A few of the photos from wonderful FREE PDF book by photographer Richard Blair, Inverness, California:
Signs by Richard Blair (Click to view entire book.)
Kyle Thiermann interviewed me a month or so ago about geodesic domes. Kyle and I met each other through our mutual good friend Chris Ryan. (Both Kyle and Chris write on Substack, which I intend to do when I finish the book I’m working on now, Live from California.
I drive my old RV down Kahn’s dirt road and park outside his house. He purchased the lot in 1971 for six grand. He built his home with materials from a salvaged lumber from torn down Navy barracks at Treasure Island. Abalone shells decorate his yard and shimmer in the gray winter light. He greets me with a matter of fact “Hello,” then offers a calloused paw. Kahn has a white mustache, long white hair, and knife holstered at his hip. He looks a bit like an outdoorsy version of Albert Einstein. When I comment on the knife he leads into his toolshed, showing me how I can fashion a blade myself.
‘Do you want a skateboard?’ He offers, pointing to three that lay on the corner…
thiermann.substack.com/p/whatever-happened-to-geodesic-domes
1988 Mitsubishi Delica van of Sam and Raquel, who call themselves the YogaSlackers. They’ve done a lot of maintenance and building on the van and take major trips, one of them up to the Arctic Circle.
In our latest book Rolling Homes.
Note: See comments by YogaSlackers!
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Tags: adventures, campers, camping, DIY, exploring, home, nomad, nomadlife, off-road, on the road, rolling home, tiny homes on the move, tiny homes on wheels, vanlife, vans, vehicles About 10:30 last night, wind howling, rain pouring, I got suited up full Patagonia rain gear, sou’wester hat, put on head lamp and went down to beach and faced the storm.
Wind so strong, raindrops felt like bullets on my face. I experimented leaning into the wind; I could lean forward maybe 10-15 degrees and the wind held me up.
Waves were pounding and there was lots of surf froth, like whipped cream. Decided not to shoot pics since doing so would spoil the experience.
Back home to shot of whiskey and hot bath.
There’s so much you can do to boost chi by engaging the elements.
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LOGAN COUNTY, Okla. — A curiosity rises amid the wheat fields along rural Highway 33, which cuts through the town of Guthrie.
It’s an immense, circular building — about 15,000 square feet inside — with a domed roof topped by an ornate cupola and a copper eagle. Standing at 72 feet, it is visible for miles on the flat Oklahoma expanse.
Jay Branson is building it in his backyard. He calls it his round barn, but it’s more of a prairie cathedral.
He has been working on it for seven years. As he builds, strangers come. They pull off the highway, haul up his long driveway and stare.
Some, overcome by the beauty, have wept upon seeing the inside of the dome, with its ascending rings of interlocking diamonds and octagons that Jay cut by hand from poplar wood.
At the top is an oculus, a round opening in the roof, like in the Pantheon in Rome. When sunlight streams in, the effect is downright heavenly.
LA Times
BY HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS | STAFF WRITER
MARCH 9, 2023
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Hi Lloyd,
I wrote to you years ago about a Japanese inspired tiny house caboose that I was building. You encouraged me to send photos and you might post it. Well, the Tansu caboose has been done for a number of years and I am moving to Peru so she is up for sale. Would you consider putting on your site and social media? If so, it would be very much appreciated! I really want it to find the right home. I have poured my heart and soul into it and I want it to go to someone who knows what it is.
I have been a maker of fine bows for stringed instruments for 22 years. The Tansu caboose has been my home and bow shop since it’s launch. You can check out my work here.
www.robertmorrowbowmaker.com
I hope this note finds you well!
All the best,
Robert Morrow
360-301-2137
Here is the link for the sale listing:
seattle.craigslist.org/see/tro/d/quilcene-tiny-house-japanese-inspired/7584954611.html
The seller adds this request: “The asking price is $119,000 OBO. Please contact me only if you are a potential buyer. If you know that this caboose is out of your price range or if you simply are curious about the construction I would prefer that you not contact me.”
by Allegra Rosenberg
The only continent with no history of human habitation, the vast ice fields of Antarctica have formed a blank slate onto which humanity can project itself: all of itself, from the imperial superego to the conspiratorial id.
At the turn of the 20th century, Antarctica was still largely unknown. As Apsley Cherry-Garrard observed in the introduction to his classic book The Worst Journey in the World (1922): “Even now the Antarctic is to the rest of the earth as the Abode of the Gods was to the ancient Chaldees, a precipitous and mammoth land lying far beyond the seas which encircled man’s habitation.” But despite the hundred-plus years of exploration, habitation, and documentation since then, Antarctica remains utterly Other. It’s far away, it’s unlike anywhere else on the planet, and most people will never go there. They’ll only see pictures, and watch classic films like The Thing (01982) which project an image of peril and isolation onto the public consciousness.…
longnow.org/ideas/the-truth-about-antarctica
Unfortunately, it gets cut off before the end
But…
Willie Dixon on bass.
Gotta say, at least the way I feel now, is that this is my favorite album of all time.* Just heard it while driving along Highway One Tuesday night. A 3-mile slow run, along with a few shots of single malt earlier, then this playing while skirting the coast: a sweet spot in time.
The elegance of pure blues. The single notes, the timing, the structure, the simplicity, the adherence to formulas…
These concerts took place in Europe in 1963. Muddy Waters, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williams, Slim Harpo, Willy Dixon, Victoria Spivey…
I was an insurance broker in San Francisco then. I think if I’d heard this then, my life might’ve taken a different direction.
Great-grandfather Stuart Grant, 89, moved into the cottage he bought as a wreck with no roof and no doors in 1984, while he was renovating a house.
But he found it so satisfying doing DIY on the quirky outbuilding which dated back 200 years, that he decided to make it his home.…
From comment on blog by Anon, Feb 13, 2023
