Shiny Red Hat

Take that sucka

(August/Sept Entry-bored in SF)
Okay, my job has obviously gotten tedious if I'm playing around with a finger puppet monster. I also picked up a stray red hat that was being kicked around a thrift shop in the mission, it just seemed so sad and no one would pick it up. So I rescued it. I thought :hey, why not, I need an ugly red hat that my guests can find me in.

Sure enough I tried it out and it worked, my group immediately had their eyes on me for the hike through the sequoia grove and I had a sun shade! Win win!

The last few weeks have been full of many random things, finger puppets, red hats, Mr Bean, doppelganger of Jeffrey Donovan and a bicycle ride. 

I'm now currently counting the weeks until I'm done with camping trips! I just received an email about my travel itinerary to Bolivia in November. Two weeks of scouting a location for a hostel and checking out the beautiful Bolivian countryside. Should be interesting. Now to fill the few weeks in October leading up to that time...hmmm

Earthships, Tarantulas and Adobe!

Every car needs bling?!

(October Entry-Road trip to UTCOAZNM)
Alas, I didn't get any photos of the earthships! I was already being a reckless driver by snapping the scenery as it was. No one is really aware of how many times I pull a U-y in the road to get that shot I see. Most of the time its better to look at than it is in the photo I worked so hard to get.
When I was headed to Taos this past Tuesday I came across all sorts of fun and amazing things!

First stop was the gas station at Tiera Amarilla, no cc slot, went in to pay and he said pump was on. Oh my gosh, just like the old days! I literally had forgotten that was teh way it used to be! Remember those days? When you drove up and paid and went inside and had a quick chat to the person at the counter. Wow. Simple times. That reminds me, I pulled out a recycle shopping tote to put my groceries in in Chama and it was much to the amazement of the people standing around there, like the concept of reuseable bags hadn't quite made it there yet. Ha!

So a little bit later and a bunch of beautiful scenery I came across tarantulas...squish, walk squish, snap. That is how the episode went. I wanted to see tarantulas while Iw as in the south and hadn't seen any yet. So when I finally realize that a spider is crossing the road, I'm too late and drive over it. SQUISH!  Then I see another one and pull over and WALK up to the it to take its photo and a speeding car comes along just as I get there and SQUISH They were migrating across the road. I finally got stopped and found a live one and no cars coming this time so I got to snap a photo of it. Pretty cool!! They are different looking that I thought. Just as I was busy walking around trying to get the front view of the giant guy a truck pulls up behind me and exclaimed "there are thousands of them, they are everywhere!" he was so excited to see someone else as amazed as I was about them. It was really funny.

I survived Taos, which is a busy crowded place, basically a town split by a busy highway, ugh. the mountains you ski there are not close by so I skipped that and kept going. I had a lot to see.

I met satan's dog in Truchas NM. What a cool place, you are driving down a narrow windy road and you come to a T intersection, you can either turn right and keep on your way down the road or you follow a sign that says "local businesses" its curious they don't want to direct you through the town...

Going through there is like going back in time, way back!! Back to the dog though it was a little scary, it had red eyes and was as big as my car. The general store was opened and guarded by the devil dog. It appeared to be the only thing open besides the galleries. One gas station across from the general store had a sign on it blaming the government and its fees and taxes for its closing. I stopped and took a picture (not of the dog or the sign) and kept going.

I made it to Chimayo to go visit the Santuario de Chimayo which is a religious sanctuary that people do pilgrimages to throughout the year, its a neat place, very old and very popular. I met up with a motorcoach full of people, which was really annoying but that's the way it goes.

Annual Autumn Review

Sometimes we just need to stand on our heads

It's funny as I'm sitting here reviewing my blogs etc, that at this time of year each year I sit and start thinking about my next step. Ha! So I won't repeat the same message again here. Because you all know it will be the same.

This year I did do something a little different. I got out my old hand written journals and reread them. More like skimmed because I blabbed a lot and it was usually the same message. Each book I picked up had the same thing in it. Men I dated, what thing I was really excited about, usually a new location and place and that I also wished I knew what I wanted to "be when I grew up" ha! Pretty funny stuff. My friend Tyce brought over the letters I wrote him 15 years ago and I said the same things to him too. Wow.

Some day soon the message will be exciting again. I'm in a holding pattern I guess. Winter at the ski hill, summer working as a tour guide...i know, tough life. But it doesn't make for very interesting stories for my blog. I'm looking for ways to make it interesting while I'm here waiting for the snow to fly.

I went into Boise downtown today for the first time in a long time. It's really a pretty city. Lots of character and the leaves are changing now, people were out and about taking in the last of the sun for this week. It's nice.

Well, he's in costume here, ha!

Last week I went to a Halloween party for the first time in a long time! It was great fun. Met a lot of new people. I went with my friend Tyce. He's someone I'm enjoying spending time with a lot these days! My new challenge this winter will be creating new adventures for someone who is comfortable being a hermit...Can I do it?!

Keith Stone, smooth!

I'm also going to be working a lot more this winter so I'll stay a bit more occupied.

So for now, until I think of something thrilling and hilarious to share I'll just say goodbye for now. I will be posting the blogs I've got sitting in limbo too. There are quite a few drafts waiting to be uploaded, why I didn't do that at the time I don't know. Bad habit!