Somewhere on 101

[psteverific 8]

Very interesting story so far, I'll have to keep an eye on this one

[Schulmanator 5,813]

Cool story - and a nice town you have here.

[Simfan34 11]

Nice story! Were is he...

[jacqulina 162]

hi my friend yes i love the story i made a cuppa tea to sit and read it its a very interesting story and intriguing,and wonderfull pics to go with it,excellent work and pics and of course im looking out for more

[football_fever 6]

Yeah! I was just thinking about this CJ yesterday! Glad to see it back...I'm a fan. Hopefully RLS wasn't too bad. And if it was, hopefully it's all finished now. Waiting for more!

[1dera3 29]

Wow, this CJ is nice. I really like the story line. Keep rolling out those updates, it looks really nice!

[Fairlane500 8]

In Response:

Zipme: Glad to know you're enjoying me returning to my work.

Silur: Yep, I'm back, and hopefully I'll stay that way for a while.

lucky7: Thanks for the kind words, and I must say, you just might be catching on to my storyline.

psteverific: Well, then I hope to see you continue to hang around.

Schulmanator: Yeah, I like the whole feel of the town, one of my best fitting towns for the location, i think.

Simfan: Well, you'll just have to wait and read to find out.

Jacky: A cup of tea, eh? Next thing you know, I might have to start selling cyber-popcorn.

football_fever: Wow, thinking about it while I was away? I guess I do have something good going. And yes, I hope my busy schedule dosn't continue to take away from my journal time.

1dera3: Thank you, and I hope to keep seeing you around for when I get the next one out.

On my progress:

Well, I've got a bunch of screenies for a variety of towns, but I just have to decide which one I'm going to send Alex to next. Oh, and for those of you noticing a connection between the towns here, and in my other CJ, just beware, this one involves the true layout.  Also, watch in the future, i may decide to have more than just one story going on...

[homeandaway 1]

your city looks really cool and i cant wait for more!.]

take care

~Alex~

[lucky7 73]

Oh yes, your progress sounds really interesting.. different substories packed in one story! Sounds like a David Lynch movie...! Can't wait for more!!!

[Fairlane500 8]

It's alive!

Well, actually not really...

I guess I have some good news and some bad news for all of you. First for the good, yes, I am back to accessing a computer after my summer of training. On the bed though, I haveno games permitted this year whatsoever, so yeah, I'm sorta stuck.

BUT, I do plan on on grabbing my screen shot archives when I go home on holiday, in December, so you can expect a nice good update...eventually...

So yeah, that's pretty much my story, as for Alex's, you'll just have to wait...

[Sim_Air 2]

Ok, really sad because that was a very good storyline and amazing pics. Well, take care!

[penguin007 27]

Wow this is a great story cj I love the storyline

Will

[Mr. Beer 12]

What a nice idea to make a CJ following the Route 101... also good luck for your nice project!

David

[waldner 0]

Very interesting!

[GingerBlokey 30]

Nice little CJ, I love the way the little hamlet has a McDonalds, classic America. I also like hte little town with the shops on the corner, looks real.

[ky72x 13]

Very nice start, I like these types of CJ's. I like how the shops are along the highway instead of being all over the place; it's very realistic. Keep up the good work, I can't wait for more!

- Kyle

[yoshikoroyimara 5]

awesome CJ! It does remind me of some of the towns of 101...excellente!

[Fairlane500 8]

In Reponse:

Alex: Thanks, I'm glad you like what you see.

lucky7: Well, I'm not really too sure what those movies are like, but hearing my writing resembles any movie I'll take as an outstanding comment.

Sim_Air: Well, I guess I can say don't count on it being too gone...

Will: Thanks, and I hope you continue to enjoy it as I continue along.

David: Well, I felt that since 101 is such an interesting route, it would be the perfect source for an interesting story, even if I do take a "few" liberties with the reality...

waldner: Thanks for the encouraging comment.

GB: that's really what I love to do, recreate those little places you see and enjoy, but no one really takes the time to recreate when you have the opportunity to build a gleaming metropolis.

Kyle: Exactly, I love building that realism, it's the true Americana, just as much as Nascar and apple pie.

yoshikoroyimara: Thanks, that's my intent, glad to hear I'm suceeding.

To All: Well, I've decided that despite my lack of the game, I can take a break from my current storyline to build up some other plots that I can later intertwine. While there may be no game shot's, I'll keep it true to the reason.

Expect the first part soon.

[jacqulina 162]

yes plz lol start selling cyber popcorn,looking forward to your next update my friend

[JakeMD 107]

intresting, is 101 by any chance, in minnesota?

[Jazzmaster 716]

Cool, I love story CJs! Looking forward to more!

-Yoshiisland

[writingliberty 0]

Judging by the signage, it's US-101, which is the old highway along the Pacific coast (I believe the Golden Gate Bridge was a portion of it, and there is also a section I've driven near downtown Los Angeles).

[yoshikoroyimara 5]

there were many small towns of California...but after the superhighway began to run through only some...many societies began to collapse...highway 101 is popular in the North (such as SF and the Bay Area) and the south (LA)...but in between...not so much......since highway 5 was built in the Central Valley, it took even less time to travel north to south or visa versa...so towns on highway 101 began to shrink...however...it was at an age where towns rarely disappear...so they just stayed small...like your town...at least for now, I hope...

[Fairlane500 8]

Well, I'm going to hold off temporarily on the responses here so I can cut right into my new story, so enjoy, and I'll get back to you in the near future.

---

Excerpt from the log of the Snohomish Shipping Lines lumber schooner Wilkeson:

November 18th, 1904:

Five days out of Everett, and we should be seeing the Yaquina Head lighthouse. Fog has been thick, so we can not be completely sure of our location, but my dead reckoning places just off Coos Bay. The coast finally came into view this afternoon, and now that night has set, the familiar sequence of lights should be there.

Instead, something is off, the pattern of flashes I can see in the disance is one that I know, and it disturbs me very much, the pattern used by station Lime Kiln, in the Washington San Juan Islands. Things are very much amiss, as I know, this pattern belongs at Lime Kiln, Washington. Somethiing is horriblly off...

[/i

Hope you all enjoy, let me know what you think.

[penguin007 27]

Nice update this town sounds more mysterious by the day

Will

[politicman 1]

It's a very good village and i lke the subject

[Fairlane500 8]

Okay, before I continue, some...

Replies:

Jacky: Hmmm, yjay may be an activity I'll have to look into. Great to see you back reading.

SWAT-MEDIC: Well, I guess your question's been answered by the other assisting readers.

Yoshiisland: Well, I hope you'll continue to enjoy mine then. Hope to see you back around.

writingliberty: You've got it correct, though for my story, I'm referencing the Pacific Highway as it runs through Oregon.

yoshikoroyimara: Exactly, that's what I love about the coastal highways and why I chose to portray them. They have that pleasant little bit of detachment, a place where anything it seems could happen...

Will: Glad you're seeing that. Just doing my job to build up my story.

politicman: I'm glad. tanks, and I hope to see you around again.

---

The wreck of the Wilkeson had always intrigued Madeline Ballard. Everyone in Jefferson Beach knew of the ship, its rusted remains protruding from the sand a mile south of town, but few knew of the story of the vessel's stranding, of the complete mystery surrounding the ship.

As a child, Madeline grew up climbing on, under, and through the corroded remainsof the ship, and as a result, had developed a minor obsession.

Madeline's parents knew nothing about the ship, except that it had been there, and that her maternal great grandparents had probably lived in the area when the ship came ashore, but there were no traces of any accounts regarding it in the family heirlooms.

Thus, Madeline sought out every source she could, and had pieced together the following as her best interpretation of the event:

November 19th dawned as a typical late autumn day on the Oregon Coast. The residents of Jefferson Beach awoke to find the weather had finally calmed down, and some plodded out into the light drizzle to see what had washed up on the beaches during the storm over the previous days. About a mile south of town, a most peculiar site was discovered.

Looming up through the haze about a hundred feet from the shore, and directly out from the remains of a fishing boat lost weeks earlier, was a large, stately looking four-masted schooner, ajar at an angle, with no signs of life aboard.

With excitement brewing, the residents gathered a boat and crew, and headed out to investigate the wreck. They found the nameboard on the stern reading Wilkeson, with the location Everett stamped into the steel below it. Beyond the name, the party found the lifeboats and log gone, and the crew's belongings in a state of chaos, as if the crew had departed in a hurry. Other than that, there was no sign of anyone aboard. Returning back to the village, no amount of discussion nor research could discover any trace of the ship's existence, or that of a port called Everett.

Attempts to pull the Wilkeson from the beach failed, and it eventually worked its way farther up and decayed to it current point. The identity of the vessel still remains a mystery.

Madeline was not about to give up though, she knew there had to be an answer, and was going to take every effort to find it.

The Wilkeson ashore, as seen on November 21st, 1904

Remains of the ship in 2007.

[Fairlane500 8]

Minor Update: I decided to do a wee little change to the photo in the initial Wilkeson entry, hopefully you find it benefits the appearance somewhat.

As always, I'm eager to hear what you have to say as I think up where I'm going to take the story.

[Markus J 242]

This has an interesting feel... I'll be keeping up on it.

[sEAhAwk fAn121 0]

wow! very interesting! love the story.. gotta love a good mystery