Alkali Lake (Oregon): Big sky central Oregon * {Could many cars these days have video cameras built in ... ? } * ... into a realistic virtual earth for traveling, - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforTraveling?src=hashtag_click - think Google Street View with time slider, - since this Big sky central Oregon road is so stellar? ... and especially #VirtualOregon ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1176616037329981441?s=20 ~

Big sky central Oregon, 

Amazingly wondrous huge sky, 

High desert, vast land.

Is that a pyramid to the east,

Or a mountain far older than Egypt's 

Ancient builds?

Four choppers stopped at red light

In middle of this desert, 

heading south,

Two old hippies with very long hair, 

one is shirtless,

Two riders with short hair. 

Absurd, Fellini-esque,

Where are they going together, 

In forsaken southern Oregon desert??

We wait for the traffic light to change,

For the Pilot car to arrive from the other direction. 

The guy with long hair, a long gray ponytail, and no shirt,

Lays down a pelt the length of his head, torso, and sacrum, 

behind his high handlebar-red motorcycle,

and smiles back at me,

before he lays down on his back,

On the tarmac.

I recline in my driver's seat to wait for the light to change.

Olde hippies, a free spirit, in the middle of

Oregon central desert vastness, on the road.

{Could many cars these days have video cameras built in ... ? }

Light changes to blinking yellow,

They proceed, I follow,

They turn right at Christmas Valley road turnoff.

Alkali lake next

Then more 'spectacular and desolate' 

Immense land.

Road is often very straight and very very long.

Lake Abert next ... I take pics ... 

Wow Hwy 395 ...  incroyably incredibly mind expanding big Oregon, 

This dessert speaks.

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali_Lake_(Oregon)

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{Could many cars these days have video cameras built in ... ? ... 

following on Google Street View Camera Cars (which seem difficult to find in Google Search these days - whereas self-driving cars, such as Google Waymo cars come up frequently) ... 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Google_Street_View_camera_car.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Street_View_camera_car.jpg

(which Google Street View camera cars' project worked out the best camera angles on cars???)

and was this event videoed by my car even, - 

and very speculatively could also George Church seen this in Cambridge, MA, or on Martha's Vineyard, 

via the internet, possibly knowing some of these old hippies from years ago?

Tripping Together

https://neo.life/2021/08/tripping-together/

by Zoe Cormier - http://zoecormier.com

NEO.LIFE

edited by Berkeley-based Jane Metcalfe, a colleague of George Church :}

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... into a realistic virtual earth for traveling, - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthforTraveling?src=hashtag_click - think Google Street View with time slider, - since this Big sky central Oregon road is so stellar? 

... and especially #VirtualOregon ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1176616037329981441?s=20 ~

Now how best to head to #VirtualOregon in #1970s re a kind of #OregonVision in a #RealisticVirtualEarth ? - but probably not in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin since this would be in #virtualCalifornia :) ... and in great #realisticvirtualearthforhistory ...https://t.co/f10MhGDd4p ~ pic.twitter.com/WOuJQkKWVr

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 24, 2019

HarbinBook

@HarbinBook

Sep 24, 2019

Now how best to head to #VirtualOregon in #1970s re a kind of #OregonVision in a #RealisticVirtualEarth ? - but probably not in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin since this would be in #virtualCalifornia :) ... and in  great #realisticvirtualearthforhistory ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/long-tom-river-oregon-what-is-oregon.html?m=0 ~

 

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