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The Trip to DogCon 3: Day 1, Part 2, In which we commence the inclusion of feline commentary, view the coolest looking tree on the planet and eat hot dogs on a volcano
(Note: All comments by Flash are in italics)
So, anyway, the town of Weed, California, is the butt of many dope jokes and has been such since the late 1960’s. Naturally, we made a few just to blend in. But the real reason we came to Weed was to see The Tree Tied In A Knot, the first of what will be a veritable parade of interesting/goofy roadside attractions. It was a good start, because it was free to look at and way WAY cool.
See, in the early 1970’s, local feed store owner George Vimp decided to plant a lodgepole pine in his front yard. After it got to be a few feet tall, Ol’ George (possibly after a night of drinking over at the Elk’s Club) decided to grow the tree into not just any knot, but a bigass bow! And man, did he succeed!
The tree forms a perfect bow before turning upwards and reaching a height of 30 feet. It was so totally cool looking, I bought a t-shirt with a picture of the tree and a caption that says “Radical Horticulture!”.
(While everybody was oohing and ahhing over the tree, my sisters & I seriously wanted to chase a couple of chipmunks. Curse harnesses & leashes! Curse them, I say!)
After viewing, photographing and buying t-shirts (and being told that I could never do a tree up like that in our yard), we got back on the bus and drove on up to Oregon and Crater Lake,
If you’ve never been there, Crater Lake is pretty fuckin’ spectacular. (If you like large bodies of cold water way out in the woods. Also, Lucy said she smelled bears twice.) It’s the crater of Mount Mazama, which blew up about 7,500 years ago and went from being 12,000 feet high to juat about 7-8,000 feet high. Then, over about 750 years, it filled up with water. Like I said, very spectacular to see and great for picture taking.
We drove around the park, taking pics and stuff, then stopped for lunch. The critters were a bit nervous, (Hey! BEARS!) but they ate hot dogs with the rest of us. (Well…dude…hotdogs trump bear fear.)
We are now mere minutes from pulling into a KOA for the night. I may do a further update later. Stay tuned.
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