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        The Life &amp; Times Of Jason
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<description>Ok. So there's this guy, right? And he's been sooooo many different places that he decided to tell his story on a map. With pictures no less. These are the days of his life.</description>
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        hippies!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/2559">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-20 13:48:07.484712+00:00</dc:date>
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        Sort of like a scene out of Stephen King's Gunslinger books. The old west. On the tundra. With mind bending substances. And chicks that want to be rescued from their plight. With the Breakers Bar, home to a strange magic.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41551">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-20 13:34:35.138897+00:00</dc:date>
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        Built, raised & trained 3 children for 10 years here.
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        Our first family home. It seemed so big when we bought it. We had a 3 year old, a 6 month old, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath & a GARAGE! Whoo baby. Plenty of room. Now add 10 years and another kid. Roomy? Not. Time to move.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41555">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-20 10:18:14.698686+00:00</dc:date>
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        I will pay you if I can go back to high school.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41499">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-18 15:06:32.336358+00:00</dc:date>
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        Go Cougars. I should have stayed right here. I'm good at school. And they gave me extra milk.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41500">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-18 15:10:25.110006+00:00</dc:date>
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        It was all a blur. I remember wood shop, feeling up Donna's boobs, and getting pimples. Lots of pimples.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41501">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-18 15:14:52.784269+00:00</dc:date>
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        I spent nearly half of my childhood here. And even though I now reject religion, I wouldn't have missed this place for the world. This was way back whe I thought that Jesus was a name reserved for God. Now I have 12 Jesi on my street alone.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41502">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-18 15:24:56.076831+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Parking Lot of No Return!.....</title>
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        I lost something here. I'm a MAN now baby! If I only knew then what i know now, well, then at least I could have avoided that nasty steering wheel shaped bruise on my ass.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41504">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-20 11:06:45.272681+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>My dad lives here</title>
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        Here you'll find the last of the LumberJacks. A true Paul Bunyan hero built of wool, smoke & deep forest legends, swinging his giant axe with steely eyed skill and dropping foam mouthed elk with a single long rifle crack from a mile away. At night, thunder would announce his approaching footsteps and he could fill a spitoon dead on from across a room with black tarry streams of steaming chaw. A man made of oak and mountain granite, his lap was always soft enough for a little boy to crawl into and dream dreams of being as big as his father...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41505">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        College. ROTC scholarship. Studied nuclear engineering. Partied. Dropped ROTC; "I never want to be involved w/ the military ever again". Partied. Changed major to English Lit. Partied. Dropped out after 2 years. Success? Nope. Now out of money. What next? Join the military, of course. Irony? You bet. Coast Guard, here I come, cause if I die, at least I'll be clean.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41506">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Here you'll find the sweetest PB&J Tech you're likely ever to meet. Thanks for teaching me how to see wonder in the world and to paint my own world with a brush made of hope. 5'2 with eyes of blue, dynamite comes in small packages.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41507">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Cape May, NJ. Boot Camp. July & August. Hotter than the surface of the sun and humid like the inside of a mouth. Always sweating. Always. Is it possible to sweat under an ice cold shower? Yes. Mike 137 OoRah! BMC Kiernan company commander; pleasant, understanding & calm. Like Satan.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41527">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Coast Guard Training Center Petaluma California. ET School. Good times with other nerds.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41528">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        My wife says she's cold a lot. She don't know cold like I know cold. One year of isolation. Unimaginable cold. And government issue porn & beer. Joy.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41550">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        While serving ar Port Clarence, I volunteered to fly over to Teller and teach the students (all 100 of them) about US Military history. I also fixed their icecream machine, for which they praised me and tried to feed me blubber, a stringy wet sanguine substance that in no way resambles the prefectly white cubes of tofu like stuff I had previously invisioned. Don't eat blubber.
After recieving numerous offers from several fathers of young ladies (12-15 years of age at most... Its true what you've heard about the lack of genetic materials in remote villages) I chose the schoolhouse floor as my sleeping quarters. I was good and returned to my barracks the next day with a clear conscience. But then Mookie called; Mookie, a 13 year old eskimo girl with amorous intentions. Then she called again... and again. For a weeks she called. "When are you coming back? Will you have dinner at our house?..." Talk about feeling skeevy.. yuck... I will NEVER fix an icecream machine again. Ever.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41682">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Coast Guard Search & Rescue Station Yaquina Bay
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        3:00 am. Alarms screaming. A boat is taking on water off the South jetty! Sprint to the boathouse, don the fire red mustang suit, cast off, clip in, under way. 3 men head out into the breakers and stinging sea spray in the dead of night when any sane man should be safely moored, but there are people in trouble out there in the inky black. Wind ripping your ears while the ocean tries violently to shove you back into the bay. Man versus nature in the most primal of battles. Did you know that breaking water carries with it 4000 lbs of preasure per square foot. I know. I've stuck my chin into it and I've shook my fist at it and said "You won't take that boat! You will not kill tonight." Well, back when I was a hero anyways... well... that's sort of how it was back then...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41740">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        This is the house I grew up in. I wasn't born here, but it is where all of my childhood memories live. It's the universes repository for all things good and innocent as far as I'm concerned. I think it's a winery now. Darn city folk.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41492">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Construction is complete on our new home. And we've been in it for about 3 years now. Time flies! About time. After 10 years with 3 kids in a 1056 sf, 3 bedroom/1 bath house, we need a little room to roam.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41556">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        "Marconi sited and commissioned the building of wireless telegraphy transmitting station in Bolinas and receiving station in Marshall, on Tomales Bay, in 1913-14. They formed the foundation for the most successful and powerful ship to shore and land station on the Pacific Rim."

Now I visited this site in the early 90's. Beautiful area, Point Reyes; I highly recommend a visit. However, there is a story here. Isn't there always?

First of all, understand that when you are out on Point Reyes, you get the distinct feeling that you are completely removed from the modern world. You are geographically isolated from society. It was also rumored at the time that there was an abandoned mental asylum somewhere nearby and the way the lonely wind cries in your ears out there makes you want to believe it. It's vaguely unsettling.

The day I stopped in at the old Marconi site for a visit was overcast and a bit windy, as usual. The mood was already set, so it is no suprise that, after the fact, I felt as if I had just walked through some kind of creepy Bugs Bunny cartoon gone bad. Upon knocking, the heavy wooden door creaked open at the hand of this tiny older gentleman who looked like a miniature cross between an Lon Chaney and Hannibal Lechter, but with a smile. And a Bow tie. Behind him in the shadows was his exotic, towering assistant, obviously imported from Northern Africa somewhere. The two figures together were reminiscent of an old black an white movie featuring a mad scientist and his mute, hulking assistant. The words, "Won't you please come in?" will haunt my ears forever. Although I'm sure that both of these men were just as normal as you or I, it was just wierd.

Add to this the ancient and gigantic electrical components scattered around and throughout the massive decaying structure, like the remnants of a Frankenstein experiment from ages past, and you'll understand why this location sticks in my mind. I was just waiting for a bolt of lightning to strike and bring everything to horrible life. It was the perfect setting for a Hitchcock film starring Anthony Hopkins.

All in all, a very interesting place to visit, if you don't mind the vague unsettling feeling that you may end up as someones dinner.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/41897">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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