My friend Meri Mac sent me your link and got me to sign up so I am new to the whole stack world. I was rather disappointed that comments seem so few....as I am hardly without. The Burning Man topic, Art sent me into relapse as I suffer from Racing Brain syndrome. Most people over 70 have it as well as OCD of some form. Instead of working on the assignment, I spent about 6 hours finding a letter exchange between my Great Aunt Gertrude (the reason Meri wanted to dump me onto your site) and William Carlos Williams...which I then decided to transcribe while simutaneousy researching whether the Ezra she mentioned in another letter might be Ezra Pound.
Burning Man is the catalyst to this comment though. Last week I drove down from Tahoe to San Diego via 395. As carefully as looking for wildlife, occasionally you could spot a Burning Man RV slowly making it's way back to a clueless Grandparent....the gray dust simulating Snoopy's Pigpen, a streaming telltale. Some reminded me of those off roaders who come out of the desert with their trucks caked with mud...and remain that way for about three months.. a badge of adventure to broadcast their adventures. I have seen signs at the RV rental places.."NO BURNERS"...but have never monitored the self car washes to see if they hold equal predjudices.
About two years ago I was moving my Bobcat back to the Bay Area. The day before I had a new tire put on in Carson City...they had failed to tighten the lug nuts down. I was climbing Brockway Summit with this heavy load and the entire wheel came off...flying by me. It was in the middle of a construction zone with a CHP in attendance. I spent a full day attempting to figure out how to tow the rig back to Carson for repairs. AAA laughed at me. The Tire place ignored me. I then moved on to the big players...Semi truck towing companies. Finally one of towers mentioned as an aside, "You know that this is the very worst weekend of the year to get a tow?"...."How so??" I asked. "Burning Man just finished! Every Tow truck in the State is headed that way!"
My friend Meri Mac sent me your link and got me to sign up so I am new to the whole stack world. I was rather disappointed that comments seem so few....as I am hardly without. The Burning Man topic, Art sent me into relapse as I suffer from Racing Brain syndrome. Most people over 70 have it as well as OCD of some form. Instead of working on the assignment, I spent about 6 hours finding a letter exchange between my Great Aunt Gertrude (the reason Meri wanted to dump me onto your site) and William Carlos Williams...which I then decided to transcribe while simutaneousy researching whether the Ezra she mentioned in another letter might be Ezra Pound.
Burning Man is the catalyst to this comment though. Last week I drove down from Tahoe to San Diego via 395. As carefully as looking for wildlife, occasionally you could spot a Burning Man RV slowly making it's way back to a clueless Grandparent....the gray dust simulating Snoopy's Pigpen, a streaming telltale. Some reminded me of those off roaders who come out of the desert with their trucks caked with mud...and remain that way for about three months.. a badge of adventure to broadcast their adventures. I have seen signs at the RV rental places.."NO BURNERS"...but have never monitored the self car washes to see if they hold equal predjudices.
About two years ago I was moving my Bobcat back to the Bay Area. The day before I had a new tire put on in Carson City...they had failed to tighten the lug nuts down. I was climbing Brockway Summit with this heavy load and the entire wheel came off...flying by me. It was in the middle of a construction zone with a CHP in attendance. I spent a full day attempting to figure out how to tow the rig back to Carson for repairs. AAA laughed at me. The Tire place ignored me. I then moved on to the big players...Semi truck towing companies. Finally one of towers mentioned as an aside, "You know that this is the very worst weekend of the year to get a tow?"...."How so??" I asked. "Burning Man just finished! Every Tow truck in the State is headed that way!"
Fantastic writing exercise-THANKS!