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Old 11-21-2012, 07:43 PM   #61
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It's always nice when someone experienced takes the time to explain how to do things without being a jerk isn't it, FaN?

Hats off to that trucker!
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One of my favourite movies. Numerous scenes were shot right here on Vancouver Island.

That scene above was at the old "RED ROOSTER CAFÉ" located at the Crofton intersection on the TCH #1.
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The original building has been demolished and replaced with a new facility about 8 yrs ago, but still is the home to the 'RED ROOSTER CAFÉ'. A must stop for basic home cooked meals with home made deserts.

MGW and I were there for supper just recently (Nov.8th) for our 43rd anniversary. (I'm a big spender and I wanted nothing but the best for her! )

The final scenes shows the original 'RED ROOSTER CAFÉ' in the background as his vehicle is being fueled at the pump of the GULF OIL station.

The final scene shows the logging truck pulling out with a load of Copper Canyon timber. (going someplace that's far away and cold????)



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"The Breakfast Show" likes to stop at the mom and pop cafés which are becoming part of the vanishing landscape.
These are the cafés and diners I remember from childhood.
Hey Jack! They also had no problem with those "side orders of toast"....
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It's always nice when someone experienced takes the time to explain how to do things without being a jerk isn't it, FaN?

Hats off to that trucker!
10-4 on that, Aagae!
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massey, I did not know that. I thought the diner scene was filmed at another non-descript Denny's somewhere in the PNW.

Amazing - since B.C. was not the Hollywood North of today.

In "About Schmidt" the Jack Nicholson character (Warner Schmidt) does a parody of the famous diner scene from Five Easy Pieces. Unfortunately, it didn't make the final cut, but is worth a look. (It's in the Special Features - Deleted Scenes part of the DVD):

A scene that echoes Jack Nicholson's famous diner scene in Five Easy Pieces (his exchange with the waitress) was in an early cut of the movie in which Schmidt concedes in a cowardly fashion to the dictates of the waitress. Though the preview audience went wild over it, director Alexander Payne cut it from the final film because he felt that the scene was too much of a pointed reference to Nicholson's iconography and that something so referential took the audience out of the film.
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Fear and Loathing in Seattle

We were somewhere around Everett, on the edge of the city, when the antiseptic mouth wash began to take hold.

If that sounds vaguely familiar, it is a paraphrase of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

We didn’t quite make Vegas, but after parking the Airstream at the trailer park with the neon sign that’s missing some letters – Love’s Trailer Park is now “Love________ ark” - the apparition and I decided to make a stab at fearlessness without the loathing. We went looking for non-conformity.

Heading furiously down the I-5 Express Lane, we rested at the EMP (Experience Music Project.) EMP is the brainchild of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who wanted the building to resemble a smashed guitar. Maybe it was the mouth wash again because I thought it resembled some kind of weird sea creature who crawled into Seattle and died after its amorosity was rejected by the Space Needle.

Love stinks. Be afraid. Very afraid.

Speaking of smashed guitars, the Hendrix exhibit features a few. It was an "experience" -- a tribute to one of the artists who helped define the decade. What I found especially mesmerizing was the "Sky Church," a colossal amphitheater. The apparition had to hold me down when I tried to climb a light tower while shouting...'scuse me while I kiss the sky.

We were then escorted out of the building by security.

And we were scared. Very scared.

The apparition then guided us into another place of potential enlightenment. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson was playing at the multiplex. It was a documentary on the life of the famous writer who downed his work with a gin and vodka chaser. Still, his groupies claim Thompson was the man who said he was the second coming of Twain, a writer who changed the face of journalism.

Eventually, Thompson became a prisoner of his persona - more famous for the wackiness of character than his stories. Unfortunately, this was too much for Thompson to bear. In 2005, he blew his brains out on his Colorado retreat.

“If you had the talent of Thompson, would you also try to change the face of journalism” asked the apparition?

“No. I don’t think I would” I replied bleakly. "I think I would find it too frightening."

Returning home to the Love________ ark was relatively uneventful. Tired and burned-out, we marched side-by-side into the Airstream. We were done with finding that fearless non-conformity.


We did not have to go looking for any loathing.

It had always been there.
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"On the Driveway"

The FaN is winterized and parked (like the driver). The upswing (or downswing - lol!) is the fact this is when the FaN's driver spews most of the muse. I am also taking some time off work, so can get myself into all sorts of trouble now.

While "On the Road" is devoted to those literal transpositions, my feeling is this: you can venture down the road of adventure and enlightenment without any apparent motion. I can take you anywhere you want - if you are willing to go along for the ride......


So, I would like to embark upon something over the winter - a series of writings in this thread entitled "On the Driveway."

If the mods don't think this is the appropriate context, please let me know.

I just like to share what I write.
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Old 12-21-2012, 05:39 PM   #67
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On the Driveway #1 - The End of the World?

Since it's supposed to be all over sometime today, I am holed-up in the FaN because I want to get my money's worth out of this darn trailer, down to the last nanosecond. It's not so bad. I've stocked up with all my favourite fattening food (Wheeeeee! - what does it matter now?) and Turner Classic Movies are playing doomsday films like there's no tomorrow.

My favourite so far is Panic in the Year Zero (1962). It's got to be the only end-of-the-world movie involving trailerites. The film is about a family named the Baldwins or "Our first nuclear family" as one critic wrote, who are enroute to their favourite camping spot when the atomic bombs start dropping, destroying all the major cities in N. America. Darn Ruskies - but we got 'em good too.

The Baldwins are not towing an Airstream with their 1962 Mercury Monterey, darnitt all, but their 17 1/2' Kenskill isn't bad for a SWB. There are many scenes of it bobbing happily along. If you tuned in late, you'd think you were watching a vintage trailer commercial. See America, the Kenskill way!

However, things soon start to get messy. Long road trips do that to people -- hey, wait -- isn't this about surviving a nuclear war? We soon see the squeaky-clean Baldwins arming themselves and heading to the line-ups for food and gas. Ninety dollars to fill up the tank fumes Mr. Baldwin Sr. That's ridiculous! (Hey guy, have we got a surprise for you.)

The Baldwins finally arrive at their campsite and do what every good trailerite does. Unload the trailer, light a fire, and start cooking the meal. There's nothing like eating under an open sky.....even if it is radioactive.

Frankie Avalon as the Baldwin son, Rick, provides the perfect h*rny teenager moment. He stumbles across a rather attractive girl who coos "Give me a gun" and is quite opposed to sending her back to her family. After all, someone has to start repopulating the earth, right dad?

Panic in the Year Zero isn't very good, but it isn't accidentally weird enough to be true camp - as in over-the-top cliche. Considering its release date, the same year as the October crisis with Cuba, people were pretty spooked about this kind of stuff.

The entire film is on YTube - here's the trailer....and trailer....ha!


The day is almost over - another seven hours is left. Time for another eggnog and mince tart. Not a bad last day, actually.

When's the next one?
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Is Europe still there ?????? If it is I guess we're OK

I guess there WiLL be a TOMORROW. Welcome to the NEW MAYAN ERA
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Didn't HL Mencken say there are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones......
and those who stayed behind.

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On the Driveway #2

Typical Breakfast Show fare: Rice Krispie treat in a cone.

Snap! Crackle! Pop! She's psychotic. And has too much time on her hands at present.....

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On the Driveway #3 or We May be Parked, but We're Still Looking at the Stars!

I think Airstreamers and astronauts share the same common denominator: adventure and exploration.

My current reading bent - the lunar astronauts - is a natural meld. Leon Wagener's "One Giant Leap - Neil Armstrong's Stellar American Journey" was an orb of reading pleasure in the midst of one blank, moonless week. While Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins penned their autobiographies years ago - Armstrong preferred a less-visible presence after the heralding of the century’s signature event - right until his death in 2012.

Armstrong's occasional references were often rift with diffidence and surrealism: "As for walking on the moon, sometimes I wonder if that really happened. I can honestly say - and it’s a great surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.” Armstrong preferred to be defined as a husband, father and friend instead of the first man on the moon. He chose his friends who saw him as a person above and beyond his long-ago deed, as if nothing else mattered. Such down-to-earth humility is rare in light of Armstrong’s accomplishments, not only as an astronaut, but as a scholar and accomplished aviator years earlier.

Still, as his friends would often observe, Armstrong shared a mystical bond with that dead rock in the sky he once visited. As one of his closest friends recollected,“Neil and I were laying a round of golf, and he was having a lousy day. Every shot seemed to go wrong for him; he was quietly suffering a very frustrating afternoon. We got to the toughest hole on the course, a long par five, and it didn’t look good; odds were his game was going to get even worse. Then a very peculiar thng happened. It was a crisp, cold afternoon in late October, and all of a sudden the moon rose in the eastern sky, straight ahead of us. It wa a startling sight, a big orange harvest moon; it seemed close enough to touch. Neil went for a four-wood and hit one of the longest straightest drives any of us had seen in a very long time. Appropriately, he sunk an eagle.

No one said a word about it; there was nothing to say.”

Except maybe...moonstruck?

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"Except maybe...moonstruck?"

Nicely put, FaN!

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Glad you liked it, JDS. When you truly enjoy a book, it's easy to write a good review.

The review I penned on amazon about Buzz Aldrin's memoir, Magnificent Desolation - The Long Journey Home From the Moon, was not so kind....oops!.....

Magnificent Bore!

While the first chapters to the moon and back were a good read, it's all space junk from there.

Buzz's prattling about his pop-culture status, his perky wife, her hair colour, and how she sounds like everyone's mother on those mornings when we'd just like to pull the covers over our head - "Buzz Aldrin, you get out of that bed this instant!" - was this written during a full moon?

Mrs. Aldrin, next time Buzz wants to jump out of bed with memoir-writing on his mind, will you please just keep him there?
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But didn't Aldrin have some emotional problems? I seem to recall his being treated for depression or something. That made him seem more human to me, made him more interesting.

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Yes, he did. Which he reiterated in his first memoir, Reaching for the Moon. It is a better read, and I truly respect him for coming forward in that respect. There is a myth that "great American heroes" are not supposed to show their vulnerabilities. Buzz Aldrin broke through that barrier, and no doubt encouraged others to do so.

However, that interesting human side was sacrificed to celebrity and opportunism via Magnificent Desolation or "The Ego Has Landed" as another reviewer put it.
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Baby It's Cold Outside -4C

Was wondering why I couldn't get a drink out of my bedside water bottle when I awoke. Upon further inspection - it was frozen solid.

I slept like the proverbial log with just the mattress heater and the small electric heater in the FaN kitchen going. The bedroom does get rather cold (obviously) but it didn't bother me. However, the dog crawled underneath the covers and I had to literally push her out to do her "business" in the early a.m. (BTW, why dog owners call it doing their "business" like they have a licence to practice law?)

Anyway, maybe I will turn the furnance on tonight - even if I hate spending money on propane. Yeah, I have been told I can squeeze a nickel until the beaver screams, but I really didn't find it that bad. However, this may explain the scarcity of winter visitors.

"At least there will be plenty implied - if you caught pneumonia and died. Baby, it's cold outside."
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It is 80 here today. I suppose i will skip "winterizing"....whatever that means
Isnt there a "deicing" procedure/ checklist for the FAN?
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Isnt there a "deicing" procedure/ checklist for the FAN?
Ha! Ha! and no. I was only sleeping there - not flying it.

You might want to direct that question to these Aeroflot pilots. Yikes!

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You just have to buy a motor home FLY. They are sooo much more comfortable. Look at this small one, it even has the full bath and fireplace.

And you would like the colours throughout.

There would never be any frozen drinks in this one.

I just can't imagine myself camping with four females.

Sorry about the language, but it was all I could find.

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So, did you get a chance to look at this motorhome FLY? It has all the latest features. I think you would have trouble saying no to this 'living in luxury' camping.

Aerodynamic body contours, excellent visibility, roof mounted canopies, hot colours, docking lamps, projector headlamps, colour coordinated mirrors, 3 door person access, FRED chassis, roomy inside, four bicycle storage, big screen, seat belts and sleeping for four, nice kitchen, hot tub and disappearing couch that rotates into the cavity when the hot tub is setup. LED lighting throughout coach with plenty of reserve battery capacity for those remote boon dock sites.

This unit also has that new feature we have suggested for the new AIRSTREAM CLASS A, a pop up roof access with double deck hammock spar for sleeping in the great outdoors.

If I ever want to downsize from my CLIPPER, this is the one I want.

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