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#14347032 - 04/25/11 01:02 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well I just got back the other day. I dont even know where the story begins. The adventures began in January, but I guess the foundation began in december, when a 5 year relationship with my girlfriend was abruptly ended. Thats a story for another day, in another thread. Needless to say, my world was rocked...as some of you could imagine. It was a fucking hole of depression. No hope for any future plans, zero enthusiasm. I tried to keep myself on my feet, and did a pretty good job. I ate better, didnt drink as much, and started running/exercising. The more I thought about it, I didnt know what I wanted to do. Where I was going. What I liked...nothing. I was pretty much like a gold fish. I was just living. I spent about a month in a friends cabin in the mountains, thinking about what the fucking fuck I was gonna do..
Ive always wanted to travel. Throw all caution to the wind and hit the road, but with a "wife" at home, job, dog and bills...I never really had the chance. So I took a look at myself. Im young, single, no "career", no kids..ex has the dog. So whats holding me back? Not a damn thing. By mid january I quit my job and sold all of my things. Everything. Guns, motorcycle...I sold everything down to my fucking pressure cooker on craigslist. All I had left was my instruments (I will never sell those), a few bags of clothes, my golf clubs and a tent. Where to go? Where can I make use of all these things in the middle of winter? Lucky for me, my sister lives in Las Vegas. Fuck yeah.
So of course, I partied. I was looking for new adventures, and fucking las vegas did not disappoint.


I also did a lot of camping and hiking


I even drove out to area 51 (included from another thread) Right as I got on highway 375 (extraterrestrial highway) I passed an unmarked white school bus. I thought that was cool. It was being followed by a local police truck, which I thought was kinda weird. (Im assuming its local, Im not familiar with the local police, but it was a marked truck with lights up top). As I got to groom lake road, the sun was setting. About 15 miles up the dirt road, it started to curve around. In the distance on a hill, I could see a group of little yellow lights. By this time is was pretty dark. Ive never been there before so I didnt know where I was really going, or what to expect. Almost to the last bend, still looking at this group of yellow lights wondering what the fuck...flash...head lights. Bright as fuck. It was 3 suvs. As I go around the last hill, about 200 yards ahead I see the infamous warning signs. As I get closer, I see one of the suvs on the hill is starting to move. Its coming down the hill towards me. It goes out of sight around a hill. I stop before the signs, open my door to get out for a picture, and there he is. He pulls up in front of me. His brights are on and I cant see shit. All I hear is something like "This is government property, turn around". I was like wtf? I asked, half chuckling "Can I take a quick picture?" and hear back a stern and simple "No."
Fucking bummer. I hardly even had a chance to read the signs. So as Im going back down groom lake, I get passed by a grey jeep going up. I started to slow down, to see if they send him back like they did me. Maybe have a laugh with him. Im slowly driving...waiting...waiting. Nothing. He never came back. Wish I woulda got a better look at him as he passed. Oh well. It was a pretty short drive, got some good pics and a funny story.



But something wasnt right. I was jobless, had no purpose and nothing to do. Just drink, sleep all day and burn money. I didnt know anybody. Anybody I got to know was just as drunk and lost as I was. I had to get out. Keep going. Find something new. After a few more adventures that included tagging along to random parties and being driven to southern california passed out in the back of a jeep, then hitch hiking back to vegas, I decided it was time to sober up and take better care of myself.
I found a farm in florida through the wwoof program. The farm that turned my whole fucking life around. It was surrounded by 150 acres of citrus groves (grapefruits/oranges) and on top of that, forest and woods. In the middle of nowhere. Fucking awesome. I help with the garden for roughly 20 hours a week, in exchange they give me land to camp on, fresh water and free reign of any food on the farm. The days went something like this: Wake up at 7am. Feed/water chickens, then collect eggs. Garden, harvest, work, work, work. Weather was in the 80s. Usually clear skies 95% of the time. We were done working by about 1pm. The rest of the day was mine and usually spent exploring the tropical florida woods. It was all so exhausting, I was in bed by about 9pm. After a few weeks in, there was a few days there with horrible storms. Tornado warnings, floods and very high winds. I spent 2 days in the cab of a farm truck. When the storm passed, trees were blown over, green houses that were ancred down with 5 gallon buckets of cement were flipped and blown 50 yards away...and my tent was gone, with all of my clothes and everything else I had. I was homeless. Fuck it. I spent the rest of my days there in a hammock. I did find my ten a week later in the woods. I washed and dried my clothes, but the tent was obviously destroyed.
Good times were had with fellow travelers going to the beach, riding bikes up and down us 1, or splurging and getting some alcohol/weed. Even the farm owners smoked with us. Beautiful days in the sun, and nights spent around a camp fire with people I didnt know, they didnt know me or eachother. But we all had one thing in common: A desire for the unknown. Adventure. Open mindedness. The road. People came and went. Friends of the farm owners would come by and have a beer and chat. Farmers markets...bartering vegetables for other goods, and the greatest talks with people I didnt know about anything in the fucking world. Everybody was so nice and out going. Even the occasional romance. Something that definitely got my self esteem up and put a smile on my face.
After a month or two, I was a loaded shotgun. I knew who I was, and what I wanted. I was happier than I ever was. I was ready to grab the fucking world by the horns and ride it into hell. My old boss was texting me asking when I was gonna come back. Friends were looking for room mates. I decided Im going back to school and rocking the fucking fuck outa my brain. I decided it was time to return. So here I am. Working at the bar again, registered for school. Maybe the healthiest Ive ever been. Happy. I played on the guitar for hours and hours on the farm. Im playing more than I ever have. My creativity is burning. Im recording again. Playing with friends, maybe even put some bar gigs together. Met some great people, most of which I talk to daily. A great new outlook on things.








I guess what Ive learned from all of this, is if you want something...get off your ass and go get it. Make shit happen. Stop day dreaming. Fucking do it. And I still have the shroomery. Hope the read was worth it.
    
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
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Very cool read. Glad to see life is working out for you
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
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Righteous man! Glad to hear your story.
And to see you doing well.
Amazing how your journey worked out, you ending up back where you began with exactly what you wanted.
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
#14347080 - 04/25/11 01:14 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Inspiring. It sounded exactly like what you needed.
I am hoping to do something similar towards the end of the summer.
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: aNeway2sayHooray]
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aNeway2sayHooray said: Inspiring. It sounded exactly like what you needed.
I am hoping to do something similar towards the end of the summer.
Pretty much this
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: LobsterSauce]
#14347114 - 04/25/11 01:25 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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That pic at the end almost made me spray milk all over the keyboard  That sounds like a hell of a fuckin time, always good to keep the good times rollin. I wish I had the means to do something like that right about now, reading this has inspired me to throw something like this into my plans down the line.
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
#14347393 - 04/25/11 03:15 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I_was_the_walrus said: Well I just got back the other day. I dont even know where the story begins. The adventures began in January, but I guess the foundation began in december, when a 5 year relationship with my girlfriend was abruptly ended. Thats a story for another day, in another thread. Needless to say, my world was rocked...as some of you could imagine. It was a fucking hole of depression. No hope for any future plans, zero enthusiasm. I tried to keep myself on my feet, and did a pretty good job. I ate better, didnt drink as much, and started running/exercising. The more I thought about it, I didnt know what I wanted to do. Where I was going. What I liked...nothing. I was pretty much like a gold fish. I was just living. I spent about a month in a friends cabin in the mountains, thinking about what the fucking fuck I was gonna do..
Ive always wanted to travel. Throw all caution to the wind and hit the road, but with a "wife" at home, job, dog and bills...I never really had the chance. So I took a look at myself. Im young, single, no "career", no kids..ex has the dog. So whats holding me back? Not a damn thing. By mid january I quit my job and sold all of my things. Everything. Guns, motorcycle...I sold everything down to my fucking pressure cooker on craigslist. All I had left was my instruments (I will never sell those), a few bags of clothes, my golf clubs and a tent. Where to go? Where can I make use of all these things in the middle of winter? Lucky for me, my sister lives in Las Vegas. Fuck yeah.
So of course, I partied. I was looking for new adventures, and fucking las vegas did not disappoint.


I also did a lot of camping and hiking


I even drove out to area 51 (included from another thread) Right as I got on highway 375 (extraterrestrial highway) I passed an unmarked white school bus. I thought that was cool. It was being followed by a local police truck, which I thought was kinda weird. (Im assuming its local, Im not familiar with the local police, but it was a marked truck with lights up top). As I got to groom lake road, the sun was setting. About 15 miles up the dirt road, it started to curve around. In the distance on a hill, I could see a group of little yellow lights. By this time is was pretty dark. Ive never been there before so I didnt know where I was really going, or what to expect. Almost to the last bend, still looking at this group of yellow lights wondering what the fuck...flash...head lights. Bright as fuck. It was 3 suvs. As I go around the last hill, about 200 yards ahead I see the infamous warning signs. As I get closer, I see one of the suvs on the hill is starting to move. Its coming down the hill towards me. It goes out of sight around a hill. I stop before the signs, open my door to get out for a picture, and there he is. He pulls up in front of me. His brights are on and I cant see shit. All I hear is something like "This is government property, turn around". I was like wtf? I asked, half chuckling "Can I take a quick picture?" and hear back a stern and simple "No."
Fucking bummer. I hardly even had a chance to read the signs. So as Im going back down groom lake, I get passed by a grey jeep going up. I started to slow down, to see if they send him back like they did me. Maybe have a laugh with him. Im slowly driving...waiting...waiting. Nothing. He never came back. Wish I woulda got a better look at him as he passed. Oh well. It was a pretty short drive, got some good pics and a funny story.



But something wasnt right. I was jobless, had no purpose and nothing to do. Just drink, sleep all day and burn money. I didnt know anybody. Anybody I got to know was just as drunk and lost as I was. I had to get out. Keep going. Find something new. After a few more adventures that included tagging along to random parties and being driven to southern california passed out in the back of a jeep, then hitch hiking back to vegas, I decided it was time to sober up and take better care of myself.
I found a farm in florida through the wwoof program. The farm that turned my whole fucking life around. It was surrounded by 150 acres of citrus groves (grapefruits/oranges) and on top of that, forest and woods. In the middle of nowhere. Fucking awesome. I help with the garden for roughly 20 hours a week, in exchange they give me land to camp on, fresh water and free reign of any food on the farm. The days went something like this: Wake up at 7am. Feed/water chickens, then collect eggs. Garden, harvest, work, work, work. Weather was in the 80s. Usually clear skies 95% of the time. We were done working by about 1pm. The rest of the day was mine and usually spent exploring the tropical florida woods. It was all so exhausting, I was in bed by about 9pm. After a few weeks in, there was a few days there with horrible storms. Tornado warnings, floods and very high winds. I spent 2 days in the cab of a farm truck. When the storm passed, trees were blown over, green houses that were ancred down with 5 gallon buckets of cement were flipped and blown 50 yards away...and my tent was gone, with all of my clothes and everything else I had. I was homeless. Fuck it. I spent the rest of my days there in a hammock. I did find my ten a week later in the woods. I washed and dried my clothes, but the tent was obviously destroyed.
Good times were had with fellow travelers going to the beach, riding bikes up and down us 1, or splurging and getting some alcohol/weed. Even the farm owners smoked with us. Beautiful days in the sun, and nights spent around a camp fire with people I didnt know, they didnt know me or eachother. But we all had one thing in common: A desire for the unknown. Adventure. Open mindedness. The road. People came and went. Friends of the farm owners would come by and have a beer and chat. Farmers markets...bartering vegetables for other goods, and the greatest talks with people I didnt know about anything in the fucking world. Everybody was so nice and out going. Even the occasional romance. Something that definitely got my self esteem up and put a smile on my face.
After a month or two, I was a loaded shotgun. I knew who I was, and what I wanted. I was happier than I ever was. I was ready to grab the fucking world by the horns and ride it into hell. My old boss was texting me asking when I was gonna come back. Friends were looking for room mates. I decided Im going back to school and rocking the fucking fuck outa my brain. I decided it was time to return. So here I am. Working at the bar again, registered for school. Maybe the healthiest Ive ever been. Happy. I played on the guitar for hours and hours on the farm. Im playing more than I ever have. My creativity is burning. Im recording again. Playing with friends, maybe even put some bar gigs together. Met some great people, most of which I talk to daily. A great new outlook on things.








I guess what Ive learned from all of this, is if you want something...get off your ass and go get it. Make shit happen. Stop day dreaming. Fucking do it. And I still have the shroomery. Hope the read was worth it.
     
just wait until you fall back into your old habits, give up this new found ephemeral shift in perspective, and wish you had never gone back to your old and presumably shitty life.
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: AntiEverything]
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if you work at a bar I wouldn't drink if you had a drinking problem. Sounds like alot of temptation. But if you can handle it good for you! Sweet adventure story mayne
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#14347696 - 04/25/11 06:44 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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DRINK BOYO, DRINK!
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: i like cow poo]
#14347701 - 04/25/11 06:45 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hell yeah RP, nice story! I'm glad you feel refreshed and healthy. Keep that for as long as you can, then do it again if it starts to wear off! I'm sure it'll be much easier the next time around, lol.
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
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Beautiful story. Reminds me of Tiny Rabid Bird's adventure.
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I read all of that and there wasn't one knife fight or rape allegation...just a warning to those of you on the fence about reading it
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
#14347813 - 04/25/11 07:36 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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nice! great story, thanks for sharing it. i'm about to make a huge life change, the inspiration is appreciated
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
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WOW
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: nice1]
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def worth the read. i remember enjoying reading about your area 51 adventure  my world has also been rocked to the foundation, and already having a crumbling infrastructure as it is i dont know how im surviving, or why. but i am. there definitly is a positive moral to your story that i for one can apply to my life as we speak so im sure others can as well thanx
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
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That was a really inspiring story and I am so happy for you. I'd love to read an elaborated version, and like others said I'd love to do something like this myself one day, when I'm done with school. I also live in Florida, I'm wondering how close you were hanging out at. I wish you luck in continuing your journey from here on out because as I (and many others) know from having life changing experiences on psychedelics, you feel like things are changed forever but then if you go back to doing the same things, you will inevitably fall back into your old habits. But it doesn't have to happen if you realize that and make sure to continuously keep your guard up and fight against that shit.
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that's amazing dude, thanks for sharing!!! i daydream a lot about going to live at an ashram for a few months....just 3 days there does wonders for my body/mind/spirit, can't imagine how it would change me if i stayed for like 1 - 3 months.....
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yogabunny said: i daydream a lot about going to live at an ashram for a few months....

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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: electricfeel]
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but then if you go back to doing the same things, you will inevitably fall back into your old habits.
Its really not the old habits Im trying to avoid. I have a great life here. Not even a big drinker. Its all just so old and stale. Its all been done. Zero motivation for anything. But it doesnt have to be like that. If you need or want something in your life, go out and get it. Its that simple. I have the whole world around me with everything to do and take advantage of, as does everybody else. Self control and willpower. Limitless possibilities are at your finger tips. Make it happen.
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I'd love to read an elaborated version

Perhaps one day. I wrote in a book every day, and took many pictures. I was actually thinking about transferring a lot of it over to my shroomery journal, have a back up copy of it all. Many shenanigans were had.
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: I_was_the_walrus]
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You should definitely post anything you can.
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Re: 3 months of adventure **Warning: Many pics and stories** [Re: electricfeel]
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That was cool, sounded like a cool trip.
And Anti everything, you quoted the entire damn post for 1 line of a reply!
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