town by 7:30. Pick the cheapest motel listed at the tourist infocentre and check into the Economy Inn. Right across from Dairy Queen so get a meal there as soon as I am out of suit. Early night.
I'd reccommend the place - cloase to downtown, clean, quiet, pretty cheap.
Today's total 712.4 km
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Day 11 - June 25
Day 11
Woke to steady rain. As expected - why I didn't tent last night.
Gray, rainy morning in PG. [iPhone 5]
Forecast says will taper off here, and Williams Lake says morning showers done by noon. Decide to make a late start and minimize my rain exposure. Use the room coffee maker to make coffee, of all things! Contact friend and arrange rendezvous for night of 28 in Lillooet
My friend Dmitry rides, and was who got me into medium format photography. He had some time off and was planning to ride up and spend a few days around Lillooet taking photos, so we planned to meet up for the last leg of my trip home.
Gas up and on road by 10. Through rain, get mildly wet inside gear, but weather improving. Into Quesnel - stop for food at visitor center and spread out clothes to dry. Visit the museum - cool CD Hoy photo exhibit.
It's a pretty good museum - worth a stop if you have the time. Some of the exhibits: [iPhone 5]
Early medical supplies, including a home made wooden prosthetic leg:
Six-cylinder chainsaw! (OK - it's not really 6 cylinders - that's sort of an inside joke)
C.D. Hoy was a very early Chinese photographer in the Cariboo gold rush. According to http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/in...ses/119z7.html
"Hoy took more than 1,500 photographs between 1909 and 1920, creating an invaluable record of the rich cultural diversity of the Cariboo region. Capturing the enduring presence of the Interior's Aboriginal peoples, as well as the dignity and pride of Chinese workers and Caucasian labourers, Hoy has left a poignant legacy of a world now lost forever."Many of his photos were on display here - along with informative text discussing how he applied classical Chinese portrature methods (emphasis on placement of hands, etc). You can see some of the photos here: http://www.bcrobyn.com/2012/12/c-d-h...raphy-exhibit/
12:45 back on road towards Williams lake.
Gas up and confirm with travel centre that you can still camp at the motel in Horsefly. On to 150 Mile house where I fill the reserve tank out of caution. Into Horsefly and set up. $15/night for soft grass in front of motel; sparkling clean bathrooms and showers and laundry facilities included. Normally wifi too but they tell me severe thundetstorms have knocked the line out, waiting for repairs.
I first went through Horsefly a few years back, on my ride to Bella Coola, when I got here via back roads. It's the fgirst place gold was found in the Cariboo region, and there's still appreciable active mining for gold, copper, etc., although now also a lot of agriculture and some logging. Horsefly itself still has quite a few old buildings, dating from when it was called "Harper's Camp" in the 1920's. I'm not sure what it is, but I really like Horsefly. I think I would like to live there. In fact, the motel is for sale, and the idea did cross my mind....
Example of one of the older farm buildings: [Canon SX130]
Deer on the road at edge of town. This one was really unconcerned by the motorcycle - I had to come to a full stop as it looked at me then walked across the road, standing maybe 3 metres from me. There was a deer the next day at exactly the same place (basically on the edge of someone's lawn) and I suspect it was the same deer, just kind of "hangin' out" in town. [Canon SX130]
Setting up outside the motel [iPhone 5]
Walk into "town" and the general store - haagen daas ice cream bar, chips, and beer. They have cold singles of Fullers ESB! Somebody locally has taste. Get two and walk back to camp. Rain is coming so set up tarp and chair - works great, I stay totally dry through half hour storm, drinking beer and reading. After the storm passes, sun comes back out and I make dinner - chicken gumbo. Another good one, mental note to get this again.
Gumbo coming up! [iPhone 5]
Read until about 9 - it's already getting dusk here, big difference from Whitehorse - then into the tent.
Today's total: 309.6
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Day 12 - June 26
Day 12
Chilly overnight but slept ok. Really glad I brought the down shirt along, it's been great both riding when needed, and sleeping - compensates for the lack of warmth in the very compact bag I brought.
Up 7:30 with sun on the tent - looks like I'm back to good weather. Usual breakfast plus some fruit leather. Get the bike up on centre stand and check/oil the chain. Seems slightly slack again but not seriously so? Maybe just that it's unloaded. Chain is pretty gunked up but oil and turn it until it seems smooth.
I had made tentative plans starting more than a month back, to meet up in Williams Lake around the time of the Williams Lake Stampede with a friend who was going to be there - so I needed to kill another day in the area. I'd never been to check out the town of Likely, and the ghost town of Quesnel Forks had also been recommended as worth seeing, so my plan was to spend the day checking these out. There's a dirt road running along Beaver Valley which connects Horsefly to the paved road into Likely, so I decided to head across that to start my day.
Beaver Valley Rd is 40 km of hardpacked gravel - narrow and lots of blind corners but generally good conditions. Not as remote as you might expect - there's a farm every few km and power lines.
Here's a photo of when this road was being made: [Canon SX130, copy of photo in Horsefly Museum]
Back onto (very good) paved roads on Likely Rd and into Likely. Grab a coffee at the store.
Some views around Likely [Canon SX130]
Bridge across the Quesnel River. The river was very high.
Stained glass window at the store.
Metal sculpture at the little grassy park in Likely.
Guy on payphone outside the lodge is telling somone he got attacked by a bear last night and had to shoot it.
The fellow sounded pretty shook up - not surprisingly! You can see him in the photo below. The lodge dates to 1936. [Canon SX130]
Local at the store tells me Cedar Point park worth seeing, and Quesnel Forks, although he describes the road into there as ending in "goat trail".
On to Cedar Point and the museum/ travel info centre. Closed. Go in and explore the park - has a few old mining machines like a 1906 steam shovel painted up around the park. Shoot the last of the 120 film. That's it, 8 rolls gone.
Wish I'd brought more 120 film - there were still some good scenery to come, but I made do with the two digital cameras for the rest of the trip.
1906 steam shovel in Cedar Point Park [Canon SX130]
On to Quesnel Forks. Most of the 13 km in is ok, it's the last 3 or so which are a steep single lane descent with loose gravel and small washouts.
"Goat trail" was a pretty accurate description - but chances of meeting any other traffic were thankfully very remote, so just go slow and use the entire (single lane) of road, and it was fine. No point taking photos of the road, no matter what, they never do justice to the narrowness or steepness.
Bike handles it ok and I park in the old townsite to walk around and check it out. Cemetary is partly restored with headstones for Chinese gold miners, Jewish merchants, and a negro farmer - seems like it was a pretty multicultural place. One info sign says it was the third largest Chinese community in BC at one point.
There's a handful of info boards, with things like copies of old 1920's legal documents about the town and its residents. There used to be a bridge over the river here and this was a major hub for the early gold rush.
Some photos of the cemetary and town remnants: [Canon SX130]
The cemetary is partially restored.
Chinese incense / altar house in the cemetary.
The town had a Robson Street... a little quieter than the one in Vancouver.
Some of the original buildings.
1:13 leaving Quesnel Forks - not looking forward to "goat trail" first few km. As I usually find though, uphill is a bit easier than down and no problems. Real glad I didn't meet any traffic coming the other way, though! Back through Likely and stop at Bullion Pit viewpoint.
The Bullion Pit was an enormous hydraulic mining operation - that is, where high pressure water is used to blast away soil and then it's sluiced over rocker boxes or large gold collection sluices to capture the placer.
A photo of one of the "monitors", or water canons. It's about an 8" bore. [Canon SX130]
At its peak, this operation used more water per day than the entire city of Vancouver. They eventually water blasted an entire new valley until the gold returns got too scarce to make it worthwhile. You can still see the scar, even nearly a kilometer away from this overlook: [Canon SX130]
I bet there's still appreciable gold down in there if you dug and panned - maybe sometime. (At least one mine is still active right near there; I saw the sign for it and followed a loaded ore truck for a bit).
A link to some interesting relevant information. If the story here is true - and I suspect it is - then yes there's almost certainly a lot of placer still there if you're willing to dig down.
Back along Beaver Valley Road to Horsefly. Get a beer at the store and back to my tent for lunch. Last of the canned tuna meals and a few crispbread.
Early evening it becomes clear a thinderstorm is approaching. Set up the tarp again and wait for the rain to start. Try out cooking at the edge of the tarp while sitting inside - works pretty well. Other than one brief eddy in the wind which pushed a few raindrops in, I stay dry and out of the rain while cooking and eating. Beef Stroganoff. I grabbed it in the store while trying to ensure some variety in my meals, without thinking much. I'm not a big fan of mushrooms and there were lots. Well it was still ok - and I got to watch a brilliant rainbow form as I ate it, looking out the mouth of the tarp.
Double rainbow - view from under the tarp. [iPhone 5]
After about an hour the storm passed over, and I and all my gear were still nice and dry. Glad I brought the tarp.
Today's total: 182.4 km.
One day at a time!
Joined: Jul 2009
Location: MN. (summers) AZ. (winters)
Oddometer: 713
Great photos!
This is an awesome RR and so enjoyable to read. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
Gary "Oldone"
Grampa's Lake Superior Ride
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Glad you're enjoying it - I should get the last few days up pretty soon.
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Day 13 - June 27
Day 13
Rained some overnight but that's ok, gear and I stay dry and it's nice by morning. Go into Horsefly and check out the museum - I've been before but remember it was interesting. It was even a second time through.
Old farm equipment at the Horsefly Museum [Canon SX130].
Photo of one of the original rooming houses at Harper's Camp (as Horsefly was originally known) [Canon SX130, of photo in Horsefly Museum]
Stop at the realtor and look at listings in the window - cabin with electricity, wood heater, 1 acre, walking distance to "town" of Horsefly, is asking $50k. Seems like a pretty good price.
I know I said it before, but I'm going to repeat myself. I really like Horsefly. Guess there is not a lot for a molecular biologist to do there, though. PCR studies on horsefly phylogenetics?
Into 150 mile and look for places to tent tonight - don't see any, guess I need to make it to Lac la Hache after dinner. Well, it's not that far. Into Williams Lake, gas up, leave a note at her motel for my friend June, and go visit the museum.
Unfortunately, it was a 'no photography without prior permission' museum. I didn't feel like being a rebel. It kind of irks me when museums don't allow at least non-flash photography, though.
Has some interesting sections. The Loran-C transmitter at Riske Creek which I saw a few years back on my ride to Bella Coola is no more, and they have some artifacts like the HUGE tube amplifiers from the transmitter. It's a "no photos" museum, unfortunately.
Out of the museum about 2 under increasing cloud and even a few rain drops, but doesn't seem like they will amount to much. Ride down to Scout Island nature park on edge of town to sit and relax.
5:30, meet up with my friend June, who's arriving in town to photograph the annual Williams Lake Stampede, starting tomorrow. She leads me off to a pub where we grab dinner, (thanks, June!) and then I'm off southbound before dusk (and more deer on the road). I head about 50 km down to Lac la Hache Provincial Park and have the tent set up before 8 pm. Camp is a bit loud, too close to highway, but it's my best option for the night.
Photos of sunset over lake, clouds. [Canon SX130]
Today's total: 142.2
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Playing Hooky
Oddometer: 407
Day 14 - June 28
Day 14
Slept well despite road noise and some campers running a generator past midnight. What's the point in camping like that? Loons really loud most of the night, much nicer than the mechanical people noises. Warm, didn't need the down shirt. Up 7:45 and off by 8:30 after breakfast and breaking camp.
Only dreams I've had all trip, were this night. I have forgotten I am supposed to be lecturing an undergrad math class, and I'm on vacation; the department head isn't happy. Wake up pretty stressed until I realize I'm not lecturing anything. Guess I am coming back to "the real world" and its problems.
If I actually were teaching an undergrad math class, I think it would be the student who'd be having problems!
Into Lillooet and meet Dmitry at Mile 0 Motel about 11:30. Spend the day walking around taking photos.
Some photos from around Lillooet [Canon SX130 unless otherwise noted]
The Barn of 23 Camels. So there's a story behind that name - during the early Cariboo gold rush, someone in Lillooet got the idea camels would make great pack animals for the trail, and brought in 23 of them in. It didn't go well, and most of the camels just got released into the wild (I don't think you can do that now with exotic species?) A few were kept on farms, with the last one dying in 1896. Anyhow, today, this building which was their original barn, still stands. It went through multiple later uses, including for a while, purportedly the smallest movie theatre in North America: [From http://www.hellobc.com/activitylisti...mels-barn.aspx]
Built in 1861 to house the 23 Camels Frank Laumeister brought from San Francisco to serve as pack animals on the Cariboo Trail to the gold fields. The project failed, but the barn survived: briefly as a mortician's storehouse, then from 1938 as the Log Cabin Movie Theatre. It closed in 1985 and has been reopened as an historic building, a performance space and a gift shop. It contains the original theatre seating, the projectors and a 24x11 ft. wide screen.
Old truck sitting just off the main street.
Lichens on tree trunk in town, looking down to Fraser River.
We walked the 2 km or so down to the old bridge at one side of town. There's a large prairie dog colony along the road down to the bridge.
The bridge itself:
There's an osprey nest on one of the bridge towers (see the first bridge photo), and unfortunately I didn't quite get the camera ready in time when one of the parents flew in and landed right overhead, wings spread wide as it dropped in. I waited for probably 15 minutes or more for it to do it again, but all it did was occasionally peer over the edge of the nest at me. The other parent was sitting on a cable over the river though and posed for a shot.
Train tracks through town under scattered clouds in evening [iPhone 5]
Today's total 219.3
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Feb 2008
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Oddometer: 407
Day 15 - June 29 - Return home
Day 15
On the road 0900. Refuel in Lillooet then on towards Pemberton
Not a lot to say from the log now - well, this is sort of my back yard, so it doesn't feel very exotic and I didn't stop to write down anything. It's still a very pretty area, though.
Dmitry fiddling with light meter at Seton Lake: [Canon SX130]
View down Seton Lake: [Canon SX130]
Photo stop at Duffey Lake: [Canon SX130]
Home safe, 1:45.
Today's run 277.2
TOTAL: 6331.5 km
All told, an excellent trip!
Glad to have 'had you all along' for the ride report - one more installment to go (Epilogue of the only disaster related to the trip, which actually happened after I got home).
Gnarly Adventurer
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Epilogue - the adventure wasn't QUITE over
Well, as you may have noticed, some of the photos are square in this report, and taken with a Rollei 6008i. This is a medium format camera that uses film. You remember film, right? That stuff you used to have to put in your camera, when it wasn't your cell phone?
Well anyhow - yes - I'd shot 8 rolls of 120 format film in this trip, and I needed to get it developed. I dropped the rolls off right after getting back into town, and went to go pick them up on July 2 - the first work day after Canada Day holiday, which the film place was closed on.
Hopped on the Vstrom and rode into downtown(ish) Vancouver - got the developed film - and started on my way back, in the beginnings of afternoon rush hour traffic.
Coming southbound onto the Oak Street bridge about 4 PM, in the left lane, doing about 80 km/h with the rest of the traffic. Nobody right in front of me, but there's a vehicle in the right lane next to me, and the concrete barrier on my left. The bridge climbs and turns to the left as you come on from the north side.
The curve was why I didn't see it earlier. A rock - about the size and shape of a smallish watermelon - right in my lane. I had very little time to react or think. I had the side cases on, so not a lot of room to go either left (concrete barrier) or right (car) - not enough distance to panic brake in time (plus cars behind me, also not a good choice).
So I went right into it.
There was a loud bang and the bike went airborne; I felt a lighter second tap as the rear wheel connected with the rock as well. The bike came back down on the roadway, all over in maybe a half second. Fortunately, the bike came down upright, with me still sitting in the seat; I didn't fly out of my lane, I didn't get tossed off the bike, and amazingly, neither tire burst or came off the rim. As the bike hit I instantly assessed it, expecting to feel a rapid loss of tire pressure, but all there was, was a bit of vibration. Steering and traction all still felt ok and so I kept going, made it off the bridge, and still didn't feel any loss of tire pressure; so I just continued with the flow of the traffic, and made it the 20-some km home.
Then I got off and looked. Here's the rear rim:
The front was similar, but a bit worse.
Long story short - jack the bike up, and both wheels off:
(Never mind the molecular biology lab in the background - what, don't act like you all haven't got odd things in YOUR garages, too!)
Took the wheels in to a bike shop, where the rims got sent onward to a place specializing in rim repair. Front rim - beyond fixing (all the more remarkable that it held air and got me home!) - new one has been ordered; rear is replaceable, still waiting as of today (July 26) for job to be done and to reassemble the bike.
I think I was pretty lucky here - well, the look on the shop foreman's face when I took the rims in pretty much said it. He asked incredulously if I'd been riding the bike when the rims got that bent, and when I said yes, he gave me this strange look and said "Uhhh -- and you're ok?"
Hard to say what worked in my favour here, but in retrospect, not trying to avoid may have helped; if I'd hit at more of an angle the bike might have thrown sideways and down and/or into the other lane. Also, speed probably helped, through gyroscopic stabilization. As the impact and landing occurred, I was aware of how very stable the bike felt, there was never any sensation of a sideways pull or feeling that I was going over.
Can't say I want to go through a similar event again if I can avoid it, though.
Hoping to get the rims back any day now and get things all reassembled....
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Well done.
Great pictures.
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pyrite girlNote: Pretty please listen to the audio version for the full effect.pyrite girl3 years ago in Urban & Spoken Word More Like This
you noticed things
little things that came sneaking slyly in
smiling crooked like good children
with bad deeds freshly done.
of course you loved her all the same,
your little lighthouse among the tendrils of east coast fog
she tasted like mineral water
new pennies
and you lived in soft, sweet depression
gazing out at a broken world from a tenth-story window
and breathing in the cigarette smoke.
your little pyrite girl
bright eyed and dark mouthed
a tiny dirty moon, dragged through the gray city snowmelt
and left to dry in the glare of rooftop suns
"who would live here?"--
musings from the tenth floor
and you knew the answer.
broken cities feed on broken souls
and even they need angels.
all that hasn't happenedPretty please listen to the audio.all that hasn't happened3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
i want to remember
the rumbling piano baritones
high notes like hailstones--your hands
running soundless scales.
i want the summer seas
november tides
the vineyard overlook, the olive
trees and sunwarmed coasts.
we filled the empty pages
with whole notes and halftones,
oceans and lovesongs.
we lived, we live
inkstained and drowning
through nights thick with words
and days shot with sound.
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are still that steely gunpowder blue, but your hair has grown long,
and there's a softer curve to your waist
and freckles on your shoulder I don't remember,
and I think,
What have I missed?
You tell me about the weddings
the divorces. You tell me
about the babies
and the losses, and how last year
your dog died--easy, in his sleep--
and there is a hollow lack in you,
a space reserved for things that won't come back.
Long ago, was there a space like that
for me?
When did it collapse--when did it
fold in on itself
under the weight of things that matter more?
I tell you about Cambodia. I paint
the jungles for you, breathe the crushing wet heat
of it into your lungs. I tell you
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and how the heat is different there--
belligerent and fierce.
I tell you how much you would have liked Barbados,
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And I remember all the things I
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from a
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I read and adored this so long ago,
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Beauty from the ashes, perhaps?
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"Eight window seats, Daddy. Eight buttons on eachsixty-four. I counted."
The fountain stood dry and dead-center in the middle of the black and white tiles. Eight sides, eight lion-mouth spouts. Sixteen limestone mermaids poised gracefully around the edge. Four thousand and ninety-six blue tiles. Five hundred and twelve white.
And two doors. Always the two doors, huge and solid and radiating a sense of looming disdain. The rough oak had bitten her hands and it bit them now, when she pressed her palms against it. The doors eased open like wings outstretching, coming to rest against stone doorstops.
Her boots clicked against the marble flooring as she advanced, each click reverberating through the silent room. A mute ghost of a man stood in
SmokeYou smoked, and everyone hated that. The cigarette would hang loose between your knuckles, tendrils of smoke mimicking the tracery of veins and tendons that stood out along the back of your hand. You could do the most graceful French inhales, and sometimes you'd lean in close and grab me and kiss me, blowing warm smoke into my mouth. The scent would always cling to meI'd drag it back home with me and there would always be a fight over it.Smoke3 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
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Lay back. Relax. Anythinganything you want. I'd close my eyes and forget to breathe because I knew you weren't mine. If anything, I was yours, a toy that trembled and kissed back.
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She shifts, splaying herself along his couch that is quietly becoming hers.
He smiles,
the empty glass on the back of his hand. "A drink?"
"Yes, please." A luxuriant stretch. She watches his pupils drag all the way down the curve of her hip before continuing.
"I'd like a glass of Kafka—distilled, mixed with
dark rum and a splash of Dostoyevsky—poured
so sweetly down my throat and
chased with a lungful of smoky Fitzgerald.
The works."
"I wasn't aware this was a book club." He pours a soda before joining her, taking
a biting sip in the half light.
"There are too many book clubs," she says, hooking her legs over his.
"Too many streetcorner ladies and their lace-veiled
threats over coffee and New York Times bestsellers."
She harbors a
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Today, It has been nine months and nineteen days since I left. Three thousand kilometers of distance. This is the longest period of time that we have been apart. I miss you, I remember you all the time. Suddenly, I remember things I did not think about before, suddenly they all keep jumping in my face, so many memories, some warm, some cold, some tough, and some just beautiful.
Do you know that I can remember the days you were teaching me the Arabic alphabet and the French Alphabet. Whenever we have a guest, I run to them and start shouting " A,B,C,D,E,F......." They smile and ask me who thaught you all this, I run to you, I hug you and I say " Dad taught me".
You took me to the beach, you taught me how to love it, this is why now the beach is where I find my soul, where my heart feels at home, where I feel a very strong sense of belonging I dont quite understand. We went to
A Love Story in Four Actsi.A Love Story in Four Acts3 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
I loved a blacksmith once, back when the sand still clogged up my soul. It was only far after that I began to love the desert too.
Underneath the casual noise--glass on wood, heat-smothered conversation, worn cards slapped down in careful triumph--there was this low, thrumming quiet that wouldn't be broken. He spoke in sepia undertones. "We're getting out."
Hot iron smells like hot blood, like blood that's been poured out under the white Arizona sun. It's something you don't forget easy, like the taste of whiskey or the plasma patterns left on your eyelids after watching fire all night. It sticks.
My childhood was fed on medical books, and I've got this pain right behind my eyes and I wonder if this is what it feels like being lobotomized. Of course the brain has no nerve endings, but the hurt has to manifest itself somewhere.
ShayI open the door and the apartment is dark and musty cold--that antiseptic not-lived-in kind cold. "Shay." I fumble for the light switch, then hang my keys on the hook with practiced finality. Door locked, backpack dropped, and I'm in the living room. "Shay." Nothing.Shay3 years ago in Scraps More Like This
There's piles of assorted belongings everywhere: books resting on crumpled sweaters--a belt and a plush toy--empty picture frames on dusty shoeboxes--glass jars full of colored oil. It forms a trail, sharp-cornered and lazy, to the bedroom at the back, and that's where I find you sleeping belly-down on the floor.
I should wake you up and make you dinner because I'm sure you forgot to fix yourself anything, but for a minute I lean on the doorjamb and look at you. Your shirt hiked up a little bit around your narrow waist to small to hold up all but the skinniest of skinny jeans. You're always been thin, almost dangerously so, without seeming to try. Your hair curls in tendrils all over your shoulders, down your back, across
ode to the summer i never hadit's june and with whiplash rapidity you rule the asphaltode to the summer i never had3 years ago in Urban & Spoken Word More Like This
the cars make way for your sunwarmed ego
this town is yours and only the loudest of bars are fit retreats,
habitats for racing hearts and wildly pulsing souls
you wander through 3am streetlight glow
until you are lost and found again
and when the chill has finally seeped into overbaked concrete
you are spiked
alcoholized by cicadas and heathaze
on the fourth of july, lazy-eyed,
you watch as well-meant flames expand
singing meat and misplaced self-worth beyond repair
and when the fireworks begin you think
that's how I'll go.
you will not crash and burn
you will expand and supernova
your glowing embers scattering among the awed applause
because there is something beautiful in destruction
and you will inject yourself into their collective consciousness
and reappear whenever their eyes close
august finds you soaring
a supersonic stellar firefly
sailing up while time rushes down and when the countdown stops
you explode
Vulgar WordsShe is worried aboutVulgar Words3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
sex and love
and qualities of the mind
while he is busy
being him.
We have seen this all before.
Now listen here:
Poems like this
would be best if
they were honest
and committed.
His children would
rush to the door like puppies
when he came home exhausted.
Her husband would
make breakfast
just to surprise her.
Orange juice and eggs are
cheaper than
dried-out kisses,
and twice as delicious.
But instead, they are
Even in each other, alone.
Searching for meaning
in a seedy motel room
that smells like cum.
Still, it is poetic,
the way lower case letters are,
the way vagueness can be, like odd
punctuation is sometimes poetic
and using old English
is poetic; hell,
trying to be deep
is poetic
turning over bucketsperhaps it isn't beautiful,turning over buckets4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
lying halfway underwater;
pouring your palladium hopes
down your hands
into buckets
looking full of shale and broken glass
half lighting whiskey-paper on fire
with that sun tossing in your chest
and all of you rattling
in this thin-skinned pineapple percussion,
the things you're so very sure of, sweltering under
callouses, under sea-
a kaleidoscopic mass of stinging cider-riviera
twisting into your human frame;
but when i say something of protests
you break in,
with too many pinecones waking in your chest, saying,
how lucky how
lucky we are
to be alive to be
mothsthey tell me I'll never make a catchmoths3 years ago in Urban & Spoken Word More Like This
[a catch--whatever the hell
that means]
with the tongue I've got and its tendencies and
the tastes it's partial to
but really
since when have they ever known a thing about me?
the drinking's just an excuse
it's always been
a way to let them down easy when they wonder about
the types of human moths my cigarette attracts
and I just don't have the heart to level with them
tell them that those human moths happen to be my preferred company
even with all their imperfections
and rough edges like knives gone too long without sharpening
not sterile scalpels sorted in wolfish order
for the display case.
and I've always had a sailor's lexicon
but listen
there are some kinds of beautiful that can only be expressed in expletives
because they go down like whiskey and light you up
from the inside out
and damned if you can keep a polite tongue in the middle of that kind of onslaught.
to Yellow Plumto Yellow Plum (in blueto Yellow Plum4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
china bowl):
afternoon's slit of sun slips
between thick curtains
& woos you to ripeness.
it chooses you
not for flecks of honey-russet
held low in your seam of shadows,
nor your symmetry & swell;
but because
you slink in shade, sink
behind green pear & clementine
& cannot hide
from each spear of light
that ricochets
even now
nested warm
against these lips
even now:
a tea-stain stone
hugging close
the trashbin floor.
PilkunnussijaHere's what I think:Pilkunnussija3 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
There's a certain joy in not doing this face-to-face. For one, I don't have to leave my apartment and I have the quiet company of my goldfish and my goldfish alone. (I don't like people, which is why I love books. You can understand that.) For another, I don't have to see your presumably crestfallen and injured attitude when I tear apart the prose you cried and bled and sweated over for weary nights on end. But really the best parts are those uninterrupted hours alone with your manuscript and the shred of you that lies inside. It's a small shred, but an important one. It's the one that tells me who you are and what you think and how you feel and I never have to look at you and be disappointed when the real thing doesn't come up to scratch. As I sit there, un-tensing and re-tensing and tense-shifting and shift-entering (and damn it, wishing English were like German so I could get rid of those clunky space-wasting n-dashes--oh, damn there they are again) I feel li
DormantWinter is a blank slate,Dormant3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
but not like Rousseau's
it cleanses
sucking out warmth like poison
leaving only windburnt frost
tacked to the window pane
all we remember
is the numbness
the shuddering
skittish steps across the ice
snowflakes pasted to our faces
smoke rising from our lips
dragged across bleak clouds
winter has us captured
bound by fur and walls
drifting in our eggshelled silence
bone cold until we birth ourselves by warmth
emerge from our shells wet and heaving
uncurl our fingers one by one
joints crackling like fire at our backs
until spring comes
drip by tender drip
old wounds thaw
we are found raw,
graced again by feeling.
Moon Eye Fire Eye SitMoon Eye Fire Eye3 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
he says to me, and I sit and feel very small.
Let me tell you,
he says to me,
how it happened.
The creek dried up that summer and
the crops gave their last shiver
and bent down to the earth. And at night
you could hear the leaves crawling down the creekbed
like goddamn spiders along the rocks.
His face is half winter
pale and sparked with a milky eye like a moon
and half raw summer, twisted and scorched
with a flame eye that streams and shines in the firelight.
The ghosts came that summer,
he says to me, stirring the fire.
The ghosts came and whispered to her
that she was dying
until she believed them.
He is quiet.
iPodYou can feeliPod3 years ago in Scraps More Like This
its metal heartbeat.
Wind RosesAlabaster was a city of the stars. A brass telescope on every balcony, every rooftop, constantly pointed to the sky. The city slept easy during the day, but breathed new life at night and the smell of chocolatl and spice wafted from several of the vendors.Wind Roses3 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
In the middle of the city, a compass rose was laid into the plaza, a magnificent marble thing with thirty-two points. The cardinal directions were lain in gold-flecked black marble and the ordinals in a solid, creamy white. The rest alternated between a dark emerald green and a soft red with veins of rust. The people lived their lives in accordance with the whims of the directions and stars.
I have come to the conclusion that this preoccupation with directions springs from the city's history as a mapmaking town; in centuries past Alabaster was the finest purveyor of maps, atlases, and globes. Even today beautifully designed pieces of parchment are showcased under glass, accurate to the tiniest cove. A great printing press still exist
WhitmanI am all that grows from meWhitman3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
and all that grows from me is sacred—
my hair, dirty roots reaching towards sky,
fed by sky, shifted by its undulating currents
my fingers, spiders, crescents, twigs,
gaunt, blunt, probing, inquisitive...prurient
my ears, awkward conch shells jammed on as if by mistake,
rigid and ridged, elven,
innocent like unexplored caves for children to bound gaily into
resounding with echoed cheers of courage wanting
as if a dozen more children waited within, fearless guides;
my nose, obdurate.
The reach of my eyes knows no bounds;
what walls are there to throw my body against?
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Many of those who cut their gaming teeth on Nintendo's original 8-bit console still hold a candle for the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES (released as the slightly-different but compatible Famicom in Japan). Retro-gaming hardware company Analogue Interactive is set to capitalize on this nostalgia with the Analogue Nt, an updated NES that boasts modern upgrades and is housed in a case made from a single solid block of aluminum.
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text: Mobile Good news for Apple: Japan's largest mobile carrier, Docomo, will start selling new iPhones Above: Classical Japan.Image Credit: Shutterstock September 5, 2013 4:02 PM John Koetsier 0 If you're not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you're likely losing them to someone else. Register now for the 8th annual MobileBeat, July 13-14, where the best and brightest will be exploring the latest strategies and tactics in the mobile space. Apple's new iPhones will be unveiled next week in Cupertino. And it looks like there will be some good news in Japan being announced simultaneously. According to sources at the Nikkei, Docomo will start carrying the iPhone. Docomo has been Japan's leading carrier for perhaps a decade with innovative features and phones, but its lead has lagged somewhat in recent years, partially as a result of not carrying Apple's iPhone. Last year, it lost subscribers to other Japanese carriers who did carry Cupertino's iconic smartphone. Still Docomo has perhaps 53 million subscribers, which is nothing to sneeze at. And a new suite of Apple iPhones at varying price points could be just the ticket to goose Apple's Japanese sales, which are already up $500 million year-over-year, and $600 million quarter-over-quarter — one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bad-news-bears last quarter for Apple's international sales. Docomo rivals KDDI and SoftBank already carry the iPhone, and they've been growing with it. Now … if Apple could just get that pesky China Mobile deal done, its fourth quarter — and most certainly its first quarter of 2014 — will look very rosy indeed. Rosy enough that Brian White of Cantor Fitzgerald said yesterday the stock would rise to $777 within twelve months. "In our view, Apple is on the verge of an extended product cycle that we believe will include a refresh of existing products, increased penetration within existing device categories and entirely new market opportunities," he wrote. "Apple's iPhone franchise focuses on the higher-end of the smartphone market and thus the company has been unable to address approximately 60 percent of the smartphone opportunity with the latest, freshest iPhone offering. We expect this to change with the introduction of the plastic-encased iPhone 5C." VB's research team is studying mobile user acquisition... Chime in here, and we'll share the results.


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Rich Songs of Economic Despair
Singer-songwriter Angaleena Presley paints a heartbreaking picture of what Appalachia has become.
Singer-songwriter Angaleena Presley paints a heartbreaking picture of what Appalachia has become.
Churches are profiting from desecration like this—and every time they look into the account books they should tremble.
Another Christian school moves to divest – this time, a Catholic university
Just one week after Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary, announced their decision to become the world's first seminary to divest from fossil fuels, another first announced. The University of Dayton, a Catholic, Marianist university, will divest fossil fuels from its $670 million investment pool. This is the first Catholic university in the world to do so.
Just as divestment makes sense for Union Theological Seminary and its history of engaging social justice, this choice is in line with Catholic social teachings and the Marianist values of leadership and service to humanity. Marianists view Mary, the mother of Jesus, as their model of discipleship, and their mission is to bring Christ into the world and work for the coming of Christ's kingdom.
Union and the University of Dayton are the newest schools joining the growing list of U.S. colleges and universities divesting from fossil fuels as a way to stop financially supporting the climate pollution and the public health implications of coal, oil, and natural gas as the dominant sources of energy in the country. Their announcements are unique because they speak not only of the moral choice, but of the Christian choice on matters of financial investment.
At the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly this past week, in addition to the denomination's decision to divest from three companies in relation to conflict in Israel/Palestine, a decision was made to begin the discernment process on fossil fuel divestment. The fossil fuel divestment conversation is happening in many churches and religious institutions across the country, and Union Theological Seminary and the University of Dayton are clear that they see this as an act of Christian witness for protecting God's creation and people.
Information is from The University of Dayton's website.
Two weeks ago in Soma, Turkey, a coal mine explosion left 301 people dead. It was the country's worst mining disaster, but it wasn't the first — and it wasn't the last, as multiple fatal accidents have happened in the two weeks since. The last time a mining disaster caught the world's attention, we watched and waited and prayed during the rescue operation for the miners in Chile.
In Turkey, people protested in the streets of Soma — protested against Soma Mining for letting this happen, against their government for loopholes in safety rules. In response, the police issued a ban on protests and locked the city down. The ruling political party proudly announces that it has inspected that mine 11 times in the past 5 years; Soma Mining denies negligence. And the families of 301 persons mourn their losses.
This isn't a faraway problem. In the United States, we don't do as much traditional mining as we used to — instead, we do mountaintop removal. This has a human cost, too, in more insidious ways. The people living in Appalachia have higher rates of respiratory illness, cancer, kidney diseases, skin ailments, and more. And the landscape, which has the fingerprints of God in it, is being blown apart.
Psalm 95:4-5 says:
"In [God's] hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are [God's] also. The sea is [God's], for [God] made it, and the dry land, which [God's] hands have formed."
New studies reveal the effects of mountaintop removal mining on the people nearby.
An "all of the above" policy is in fact no policy at all.
The president has sought to placate the rich, powerful fossil fuel industry.
David vs. Goliath: Residents in a Colorado city are fighting their local coal monopoly for the chance to move their city to clean energy. The coal company has more money – a LOT more money – but the organizers have more heart. This short 6-minute video is well worth watching.
40,000 jobs sound pretty good: According to the new 2013 second quarter clean energy report form Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), clean energy and sustainable transportation projects launched this year created close to 40,000 green jobs in the U.S.
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I'm a southern gentleman, a writer, and an apathetic super hero.
I like to think of myself as a nerd with social skills. You know... the pocket protector wearing, straight "A" getting dweeb with taped up glasses and a tragic tendency to move at clumsy right angles. That's me... except the part of my brain responsible for non-awkward social interaction developed properly, and I'm pretty good at moving. I'm currently working as a personal trainer, and plan on going back to school soon to pursue my doctorate in Chiropractics. I'm not exactly a health nut, but my occupation requires that I be... you know... not fat. A fat personal trainer is like a homeless financial adviser. Basically, what I'm getting at is that I exercise on a daily basis and actively compete in Crossfit and Olympic Weightlifting, but am absolutely not above drinking beer and eating an entire pizza while sitting around doing nothing. In fact, I feel that those moments are among the best parts of the human experience. I was raised in the south (fortunately or unfortunately depending on the topic of conversation), yet I do not have an accent (fortunately or unfortunately depending on your preferences). Thus, I was raised as a southern gentleman. In college, I studied English with a focus on Arthurian Romance. I like to believe that these two elements of my development have taught me how to properly treat a woman. As far as what I'm looking for... it's something that's difficult to quantify. It's really more a series of ineffable qualities that are unknown even to me. I dislike normal, I find it boring. Thus, I'm looking to build something that is exciting, strange, and a little frightening. I don't really have too many deal-breakers... unless you're like a toaster or something. No toasters. Actually, no appliances of any kind, please. I'm simply hoping for someone that isn't critical of the small stuff, but understands how important the little things truly are. Someone that is receptive of new things and finds my little quirks and oddities endearing... if not attractive.
Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Fishing/Hunting , Hobbies and crafts , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Playing sports , Video games , Wine tasting
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Standard Room, 2 Queen BedsMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 2 infants)
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Get an overview of this hotelMotel in Munds Park with free parking
Situated in the mountains, this motel is 6.6 mi (10.7 km) from Coconino National Forest and within 32 mi (52 km) of Forest Highlands Golf Club and M Diamond Ranch. Sedona Golf Resort is 31.8 mi (51.1 km) away.
Property Features
Coffee/tea in the lobby, a 24-hour front desk, and barbecue grills are available at this motel. Free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free manager's reception are also provided. Other amenities include a picnic area and a lobby fireplace.
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary manager's reception on select days. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Munds Park motel also offers barbecue grills, a picnic area, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Free reception
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- 24-hour front desk
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Picnic area
- Fireplace in lobby
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Number of floors - 2
- Total number of rooms - 22
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Rollaway/extra beds available
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Free dial-up Internet access
- Cable TV service
- Shower/tub combination
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Free toiletries
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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A complimentary manager's reception is offered on select days.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10.00 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
Pets allowed, Only dogs are allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Pet fee: USD 25.00 per pet, per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10.00 per night
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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Since 1884, Victorinox has supplied the Swiss Army with everything from multipurpose knives to high-performance, high-tech clothing made to withstand the roughest environmental conditions. Constructed from cutting-edge, tough-as-nails materials, Victorinox's durable, classic men's and women's apparel, backpacks, luggage, and water-resistant watches are beloved by avid outdoorspeople as well as fashion lovers and international jetsetters. The company's classic Swiss Army knife serves as the inspiration behind its full line of high-quality kitchen knives, favorites among professional chefs and everyday cooks alike. The Swiss Army doesn't trust just anyone with their apparel and equipment. Why should you?
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