Yup, Boomershoot’s over, report to follow. In the meantime, three days on the road. Blog posts may be sparse…
Category: Travels
Journey’s End
Arrived in Orofino ID last night, checked into hotel. Went out to dinner, was reminded that “Orofino” and “fine dining” are antithetical concepts and should never be used in the same paragraph let alone sentence.
Tomorrow’s weather forecast is British, i.e. miserable, cold, rainy and muddy, but I’ll survive, by huddling in Reader&Friend Mark’s yooge Texas truck sucking down — fuck me, I forgot to pack both the gin and the Southern Comfort.
I’m getting too old for this foolishness, but maybe a boomer or two will cheer me up. That’s always worked in the past…
Travel Alert
Posting over the next ten days or so may be a little light, as Longtime Friend and Reader Mark C. and I will be trekking across the U.S. to attend Boomershoot this coming weekend. (From Texas, three days up, three days down plus three days shooting. I must be insane.)
That’s the Son&Heir circa 2005.
And to the attendees: can’t wait to see y’all again, but please forgive me if I’ve forgotten your names — I’m old, my memory for names was always crap, and it’s been 17 years.
More Like It
Arriving in Ye Olde Inne Boxxe:
Amsterdam would be Choice Nommer Een, and Madrid Numero Dos. Nothing against the Spaniardists, but both New Wife and I love Amsterdam.
In a heartbeat, baby.
Stop It, You’re Killing Me
…and if you live in upscale areas in Los Angeles, that might be “literally“:
Crime has risen dramatically in Los Angeles, as well as in many other major cities, since the start of the pandemic and last summer’s protests against police violence resulted in the slashing of many law enforcement budgets. News stories document rising fear across LA and crime has become the major issue in both the upcoming mayor’s election and a possible recall of the district attorney. It may not be surprising that issues of race and class are driving this concern, though they have a new twist.
Wealthy and predominantly white neighborhoods have experienced the sharpest upticks in a wide array of crimes.
It shows that the richer and whiter the area, the greater the increase in both raw crime totals and percentages of total city crime. This includes a wide range of felonies, from robbery, burglary, shoplifting and car theft to aggravated assault and rape.
California voters have moved the needle on crime in recent years. Proposition 47 decriminalized a number of theft and drug charges, making them misdemeanors, as it did several “non-violent” felonies. Voters also approved Proposition 57, which allows for early release of non-violent offenders.
Imagine that: you vote to decriminalize all sorts of crime, and those types of crime increase and the goblins goes to where da money izz (/Willie Sutton). Read the article for the breakdowns.
Who could have seen that coming?
Well, nobody except the 70-odd million people who voted for Trump last time around.
And stop giggling like little girls, you lot; it’s unbecoming.
Heartily Endorsed
I normally look at these travel articles with a jaundiced eye, as most are just crap. But here’s one I’ll get behind, in spades:
One lake, four countries: Lake Constance is the perfect way to sample the delights of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
…and indeed it is. We stayed in Konstanz (at the Hoel Petershof), caught the ferry over to Meersburg, and later drove along the Bodensee’s southern shore to get to Bregenz. We loved it so much that we went back to Meersburg on a later trip, and stayed here:
Here was the view:
…which you may remember as the header for someone else’s blog.
As for the streets:
Yes, that’s the family grunting its way up the steep street from the lake shore.
Come to think of it, I’d love to do a week-long tour of the Lake Constance shoreline, staying in Meersburg, Konstanz and Bregenz along the way. In one of these:
Just do it in spring or summer, because it gets pretty damn cold around the Bodensee* when the sun doesn’t shine.
*by the way, the Germans don’t call it a “sea” (as the idiot writer of the article claims). The German word “see” (pronounced zay ) means “lake”.