From: allreadydun@gmail.com

### - that's actually quite a trip! once drove solo all around the
outskirts of france in an old bedford camper van ending up in a place
called Nice (the most southernly point in france) and it 'was' nice too
heh, even had a profound eye-opening/popping religious-type experience
there to go with it, very strange...) and then drove back north via the mountains and all those famous twisty little mountain roads/passes and
then up into belgium and across into holland (called in on amsterdam to
score some hash) as well, before finally returning home after 6-weeks, and that was only 2600 miles round-trip!

what else can a poor boy do?

### - have always wanted/dreamed to see yellowstone and 'old faithful'
(have seen it on live-cam but that's not the same...) guess am getting too old to prolly ever actually see it now, so maybe in my dreams then eh?
(been everywhere else so am gonna try it) ;)

that Yellowstone area has more god damn water than the ocean.
(well not quite) you'd think you were at Lake Tahoe or something.

### - ah yes: is called "Bad Gods Tower" (plural) according to the native americans, who've been suing to have the name changed back to the
original, 'bad gods' being translated (by christians) into 'devil'...

strong medicine :)

the injuns make this place out to be very sacred area. I see why.

### - nice little trip you had there eh? covered 340 miles per day on
average + must have used about $700 in gas to boot...

Just a tad over $400 buckos for the petrol.
One section coming through Utah we did close to 29 mpg.
But most the time around 25 miles per gallon in the Toyota Highlander.

(your gas is cheaper than ours so maybe less)

Gas is way cheap in Wyoming and South Dakota, $2.69 a gallon in some places.

just gots to love those mountains eh?

imho it's the way the wind whistles up the pass! haha :)))

god damn gas is up to $3.40 a gallon in Califuckna.
played slots in southern nevada at Laughlin, of course we
lost our ass again. BUT we had a damn good time. (on the road)

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From: slider@anashram.com

### - ah yes: is called "Bad Gods Tower" (plural) according to the
native
americans, who've been suing to have the name changed back to the
original, 'bad gods' being translated (by christians) into 'devil'...

strong medicine :)

the injuns make this place out to be very sacred area. I see why.

### - we gots a place here called glastonbury that comes with similar
legendary nonsense attached, one that reputedly goes all the way back to
king arthur and even jc haha (riiiight...) but, be all that as it may,
have been there a few times for their open-air concerts and can report on
a very strange vibe that seems to emanate from the whole area, and it's
very strange indeed... you can actually feel it... especially after a
couple of days of being in the place!

one very noticeable + lingering effect of it being that upon returning to london after the concert one could quite easily discern anyone else who'd
been there too even if you've never seen them before! (i tested this and
it was totally true!) it's not something i can explain but the people
who'd also been there had like a light around them that made them
stand-out from everyone else in the street?? (very strange) + there was a definite feeling of familiarity about them (with 100,000+ people going to
that concert it was pretty unlikely that i'd actually met them there +
think i would have remembered them if i had...) the only way to explain it being that there's some kinda energy in that place that attaches itself to
ya and/or that one absorbs and that stays with ya for several days afterwards... i dunno how else to explain it... and if there's one place
like that then am not surprised to hear there's others...

played slots in southern nevada at Laughlin, of course we
lost our ass again.

### - don't actually 'hope' (or expect) to win and that's fine innit,
paying to have a good time is no robbery, and IF ya win it's a bonus! (a faultless philosophy heh)

e.g., used to go to the dogs years ago (yeah folks, i went to the dogs a long-long time ago lol) and it used to cost about £20 ($30) to have a
drink, a snack & a bet, and sometimes i even came home a winner with
either my £20 back or more! (one time even trebled it heh and came home by taxi) and it was just a fun nite out, worst came to the worst ya had a
nice time out for only 20 notes, and that ain't bad!

BUT we had a damn good time. (on the road)

### - "on the road" (by jack kerouac) was once a favourite book of mine
that i literally carried around with me everywhere heh; him hitch-hiking
back and forth across the usa and writing about his adventures is/was a
truly inspirational book + then went onto reading all his other books too,
the best of which was one called 'Desolation Angels', in which he stays in
a mountain retreat as a solo forest firewatcher for 3 months and comes
back down from that little trip a changed man (nice story)

e.g., he now sees everyone rather compassionately as being these kinda
lost 'desolation angels' who've become lost in the world and who no longer remember who they all are etc etc...

a truly great book for the way one can then 'borrow' his pov ;)

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