On the road again...
Wahoo I'm coming home baby!!! I can't wait to see all my friends!!! I love the triple exclamation!!! Hee hee!!! So here's whats up, I'm comin' home after being gone for two very very long months. I have had a lot of fun though don't get me wrong, and this is exactly the kind of vacation my soul needed. I can't believe I haven't had any alcohol for two whole fucking months. It feels good to have a detox like that, and now I will hopefully be able to curb my partyin' ways when I get home so that way I don't end up homeless and drunk or worse addicted to much ickier things. I have also discovered I am not an alcoholic, I didn't miss drinking at all really, it was easy to not drink.
Soooo...where have I been? No not the moon. I have been living on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona, helping the Navajo herd sheep. I have learned so so so much. I have also gained a pants size because I been eatin' that good organic mutton and fry bread or indian tortillas for the past two months. I would hate to think how fat I would be if I was sedentary all the time. Instead I have been walking at least three miles every damn day. What a change in lifestyle this has been for me. I have been getting up at dawn everyday and going to sleep shortly after sunset because I am exhausted by that time. I was sitting on rocks for hours and hours reading, meditating, writing, or exploring and eating pinon nuts (aka pine nuts) while out with the sheep. It is so, so, so beautiful to wake up everyday and have this huge sky up above you with mesas below it, and to see this great ribbon of the milky way stretched out above you every night before the moon comes up. I have never before in my life seen the milky way in the night sky because of pollution of the air and from the lights of town. Oh and I found out the Navajo aren't really fond of being called Navajo since it was the name the Mexicans gave them and it means horse thief in Spanish. They prefer to be called Dine', which is the name the call themselves and the name of their language.
I also quit smoking I just hope I can stay quit, that has been a real bitch. I still get cravings that kick my ass. I have found that addiction is a horrible horrible disease no matter what your drug of choice. Plus them cigs will kill you and make you ugly and stinky before doing so.
I will be home on October 1st, I get on the train in Flagstaff tonight at 9pm. I can't believe it takes 26 hours to get from Eugene to L.A., and that's if the train is running on schedule, which it never does. So Eugene friends if you read this keep a lid on it alright? I want it to be a surprise for most everyone when I get home. I just couldn't resist updating here before I came back okay?
Soooo...where have I been? No not the moon. I have been living on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona, helping the Navajo herd sheep. I have learned so so so much. I have also gained a pants size because I been eatin' that good organic mutton and fry bread or indian tortillas for the past two months. I would hate to think how fat I would be if I was sedentary all the time. Instead I have been walking at least three miles every damn day. What a change in lifestyle this has been for me. I have been getting up at dawn everyday and going to sleep shortly after sunset because I am exhausted by that time. I was sitting on rocks for hours and hours reading, meditating, writing, or exploring and eating pinon nuts (aka pine nuts) while out with the sheep. It is so, so, so beautiful to wake up everyday and have this huge sky up above you with mesas below it, and to see this great ribbon of the milky way stretched out above you every night before the moon comes up. I have never before in my life seen the milky way in the night sky because of pollution of the air and from the lights of town. Oh and I found out the Navajo aren't really fond of being called Navajo since it was the name the Mexicans gave them and it means horse thief in Spanish. They prefer to be called Dine', which is the name the call themselves and the name of their language.
I also quit smoking I just hope I can stay quit, that has been a real bitch. I still get cravings that kick my ass. I have found that addiction is a horrible horrible disease no matter what your drug of choice. Plus them cigs will kill you and make you ugly and stinky before doing so.
I will be home on October 1st, I get on the train in Flagstaff tonight at 9pm. I can't believe it takes 26 hours to get from Eugene to L.A., and that's if the train is running on schedule, which it never does. So Eugene friends if you read this keep a lid on it alright? I want it to be a surprise for most everyone when I get home. I just couldn't resist updating here before I came back okay?