Magic Bus

This photo is probably twenty years “in the making”, as they say. I first heard about this bus – at the time, I didn’t know if it was a bus, a van, or a truck – many years ago. A friend told me its story: In the late 1960s, around the time I was born, my friend was a young boy working at his uncle’s concession stand aside a rural North Dakota lake. He saw some hippies driving around the other side of the lake in a bus they’d converted into a rudimentary camper. The bus stalled, and they tinkered with it for quite some time before abandoning it forever.

The bus has since occupied that field, not very far from Bismarck-Mandan, for over half a decade. I knew I had to investigate. My friend has since purchased a significant portion of the land surrounding that lake, so he told me how to hike out to the area on his private land.

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Who doesn’t love trucks and rainbows?

I don’t actually even remember why I was here – oh yeah, I was chasing some pretty incredible photo spots I will post in the future, then I got caught in a monster storm along Highway 3, and then I spotted this as I meandered home after the storm. All in all, a good afternoon.

I love trucks. I love rainbows. Who says we can’t have both?

Well, that’s a nice barn ya got there

A barn and an old well? That’s all I need for a fine photo. I love the brick chimney on the building, the angle of the handle of the well, the whole works. This was a nice find, and a bit of a surprise, actually. But then again, so many of my photos are the result of a “section line surprise” that it’s almost the norm!

Cell phone pharmstead

It’s just a cell phone photo, and I think the blog chunked up the quality a bit, but it’s still a decent shot. I was standing on a dirt double-track trail which is technically a county road when I took it, and it’s a great memory.

They say the best camera is the one you have with you. In this case, I also had a drone or two with me, so and maybe even a “real” camera…but I took this shot too, nonetheless.