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A Bit of Nowtopia at Home

On my way north now, heading to Eugene, Portland and beyond during the next three weeks. Unfortunately, Russell H. and I are ensconced in a hotel in Yreka because the car we’re borrowing broke down. Hopefully it’ll be a minor repair and we can make it to Eugene in time for a bookstore appearance scheduled for tomorrow evening.

On the way here we passed Mt. Shasta and its lake created by a dam, which provided stark visual evidence of the proclaimed drought here in California. Usually the mountain is covered in deep snow year round…

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Al Mare (To the Sea)! (Rome Critical Mass part three)

Sunday we all gathered at the Pyramid again, hot sun beating down at midday.

By 12:30 or so we started rolling, a straight 25 kilometers south to the beach. It was by far their largest beach ride yet, apx. 1200 riders, and it slowed us down a lot as the front stopped quite often to keep us together. Again it involved stretches on the highway, much to the aggravation of beach goers in cars, halted behind our cheerful throng.

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t-shirt gallery from Rome Critical Mass weekend

I ran around snapping shots of t-shirts, trying to grab the breadth of things bicycle that were representing. The first batch went up in the post on Critical Mass on May 30.

The black t-shirt referring to $100 barrel oil, a celebration because the party is over, was done by the folks from Lyon, who held a short celebration on a freezing cold Jan. 5 08 at a long-abandoned gas station in Lyon, France.

Here also is a graffiti freshly painted along the freeway from the Cieemona ride: