Subject: hiho igo ono etc<br/>
Date: Nov 09, 2001 @ 03:57<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-462275950">ferndale ca<br/>
day 176<br/>
<br/>
since the odometer chanced to read exactly 55555 when the maxivan arrived at <br/>
my nephews place<br/>
i made certain to end our visit & depart on the 5th day<br/>
so i might write off the entire trip as well as the entire sojourn to my <br/>
normal multidimensional try pointing activities<br/>
& thus also maintain the date count here uninterrupted & undiminished<br/>
<br/>
however i had no clear idea where i was going<br/>
but only a vague impulse for finding the giant trees again & the lost coast <br/>
that is lost precisely behind them<br/>
& also for bagging a point of their world famous humboldt county killer weed<br/>
<br/>
my first serious glance at the map occurred only after message 4444 was <br/>
posted from the redding library<br/>
& it was then that i beheld upon my best available route not just one but a <br/>
twin lifelong objective<br/>
the adjacent communities of ono & igo california<br/>
<br/>
you may wish to follow all this on topozone<br/>
especially the incredible topography<br/>
<br/>
i swear it is all fresh & true<br/>
<br/>
places with palindromic names like ono have long been a premium boundary & <br/>
try pointing category for me<br/>
even before brian & brendan raised our bp consciousness about them<br/>
but when a palindromic place seems to have a partner in semantic antics<br/>
this is bound to be irresistible to me<br/>
for sooner or later i had to know<br/>
are these 2 places as amused about themselves as i am<br/>
<br/>
& the answer i am thrilled to report is yes<br/>
indeed they are evidently a fairly well consolidated entity<br/>
& their greatest irony lies i think in the subtle difference in cadences <br/>
between the names of the ono igo church & the igo ono school<br/>
<br/>
but playing the whats in a place name game can sometimes have a cumulative <br/>
effect<br/>
& matters did indeed only get better from there<br/>
for i was soon prevented from going to blocksburg<br/>
& forced to turn back to civilization by an accumulation of automotive <br/>
symptoms<br/>
which were all very directly repaired by sheer good luck at fortuna<br/>
for no charge but the small tip i had to force upon my mysterious <br/>
benefactors<br/>
<br/>
i then proceeded to make my bagpoint of weed by picking up a 1 legged <br/>
hitchhiker named mike<br/>
& then scrambling with him & 2 of his friends all the wild way from honeydew <br/>
to petrolia<br/>
where we first er gassed up<br/>
& then on to ferndale for the closest available atm<br/>
for that is just a taste of how lost the entire lost coast of california <br/>
really<br/>
is<br/>
<br/>
even better than the oregon coast in many regards<br/>
<br/>
ferndale for example besides being a victorian brigadoon is also almost <br/>
entirely forgotten for its kinetic sculpture race museum<br/>
a leading repository of comic fantasy annually augmented by winners & losers <br/>
of the local kinetic sculpture race event<br/>
like ours another world class monument to frivolatry<br/>
another game beyond the pale of boundaries<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
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