[The Secret Trick is Not to Read This Story But to Write Your Own! - Use Your Mind to Inspect Your Own History]
We had some amazing times together... Hiking to the Top of Yosemite, Nevada & Vernal Falls high on LSD ; the Boat Ride at Niagara Falls; Tripping at Grateful Dead concerts; swimming in Chico Creek, Butte Creek, the Pacific Ocean at Santa Cruz and at the AAU Far Western swim meet at Foothill Junior College; soaking at the hot tub in Big Sur; cross country skiing at Lake Tahoe; Marching In anti-war protest marches at the White House & San Francisco & Eureka & Los Gatos & Laguna Beach; riding the Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk; chanting OM at the Rainbow Gathering, playing the guitar and singing in public; Meeting "Mescalita" and Performing my Peyote Song with her for the entire tribe; Working as a Fire Tender at the Welcome Home Kitchen at the Rainbow Gathering - I was responsible for keeping the fire burning all night long and not smoking/annoying the campers and offering any new arrivals coffee or water or to just sit down and rest; Sailing in a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay during a storm; Riding a bicycle on Highway 280 at the Grand Opening celebration; Riding a Bicycle from New York City to Washington DC with My Wife... playing the Analog Synthesizer in an outer space Jazz improv band for 8 hours on a Saturday night every weekend for years; Playing the Analog Synthesizer on the Banks of the Potomac River at Night Right Across from DARPA Headquarters... Making "Space Ship Taking Off" Sounds... Playing the piano in the history room at the Cal Neva Lodge Lake Tahoe - the same piano that Marilyn Monroe sat on; Making over 100 YouTube music videos of me singing and playing the guitar; Going to the Exploratorium in San Francisco during the 1960s; Skin diving in Florida; EPCOT; Fireworks on the 4th of July; Whitewater rafting down the Shenandoah River; Going on a hike with the Save the Redwoods League at the "Grand Closing" of the Mill Creek property... It was to become a human free zone; Going to the Smithsonian Institute about 25 times; Joining Alcoholics Anonymous and quitting drinking; Winning money at a Casino in Nevada; Dancing with a Half a Million people at a Beach Boys concert on July 4th at the Washington Monument; Visiting Bumpus Hell bubbling mud pots at Mount Lassen Park; Dancing at a disco where the floor lit up with blinking lights; Designing computer equipment for the United States Air Force. The job required I have a Secret Clearance. To this day I can't talk about what we did; Operated a laserium machine at a show; Surfing in Hawaii; Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll; Driving around the Western United States in a Van with a bed in the back; Living life as a turtle! Bringing my home with me wherever I went; I built an online business and I'm selling original art and slogans printed on t-shirts and hats and buttons; I spend a lot of time at the computer science laboratory at Humboldt State University when I was going to college there... It's quite an experience to be working with 20 other geniuses designing programs and websites... And when I got stuck... I just asked the person sitting next to me for help and they often could do it; Sweating in an American Indian sweat lodge at the Rainbow Gathering; Piloting an open cockpit airplane; Riding a zipline at summer camp; Visiting the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Eureka, CA...
What a time to be alive! I've actually been to Paradise (California) and played the drums...
Maybe we'll be reincarnated as dairy cows and get to spend a lifetime together in the Eel River Valley... An ideal place to live if you're a cow... Or a hippie... Or a redneck...

Photo taken by my wife at the Beach. Eureka's North Jetty
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I do have a couple of regrets...
Somebody asked me if I wanted to go soak in the hot springs at Tasahara in Big Sur... He said that after midnight you could go for free... And I said no thanks... Big mistake...
I had the opportunity to chat with Ram Dass... But I couldn't think of anything that I wanted to say...

Halloween at Work. Deal or No Deal Show.

My Ford Windstar Van in Chico, CA




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