for those that heard my travel story about the trip to the taos mesa to pick up a car, here’s the pictures so it did happen, including the guys that broke down on the way to the 420 party. my stoner friends would be so jealous.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14310679@N05/6952875584/in/set-72157629866463891/
what makes it so funny is that i am a devout nonsmoker.
my favorite mesa house was an old school style bus with a big stovepipe chim sticking up through the roof. classic! gotta admire the DIY ethic, something that is near and dear to my personal version of steampunk.
I really like the picture of the wide open spaces, the “looks like they made their own party” one. Its been too long since I visited that part of the country. Maybe next year….
My favorite bus conversion was one which was made into a home, set into a forested hillside. It had a bus-sized greenhouse attached and running along the front, and the bedroom was built into the top, reachable from inside by ladder. Cozy and cheap, as houses go.
There is a desert in my vicinity, named after a small rat-like dog with frog eyes, that lets me experience that big sky over spartan terrain feeling. Refreshing to the mind and eyes, but I could not abide it too long.
(( Puts me in mind of a trip to Terlingua, Texas, during the infamous chili cookoff held there. Terlingua, an old cinnabar mine, is a ghost town and ‘artist colony’. Looks very similar. ))
any good beggin’ there, mister T?
Seems to be a way of life. Will post some more pics later. If. Your car can handle going a ways there is a impressive Tibetan monestary.