On Interstate 70 headed East thru Kansas we pull off Exit 120 near Wakeeney ( Read more... )

Learned to roll a cigarette today. Spider Monkey taught me after we agreed he is an Asshole. My basic tactic with him was: “Hey Spider, if you’ve got a problem with me, talk to ME ( Read more... )

Spider Monkey insists on sitting shotgun. He pouts and threatens to punch anyone who tries to sit there. Everyone knows this is immature rude behavior, but nobody calls him to task on it. We take his threats seriously. He is erratic and violent. Nobody wants a black eye or broken nose ( Read more... )

In Denver we stop only long enough to spend an hour at the public library. It is spacious and comfortable, four floors with escalators ( Read more... )

I don’t belong in this Party Van. I’m not a beer-drinker (“Bee Double-Ee Double-Are-You-En, Beer Run”), and I don’t think our scarce money should be spent on drugs (“But Food is Free, Hunter!”). Yet I do belong here. I’m not JUST a skinny middle-class white chick. Some seem to think I am an angel or blessing dropped down into the van without ( Read more... )

Sitting at Lost Camp with Moth, Fabio, SpiderMonkey, and Shaggy. Too much salt in the gruel. Everyone talks of Colorado and the Rainbow Regionals ( Read more... )

I go to the sweat lodge. My first sweat. It seems too much at first. One woman screams panicked, “I can’t take it!” Everyone tells her to get down by the floor where it’s cooler. I proudly stay seated on my knees. Inhale deeply, feel the steam burn my lungs open, exhale slowly, sweat out my skin. People chant and make noises, but nothing ( Read more... )

I go to the river to bathe. Walk from the Non-Directional Peace Kitchen to Midway, hitchhike from Midway to the water. Drink beer in the car with Good Old Boy fishermen ( Read more... )

Fire-hopping at night. It’s traditional for me now. I have no flashlight (“hippy mace”) so I just follow the fires. Sit down for a while and talk, move on to the next fire beckoning thru the darkness ( Read more... )

I help Non-Directional Peace serve main circle ( Read more... )