Great selection of models here from Flying Tortoise Blog

A few pics from yesterday. Photogenic redwood by roadside. A little farther up the road, I saw a bunch of what looked like green leaves under a pine tree. Getting closer, they were wings (believe that’s the right word) of a pine cone, and lo, they were sailing down from the tree. Aha!  Stopped under the tree, looked up and here was a bushy grey squirrel at work, getting pine nuts and jettisoning the wings.

   I’ve been admiring this beautiful field of artichokes for a while. Creek bottom soil.

Feels so good to be mobile again.

Our new book Tiny Homes On the Move is popping right now. It’s about 80% together. Lots of great last-minute material. I love watching it come together. Like sailing in unknown waters. We never know what form it will take until the parts are all assembled. Exciting to see a book getting born.

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Aviation pioneer Glen Curtis built the first 5th wheel – the Aerocar – for camping around 1929.”

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“Washington, D.C., or vicinity circa 1920. “Family in auto tourist camp.” A novelty that would evolve into tourist cabins of the 1920s and ’30s, the motor courts of the ’40s and ’50s and culminate in the motor hotel, or ‘motel.'”

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Photographer Cliff Volpe sent us this info about Primitive Living Skills gatherings and some “stone age” projects Cliff may do next summer:

PRIMITIVE LIVING SKILLS GATHERINGS

These are week long events where instructors teach a variety of classes that focus on primitive technology, hunter-gather culture, and ancient ways. There are usually a very wide range of classes taught…from the more spiritual inclined to skills focused…such as primitive archery, atlatl manufacture, shelter building, wild edible plants, brain tanned buckskin, basket weaving, footwear/moccasins, felting, roadkill animal processing, diaper-less baby rearing, flint knapping, animal tracking, friction fire, primitive pottery, etc. Here’s a list of primitive living skills gatherings that happen on the west coast:

BUCKEYE GATHERING
https://buckeyegathering.net/

Summary: Held in May in California, about 500 people attend, I’ve never been but have heard great things about it. Registration filled up early last year.

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