Needs an AMA imo.
It’s tough to switch from work mode to write creative good book not come out like crap mode. Words very awkward, sound like 4th grade book report by D student. Brain hurt.
Like this is the utter crap that my brain wants to spit out right now:
Finally in 1734 the Jesuits established a mission at the present site of La Paz. From that mission they established a chain of missions which eventually extended from the southern tip of the peninsula all the way to present day Mendocino - north of San Francisco. Camino Real (the royal road) connected these missions and established trading routes along the West coast of present day Mexico and the US. Eventually, as the US came into existence, the entire region came to be split into two entities - Baja (lower) California and Alta (upper) California. Alta California eventually become the US state of California. Baja California remained Baja California and in some sense remained stuck in time while it’s sibling to the north underwent breakneck change and development.
Let’s have more horrible passive construction, repetition and awkward transitions! Yay! The only thing it’s missing are the words ‘amazing’ and ‘incredible’ a bunch of times.
I just have to push through it and eventually in an hour or two I warm up and starting writing more gooder. But this part is very painful.
How come I can still write this post in my normal voice, but when I try to summarize Baja history it comes out like utter garbage?
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Just imagine the entire travelogue-buying public naked.
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I had been in a car accident and lost my job b/c I wasn’t able to work for over a year. So I rented an RV for something like $300 a month. It was on the landlord’s property. It was a 5th Wheel RV. I’m pretty tall so the smallest I would get for me would be a Class C but I’d get Class A if I could afford it. If you can afford Class A, you can tow your car and use it locally. But the good Class A’s are like $2 million now LOL.
You can always stay in state or national parks. Not sure about state parks but I know with national parks you can only stay in one place for 2 weeks. I know people who will stay in a park for 2 weeks, spend a few days on the road and drive to the next park for 2 weeks. But if you stay in an RV park, they will charge you rent and the nice places are like $500/month.
On the West Coast (and near Las Vegas) you can stay on BLM or some National Forest land for free for 14 days and then you have to move at least 25 miles to another spot. There are a lot of places where there is no enforcement though and your 14 day clock may never start or may start the first time you encounter a ranger. There are long term stay places (LTVA) where you can pay $180 for the whole season from Sept. 15th through April 15th.
A lot of casinos let people stay for free for a certain amount of time.
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I do have a Cousin Eddie story to tell that puts Vacation to shame.
I had been living in the RV for a couple of weeks and the toilet tank got clogged up. Turns out the guy that was renting the RV before me was some meth head and hated my landlord. So he dumped a bunch of sticks and leaves down the toilet so it would get clogged up before he moved out. So my landlord had to call someone in to fix the toilet tank. The RV was parked about 300 feet from his house and he told me if I needed to use the bathroom to just come to the house and use his.
One night I wake up at like 3 in the morning and have to take a piss. I wasn’t gonna walk all the way to the house just to take a piss. Normally I would have just pissed in the woods but it was the middle of a huge thunderstorm and it was pouring. So I tried to piss in the sink. It was the middle of the night and I could kinda see enough that I didn’t need to turn the light on. But the sink was like 5 feet high so I had to piss into a cup and pour it into the sink. Except there was a problem. Remember those frogs I was telling you about? Well, there was a frog sleeping in the cup I pissed in. And I didn’t notice until it jumped out of the cup onto my hand. It was dark so I was like WTF? I turned the light on and there’s this piss covered frog on my hand. I opened the door and tossed the frog out. I’ve always wondered what that frog was thinking.
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Yeah, I’m not springing for a $2 million Class A. I’d never buy a new RV. I’m fairly certain you can pick up a decent used Class A in the $50K-100K range.
https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1192613851155648512
https://twitter.com/ben_towle/status/1192612331550904320
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“Be careful if you get deployed with those fucking sand [deleted] and jews,” a user claiming to be in the Navy tells another member who says he’s in the Marines and is about to be deployed. (The racist term he used has been deleted.) “They are all a bunch of slippery pieces of shit that wash their faces in rain puddles in dirt on the ground. We are too good to be interacting with those people, maybe trump will at least relax the ROE’s [rules of engagement] so those pieces of shit can be blasted back to allah, jews and all.”
Yeah, the seats don’t fold flat in FJs so to get a level surface is a challenge. Saw a YouTube where someone built a platform over the seats for sleeping on with storage under it, but it means loosing the back seats. I’m ~6’ and had to sleep diagonally the one time I tried sleeping in the back of mine.
I’ve slept in the passenger seat a few times. Back didn’t feel great the next day.
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No way. Never happened before in the history of fashion.
Wait “CO2 is good for the planet” is a thing?? The right wing derposphere never ceases to amaze.
Just like dihydrogen monoxide poisoning is a thing.