Things you see that remind you of BBM

[David]

Earlier in the month I was up in Massachusetts at a classic car & Truck show.   Ever since BBM I have had an odd fascination with old pickup trucks!  (I can't imagine why!) LOL

Here I spotted a GMC pickup with Wyoming plates!!!   YEE HAA!

I couldn't find the owner to ask if he/she was a BBM fan!   

[isabelle]

Right now, billboards with posters of BBM are springing up everywhere around town because the dvd is being released here... so you can't escape it!

[David]

Billboards?    COOL!   can you snap a pic and post one for us??   

[ednbarby]

Wow - billboards.  They never did that here.  Gee, I wonder why?  

I had/have to get by on occasionally driving by Boca Del Mar and Plaza Del Mar and Vista Del Mar and Del Mar Lane and seeing the occasional beat-up pickup with Texas plates on the road in front of me.

[David]

I had/have to get by on occasionally driving by Boca Del Mar and Plaza Del Mar and Vista Del Mar and Del Mar Lane and seeing the occasional beat-up pickup with Texas plates on the road in front of me.

Boca Del Vista?   Isn't that where the Seinfelds moved to? LOL     

[isabelle]

Billboards?    COOL!   can you snap a pic and post one for us??   

I don't have a digital camera, so I 'll have to take pix with my good old-fashioned camera, then scan them to post here... might take a while , but I will!

[Meryl]

The takeout menu for our local Mexican restaurant has a whole section labeled Del Mar. 

[isabelle]

Also, we have a shopping centre in the city called "Alma Centre".
And a country and western festival at the end of August in the area, with a rodeo show! it's been going for 2 or 3 years. I'd never have been interested before, but this time I might go...

[ednbarby]

Boca Del Vista?   Isn't that where the Seinfelds moved to? LOL     

Yep.  I was gonna comment on how eerily similar Boca Del Mar and Vista Del Mar sounded to that, but I figured someone else would pick up on it.  Shoulda known it'd be you. 

[nakymaton]

My whole world reminds me of BBM. (Wyoming seems to have replaced the orange plates with multi-colored ones with a picture of Devil's Tower on it... though maybe those new plates are just on cars that do more traveling than around the coffee pot looking for the handle. They've still got their cowboy on the plates, too, but he doesn't stand out quite the way he used to.)

Yesterday I was on a plane on the way home from family vacation, though, and the pilot said something that reminded me of BBM: "All I've got to say about that landing is... this ain't my first rodeo, and I don't stay on for more than eight minutes." (Or something like that.) Had the urge to ask if all rodeo pilots were a bunch a f***-ups, but I controlled myself.

[nakymaton]

So I was running a high altitude marathon today, and during the long slog up to the pass at the high point, I found myself in amongst...

...a herd of sheep.

With pretty fresh-looking paint brands on their backs.

And a big old drooly-faced dog in the middle of the jeep trail babysittin the sheep.

And no sign of the herder. (Or the camp tender, either, for that matter. )

[Meryl]

So I was running a high altitude marathon today, and during the long slog up to the pass at the high point, I found myself in amongst...

...a herd of sheep.

With pretty fresh-looking paint brands on their backs.

And a big old drooly-faced dog in the middle of the jeep trail babysittin the sheep.

And no sign of the herder. (Or the camp tender, either, for that matter. )

Now, that's what I call seein' things that remind you of BBM!  *Hands you a piece of cherry cake*

[nakymaton]

I tried to take a picture of them -- I mean, I could almost touch the paint brands -- but all I had was a cell phone, and the pictures all look like a bunch of fluffy whitish blurs. 

It was pretty cool to see the real paint brands up so close.

And there was seriously no sign of a camp site. 'Course, I didn't bring any giant binoculars with me.

[Amber]

I'm with ya on the old pickup trucks.  Instant reminder for me. 

Other than that ... if I drive 15 minutes out into the country from Spokane I see little old lonely ranch houses or trailers in the middle of dirt fields that remind me of BBM.

I just drove through Wyoming not too long ago - the entire landscape read like Annie Proulx's short stories - ALL of them ... BBM included of course.

Additionally, on my way through Montana on I-90 I passed by the highway sign for Ennis, Montana.  Not too long after that I passed by a highway sign advertising lodging at the Del Mar hotel.  Couldn't help but wonder if Annie Proulx rode by the same signs

[Flashframe777]

Today I traveled to a Mexican border town, and there were young girls walking around yelling "esta chiclets, esta chiclets."

Yeah, I did it - sat down in a cool spot and scrolled my Special Brokeback Mountain Edition Heath & Jake Etched in Metallic iPod to the "leaving Wyoming" scene.

That, dear friends, reminded me of Brokeback Mountain.

Alas, no Rodrigo Prieto came hither.....sigh.

[vkm91941]

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