Am I free to go?
I wish to remain silent
I want a lawyer
Visiting Portland via the Train to pick up a car–a 4×4 with California origins–Steve’s sister is giving us. All subsequent trips into the backcountry(and to prison) are with the Red Toyota.
My cousins have much geneological papers to pass on to me– Millikens (family crest? motto- “Regarde Bien”), Donohues, O’Briens, County Clare, County Kildare. Some Dutch history, too, the pre-English founding of Kingston, New York as Esopus, circa 1660 via the Bonte-Cou from Amsterdam.
August 1, 4Runner fill up at Newberg, Oregon, 12.8 gallons at 269 miles. The Hounds of Hell on our heels, we didn’t stop to say goodbye. Big Red! We are in Love, with our new car.
Hart Mountain Hot Spring, Oregon, in snow
Camping: 8/2 Monday, Wamic, $10; 8/3 Hot Springs Camp, East Lake, $14; 8/4 Little Crater Campground @ Paulina Lake $0. Two mile hike clockwise around the lake to the Hot Spring beach, Mergansers, Osprey? Gorgeous light snow Friday morning, High Meadows jeep road to headwaters of Rock Creek.
Heading into Eastern Oregon we stop at Hart Mountain Wildlife Preserve, Hot Spring Campground in the snow, $4. Then South on Rt 299 to Alturas, and the best, cutest town by far, Bieber, California. Saturday, Upper Rush Creek, Adin Pass, Modoc National Forest $6, Camp Preventorium Hot Springs
Back into the nightmare that is our life now, at least we have a vehicle that can get us into and out of trouble.
OCTOBER 2002, DEATH VALLEY
Sick, no need to relate symptoms. Stress, psychic insult. Suffice to say, digestive and thereabouts. Death Valley, the Racetrack.. Beautiful late-October day. Supersonic jet @ 745+ mph, just roared through, ahead of his cone of sound by 1 1/2 seconds.
10/30/2002 Lunch at the Mozart Cafe in Goldfield, Nevada. Ortega Burger, coleslaw, cranberry juice. We left Death Valley as a storm front moved in. Taking the road to Silverpeak, then west to 264, we found a lovely warm concrete pool flowing into a birded wetland in the beautiful craggy mountains of the Silver Peak Range. Then on to highway 6, and 120 to Benton Hot Springs and the Old House. Wonderful campground, each site has its own pool, with a flowing hot creek and taps to adjust the temperature. Happy Halloween!
Nov 1, I bet Steve $100 that Titus Canyon runs East-to-West from Beatty, Nevada into Death Valley. Due to the encroaching storm we decided NOT to go to Titus Canyon in case it might rain. So we went North to Monolith Mine–too cold! 7000 feet above sea level. So, we went down , 90 minute drive back to the road, 5000 foot drop. One more night, then . . .
Back home for a recording session at Wally Sound with the Ravines–astonished at how good my voice sounds, Sally Go Round the Roses, Out the Window.
Travels With Stevie 