Looking for big foot! July 22-08

See there is a big foot.
Here is another big foot, this one also has a big nose!
Look, there are even bigfoot crossing signs.
This big foot is so nice he also provides services to travellers.
Big foots store!
Nail in tire.
Well if you have to fix a tire it may as well be next to the ocean.

A couple of days ago, I put on my new front tire, thinking I would have no tire issues for the rest of the trip. But right outside of Fort Bragg, the front end felt mushy and I knew I had a problem, an errant roofing nail had found its way into my front tire. Well at least I was ocean side to change it. I did find it interesting that during the hour it took to repair the tire only one motorcyclist stopped to offer assistance, while hundreds drove by. Had this been Alaska or Canada, every motorcyclist would have stopped. The only guy that stopped was on vacation here from Switzerland, he could barely speak English, and had no technical skills, but offered anyway. For California being such a progressive, inclusive and loving to all people state, they certainly lack in basic friendliness and willingness to help. May be if I was stoner passed out on the side of the road with a tin cup held up asking for donations, more people would have stopped.

No matter, I work better by myself and would rather not have a cheering section giving me advice, and hour later I was all fixed up and on my way.

I looked high and low for big foot, I found statues of him, as well a crossing signs etc...He seems to be an awfully nice person, he has a convenience store, and offers all kinds of souvenirs. Maybe tonight I will lay in the woods, slathered with Vienna sausage and spam juice and that will draw him in!

I have decided not to travel down to wine country, due to my means of travel, stopping and doing some tasting is not a good idea, I have been there before, and this is one area, that I feel really needs to be shared with other people. Beyond wine country I have no real choice other than to go through San Francisco, once again I have been there before, and have no real desire to go back there again, besides that the crime rate is high due to the protection laws they have for illegal aliens, and the city of Oakland is going through a big crime spree. I think I am going to cut across the state and hit some of the mountain ranges on the east side of the state. I have also made arrangements to spend a couple of days at lake Tahoe next week, so I am going to work myself that way.

Tim