skp thought I posted the two most boring photos from this weekend's trip. I have better ones on the way...I promise.
here are five pictures from SolFest where I heard Ralph Nader speak.
happy labor day! The cynical side of me is surprised this holiday survived the red scare. (yikes.) The non-cynical side of me says right on! here are some more labor links.
I saw a sign on Highway 1 that said: "Truckers -- easy on the jake brake." Besides being a cool rhyme, I wondered what the hell a jake brake is. According to the Internet, jake braking is "letting up on the accelerator so that the jake brake on the engine is engaged." huh. here's how it works.
I picked up a great book in Eureka, CA. It's called Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity. It's a collection of reprinted articles from Hutchings' California Magazine (see the description at the bottom of the page) printed in 1856 through 1861. It has great woodcuts...and slices of life from the early days of Western culture on this coast. It reminds me of a media history project in college where I spent hours scouring old newspapers on microfilm from this time period. I always thought it would be fun to be a media historian, but I couldn't find a career path there. ;)
road along the lost coast (facing north)
road along the lost coast (facing south)
btw, blog*spot is pretty darn cool. If you've been waiting to use Blogger b/c you couldn't figure out the FTP stuff, wait no more. Just sign up for an account, click create a blog, and choose the blog*spot option. (you can always move it to another server later.) It takes about 3 minutes to set up. check it out now. (did I mention it's free?)
and wouldn't you know it...while I'm off playing around the north coast, my co-workers are extremely busy. I feel like I have some catching up to to do.
The lighthouse plan didn't work out so well. Instead we went on a back roads tour. We visited the "lost coast" of California...and saw lots of redwoods. I took three rolls of film.
point arena lighthouse
greetings from the road! skp and I are in Fort Bragg, CA. Our tenative mission is to see a bunch of lighthouses on the California coast...it seemed as good an excuse to explore this area as any. Tomorrow we're going farther north. We've been to the Point Arena lighthouse before, but we stopped again anyway. And we saw whales! I'd never seen them before. I took a few pictures with my 35mm camera's zoom lens. I hope they turn out.