Los Angeles, CA, April 24, 2024 I’ve been hanging out with my partner in LA when I can between trips this spring. I don’t teach this term. He lives near to the University of Southern California (USC) in a neighborhood with taco trucks, broken down cars being worked on, gas stations, Mexican groceries, brow threading or waxing shops, and a really good little coffee shop. His apartment building is surrounded by working class families’ bungalows and also by heavily renovated and gentrified houses and apartment buildings—all advertising leases to USC students. Amidst the poor and working-class people’s cars, there are Porsches, Teslas, Audis, etc. I saw this car a few months ago sputtering through the neighborhood; it beat ANY rez car hands down for the way it was falling apart and ingeniously held together. I wish I had a photograph! I didn’t want to offend the guy driving it though by taking a picture of his incredible work without permission. It even beats the minivan I saw once on the Crow reservation in Montana with its headlights gouged out. That vehicle was booking down the access road next to the freeway, clearly trying to get somewhere before the setting sun disappeared. I laughed so hard as I whooshed down the freeway in the opposite direction in my little blue Toyota isolation capsule. I was headed back to Edmonton from Colorado where my daughter was in junior college high up in the Rocky Mountains.
Posts from en route - LAX to YEG
Posts from en route - LAX to YEG
Posts from en route - LAX to YEG
Los Angeles, CA, April 24, 2024 I’ve been hanging out with my partner in LA when I can between trips this spring. I don’t teach this term. He lives near to the University of Southern California (USC) in a neighborhood with taco trucks, broken down cars being worked on, gas stations, Mexican groceries, brow threading or waxing shops, and a really good little coffee shop. His apartment building is surrounded by working class families’ bungalows and also by heavily renovated and gentrified houses and apartment buildings—all advertising leases to USC students. Amidst the poor and working-class people’s cars, there are Porsches, Teslas, Audis, etc. I saw this car a few months ago sputtering through the neighborhood; it beat ANY rez car hands down for the way it was falling apart and ingeniously held together. I wish I had a photograph! I didn’t want to offend the guy driving it though by taking a picture of his incredible work without permission. It even beats the minivan I saw once on the Crow reservation in Montana with its headlights gouged out. That vehicle was booking down the access road next to the freeway, clearly trying to get somewhere before the setting sun disappeared. I laughed so hard as I whooshed down the freeway in the opposite direction in my little blue Toyota isolation capsule. I was headed back to Edmonton from Colorado where my daughter was in junior college high up in the Rocky Mountains.