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High Desert Chronicles
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Log of adventures, things found, and sights seen in the Eastern Sierra, Mojave Desert, Northern Nevada, and the Western USA. An offroad recovery, camping, performance driving, aviation, Gen X nerd. Keep public lands public. #RESIST Pics my own.©️
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 3h
Not in Nevada, anyway.

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Loon festival canceled - lake is drying up
On the windswept desert of northern Nevada, spring in one tiny town has been welcomed for...
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 3h
The only campfire soundtrack I like more are loons. Ever been up to the Adirondacks? We’d camp and canoe there when I was a kid. Unforgettable sound.

Apparently they migrate through NV. I understand it’s decreased substantially. Never seen heard one myself.

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Forked Lake - Wikipedia
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 6h
Ha! Without my glasses and much sleep I read that as, “What Desert?”

Yes. I’d say that’s West desert, USA.

Next up, coffee.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 6h
Great Basin is my guess. If I saw a Joshua Tree then Mojave. Saguaro then probably Sonora.

This looks a lot like Northern Nevada but could be South America just as easily.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 7h
Slow and steady wins these races.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 7h
Recovering a Honda from the bottom of a canyon.

Reno, NV. 2024
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 7h
South Padre Island, TX. 2017
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 8h
A pack of Coyotes howl in the evening over the sounds of a cracking campfire.

Anvil Spring Canyon. Death Valley NP, 2017.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 8h
Striped Butte from the Geologist’s Cabin.

Death Valley NP, 2017
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 8h
Antelope Canyon, Arizona. 2016
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 8h
Yes!!!
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 10h
Florence Lake, California. 2014
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 10h
The first one gives me a feeling of anticipating something good and its arrival. It seems hopeful.

The second, to me, is more complex and foreboding. Like storm clouds forming.

Just my impressions. Both are interesting.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 18h
Tse’Bii’Ndzisgaii. aka, Monument Valley. 2015

It takes some commitment to get here. It’s worth it.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 22h
Good move for GM or GM customers? I’d bet Mary has seen the revenue potential for UX enshittification and data collection. Too cynical?
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 1d
Reno, NV 2023
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 1d
Congress should take some inspiration:
An incredibly brave man stands defiantly in front of a column of Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 1d
I do appreciate knowing what’s correct. Sincerely, thank you.

And you’re right. To a Kansas Jayhawk, that example does take a second thought.

After a snort laugh.

Rock Chalk!
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 1d
I’ll take a Navy vet’s word on this as the rule to follow. I made this mistake in a post earlier.

It almost seems dependent on the context of the (mis)usage as to whether it ,“sounds” right. Science fiction writers muddy the water.
a man in a dark room with the words it 's the enterprise on the bottom
ALT: a man in a dark room with the words it 's the enterprise on the bottom
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 2d
How? Be specific.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 2d
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a helicopter is flying over a rocky cliff with a bbc logo in the corner .
ALT: a helicopter is flying over a rocky cliff with a bbc logo in the corner .
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 2d
Brown’s Reservoir, Utah. 2012

Off UT 12, South of Torrey.
A man stands on a sandy beach. He has a lacrosse stick, playing fetch with a black field Labrador.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 2d
What’s it like to race in an autocross?

Alameda, California. 2016

www.pca-ggr.org/autocross
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 2d
I married a fast woman.
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High Desert Chronicles @highdesertrecovery.bsky.social · 2d
Yes. Very much worth the trip. All the stuff you’d expect and great Apollo 11 exhibits from the capsule recovery.

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USS Hornet Museum – The USS Hornet Museum is the Bay Area’s Premiere Ship Museum
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