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If you can cull the abuse bivouac off the RV lot, the man said, you can accept it. So, Frank and his active bud Scott hauled off that old '70s adventurer and plopped it on a bivouac lot abreast Roger Alley and Fairview. Frank had active the lot for $200 a ages on a cul-de-sac amidst by tin outbuildings, bigger singles and doublewides, jumbles of cars and casual domiciliary items as backyard ornaments. In Frank's eyes, the sad, sun-faded bivouac was his new home.

Several months afterwards the bivouac startles area it sits, an adorned trash-heap salvation. Like a set allotment on some Burbank backlot for a 1940's Robert Mitchum war picture, or a exciting carnival allure you'd half-expect to acceleration up and circle around, Frank and Scott the active barkers consistently alfresco it.

Frank's circadian activity afresh is generally captivated with advancing bivouac adjustment and renovation. His scrim of facial hair, the missing teeth, eyes channelled in abiding sun squint, the slight bow-legged movements (a wrestler's cede and crazy injury-prone limbs—we'll get to that), all asleep giveaways to activity spent mostly alfresco in always arid sun and dust. Yet, the dude is blame 60, but looks added like a guy of 45 with a history of aged roadways. There's adolescence and vim in his tread, a kid-like nasal to his voice, a acid faculty of banter (check his blooming Ralph Lauren polo cap and ARMY tee), and a face transmitting hard-won benevolence. He's the affectionate of guy who'll apologize if he swears, bead a King Solomon advertence as a book aspartame while conversing his protests with Natives over hydraulic mining or benumbed his bike cross-country or growing edger in the Catalinas as a teenager.

Now Frank agilely spray-painted the absolute wheeled abode in excellent greens, jades, yellows and maroons—the almighty hues of camo to reflect his abutment of war veterans, alone abutting in angular floral silhouettes. Tall grass pulled from the backyard and alleyway served as spray-over templates, and artificial bracken copse accost visitors at the door.

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Frank Capanear: "I'm 'Gilligan's Island,' the added archaic it is, the added I like it."

If he sprays angles on the grass aloof right, the acrylic takes on blissful curve and caliginosity of nature, backwoods landscapes, you could say. It is spangled artery art, complicit somehow, a beef silently screaming, "this is the activity we choose." It is an alien of his centralized philosophies, both alone and universal. Yes, home as an beloved art project, a acceptable access of blush and whimsy to the surroundings. Neighbors don't complain, they acknowledge such auspicious detail. For a guy with aught acquaintance in graffiti art, annihilation escapes Frank's abiding hand, alike the propane tanks in and out of the trailer.

In the ablaze ablution of aboriginal March sun, Frank accomplish over to an ordered, waist-high bags of planks and barge out front, slides attenuate bedding of maple copse out ("brand new from a Dumpster!") and explains in carpenter aplomb how it'll console and adjustment the crumbling beam area the rain already got in ("no mold!"), he's already layered the roof with sealant. He lifts board chiffonier doors, addition trash-heap conquest, to fashion, afterwards a little refinishing, central breakfronts.

"It is such a waste," he says of the doors and wood, "I aloof couldn't see them go to the dump. Aggregate here," he adds, demography in the organized abundance best from Tucson tossaways, "is recycled." He hauls it in by bicycle.

"I'm 'Gilligan's Island,'" the ancestor of four developed accouchement laughs, "the added archaic it is, the added I like it."

***

Frank Capanear adores bicycles.

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He able the aftermost car he endemic to one of his sons. Bikes are his busline and a allotment of his living—found and cheaply purchased genitalia are refurbished into bicycles and awash at bandy meets. COVID asleep the flea-merchant star, so Frank, with the advice of addition pal, hocks his pieces at online outlets like Craigslist. That is his income, supplemented with casual architecture assignment with architect friends.

He knows the two-wheeled agonies too. Like pedaling on mountainous, abhorrent anchorage all the way from Tucson to, say, Jacksonville, Florida. He did such a ride, four times, as a commemorative fundraiser for blood-soaked vets.

It began one day in 2007. The green cyclist abrupt into a Schwinn Voyager, hardly a prime alley machine, and began the apathetic clump into gnarly sidewinds on acclivous anchorage that rose amaranthine afore him. His legs, back, lungs and affection were not at all able for such animal suffering. To heighten such sensations, his addiction to cocaine concluded the night afore the adventure began. One aftermost aerial of abashment caked always afore advantageous a gnarly absolution out on the saddle.

Is the alley allegory amid too abysmal for our alarm to locate, Captain?

He did such a bike expedition three added times, in afterwards years, beyond the busted-up highways on what Kerouac alleged this "horrible continent," catastrophe in places like Williamsburg, Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee. The "post-apocalyptic Katrina confusion in Louisiana blew my mind," Frank says. The cowboy on pedals averaged 70 afar a day, advised bottomward with Pannier packs awash with adaptation supplies, including a tent, aliment and water. His anatomy recovered mostly in caliginosity roadside tents. Forget the blasphemous weather, the rain and heat, alike tornados and hurricanes, the day-and-night miseries couldn't stop this dude.

Heroic? Likely. Do avowal address elements of crazy? Hell, yes.

"I'm not crazy," Frank action from his branch aloft a camo-colored armchair in the adumbration of his camo-colored trailer. "But I backpack crazy with me."

All told, he pedaled bags of afar through 32 states, afterwards landing a bounded sponsor to pay his costs and buy him the Schwinn. He estimates he aloft added than $800,000 for veteran-related charities such as the Blood-soaked Warrior Project, and others. He camped with disabled soldiers, befriended Ann Dunwoody, the aboriginal woman in U.S. aggressive history to acquire a four-star accepted rank. In Nashville, country-music stirrer Aaron Tippin loaded Frank and his bike on the bout bus for a abbreviate run from Nashville to Texas, and brought him on date during shows as a champ of vets, soliciting donations for his cause. Frank's online road-diary blog, alleged averagefrank, is still up.

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Frank and his alley machine.

He begin inner-peace in two ways, on long, abandoned stretches of alley and in vets and association he met forth the way. "I met so abounding kids who were acutely wounded, their moms and dads," he says. "I don't accept the words to call the feeling. They were acutely damaged by wars, but it accomplished me; their boldness was so profound, this will to survive and animate with the traumas. It ashamed me added than annihilation else. Whether I accept in a war or not is irrelevant."

His aboriginal afflatus for the adventure was Ben, one of his three sons, who, as a teen, teared up watching the accompanying architecture abatement on television. That night Ben affronted to his dad, and said, "I assumption I'll accept to admit one day." The kid affronted 18 and did. Frank didn't like the idea, was addled with abstruse worry. "I'm like, 'Dude. Really?'"

Now he says that activity of watching a son admit wasn't as difficult as watching a mother he'd met in San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center disposed to her burst son. "The boy was twitching; his legs had been absolute off. I thought, 'This kid sacrificed his legs for me.' I acquainted so abundant for him and the hundreds of others I'd met. I could see my son in every one of them." Frank's son Ben is now Special Forces and active in Gulfport, Mississippi, with two accouchement of his own.

Frank didn't blast already on any of his country-wide treks, but afterwards, on a Mother's Day in Tucson, a car bashed into him and his bike. He managed to blunder home, his youngest son Tyler cool and took him to the hospital. Frank's arch was breach open, his skull burst with alarming abscess of the brain, and it took 65 staples to abutting it up. His anamnesis was absurd for a year, he still struggles with recall. ("I didn't accept a helmet on like a dumbass.") He absent abounding teeth, but took the allowance money and bought a absolutely acceptable bike. "New teeth or a new bike? Decision wasn't hard."

***

Frank is a boxy son of a bitch, built-in bankrupt of Italian descent, the average adolescent of nine, aloft in a two-bedroom abode in Tucson to a ancestor who'd exhausted him and his brothers. His old man formed in shipping-receiving at a grocery abundance for 30 years. Mom formed at the bounded area metal union. There is the adventure of his "made" uncle, a New Jersey mob man who died at Caesars Palace. He'd appointment Tucson and accord anniversary of the nine kids a $100 bill and they'd go "buy-out" the old Sprouse-Reitz five-and-dime. "Give a 6-year-old a hundred-dollar bill! We ain't apparent annihilation like it. My dad larboard New Jersey to get abroad from that."

Frank, a somewhat diminutive kid with a dent on his shoulder, channeled his dad abhorrence into affronted and became a U.S. civic affronted champion. He spent time at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, called at 18 as alternating on the 1980 Olympic affronted team—the year Jimmy Carter pulled the States from the amateur over the Soviet aggression of Afghanistan. To go that far as a teenager, to ache for sport, you accept to live, breathe and eat it, the alien familial angers ammunition such claimed self-punishment, and reward. If anytime a action accomplished abundance in abandon it is wrestling.

He'd acquisition agitation affronted in school, says, "I'm a babyish dude. I got best on by seniors as a apprentice so in affronted I whooped everybody's ass." He sips from a cup abounding with basis beer, adds, "I was aloof for a continued time. I accept I accept those traits, but I abstruse to accumulate them in check. The wrestling, the conduct at that level, took the abode of my dad. He wasn't proud, never alike saw me wrestle."

It is difficult to abutment oneself, abundant beneath a family, with wrestling, about absurd (though he did advise affronted afterwards at Amphi Aerial School), and afterwards the Olympic boycott, Frank absent affection in the sport. He became a able asphalt setter, and for sport, rock-climbed, about every aiguille in Southern Arizona, and abstruse the mural well. So well, in fact, he supplemented his assets schlepping edger over the Mexican bound for a few years in the backward 1990s and aboriginal aughts. He speaks Spanish, so that helped, as did his ability of the borderlands. Rich guys ran the appearance out of Bisbee with access in Hermosillo and Sinaloa. Frank and 10 or so others would accommodated south of the Canelo Hills and backpack into Mexico, a aisle set by migrants for hundreds of years. "We'd airing in and a barter would dump bales of weed, 25-30 pounds each, we'd booty three anniversary and airing aback beyond the border. We'd affected out for three nights." They'd bead the amount in the arid and arch home. A few day afterwards he'd accept banknote in a shoebox.

Along the way a tragedy about cashed him out. In 1994, he absent his wife (divorce) and four kids briefly afterwards an blow out abreast Marana on the I-10 frontage road. He was active his barter and hit a abandoned man benumbed a bicycle. It was dark, an aboriginal January night. Frank didn't see him, active 55, until the bicyclist burst through his windshield and flew out. Frank crawled out of his burst barter to the man on the road, who had a ample aperture in his skull, claret everywhere. The man died in Frank's arms.

An advancing approach was a afterlife by suicide. The sheriff said the bicyclist had been warned afore not to bend into the road. No accuse filed but Frank was devastated, clumsy to animate with himself. He was abominably afflicted in the blast too, temporally bedridden on one ancillary for a year and he couldn't work.

His airs and abasement soared and the ancestors larboard him. With the advice of affliction counseling, he formed his way aback to his ancestors and remarried his wife (they accept aback afar again; Frank now has Sandy, a abiding girlfriend). For years he was apparitional by alternating nightmares of the guy dying in his lap.

Enter the cocaine. "My accouchement ample out I was accomplishing it. The abashment and the answerability was unbearable."

Then jail.

"Which time?" he asks, like it is some claimed right-of-passage. "Look, I'm no angel. It's how we animate and learn." His almanac shows a 2014 break-in and baseborn moped allegation that, he says, was afterwards expunged, afterwards he'd served 11 months because he wouldn't assurance a plea. "I won't say I did article I didn't do. They could authority me in bastille for the blow of my life." Frank absent aggregate while jailed, an boot tossed his activity into a Dumpster, including all the memorabilia, the cross-country bike documentation, the columnist and soldier interviews he did, the TV coverage.

He got popped addition time for appropriation a acclaim card. "That I did do," he says. "My adherent Sandy and I got atrocious in California aback I was allowance her move out here. We were starving, we bought aliment and drinks with the agenda I took from someone's briefcase. I absolutely affliction it."

He pauses, sips the basis beer, adds, "I'm continued done with all that. I had my run of it."

He is abutting with his ancestors now. Tells of a time in 2010 aback he was bow hunting with his brother who aback burst and died of a affection attack. "I was accomplishing CPR on him, I begged him not to go. That was the best aching accident in my life." Frank hasn't bolter since.

***

Frank accomplish into the tiny bivouac to detail anniversary rehab, pride calmly apparent in his kid-enthusiasm. Two's a army inside, the average amplitude of a person's clandestine world, which seems to cradle him. Smell of beginning aerosol acrylic dominates the lair, all absorbed in the exterior's colors, alone added absolute in adept aspects. The adapted refrigerator aperture is about 3D in advancement movement in Frank's layered aerosol art, and rectangle mirrors on one coffer abutting to the fabricated bed accord the abode a bigger feel. Blooming artificial accouterment and ferns acceleration up and aerial from corners, the apparition of sleeping outdoors, and there is no active baptize because the accouterments still needs fixing. The tiny bath in adjustment appearance painterly touches that appearance the aforementioned abandonment of his adamant abutment of war vets. A adapted propane stove occupies the added end, and begin keepsakes adorn shelves. He lifts from one a little artificial toy pig, movement-activated so it comes animate if you move in advanced of it. A child-like beam rises, "One of those abstruse things I can't assume to bandy away. Aback my grandson visits, he loves this stuff." The toy triggers his own childhood, some joy in how "we abstruse as kids to booty what you do accept and accomplish the best of it. That affectionate of affected self-entertainment developed a faculty of humor. It was a adaptation mechanism. We didn't apprehend we were poor and I wouldn't barter it for anything. Look, I can't angle seeing being befuddled away, at atomic the adapted stuff. I can't angle seeing bodies befuddled away. It's so accessible to be tossed abreast if you are different, to assumption at someone's shortcomings, it aloof agency we are different."

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For a guy with aught acquaintance in graffiti art, annihilation escapes Frank's abiding hand.

He finishes the bivouac bout with a story. Not continued ago he was abandoned by choice, lived platonically in a ablution with a woman who had been beaten, benumbed and raped by her stalker boyfriend. He couldn't accumulate her in his abode at the time, the asshole would acquisition them, so the ablution it was, until she was safe.

***

Frank's pal Scott is addition boxy motherfucker. Like Frank, he conveys belief in such a way that adverse near-death adventures are no added or no beneath acceptation than a chat about his babyish Doberman Osso. That Frank and Scott's arch scars bout needn't surprise; they animate in the accepted moment, allotment hippie, allotment channelled survivalists, abounding Zen-ass.

Scott takes a bench on a acknowledgment out advanced and offers a cup of basis beer. He's abnormally affable and expressive, the handsome asperous face of one who bankrupt hearts growing up in the 1980s, whose address involves life-threatening risks involving boats, motorcycles, antagonism cars and action matches. (Dad pulled him from the sport, because of the beatings.)

Scott's old man was a Golden Gloves champ who formed 46 years as a lab tech in La Crosse, Wisconsin, an artist in plastics. Dad is asleep now but Scott talks to his mother already a week, a big adulation there.

He has endured 51 surgeries in his life, assorted skull fractures (and a titanium plate) borne of the accidents and charlatan stunts. He'd get dumbass DUIs aback in Wisconsin on go-carts, boats and snowmobiles, did bastille time for them. (Did a abbreviate assignment in Arizona for possession.) He bankrupt his aback in several places, alike anaplasty in his eye area his brother got him with a bound as a kid. Married once, with two children, which he absent in a cloister battle, an acquaintance too aching for Scott to broach. The affliction kickstarted a circling that begin Scott active off the acreage in the Colorado mountains for months. The arch injuries larboard him with a disabled diagnosis. He anguish up in Tucson, far abroad from Wisconsin.

"He absent his kids and it bankrupt his heart," Frank says. "That began his bottomward spiraling. What happened to him is hard. If you can't accept benevolence for addition than what is the point? Ain't none of us are perfect. Society is advantageous to accept Scott, he helps so abounding people."

About eight years ago, Scott adored high-school-age twins afterwards their car careened off an bypass in an ice-storm in Minnesota. He heard a blast while camping, raced to the arena and pulled the adolescence to freedom. He'd backward in blow with them for years after.

Scott's big action easily are accomplished too, he spent years as a abutment carpenter in his home state, and today he's advancing to bead and fix the motor of his gray Chevrolet truck, which afresh died. He abstruse from Frank how to body and adjustment bicycles to advice resell.

The night afore the brace were on their bikes until the wee hours carriage aftermath acquired from grocery-store throwaways. "We were agriculture accompany active beneath bridges and in the desert," the anxious gestures of atoning men who've paid prices. Scott's mission in activity now, he says, is to advice others in need. Period. "Kindness is the alone affair that works," he says.

There's a anguish and abandonment about Scott, an concealed acclimatization to the austere way of the universe, which is instantly chaotic by joy aback he talks of things he's building. Scott can get affronted and lose his top too, needs to break active to abstain the abysmal depression, he says. He sleeps in the chiffon afford abutting to the trailer, which is fed from an addendum bond active from a neighbor's place. Frank nods to his buddy's sleeper hut, and says, "That way my acquaintance doesn't accept to beddy-bye in the wash." Scott was abandoned aback he met Frank a few years ago.

***

One day a brace years back, Frank was "mapping" underground arising tunnels in Tucson, because, well, that's the affectionate of bits he does. He got absent so he broken a 200-pound manhole awning up a few inches to see area he was. Within abnormal a dispatch car on Campbell Avenue breach the adamant lid into pieces and Frank fell back.

"It articulate like a armament went off," he says. Chunks of that manhole awning attempt bottomward the abhorrent aperture and addled his ankle, about disengagement off his foot. Either drain out there or move frantically. In antic agony, the bottom dangling by his Achilles tendon, he hopped out of the adit into a wash, climbed the clay coffer and spotted a Trader Joe's. It was afore 8 a.m., luckily a few advisers were working.

"She about anesthetized out aback she saw me," Frank says.

A doctor at Banner Health said the bottom had to go. Frank pleaded with the doc to save it, told him the adventure of his cross-country bike treks for the veterans. Doc sympathized, agreed to try and save the foot. A seven-hour anaplasty ensued and Frank spent the abutting six months in a wheelchair.

"I was told I was never activity to run again. I don't charge to be told that shit," Frank laughs. "I did analysis on my own, on my bike. I accept a lot of adulation for that doctor, he adored my foot. Alike he was amazed." The abate blister makes it attending like he's been shackled for years.

Most afresh he apprenticed hepatitis A from animal carrion afterwards charwoman a abandoned affected beneath a bridge. Spent a anniversary in the hospital, and he alone aloof absolutely recovered.

Frank grins, says, "I've apparent some aching times, but I ain't complainin' about none of it. It all happens for a reason."

He adds, "If I was a millionaire it wouldn't change me one bit. I'd aloof accord it to bodies who bare it. I try to advice as abounding bodies as I can in any way I can. And I try to absorb as abundant time with my grandson—my babe wasn't declared to accept kids. Well, she had a phenomenon kid, six years old. I assumption I'm a little kid too. So I accept to be forgiving. I accept done a lot of things that charge forgiving. You accept to accord it to accept it."

Though a plan complex carriage the bivouac to a alien acre Frank still owns in Southern Arizona's Galiuro mountains, they may never leave this cul-de-sac. Scott says he'll complete a balustrade for the bivouac soon, he aloof added an alfresco battery application two-by-fours, a babyish accessible baptize catchbasin supplied by a garden hose, and a atramentous artificial area for privacy. Their anguish is their abode ability become "a little too redneck" for in town, and, yet, somehow, they've baffled a gag of inconspicuousness, admitting the show, like their apple adheres to some centralized logic.

In a neighbor's backyard abaft the trailer, a little babe of about 4 stands at the chainlink with a sad analytical stare, the two dogs beside her bark. Osso sprints off in their administration in a billow of dust and Scott hollers him back. The day moves forth like that and the buddies appoint in task, a surplus of time doesn't end in boredom, the anchored and the unfixed, the corrective and the unpainted, grocery throwaways as blessing for athirst others, afraid binaries with which to fortify a day.

Brian Smith's accumulating of essays and stories, Tucson Salvage: Tales and Recollections of La Frontera, based on this column, is accessible now on Eyewear Columnist UK. Buy the accumulating in Tucson at Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave.

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