Just thought I’d share this pic from my attempted camping trip. June 15 and snow closures in the park!
-AidanAbroad
Category Archives: Road Trips
Lassen National Park: Road Closed Due to Snow…in June!
Posted in North America, Northern California, Road Trips, Travel
Fruit Stand in Winters, CA
On a road trip… Peaches and cherries are in season.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Food, North America, Northern California, Road Trips, Travel
San Juan Bautista One-Room Jail…Cozy!
These old one-room jail cells are common in the American West. It seems that every mission town and stagecoach stop had one. Some had fold-down plank beds, others had bunks. This one features a metal cot with attached shackles. No night-time escapees! Most had a jug for washing and a hole for a toilet. Sometimes, a chair. Luxury lifestyle living! The San Juan jail was built in 1870.
Bay Bridge at Sunset
San Francisco bound.
-AidanAbroad
The Wild Cocks of San Juan Bautista
Cockadoodledoo! San Juan Bautista is known for its mission. It is less well known for its feral chicken population. Cocks everywhere. Some hens and chicks, too. They congregate in people’s yards, cross roads in flocks and the roosters of course crow regularly. Local opinions on the feral fowl are mixed. Some celebrate them, others consider them a nuisance. Here’ a splendid specimen of California wild cock.
Posted in Northern California, Road Trips, Strange News, Travel
Tagged cock, rooster, San Juan Bautista, US101
Giggle Springs and other Sights seen in the Nevada High Desert
Guys in trucks and on bikes, the road to Area 51, shops and signage, life and decay, ghost towns, cacti, Tonopah home of the Stealth, oil and gas, public toilets, a saline lake. Driving north on U.S. 95 in the Nevada High Desert, returning from Smokeout.
Posted in Nevada, Road Trips, Signage, Travel
Tagged Nevada, Photography, Road Trip, Signage, US 101
Goldfield Ghost Town’s Glory Hole and More
Glory Hole Antiques, that is. An odd little junk shop with an open door, an interesting inventory, no price tags and no one in sight or within earshot. We put a few dollars in a jar for an old bottle and a small cannonball. Goldfield boomed in the early part of the century, following a 1903 bonanza strike, and was busy until 1940, after which it fell into decline. Few businesses are open or residences occupied now, with vacancy running about 90%. On U.S. Highway 95 in Nevada.
Posted in Collecting, History, Nevada, Photography, Road Trips, Signage, Travel
Tagged Collecting, Culture, Ghost Town, Goldfield, History, Nevada, Road Trip, Signage, Western
Redwood Lumberjack on US 101
Chainsaw art seen on US 101 in Mendocino County. They also had Shrek…
Posted in DIY and Maker Culture, Mendocino County, Photography, Road Trips, Signage
Tagged Chainsaw art, lumberjack, redwood
London’s National Theatre opens “Angelheaded Hipsters” photos by Gay Beat Alan Ginsberg
Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady 1st meeting in Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters' 'Further' bus which Neal'd driven crosscountry SF to NY via Texas before Fall 1964 presidential election.
Beat. Beat Up. Beat Down. Beatitude. Beatnik. The mid-century, cold-war-era Beat movement exemplified movement – from degradation to grace and back again. And again. On the Road. Howl. Its literary and poetic icons were painful and exultant. The same productive tension appears in Angelheaded Hipsters, the new exhibit of photographs by Gay Beat Alan Ginsberg that just opened at London’s National Gallery. Caught by camera are Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and other artists, writers and cultural figures who defined a moment. A BBC slide show of the exhibit is available here.
Posted in New York, Photography, Road Trips, San Francisco
Tagged Alan Ginsberg, Angelheaded Hipsters, Art, Beat, Beatnik, Culture, Gay, History, London, National Gallery, New York, Photography, San Francisco, William Burroughs
Sights seen at Truck Stops: Old Cowboy buys Smokes on CA Hwy 101
This guy moved like a twangy old country music tune. Slow, strong and regular. Horseless cowboy traveling California State Highway 101 by truck, he stopped to buy smokes. Got shot in the back and never knew it. One, two, three: Snap!
Posted in Northern California, Photography, Road Trips, Subcultures, Surveillance, Travel
Tagged Art, CA 101, Cowboy, Culture, Highway, Photography, Surveillance, Truck Stop
The Gay Highwaymen 