Das Bunker is one of those ground-zero scenes, the kind of club that everyone has heard of. It’s been a fixture of the LA scene for over a decade, in fact, hosting bands like VNV Nation, Combichrist and Covenant, who played just a week before we arrived. So, were we intimidated? A little. Excited mostly, [...]
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From Las Vegas, we made a week-long field trip to Los Angeles, the better to drive some new cars and meet some models for photo shoots. We found a secret place to hide the Incorrigible in Long Beach for a week of dry-camping, and set about exploring the madness that is L.A. So what’s there to do in Las Vegas, if you aren’t a gambler (which we aren’t)? Well, fans of the weird and wonderful owe it to themselves to take a walk through the surreal landscape that is Vegas. Wander up and down the Strip, in and out of the big casinos, and marvel (or roll [...] Venturing outside of Las Vegas’ environs, you’ll find a lot of boring suburbs and a lot of desert. The glamorous inner city seems to have pushed all of the normal working parts of the city–fast-food restaurants, real-world retail, industrial complexes and housing–out into a wide halo of sprawl, and beyond that there’s naught but desert. The historic part of downtown Rapid City is home to one obvious sight, and two you’ll have to go looking for. As soon as you enter downtown, with its strip of antique stores and coffee shops lining Main and St. Joseph streets, you’ll see the “City of Presidents” exhibit, or at least some of it. Life-size [...] The twin cities of Deadwood and Lead (pronounced like the verb, not the element) are about seventy miles from Custer. Deadwood has a rowdy history (you’ve seen the HBO series, right?), and these days it’s heavy on the casino-and-tourist-trap side. This surprisingly small city is tucked away in the Black Hills, and if you blink [...] Man! We’ve been busy! Between our usual work and the workamping job, plus home-improvement projects, the summer sped past. We hit the bricks to visit a few more of the sights of the Black Hills before the season slipped away completely. Within a few miles of the Big Pine are the Four Mile Old West Town [...] About halfway between Custer and Rapid City is Hill City, home to the 1880 Train on the Black Hills Central Railroad. Railfans no doubt already know (and will correct me if I get any of this wrong) that the 1880 Train runs from Hill City to Keystone and back, recreating the experience of riding [...] Custer is just 70 miles from Sturgis, South Dakota. Toward the end of July, this means only one thing: the Sturgis rally. Known simply as “Sturgis” to its friends, the Sturgis motorcycle rally is an annual gathering of two- and three-wheelers that’s been going on for 69 years. Attracting mostly Harley riders, this event almost doubles [...] Our first stop was the big one, of course: Mt. Rushmore. Rushmore is one of those tourist attractions that somehow doesn’t seem real, because it’s so frequently featured in movies. It’s got the same sense of quiet unreality that visiting, say, the Death Star might have. We kept having to tap ourselves on the shoulder [...] |
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