Secrets of the City

I am roadtripping to Chicago tomorrow. Morrissey on Sat and Morrissey again on Monday. WHEE!

Max, that alpaca thing looks really fun!

A friend of mine who makes ultrasound products for the livestock industry (pregnancy testers — primarily) will be working that show Max. Stop by the Renco booth and say “hello” for me…

I’m looking to drive down the Pacific Coast Highway this summer, and look out the window the whole way. Besides a few glances at the road… maybe.

I want me some alpaca love. Alpaca, and llama, are wonderful animals (if they don’t spit on you). Such beautiful eyes.

Btw, Eichten’s farm, near Center City, raises buffalo and they use llama as guards. They herd the cattle well, too.

PCH tour…get a CONVERTIBLE. It’s California fer crissakes. Hearst Castle (duh), as well as some of the little coastal towns like Morro Bay and Pismo Beach, plus some of those great affordable Central Coast wineries around San Luis Obispo.

I was driving through a neighborhood near my college and there were llamas just roaming around in the street. I guess there was a farm up the street but, still, you can’t just let your llamas hang out in the neighborhood. It was weird.

noodleman took mine. i’m taking cubbie jr to a buffalo farm this spring. impressive beast.

Maybe not so weird if you think of alpaca as sheep with long necks. We had cows and other farm critters wandering around outside the campus I was on in Vermont, and we were only 10-miles outside of Montpelier. Western Mass. is pretty rural, too.

Nothing like bicycling around the bend and coming face to face with some buffalo blocking your way.

One of the llamas was napping in the road and it moved when I went by, but I was on a dead-end street and was just turning around. By the time I went 60 feet it was back in the road napping again. It got pissed when I honked and made it move again.

I guess it’s not weird since it is a fairly rural area but still, what if I’d hit that llama or something. You can’t tell your insurance company that you hit a llama. Who is going to believe that shit?

Bix, it wouldn’t be as far-fetched as some of the other stories they’ve heard.

E.g. The claimant had collided with a cow. The questions and answers on the claim form were – Q: What warning was given by you? A: Horn. Q: What warning was given by the other party? A: Moo.

If you want some fun buffalo viewing, make the long ass drive out to Custer State park. They come all the way out to your car.

We were just at House on the Rock on Friday! And my son and I will be returning to Stockholm, Wisconsin’s pizza farm some Tuesday soon.