Showing posts with label drive thru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drive thru. Show all posts

Saturday, September 28, 2024

On the road w/ female motorcyclist: India


Terrifying noises are coming from a HAUNTED TOWN in Rajasthan, India 🇮🇳
(Itchy Boots) KULDHARA, India - In this episode, Itchy Boots leaves Jaisalmer and rides to Jodhpur. On the way out, she stops at the abandoned haunted town called the village of Kuldhara.

Want to learn how to use drones, GoPros, and 360 cameras to film your own solo motorcycle adventure? Check out: itchyboots.com/academy. This is where she teaches all her advanced filming techniques, including getting drone shots while riding.

Gear and equipment that she uses this season: itchyboots.com/blog/gear-...

Follow her journey at: ITCHYBOOTS.COM. Instagram: itchybootstravel. Facebook: itchyboots. #itchyboots #adventure #himalayan450
  • Ms. Itchy Boots, Nov. 12, 2023; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Road trip to see superbloom flowers (4/14)


If anyone has never been to a super bloom, it's worth seeing. If anyone has been before, it's time to revisit. We're going to journey to a few famous spots in a large group.

When? California's state flower, the golden poppy, blooms anytime between February and May. Sunday, April 14th, 2024, is a good day for a visit, according to wildflower watchers at KTLA and desertusa.com.
Flowers rise out of the mud and muck.
We'll walk some and probably most of the eight miles of trails. Each spring, the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve comes alive with seasonal surprises. Rainy years produce and effusive explosion of natural beauty. This is Mojave Desert grassland habitat.

The duration and intensity of floral scents and colors varies from year to year. The wildflower season generally lasts from as early as mid-February through late-May, "April showers mean May flowers." And March storms can bring rosy thorns.

Parking Fees
  • $10 per vehicle
  • $9 per vehicle with a senior onboard (62 and over)
  • $5 per vehicle with DPR (Disabled Discount Card)
Bring sunblock and be prepared for wicked strong winds. Desert temperatures can vary widely and change suddenly, so dress in layers for unpredictable weather changes. Dogs are NOT allowed on trails or in the visitor center (as is true of every California State Park).

To enjoy expansive fields or a close-up study of single flowers, this is the place to visit.


Location and directions
The Reserve is located 15 miles west of Lancaster, California, at 15101 Lancaster Road.

From Highway 14: Take the Avenue I exit and head west 15 miles. Avenue I becomes Lancaster Road.

From Interstate-5: Take Hwy 138 east and turn right on 170th Street West. Make a left at the end, onto Lancaster Road. Follow the road two miles.
Carpool?
Yes. We will congregate at the meeting time and address. That location is a designated Park & Ride. It is a free parking lot that has roving security in the area. So it's safe to leave a car for the day.

We meet, reshuffle, then carpool and caravan to the poppy fields. Why this location as the meeting point? It's central and just off the I-5, the main freeway to get there.

Carpool to the meeting point? Yes. Post in the comments on the main group posting.

This is a FREE road trip and hiking event that takes a little more work to organize than a quickie local visit. This is neither local nor in-town. As such we will drive to and meet there. Or use the carpool information sent a week before to work on setting up a carpool.
  • Meeting point to carpool/caravan
  • Sunday, April 14, 2024, 8:00 am
  • 201 South Front Street
  • Burbank, California
  • We will be down at the SOUTH end of
  • the lot SOUTH of Olive Avenue bridge
To attend this event

The form is for safety. If it is not filled out, attendees will not be hiking with this group. Fill out the form even if only interested and want to stay in the loop.
Questions?
CLICK HERE to send a Direct Message to Meetup Organizer Marc (screen name "Oddie").

Other notable hikes planned: After the poppy fields, the plan is to go to the location where Hockney shot his photo. It is 45 minutes away at 126th and Pearblossom, standing on 126th looking south. getty.edu/art/collection/object/103QT4.

Then we will go 200 feet farther to Llano Del Rio and poke in the ruins (again). 
Then we drive up to Devils Punchbowl to hike or just view this part of the Angeles National Forest. It's up to the vibe of the group. Devils Punchbowl Nature Area (onlyinyourstate.com)
California has more indigenous flora and fauna
than all the rest of the United States combined.
NOTICE OF INCLUSIVITY: For all of our events, we do not discriminate by age, gender, sexual preference, ethnicity, national origin, race, color, religion, or even belly button lint.

Friday, February 24, 2023

Eva the European wanders USA and Mexico

Eva zu Beck, Jan. 20, 2023; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


How I see the USA as a European passing through for 6 months

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Driving in India's Himalayas (video)



India, the Himalayas Acrobats | Deadliest Journeys
(Best Documentary) Premiered Nov. 17, 2022. The truck drivers of India (Inde) who supply the lost cities of the Himalayas play the tightrope walkers on passes at altitudes of 4,000 meters. They graze parishes and precipices flat out on roads barely wider than their engines. Directed by Frédéric Elhorga and Antonin Marcel.

Friday, June 30, 2017

"Baby Driver" (video)

Movieclips Trailers (video); Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

 
Movieclips TrailersBaby Driver trailer #1 (2017): Check out this action-packed trailer starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, and Kevin Spacey. Watch, comment, and share @MovieclipsTrailers. Tickets to Baby Driver: fandango.com/babydriver... Watch more trailers: HOT new trailers playlist: bit.ly/2hp08G1. Epic action trailer playlist: bit.ly/2hOtbnD.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Here in my car: meditation and driving (video)

"Family Guy" (video); Kalyani and Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
Meditating while driving? It depends on what one thinks "meditation" means (mysteriousuniverse.org).

Can someone meditate while driving a car and not crash? If meditating is "blissing out," or distraction, then no. But if meditating is an ordinary state of mind -- a fourth state, serene, freed of distracting thoughts -- then the answer is an emphatic yes.

By sitting in stillness -- just sitting, free of thinking, worrying, stressing, or looking for something to stimulate and amuse our overtaxed sensory apparatus -- a wonderful bliss can blossom. As one approaches absorption due to the presence of the "factors of absorption" (jhānaṅga), the absence of the Five Hindrances, even a head on collision could be viewed in perspective. It's nothing to get hung up on. It's something to prevent but nothing to get hung up on.

Meditation is the opposite of distraction, whether driving, talking, or breathing, one remains aware. Even if the mind drifts off, one is aware of that as it happens.


After the ecstasy, the laundry. Before enlightenment, chopping wood, collecting water. After enlightenment, same thing. Meditation (bhavana) means cultivating the heart and mind. This can mean the development of compassion, which can be done at any time, or training in insight.


"Zen" moment? This is the opposite of meditating-while-driving

Insight (vipassana) is "seeing things as they really are," which overcomes discursive thinking in favor of direct knowing or what is loosely translated as "intuition" rather than cogitating. Direct knowing is not mediated by reasoning and doubting, pondering and being perplexed. It means investigating in a systematic way AFTER having developed serene states of absorption (jhanas, zens, dhyanas) that one can enter and emerge at will.

Be mindful -- simple bare awareness of the mechanics of driving. Be serene -- enjoying the wonder of this very moment without getting lost in thoughts about it. Live it. All space is here, all time is now, so be here now. Drive.

Approaching a car in this way will lead to much greater ease and appreciation of time spent on the cushion even if that cushion is behind the wheel. But what about the distractions? How to remove distracting thoughts?

Ferrari owner in trouble over Web video: A doctor in Japan faces possible jail time after posting a clip of his sports car in action dangerously (but probably very mindfully) zipping down highways.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

India: Berserk bus driver (video)

IBN; CNN; AP via HuffingtonPost.com; Wisdom Quarterly

NEW DELHI, India - A bus driver mowed down pedestrians and rammed cars, scooters, and food stalls in [an hour long] rampage through crowded Indian streets Wednesday that killed nine people and injured more than two dozen.

Police chased the bus for an hour through the streets of the central city of Pune, with traffic officers firing on it in an attempt to stop it, before they managed to arrest the 30-year-old driver. He is being held on murder charges.

The licensed bus driver had driven his route as normal Tuesday, but on Wednesday morning he jumped into another driver's bus and took off, police said.

"He just went berserk," slamming into people, cars, school buses, scooters, and vegetable stands, Pune Police Commissioner Meeran Borwankar said.

Pedestrians tried to flee, with some throwing children out of the way of the oncoming bus, she said. More

OPINION
Road rage? Western-style terrorism from too many Hollywood-influenced Bollywood movies? Too much stress from American wars on Afghanistan and Pakistan (which a half century ago were part of India)? Too much communal (Hindu vs. Muslim) violence? Or is this another Manchurian candidate going off as programmed? We can only speculate.


Those beings who wish for war, conquest, chaos, and fear are winning. Striking random terror into the hearts of urban populations is our specialty -- studied by the CIA, practiced by the US military, induced by screens and HAARP emissions, called for by military training and PsyOps. If it only happened in places like India, who would worry? But it happens in the US almost every week.

Just yesterday a man went into a fast food restaurant and started breaking windows with a metal bar. Police executed him when he did not put the bar down. LA police answered a domestic violence call on a drunk or special needs man and executed him in front of his house when he did not comply quickly enough. These are militarily-trained domestic police who are rarely so much as charged for excessive force. If enough random cases go of bizarre activity meet with uncontested use of excessive force, we have a police state on our hands. And it is justified my the unpredictable public the police are protecting us against as they strip us of our rights. It is like the young American soldier famously said of the Vietnamese village: "We had to destroy to save it."

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Fast Food Disaster

HowStuffWorks.com
What's in a fast-food burger?
Think it's just a slurry of pur-pose-slaughtered body parts, pus-laden cheese, chemically-treated bread, pesticide-taint-ed lettuce, and genetically-mod-ified tomato [with excitotoxins like MSG, artificial flavors, aluminum-salt, synthetic pre-servatives, acrylomides, trans fats, and plasticizers? Grab a napkin and think again. Top 10 tricks