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AA 12 Step Service... I remember Hauling 20 gallons of water to Cohasset, CA. (Near Chico) - I was the Man with the Van and my Friend's Tenant needed it.

Automatically doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done... is a great way to live. 

The tenant was an old lady... The water was for drinking and bathing. and since I Could do The Work... I Did... EASY!

We met through AA and I did the "Service" and felt happy to be able to serve.

Bob Law was the Landlord.


photo of Bob Byron Law of Chico, CA
Photo of Bob Law of Cohasset


Mike Jensen "volunteered" me to haul water...


photo of Mike Jensen of Chico, CA
Mike Jensen Self Portrait


I owned a Ford Windstar Cargo Van...


my van in Bidwell Park, Chico, California

with a free mattress in the back. I became a Turtle with my home on my back... And I travelled from California thru Nevada to Utah...


photo of Gregory Vanderlaan after the Rainbow Gathering in Utah

Then I drove to Oregon and Washington State... where the van's transmission died... and then the engine caught fire... on Highway 5 near Centralia, Washington... I had to take Amtrak Home. The van got smashed at the junkyard recycling center in Vancouver Washington...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/lets-build-solar-powered-desalinization.html
Solar Powered Desalinization Factory converts Seawater into drinking water... Good for making Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks or for Showering, watering plants and livestock...


My Webstore on Zazzle...
https://www.zazzle.com/gregvan


Free Winplot Art for use in your own creations. Pirate at will, Matey It's Fun!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/go-ahead-and-pirate-any-of-these-images.html

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Numbers have cultural meanings... For Example 5150 meaning is Danger to self and others. 1,4,9 is the shape of the TMA in the movie 2001... The Big Black Box. This is my list of every number I can think of and what they mean...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/for-example-and-its-one-two-three-what.html


a small sample of the list...  0: number invented by Indian Mathematicians.  Brought to the middle east and then Europe by an Arabian named Al Khwarizmi. (Algebra). Handy for expressing BIG numbers like, 1 followed by a hundred zeros – a googol.  A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros. Spelled differently than google.

007: James Bond, a secret agent for her Majesty in England. A Character played in the movies by Sean Connery... and a gazillion other wanna-bees.

half pipe: a skateboard word referring to a part of the skate park made out of a concrete pipe sawed in half... a big concave area remains.

¾ waltz time… 4/4 rock music and folk… 5/4 Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”

1: The traditional beginning number used when counting. For Example: One for the Money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, now GO CAT GO! But don’t you, step on my Blue Suede Shoes. also: And it's 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for? Country Joe and the Fish.

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34… Fibonacci sequence… add together any two consecutive numbers to calculate the next term.

1/20/09 date Obama moved into the White House.

1.44 - Size in Megabytes of a Floppy Disk. According to Larry Niven - Science Fiction Author it's the minimum size needed for a Neutron Star.  1.44 times as large as the Sun. "The Chandrasekhar limit ." The currently accepted value of the limit is about 1.39...

1.618 Phi the golden ratio - found often in art and nature

I remember dumpster diving in Chico, California... We grabbed a Mattress and I put it in the back of my Ford Windstar Cargo Van... Then I magically became a "TURTLE" because wherever I drove, I had my home on my back...

I was waiting for an AA Meeting to start and met a kid who said he could show me where to buy Marijuana. We went to the Dealer's Apartment, Bought a Bag of Weed and... Found a Dumpster with a LOT of free stuff... The College kids often abandon their possessions after the School closes for the Summer...

I remember parking in an Oak Forest near Red Bluff in a high wind and all night the Acorns fell on the roof of the Van...Scary, like a gunshot sound... another time I was driving home from Crater Lake, Oregon and I felt really tired so I pulled off at a Campground on Highway 101 just North of Eureka... It looked Just like the Movie Jurassic Park. That's because the Movie WAS filmed there...

Mount Shasta - Panther Meadows - Sacred Spring Water - Summer 2014 - Almost No Snow, Drought let me drive all the way to the end of the road...


A Sacred Mountain. 

as far as you can drive... Mike Jensen and my Ford Windstar
Arranged Rocks on Mount Shasta

Trailhead Rock Sculpture

On the way UP...

Mike Rode a Bicycle down from the mountaintop.

He says it was really cold riding down due to wind chill.

Holy Water
Our Motel - Nice People Work There
Drive North on Highway 5 and take exit 737, Mount Shasta City
Mt. Shasta Lore

            Indigenous people from Northern California and Southern Oregon are primarily the Pit River Indians, Modocs, Wintu, Karuk, Hupa, Shasta and Yurok tribes.

Mt. Shasta’s peak has been used as a spiritual and geographical locator.  At 14,179 ft. elevation and an active volcano, Mt. Shasta towers above all other surrounding mountains.  Native people do not reside on Mt. Shasta because it is considered so powerful.  Spiritual ceremony is conducted in areas below the timberline and when finished, the surroundings are returned to nature, with nothing left behind.  Medicine men and shamans are often taken to Mt. Shasta for training.  There is much Native lore telling how the mountain has healed through prayer, songs, dancing, doctoring and through nature.  The mountain yields a sacred spring and areas for collecting plants and herbs for ceremony and healing.  The mountain is called ‘grandfather’ as it represents the paternal grandparents of the Pit River Tribe.  Their powerful spirit called Mis Misa is said to live inside the mountain and serves to keep the universe in balance.  They consider Mt. Shasta the beginning of all life and the end of all life, where one can ascend into the sky along the Milky Way to the beyond.

The Native peoples report many tunnels within Mt. Shasta.  The Wintu say the mountain generates sound that provides information and guidance.  The Wintu lore says another realm exists inside the mountain and access might come through doorways, such as vents in caves.  Mt. Shasta must be approached with great care and respect as it is guarded by certain spirits.  Mt. Shasta is so powerful that only short visits are appropriate.  It is said that “It has it all”.  During ceremony, the Wintu frequently hear and know the presence of the “little people”, called the Mountain Boys, who live deep within the mountain.  A shaman can communicate with the little people.  The shaman also uses the bubbling brook on the mountain to gain spiritual information. 

When visiting the mountain, silence is important for meditation and fasting. The mountain spirits command respect.


METAPHYSICAL LORE


As early as the 1880s, writers began their association of the lost continent of Lemuria with Mt. Shasta.  Even though these theories cannot be proved, the power of the mountain remains supreme.  People worldwide visit Mt. Shasta to be close to its spiritual energy, to meditate, to communicate with the spirit world and to be healed.  The concept of Lemurians living within the mountain has become widely popular and anyone visiting Mt. Shasta will be amazed by the abundance of literature on the topic as well as practitioners working within the vortex of an important spiritual community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Mount_Shasta



Three Bears and My Cow... Camping in Oregon on the way to Crater Lake...

My Farmville Cow in the Dashboard of my Van at a campground in Oregon

Painting on the Wall of a Chico Coffee Shop
Bear at the Welcome Center on Highway #5 near Redding
Chainsawed Bear Sculpture near Crater Lake Oregon
Madison Bear Garden, a Bar in Chico
Waterfall on a Tributary of the Sacramento River... Flows to San Francisco Bay
My Ford Windstar Van at a Rest Stop on Highway #5

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