More!

I now realize why TV is such a popular entertainment form. It has been years since I lost my TV-hunger. Now they just aired an add for a religious matching service. Perfect, now I wait for one for people with only one arm or more than 140 IQ. Maybe they are already out there?

ads on TV...

Since the internet coverage on this hotel is so bad in the room we sit in the sofa down in the lobby where there is a TV blurting out stuff... just now we got to see an add for some device used for moving furniture. It was just over the top. It also had an old lady who proudly said that she had moved furniture "all by her self", did I say she seemed to be old enough to be considered an adult, 4 times over?
 If you really feel you need something to move furniture it started with Ez. Not going to do any more ads for this trash.

San Francisco

We have been in San Francisco the last days and the internet at the hotel is fluctuating so my writing has been weakened. And mostly normal things have happened like a visit to the orange bridge, ditto to Alcatraz, a nice dinner and the following beers at a roof top near Castro the Gay quarters, walking in the worst part of pauper-town, driving up and down hills and walking the second most crocked street in the USofA. I was told today that the most crocked is Wall Str. Funny and dry.
We also visited the Lego Store in Hillsdale and YES they sold the Star Wars Death-star for $399. And NO I did not buy it. Come to think of it LEGO is the most overpriced product on the planet with the possible exception of non-taxed drugs.

Our plan is to leave for Yosemite tomorrow.

the point is

While on the road I have had more run ins with advertising through TV and roadside billboards than during my work in NY at a semi-advertising job. And what I have been understanding as of late is the American thirst for "POINTS". The want to get four times their points, or even five times. They want to get more points, the want to get double points when buying this or that, they want their points!
To me it all seems a bit over stretched. What are these points? When can I get and use them? Is it just a normal keep-shopping-here-scam? How can this be important to any modern human?

The point of perception and the disposition to be fooled

We stopped by "the Confusing Hill" a charlatan fun-house on a slope in northern California not far from Leggett (a part of small-town America mostly known for the the drive-through Redwood tree).
The Confusing hill is an old establishment and have according to their own records been trying to fool gullible tourists since 1939.
In essence it is a walk no more than 100 meters up a hill side and down again through a very crooked and angled wooden structure built to fool your eyesight into  changing the point of perception so that you accept that gravity is no longer in play. With a mind ready to accept magic and mystic powers you might believe it. If you apply logic and compare what you have observed of gravity before and apply a functioning level you have soon debunked the hoax. But then they took our $5 a piece so I guess we where fooled as well. If you ever go, bring a level and some measurement preferably at least 5 meters long.

Screwed up scale

After a cold night in the car and an early morning we reached the Redwoods around 10 in the morning. It was cold and foggy, perfect weather for a walk with giants and trolls. The ferns covered the floor and all the fallen down tree trunks, around us in the dank proximity to the stream thinner trees with moss hanging like beards from them stood together with us small humans at the foots of these giants. The sky was blue where we could see it, but here deep in the forest there was meager light. A truly grand experience.

What was not as good was the signs that did not seem to have correct information when it comes to distances and I still do not know where those trails where leading us. The Rotary had also chiseled out a stone for themselves commemorating their own grove, in 1952. They did not fool me: those trees had been there longer than 60 years.

Night in California

After leaving Lake Tahoe we have been driving north by northwest mainly along US highway 89. Darkness came about half past six somewhere north of Truckee an old western town. We kept going aiming for Mineral, by the name and placing of it an old mining town but we could not find it. We realized that we had past it as we where getting close to Red Creek coming down the valley in pitch black darkness only seeing the lights along the valley and the neckless of cities lining it. At this point we had run out of discussion, gone through the songs on the MP3 player and the driver was getting tiered just as myself. So we decided to just put the car on a grassy meadow next to a fence and sleep it out. Good night America, where ever you are.