Offered for 7 months: Full size bed
Pull out couch for additional guest bed
Wrap around window for great natural light
Full Original Kitchen in good condition
Brand new medium-sized electrical refrigerator
Heat and AC
BRAND NEW HARDWOOD FLOORS
Full bathroom with shower, toilet and sink
Tons of storage for clothes, food
The trailer is in perfect living condition and requires little to no maintenance
Emily – 415 994 9337
-From Abbey Phalen
Yesterday I drove to Petaluma to shoot photos at the Tin Can Tourist trailer rally. This is a group founded in 1919 and these days it’s all about vintage trailers. https://www.tincantourists.com/
I shot a bunch of homes in Petaluma and some farm buildings in the countryside, and also got photos of 3 trailers that will go in our Wheels & Water book. I’ll post some photos of Petaluma homes and countryside in the next few days.
I recently sent Kevin Kelly some info on going light and he replied:
“The premier site is Backpacking LIght, which is a paid subscription site! Backpackinglight.com
Also good is Brian Green’s. He is very creative.
https://www.briangreen.net/2012/09/roundup-of-my-posts-on-lifehackercom.html
But the granddaddy of ultralights is Ray Jardine. Look at his trips! Applachian Trail 7 times, Pacific Crest 3 times, Divide Trail, 3 ties, bike across America 3 times, row across ocean, ski to north pole, he’s insane. He makes his own gear super lightweight gear and recommends you do the same.
https://www.rayjardine.com/index.shtml”
Also, check out an excellent in-depth review of rental tools on Kevin’s Cool Tools site (stump grinder $100/day, posthole digger $80/day, log splitter $100/day, etc.): https://kk.org/cooltools/archives/7072
Holy smokes! I just looked at the lineup (San Francisco Golden Gate Park, Oct. 5-6-7, FREE): Doug Sahm, Boz Skaggs, Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Dwight Yoakam, Del McCrory, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Cowboy Junkies, lots of lesser-known but real bluegrass…
It’s going to be a crazy weekend in the city: Fleet Week, Giants playoffs, the America Cup, and the bluegrass festival. When I’ve gone to it, I’ve parked my truck out at the beach and taken my bike into the park. https://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/
Got up at 6 this morning, got to Limantour Beach around 7 and started the 2-mile beach trek to pick up my surfboard. For how it got there (I buried it in the sand 2 weeks ago), click here and here. I put my 2-wheel surfboard carrier in a backpack so I wouldn’t have to drag it after me. Here are pics of it. I had marked the spot in the lee of a north/south sand dune with 2 pieces of driftwood. Everythng was as I left it. 2 miles back to truck, enjoying many birds and a few sea lions in surf zone.
https://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Peanut+Butter/4bDmLY?src=5
They were known earlier as The Vibrations, earlier than that, the Jay Hawks. The same guys did The Watusi, Hang on Sloopy, and Stranded in the Jungle.
“It’s pretty rare for a psychologist to permanently change how we think about history, but Harvard’s Steven Pinker has done that with his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
The tragic view of history, he proves, is wrong; it has always been wrong.
A close examination of the data shows that in every millennium, century, and decade, humans have been drastically reducing violence, cruelty, and injustice—right down to the present year. A trend that consistent is not luck; it has to be structural.
Real ethical progress, Pinker found, has come from a sequence of institutions, norms, cultural practices, and mental tricks employed by whole societies to change their collective mind and behavior in a peaceful direction.
Humanity’s great project of civilizing itself is far from complete, but Pinker’s survey of how far we have come builds confidence that the task will be completed, and he illuminates how to get there.
“The Decline of Violence,” Steven Pinker, Herbst Theater, Civic Center, San Francisco, 7pm, Monday, October 8.” – Stewart Brand
•Larry’s on Windward, half-block from Venice Beach, 27 beers on tap, big sports TVs, good food.
•Restaurant Hama on Windward, 2 blocks from beach. Super sushi place, noted for very fresh fish.
•Poke-Poke,1827 Ocean-Front Walk, v. popular place Hawaiian rice/fish/wasabi etc.
•Reel Inn Fresh Fish Market & Restaurant, Hwy One near Topanga Canyon road. I mentioned this before, great seafood, draft beer, sit outside, surfer hangout.
At left: 2 fish tacos, shrimp cocktail, dark draft, $17 at Reel Inn
I flew to LA yesterday, the occasion being a film tonight about my college roommate, Richard Zanuck, who died unexpectedly a few months ago. It’s a documentary on him, titled “Don’t Say No Until I Finish Talking.” It was completed just before he passed away.
I’m staying in the Erwin Hotel in , Venice Beach, a Joie de Vivre hotel, a block from the beach and it’s warm, blue-sky LA beach weather. Totally.
I spent yesterday roaming the boardwalk with 2 cameras. It’s LA at its max. Performers, freaks, skaters, artists, babes, hunks, especially on a Sunday, it’s a dizzying array of let-it-all-hang-out SoCal. Click here for photo album from yesterday.
Going off for more than a day or two with all food, water, and shelter on yr. back is a big deal, at least for me. The very idea of being independent of cars, buildings, and people is exhilarating, but also serious. No backup. I learned a lot:
Go lighter. Here are a few lightweight items I learned about for this trip: clockwise from top left: Snowpeak titanium pot, nesting cup, 4″ x 5,” from REI; blue propane tank and Snowpeak Gigapower tiny stove – fits in white box, 1-1/2 x 2 x 3-1/2,” ignition starter; Thermarest Neolite Xlite mattress — ultralight, comfy (buy from Zappos); lower left, Solo Stove, wood burning survival stove, the alternative to gas or propane, boils water fast with twigs. Plus Kevin Kelly says he just discovered an ultrlight stand-alone tent, which he ‘s going to put on Cool Tools.
More water. A lot more. Plus, I think, electrolytes.
Go slower. Afterwards I realized I was going non-stop. Over 10 hours the 1st day. I need more down (explore) time.
Beach Camping has its own specific requirements. Tides, wind, scarcity of water
Future trips: Doing this opened up the world of walking cross-country to me. Soon I’ll go from my doorstep into San Francisco. Swim across Bolinas channel (this channel I can handle!), then to the Golden Gate Bridge completely on trails, no pavement. This’ll be a cinch after my trip. Maybe 6 hours. Another trip in future: hike the Lost Coast in Humboldt County…
