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    Travel Log - Hunting, Hitchhiking, Painting & Getting Dirty: Traveling Across America

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    Thanks again Boats. Will continue tomorrow morning, finally took off working the labor gigs and going to kick in in the East Bay for a minute relaxing. My homie from TN drove out here unannounced and surprised me on the doorstep so I'm a happy dude. We will be having a crew meet on Aug. 1st in Santa Barbara so if anyone's around the area PM me, it will be a pretty wild getup.

    Travel Log - Hunting, Hitchhiking, Painting & Getting Dirty: Traveling Across America

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    These are all from this recent TN Winter, then I will get back to wherever it was I left off, I just need to get through these on photobucket so I know where I am at.

     

     

    Early December xen sent me a CC at clutch moment and I found a yard in Oakland and had my girl drop me off. Unfortunately right as she dropped me off I realized I left my wallet on the boat, way back in Marin. I was antsy to get out of CA and on my way so I just said fuck it. My girl had $20 on her and I had my passport anyway. It was a rainy, dreary 2am goodbye.

     

    Under the bridge, I posted up next to a column, rolled a fat spliff, took off my jacket for a pillow, and read some of Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence. Around 8 hours later, and countless re-reading of the CC to make sure I was where I was supposed to be, I got tired of waiting and hollared at a brakey passing by on a ATV. He told me that the North end was what I wanted, and in 1 hour the 9am was heading out. It was a good 3 mile walk so I ran back to my pack, shouldered it, and took off. Unfortunately (again) I left my jacket, book, rolling tobacco, weed, and poncho back under the overpass. This wouldn't have been too bad except it was early December and I would be passing through the Sierra Nevada mountain range during a snow storm. I did not think of this when I got to the north end of the yard and saw the 9am rolling out.

     

    I hopped on the back of a 54' which had a 48' container in it and ducked out all the way out the yard, hoping no one had seen me. It was then, as I began to pick up speed that I thought I'd roll up a smoke. Man, that was one hell of a tough decision. Jump off and go back to my shit or stay on the one I'd definately gotten... Well you already know I stayed on, but Jesus that was fucking tough to leave my shit back there. So, I left with little more than $20, a jug of water, and a couple sandwiches. I had a change of clothes, too, and some camping gear, but man I wish I'd done my homework a little better on the Sierra Nevadas and the weather I would be passing through.

     

    Hopping on from the Oakland yard.

     

     

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    Travel Log - Hunting, Hitchhiking, Painting & Getting Dirty: Traveling Across America

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    awwwwww yeah...

     

    welcome back KIR!

    looking forward to hearing more of your travels and adventures.

     

    when you finish writing your book, I am going to pick up a copy, and im hoping you will give 12oz a shoutout in it lol.

     

    you're in the east bay now...pm me cause im close by...gotta buy you a drink for making this awesome thread.

     

    Fucking A, for sure. Considering I would not have done a lot of this stuff nor taken the time to take pictures and sit down and reflect on much of this without the lot of yall egging me on and meeting me up across the country, yeah, I am definately going to give props where it's due.

     

    Less than 2 weeks before you came through St Louis the old lady kicked me out.

    Hell, a few days after I sent you the CCG

    I would have so came and picked you up but I was on a north bound bnsf myself. now that I got my shit right, you head home via STL, hit me up.

     

    *wink wink nod nod this time I kept a spare key to the car so maybe adventures can unfold.

     

    Thanks again for hooking it up with the CC that was proper, I need to upload some flicks of that trip, getting out of Oakland was a bitch - wrong end of the yard for ~13 hours and left my jacket, weed, smokes, and my ONE BOOK under the bridge next to a swampy tag.

     

    That would be cool if this thread was new to me again so i could read it from the start for the first time, shit maybe ill go ahead and reread it.

     

    PM me if you are in SF

    Im in the East Bay sometimes too.

     

    Awesome, will PM tonight, thanks

     

    Figured it was due

     

    Ha!! Thanks man that's a trip... appreciate it...

     

    ..and proper camera that ish!

     

    ;)

     

    just picked up a LX7 with a Leica lens based off your suggestion a while back when I was in Montana. I love it. Was going between that and a RX100 but went with the faster lens and the better macro since I like taking the super close ones. Half the MP but 100 cheaper and remembered you had said Leica was the shit. Thanks brothaa

    random thots

    in Channel Zero

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    Re: random thoughts

     

    Juicy juice is good af

     

     

    I really can't stand this new "af" thing. For some reason it represents this whole new instagram cool twitter tween hip hop semi-hood wangster motif. It's just that one though that pisses me off. Text messages with "u" instead of you is OK with me. BRB, AFK, LOL, those can stay. Also I can stand "lmk" for let me know. But "hmu" hit me up is on that breaking point. AF is lame AF.

     

    Also.

     

    Crossword -

     

    14 letters. Clue: "Astronaut's breakup line?"

    18 letters. Clue: "Blood-donor's breakup line?"

    Travel Log - Hunting, Hitchhiking, Painting & Getting Dirty: Traveling Across America

    in Channel Zero

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    My dog caught a grouse and brought it back to camp, alive and in her mouth this last weekend. I cut it's head off with an axe and it flapped around and I thought of KIR.

     

    ...bunch of womenz were screaming so I didn't gut it and pluck it, however now I feel like a pussy that I didn't.

     

    CSB

     

     

    Awesome... Grouse is amazing. I thought it was pretty interesting that they are all dark meat and pheasants are all white meat, while the chicken is both light and dark. Jesus there is a whole world of information regarding the darkness of meat. I first got a glimpse into it while on the Cetology chapters of Moby Dick. I think it's only possible to get through those on audio book, but the particularly interesting part was the portion on Sperm Whales. Their muscle is so densely packed full of red blood cells that it appears almost black. They dive to incredible depths in the ocean for hours at a time searching for deep sea & giant squid which are if I remember correctly something around half a mile below sea level.

     

    This comes into play with the fowl meat - pheasants are mostly airborne while grouse are runners. Running requires sustained, lengthy bouts of energy while flying is more of a short burst. Chickens fly using their breast meat, but also run around quite a bit using the dark leg meat.

     

    Anyway...

    What's up 12oz!? How is everyone? I thought I'd come back and dump some more photos and a couple of stories. The last one in Central 'Merika was a little ho-hum and rushed so I might revisit some of the more interesting things I left out and grab some more photos.

     

    I have been doing some work up in the mountains lately, some trim work but mainly logging. It's nice to be up there, as we get to be away from cell phones, internet, everything and just spend a few days working with the land. I'm in the East Bay now, so much better than the north bay. Lots of mural gigs and boat work to do.

     

    I missed out on the new site revamp, but I am looking forward to seeing the new shit.

    Headed South...

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    I don't know where Marfa, TX is but my lady stayed there a day. There is some field of strange concrete sculptures out in the desert. Odd town worth an hour or two detour. What's it like working for WF? I've heard it's a great job with good benefits. One thing I've always wondered, do they purposefully make it incredibly easy to walk out of their store for some reason? All I can figure is they don't want the RWP to feel uncomfortable. Well, anyway good work and if you go east of TX hollar at your boy.

     

    Cheers to marriage!

     

    Also, goat farm. Definately goat farm.

    Bill Nye V. Creationist...

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    I was also surprised to see Nye get on the pulpit with this dude. You don't even need 30 seconds, just seeing the words "debates creationist" is enough to be able to accurately predict the entire two hour segment. But being from the Dirty South, I can say that any form of intellectual injection is well needed, and I think Nye had to take off his natural, logical hat, and become a patient but firm teacher, sort of like a special ed instructor.

     

    The important thing is that Nye took a step down from where he normally operates - a sterile, intelligent and logical no-feelings-hurt environment, and waded into the swampy bog of Christian rhetoric and feel-good catch-alls. After all, these are people that vote for their state representatives, who vote for the bills that change our country. Hopefully Nye and Tyson will be able to reach that backward ass portion of the population. I know he did for me when I was raised hyper-religious, and coming home to watch his show was like stumbling upon a hot spring in the middle of a Siberian tundra.

     

    When Ham, for the second time said "well, there is one book that answers that, Bill..." I was dying for the retort, "Well, Ken, there's actually many fictional books that answer that question, not just one - unfortunately none of them are based on facts" or something along that line.

     

    The ending was definitely the most telling of both. When Ham was left squirming and cornered by the "literal bible" question, and said in effect, "You should listen to my interpretation of what's right and wrong in the bible, even if I use the bible as a solid bedrock for some logic, and as a sort of grey mushy "poetic" area for others." I mean, he pretty much crucified himself on that one, and Bill just kind of pointed it out in that kind of fatherly way. That killed me.

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    Travel Log - Hunting, Hitchhiking, Painting & Getting Dirty: Traveling Across America

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    After decapitation, a glance down the windpipe-jugular revealed the mysterious COD! A rabbit's leg. Our hero had no doubt deftly swooped upon a hare, destroyed it's life, and swallowed up it's meat. However, perhaps in a frenzy drawn on upon by nearing competitors, it had hastily eaten this rabbits remains, and in it's hurry swallowed to large a bone. The struggle and confusion which followed sent it flying haphazardly onto the highway which bordered the rabbit's nest. My beer has termite shit floating on its surface. At which point, in its awful and supreme struggle, it was struck by a passing motorist, if only a glance. It was enough to either kill or disorient it, and in its confusion died violently of suffocation.

     

     

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