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Published on The Doomstead Diner September 1, 2019
The Fun of Flying
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Regular readers of the Diner Forum know I am currently out of state from the Last Great Frontier of Alaska on another one of my Cripple Cart Jet-Setting Adventures related to the SUN☼ Monument, which by no coincidence is also my Tombstone. I'll be writing a full article and producing a video just about that aspect of this trip after I get home, but for today I'll just fill in the readers and viewers with other aspects of this trip I am trying to accomplish.
It's also no coincidence where the Final Resting Place for the rest of Eternity is for the SUN☼ Monument, it's dead center of Flyover Country in the FSoA, Springfield, MO. This because it's where my few remaining family members live, and it's where my mom died and was buried. So I bought a plot there for myself after my accident, figuring it wasn't going to be long before I was pushing up daisies myself.
SUN☼ represents everything I have stood for over my time as an observer of Collapse, which goes back basically to 2007 or so. In 2013, I founded a Non-profit 501c3 corporation to try and fulffil the goals I would like to see achieved, to "Build a Better Tomorrow" for whatever Homo Saps manage to survive the crash of this civilization, and to "Save As Many As You Can" of the creatures (including but not limited to Homo Saps) currently inhabiting the planet.
It has been a slog and slow going with this Mission, and due to my less-than-perfect health (lol) , it's unlikely that I can see this project through to completion. Even if I was in perfect health though, it would be unlikely because rebuilding after this civilization crash will take many generations, so I wanted to leave behind a message that would last as long as possible. Of all the media you have to work with, none lasts longer than stone. The oldest writing we have is on stone tablets, so what better place to put down the message and the principles than my Tombstone? I used the best and hardest Granite I could get, and had the stones carved in China and here for the final engravings. Of course, it wasn't easy to boil down the millions of words I have written to what I could fit on a Tombstone, but I think I hit the important points.
I'll write more and have more video on the SUN☼ Monument Project after I get back to the Last Great Frontier, but that wasn't the only thing this trip was about. Since I am living through my own personal form of collapse, I have a lot of things I want to tie up the loose ends on before I buy my ticket to the Great Beyond. The videos which follow here are a few snippets from the trip so far, negotiating the plane flights with my Cripple Cart, getting my Jeep which has been sitting in a storage unit for 12 years running and gettng a new & improved system for trailering all my stuff while traveling so I am not constantly having crashes and having to jury rig the contraption throughout the traveling, which believe you me gets old very fast. lol.
So this is a travelogue of this adventure, but not like your normal travelogue vids of picturesque places to visit. About the most picturesque place in this set is the Bates Motel I am staying at, a Motel 6 where Tom Burdett left the light on for me. 🙂 It's all unedited stuff, I don't have time or energy to do any editing or make any title pages or wipes and other transitions right now. I do think they are kind of fun to watch though, and mostly not too long.
More coming after I get home.
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A half empty jet
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Touring the Bates Motel
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Trying to start a Jeep after 12 years in a storage unit
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Creating the new & improved Cripple Cart trailer rig hookup
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A well equipped Shop. Don't Collapse without one.