My First Box Truck

Truckr: the rapid growth mobile incubator.

Truckr at Lost Horizon Night Market!
The inside of Truckr

After years of going to the Lost Horizon Night Market as an attendee, I finally attended as somebody working on a box truck! I helped Doc put together and perform for his Truckr truck.

Some shots of Truckr, the rapid growth mobile incubator, at the Lost Horizon Night Market in Oakland.
Truckr in action.

 

Some shots of Truckr, the rapid growth mobile incubator, at the Lost Horizon Night Market in Oakland.
Tearing down Truckr at the end of the night.

I got to make lots of throwies and put them in balloons. And do lots of interactive performance art. It was pretty exhausting, because our main goal was to get lots of people through the truck quickly. Fortunately, we seemed to succeed in this respect, and we got some good laughs out of people, so I would say this was a successful night market.

Some shots of Truckr, the rapid growth mobile incubator, at the Lost Horizon Night Market in Oakland.
Here I am working on the truck before the event. Doc said (regarding this photo): “See what happens when you make that face?” and I said, “FAVORITED!”

There were lots of other great trucks this year, too, and the location was amazing. And, of course, we had a lot of super awesome people helping us with Truckr. Huzzah!

 

Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail

Well campers, I have decided to do the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail with Doc next month! I am super excited for this. Especially since we’ve also decided to get to/from the trail using public transportation! I briefly considered walking to the Castle Rock State Park entrance from Saratoga (~10 miles) and camping at the Castle Rock campgrounds (adding an extra day to the trip), but now I’m thinking we’ll just take a cab like this guy did. I had assumed that no cabbie would agree to take us to Castle Rock from Saratoga, but apparently it has been done.

I don’t mind adding an extra 10 miles to the trip – indeed, that seems super fun. But I don’t like how cars tend to zip around those blind corners up towards Castle Rock, and we would probably be fearing for our lives walking on those roads.

So now, we’re planning on adding an extra day by camping at Alder Trail Camp so we can spend a whole day frolicking around at Waddell Beach. Getting back to SF from Santa Cruz will be much, much smoother than getting from SF to Castle Rock (not least because that is a public transit trip that I have taken many, many times before).

Unfortunately, the only bus that goes from Waddell Beach to the Santa Cruz Metro Center leaves at 5:15 pm, so we won’t really be able to spend a lot of time in Santa Cruz (I love that town). Unless any buddies will be in town and would want to meet us at Waddell Beach? Hit me up if this is the case.

I will catalog my journey here, complete with photos and memoirs. We’re only planning on doing about 10 miles per day, because we want to do a leisurely pace and maybe even take some of the side-trails to take full advantage of the trip.

The Plan:

  • Day 1: Castle Rock State Park entrance to the Waterman Gap Trail Camp
  • Day 2: Waterman Gap Trail Camp to Jay Trail Camp
  • Day 3: Jay Trail Camp to Alder Trail Camp
  • Day 4: Frolic around on the beach all day, then hop the bus back to town