Sunday, June 24, 2012

Road Trip

4000 Miles



And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.  -- Genesis 8:11



It is a cat forkwad and it may be the prairie schooner of the future.  Payson Utah is the only place on earth where you can see one for real.  It is made in USA by real USAns who really give a shit about what they are doing.  Who knows if they listen to talk radio?  Some of them may even be Mormons.  They made it because it was cool... and let the revenue flow later.  Refreshing in a culture flooded with cheap crap.  Fuckhead chatter dominates the broadcast media and hours of wind noise and truck blast is better than five minutes of wetfart turdblat radio.

There is good stuff out there.  Maybe the waters are not abated, but the durchfall drizzle is letting up in places.  You have to know where to look and there is about 390 miles between mountains and Mississippi River where urban sprawl is fairly rare.  There are survivors out in clapboard cottages and old Airstreams beside farm ponds.  By accident or design, they are far from beltways and burning big box walmartians in cellular SUVs.  Even in the cities you can find vegetable gardens and old VW micro-buses taking you right back to Kansas.  Toto too.

We are talking about rigging one of these things with electric assist and a vertical solar wing to catch the wind.  It would be a trans-continental capable solar wind and human-powered vehicle... but not at gas engine speeds... and far from the cube-farm paradigm.  Glide away from tons of metal pushing air and gassing the greenhouse.  Those old timers just went down to the herb cellar to wait out the fuckhead farting contest which seems to be letting up.  Now there is a second and third generation that aint marching anymore.  I heard Phil Ochs songs busked in Peoples' Parks.

A thousand points of mighty little acorns. 

6 comments:

  1. Nice catalog for Utah Trikes. Too bad they are not 100% USA made. I might have considered. Mountain folk may not be a good demographic for the buggies.

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  2. Hurricane season will see three landing this year. Florida gets hit in the gulf coast, Texas in the Padre Island area and Mexico sees flooding from Yucatan storm.

    A primer for September



    Tropical Storm Debby remains active in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico as of 25 June 2012. According to meteorologists at Wilkens Weather Technologies, as of 0900 UTC Debby was located 90 mi/145 km south-southwest of Apalachicola, Florida. The storm is stationary and is generating sustained winds of 52 mph/45 kt, with gusts up to 63 mph/55 kt. Although Debby has weakened in intensity, it is expected to strengthen over the next 48 hours. Landfall is not expected until 28 June. A tropical storm warning has been issued from the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwanee River in Florida, with a watch extending south of the Suwanee to Englewood, Florida. Debby has already caused heavy rainfall in parts of Florida, with the Tampa area receiving approximately 8-10 in/205-255 mm over the weekend. Areas in the path of the storm, primarily in the Florida Panhandle and northern Florida, are expecting to see 10-15 in/255-380 mm of rain over the next 48 hours, with the potential for 25 in/635 mm in isolated areas. Areas of central Florida, southeastern Georgia and coastal South Carolina may receive 5-10 in/125-255 mm of rainfall. Reports also indicate that two possible tornadoes touched down in central Florida on 24 June, causing damage to homes and one fatality in Highlands County. An area of the state extending from the Florida Panhandle to central Florida remains under a tornado watch on 25 June 2012.

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  3. huge winds in kansas... 30-40+ mph... all day long. not "gusts up to..." but constant blow-you-sideways wind... turbines spinning like pinwheels.

    the USA needs to "nationalize" the railroads and the energy grid. immediately.

    not all USA made... the components largely come from asia. Japan. nobody makes them here... well, except for the Nuvinci hub... a wonderous thing=with largely USAn design.

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  4. That's pretty cool. Unfortunately, with my bad back I couldn't go very far in it. Bummer.

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  5. China steel is good. It came from the THREE TOWERS.

    History proper!

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  6. LA HAARPA NINA ALA COMMITTEE-FUKUSHIMA. SLOW & SOFTLY WE GO. LIKE THE FRUITFLY WE WILL COME TO KNOW EUGENICS BY DESIGN.

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