Autos and Architects

On the roads of Fresno, and indeed much of the United States of America, rumbles the relentless roar of a surprising number of really, really big trucks. We have some big four-wheel drives in Australia too, but even the most enormous among them is like an iron filing compared with these rolling steelworks.

This one comes all the way up to the shoulder on Marcus. I guess they carry a stepladder in the tray so they can climb in and out.


Some truck owners, not content to drive something merely massive, still feel the need to further raise the cabin. This is actually legal.


As if to make up for the excessive solidity of their cars, the people of California build their houses out of cardboard. This work-in-progress was erected in about five minutes with a few sheets of man-made wood and a glue gun.


Having bound the abode together with old chewing gum, the builders then render it in cement and lay turf so that it ends up looking as substantial as this.

It's a good thing they don't have earthquakes in California ... oh, wait a minute ...