The west finally got me with its beauty, so out came the camera. I am in Las Vegas at a lovely 102* in the sunshine, perhaps the spirit o'Phil is at least partially responsible for the absolutely trouble-free couple of thousand miles over the past couple of days, but this car has not skipped a beat since Traverse City Michigan. Tonight, I tune the piano in the fiendishly hot trailer in Pahrump and try to compose a piece. Tall order too, Phil loved disarmingly simple but devilishly difficult Chopin Polonaise pieces and of course the untouchable Rachmaninoff concerti. To play my dad's piano to remember Phil by. . . music can do that.
A Metaphorical View of My Life Currently:
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Like some fossil, I discovered this:
While finding a vantage point to shoot this:
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Then I drove down the road to see this, the sort of beauty that says It Is What It Is:
I tried to get an old Kodachrome deterioration look in my editing program to make this shot look old somehow:
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Then I scored my new travel trailer in the middle of Nowhere:
A little hard on the clutch. . . :
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Found this wreck of an old air-cooled diesel. . . :
. . . that used a Knecht fuel filter:
. . . and a dead ringer for a Porsche 911 cooling fan:
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And I am missing this guy, the links I have been getting from friends and family to all the car mag articles and blogs just keep it ripped open :
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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles