Archives: 2006 August
Bastions
Today I did a nice 180 mile round trip to Stockton and back, to visit a friend and do some snarfing. To my delight, we found a statue celebrating one General Gridley–whose claim to fame was selling the same bag of flour over and over again to make money for good causes of the time. [...]
Gag me with a spoon
What is wrong with this picture? Commercial. A woman is at the playground with her kid. Kid’s about to take her turn on the slide. Bully-mother shoves her out of the way and has her kid take the turn instead. Mother #1 wimpily protests, “But it was our turn!” Bully-mother gloats, “Well it’s our turn [...]
15th July, the long ride
I ended up doing a very long ride that day. For the map-followers, I headed out on US-95 or US-93; I forget which, but the one that goes past Beatty. I took a detour to look at the historical marker at Mercury, where the nuclear testing was done. Round there somewhere is Yucca Mountain, where [...]
Rhyolite
Just up the road is Rhyolite, an easily accessible ghost town with minimal “interpretation” and many buildings. I was running out of time–already, at seven in the morning it was rather warm and I had to move out of the area. So I just did a quick run-through and put it on my to-do list [...]
15th July – Goldwell Open Air Museum
15th July – Goldwell Open Air Museum
On the 14th of July I only got as far as Beatty. Exhausted, I collapsed into the Motel 6–which is a prototype for a new Motel 6 and very, very nice–at 11 in the morning. It was stiflingly hot when I left Vegas around six or seven, and I was really glad to be out [...]
Dale Aycock, author of the “Starspinner” series, from Los Gatos, California
Dale Aycock, author of the “Starspinner” series, from Los Gatos, California
You made me feel I was right there with you, with all your fears and joys and discoveries. Almost made me envious.
Meg from Danville, Virginia
Delightful! Insightful! This was waiting for me when I got to San Antonio last Wednesday, and it was marvelous to be reading it while I was on a trip myself. One of the things I liked about Raven’s Roads is that I’ve never been to any of the places Raven described, so all the landscapes [...]
B. from Gymea, NSW, Australia
What a cool book :)I was drawn to this book because I love travel books and ravens and this had both! I hope ravens roads 2 is going well so far and that the winds are kind to you and you have no gear problems. I really enjoyed this little gem and I can’t wait [...]
