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| 2nd October 2009 Del Favero | Lost Chance Tea - From: In the Blue Government housing. Only the best for us... |
| 1st October 2009 Rachel | - From: In the Blue Wow! the aerials are spectacular! hope you got the information you needed. And what is that plant in photo 10? |
| 29th September 2009 justin | shakka - From: In the Blue nice shades bra! |
| 28th September 2009 SubComandante Sasquatch | Panamint Tea - From: In the Blue Awesome photos as always. Never imagined you lived in such a rustic cabin. No roof, no mattress? |
| 27th September 2009 Sara | summer is over - From: In the Blue Gorgeous pictures Steven! Thank you! Enjoy the second spring... Leaves are falling here. Congrats for surviving the heat. |
| 4th August 2009 Patrick | first comment - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero I truly admire the work you're doing. It looks painful and fun all at the same time. This environment work is a necessity to keeping life balanced. Thanks, and awesome pics as always. btw, I will call ya one of these day, i'm just a slacker. take care |
| 1st August 2009 Del Favero | Respone - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero Thanks for the comments everyone. Its good to know people actually look at and read these. I'm hoping to get back up in the moountains Sunday. Looking forward to it... |
| 31st July 2009 Jess | - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero Beautiful photos Steve-o. I miss chasing the bloom. |
| 30th July 2009 rachel | - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero these photos are beautiful--i can't believe that's death valley! i don't envy the grueling field day, though. well. maybe a little. |
| 29th July 2009 Edie | i can't belive your still at it! - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero You must secretly enjoy the heat! You battle heat and thirst, while I battle inner city teens. This summer I'm a commuting crew leader for the SCA. I have 2.5 weeks left, then I'm moving to Missoula, Mt to get a MS in forestry. How long will you be in Death Valley? |
| 29th July 2009 justin | me hot too - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero Its 107 here, but i wish i was with you! |
| 29th July 2009 SubComandante Sasquatch | Farther Sun & Holey Boast - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero Nice piece of writin', young feller. After reading it I feel like a Connecticut drawing room pantywaist for whining about the current Cascadian heatwave (105 for the 3rd day in a row!). |
| 29th July 2009 Mom | awesome - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero Great pictures! The colors are so beautiful,still hard to believe that all exists out there. |
| 29th July 2009 eric | thanks, steve! - From: Shadrach, Meshach, and Del Favero i love your writing. thanks for keeping us up to date. btw, it has been hovering near 100 F the last week or so, so i feel the heat, too. not as hot as you are, but we're all in hell. |
| 16th March 2009 babao | nice pics - From: Warning: Ordnance Testing my eyes hurt with beauty of it. yours must be falling out of your head. |
| 13th March 2009 Del Favero | comments make me fuzzy all over - From: Warning: Ordnance Testing Not sure who comment #2 is by, but hey I'll risk a trade for a couple weeks. As for you other two, I know who you are and where you live. Watch out. I will be back soon. Sorry to make you miss the desert, Eric, but it and a swamp-cooled government apartment are here, when ever you feel like visiting. Bob, AKA sasquatch, that my friend, is nonetheless than a Coyote Melon, a native species, in fact, also known as Cucurbita palmata. Not the strangest thing I have found...that would be something far different that comes deep in the depths of my mind when faced only with my thoughts, the starkness and silence of the desert, and a torpid history... I will not elaborate here, but wair for yet another post. I quit, Steve |
| 10th March 2009 Rowbear | Desert solitaire - From: Warning: Ordnance Testing Awesome photos--why should you restrain yourself from snapping thousands more? Is that a watermelon?--and is it the oddest thing you've found there? |
| 7th March 2009 manroot | geobotanical daydream - From: Warning: Ordnance Testing fucking awsome!! wish i was there with you my friend, lets trade for a week or so? |
| 7th March 2009 eric in pdx | great photos steve! - From: Warning: Ordnance Testing miss you, man. thanks for posting the beautiful photos - you make me miss the desert in a big way. i loved death valley the two times i went through. see you when you come up to see pdx! eric |
| 18th January 2009 wild cat | no cud chewing in those lands sand face - From: Cheweth the Cud. Eat and be Eaten. My baby's future tax burden is rising so you can soliloquize solitude and lust carnivorously after the beasts that made your evolution possible? stop the cerebralcide, free the death valley 0 |
| 26th December 2008 TOM W | Manson Family - From: Mountain Lion's Silent Stalk Run into any of the remaining Manson Family members out there yet? |
| 23rd December 2008 justin | snow - From: Mountain Lion's Silent Stalk Hey there buddy, well while your drinking and shooting your way to immortality we forest dwellers are digging out from the great white dump. Its true that gods shit don't stink but it sure is cold. Send that burning car this way so i can make some breakfast. |
| 24th November 2008 SubCommander Sasquatch | Nice bit o' clearcutting - From: Tamarisk and Tarantulas: The Sunless Canyon in the Salty Valley of Nudists Inquiring minds want to know: Any cougars in Cougar Canyon? |
| 20th November 2008 solan | deep - From: Cerebral Fault Blocking: Cracking Up in Death Valley deeper and deeper you slip, sleep little baby sleep and let the sandman take you away! |
| 18th November 2008 Edie | better you than I - From: Cerebral Fault Blocking: Cracking Up in Death Valley Well Steve, Im glad you got that death valley job, i just hope you don't loose your mind doing it! it looks amazing there. its snowing here in PA. im applying to grad schools and moving to Pittsburgh soon. It really seem like we are working in two different realities, or maybe Death Valley is just its own reality apart from everything else! Yay for Obama! I bet Roy Bridgeman is so pumped! |
| 18th November 2008 Joe | Bleakness - From: Cerebral Fault Blocking: Cracking Up in Death Valley There is something to be said it seems about finding the ultimate surrounding for self-exploration. Its always fascinating to push the mind and body and see what one can get away with. Sounds like the thrumming of life, maybe as expansive and quiet as it is, is syncing with your own motor. It almost seems inevitable that you will realize everything about yourself if you wanted to focus thought on it or not. Most people do not get that chance. |
| 23rd October 2008 Brian Thomas | Nice - From: 120 Hours in Death Valley Sounds fine Steve, just fine. I'll be up there eventually. Name a new plant species after me; Brianus Thomasus and one after Lance; Lancus Thomasus, and one after the both of us; Lanbranius Thomasus. Make sure mine is prettier than his is. -B. |
| 18th October 2008 eric | Go man, go! - From: 120 Hours in Death Valley So proud of you, and excited for you too! You are living and working in one of my favorite places on the planet. I be super jealous, argh! I hope my Turkey Day visit works out... |
| 18th October 2008 Joe | Pahrump a pum pum - From: 120 Hours in Death Valley Enjoy my friend. |
| 23rd September 2008 SubCommander Sasquatch | Lost digital camera....FOUND! - From: Hiking on the Clock (Fen part 3) Somewhere in the wilds of the Emigrant, a lonely sasquatch has found a misplaced digital camera. In between deer hunting and fly fishing (catch & not-release), the lonely beast takes photos of his private regions, searches for a free wireless connection to his flickr account. |
| 3rd September 2008 SubCommander Sasquatch | So jealous.... - From: A Fenning We Will Go (Part 1) of the sunburn and dirt. Oh yeah, and the scenery too. |
| 28th August 2008 Benny | bonjour! - From: A Fenning We Will Go (Part 1) Steve, Your to cool for school, man. Living the dream, and doing what you love in life takes guts! We love ya... Ben & Mel. |
| 28th August 2008 justin | fen you - From: A Fenning We Will Go (Part 1) marmalade sandwich is such a nice suprise! what the hell is a fen? |
| 28th August 2008 brandon | don't let it die,Stevo - From: A Fenning We Will Go (Part 1) Always such a nice surprise to find one of your new entries in my mail. thanks for the update and the photos. /b. |
| 28th August 2008 Theo | ! - From: A Fenning We Will Go (Part 1) Damned you with the gratuitous pretty pictures! Enough already! I aughta defenestrate you next time I see ya! |
| 27th August 2008 Jen H. | Beauties! - From: A Fenning We Will Go (Part 1) I have office envy. We miss you! |
| 15th July 2008 Sasquatch | - From: Land of Grove and Surrounding Areas Is that Hetch Hetchy that you backpacked near? |
| 12th July 2008 Erika | I bet you look sexy.. - From: Land of Grove and Surrounding Areas in your orange vest and yellow helmet! Looks like an awesome job. Joe just had poison ivy soooo bad he was in the ER twice a few weeks ago. It is still healing. I hope that you avoid all horrifying blisters and rashes! |
| 28th May 2008 justin | what? - From: Lost If you take a train traveling south and a train traveling north at the same time which direction are you traveling? |
| 3rd October 2007 pinkfloyddan | Dead chickens - From: Chicken Feathers Tough killing a chicken and photographing its blood. Nice prose, Stevio. Heart-shaped goat cheese. How nifty |
| 21st September 2007 woopsie | too much cheese not enough chicken - From: Chicken Feathers i'm scared of the blood stains on the wall. when you come home? |
| 20th September 2007 tim | wowza - From: Chicken Feathers You dirty dawg, still traveling, seeing such beautiful sights. Damn. Mont d'Or looks freakin sweet....someday i'll return to europe, and ramble thru the swiss countryside.... |
| 20th September 2007 SubCommander Sasquatch | Chickens coming home to roost - From: Chicken Feathers Esteban, Good to see you've dispatched all of those chickens who'd come home to roost. Did you manage to save enough feathers for a couple of throw pillows? Jusqu'à demain.....la même heure de batte, le même canal de batte. |
| 20th September 2007 mae | chicken murdering - From: Chicken Feathers yes, i've participating in chicken killing before too. i did not like it, but have donked a chicken on the head to knock it out before slitting its through so it wouldn't run around so much. i was there for a couple chicken killings that year. but the weirdest was when we chose to off the one with the really annoying habit of thinking it was a rooster. i couldn't bring myself to eat the chicken that we chose to kill because we didn't get along with it. and that was the last of my chicken killing days too... :) LOVE the stories, LOVE the pics (bloody reality and AMAZING landscapes and all!!!) and wishing you continued safe travels!!! j'adore. mae (marianne was my "french name" in middle school french class :) ) |
| 18th September 2007 taco john | grenoble - From: Chicken Feathers please if its not to late, secure some grenoble from grenoble thanks. |
| 18th September 2007 Joe | Poulet Du Kentucky - From: Chicken Feathers We all like fried Chicken Steve. For some reason, my comments arent showing up on your bloggo. I sent an email too about our little boy from Neptune. He has been home for about a month now.... Continue to put your prophetic "stick" in the spokes of earth's tire. Have you had any cigars??? |
| 10th September 2007 Babao | Meoweow - From: Soft Cheese, Hot Manure: La vie à la Bérarde sounds like a wonderful time you are having and I am jealous of the barn kittens that have been hanging out with you as you milk. I've taken to drinking wine at noon to feel closer to you and look forward to sharing a glass spiced with catnip upon your return. meow puurrrrrrrrrr meowow Babao |
| 6th September 2007 david | - From: Soft Cheese, Hot Manure: La vie à la Bérarde Steve, your cranium is gigantic. I envy it in conjunction with your trip. Especially because you're so good at romanticizing the pain of farm life and labor. I'm glad you're moving on from Berarde...it's not safe for you to be staying near so much cheese. Enjoy your next stop, see you in NYC (9/19 right?). |
| 4th September 2007 Del Favero | La vie selée - From: Soft Cheese, Hot Manure: La vie à la Bérarde Alors.....thanks everyone for comments and messages responding to all these blogs. Life at the new farm is much different. No more milking by hand. No more German. There are goats as well. time dissipates, steve |
| 3rd September 2007 Sasquatch | - From: Soft Cheese, Hot Manure: La vie à la Bérarde Esteban, living la vie douce. You know, you're even starting to write like a Frenchman. No doubt it's the wine, or something in the milch. The lonely accordion plays in the background as votre manque d'amis vous. |
| 31st August 2007 nate | hey steve - From: Soft Cheese, Hot Manure: La vie à la Bérarde woofing eh .... i hope all is going well on your trek you random posting of this blog has help bring a smile to my face and reinvigorated my desire to sell off my shit and hit the road ... may the road rise up to meet your feet my good friend in peace and justice Nate |
| 10th August 2007 ben | whoa - From: Left at the Pass insane photos steve! dang! |
| 6th August 2007 Stacey | foux da fa fa? - From: Left at the Pass if u have access to you tube - search for flight of the conchords "french song" - you will likey - i will also send it to your email so you can view it at your leisure ... enjoy the cheese and mountains |
| 6th August 2007 the puncuation guy | - From: Left at the Pass thanks for keeping us posted, steve-o! you are sorely missed. glasses were raised in your honor at katie's last stand. godzilla and i played at backstage and toasted you again. be safe, but not that safe! eric |
| 6th August 2007 Ben Fitts | Is that Auburn? - From: Left at the Pass you last pictures are beautiful. Is that behind Auburn High School? |
| 23rd July 2007 Del Favero | hmmmmm? - From: Drinking Coffee From a Bowl Cramp? TMC |
| 22nd July 2007 Rowbear | ....like the chien you are - From: Drinking Coffee From a Bowl Esteban, mon ami, your prose moves me like an exploding colon and echoes the words of the great existentialist writer, Hunter de Thompson: "Le Français ils sont une course drôle, ils combattent avec leurs pieds et baisent avec leur visage." But perhaps you might prefer it in the barbaric original: "The French they are a funny race, they fight with their feet and fuck with their face." If your lord and lady give you (or any of the other serfs) any merde about slacking on the farm work, remind them that "un Néerlandais mène Le Tour, et Christophe Moreau* ne pourrait pas porter mon bagage." Awww, rev war! Rowbear *Moreau (the Maginot Line of French cycling) is France's great hope for this year's Tour, which means he's hovering somewhere around 50th place, chain smoking in the rear of the peloton. |
| 22nd July 2007 cockarille | shart - From: Drinking Coffee From a Bowl the um solution to your um... internal suffocation as it were, is to rub your belly with the blood of a freshly sodomized goat and then fart, but not shart, unless you have a new canvas to record the organic pattern of your sphincter grooves. |
| 4th January 2007 ben leadbetter | holy shit! - From: Big Sur hey, i recognize that fellow in the last 2 pictures, that's cary! what's up man? i was actually just in big sur again last month, my first visit back to the left coast since i departed 3 years ago, it was just as beautiful as i remember (maybe more). but hey, glad to see you're still alive and righteous, hope to hear from you ben |
| 4th January 2007 tonya | leeches on my toes - From: SE Asia - Part 1: Bangkok to Malaysia steve you make me want throw this cat off my lap, grab my pack, and get lost in a jungle pulling leaches off my toes. ..... |
| 26th September 2006 Sasquatch | That other thing - From: Dog Shit In Paris (and other sites) Sasquatch reminded of Paris junkett of wasted youth. Not easy to dodge le merdes du chien with size 24 feet. Inside That Other Thing, him imagine himself French peasant beholding such glory circa 15th century. The awe would almost wipe away the drudgery of cleaning up le merde du roi et le merde du hommes et le merde du femmes....well, him would just forget for awhile. Him pay 5 francs to thieving priests, light novena for Yeti. Later vomit up litre of vin ordinaire on passing poodelle. |
| 22nd September 2006 unamerican cunt | thing one and thing two - From: Dog Shit In Paris (and other sites) That thing and the other thing were nice, but strange happenings in the Pantheon three will stick with me the rest of my days. |
| 7th September 2006 Sasquatch | - From: Cinque Terre: Not Wheel Chair Accessible Estaban, Sasquatch continue to live real life through your text and pictures; ride the Vuelta and the Tour and the Giro through your legs (and, ahem, "bottom bracket"). And I thought I was tough--a slightly taller, slightly hairier primate--doing the 33-mile Crater Lake loop (4,000 vertical feet of climbing) in 5 (Where's my EPO!?!?) hours. It'll be good to have you back in the Republic of Cascadia. Yr. Pal, Sasquatch |
| 18th August 2006 Del Favero | Lugnuts, speaketh - From: Licking the Bologna: Alps, Dolomites, Verona, Venice... responses to comments: #1 dego goomba?? should I google that?? #2 that was quite a long bike path, probably 50 miles, and linking ot many more along the valley. You'd probably get some looks if you were in your roller girl outfit #3 the poo you ask, is rock hard from too much cheese, the boats actually help churn it up. The poo is capitalism, it builds along the edges of cultures, piling high until it collapses inwards. It happened to america long ago. Currently we are stockpiling it in the middle east, dropping it from the sky. #4 The canals are murky and pretty stagnant, but only faintly stinky in some spots. I wouldn't drink the water. |
| 18th August 2006 timmy | ah memories.... - From: Licking the Bologna: Alps, Dolomites, Verona, Venice... I was in austria back in 1998.....nice photos, brings back the memories it does! And italy....never was into dego goomba country, but i'm actually intrigued now.... |
| 18th August 2006 unamerican cunt | Oh Italy - From: Licking the Bologna: Alps, Dolomites, Verona, Venice... That bike path in Italy has put me over the edge, I must get there. I have to skate that trail. If I do nothing else in my life I will skate that trail. Love and miss you shithead! |
| 17th August 2006 justin | the green the white and the red - From: Licking the Bologna: Alps, Dolomites, Verona, Venice... it must be difficult for the stomach to digest properly with all those little boats motoring around in it. and where's the poo go? |
| 17th August 2006 Joe | Does the canal system smell? - From: Licking the Bologna: Alps, Dolomites, Verona, Venice... I have always wanted to experience what you are seeing now. Is the canal system in venice moving water? Or is it kind of "Murky"? Either way, have some italian beer and enjoy the food. |
| 9th August 2006 tonya | sunshine - From: Niederschaeffolsheim ! Hi Steve. It's a good thing you've lived in the rainy NW for the past few years, preparing yourself for all this rainy weather. Hope your journey is soon blessed with ample sunshine. t |
| 9th August 2006 justin | du ist eine bedrucken affa - From: Niederschaeffolsheim ! glockenspiel! glockenspiel! |
| 2nd August 2006 Theo | Dances with Penisi - From: Tour De l'Favero I regret to have not informed you prior to departure of the annual festival of Penis Prancing and Dancing in France. This goes back to the ancient times and is intended as a demonstration of just how completely silly men can be with their pride. Alons-y! Frottage!! PS: A gaggle of geese... A flock of sheep... A herd of raindeer... A _______ of penisis? (this, a question I throw out to the group...) |
| 31st July 2006 John D. | Voulez vous jouez disq...ah fuck it - From: Tour De l'Favero Steve!!! I was just in yur-upp and I'm totally envious! Screw the Eurail, two wheels sounds like the way to go. If you head towards the Alps, things get really enchanting, though I imagine the steep grade's a killer... keep these blogs coming! |
| 31st July 2006 justin | aye matey - From: Tour De l'Favero scrotum! oh scrotum! its a scary hairy voodoo bag! |
| 31st July 2006 babao | great chicken skin - From: Tour De l'Favero licking chicken skin is great, especially when you make sweet love to the chicken first. all in all i would prefer cat tounge on french toast if i were you. sometimes though,i wish i was in africa riding the great waves of hyenna poo. don't forget to wipe the grounds from your nosehairs, helps a growing boy sleep! |
| 31st July 2006 Sasquatch | Sasquatch jealous - From: Tour De l'Favero Sasquatch jealous. France is more beautiful than Gresham or the The 'Couv. |
| 31st July 2006 Alicia | greetings from planet america - From: Tour De l'Favero Oh my, that sure is some head that man has on his shoulders. That did it for me today Steve, thanks. |
| 23rd July 2006 Kaya | Glad you made it home - From: Home We have really enjoyed reading your travel blog. Sound like it was awesome. Except for that poor chipmunk. Kaya says "turtle" to you. Have a great time in Europe, Are you going to do this while your there? |
| 23rd July 2006 tim coughlin | wowza - From: Wind Those are some amazingly beautiful photos....damn. I am craving some real mountains here in the bay area, but haven't made it out. Dead chipmunks are funny.....was there guts pouring out of its ass? thats cool too. |
| 22nd July 2006 Jon B | - From: Wind "scrotum sack of dawn"? |
| 14th July 2006 Harold | That's not entirely true Steve. - From: Montanaananananananananananan Steve, You must have forgotten about the time you paid $35 for my balls. Alright. I'll give you the smallest, maybe, but not the most expensive. And, thanks again for not leaving them blue. -Love, Harry |
| 9th July 2006 Dan | ha - From: Hold the Boat!! Damn. Quite the shelter. |
| 9th July 2006 Susan | Those months that begin with "J" - From: Hold the Boat!! Those "J" months are awfully confusing eh? Perhaps it was just a whimsical universe leading you to true outdoor plumbing happiness. So let me get this straight ... cold, wet and miserable weather, plus sleeping on the floor of an outhouse ... wouldn't it be easier to wear a shirt made out of pushpins and beat yourself with small, sharp sticks? |
| 9th July 2006 Will | Great! - From: Hold the Boat!! Damn! What an adventure so far and you're still in the motherland. Keep pedaling. -will |
| 9th July 2006 tim coughlin | you crazy bitch - From: Hold the Boat!! del fav....you are a nut job! but i'm impressed none the less!!! |
