Monday, November 1, 2010

alright

so i'll try and put a post up each day about each place to place travel and stay that i encountered along the last few days of the trip....

i have to recollect the time and organize photos....

oh yeah also i'll put up photos from when i had the camera stolen...after the last written blog

tomorrow or so a quick one from cortez colorado until ?

taos, nm

taos nm:

corny pseudo "hippy/new age" artists mixed with genuine native artists...also seemed like a mix of rich, white people buying navajo art from people that seemed to just want to make a quick buck....and backpacker hippy people that weren't native yet maybe wished or thought they were...this all may sound ignorant but it's just the impression that i got from my encounters....

also everything was prettty expensive...each white/hippy owned lodge/retreat,in most cases just a dressed-up motel with more "authentic and arty" items, was at least a third higher and sometimes double the price of the place i stayed...can't remember the name off hand but it was in the "non-desirable" area (even to me) of the asthetically unpleasing area where you'll find a strip mall/wal-mart/etc (actual places where most natives shop and work)...you get the point...it was native owned with b&w photos of the land before the aforementioned strip malls....nice owners who seemed to be interested in my trip rather than competitive about their travels and how they would do it...the size, cleanliness, etc. was comparable to rooms that cost $80-$140 but only cost $48 plus tax...

a few blocks away i ate a huge mexican feast and had 2 shots of patron with 2 negra modelos even before i checked into the room...first time i had a shot of booze that wasn't measured since seattle...the waitress walked so slowly to the table as not to spill a drop of the filled-to-the-rim shot glass....super rad

went to sleep and left early the next day...also i left my bike mostly packed that night...i did bring in my big black camera case, but nothing else...i wanted to see if i could sleep without being paranoid about losing anything after the camera got stolen in oklahoma city....
no problems...

home...

ok so i've been back in seattle since thursday night, october 21st...i just didn't have the energy to post right away....since the last post up until i entered seattle, i had issues finding an internet connection that actually worked...this left everything sort of "on pause" but running out of time and anticipating the king county signs encouraged my not giving a damn and just pushing through...let me just say it's amazing being home....for many reasons this is one of the grandest understatements...


but first let me catch everyone up with the last bits...