Picto Diary - 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 September 2020 - Sprinter Scorn
No entries 11 and 12 September 2020
Above: Polar King. Coalville, UT. 13 September 2020
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Swirl (post return from Evanston and lunch at Don Pedros... best Mex in Park City area. Return via Yellow Creek Road and Chalk Creek Road).
"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson — with Margaret Taylor at Polar King Drive-In.
No entry, 14 September 2020.
Above: Wildlife Triple. Rockcreek State Park. Summit County, UT. 15 September 2020
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Out and about on the Duc
Juvenile bald eagle
Turkey clutch
Deer family
"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above: RV ROMEOS. Doubletree-Hilton Parking. Park City, UT 16 September 2020.
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Image: ROMEO types noshing and bantering in Hilton parking lot, owners of a bevy of big ass RVs such as the one shown at right of image.
Excited about our up coming entry into the RV culture, I walked up to have a chat.
Me: HI guys! Nice RV's!
Them: Thanks.
Me: Where ya from?
Them: Tennessee.
Me: Hey! Joining your world! Bought a Sprinter!
Them: [Scornful glare]...as in "who the f... are you?"
I was gobsmacked as I suddenly realized that with the Sprinter we would be near or at the bottom end of the motor home food chain.
I cringed as I imagined the social isolation and scorn we were about to endure when hooking up at the next tony RV park or unhooked in a Walmart parking lot.
I had imagined that the Freightliner branding of the Sprinter, my Carhartt overalls, and my Browning ball cap might raise a few eyeballs at the RV park, but it never occurred to me that in RV world social hierarchy, vehicle size matters.
I do not look forward to the sleepless nights ahead as I obsess about the upcoming social isolation we're about to endure because of our pathetic, puny RV.
The horror...the horror... Can't we all just get along? — at DoubleTree by Hilton Park City.
Above: Fall Images. Park City, UT. 16 September 2020
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"Go to the woods to loose sight and sound of the crimes of your contemporaries." Jeanne-Jacques Rousseau.
Above: Feldman's Deli. Salt Lake City, UT. 16 September 2020.
Matzo ball soup.
Pastrami on rye.
Iced tea. — with Margaret Taylor at Feldman's Deli (best Deli in Park City area).
Above: Rabbit Brush. PC Hill. Park City, UT. 17 September 2020.
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Rabbit Brush. Offensive noxious weed or pristine mountain beauty?
"Go to the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries." — at North 40 Park City.
Above: Deux Magots Walkers. Clockwork Cafe. Park City, UT. 17 September 2020.
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After being being constantly browbeaten by 'Cake to come here...and its closed?
"Go to the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries." Jean-Jacques Rousseau — at Clockwork Cafe.