I used to go out West and rent SUV's and buy maps of National Forests and try and find out where the crystals were and pretty stones were.
I remember hearing that Humbult County was not a good place to go on forest roads.
I wanted to make a trip to the top of the Butte in Butte county, but I never got out to it. Then I went back and it had been closed.
Is it worth the trip to the top of it?
I like to hang out in riverbeds anyway much more than going to the mountaintops. I always go back to the same locations and I try and take photographs of the same scenes from year to year. I've had a lot of fun there, but found that LA is a bad place and that you get scammed by insurance fraudsters very easily there (they tag the rental cars so they are easy to spot).
Wierdness in the Central Vally. People say things like "this is a nice area" as if I need to know . . . that some parts are not so nice.
I didn't know.
I haven't been to Gold Country in about 8 years, and since it got weird in California (at the coast you meet some really peculiar people) I said " I don't want to risk going there"
but I hope to go back for another photographer's adventure.
Wierdest was at Ft Bragg meeting a San Fran woman 'power beast' on a beach who I am sure was wanting to pick me up to bring me home and cook me. (She gve me that vibe).
I got to hear more about her.
and the waitress trying to short change me. (The bills were consequtively numbered, so I could prove she short changed me).
I drove away from Ft Bragg thinking 'is everyone is this town a grifter?'
she had been involved in politics there. I got to read all about her after I got out of there online. Pretty sure she was a sex-cult person, in hindsight.
his MO has always been that at any point if there is any hope of an agreement, he will do something provokative to make the situation worse.
the inch given is always made into a mile.
it's rather a trait of people of his . . . breeding.
that is over a year old. It comes from a very long time ago.
someone even says that in the bread. This is all old news.
am I wrong?