And those little green with white canvas top wagons pulled by a team of mules, formerly used by Basque sheep herders here in Idaho, are called WinneBascos.
Winnebascos! Jeff and I both got a chuckle out of that. There's a FB page we subscribe to called Sheep Wagon Fever that posts the most amazing things. If you haven't already, check it out. Meanwhile, coming back from Jarbidge during a road trip, we came head-on with a man pulling a huge sheep wagon made of metal. We had our little teardrop trailer, but he and Jeff got out and figured out how to pass on that one-and-a-half lane gravel road. It was dicey and we were on the downhill side. From my shotgun seat, it was a long way down.
Yeah, we have a lot of narrow roads up the side of cliffs. We have a couple near our house that new comers avoid. A few years ago, a company was core drilling for molybdenum ore and the workers drove up and down one of the roads. They only wrecked three pickups and one dump truck that summer.
Up in the Salmon River country, there as some that coil down steep mountainsides. I’m not sure there is anyway two cars could pass on some of them. Someone might need to back up a long way.
I doubt the new self driving EV cars and “pickups” will ever be popular up here. I wouldn’t let one drive me up Pine Creek or Grimes Pass. I’ve seen a couple of Rivian “pickups” up here, but they were on the back of roll-on tow trucks. I mentioned it to a friend who lives near Lewiston and he said he saw three of them on tow trucks as well. I did see one in Boise moving on it’s own power. I assumed the owner went for a load of feed for his llamas and emus. They might work good for town stuff, but out in the wilds, if you run your batteries out, it’s hard to catch a ride into town to get a five gallon can of electricity.
That wind instrument is a three-holed pipe called a txistu. It's played with one hand, leaving the other to do something else like smack a drum. Thanks for introducing me to a new instrument!
Thank you, Fran, especially for researching the txistu. I should've done the research, but I wrote this at about ten p.m. and was lucky to get that much out lucidly. I wasn't much more so this morning when I edited and posted it. I was gearing up for a day with my grands. Oh feh! Excuses, excuses, excuses. You are a gem, Fran. Thanks again.
Other than having enjoyed delicious Basque cuisine, I know nothing about the Basque culture. The music is so unexpected, so unusual. The language sounds like an odd mix of Spanish and Portuguese; I feel I almost understand it. But that sweet, simple apple dance and those beautiful little bare, white feet just broke my heart this morning. I haven't seen anything so pure and lovely in a long long time. Thank you, Sue.
Thank you, Sharron. I'm going to pass your comment to others in the Basque community here because, like you, Jeff and I were blown away by the wonderful music we heard last night. It was like Heaven. And the musicians seemed to be having a blast too.
LMFAO! Yeah, I don't imagine EVs will take over the Great Basin in any great numbers. EVs are great urban cars. That's where the pollution is anyway. Keep them there! But out in the Big Empty, they ain't gonna work.
And those little green with white canvas top wagons pulled by a team of mules, formerly used by Basque sheep herders here in Idaho, are called WinneBascos.
Winnebascos! Jeff and I both got a chuckle out of that. There's a FB page we subscribe to called Sheep Wagon Fever that posts the most amazing things. If you haven't already, check it out. Meanwhile, coming back from Jarbidge during a road trip, we came head-on with a man pulling a huge sheep wagon made of metal. We had our little teardrop trailer, but he and Jeff got out and figured out how to pass on that one-and-a-half lane gravel road. It was dicey and we were on the downhill side. From my shotgun seat, it was a long way down.
Yeah, we have a lot of narrow roads up the side of cliffs. We have a couple near our house that new comers avoid. A few years ago, a company was core drilling for molybdenum ore and the workers drove up and down one of the roads. They only wrecked three pickups and one dump truck that summer.
Up in the Salmon River country, there as some that coil down steep mountainsides. I’m not sure there is anyway two cars could pass on some of them. Someone might need to back up a long way.
I doubt the new self driving EV cars and “pickups” will ever be popular up here. I wouldn’t let one drive me up Pine Creek or Grimes Pass. I’ve seen a couple of Rivian “pickups” up here, but they were on the back of roll-on tow trucks. I mentioned it to a friend who lives near Lewiston and he said he saw three of them on tow trucks as well. I did see one in Boise moving on it’s own power. I assumed the owner went for a load of feed for his llamas and emus. They might work good for town stuff, but out in the wilds, if you run your batteries out, it’s hard to catch a ride into town to get a five gallon can of electricity.
And who wouldn’t love that lovely apple dance.
That wind instrument is a three-holed pipe called a txistu. It's played with one hand, leaving the other to do something else like smack a drum. Thanks for introducing me to a new instrument!
Thank you, Fran, especially for researching the txistu. I should've done the research, but I wrote this at about ten p.m. and was lucky to get that much out lucidly. I wasn't much more so this morning when I edited and posted it. I was gearing up for a day with my grands. Oh feh! Excuses, excuses, excuses. You are a gem, Fran. Thanks again.
Other than having enjoyed delicious Basque cuisine, I know nothing about the Basque culture. The music is so unexpected, so unusual. The language sounds like an odd mix of Spanish and Portuguese; I feel I almost understand it. But that sweet, simple apple dance and those beautiful little bare, white feet just broke my heart this morning. I haven't seen anything so pure and lovely in a long long time. Thank you, Sue.
Thank you, Sharron. I'm going to pass your comment to others in the Basque community here because, like you, Jeff and I were blown away by the wonderful music we heard last night. It was like Heaven. And the musicians seemed to be having a blast too.
LMFAO! Yeah, I don't imagine EVs will take over the Great Basin in any great numbers. EVs are great urban cars. That's where the pollution is anyway. Keep them there! But out in the Big Empty, they ain't gonna work.