I started my morning with an extremely remote locations YouTube (a top ten), where I imagine practicing or training with extreme remote livingry as I call it (XRL — search term). One of the locales was not far from Yellow Knife, which has already featured.
Yesterday was the official Earth Day and I joined Deb and her dog, with my dog, for a day on the beach, combing for Japanese floats. What you might find on Earth Day in particular are a few locally made floats (blown glass) specifically for this event, a kind of Easter egg hunt. People hide them. Deb got one last year.
In the videos, the XRL yurts are in Mongolia and Siberia, which is where yurts actually are, I don’t need to lift a finger, near Genghis Khan’s old hangout. Some likely get satellite TV and may use Starlink or one of those.
The R&D villages I imagine have a futuristic flavor as they’re typically involved in regional planning, such as for Bering Strait stuff.
Our first walk on the beach was during first daylight, as we left Portland pretty early, taking Highway 18 through Newberg and McMinnville. Newberg contains George Fox University, whereas McMinnville has the Air and Space Museum, which Alan Potkin visited on his last trip. McMinnville also has McMenamins brewpub and hotel, where Dawn and I stayed that time.
The only museum I visited on this trip was the two-floor history museum in Lincoln City. I learned about the history of the postal service in this coastal region, about logging, fishing, homesteading, road building. Not that much about rail, another big part of the regional history but less so right along the Oregon coast.
Nowadays much of the economy relates to tourism, but that’s not new, as the museum makes clear. Joy riding by car, touring the Americas, is what the petroleum industry made possible, along with car camping.
