"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
07/04/2020 at 00:30 • Filed to: None
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"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
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This is my photo you damn kinja
The reason why the date is significant with this photo is because this is a picture of one of the most crowded beaches in my area. It is the only beach in the area where you can legally have nice bbq grill fires and its got a lovely beach with an easily accessible parking lot. Last weekend it looked more like this:
So thanks to Covid, the beaches are closed through the holiday weekend. I find the silver lining in this though to be that I get to enjoy the area all to myself instead. Fewer people out on the road, the trails are still open but now there is nowhere to park, and I can enjoy a bike ride along the beach without people in the way.
Went for a nice ride through Serrano valley, enjoying the downhill jam mixed in with random intense uphill climbs. Always a beautiful day for riding here in Malibu!
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> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/04/2020 at 00:36 |
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Dang, just rubbing in most people's total lack of backyard beaches and hiking trails. I have a few trails at least but they're always packed full of people.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/04/2020 at 00:46 |
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luckily here there are no active cases of covid-19, in our state capital Melbourne though its a different story.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-03/victoria-coronavirus-cases-in-postcode-3031/12420884
fintail
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/04/2020 at 01:26 |
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Meanwhile in WA, apparently hordes of drones are headed out to the beach, with traffic backups, and likely new outbreaks coming to light within a week or so.
F un times.
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
07/04/2020 at 10:07 |
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I did a hike last Friday where I saw zero people in the first 3 hours of my 10 hour hike. I could have easily done a round trip 6 hour hike and seen nobody if I stayed in that section. It wasn’t even overgrown or uninteresting like where I usually don’t see people.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> fintail
07/04/2020 at 12:32 |
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You know how the locals here work. Any time there’s a ray of sunshine on a weekend (about 4-5 times a year), they lose their minds and have to crowd into every available outdoor space (trails, beaches, campgrounds, lakes, parks, backyards, rivers, parking lots, etc). With the cancellation of Seafair, you know there are a lot of people itching to drink outdoors in huge groups right now.
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fintail
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/04/2020 at 12:44 |
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It’ll be fun to see the epidemiological impacts in a couple weeks. Those going to some parts of eastern WA may bring home a souvenir. On the local news last night I saw quite a back up on highway 12 leading to Ocean Shores. I don’t see the appeal. I bet the trails will be fun too, this weekend being the first in a long time where both days will be dry.
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> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/04/2020 at 12:52 |
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There are a few quiet trails in the National Park but it isn't very large comparatively and the entire city of Atlanta likes to come on weekends.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> fintail
07/04/2020 at 12:54 |
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Couldn’t be too much worse than the reversal we already saw. It was leveling off at a low rate in May, then near the end of the month it started heading up and hasn’t slowed down. We keep setting new daily records...
So now that we have peak infections, let’s just all go crowd together to spread it further.
Definitely doubting that campus will be reopening in October as currently planned...
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fintail
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
07/04/2020 at 12:57 |
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It can be worse, we can be Yakima, which due to staffing and infection issues, was running out of hospital capacity not long ago. All of this American exceptionalism, don’t tell me what to do, I know what’s right.
T he second half of this year is going to be a wild ride.