Sleeping outside, one gets in tune with nature. First the dusk, then the crickets, then the moon brightens and stars move, then the dogs howl to each other across the valley. Beautiful music, all of it.

One of the things I love most about small towns is the sense of community. Williams, Oregon... a lot of folks who live 10-20 miles away from it have never even heard of it. It has a general store, post

I'd been experiencing such a bevy of wonderful, sharing, caring, good, helpful humans on my travels, that I let my guard down. I was in Jacksonville enjoying the Michael Franti concert when I walked away

Has it only been about a week since i left san francisco? Wow. I caught a rideshare with a few great humans. Stopped in mt shasta to drink clean mountain water and hit the loxal farmer's market. Arrived

San Francisco is a trip, and as you might know, there are lots of "crazies" here. You know, people who scream to themselves, or at you, on the street. The first instance was arriving from the

Thanks to Tom aka Pappa Bear for one of the greatest jams I've had lately. I didn't realize who I was jamming with until just now.

I ran into a group of Irish gents whilst walking around last night, 3 from Cork, 1 from Dublin. I have this tendency to do accents from many countries, but especially from various parts of England, Scotland

Whilst sitting in this lovely place (Golden Cane), jamming and chattingwith Steve, Hayden and Richard, we got into a conversation about kombucha. "How many kombuchas would you have to drink to get

I'm happy to have the ukelele with me, despite the string issue. I'm sad I couldn't bring my guitar. When I travel with little money, and need to access wifi/hang out for awhile/get things done, I like

Once upon a time, I took off from my life in Portland and went traveling. All over Maui, Kaua'i, California and so forth (you can see former blog posts and pictures from these travels at