WHAZAMMO & THE GILLIG

 THE WORLD JUST GOT SMALLER... WEEK SIX  28 OCTOBER, 2024 We reached out to Bandon this past week, and Brookings last week, it was an all too familiar experience to our 8 years in Florence and reaching out to Eugene, Newport, and Coos Bay...  it was a failure, a repulsive, disgusting failure.       We left Florence 5 times in 8 years, and now doubt we will ever leave Port Orford/Gold Beach, ever !  After years spent with a pre-drivers license age yearning to wander, leave, escape, investigate, and explore ended at 16, never to be put back into the garage, or run out of highway ever again... now, I have installed spike strips around Curry County for keeping us local,  the yin - yang of it all, there is simply nothing more to see out there, no worth in the experience, we are saturated with averse, we are staying home. We pioneered this obsession long before Covid, long before the wall was completed, we left town for-the-sea for a reason, remote...

 Who knew it rained in Oregon ? Week 5: On the 14th at 1500, a "V" of well organized geese flew over , headed South... 135 of them ! (I counted).                                                                        no picture this post    And a gazillion things your Mother never told you about, all arrange to haunt you (just before Halloween), snails, hermit crabs, turtles, gypsy's, boat people, yurt dwellers, RV livers, and tenters all carry their homes around with them, they are liquid, untied from the dock, "loose", resilient...whatever/however you wish to describe their state of freedom. When you live in a Tardis you become very private, firstly... because there is not much room for entertaining guests, or visitors, secondly there is the issue of you must either become a minimalist, or a "...

 Week four... here is a list of complaints:  15 October, 2024 We are working on a complaint list, here is what we have amassed so far, after four weeks...  no sea gulls no garage sales no fresh seafood no homeless masses sleeping, camping, begging.    Oh wait. !  ... that last one is not complaint, but a commendation. Made the Brookings run, found the picnic ground and lakeside fire ring, got the van back to status, got medical and pharmacy on board, all of the addresses changed, and the online accounts readressed, got started on the winter prep (readying for the November rains), locals here think they get more rain than Florence, and more wind too... so far, no contest whatsoever...  but, we will see. Three weeks until the election drama, we burned out many "hours" of telephone time doing what could not be done online or by snail mail to transfer, update everything/everyone over to the new location... really enjoying the small town friendly and effici...

  THREE WEEKS... 21 days in Paradise. 6 OCTOBER, 2024 No, not in St. Barts or Grand Cayman… right here in Oregons’ old State of Jefferson founding place, Port Orford… we have possibly one more week of acclimatization, reorganizing, and familiarizing to do, but this place is amazing ! It is not yet winter, but so far there has been far less wind than Florence, and there are stars !!! the silence (after the harbor) is unbelievable, we are really missing the wildlife... as are the cats, but the rhythm and atmosphere here is like something from 1960 Oregon, only with Amazon, wifi, and electric added in.   The slower pace, and lack of wealth on display seems to have lowered the competition bar, it is a truly “casual” tempo, without being “pioneer” or Oregon trail level sittin’ on a sack of seeds laid back. After the shiny wears off, we doubt we will ever miss the Florence/Bandon “little California” scene we left behind <intentionally>, we appear to be able to simply lock ...