I came across this delicately-worded plaque commemorating the Donner Party at a snowy highway rest stop on a recent road trip on Route 80, over the Donner Pass. Notice that it says many died…but not all. No mention of how the survivors survived. Also, “emigrant” is misspelled.
(Post title credit: The Texan.)
-AidanAbroad
Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., North America, Northern California, Road Trips, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Strange News, Travel
Tagged California, cannibalism, Donner, Emigrant, high Sierras, Highway, may, misspelled signs, Nevada, party, pass, Rest stop, Road Trip, route 80, Sierra Nevada, Snow, white meat
Running Turkey. Not fast enough…
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Mendocino County, Photography, Spirituality
Tagged Abstraction, Art, Death, Highway, Photography, Roadkill, Turkey
Flying Turkey hits the road in an act of auto-abstraction. Buzzards delight. CA Hwy 162 near Bloody Run Creek. On the road to Covelo where locals say the Indian Wars are still underway. White and 1st Nation teens, bored, fight. No new thing under a Sunny day. Return via Dos Rios. Two rivers home.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Mendocino County, Photography, Spirituality
Tagged Abstraction, Animal, Art, Death, Highway, Roadkill, Turkey
Posted in Northern California, Photography, Road Trips, Subcultures, Surveillance, Travel
Tagged Art, CA 101, Cowboy, Culture, Highway, Photography, Surveillance, Truck Stop
The Gay Highwaymen 