Picto Diary 19, 20 November 2020 - Dog

19 November 2020.
Susan Renee Greenwell.

Rest in Peace 'neath ever vigilant oak...just three miles from The Father of Waters.

Pastor: "Susan's eternal journey with God has just begun."

bove: TIMDT and Freddie. Wilbon Kennels. Cabot, AR. 20 November 2020.

Seeing a Man about a Dog Tour (realized this AM)

Out and About in the Sprinter.

First meeting.

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

Above: Breeders Bill and Bonnie Bennet, Wilbon Kennels, Cabot, AR.

Seeing a Man about a Dog Tour

Out and about in the Sprinter

Breeders Bill and Bonnie say goodbye to Freddie.

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

Above: Bish 'n Freddie. Alma, Arkansas. 20 November 2020.

Seeing a Man About a Dog Tour

Out and about in the Sprinter

Dog.

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

Above: TIMDT, Freddie and... aliens? Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 20 November 2020

Seeing a Man About a Dog Tour

Out and about in the Sprinter.

Day of the Triffids?
War of the World's?

Freddie and TIMDT will take em on! Crazy times indeed.

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

Above: I-40. 90 miles east of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 20 November 2020.

Podcast: Joe Rogan interviews Boyan Slat.
The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit engineering environmental organization based in the Netherlands, that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and intercept it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. After testing and prototyping in the North Sea they deployed their first full-scale prototype in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It ran into difficulty after two months and was towed to Hawaii for inspection and repair. In June 2019, their second prototype system was deployed.

The organization conducts scientific research into oceanic plastic pollution. It was founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, a Dutch-born inventor-entrepreneur of Croatian and Dutch origin who serves as its CEO. It has conducted two expeditions to the North Pacific Gyre, the Mega Expedition and the Aerial Expedition, and continues to publish scientific papers. Their ocean system consists of a floating barrier at the surface of the water in the oceanic gyres, that collects marine debris as the system is pushed by wind, waves and current, and slowed down by a sea anchor.[8] The project aims to launch a total of 60 such systems, and they predict this capability could clean up 50% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years from full scale deployment.

In late October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup announced a new initiative, the Interceptor, to attack the trash problem closer to the source, with plans to prevent 80% of riverine trash coming from 1000 rivers worldwide.

Selected takeaways:

We need to decouple technological progress from the negative byproducts of such progress. For example, technology which can clean up the plastic debris from the ocean and recycle that debris into new products should be lauded and not criticized as many do who say that we need to stop using plastic bottles.

The above, stated another way, in dealing with environmental problems, rather than change human behavior, solve the problem with technology.

Nuclear power is the cheapest and safest of all non carbon power sources. Deaths per one hundred thousand kilowatt hours from use of nuclear power is far less than it is from solar... people falling off roofs, etc.

We are in crazy/fun times. Never has humanity had to adjust so rapidly to technological change as at the current time. Augmented reality, a precursor to virtual reality, is just around the corner.

"Likes" on Facebook and Instagram are the new drug. People get addicted to "likes."

Above: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 20 November 2020.

Seeing a Man About a Dog Tour

Out and about in the Sprinter

Image from I-40 Westbound.

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

Above: Doyle, Jim, and Bishop, Saddle Up Bar and Grill. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 20 November 2020.

Seeing a Man about a Dog Tour

Out and about in the Sprinter

Doyle. Broken down Peterbilt. He and his wife live in Dallas, though Doyle is on the road most of the time. Doyle, thinking of the future, shaves off part of his wages and puts it in an account with E.F. Hutton. His company pays no 401K. He clears about $70K per year. Doyle is an excommunicated Mormon with roots in Brigham City, UT. Has nothing against Mormons, but is bemused by the fact that the Brigham City Mormon buddies of his youth would go to keg parties on Saturday night and then affirm their faith at priesthood meeting the next morning.

Jim: Twenty year, full time interstate truck driver for one of the big companies. Has a girl friend who shares an apartment in New Hampshire. Has a 2019 Silverado with one thousand miles on it, because, he never gets time to drive it. His Freightliner eighteen wheeler's transmission blew out twenty miles out of Oklahoma City, his final destination after driving a load from Philadelphia. His load was deposited by another tractor to a destination just a mile away from the Freightliner repair shop, where his truck is getting a transmission rebuild. He's already been in Oklahoma City for a week, but, expects to be able to leave with his transmission rebuilt Freightliner in two days. He will own his truck, with some kind of lease arrangement, in four years. But, he wonders what good that will do... by that time the truck will have 500 thousand miles on it and probably need a rebuild which he cant afford. He wants to by a slide in camper for his Silverado, but, wonders if the Silverado is too small. He should have got at least a 3/4 ton truck, he says. Jim, fifty years old, bemoans his current situation. Unlike Doyle, he has not saved anything. He has no retirement plan... no savings. He clears, like Doyle, $70K per year, which seems not bad for a guy whose girl friend works and who, otherwise, has no family. But, he wonders what will become of him when he no longer can drive.

Note: I ordered pork chops. The sides were brown rice and canned string beans. This is the second time today I've eaten canned stringed beans. The first was at lunch, at Cracker Barrel, in Alma, Arkansas. I loved the canned stringed beans. I am old enough to remember when people ate canned stringed beans. Fresh stringed beans were not always available and the frozen stringed beans weren't a thing yet. When I was young, my Mom used to can fruit and vegetables as preparation for the winter. Eating the canned stringed beans today reminded me of that tradition where families had to be more resourceful in preparing for winter.

Addendum:

Van looks super -I am sure you could’ve had breakfast at the hotel we stayed at their last time 👻

Thanks, Mr. Z3,
Oxnard, CA

Tried. Dining room was closed.

Steve.. absolutely loved your rendition of that first night. What a great trip and new experience! Love and hugs to both..

Expresso,
Washington, D.C.

I remember when Margaret first came to live at our house. She would tell us stories of her life as a child in Imboden and Ravenden, Arkansas, with her various relatives. They were spell-binding stories, especially when she would voice the characters in the local dialect. She was probably all of 19 at the time, but she had some of the best stories I had ever heard.

This Sprinter journey sounds like the genesis of another whole set of stories is in the making.

Delhi PJ's,
West Jordan, UT

Hi Steve,

Supreme Court Judge Anthony Scalia was hunting at a Cibolo Creek Ranch just south of Marfa (dirt road to the ranch is on the right) when he passed away in February of 2016. Ronnie Weinzapfel and I drove past there on our way to Big Bend a few days afterwards. We stopped at the turn off on the east side of the road to view the Marfa light too. We didn’t see anything we’d swear to.

Enjoy your road trip.

F800 GS
Colorado Springs, CO

Steve,

I lived in ABQ for four years stationed at and AF Squadron on the West Mesa – take Route 66, cross the Rio Grande until you arrive at the top of the mesa.
I visited Santa Fe many times. Also Taos.

Augustine, founded in September 1565 by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles of Spain, is the longest continually inhabited European-founded city in the United States – more commonly called the "Nation's Oldest City."

Until I got to Taos. They claim 1350. The Taos Pueblo structures were probably built between A.D. 1300 and 1450. Some "experts" place the date at 1350 when the Pot Creek Pueblo became abandoned and some of the inhabitants apparently moved to Picuris Pueblo and others moved to the Taos Pueblo.
https://taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org/taoshistory.html

Lovely area,

Panama,
Los Angeles, CA