aawww have fun....will miss all of you!
TheRaquel03.26.09 - 2:46 pm
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whats the google group on this? ridazzcamp?
Roadblock03.26.09 - 4:26 pm
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where a circle of death is really absurd to do.
Joe Borfo03.26.09 - 4:26 pm
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http://groups.google.com/group/r2rrrr-poker-ride
I can't wait!
spiraldemon03.26.09 - 4:29 pm
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its there. zoom in. its black.
Hard to tell from aerial view.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2601168
Joe Borfo03.26.09 - 4:31 pm
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Baaaaaaahhhahahaa I knew you were going to get left behind fluffa!!!
User103.26.09 - 4:37 pm
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at least he's not getting it in the behind like you will be at your porno movie!!!
toweliesbong03.26.09 - 4:40 pm
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I'm getting my testicle squashed by mistress, not gay sex.
The movie is on mental patients.
Get your gossip straight Brad.
User103.26.09 - 4:45 pm
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Man, it's a kick in the nuts when a town smaller and dumpier than Victorville gets its own Critical Mass.
What's next, Circle Of Death on the 40???
bentstrider03.26.09 - 5:36 pm
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There are currently only 3 permanent residents of Amboy. So we're going to increase the population by 800% or something like that.
toweliesbong03.26.09 - 5:42 pm
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Then again, Victorville minus all the tract developments built from 2003 would pretty much equal, say "Pearblossom"???
bentstrider03.26.09 - 6:38 pm
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I'll miss you, too. Last year was sooo much fun...
alicestrong03.26.09 - 6:57 pm
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6 very adventurous souls did the first ever Amboy Critical Mass at 1:30 am early Saturday morning to kick off the 2nd Annual R2RRRR Poker Ride weekend and it was a major fucking success.
Two reasons it was a success, the riders that rode, and the 40 people working on a film at Roy's Motel and Cafe in Amboy that night. Our group of six confounded the crew by materializing from nowhere in the middle of the desert at 2am and their confusion was intensified by our inquiries for directions to Los Angeles. Ah, those that remained back at camp missed out on a hilarious encounter.
Major kudos to Mook, Rob, Spiraldemon, kuby, PC, and ME! (did I get that right gaise? my memory is weak from no sleep)
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 12:08 am
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Oh, yeah, the Circle of Death at Route 66 and the BNSF railroad was epic.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 12:09 am
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Welcome back!
You didn't miss much!
User103.30.09 - 12:12 am
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We missed you, Borfo, and Dan and Heather.
Amazing weekend, awesome weather, wildflowers, BLM rangers, incredible people, smashing pennies on the railroad tracks, the batteries on my music bike lasted from 8pm Friday night all through the weekend and are still running, film crews in the middle of nowhere, fireworks and related shenanigans, fucking incredible people, not one but two critical masses, crater hike and Tomatoes still didn't get lost, setting up camp under a Route 66 bridge,
incredibly fucking incredible people, plenty of food and beer and everyone sharing everything, other than the BLM rangers our LEO encounters were all positive, exploring the abandoned church and getting kicked out was priceless.
The trophy for lo hand went to Mook (with 8 hi, I think) and the trophy for hi hand went to Rob (with an aces/fours full house).
Here's a pic of 19 of the 23 shiny happy people who attended.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 12:56 am
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Towelie,
Once again thanks for all the effort you put into making these trips great. That along with the wonderful ridazz who came out made it another Amboy Poker Run to remember fondly.
bananaphone03.30.09 - 2:06 am
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Midnight hiking to the noise show was awesome!
The Bats Were Birds!
Kakihara03.30.09 - 9:31 am
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"The Bats Were Birds!"
hahahaha, weakest part of the trip was the bird under the bridge hitting me and PC in the back of the head, and PC being so scared later that he wouldn't sleep under the bridge with us. In the year that I've known PC I always thought he was an invincible fearless fuck, HA!
He's still invincible, though.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 10:34 am
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Nicole recovering the shoes Marcus had put up in the Shoe Tree last year.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 10:36 am
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I'm not scared of bats, you dick, I just didn't want to wake up with a bunch of batshit in my sleeping bag.
PC03.30.09 - 10:40 am
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Edited:
"The Bats Were Birds!"
hahahaha, weakest part of the trip was the bird under the bridge hitting me and PC in the back of the head, and PC being so scared of bird shit later that he wouldn't sleep under the bridge with us. In the year that I've known PC I always thought he was an invincible fearless fuck, HA!
He's still invincible, though.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 10:50 am
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They Were Bats, Guys.
I missed Amboy. Cross-planned FAIL.
SKIDMARCUS03.30.09 - 11:28 am
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They were bats, you guys. Bats.
Bats are basically druids. Every spring in the low desert, the bats have a ritual where they all dress like animals and parade through the town to please their gods so that their crops won't fail. This year they were dressed as birds.
Now you know what bats do in the springtime. And you also know that I was not wrong, because I am never wrong.
Bats. They. Were. Bats.
PC03.30.09 - 11:45 am
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I don’t know PC – I think I am naming the band “The Bats Were Birds” but if you want we can have the album titled “Bats are basically druids” or maybe that could be the first track… as long as the ending track is titled “the hippie is scared of bat shit” then I think we can re-unite at the “studio” and make it happen
Of course we will need votes or something from the other members of the band… but I am fairly certain they like the band name and they also like to make fun of hippies.
Kakihara03.30.09 - 12:38 pm
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Can the first track be called "What Bats Do In Springtime"? Then you guys can make fun of hippies all you want.
PC03.30.09 - 1:01 pm
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And I am going to start my own side project called The Birds Were Bats.
PC03.30.09 - 1:03 pm
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Hanging out at our 2nd camp site after being harassed by the BLM. PC is somewhere just outside of the frame running away from imaginary Bats That Were Birds.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 1:51 pm
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i am absolutely stunned!
this is the most beautiful thing i think ive ever seen?
My god.
incredible.
greg, you are... amazing. gah! .............
incredible photograph, beautiful moment, in a surreal dreamworld.
WOW
Candy Cane03.30.09 - 2:19 pm
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"Major kudos to Mook, Rob, Spiraldemon, kuby, PC, and ME!"
I only inquired if this was Amboy Critical Mass, I wasn't one of the six.
cured103.30.09 - 3:42 pm
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Ok, the sixth was either bananaphone or maybe Graham? Damn, it was all a blur.
Or was it just PC, me, and spiraldemon and I was seeing double???
For that matter did we mass hallucinate the film crew? Were we in the desert at all last weekend? Or am I just imagining you all???
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 4:06 pm
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"There are currently only 3 permanent residents of Amboy. "
And we got chased out of church by the grumpiest one. He reminded me of frumble!!!
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 4:10 pm
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The Super Rad Plaque and killer full house.
T-Bong's spoke cards were pretty fucking awesome too!
cured103.30.09 - 5:34 pm
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Man, I'm sorry I missed this trip. I was at a fundraiser where a couple of Ren Faire bands played, and I won an autographed photo of Spartacus-era Tony Curtis. Not too bad a weekend, but no bats or shoe trees or GET road art.
BellBeefer03.30.09 - 5:57 pm
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Thanks Rob!
I have to find the 3 extra spoke cards. I didn't give one to myself, and I need to give one to frumble and BellBeefer since they were the first people to help work on the poker ride by cleaning up the campsite when they stopped there before the Salton Sea trip.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 6:17 pm
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Can you guys explain what happened with BLM?
User103.30.09 - 7:58 pm
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Old man protectin' his church, you sure it just wasn't a desert meth-head thinking you were raiding his stack?
bentstrider03.30.09 - 9:18 pm
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Positive. He had the keys to Roy's in Amboy and was helping the film crew fill their gas cans and stuff.
"Get out of here or I'm calling the sheriff"
We're leaving, I apologize, we didn't hurt anything.
"Get out of here or I'm calling the sheriff!!!!"
We're continuing to leave, and I apologize again.
"Get out of here or I'm calling the sheriff!!!!"
I say we are leaving, we understand you.
"Get out of here or I'm calling the sheriff!!!!"
Ok, you fucking old coot! Shut up already!
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 9:27 pm
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Oh hey - we met that guy when we were there before Salton Sea. He wondered why the hell we wanted to go to Joshua Tree. "There's nothin' there." Which was kind of like the pot calling the kettle... a pot. PS - hooray spoke cards!
BellBeefer03.30.09 - 9:35 pm
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No. He was in Roy's. I can't imagine this guy making a motorized vehicle work other than a Rascal. Different cranky guy maybe?
BellBeefer03.30.09 - 9:42 pm
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Yeah, definitely don't want to have San Bernardino Sheriff called on you.
Especially the ones from the Barstow Station, the entire department is made up of some real, hard-asses.
bentstrider03.30.09 - 9:42 pm
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I bet it was that dude in that golf cart that ran that roy station thing.
The fella seemed like a nice guy, but it was in the day time and I didn't scare the shit out of him.
User103.30.09 - 9:58 pm
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"No. He was in Roy's."
I know who you're talking about. I bought my t-shirt from him a couple of trips ago. He's nice, the other dude was a dick. I think he must have been watching a porno at his place because he was all grumpy every time the film crew called him to come turn the gas pumps on.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 9:59 pm
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"The fella seemed like a nice guy, but it was in the day time and I didn't scare the shit out of him."
It was in the day time for us, too. He was asleep when we went into Amboy the first night. Maybe he wasn't getting enough sleep because of the film crew working at 3am. He was pretty fucking grumpy to everyone.
toweliesbong03.30.09 - 10:02 pm
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Did you guys camp at the same spot?
User103.30.09 - 10:06 pm
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Yes, Towlie, you may fling bat guano at me from backstage. But only if you risk death by collecting said bat-bird guano from the altar of the Amboy church.
PC03.31.09 - 3:54 am
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Looks like another successful, amazing and fun Amboy trip Greg!! So bummed Dan and I missed out :(
MissSissyBar03.31.09 - 10:33 am
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Yeah, we really missed you gaise!
Tomatoes and bananaphone in Amboy Crater:
toweliesbong03.31.09 - 11:00 am
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holy fuck, towelie's!
all your films are belong to us
spiraldemon03.31.09 - 11:03 am
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I gots pics coming of all those who entered the deep moist recesses of Amboy Crater.
toweliesbong03.31.09 - 3:50 pm
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Great shots guys!!
I hope you left the crater with a message written out?
User103.31.09 - 4:54 pm
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Not this year. Not enough time and no one had the energy.
toweliesbong03.31.09 - 5:09 pm
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Look at the fast walking indiana jones thats leading the way.
Graham04.1.09 - 4:25 pm
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I had such a great time camping in such a remote area, when's the next trip?
spiraldemon04.1.09 - 4:36 pm
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Westport Critical Mass
Count me in.
cured104.1.09 - 4:44 pm
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Hell ya midday hikazz!! This is what I was doing before I got back into biking. Biking's getting to be too expensive. I'm going back to hiking.
User104.1.09 - 4:45 pm
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hahah, so win! BLM is quoted, "The recreation opportunities here are as diverse as the landscape. The Douglas-fir peaks attract hikers, hunters, campers and mushroom collectors..."
yay mushroom collectors!
spiraldemon04.1.09 - 4:51 pm
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We'll camp at Usal Creek, the beach in the middle left of the attached picture. On our way to Usal Creek we'll stop in Westport for critical mass. Just need to figure out the long weekend for it.
toweliesbong04.1.09 - 4:56 pm
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It's not my fault y'all muhfuggers are out of shape.
PC04.2.09 - 3:16 am
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Why are you flipping us off? Do you hate us or something?
User104.2.09 - 5:55 pm
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Finally getting to my digital photos from 328 Amboy Annex:
toweliesbong05.18.09 - 12:44 am
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this thread is amazing.
its better than ffffound.com
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Tomatoes and a fucked up Polaroid.
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