Summer traveling :)
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
Jun 22, 2021, 9:10 AM (1 day ago)
to Alden, Kate, Craig, George, Nancy, Ann, Em4ofa@aol.com, Taylor, Jim, Ken, Alex, Caleb, David, Byron, Bruce, Guillemette, Cathy, Henry, Claudia, Susan, Marc, edsmythmd, Elliott, Guillaume, Mike, Nancy, Annelise, Francoise, Jerry, Hugh, Heather, Ian, Jean, Prasanth, Mainak, Peter, Larry, Claire, Richard, Roland, Scott, Nanette, Scott, Scott, Joan, John, Jane, Henry, Sandy, Mark, Tym, Pin, Ed, Larry, lillianbthomas, Susan, Matt, Peggy, Sarah, Barbara, Patti, Jim, Hank, Greg, Gabrielle, Christine, Katie, Alastair, bcc: David
Ma, Sandy, Tym, All, ...
Some journeying jots, or voyaging vignettes -
Tu June 22, 2021
Hi Ma,
Nice to talk with you yesterday. Camping out on 'top of the world' at the entrance to the
Wick/Beumee
Wildlife area in Wyoming, near the Wagonhound rest area.
Yet I moved apart from the little temporary truckers' village there, not parking in its active parking light full of car headlights, yet also on a beautiful high place with views all round under amazingly vast sky - on the natural side of things.
I 'stay connected' communicating with you. Thank you, Ma! (Find similar in a life partner and beginning a family of 3, too?).
I like a softboiled egg these days for breakfast, - and without anything else to seek to keep weight down too. I also like great vegetarian food and seek to eat 10-15 vegetables, fruits, grains and legumes in a day ... Yummy multi-grain brain, imaginative salads?
Slept better last night, than night before, and even left the back hatch open early this morning which slight more length to stretch out in my sleeping bag didn't lead somehow to torquing a knee.
The adventure of a 5 day cross-country trip opens all kinds of horizons and possibilities compared with flying. Am liking it much again, and waiting on the self-driving autonomous vehicle van with a shower a d toilet, accessible from in the van, in a Toyoto Proace or possibly Sprinter Mercedes Van with 50 mpg energy efficiency:) .. so I wouldn't even have to stop to sleep since I could sleep in van as it self-drove. :)
... https://youtu.be/0tp_2Qf3U7o ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/patagonian-cypress-fitzroya-pulling_12.html?m=0
See you soon.
Love, Scott
M, June 21, 2021
Laramie, WY, in the snowstorm in 1981??
Hi Nancy and Riely, (Shady Side Academy friend, Nancy, - and both Reed College friends, :) and 1st semester roommate, Riely),
Just coming into Laramie Wyoming, on I-80, am exhausted and am driving across the country again for the adventure - BUT AM NOT IN A SnOWSTORM like in 1981 or so with you two. Where was that hotel in Laramie where we holed up in that storm ? It was right on the main street I think too and possibly close to the Historic district.
Am at the beautiful on top of the world Wagonhound rest area
Here's a Historic district pic -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramie,_Wyoming
And Laramie was both a "former “hell-on-wheels” town" AND. the “Gem City of the Plains” ... https://www.visitlaramie.org/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/historic-downtown/
Laramie, WY, in the snowstorm in 1981??
Warm regards, and greetings from on the road :)
Scott
6/21/21 further
Jottings -
After car-camping in Nevada,
at 10:17a I entered Utah MST (which is 9:17 SF Bay Area time)
& at 2:27p MST I entered Wyoming
Many 80 mph highways in these big western states
...very beautiful states too, with a lot of small western American cities, which are not 'liberal coastal,' - https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-liberal-states - but this isn't the 1860s' west either ... since this west I'm seeing seems pretty well developed infrastructure-wise now, - and there's air conditioning too, for ex., at least along I-80.
1day 2hours to Pgh ... Google Maps said -
And I could be there tomorrow evening in 1764 miles, if I didn't have to sleep, and didn't get tired ... so three 8 hour driving days ahead, and glad to be exploring along the way ...
But in autonomous or self driving vehicles ? Waymo ...
https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1402407530207367168?s=19
Shower-lavatory conversion kit doesn't yet seem to exist for Toyota Proace or Sprinter Mercedes Vans ... Where has all the creativity in creating colorful vehicles from the 1960s gone?
Further 'interesting''cultural' insights, eg to (cousin in Lakeville CT) Kate Briscoe from Wells Nevada -
"Some snow on the distant my Mountains from Wells, Nevada, 107F was the hottest temp I saw yesterday in car thermometer, 2022 miles to Pgh, which is 30 hours driving time. Saw and walked on an interesting urban waterway part of Elko Nevada
Humbolt Area River Project on AllTrails
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/nevada/humbolt-area-river-project
thanks to AllTrails App :)
There was also a white guy a
Before 7am in Elko on wheely-style bicycle, white t-shirt with no sleeves, shorts, shaven head, back to me, almost Gollum like (Tolkien) in the way his body was curled, smoking a cigarette, talking to Latino man sitting in a slightly souped up blue car, with I think his girlfriend next to him. Speculatively, Would this Elko-guy end up working in a local machine shop the rest of his life, having grown up in a difficult family? Good to see these folks talking together at before 7am in the morning, hanging out, in early summer time.
Wishing self driving vehicles were already common on open western highways - and since I have GOOGLE Maps running a the time ... Would be so efficient, and time-saving too, not having to stop to sleep ...
Three 8 hour days of driving ahead to Pgh, with lots of exploring around the edges ... Here first thing, for a look ... Rock Creek Trail on AllTrails
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/wyoming/rock-creek-trail--2 ? (Can you view the 'share' photos? :)
! #Longevity - greater than 122 years old? (upper human limit, documented) - #CalorieRestriction is only proven way to extend life 10-15%, across species https://t.co/hq6ACvXOm2 What abt #WUaSagingReversal #AgingReversal per @geochurch? https://t.co/dRISYwajP4 @WorldUnivAndSch ~
AAAB
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1407056755985633289?s=19
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1407056167755554818?s=19
And I found another Harvard article with evidence for extending life in all species 10-15% via calories restriction
AUGUST 2, 2020
BLOG
Can Calorie Restriction Extend Your Lifespan?
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/can-calorie-restriction-extend-your-lifespan/
which I'm adding here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity ... to the Longevity wiki subject for open teaching and learning at the free open MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch.
Warmly,
Scott
Agenda for 6/19/21 Monthly Business Meeting
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/yellow-billed-stork.html?m=0
Recording of 6/19/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/eastern-shooting-star-recording-of.html?m=0
Some of this here (?) Further -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/mojave-desert-tortoise.html?m=0
PS
Kate
(Also to Kate Briscoe in Lakeville CT)
Came across these the other day too, -
about a favorite, imaginary, visionary, smart, make the world a better, place 1st cousin once removed John Briscoe (my mother's first cousin) - and who also was a 60s freedom grower (and Wesleyan alum+) and his amazing parents too ...
John A. Briscoe
India Returned Peace Corps Volunteers 1961-1976
In Fond Remembrance of John Briscoe, India 3 (1963-1965) -
December 15, 2013 at 09:41PM
John A. Briscoe, aide to Pa. congressman and nonprofit director, dies at 76
By — Martin Weil January 17, 2014
John D Briscoe
John Briscoe, Dairy Farmer And English Instructor, 72
Oct. 15, 1975
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/15/archives/john-briscoe-dairy-farmer-and-english-instructor-72.html
John Briscoe
(1902 - 1975)
https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/john-briscoe-birth-1902-death-1975/7858777
M. BRISCOE, ACTIVIST, DIES AT 89
DONNA E. PLOSS; Courant Staff Writer
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Jan 29, 1999
Martha Brown Briscoe of Salisbury, a former University of Connecticut board member and a longtime political and environmental activist, died Wednesday at home. She was 89.
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Hi Ma, yes, pretty good night's sleep from 10-6 pretty soundly, although I do better still if I sleep to 7.
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