I was walking down the sidewalk in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, in the morning (Sept. 23), and this guy came across the street, singing to his little girl (see her peeking through the window here). The Mini was his and I asked him about it (we have a Mini Cooper these days, and I used to rent these wonderful little cars in England and Ireland in the ’70s). He said they made Minis up until 2001 (!) and you can tell the last production runs from the silver stripes.

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It was a thrill to see this replica of Francis Drake’s flagship in London (docked in St Mary Overie Dock near the

Tate Modern Museum), to think that this little ship circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580 (and sailed right by our home town in Northern California). These sailors/navigators/priates not only sailed the world, but pillaged other ships, with no motors, just the wind.

What a beauty!

-Photo by Bill Steen. Posted August 29, 2009 on: https://www.caneloproject.blogspot.com/

When I drove up Highway One Wednesday to see my friend Louie in Mendocino county, I stopped for coffee at a cafe in Bodega Bay. I saw this truck with poisonality and when I went into the cafe, I asked the young guy sitting there if it was his. Yes it was. He was Stuart Brown, and he had replaced the independent front suspension with a straight axle and was welding bars on it (more to come) so it could bounce of things out in the woods. We hit it off and it turned out he knew who I was and had a copy of Builders of the Pacific Coast. It’s wonderful to be running into these 20-30-year-olds these days who are into the same things we were 40 years ago (and still are).