Jackson Cold Start

Published Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post

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Friday, December 14, 2007
Livingston, Montana

This morning when I awoke in Jackson, it took me two hours to start Veronica. I turned her over and her cold engine quickly killed what was left in her frozen battery. As Moses wanders hunting for rabbits, I crawl up onto the roof and start the generator. Then I plug in the battery charger and block heater and wait… It’ll take four tries at half-hour intervals (waiting for the battery to recharge), before I finally get her running. It’s not cold, I think she may have just gotten a dose of bad diesel, or her computer is recalibrating post tune-up. Either way, it’s a good exercise in patience to be freezing your ass off on the side of a deserted highway waiting for your baby to thaw and wake up.

Moses doesn’t mind these things too much.

After some time on the road we reach Livingston in the late afternoon. I call home, throw some laundry in at the laundry mat (I’ve been wearing the same thing since I left Missoula) and take Moses for a scout about town. Hmm, no showers anywhere. I haven’t showered in days and I’m feeling pretty grungy. Back at the laundry mat I pick up a local paper, the Livingston Weekly (papers like this often lead me to interviews or provide general direction) inside there isn’t much that relates to the project, so I flip to the comics, the crossword and Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology,

Libra It's the Season of Returns and Recoveries, Libra. You will generate good fortune if you look for what you lost. Here are some suggestions on how to proceed: Recall important memories you've almost forgotten, retrieve any valuable things you rashly threw away, and bushwhack your way back to a promising path you strayed from. For best results, you should forgive yourself of any mistakes you think you made that led to the loss.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Peace,
D

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