{"id":2826,"date":"2011-02-16T16:10:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2011-02-16T16:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T20:10:43","slug":"two-thousand-foot-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/two-thousand-foot-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"two thousand foot solution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always that odd anxiety at the end of the summer, when you are from a place where the summers end.\u00a0 Often, its not particularly tangible, it mostly just sort of creeps in until you are wearing a heavy jacket wondering where the summer went.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2827\" title=\"6\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2828\" title=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not this year.\u00a0 A week of fog made the intangible unavoidable.\u00a0 Things  were getting heavy and the people I was with unmasked themselves to be  predictably what I hoped they would never show me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2830\" title=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2831\" title=\"16\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All of that at once  left no alternative beyond a frantic fling of  clothes and cameras  through an open rental car window and willing a  piece of shit automatic  with all the force of my right foot to peel out (which was impossible) against the pacific  ocean in search of higher altitude, dry air and a  last, bite off more  than you can chew helping of the sunshine in  solitude before the  bitterness of the winter would set in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2832\" title=\"21\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This normally would never lead to Las Vegas, but after a day spinning  around Mojave the influence of Billy and Ethel was curiously absorbed.\u00a0  The spine of the Sierras would have to wait,\u00a0 before I knew it, I was  back in Nevada, the Silver State I had just left a few weeks before and I  was returning, assuredly, a changed man.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2833\" title=\"29\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, Vegas.\u00a0 When I met up with Stephanie she made a comment about how much cooler her bike was than her car.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2834\" title=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your bike?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2835\" title=\"31\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In  that I&#8217;ll ponder the remarkably consistent part  of my personality  which  makes all of the most fun roads lead to girls  and their  motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2836\" title=\"35\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I  always discover this (the bike) after the  fact, which  of course  makes  it all the more salacious.\u00a0 There are few  things in my  history  that are  as consistent as this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2837\" title=\"45\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/45.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2838\" title=\"44\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2839\" title=\"46\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2840\" title=\"47\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I need a new helmet, follow me to the bike shop, you can check out my ride.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2841\" title=\"49\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/49.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2842\" title=\"58\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2843\" title=\"63\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2844\" title=\"55\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, so, raise your hand if you&#8217;ve kicked up into first wearing heels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2845\" title=\"65\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, raise your hand if you wear a kid size helmet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2846\" title=\"72\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The    combination of these two elements can bring a smile  unlike many    others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2847\" title=\"79\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So much so, in fact, that it&#8217;s this  afternoon that stands    out in  the time line among the memorable moments  from that trip.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2848\" title=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The   search   continues to understand where I come  from, or as a  compromise,   to   discover who dropped me on my head as a  toddler to  get me on this    track  as an adult.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2849\" title=\"76\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Either way, the one conclusion that can absolutely be drawn from  this day&#8217;s fun is that a bike can accelerate way the fuck faster than  the fastest car.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2850\" title=\"84\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Precisely the reason why I dont have one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always that odd anxiety at the end of the summer, when you are from a place where the summers end.\u00a0 Often, its not particularly tangible, it mostly just sort of creeps in until you are wearing a heavy jacket wondering where the summer went. 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