Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Nome Life
So, I was thinking a lot about what I like best about Nome on this trip and why of course I think everyone really needs to see Nome at least once in their lives. As of right now I think the key is how many stories are just laying around waiting to be told. Books and books of the stuff. So, here's just a sampling pretty much of the nutty Nome goodness.
Every couple miles on the Kougarok road there'd be a situation like this:
Seems pretty intentional you know, leaving the snowmachine for summer but what's the deal for real? Our helicopter pilot suggested it meant less stuff to drive to and from Nome in the spring but this snowmachines are going to be such a bear now to move with the snow gone that I just don't know.
Another highlight is the grafitti sprinkled around town. Full of character just like the people. Pretty sweet move by Britney and Angeline last year. Marked up this chunk of wood and then threw it in the water under the boardwalk so nobody's willing to get wet cleaning it up:
Nothing says contempt for society like young, angry, and bad spelling:
We get that they're mad at the world and want to tell everyone you know but what happened here? Did they get caught, or chicken out, or just honestly not know how to spell?
One of my other favorite things are the gold boats. Check out this one. It's like a one legged octopus:
So, at first glance it looks like some crackpot came up with this sand sucking boat for panning the gold out there and pieced it together from spare parts. That makes pretty good sense but I was looking over it pretty closely yesterday and it's actually a big investment somebody's made. The aluminum barge couldn't have been cheap to weld up and put together and then there's the rigging and stuff, too.
Another highlight from the walk to the airport and back was this surplus gurney parked in front of somebody's house:
Wouldn't you have loved to be in that room when the rest of the family sees the prize picked up from the government auction! The modern sensitive man is welcome in Nome, too. One of the ads on the TV was for Crazy Bill's Emporium. He's big into aroma candles right now.
I guess the final highlight for this trip was what awaited me at our storage unit. Looks like this teddy bear is fresh from the junkyard oven.
Every couple miles on the Kougarok road there'd be a situation like this:
Seems pretty intentional you know, leaving the snowmachine for summer but what's the deal for real? Our helicopter pilot suggested it meant less stuff to drive to and from Nome in the spring but this snowmachines are going to be such a bear now to move with the snow gone that I just don't know.
Another highlight is the grafitti sprinkled around town. Full of character just like the people. Pretty sweet move by Britney and Angeline last year. Marked up this chunk of wood and then threw it in the water under the boardwalk so nobody's willing to get wet cleaning it up:
Nothing says contempt for society like young, angry, and bad spelling:
We get that they're mad at the world and want to tell everyone you know but what happened here? Did they get caught, or chicken out, or just honestly not know how to spell?
One of my other favorite things are the gold boats. Check out this one. It's like a one legged octopus:
So, at first glance it looks like some crackpot came up with this sand sucking boat for panning the gold out there and pieced it together from spare parts. That makes pretty good sense but I was looking over it pretty closely yesterday and it's actually a big investment somebody's made. The aluminum barge couldn't have been cheap to weld up and put together and then there's the rigging and stuff, too.
Another highlight from the walk to the airport and back was this surplus gurney parked in front of somebody's house:
Wouldn't you have loved to be in that room when the rest of the family sees the prize picked up from the government auction! The modern sensitive man is welcome in Nome, too. One of the ads on the TV was for Crazy Bill's Emporium. He's big into aroma candles right now.
I guess the final highlight for this trip was what awaited me at our storage unit. Looks like this teddy bear is fresh from the junkyard oven.
