on the road with the HIGHWAY CHILD TRIBE!!!!!!

Hey I'm in Fort Worth, North Texas. If you guys need a shower, we have two bathrooms at home, hot water might run out but...hey they'll be clean. I really admire what you are doing, I read your posts everytime you update. It sounds like a dream come true.

 

k were in tuscon, heading to the gila cliff dwellings in New mexico tonight, then truth or consequences then el paso...

peace

 

love that smell of the leather shops across the river from el paso in Ciudad juarez.....
have fun folks!

 

mmmm bruing flesh!!!

k were in silver city, picked up an old rainbopw hitchhikler, were off camping in the woods so Ill be off line for a minute...

see ya on the way out,
peace
drew

 

always a pleasure reading "Travels with Blinkin"...............

 

Yeah, this whole thread kicks ass. For all of us losers who can't actually live the dream at the present moment. Come next summer or hopefully even sooner I'll track you guys down and give it a whirl.

-Mike

 

well sometimes its not all that fun,
well ok yeah it is, but sometimes you find yourself sitting at a computer library, stinking so bad that your afraid to make eye contact with anyone in the room.....

but other than that its freakin great!!!!

well we made it down that long ass winding road threw the gila national forest and finally to the cliff dwellings, then had to pay an entrance fee...we paid it but gave the guy a real dirty look....'

it was cool, kinda a let down though...

were in truth or consequences, waiting till 1 pm for jake to get back to the riverbend hotsprings hostel, were seeing if we can do a work trade, we did a few years ago, ...
hopingt o repeat!!!

I need a soak, I mean I stink, I washed in the river but I need some hot water some soap and some time.


elpaso next, we may even hit the road today, were waiting to see what happens with the work trade thing.
its raining which means hemp sales seace and decist......
rain in the desert...whats with that?

peace

 

so were leaving truth or consequences today, in 10 minutes actually,
the last time we were threw here we met some really cool kids, day and charles,
well they had ason while we were gone, and now there on the bus, ....
were big again and i am increadibly happy with the people we have on now.

me
elias zion and genesis
linz
tye
marshal and gear
bam bam...who just got a prewtty nifty hat...
day and charles and there baby noah

heading to elpaso then austin then..well florida..
peace

 

wow you will make tons sellin hemp an panhandlin etc.. in florida in the winter.. pfft..

ya do know most the forest is closed for the winter??

gonna be a tougher than usuall winterhaven this year,

just tryin to enlighten ya before ya make a bad descision..

 

If you happen to pass through Ft. Worth, which is a pretty friendly place, you guys are more than welcome to come and use my showers....if not enjoy Austin and good luck in Florida.

 

thanks mama goose, though I really dont think were heading that far north, probally down to galveston then the 10 accross...probally!!!

hippy hillbilly,
aww shucks man always lovin your encouraging words,
were heading to the keys, doing a loop or something like that, we always say were gonna stick somewhere then end up going somewhere else,
if its bad, which we have all heard it was in the winter for travelling folk, then its bad...were damn good at what we do, not that other kids arnt or anything like that, but we dont let a little struggle stand in our way

weve hit two hurrican after showers , BCS largest forest fire when they were enlisting drivers and taking them to fight the fires, hail snow blizarrds...ok the selling hemp in minus 60 in the canadian praries was bad idea...still though we made it threw...well almost tye lost his toe.....

what I would like to know is whats new orleans like now, Ive heard some horror stories about its danger after katrina, Is it still that bad or has it gotten livable?
its a splitt vote about stopping at all there, I know pre flood it was hard as hell to make it out, so post flood has top be damn hard...
I figure if we do go, well we'll go in with enough to get out which is what we try to do for even the tamest of cities such as austin...cant make money in the city...or at least not really enough to get a bus by.


had some problems in el paso, we were turning at 4th and el paso right by the pedestrian walk to juarez mexico and the damn drive line broke, so we pushed it around the corner and immediatley started dissasembling the line, this was on halloween, we taxied over to the other side of town to a shop the re built the things, after 120 dollars in cab rides and 93 dollars in parts....we booked out of the city......
well not before hitting up hooters on the east side of town, three more days threw the desert and now were in kerrville, heading up austin in an hour or so,
were bolting a hamok to the cieling of the bus then hitting the road again....

oh yeah hillbilly, we stopped in at days place which is about 2 miles threw washed out roads with steep ass inclines and high drops and deep gulleys, I remember you said your road was impassable in a bus .....
impassable or impossible?
were probally head up into georgia after florida that where you are right?


peace
drew

 

man the directions are on our web page,,..

we aint liable fer yer shit,, an i aint payin fer a bus to be yanked off a lil hill..
but hey man,, if you got the cash ill watch..

how longs yer wheel base??

we pulled a 32 foot fith wheel in here..

barely cleared the turn off..

high centered at the gate will be yer problem..

long way tween wheels on a bus...

 

I think the bus is about 32 to 35 ft its not a 12 window bus I think its a 10...
well Ill walk up your trail and check the roads first man, and I wouldnt be getting you to pay for our fuck up if it did happen....whats the weather like up there?

 

at the moment its like ??????????????


ah hell this weather station is as close as we can get to here,, subtract 3 degrees on the temp.. an add ,, hell double the rain..

http://www.griffin.uga.edu/aemn/cgi-bin/AEMN.pl?site=GAEL&report=c

 

hey hillbilly! i just signed on to send you a message, n seeing you here in the highway child thread~ bout them coming to florida too..

LOVE you, n dilly n sara too

hey drew, if you're taking I-95 down the florida's east coast, swing by Florida Atlantic University in boca, i bet you can make a fortunnee over there selling hemp, for damnn sure. id love to meet you guys too,,, i dont know if i'll be joining after the new year though =\ im thinking another semester of school, but fuck.......... i dont know =\

it's always like that, yeah i know, but im seein my priorities, and all'll happen in time i guess, on my own time~ rehh
but i dunno, i dunno.

 

k were at willie nelsons plasce...drink9in...cant talk
peace
blah
drerw

 

Now your at willies?
I'm sad I missed that.

 

Man sounds like a fun time. I think the bus is loud man. Keep on Truckin' cause I think the whole idea is sweet. Florida?

 

so I thought I would put up a pick of whos now on the bus.....
this is our tribe, with two alumni, the dude in the red shirt is randy, and the chick in the blue dreads thats pixie

 

my bad orange dreads