The wayback machine has been on a long journey back in time and space. We logged over a thousand miles. At one point we were so far south that we narrowly missed Nevada. We went east almost to Idaho. Up north we lost all sense of time and spaceand wandered into Washington as far north as Saint John's Monastery, for coffee and pastry.
I have brought back all sorts of wild tales, with something for everyone: sex, drugs, money, gold, rocks, industry, beautiful campgrounds, and MAGA. Oh dear lord, I have been wandering in the land of MAGA. I have enough MAGA that you couldsmear it all over you and eat it with a spoon. If anyone here isn't getting enough MAGA I can tell them exactly where to go. We also brought back some gold and other treasures.
The adventure didn't really start until we got to the Malheur Wildlife refuge.have a lot of rocks from here and there. Naturally we stopped at the visitor's center and looked at birds and other critters. The Feds have spent a lot of money improving the place since the last time I was there, sometime in the last century. My wife
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/malheur
Malheur is French for misfortune. Legend says that the area was named by French fur trappers, back in the day.
So there we are in the desert and it was raining lightly, with a little lightning here and there. I had bought a rockhounding book that led us to a place where we could collect pretty rocks that might take a nice polish in our rock tumbler. We
We also took in sights like: French Glen, The Round Barn, The P ranch and Diamond Oregon, population 29, median age 52.5. The median age in Oregon is around 40. Pay attention, these numbers are important in the rest of the tale. :-)irrigation canal than a river, but it looks and sounds nice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenchglen,_Oregon https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/peter_french_round_barn/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_Ranch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond,_Oregon
The P ranch has an old lookout tower that's a popular roosting spot for Turkey Vultures. There were only around half a dozen of them there when we were there. I have seen many more there.
One of the ranchers in Diamond had a large sign that said they had been doing just fine until the fraudulent election in 2020. It didn't say what awful misfortune they were experiencing in Diamond since then.
The BLM has a nice campground at Page Springs.
https://www.blm.gov/visit/page-springs-campground
The campgrounds is first come, first served. I suspect that it's rare for the place to fill up. There are no hookups, but they have fresh water, vault toilets and garbage service. The nearby "river" has been so channelized that it's more of an
The next day the rain got more serious, so we decided to drive around to the east side of the Steens mountains where the rain shadow of the mountains has created the driest place in Oregon, the Alvord desert. It was raining there too. So, weheaded deeper into MAGA territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvord_Desert
More trip reports coming as I find the time and energy. We were just getting started at this point.
TB
The wayback machine has been on a long journey back in time and
space. We logged over a thousand miles. At one point we were so far
south that we narrowly missed Nevada. We went east almost to Idaho.
Up north we lost all sense of time and space and wandered into
Washington as far north as Saint John's Monastery, for coffee and
pastry.
I have brought back all sorts of wild tales, with something for
everyone: sex, drugs, money, gold, rocks, industry, beautiful
campgrounds, and MAGA. Oh dear lord, I have been wandering in the
land of MAGA. I have enough MAGA that you could smear it all over
you and eat it with a spoon. If anyone here isn't getting enough
MAGA I can tell them exactly where to go. We also brought back some
gold and other treasures.
The adventure didn't really start until we got to the Malheur
Wildlife refuge.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/malheur
Malheur is French for misfortune. Legend says that the area was
named by French fur trappers, back in the day.
So there we are in the desert and it was raining lightly, with a
little lightning here and there. I had bought a rockhounding book
that led us to a place where we could collect pretty rocks that
might take a nice polish in our rock tumbler. We have a lot of
rocks from here and there. Naturally we stopped at the visitor's
center and looked at birds and other critters. The Feds have spent
a lot of money improving the place since the last time I was there,
sometime in the last century. My wife hadn't seen any of this until
we were getting toward the end of our trip.
We also took in sights like: French Glen, The Round Barn, The P
ranch and Diamond Oregon, population 29, median age 52.5. The
median age in Oregon is around 40. Pay attention, these numbers are
important in the rest of the tale. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenchglen,_Oregon https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/peter_french_round_barn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond,_Oregon
The P ranch has an old lookout tower that's a popular roosting spot
for Turkey Vultures. There were only around half a dozen of them
there when we were there. I have seen many more there.
One of the ranchers in Diamond had a large sign that said they had
been doing just fine until the fraudulent election in 2020. It
didn't say what awful misfortune they were experiencing in Diamond
since then.
The BLM has a nice campground at Page Springs.
https://www.blm.gov/visit/page-springs-campground
The campgrounds is first come, first served. I suspect that it's
rare for the place to fill up. There are no hookups, but they have
fresh water, vault toilets and garbage service. The nearby "river"
has been so channelized that it's more of an irrigation canal than
a river, but it looks and sounds nice.
The next day the rain got more serious, so we decided to drive
around to the east side of the Steens mountains where the rain
shadow of the mountains has created the driest place in Oregon, the
Alvord desert. It was raining there too. So, we headed deeper into
MAGA territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvord_Desert
More trip reports coming as I find the time and energy. We were
just getting started at this point.
Technobarbarian wrote:
The wayback machine has been on a long journey back in time and
space. We logged over a thousand miles. At one point we were so far
south that we narrowly missed Nevada. We went east almost to Idaho.
Up north we lost all sense of time and space and wandered into
Washington as far north as Saint John's Monastery, for coffee and
pastry.
I have brought back all sorts of wild tales, with something for
everyone: sex, drugs, money, gold, rocks, industry, beautiful
campgrounds, and MAGA. Oh dear lord, I have been wandering in the
land of MAGA. I have enough MAGA that you could smear it all over
you and eat it with a spoon. If anyone here isn't getting enough
MAGA I can tell them exactly where to go. We also brought back some
gold and other treasures.
The adventure didn't really start until we got to the Malheur
Wildlife refuge.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/malheur
Malheur is French for misfortune. Legend says that the area was
named by French fur trappers, back in the day.
So there we are in the desert and it was raining lightly, with a
little lightning here and there. I had bought a rockhounding book
that led us to a place where we could collect pretty rocks that
might take a nice polish in our rock tumbler. We have a lot of
rocks from here and there. Naturally we stopped at the visitor's
center and looked at birds and other critters. The Feds have spent
a lot of money improving the place since the last time I was there, sometime in the last century. My wife hadn't seen any of this until
we were getting toward the end of our trip.
We also took in sights like: French Glen, The Round Barn, The P
ranch and Diamond Oregon, population 29, median age 52.5. The
median age in Oregon is around 40. Pay attention, these numbers are important in the rest of the tale. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenchglen,_Oregon https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/peter_french_round_barn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_Ranch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond,_Oregon
The P ranch has an old lookout tower that's a popular roosting spot
for Turkey Vultures. There were only around half a dozen of them
there when we were there. I have seen many more there.
One of the ranchers in Diamond had a large sign that said they had
been doing just fine until the fraudulent election in 2020. It
didn't say what awful misfortune they were experiencing in Diamond
since then.
The BLM has a nice campground at Page Springs.
https://www.blm.gov/visit/page-springs-campground
The campgrounds is first come, first served. I suspect that it's
rare for the place to fill up. There are no hookups, but they have
fresh water, vault toilets and garbage service. The nearby "river"
has been so channelized that it's more of an irrigation canal than
a river, but it looks and sounds nice.
The next day the rain got more serious, so we decided to drive
around to the east side of the Steens mountains where the rain
shadow of the mountains has created the driest place in Oregon, the
Alvord desert. It was raining there too. So, we headed deeper into
MAGA territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvord_Desert
More trip reports coming as I find the time and energy. We wereI'm impressed that you stayed disconnected - at least from RORT -
just getting started at this point.
during your trip. Kudos to you. Internetism is the opiate of the
masses, you know.
I like rocks, too, and gathered a bunch on my trips. However comma I
don't diss them by tumbling them. I leave them in their natural state
as the passage of time made them - it makes them more significant.
In any case, at the end of the day going forward, it sounded like a
Good Trip?
--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 1:14:13 PM UTC-7, bfh wrote:have some for which nothing will happen other than being relocated. A few I might slice and some I will see what the tumbler does to them. I have some small pieces of "worm rock" that cannot be improved on. It's pumice that looks like it was eaten by
Technobarbarian wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_Ranch
The wayback machine has been on a long journey back in time and
space. We logged over a thousand miles. At one point we were so far
south that we narrowly missed Nevada. We went east almost to Idaho.
Up north we lost all sense of time and space and wandered into
Washington as far north as Saint John's Monastery, for coffee and
pastry.
I have brought back all sorts of wild tales, with something for
everyone: sex, drugs, money, gold, rocks, industry, beautiful
campgrounds, and MAGA. Oh dear lord, I have been wandering in the
land of MAGA. I have enough MAGA that you could smear it all over
you and eat it with a spoon. If anyone here isn't getting enough
MAGA I can tell them exactly where to go. We also brought back some
gold and other treasures.
The adventure didn't really start until we got to the Malheur
Wildlife refuge.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/malheur
Malheur is French for misfortune. Legend says that the area was
named by French fur trappers, back in the day.
So there we are in the desert and it was raining lightly, with a
little lightning here and there. I had bought a rockhounding book
that led us to a place where we could collect pretty rocks that
might take a nice polish in our rock tumbler. We have a lot of
rocks from here and there. Naturally we stopped at the visitor's
center and looked at birds and other critters. The Feds have spent
a lot of money improving the place since the last time I was there,
sometime in the last century. My wife hadn't seen any of this until
we were getting toward the end of our trip.
We also took in sights like: French Glen, The Round Barn, The P
ranch and Diamond Oregon, population 29, median age 52.5. The
median age in Oregon is around 40. Pay attention, these numbers are
important in the rest of the tale. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenchglen,_Oregon
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/peter_french_round_barn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond,_OregonI'm impressed that you stayed disconnected - at least from RORT -
The P ranch has an old lookout tower that's a popular roosting spot
for Turkey Vultures. There were only around half a dozen of them
there when we were there. I have seen many more there.
One of the ranchers in Diamond had a large sign that said they had
been doing just fine until the fraudulent election in 2020. It
didn't say what awful misfortune they were experiencing in Diamond
since then.
The BLM has a nice campground at Page Springs.
https://www.blm.gov/visit/page-springs-campground
The campgrounds is first come, first served. I suspect that it's
rare for the place to fill up. There are no hookups, but they have
fresh water, vault toilets and garbage service. The nearby "river"
has been so channelized that it's more of an irrigation canal than
a river, but it looks and sounds nice.
The next day the rain got more serious, so we decided to drive
around to the east side of the Steens mountains where the rain
shadow of the mountains has created the driest place in Oregon, the
Alvord desert. It was raining there too. So, we headed deeper into
MAGA territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvord_Desert
More trip reports coming as I find the time and energy. We were
just getting started at this point.
during your trip. Kudos to you. Internetism is the opiate of the
masses, you know.
I like rocks, too, and gathered a bunch on my trips. However comma I
don't diss them by tumbling them. I leave them in their natural state
as the passage of time made them - it makes them more significant.
In any case, at the end of the day going forward, it sounded like a
Good Trip?
--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
I guess I may have come at all this rock stuff unnaturally. I hadn't paid much attention to rocks until years of the Gem and Mineral show in Tucson wore me down. It's a huge assault on the senses. Now I like rocks in all sorts of conditions. I
Speaking of "significant rocks" reminded me of the time I was selling pottery at the Saturday market in Eugene. My display table was the stairs from my park model trailer house. The guy next to me was selling big basalt rocks that had a more orless smooth side. He had collected pretty pictures from magazines and pasted them to the rocks and then put a clear coating on the whole thing. People loved his rocks. He had people saying that they didn't have anything like that in Arizona and they were
Just about anytime I make it home alive I figure it was a good trip. This was an excellent trip.
TB
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