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Her name was actually Renee but I called her Pandora because of her Porche Boxster, we met, duelling on the freeway…just like a worm, parts in the middle are perfectly motionless while other bits accelerate …but the system is fantastic, freeways get you a long way, very quickly…just don’t miss your turn off…aarrgghhh…hours later… the striated concrete often runs askew to the lane markings, (the striations made by a roadworker with St Vitus’ Dance dragging a huge rake down the line of the freeway, roughly) and at high speed, and with constant buffeting, gusseting turbulence, hazardous!…but the signage is great, but sometimes disconcerting, a huge electronic sign on the freeway advises a child abduction and gives details of the car involved!…..but once off the main routes, the signage is often missing…..I did an 80 mile loop trying to follow a back road this morning!…

IT’S ALIVE!!….Opening up Pandora’s Boxster on the LA Freeway

Bill Shum
2006-08-21 17:04:36

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bikes and the kitchen sink…thru’ endless orange groves, they just go on forever, hayfields, equally to the horizon, and never a farmhouse, these are huge, mechanised, people-less environments, then fields with mobs of oil pumps pushing and pulling, copulating oil out of the depths, wind towers in amongst the orange trees,

Up into the mountains at last, off the dreaded ‘5’ onto backroad highways, fabulous curvery, this is as good as Mexico, maybe better as the corners are all perfectly engineered, high speed stuff, and the sequoias are pretty speccy, amongst all the greenery and brownery of the forest, these monsters stand out, lighter reddy-brown colour and big…and the smell, beautiful, overpowering, but most of them seem to have been lightning-blasted, few of them standing their true height, but maybe that’s the plan, even the little ones, the trunks rapidly narrow with height, and ‘the biggest tree in the world’ I’m curious, I thought the big one on the isla of arceholes in Chile that I saw with Raf was the biggest, and the tree in the zocola in Oaxaca is the world’s greatest bio-mass, the great white sperm whale of trees as it were…who knows, I’ve already writ about biggest, tallest, longest etc-ist…

And then Yosemite, another childhood memory, my uncle brought me a smoothed rock keychain about 50 years ago from here, and it is as spectacular as anywhere, truly awesome, and even more spectacular is the low-key development, I can’t believe it, very rustic, smalltime development, no chairlifts, franchised fast-food outlets, pretty pristine, mobs of bike people, backpackers and Japanese tourists, outstanding, astounding rock faces, waterfalls, you can hear the roar from way away, I was freezing my arse off, coming in over the pass at 5 or 6 thousand feet (calculator please Tensing) snow capped mountains again, oh no!…cloud over the wet, slippery road, vis down to 10 feet, “ICE on ROAD” signs out, ...