Round these parts; we sometimes see shoes on a power line:
One of the most commonly believed reasons shoes are thrown over power lines is to?ÿsignal the location of a crack house or prime drug dealing spot. Dangling shoes can also be the symbol of gang members claiming territory, especially when the shoes are hanging from power lines or telephone wires in an intersection.
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Well remember, you're a bit more sophisticated than I am, and make enough moolah to buy these fancy cedar shoe trees.
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But I'm not judging.
Really.
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Ha Ha Ha Ha What a doofus??ÿ You referred to me and the term sophisticated in the same sentence.?ÿ I'm not your chateau briand and truffles sort of guy.?ÿ I'm more in the eating pizza at the bowling alley's snack bar and calling it date night sort of guy.
Riverton Wyoming motel life. 1982. The caf?? and motel were so vile that Dave and I took to taking our meals in the cab of my luxurious '78 Datsun.
Living the dream.
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Jeeebus...that looks exactly like themotel in Montello Nevada, half a square and facing a high speed transcontinental rail line....
?ÿ I'm not your chateau briand and truffles sort of guy...?ÿ
I think you're the kind of guy that likes what he likes and it can be either way, esp if Mrs Is feeling that the Steak Tartare tickles her fancy then so be it.
Someday we'll have a beer and a conversation in person, hopefully we all will.
Sherefe'!!!
Surveying for seismic exploration. It??s like this same motel was moved lock stock and barrel to all the one horse towns we worked - Thermopolis Wy., Red lodge Montana, Afton wy., Craig Co., Shawnee Ok., Richfield Ut., etc.etc. ad nauseam.?ÿ
we were paid per diem (called ??hot shot? pay), so we skimped on lodging?ÿ
Funny. We were doing gravity, and leaving points for CSAMT and IP lines for Zonge.
Geophysics is how I got into land surveying. Funny.
I gotta be honest with you... when I saw the subject title, "Hotel Fun" I thought it looked more like a Craigslist post.?ÿ?ÿ
bowling alley's snack bar
Stayed several weeks at "Bruno's Country Club" in Gerlach Nevada back in the 1970s.
I could fill many pages with the adventures our crew had in and around Gerlach.?ÿ
Bruno's mom had unusually large hands and would deal single deck blackjack in the bar in the evenings. She somehow could come up with just the right card so often, it made me wonder.
Bruno is gone now and everything there probably changed when Burning Man started and the neighboring town of Empire disappeared.
Worst motel ever... is in Farson, Wyoming. Tiny rooms with 3 inch mattresses on metal spring frame. Small metal showers with sulphur water. But only place for miles around.
Stayed in hundreds from Texas to Montana and Maine to California.
@holy-cow don't ask me, not something that I would even consider.
Years ago I worked on a hydropower refurbishment project over summer. We were accommodated at one of the village ski lodges but because it was off season they didn't really want the hassle of the 3 or so of us being there, so they cut costs, which included putting the fridge on its warmest setting.
After a few days I got sick of having to eat and drink things that should have been cold but were warm and festering, so I found the temp knob in the fridge and turned it to a colder setting. They turned it back to warm.
Over successive days I turned it back to cold. They turned it back to warm. I turned it back to cold. They turned it back to warm,?ÿ and removed the knob. I got a pair of pliers and turned it back to cold. They turned it back to warm, and stuck a note where the knob was, saying if the temperature was changed again, the offender would be found and some item of downstairs anatomy would be removed. I wrote a witty note and stuck it behind one of the picture frames on the wall in the dining room. I hope somebody found it.
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Wow.
I stayed at the new additions at Bruno's in 2006, in February. Thank god the heat worked. He ruled with an iron fist and the food wasn't bad at his place.
RIP Bruno, you're more a legend now then you ever believed you were then.
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Lots of fun places in Nevada in the early 80??s. Hotel Nevada in Ely and the Commercial in Elko come to mind. ?ÿThen many nights at Binions in Lost Wages with thick curtains, cold ac and 25cent beers. ?ÿBest room ?ÿmay have been camping in desert w no light pollution?ÿ
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Speaking of Bruno's, in February of 1991 a friend and I took a week-long camping safari along the dirt roads that parallel the western edge of the Black Rock desert. It was a wake for my recently departed dad and the truck was loaded up with beans, guns and mountain bikes. And some beer. It was a drought year and the usually snowbound roads were clear. The trip started in Gerlach and ended where we hit pavement (highway 140?) just west of Denio.
We stopped at Bruno's for a couple beers (he apparently owned most of the town - truck stop, restaurant, bar, hotel) and then went down the street to the best Mexican restaurant I've ever eaten at - Jalisco's. The place was packed so they seated us at a table in back by the kitchen, where the family took their meals. After closing down the bar we drove out on the playa to camp. For the next 5 days of camping we never saw another person. Just wild horses and deer. Jalisco's is no longer in business and later in 1991 they held Burning Man on the Black Rock for the first time, so it lost its appeal and we've never returned. But man, that was some wild country.
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