I keep bringing my camera back to Treasure Island because there are always more interesting things to see. I refuse to feel guilty about the fact that, consequently, I keep inflicting more pictures of Treasure Island on you. Who doesn’t love creepy abandoned places that look like a world after the apocalypse? (That question does …
Category Archives: adventures
Mendocino 4 July Parade 2011
The United States is a big place, and I am often reminded of this on 4 July, when communities across the country explode in a fever of nationalism and everything turns red, white, and blue overnight. You can find out a lot about what this country means to other people on 4 July, and sometimes …
Aboard the U-505
I just returned from a trip to Chicago, where I did many exciting things, one of which was take a tour aboard the U-505, one of the few remaining U-boats left in the world. I was assured by many people that if I did only one thing in Chicago, this should be it; clearly people …
The Time I Fed A Giraffe
For some reason, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the time I fed a giraffe. This requires a backstory. I have, among the many random connections I have made in life, a passing acquaintance with a veterinarian who works at the San Francisco Zoo. At one time in my life, I actually wanted to …
My Love For Abandoned Places
Someone was asking me the other day about why it was that I love abandoned places and decaying objects so much. Because I do have an intense love for both of these things and the myriad forms they can take, from sprawling former industrial sites to single houses which have been left to rot. It’s …
Return to Caspar Cemetery
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Caspar Cemetery lately for Grave Stories, and I’m surprised by how many graves there are in such a small space, and also by how much they change and wear. Some headstones which were readable last year, for example, are totally murky now. Anyway, I thought I’d …
Fakeout!
No news of note for y’all today, because I am still exhausted from my whirlwind trip to the City yesterday. I tell you what, I have not driven down and back up in one day in quite a while, and it is way more grueling than I remember. I guess I’m getting old. I meant …
Photo Friday: This Old House
I admit, I have been slacking on the Photo Friday material, and I apologize, my friends. I just haven’t felt up to adventures lately, which made it hard to take pictures of anything new and exciting. I’ve also been feeling tremendously lazy. Fortunately, last weekend, Baxt and I felt up for adventure, and adventure we …
The Guest House
Last Friday, Baxt and I went to the Guest House Museum, which for residents of Fort Bragg is known as the big brown building on the hill. I hadn’t been there since kindergarten, and she hadn’t been there since high school, so we were very excited to explore this megalithic figure in the Fort Bragg …
Storm, Day Three
Today was definitely my low point. I was bitchy and bitter because I smelled bad, every block in town had power except for mine, my phone was dead, it was cold, and all my food was rotting. I wrote a blog entry on a paper bag in case the power stayed out…about the paper bag …
