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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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 Posted - 06/01/2006 : 20:22:33
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in an effort to bring Surfer Rosa back, i offer oversized pictures of Big Sur
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
2792 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 21:21:19
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beckett trance
- FB Fan -
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 21:41:20
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Hey Floop... is that Buzzard's Roost at the top of Pfeiffer Ridge?
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 22:41:37
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that is Pfeiffer Ridge beckett. good eye.
here's a picture of my lunch:
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beckett trance
- FB Fan -
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 23:40:51
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Nice. I'm extremely familiar with that area. I go there a couple times a year. Here's a couple shots I've taken of the sunsets.
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 01:11:00
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Originally posted by beckett trance
Nice. I'm extremely familiar with that area.
I say, beckett, you are the man! I never learned squat for names but I did manage to scramble all over the region most weekends in the 1984-85 period, courtesy of U.S taxpayers by way of station at the late Fort Ord, then generally regarded as the best stateside posting an army grunt could get. Now, floop, if you can separate yourself from your Gastrogum tendencies (or whatever that is they say in that Dr. Who vernacular, and a dubious proposition anyway due to your advanced state of culinary indulgence) for half a day and drive south about ten miles, park, and then hike east about a quarter mile along a stream (which my dumbfuck "friend" named "Hedon Valley") surrounded at its gate with redwoods, and then left up an overgrown trail to a relatively insignificant plateau, you'll have rediscovered the site of extreme LSD abuse by one Specialist First Class Erebus, model for soldiers everywhere. More importantly, casting your net widely and more than slightly out of focus, you will most especially thereby somehow discern scattered about the many brain cells of same, WHICH I WANT BACK. That is your mission. Forget the photos, forget yourself: think humanity, think me.
In lieu of that, don't forget that you are one of the luckiest bastards on the face of the earth. And be sure to spend time in Carmel and Monterey, the latter of which features what no less than Robert Louis Stevenson termed "the greatest meeting of land and sea" on Planet Earth. It's on a plaque downtown somewhere.
And in case you've posted after returning from there, go back, out of a sense of duty, that forgotten virtue.
Makes me wonder why I'm not there now.
Yes, I'm finished.
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
3426 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 01:43:53
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i liked the book.
all i can say, thank god for polio! brian |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:15:12
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A couple of shots from March 15, 2002, courtesy of a Frank show sidetrip I think:
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
7443 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:20:39
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The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:24:56
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Screw Surfer, I want to go there now.
 I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:46:22
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View from similar roadside turnout, about six months prior on a stormy day:
Same day, hazy something along the lines of what Stevenson was talking about, five miles south of Monterey, along Asilomar:
Bridge, same as pictured above  , same day, cast into sun:
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Edited by - Erebus on 06/02/2006 03:02:38 |
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beckett trance
- FB Fan -
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:49:17
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Ha! Same photo a year earlier:
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 03:19:44
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Damn, beckett, do you live right there? Whenever I've visited in the past twenty years I've had to take the notoriously unsettled coastal weather as I've found it, whereas back in the day when I had ready access I often had the sun but no camera. I've travelled those forty or so miles south of Monterey at least a hundred times. Those cliffs can be intense. Talk about an intimate thread!
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 03:36:43
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quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
What's a fucking "torta"? And what is that red thing? Ain't no carrot or pepper.
I must say that if floop's camera were properly (mentally) focused, we'd be talking about a freighter lazily chugging up the coast, or at least my non-gastrogum self would be.
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 04:55:04
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Screw Surfer.
I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid
Is that an order?
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
3575 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 05:11:53
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Where did surfer go?
"I'm not much like my generation,
Their music only hurts my ears" ~ Kasey Chambers |
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
7443 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 05:18:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
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Originally posted by vilainde
The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
What's a fucking "torta"?
That's how they call these sandwiches down there in Mexico.
Denis
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 05:38:25
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Where are you??!
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 09:45:37
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nice pics you guys. erebus and beckett, were have you stayed when you were there? some day i want to stay at the Post Ranch Inn (and then declare bankrupcy). we camped at Ventana instead..
denis, the red thing is a carrot. i don't think i ate it actually, so i can't tell you how it was. the sandwich was excellent (grilled chicken). the bean salad was ok, but i kind of wished i had gotten the mixed greens like my girlfriend did.
the picture is really about the view though, not the lunch. that picture doesn't do justice to the view from this place..
http://www.nepenthebigsur.com/
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:03:25
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quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
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Originally posted by Erebus
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
What's a fucking "torta"?
That's how they call these sandwiches down there in Mexico.
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath!
Thank you Denis. Torta. Please excuse my crude language.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:08:06
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Originally posted by GypsyDeath
Where did surfer go?
"I'm not much like my generation,
Their music only hurts my ears" ~ Kasey Chambers
She's on sabbatical.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
7443 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:09:10
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In case you go there, it could be useful to know that "torta" also means "bum".
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:28:39
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Originally posted by floop
nice pics you guys. erebus and beckett, were have you stayed when you were there? some day i want to stay at the Post Ranch Inn (and then declare bankrupcy). we camped at Ventana instead..
denis, the red thing is a carrot. i don't think i ate it actually, so i can't tell you how it was. the sandwich was excellent (grilled chicken). the bean salad was ok, but i kind of wished i had gotten the mixed greens like my girlfriend did.
the picture is really about the view though, not the lunch. that picture doesn't do justice to the view from this place..
I mostly stayed in the weeds, hiding from myself. Wouldn't be a bad idea today. However, I do recall a wonderful day spent in a suite at one of those swank inns with friends who had flown in from Austin. We debated economics and balancing the budget. What fools we were.
Carrots ain't what they used to be.
floop, reading between the posts, I'm guessing you went on date package number N with a cosmic lady friend. Yes?
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beckett trance
- FB Fan -
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:46:06
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I've got family there so I have a place to stay whenever I can get up there. (I know, ridiculously lucky) I'm actually going to try to go there in a couple weeks. I'm probably going to SF, so I'll see if I can make it to Big Sur, too.
Here's one more of the Bixby Bridge looking south.
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:46:54
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Originally posted by benji
i liked the book.
benji, we're assuming that would be Brautigan's "A Confederate General from Big Sur", right? About frog ponds and life? Don't know which made me laugh more, that or "Trout Fishing in America". You prompted me to visit http://www.brautigan.net/brautigan/
I had forgotten that while I was playing soldier he was playing god, though I still remember the day I read the news: "Die Young Stay Pretty"
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:51:44
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that's cool beckett. Big Sur is interesting because from highway 1 it seems like there's nothing really there. but then there are all these secret houses and places tucked away in the hills beneath the trees. there was one for sale for 2.5 million. maybe we could pool our resources and start a commune.
and Erebus, yes, you could say that. we camped, then went to dinner at Nepenthe, then had a massage and went to hot springs at Escalen. i like to really rough it when i camp.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 11:08:14
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Originally posted by beckett trance
I've got family there so I have a place to stay whenever I can get up there. (I know, ridiculously lucky) I'm actually going to try to go there in a couple weeks. I'm probably going to SF, so I'll see if I can make it to Big Sur, too.
Here's one more of the Bixby Bridge looking south.
Don't we know that at Amazon we could find a coffee table book full of "Bridges of the Pacific Coast Highway". Lord knows I've taken my share of bridge pictures, from Big Sur to Astoria. Steady. Get the horizon level. Good fun.
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 11:33:45
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Originally posted by floop
Big Sur is interesting because from highway 1 it seems like there's nothing really there. but then there are all these secret houses and places tucked away in the hills beneath the trees.
Yes. And much of those higher hills seem like the Ozarks, populated by old freaks. Lucky I didn't stumble onto somebody's pot farm and get my sorry ass shot. Half the people living up there are as rich as rich gets and the other half are simple sixties throwbacks scratching out a living in heaven.
One morning I was somehow motivated to start a hike upward from the highway. After hours of innumerable switchbacks I discovered a long-abandoned hideaway made out of cast concrete originally featuring huge plate glass windows that had long since fallen shattered. I could see forever out onto the ocean. That place was so remote that I assumed much of the structure had been flown in by heavy helicoptor. And yet there it was, decaying on a bald hillside, without a soul in sight.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 15:40:28
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BTW, some really nice photos there. The bridge pic is fabulous.
They Sur are nice. ;)
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
3426 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 18:41:13
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Originally posted by Erebus
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Originally posted by benji
i liked the book.
benji, we're assuming that would be Brautigan's "A Confederate General from Big Sur", right?
nope. i actually mean 'Big Sur' by Jack Kerouac
i really enjoyed almost all of his books - it's been a fair while since i read any, but from memory, big sur was a goddan. my favourite was 'desolation angels' tho.
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 20:44:08
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Originally posted by benji
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Originally posted by Erebus
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Originally posted by benji
i liked the book.
benji, we're assuming that would be Brautigan's "A Confederate General from Big Sur", right?
nope. i actually mean 'Big Sur' by Jack Kerouac
i really enjoyed almost all of his books - it's been a fair while since i read any, but from memory, big sur was a goddan. my favourite was 'desolation angels' tho.
Alright then. I've neglected Kerouac. Thanks though for the visit to the Brautigan site. Hadn't thought about him in ages.
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 00:25:43
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the song was ok
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 06:55:36
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The song was awful, I don't think I liked the Kerouac book (I only really got on with 'On The Road' I found everything else to be a bit disappointing), I liked 'A Confederate General From Big Sur' although I prefer 'The Abortion - A Historical Romance 1966' by Brautigan.
People want to stop with the photos though, it's making London feel distinctly un-glam.
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 07:37:25
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what you on about.
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starmekitten
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United Kingdom
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2006 : 23:14:46
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i'm assuming you guys have been to the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur
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