And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada, California Albert Bierstadt, 1872
This one I hadn't seen before, but that is what the country looks like around Mono Lake.
Mono Lake is interesting, but the old mining country around there always has some surprises for the enterprising. There's an airplane crash site about ten miles north of Mono Lake that I happened on about twenty years ago while deer hunting.
In the FJ Cruiser I have the main tank: 18 gallons; the 19 gallon auxiliary tank that sits in front of the rear bumper - and up inside; and then there are the fuel cans on the rear bumper or that are on the roof depending on the trip. Baseline is 37 gallons + add ons. One reality of the West is that fuel can be hard to find when you're out and about. My first trip along the Kokopelli trail with the Toyota Trail Teams (factory team) when they had them and they started bumming fuel from me to get to Moab put the light on and I bought the auxiliary tank. The bolt-on bumper fuel is more or less give-away fuel to people down on their luck.
Mono Lake is interesting, but the old mining country around there always has some surprises for the enterprising. There's an airplane crash site about ten miles north of Mono Lake that I happened on about twenty years ago while deer hunting.
ReplyDeleteThe back roads in and out of Bodie are a gas, but you'd better have plenty of it, as you're out in the middle of the proverbial nowhere.
DeleteIn the FJ Cruiser I have the main tank: 18 gallons; the 19 gallon auxiliary tank that sits in front of the rear bumper - and up inside; and then there are the fuel cans on the rear bumper or that are on the roof depending on the trip. Baseline is 37 gallons + add ons. One reality of the West is that fuel can be hard to find when you're out and about. My first trip along the Kokopelli trail with the Toyota Trail Teams (factory team) when they had them and they started bumming fuel from me to get to Moab put the light on and I bought the auxiliary tank. The bolt-on bumper fuel is more or less give-away fuel to people down on their luck.
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