So.... I haven't been on this for awhile. Not for lack of internet but for lack of it letting me upload my pictures... the bugger. So, while I have lots of pictures to share I'll have to upload them at some point to some net server and then post links or something. None of which will happen here, cause while I have regular internet - uploading things is apparently not an option. C'est la.
There are more adventures recently then I can decently recount in one sitting but I will do my best to begin or create an acceptable overview.
So from Andy, dad and I borrowed a bunch of stuff including his nice BMW wagon to go adventuring in. We drove from Salt Lake City to Bonneville for Speed Week. Bonneville salt flats is where they set the land speed records and it just happened that they were having speed week while we were driving by and that it was very much en-route. So we decided to stop and check it out. We basically took this little road out into the whiteness of the flats until the road ended and then parked and hitched a ride out into the salt. (We were warned not to bring our car out there unless we wanted to deal with the salt for a long time.)
The Salt is rather amazing. It's huge - flat - and somewhat reflective. And creates waves like heat waves but is cool to the touch. It's also very sticky. It will basically adhere to anything and then cake worse than dense snow. Needless to say - I subjected my feet to it to see what would happen. It began to feel rather odd after not long and I put my shoes back on. They were running motorcycles the day we went and we got to see the vehicle that holds the record and it's driver. 360mph. Personally I don't think I'd want to go that fast in a funny long pod. We saw a few runs from some motorcycles - but forgot to have our opera glasses with us to actually see that well. Ultimately it's really just a bike or pod going fast as it can in a line. What's really crazy is seeing how they're built and what people do to make these things go fast. There were some pretty amazing vehicles including electric ones.
Again, a picture is worth a thousand words. I'll try to get there at some point.
So we spent a couple hours there then hitched a ride back out - amusingly with the exact same people we hitched a ride in with.
Heading back towards the burn - the number of burners on the road began to become rather numerous and obvious. It was a fun train passing people, getting passed by people, waving to people acknowledging that we were all heading toward the same destination. I haven't been in a caravan like that in a long time.
We camped under a gorgeous tapestry of stars in some Nevada rest stop and were off again soon after dawn.
I'll continue this post in a bit but right now I have to marvel at the fact that I'm sitting in Evergreen Colorado in late September and this is the second day of snow that we've had. Considering my bold concept that the next leg of the journey will happen on foot or net hitch-hiking... I think I need to head out pretty soon.
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