tuesday, march 25, 2008
The delights of smoggy San Pedro
Doug and I like to make up for my environmentally-conscious lifestyle by going on long driving adventures, and on Saturday we went to the Port of Los Angeles. It’s a nice place for people who are fascinated by cranes, containers, trains, ships, bridges, giant utilitarian machines of all kinds, decaying buildings, rust, and many other things that are nice to look at in contrast to computer screens.
Then we headed back to Santa Barbara and Doug accidentally explored back roads outside of Palmdale while I squinted at the moon in an effort to study my nearsightedness.
Other things: There’s going to be a National Geographic miniseries about this port starting on April 6 (PDF press release). Here is a review of a book about containerization. We aren’t anywhere as cool as Sevensixfive, who traveled on a container ship. And this is an excellent container disaster. More, from Lemonodor: a Center for Land Use Interpretation tour of the port in spring 2005 and the blog of that miniseries, “America’s Port”.
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