The adventures of terapined

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The map I display on the side of my RV showing the states I have camped in on this current trip

I like that. Keep going. Are you eventually going to try to hit every state? I have been to all of them but not on a driving trip.

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Is there a story/reason the Pelican state is missing from the map?

Maybe you are planning to pass through on the return?

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I love street art

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The funniest thing I have seen in my travels
Stayed at a RV park in San Diego
Visited La Jolla just bouncing around town looking for anything picture worthy
I went into a Ralph Lauren
Not my type of place to shop but I always look for interesting things to take a pic of and you never know
Boy was that store interesting
Saw a pair of pants with tears and patches
WTF, garage sale material.
I asked how much
195.00
Asked to take a pic, they allowed
I tried to joke with the staff about the obvious irony
They did not see the humor. lol
Was in I think Beverly Hills a week later, saw a Ralph store
I asked about those pants, showed a pic
They did not have that pair
One of a kind?
Directly teared and patched by the man himself?

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Street art, you love it or you hate it. Personally I hate it, and I mean hate. It's just glorified graffiti. I hate it because you're forced to look at it, you don't have a choice, it's right there in your face. That is why graffiti is banned in most places, no matter how good it is. Any place that allows this kind of trash on their buildings is unsophisticated and redneck.

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Leggings are not pants. Let's address that first and then I'll maybe worry about street art.

It's like---how does the one thing that's probably less flattering than actually being naked become so popular?

EDIT TO ADD: Okay, leggings are maybe better than the sweatpants with writing on the butt. I'm glad most people aren't doing that anymore. Let's hope it's all part of a progression to jeans becoming standard again.

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I suspect the pants with patches sell for a pretty penny.

Walking through Macy's I saw a pair of women's jeans with rips in both knees for sale for close to a hundred bucks.

Crazy.

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I loved Bakersfield a couple weeks ago
Checked out the Kern County Museum
Expected ho hum
Was actually blown away. This is a must see if into history and I'm into history
A small little town of about 50 historic houses and buildings relocated to the museum land
Absolutely loved it
On top of that
Merle Haggards boyhood home
WTF
WOW
Started out as a converted rail road car they built on to
I love Merle
Grateful Dead covered Mama Tried
What an unexpected find being a deadhead


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_County_Museum

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The most fascinating place I have ever visited that I never knew existed.
Slab city.
It's where freedom lives large.
The last free city in the USA. Was an old military base. They dismantled the base and all that was left were concrete slabs all over the place. 1st homeless vets moved in. Since then it has attracted all kinds. People that want to be off the grid, drug addicts, mental problems, drifters, retired, RVers, hippies, ect. In the summer just a few hundred. In the winter thousands. I checked out a few local businesses, Internet cafe, the ponderosa, the oasis and their concert venue the range. Saw a burned out camp, either an accident or slab city justice. Fascinating place. No services. Most use solar, have large water containers, burn trash and have outhouses or compost. Many different neighborhoods with their own rules.

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I suspect the pants with patches sell for a pretty penny.

Walking through Macy's I saw a pair of women's jeans with rips in both knees for sale for close to a hundred bucks.

Crazy.

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No fake adventures
Its all the real deal
And if somebody demands proof, its free free free
like the turbo tax commercial free free free

Just as I was fascinated by Slab City
Equally fascinated by nearby Bombay Beach and the Salton sea
Back in the early 1900's, water from the Colorado river was released into the desert creating a sea
It was stocked with fish that thrived and Bombay Beach became a huge resort town despite its days being numbered
No water source. No bottom feeders to help the ecology
It became saltier and dirtier from farm runoff as water evaporated and algae spread
Fish died, place stunk, resort abandoned
I walked the beach and drove around Bombay Beach
No way I was touching that disgusting sea water
Eventually this sea will dry up and all those chemicals in the sea will end up blowing in the dust becoming an ecological disaster

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Most moving and emotional moment during this road trip.
The OKC Bombing Memorial
Beautifully done
And on a nearby wall written

"Team 5
4-19-95
We search for the the truth
We seek justice
The courts require it
The victims cry for it
And God Demands It !"

Really powerful when you see it for yourself
You picture the day our heroes did their best to save children. You can just feel the emotion in the writing.

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I used to live there
I personally never saw a riot
I had a lot of great times in Baltimore
Loved Fells Point
Artscape festival
The best hospital on the planet, Johns Hopkins
Grew up in Baltimore having REAL adventures

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Just fyi, Mayo Clinic in Minnesota #1 in USA

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I agree it's not that safe
I made sure I went during the day
If I explored on foot, I made sure my truck was not far away.
What I really enjoyed was nearby Salvation mountain
It's a site to behold.
A technicolor mountain in a way
Pretty incredible site as a guy spent his life forming the Mt with Adobe and painting it in wild colors honoring god.
Certain slab city suburbs can be safe such as East Jesus but those residents let it be known they have guns and will use if necessary

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Terapined, this is a great thread am really enjoying it.
My first dead show was 1979 cape cod coliseum.
I have SiriusXM and as you are probably aware they have the dead channel so nonstop dead, it’s great.

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You need a traveling companion to pose in your pictures. Might I suggest a stuffed animal, maybe a dog. Pose him in your pictures so the unbelievers can tell it is you taking them and not just random shots of chips and watches, I mean nice locations, taken off the internet.

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Pose him in your pictures so the unbelievers can tell it is you taking them

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You need a traveling companion to pose in your pictures. Might I suggest a stuffed animal, maybe a dog. Pose him in your pictures so the unbelievers can tell it is you taking them and not just random shots of chips and watches, I mean nice locations, taken off the internet.
The real adventures of Terrapin Ed and Cassidy.

Since we seem to be keep score, my first Dead show was Englishtown, on Labor Day weekend, 1977
My last was Dead and Company at the MGM Arena the last time they played there( 2018?)

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<snip>... the dead channel so nonstop dead... <snip>

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I agree it's not that safe
I made sure I went during the day
If I explored on foot, I made sure my truck was not far away.
What I really enjoyed was nearby Salvation mountain
It's a site to behold.
A technicolor mountain in a way
Pretty incredible site as a guy spent his life forming the Mt with Adobe and painting it in wild colors honoring god.
Certain slab city suburbs can be safe such as East Jesus but those residents let it be known they have guns and will use if necessary

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Hunterhill,

Wouldn't "nonstop dead" just be zombies? ;-)

Dog Hand
!

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Thanks
I found boot hill fascinating
Most of the graves are marked and they give you a pamphlet about how each person died if known. I stopped at every single grave. Of course the cowboys graves from the shootout is prominently displayed.
Marshall Fred White who was killed by Curly Bill had quite a bit of money left on the grave for respect.
The whole shootout fascinates me.
The road the Earps and Doc walked down to confront the cowboys is public. Where the exact shooting took place, there is a wall splitting the historic shootout.
It was a local incident at the time.
2 newspapers
The Epitath and the Nugget taking opposing sides
Kind of like today's times.
Republican vs Dems. They used those party terms
Each side with their own newspapers
Country cowboy conservatives vs the town liberals
The shootout did not become famous till many years later when a Wyatt biography came out. It's actually hard to determine exactly what happened because the newspapers reported the trial from different angles depending on their readers, cowboys or townies

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Some of the purported graves in Boot Hill are not real. John Heath is a good example- He was the head honcho in a robbery gone bad known as the Bisbee Massacre. He was busted out of the Tombstone jail and lynched but not in Tombstone. Where he was lynched isn't very clear but his body was sent to his hometown in Texas where he got a hero's welcome.
So some of them are fake graves for real people buried elsewhere, some are real graves with the person actually in and a few are empty graves with picturesque gravestones meant to entertain tourists and expand the legend of the place.
Next week, I get my second dose of the vaccine and soon afterward I intend to haunt the shops of Tombstone and the surrounding area. I have a lot of day trips to make up for.

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Some of the purported graves in Boot Hill are not real. John Heath is a good example- He was the head honcho in a robbery gone bad known as the Bisbee Massacre. He was busted out of the Tombstone jail and lynched but not in Tombstone. Where he was lynched isn't very clear but his body was sent to his hometown in Texas where he got a hero's welcome.
So some of them are fake graves for real people buried elsewhere, some are real graves with the person actually in and a few are empty graves with picturesque gravestones meant to entertain tourists and expand the legend of the place.
Next week, I get my second dose of the vaccine and soon afterward I intend to haunt the shops of Tombstone and the surrounding area. I have a lot of day trips to make up for.

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Thanks for the history
I love accurate history
I figured that because although Tombstone was wealthy and unique
It probably didn't become a tourist attraction until well after its heyday and a lot of stuff like the graveyard probably deteriorated until fixed up for tourists