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Across the Forty Mile Desert

2024-04-08

The next chapter of my electric cross-country adventure is now on Substack. I’m still in Nevada, spellbound by it’s rugged beauty and gobsmacked at how George A. Wyman and others before him crossed these vast, inhospitable distances. https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/07-across-the-forty-mile-desert?r=2rzwg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Where is Tomorrow?

2024-04-04
A photo looking up at the shimmering white ceiling of the Oculus Transportation Hub in New York, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The ceiling is comprised of closely spaced white ribs rising up towards a clear glass skylight that arcs over the center of the frame towards a terminus point at the far end of the hall. It kind of feels like being in a giant whale; the skylight is the spine and the white ribs define the space.

Where are the voices telling us that a bright future is possible, that if we can make it through today’s turmoil, a better tomorrow awaits?

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Witness: August 21, 2017, Mackay, Idaho

2024-04-03

It was just another beautiful morning in the high desert. I put on the solar glasses and tracked the moon’s collision course with the sun. I nommed on an energy bar, chatted with my neighbors, and looking up again, I saw the sun then half-obscured, but everything else seemed normal. Only at 80-percent coverage did things begin to subtly change, the normal view of our surroundings was slightly dimmed, though slightly crisper, sharper. We were all craning skyward then. Ninety percent. Ninety-five. My solar glasses displayed a crescent moon, only it’s really a crescent sun. And then someone flicked the… Continue reading Witness: August 21, 2017, Mackay, Idaho

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Great is the motorcycle

2024-03-25
Old newspaper "SOUTH PASADENAN" in decorative type with an illustration of a tree branch behind the letters. Subhead: "This Paper is a Member of the Los Angeles County Weekly Country Press Association." Date: "SOUTH PASADENA, CAL., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1905." Excerpt: "It is to be hoped the riders of motorcycles will avoid recklessness and thus prevent to a great extent the prejudice that is bound to rise against them if they are recklessly used. Great is the motorcycle."

Looks like #motorcycle#motorcycle #riders#riders were already #hooning#hooning back in 1905

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Wyman 06 – Into the Desert

2024-03-21
Photo from the seat of a motorcycle, including the land ahead of the motorcycle, a piece of the windshield on the right edge of the photo, and the author reflected in the left rearview mirror in the lower left corner of the photo. The land ahead of the motorcycle is a tall, naked mountain in the desert with multiple, weather-worn peaks leading up to a naked top. Small clumps of grass grow in patches and exposed, dark rock appear on the hill in places. The dirt road that the motorcycle on bend to the left. The author reflected in the mirror of the motorcycle is wearing elkskin leather gloves and a black helmet with a checkerboard strip pattern along the top and a gold reflective visor that has been flipped up a little for ventilation. The reflection in the visor is more scrub brush growing in the sandy soil and the blue sky, both tinted gold. The author is holding a small orange camera with a black lens that is being used to take the photo. Headline at top 06-Into the Desert Subhead Reno, Nevada to Fernly Footer FollowingWyman.Substack.com

I finally leave the safe confines of California – and it’s relative abundance of EV charging stations – for the literal and figurative deserts of Nevada… https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/06-into-the-desert

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The sound of Zero

2024-03-10

Have you ever heard an electric motorcycle before? Whaddya think? From my electric cross country roadtrip in 2016. Visit “In the Tire Tracks of George A. Wyman” on Substack for more.

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05-Up and Over the Sierra Nevada

2024-03-02

After a long hiatus, chapter 5 of my Wyman story on Substack is published.

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04-Across California’s Central Valley

2023-02-23

Chapter 4 of my Wyman story on Substack is here.

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03-Wyman Departs from San Francisco

2023-01-04

Chapter 3 of my George A Wyman Substack story is here.

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02-Enter George Adams Wyman…

2022-11-02

The second “chapter” of my Substack experiment is published here.

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