CARAVANSARY

[Elliot]

Sounds good, Jon. I have pictures of KazBus.

[Sunbeam56]

Doug - thanks for posting that video.
I got a Doumbek for this year. I love it. Still searching for my own rhythm. But gotta tell you... my daughter came over for dinner - and picked up my drum - and totally blew me away.
The Girl got rhythm.
I'm totally jealous.

[Simon of the Playa]

note to self, buy stock in Fez-O-Rama...

[FossaFerox]

Man, the Kazbus folks must be thrilled about the theme. We were camped across the street from them this past year. I missed the sound of their horn in the days following the burn. Sort of like a particularly lazy cow trying to get your attention.

[Ugly Dougly]

I stopped in Cave Junction and somebody stole my beloved drum.

Enjoy, this will be a good year for drum circles.

Doug - thanks for posting that video.
I got a Doumbek for this year. I love it. Still searching for my own rhythm. But gotta tell you... my daughter came over for dinner - and picked up my drum - and totally blew me away.
The Girl got rhythm.
I'm totally jealous.

[H.G.Crosby]

Enjoy, this will be a good year for drum circles.

oh dear god, please, no.

[Roberto Dobbisano]

Enjoy, this will be a good year for drum circles.

oh dear god, please, no.

yes, as it is a scientific fact that ALL drum circles devolve into a loose version of "Aiko-Aiko" after 7-10 minutes, without exception.

[Ugly Dougly]

I know, you will miss all that great amplified Dub-Step.

[Simon of the Playa]

actually, i'm trying to bring harmonica back.

[unjonharley]

actually, i'm trying to bring harmonica back.

Are You old enough to remember the Hamon-cats

[Simon of the Playa]

i'm as old as the hills, of course i do.

[media]

[unjonharley]

A camel with one hump is a dromedary.. A camel with two humps is bbactrian..

How about putting humps on car and vans to hold a weeks water

[theCryptofishist]

A camel with one hump is a dromedary.. A camel with two humps is bbactrian..

If you ever get confused about this, tip the camel onto its tail and the one hump will make the silhouette of a "D" (Dromedary) and the two humps will make a silhouette of a "B" (Bactrian).

If you do this, remember two things, first that an Arabian camel is the same as a dromedary, and won't tip to make an A. Also, that camels are notoriously bad tempered and don't like being tipped.

[Elliot]

A camel with one hump is a dromedary.. A camel with two humps is bbactrian..

How about putting humps on car and vans to hold a weeks water

If I remember right, the humps are actually more fat than water. Yes? No?

[GreyCoyote]

If you ever get confused about this, tip the camel onto its tail and the one hump will make the silhouette of a "D" (Dromedary) and the two humps will make a silhouette of a "B" (Bactrian).

If you do this, remember two things, first that an Arabian camel is the same as a dromedary, and won't tip to make an A. Also, that camels are notoriously bad tempered and don't like being tipped.

I think Fishie just invented "Camel Tipping"!

[unjonharley]

A camel with one hump is a dromedary.. A camel with two humps is bbactrian..

How about putting humps on car and vans to hold a weeks water

If I remember right, the humps are actually more fat than water. Yes? No?

That is a lot of lard... They can travel long ways without feed.. They still need waternot as much if you brick'em..

[Elliot]

A camel is an even-toed ungulate within the genus Camelus, bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.

Camels do not directly store water in their humps as was once commonly believed. The humps are actually reservoirs of fatty tissue: concentrating body fat in their humps minimizes the insulating effect fat would have if distributed over the rest of their bodies, helping camels survive in hot climates.[16][17] When this tissue is metabolized, it yields more than one gram of water for every gram of fat processed. This fat metabolization, while releasing energy, causes water to evaporate from the lungs during respiration (as oxygen is required for the metabolic process): overall, there is a net decrease in water.[18][19]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel

[Sunbeam56]

Damn - that's unfortunate.
Have you read "Caravans" - I love Aunt Becky!!!!

[Elliot]

I read it years ago, and I'm re-reading it now. Yes, they are on the trek with Aunt Becky now.

[Sunbeam56]

I love Aunt Becky.
I want everyone I'm pissed at to take off all their clothes, stand totally naked before me, and let me stomp and spit on their clothes.

[FIGJAM]

That's quite a unique laundry technic you have there!

[Sunbeam56]

you gotta read the book Figjam.
Lots of scenic vistas, sex and violence... of course.
But Aunt Becky is precious. She's a camel.

[Elliot]

All the nomad tribes meet each summer at a huge gathering in the North to trade goods, exchange information, and so forth. Not exactly a caravansary, but close enough. This doesn't happen until the last third of the book , but it is all a good yarn.

[oscillator]

And now, a brief musical interlude...

[media]

[Sunbeam56]

So the book starts, this totally uptight, anglo-philic American gets sent to Afghanistan to find a girl...
She (as the book progresses) thinks she has moral superiority because she is afraid. Total excuse for being a slut.
She got to Afghanistan by marrying a guy who spent several weeks being negro in America - several tribes are dark enough to appear negro - and again, thinks she has moral superiority.
(Can you tell I ain't grooving with the femme fatale's self rationalization?)
He goes through a wolfish winter in Kabul, where he realizes he's really a pedophile, and postures prettily.
Then he goes to the husband of the femme fatale to confront him (she is supposed to be missing).
In the meantime he is confronted with stunning vistas, and abandoned cities.
Then he finds a caravanserai, while trying to rescue two un-rescuable soldiers.

Then it gets interesting...

[Elliot]

...
Then it gets interesting...

...when he helps gather camel dung to use as campfire fuel.

Burning Man will be different this year. Camel dung instead of propane.

[Sunbeam56]

Takes confession from a doctor who is a former Nazi camp criminal... at a pillar made from 45,000 bodies entombed in plaster during the times of Ghenghis Khan... also at the caravanserai...

[Simon of the Playa]

[media]

[Sunbeam56]

Then our anglophilic, pedophilic, American protagonist gets pre-empted to a trip to the great gathering. And along the way gets seduced seriously by the chieftain's underaged daughter. Has his jeep stolen, broken down to parts, and offered back to him for sale.
And sees more scenic vistas, sex and violence... of course.
While the same femme fatale of whom we have no confidence, takes up intercourse with the previously mentioned, Nazi war criminal doctor.

[Simon of the Playa]

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