Hot, Steamy Holes! Tour d’Joko: Episode Six
My goal for this Tour d’Joko, Yellowstone Edition, was to make it as close as possible to an actual commercial production. You’ve yet to see the ripest fruit of that effort, but I’ve related some details about problems with government permits, bad weather and faulty or missing equipment, challenges which studio made stuff I‘m sure deals with all the time. One other detail I shared with more produced videos was trouble paying for it all. The most pressing and highest expense was rather simple math: about 1500 miles round trip, truck gets 15 miles to the gallon, gas costs $4/gal… After food, park fees…checking account balance is… Oh my.
I needed to make a choice. Pay my bills or go to Yellowstone. Well. I couldn’t re-schedule the vacation time. This trip was vital to my mental and creative health! What bills could I push to next month? Hmmm…
My cable and internet company sorta brought you these videos by not getting any money from me in May. This is also why I have been offline since last Saturday. A week with no television or internet was weird. I listened to a lot of AM radio and polished off two books, one of which I mentioned before, Undaunted Courage, the story of Merriwether Lewis.
Did you know that within a few short years of completing his famous journey, Lewis, in the depths of debt, alcoholism, depression and drug addiction, took his own life? Rather poorly too. He tried shooting himself in the head and only grazed the scalp. He finally killed himself with a self-induced gut wound, which has to be the worst way to go.
As much as his journey was an inspiration to this very Tour d‘Joko, his death is a reminder for my everyday life. One issue I struggle with as I reach the middle point in my time on this planet is regrets over what I have accomplished. What do I have to show for my time here? What will be my legacy? When I think about it, it’s depressingly scant. Lewis accomplished more than but a handful of people in history, but was unable to control his addictions. This cost him his life.
I may never own a house. I may never have kids. I may always have to choose between paying my internet bill and going on a trip. That said, one accomplishment I do get to achieve one day at a time is staying sober, and I can be proud of that. That was something Lewis, for all his resolve and undaunted courage, could not accomplish.
Oh yeah, and Lewis never did what I’m doing right now, edit his journal into something people can enjoy.
Here is Part Six of the Tour d’Joko – Yellowstone Edition: Hot Steamy Holes.
I may be overstating the “no legacy” thing… The video above was my 900th upload to YouTube.
I wrote and it kicked me off when I tried to post it…wtf…????
Needless to say …whateva…..lololol
Might I add that this video was not as tawdry as the title suggested,but thats o.k. because I am not into tawdry much any more…lololol
You know the ranger told you where to look for the Caldera…..
I distinctly heard him say at the blue line…..lololol
What a dipstick ranger this guy was…lolololol…no doubt from the Hesler school of ranger skills…
Nice Vid though…good quality and all…..oh yea Lemurs dressed as banana’s are now dancing in the streets upon your triumphant return…..
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Liked the ranger.
Once when I was a MainFrame computer operator the System crashed. Our boss cam running in and asked what happened and with a straight face my partner said, “negative temperature inversion”
Our boss said “oh” and left.
I asked you how much you were short (of money/supplies) when you announced your adventure because I have done a similar roadtrip that featured rockhounding and (slightly illegal) gold prospecting in Bryce Canyon National Park a few years back. It cost me around $3,000 for two weeks. I didn’t end up eschewing my essentials (cable/internet), but I did tap out on my credit limit on two credit cards…
It was well worth it, and I think that you are making the same point here— anything worth doing in life is worth sacrificing our comforts of home sometimes.
Those resurgent bulges are a hoot! The magma chamber under the lake is pressurizing, causing the ground to swell like that dome did on Mount St. Helens. We all know the outcome of that dome bulge… It’s a crap-shoot every time you visit Yellowstone. You survived Yellowstone!
Great adventure, sir.
You could have saved a lot of money by not travelling near so far, Joko. Because all that steam kinda reminds me of gay bathhouses. Just from what I’ve heard, anyway.
I can now say I’ve been to Yellowstone. Congratulations on your wonderful experience.
HOT STEAMY HOLES…HAHAHAAAAA…your to much or is it just my mind in the gutter again?!?!?!…O-o
Any who just got home after being away 9 days…..I will be touring the “Tour d’Joko” tomorrow seeing i am exhausted and have to unpack and do some animal catching up as well.
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Yes sometimes I am a little country..must have fiddle playing…its my Irish/Alabama roots!Later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :love: