{"id":25255,"date":"2023-01-17T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=25255"},"modified":"2023-01-18T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:43:49","slug":"life-island-times-detour-version-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-detour-version-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Detour Version 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: The Writer’s Section at Socotra House is attempting to clean house by actually opening the closet\/garage\/cellar doors to see what is contained within. This afternoon, we share Marlow’s version of something those of you of a “certain age” will recall: Getting Ready to Get Up and Go. His requires two wheels. And a lot of road!<\/p>\n

– Vic<\/p>\n

May 2001
\nDetour Version 1.0
\nNote & Prologue<\/p>\n

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\nScrapbook title page<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author\u2019s Note:\u00a0\u00a0I episodically penned and penciled this on pieces of scrap paper while my motorcycling partner, Steve, and I two wheeled our way across the USA long before 911\u2019s arrival in September 2001.\u00a0\u00a0Later that year, we and the rest of the nation started careening all over the place on a journey that led us to this strange and unknown way station in which we find ourselves today.<\/p>\n

The detour I then thought we were taking has now become something more, much much more, than we ever thought, imagined, prayed for, or could have bargained for.<\/p>\n

Smoke \u2018em if you got.\u00a0\u00a0Tip another one or two back while I whip and wheel this sucker out for all y\u2019all.<\/p>\n

One last saved round:\u00a0\u00a0Outside of my riding partner reading the scrapbook version of this back in 2001, these tales have never seen the light of the day until now.<\/p>\n

– Marlow<\/p>\n

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Prologue<\/p>\n

In late 2022 I was weeding out my closets to pare down the crap of 50 years plus on the road and high seas. It had graced me when I came upon three scrapbooks of singular memories.\u00a0\u00a0One was a journal of a fortnight 23 plus years ago I spent caring for my three grandkids while their parents did business in the People\u2019s Republic of China.\u00a0\u00a0All parties had a blast while parental rules and guardrails were lovingly and jollily enforced.\u00a0\u00a0The children learned new sailor vocabulary, songs of the sea and that, upon my acquiescence to their suggestion, a bad word fine jar for their grandfather\u2019s verbal creations could be an immensely profitable enterprise for them.<\/p>\n

The second scrapbook piece upon which we embark today is nearly 22 years old and is much more free form, since none of its days had much sameness to or among them, day after day after day.\u00a0\u00a0They only experientially congealed near the end of the trip when our consciousnesses had expanded enough to figure and lay it all out.<\/p>\n

Stick around \u2013 hopefully you\u2019ll see what I think we saw.<\/p>\n

-Marlow<\/p>\n

PS: As a way of introduction of how rudimentary and scrappy our analogue photograph and paper journaling technology of those times was, here\u2019re some samples from my opening and closing pages.
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\nSelect Marlow\u2019s pre-Detour gauge readings<\/p>\n

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\nDetour journal source material pile
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\nOne short week\u2019s work of road grume on my FatBoy\u2019s motor<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2001 and 2023 From My Aisle Seat
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