“On the final day of September 2007, I left Jasper Alberta Canada without any agenda, plans or time. Living simply from my passion of photography and writing, living a freedom life while riding my Suzuki DR 350 motorcycle in search of rock climbing, surfing and experiencing different cultures along the way.
Now nearly 100 000 km, 19 countries and 4 years later… I continue to ride the dream… north from South America.
You can follow my stories and collection of images through my blog.
-Alain Dennis”
https://ridingthedream.blogspot.com/
Photo by Bob Marlow
From here.
Can we talk music? Rolling north on Wednesday, I got to Jenner where the road climbs so you see a big expanse of ocean. Sunny on the road, with a bank of fog just offshore. Nice light. When things are right, on the road, and the music’s good, I pretend I’m a camera, filming the landscape with songs a la serendipity.
Here’s what the Garage station on Sirius played:
-On the album Elvis Live in Memphis, “Trying To Get To You,” a lovely version, Elvis strong in voice, the band great, the crowd screaming. I suspect this is a great album.
-The Ramones, “It’s Gonna Be All Right.” Remind you what rock n roll is all about.
-Arthur Conley, “Sweet Soul Music.” Written by Arthur and Otis Redding, I always thought this was Otis singing. This led me today to Same and Dave, James Brown, and Gladiators (reggae) versions of this great song.
-Herman’s Hermits doing “Jezebel.”
Really.
After doing the symposium at the Art Institute (Wednesday, 3/13), I took off for points north. I haven’t been up to my pal Louie’s for some time, but now with shouder recovered (partly) and new Honda Fit, I headed up Hwy. 101, then cut across to the Russian River, to Jenner, and up the coast. This vehicle is a wonder. Drives like a dream; nimble. Even good on country roads. And it’s like a clown car; you can get amazing amount of stuff in it. (You’re just going to have to bear with me when I rave about this car.)
Now the next part of this story is for country people, OK?
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Hi Lloyd,
Love your blog. This guy has been living in the Five Cities area on the Central Coast of California for the last year or so in this setup. Often parks at the beach. Here he is yesterday cruising across the border of Arroyo Grande and Grover “City” Beach at Grand and Oak Park Blvd. Really well built structure atop
1980s volvo. Haven’t seen smoke from that chimney yet but…if its black we’ve got ourselves a new Pope, if white not? I dunno.
Best to you,
Matthew Eames
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Photos of 5 Minicars“:
“My favorite is the ‘Renault 4 CV’.’ My parents bought a secondhand model with their savings in 1960 – our first car – unfortunately, they didn’t have enough money to pay an insurance policy and the car remained unused for some months… my sister and I spent hours in it, playing imaginery drivers & travellers !
the 4 CV was the first popular post-war car – very tiny but we loved it. When we left for holidays, it was crammed full – a funny and exciting expedition.
Steven Weinberg travels all around the world with his vintage Renault 4 CV (a new adventure is coming soon).
Pictures of his travel in USA here.”
Hey lloyd
Was going surfing Last weekend and I pull up to my usual lookout spot and low and behold parked right there was this crazy truck/rv thing and could tell by the style who build the thing. Thought u might enjoy the pics.
Taylor (Goates)
(This is Jay Nelson’s latest vehicle. Several of his creations were featured in Tiny Homes.)
Several times, when I was maybe 11, my grandmother took me on what she called a toot. No, not that kind of toot. We’d take a streetcar down to Market Street (San Francisco), walk up and down past the movie houses,and then go to two movies, one after the other. A toot.
Thursday, my friend Louie and I went on a toot in San Francisco. Two old guys– 78 and 84 — country boys at that, in the Big City. I can’t believe Louie’s that old. He lives farther back in the country than I do, so the sights of the big city are a treat for him.
We went in early in the morning, first to Trouble Coffee, out by the beach. I showed Louie the v. cool restaurant Outerlands, just up the block from Trouble. Then we walked — sunny bright morning — over to Mollusc Surf Shop on Irving, a great place — surfboards, fine selection of books, wetsuits, surf clothes, then checked out the Cajun Pacific Cafe, with its colorful mural; unique restaurant. Then down to the big Flax art store on Market.
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From David Shipway. Great fun browsing around in the ’30s on this link: here.
Just ran across this post the other day when I did a search on my blog for “log cabins.” I feel like the most vital posts I do are when I’m out on the road. I love shooting photos, then posting from an internet cafe. Fun! This was during a 6-week trip to Costa Rica and Panama a few years ago.
https://www.lloydkahn.com/2009/03/02/barbecue-beef-and-coconut-milk-in_01/
Here are a bunch of other posts from the trip:
https://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
“On the final day of September 2007, I left Jasper Alberta Canada without any agenda, plans or time. Living simply from my passion of photography and writing, living a freedom life while riding my Suzuki DR 350 motorcycle in search of rock climbing, surfing and experiencing different cultures along the way.
