This is it Kids, Boy This is Really IT!

[create_destiny]

Oh my God, I'm so in love you guys. Bury my heart in Plumas County. Just drive up highway 70 east and toss it in the



Highway 70 East is the Feather River Scenic Byway. It runs along the north fork of the Feather river into the Sierra Nevada mountains. It cuts through deeply carved canyons and tunnels through giant layers of exfoliating granite. I've driven this road three times in the last four weeks and I can't get enough. I fantasize that all people disappear from the earth so I can explore this highway without you assholes ridin' up on my tail because I'm soakin' it all in and you just want to hurry up and get to where you're going. Well, in my dreams, you're dead, okay? You're gone. Buh-bye. Well, okay, maybe not dead, just fucking off for while, so I can suck the teat of this landscape up into my soul and LIVE, damn it, LIVE for a thousand years, relishing it's beauty!



I want to lick these rocks. Yes, I will marry them and hump them and have their little schisty, batholithic babies.





God is my favorite artist. You can't beat this with a stick.



Closer....oh, God, look at that...yeah.



A few years ago I rode Amtrak's California Zephyr from Sacramento to Omaha, along these very rails. It's scenic as all get out, but I went a little stir crazy. I think I was on that train for almost 48 hours.



Yeah, baby!





The Bird Man and I taking a dip in Feather River. The current was strong and the cold water felt divine.

Comments

[langatmig.livejournal.com]

Oh beautiful. All that scenery reminds me so much of my drives back and forth through the coastal ranges to and from Arcata, CA. I'm so envious of you - I'd do anything to do be there right now!

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

Have you gone on any forays into the wild areas of Wisconsin? I just saw a book at the library book sale yesterday, "Wisconsin Off the Beaten Path." I wanted to pick it up but I didn't. Maybe I should have....

[langatmig.livejournal.com]

I've done a little bit of exploring in the wilderness in Wisconsin... last weekend I was just down in a park called Devils Lake that was really gorgeous. Some of my favorite areas in Wisconsin are the rural farmland and the woods up north... not particularly parks, but wider open spaces that are still pretty, quiet, and inviting.

The thing about Wisconsin, even though I've grown up here, is that there's nothing too fantastic about the land - it's pretty flat, some parts with a few hills. If you came from Plumas National Forest and then immediately went to say, Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin, it's be pretty, but you'd definitely lack the dramatics in the scenery.