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Picto Diary - 08 August 2020 - Speed Week, Bonneville Salt Flats

Above: Bishop. Bonneville Salt Flats, UT. Speed Week. 08 August 2020.

In Search of Authenticity Tour
Deux Magots Walkers.
Speed Week!!!

"Go to the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Above: Salt encrusted F350 tire. Bonneville Salt Flats, UT. Speed Week. 08 August 2020.

Above: Motley Crew (ROMEOs, kids and grandkids). Bonneville Salt Flats, UT. Speed Week. 08 August 2020.

Deux Magots Walkers
In Search of Authenticity Tour

"Go to the woods to lose sight and sound of the crimes of your contemporaries." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Above: Kessler, Grrr, and Z. 450 MPH speeder. Bonneville Salt Flats, UT. Speed Week. 08 August 2020.

In Search of Authenticity Tour
Out and about in the F350

The boys are nine. It took this Utah denizen (Mwah [sic] seventy five years to make it to Speed Week. Nor (I can't believe it) have I ever been to Bingham Copper Mine. PS. The moose does fit in my "authenticity' narrative pretty well.

"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture..." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Above: Motorcycle speeder. Speed Week. Bonneville Salt Flats, UT. 08 August 2020

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Deux Magots Walkers

Bikes like this will go over 250 miles per hour.

"The land is the remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Above: Wendover Will. West Wendover, NV. 08 August 2020.

In Search of Authenticity Tour
Out and about in the F350.

Authentic? Mmmmmm.... but had to get some McDonalds and make it a two state tour!

"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture."

Above: One big whoppin' Moose cow. Back yard. Iron Canyon, Park City, UT. 08 August 2020.

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At Home

It would be a yawn but for the size of this girl... and, the shot is pretty good. We get a half dozen moose sightings a year in our yard.

"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture." Ralph Waldo Emerson