Then we worked our way back, like a pinball bouncing from one post to the other, until returning to where we started. The bottom of the Grapevine, two hours away, in one straight shot without stopping. We headed up the road to the end of the road- well, by no means the end, but the end as far as the tour was concerned. What was important, but hidden in the plain sight of the ordinary. About what was lost to the road, passed by, eroded, removed, submerged, torn down, intentionally buried, or meant to be unnoticed. But it was also a tour about a place, a place known for its betweenness, a region between here and there. A tour about transit, and conveyance, a tour about a road to nowhere, and back. It was a tour of a road, conducted on the road. The CLUI tour, on August 12, 2010, took visitors to the many points of interest in the region covered by the exhibit. The bus ordered for the trip was from the Nada Bus Company, a white bus marked “Nada” on the side, a word that, in Spanish, of course, means “nothing.” All aboard! CLUI photoĪ DAY-LONG BUS TOUR was organized as part of the exhibit Through the Grapevine: Streams of Transit in Southern California’s Great Pass.
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