What is all of that green stuff covering the ground? [Wonderful photos. They remind me of the old 20th Century Fox Motion Picture Ranch in the hills just north of Malibu where I worked as a night patrolman back in the mid '70s, home to film sets for M*A*S*H, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Swiss Fambly Robinson. Live oaks, brush covered hills, dirt roads ... My job was to drive patrols over ~8 miles of dirt road and doubletrack to (1) keep out vandals who might climb over the fence and (2) chase the resident cows away from the Swiss Fambly Robinson set's potted exotic fauna. I slept many a night in Hawkeye's tent. We were told not to exceed 12 mph, at which a complete patrol would take 45 minutes. I came close to hitting 15 minutes, hitting 70+ on some of the wider straights at 2 am -- we'd destroy the cars after a few weeks of this treatment -- old junkers from the 20th Century lot. Great fun. Beside getting paid, I aced our science and math tutorials with all the dead time in which to study -- Thomas Aquinas College was just across the street (= Malibu Canyon Road) at the time. The ranch supervisor had a very nice house and I remember thinking them very decadent -- after all I was attending a conservative Catholic Great Books college across the way -- as the son, just a couple of years older than I, would bring in his nocturnal girlfriends for a night of ranch touring in his El Camino combined with pot smoking and, no doubt, fornincation. And the super's house has naked lady posters on the wall of the billiard room!
Great fun. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Manuel Acosta <[email protected]>wrote: > For those that are interested Jenny did her ride report and can be read > here. > By far some of my favorite shots of me are from her. Thanks to Jenny for > the wonderful pictures. > http://www.plattyjo.com/2013/04/dirty-diablo-revisited-with-ride-on/ > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
