Damn rain, no biking, no workin.. just hangin out and listenin to music. I don't usually get into "pop" music, but the new Bird and the Bee album is completely awesome. If you've never seen any of Eric Wareheim's music videos, prepare your self for the greatest choreography ever.
The Bird and the Bee - Polite Dance Song from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.
So everyone is agreed that its time to do some camping and a warm up camp before the big SD trip sounds like a pretty good idea. So by request here are pics of the three camp sites at hitchcock.
Campsite #1
Neat place, easy to sit around the fire, but lacks the one feature the other two campsites have, a view.
Campsite #2
Ahhh thats better, sweet view, cool little place, but little. Only room for two tents.
Campsite #3
Booyah, the pics are pretty non-descriptive but the third site is a big flat area on the ridge looking over the Missouri Valley. Tent pad for about 4 tents, but enough space to put as many as we need to hang out and do some drinking while surveying the valley.
Hitchcock is a pretty cool place. Planty of fun hiking and it's only 15 minutes from Omaha.
I still regard the decision to trade the instruments for bikes as a pretty good one.
I came back from California with about 100 photos. I came back from Texas with 7. I think the reason is because I did California on foot, bicycle, boat and airplane. Texas was in a rented SUV. 1977 miles. It was nice having the car in Texas cause having a car is like having a mobile comfort zone bubble, everythings ok once you get into it. When I was riding that bike in Marin county, 60 miles away from the couch I was sleepin on, that was about as far out of my comfort zone as I could have been and not been in the wilderness somewhere. So heres the last of the Texas photos. Why is the one picture I took of Kristen infront of a wall in San Antonio? Least I could have done was make her stand infront of the Alamo.
So my search for Brawndo:The Thirst Mutilator came up empty in Texas. Not that I searched very hard but when I saw this stuff I thought It'd be ok to Settle.
Drank - the extreme relaxation beverage. An herbal approximation of real drank which is a combination of prescription cough syrup and soda which is apparently popular with rappers from Texas and people who wish they were rappers from Texas.
Inspired by Bill Latham's drank test, I sat down with Joe, a case of Miller, two cans of Drank and season Two of Human Giant.
After six episodes, the two cans were gone and I estimated that Joe had drank about 8 bottles of beer. One can made me want to take a nap, two cans and I dont have any idea when I passed out. And oh did I pass out hard. I woke up around 6 am this morning (I probably passed out around 11 pm) and gave Drank the thumbs up. I just wonder what three cans would have done.
