Boy, I laid down for awhile but never went to sleep... which is okay, my Infantry feet were tired from doing so much stuff yesterday & today. When I went to scrounge firewood in the field yesterday, I met a really cool hand who also turned me on to some wood from his scrap pile. His home borders this large open area of brush, a wash, and whatnot... it's a huge dirt biking area a couple minutes from my house, LOL, complete with berms, jumps, the wash, and all kinds of brush, mesquite trees, etc. I've lived here since February of 2019 and I never even knew this riding area existed a few short blocks south of my home, on the other side of the hill... that's just crazy. Now I know where the local kids go riding, I see 'em on dirt bikes & quads in the 'hood.
Arizona has some heller offroading too, I mean some SE-WIOUS TRAILS & MOUNTAINS... hopefully I get back to work soon, repay my brothers for helping me out, then save up for a big ol' thumper that can handle the trails & washes. It's kinda cool, having all these different riding areas so close to my home, all these beautiful mountain ranges which surround me have fire roads and BLM roads and trails for riding, perfectly legal too... in Kalifornia, I had to drive for a while before I even hit the trailhead, dealing with Big City traffic. Ugh.... I don't miss that traffic at all, LOL. So even though there's no ocean, we have these fantastic outdoor adult playgrounds for riding, hiking, technical rock climbing, horseback riding, etc., and they're all CLOSE, like mere minutes away.
I reckon I'm thankful for this reality, and all the cool people who live here... unlike that hostile daily grind in Kalifornia, LOL. Road rage... there's something I haven't dealt with in a long time... every once in awhile I get some idiot tailgater a few inches off my rear bumper, but that's fairly rare, I figure those jackholes probably drove from Tucson or wherever. Plenty of bad drivers in Tucson, that burg only has half a million people, maybe a few more, but some of the drivers remind me of those Tijuaneros on the freeways in San Diego... downright dangerous, LOL. I'd call 'em the "blue plate specials" due to the light blue B.C. plates, for Baja California. Rolling wrecks, many of 'em, definitely NOT D.O.T.-approved, 10-4?
Meh, somebody has to drive those rigs... oh, yeah, that reminds me, I scratched the $h!t out of the paint on 'The Mighty Camry' yesterday, offroading down the wash in my search for firewood. The brush closed in here and there, and try as I would to avoid it, every so often I'd hear that lovely sound as sharp thorny branches scraped down the side of the car, LOL. One branch was loaded with dead flowers or whatever, and like a fool I still had my window open, jamming redneck tunes while tearing down this wash, right? Well, one branch was a little too close, I ducked my head toward the shotgun seat to avoid getting thrashed, but the branch dumped about 100 of those damned dried flowers INTO my car, LOL. So I have some vacuuming to do in the near future, also some paint buffing...
I don't even sweat paint damage to the Camry, the car will soon be 19 years old anyway, LOL. It does alright in the field, but it's not some lifted disco truck so I gotta watch the deeper ruts and "high center" hazards. My friend Paul (Pablo) in Coronado has a lifted disco truck, that thing can handle some serious offroading, and unlike most disco trucks, his actually sees dirt, LOL. He has the big ol' Monster Mudders too, tires with gnarly tread for the dirt, it's pretty fun to go cruising in the field with that truck. We've shared quite a few adventures over the decades, including remote camping and other cool activities. It's a party truck too, no shortage of beer & weed in that rig, LOL. I keep telling him to get out here so we can thrash around in these mountain ranges, there are primo trails here and I know he'd dig 'em.
Well, that's enough reminiscing for one day, this certainly has been a cool weekend, even though my feet are still tired, LOL. At least I have PLENTY of gourmet grinds in the fridge, no shortage of that either, and there's also plenty o' beer, including some Elysian Space Dust IPA which doesn't suck. I'm just going easy right now, having a Coors to keep things light... but that Elysian brew is in there, along with some Kilt Lifter. That Elysian outfit also brews that 'DayGlow IPA' number with the tiger on the label, and THAT is some good beer, LOL. I drank a truckload of Elysian beers while camping for six weeks in the PNW, surrounded by 300' Sitka Spruce trees and a beautiful view of Willapa Bay & the Pacific Ocean. That reminds me, I gotta call that computer guy manana and see if he has salvaged my PNW pics, those are some really cool pics of the forest & bay & ocean, LOL. Okay, time to cut on the bar light... might be a shot of rum in the offing later, maybe some rum & eggnog. Cheers!!!
P.S. Bonus shot of moonrise this evening as seen from my front yard...
