Post Summit

Sorry everyone, that it has been so long since the last post. I ended up spending an entire week up at Horning's Hideout, dancing and recycling and making friends. Right now, I am at the Hoh Humm Bed and Breakfast Ranch somewhere in the middle of coastal Washington. In the last week now, I've seen Yonder play 9 hours, including a 22 musician super jam, I've helped sort the recycling and trash for some 2000 hippies, I've gotten laid, I've built a barn door, and I've finally learned how to slaughter an animal and turn it into meat and supplies, all without a dollar in my pocket. Pretty much just L-I-V-I-N! Horning's Hideout, for those of you that don't know, is maybe the coolest concert venue in the country. And you guys know how much I love Red Rocks. I heard Bob Horning called "the last great American Man," and he decided to turn his families land into a sort of outdoor paradise. I think the property is somewhere around 100 acres of Oregon forest, 25 minutes west of Portland. There are lakes, streams, what is soon to be the largest Frisbee-golf course in the country, and 88 peacocks wandering around peacocking at you. There is also a big, bad-ass stage that was built entirely of logs harvested from the property and probably 50 perfect campsites cleaned out. You owe it to yourself to go out and see this place, whoever you are. A quick note to all you Colorado folk, there is a Swedish string band coming through in the next few weeks called the Abalone Dots, find out where they are playing and go see them, they are incredible, and beautiful. Anyway, the "plan" right now is to hang out up here at the ranch until Monday or Tuesday when we will be heading for Portland for a night, then Montana to go hop on the festival circuit for a few weeks, including a two night Dark Star show at some clothing-optional hot springs at the mouth of Glacier National Park. Sounds interesting, right? After that, maybe I'll actually make it up into Canada, or maybe just head back to Colorado for a minute for the Yonder Red Rocks show, and then Burning Man, and then...(?) Sorry also that this post feels so disjunctive. I have finally really gotten into the moment, and have been living here perpetually for the last few weeks, and its cool, but my concept of time has been completely thrown off-kilter. Being out at the ranch doesn't help either (or maybe it does) because time just generally seems to move slower out here. Once you get the chores done for the day, there is really nothing to do but find ways to entertain yourself. Thanks again to everyone that reads this, and enjoy your summers. Go have yourself an adventure and remember, "What the hell kind of an adventure is a straight line?"