1990 Skrabinj Trail conditions: half-inch powder, soft, over hard base, good for making tracks. Tires whisper and send up light cloud, to dust trailside plants. Black beetle crossing the trail, making its own tracks. Reminder of the black, winged dung beetle, sacred to Egyptians. Pleased to find agile of dung, so pleased to bury pellets of it a few inches underground, as food. Perhaps sixty cubic inches buried per night. In mating season, so pleased to lay an egg in it. Scarabaeus sacer, a recycler of blomass. Scarab. Crowned prince of bottom feeders biking through this trail system, passing by the former homestead, where still grow the avocado and persimmon. On the road going there, finding a trash spill: a good t-shirt, a pair of socks, a solar-powered calculator, a length of copper pipe. Collect artifacts, clean up the countryside, look for food. Observe these two cardinal rules: Get it while it's there. Take it all. Scavenge. A period of uninhibited activity, not caring what anyone thinks; picking up bear scat from the middle of the trail for the yard garden. Break out the flask of firewater toward the end of day's trail. So good to guzzle a mouthful, feel the flux of energy, the warmth, the burn. Merry, noisy frolic at railed. Drunken celebration. Binge. Harvest moon shines on dark side dirt road . . . Scarab endlessly engaged in life-plan: scavenge, sock away consumables; binge, drunk on life, . . . skrabinj Reverse: VVA logo, year date, and value, repeat the layout used in 1989, in the typeface West World by the Designer. Design by Victor Vincente of America. 3D sculpture of the scarab beetle by an artist whose name has not been recorded. Struck on Columbia coin press (with reeded edge) through the services of Crown Mint, Calabasas, CA. Quantity: 200 .999 silver, 1/2 oz. Price: $23

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