Hi, friends! Happy Sunday!
How did your weekend go?
I was thinking this morning about last night’s NOT, where manchu talked about camping with great joy and the response from me was “ewwww fuck no.”
But also? We’re shaped by our environments and I grew up in a region where camping is just unenjoyable.
About a decade ago I had the joy of spending a few days on the Oregon coast, and given how nice those state parks are? The places to walk and enjoy gorgeous views? While I was there I was joking with a friend that ok I understand why people camp.
So, friends, have you had the experience of going somewhere with a different climate and being like “oh, I get why people do (activity) now”?
My dad did for less than positive reasons… he and mom went to the Murrica SW on a seniors bus tour and he said that he got really depressed because there was no greenery. Just dirt and rock. He said if he lived in ‘Zona then he’d be drunk, smoking meth and shooting guns too.
Right??? I see photos from national parks that have some pretty vistas, but the overall scrubby environment is not what my brain likes. I’d be miserable as shit.
I wouldn’t say great joy, but it is a calling sometimes. Asian people look at me funny which is partially why they say I’m the whitest Asian they know.
Climate does affect things. It’s why I don’t look at winter camping with any great joy. Living in the snow belt does that to you.
Balladeer: Dem Duke Boys are in world of shit. How are they gonna get out of this mess?
Weekend was busy. Dealt with parents census form.
Started working on a model again. This one is being made for a good friend as it is a model of his actual racing car. Gloss coats are not as forgiving as flat paints.
When the girls were little we bought a class C RV & we should have known it was a bad idea when the first trip we did to Astoria OR was a nightmare. We had 50 MPH winds and my eldest got sick as a dog. We did have some amazing trips after that but RVs are always having crazy issues you wouldn’t face in any other situations. It did give the family some amazing experiences in the mountains & at the beach that we would have never had staying in hotels though. Yellowstone in an RV is magical. Cannon Beach is perfect for RV life. We sold it during Covid as the girls had outgrown family trips that close to the folks & we were sick of the maintenance costs.
Today I had a stressful brewing experience as my heating element went out in my Grainfather. Luckily I still have my old school equipment and was able to recover but made for a long day of endless stressful problem solving and tons of extra cleaning. Hope the beer works out…so far so good.
I’m glad you were able to recover it!
This week I’m leaving for one of my Chicago road trips. The grass may not be greener there, and the camping on Lower Wacker Drive is not to my taste, but goddamn if you can’t get a decent meal there. My mouth waters just thinking about the mole sauce in my favorite place in Pilsen, which I will not name because then all the hipsters will start showing up.
When I visit Southern California (it’s rare), I understand why people choose to live there.