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Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages
#4549406 - 08/17/05 10:39 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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hello pub its me pillow. that guy who used to post here who cant spell reggae on the river is a 3 day fest out in the cuts of humbolt CA it was a journey that was definitly one of the defining trips of my life. this trip report will be 4 days long, each day will cover 1 day of the exploration. im hoping that in this way i will be able to describe the utter beauty and the savage chaos i saw there k here we go -day 1
-thursday aug 4- the day started with me waking up with a grin on my face. i knew it was time i threw my shit in my car and drove to my freinds house who i will refer to as "dump" for the trip itself and for the whole week i brought an 8th of bud and 24 whip its the rest i planed on buying there so when i get to dumps house i find he has already begun loading our stuff into the rv that will be our home for the next billion or so years. as soon as we loaded her down we hoped in and got on the road. the trip should take about 5 hours first stop- mc.donalds, picked up one tray for joint rolling surface. travaling through the lazy country side of the north bay while high made the trip so dreamy. but the farther north we got the more wild the land got soon we where passing some of my favorite landmarks from my childhood advetures it was an erie way to start the day next stop hopland i picked up a tapestry for the rv for coverinwindows and what not finaly we reached the mild red woods of mediceno and i knew we where close my spirit where so high but unfortunatly this optomisim came back to pite me in the dong dump had been complaining about the rvs behavior for the last few hours, but i just shruged it off and remained optomistic all would be well then bam the rv stops...... stops dead on the road we across the highway and go into the first place we see, it happenes to be a buddhist retreat center they gladly let us use there phone by this time we are so high out of our minds we have no idea what we are gonna do we are stuck in the middle of no where 40 min away from reggae now we are n a tripple A tow truck taking our rv back 40 miles in the opposite direction. we end up in a savage hick town with randome hippies and reth heads roaming everywhere once we get there we find out whats wrong no gas, and a broken hose the gas we can fix tonight the hose will have to wait till tomara. me and dump decide to smoke some bud and wonder the city wich consists of little more than a mini mart, gas station, and hydroponic store we get back in the rv and try to call it a night now its only like 8 at thins point but we just wanna pass out so we smoke the rest of the bud i brought up just to make sure we can sleep sound while meth heads and hill billys walk around our rv all night wich is parked right in the middle of the town in a parking lot just befor we go to bed we each take 1 whip it each, i remember the song we had on was wilson from a live one by phish it was a very beautiful way to end a very shitty day
ok stay tuned for tomara things get primal and the earth dissolves into echos dont miss it
ps: no spell check will be used in thistrip report
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4549487 - 08/17/05 10:56 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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well it gets better...
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4549587 - 08/17/05 11:23 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Your story so far lacks a moral.
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: pantsboy]
#4549951 - 08/18/05 01:07 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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i like it so far, i want to read the next parts.
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4551689 - 08/18/05 01:17 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks for sharing. I'm eager to hear where your jouney took you.
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: sox24]
#4551712 - 08/18/05 01:27 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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indeed
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: SerioOria]
#4569097 - 08/22/05 11:58 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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ok guys im back sorry it took me so long to get to the second chapter here we go with... day 2 aug 6 2005
i awok to the sond of cars wizzing by, and to the already incribly humid atmosphere or the rv. me and dump ate breakfast then waited for the auto shop to open at 8 after the dude looks at it he says we need a new hose after walking literaly 5 times across the entire town and back, we got the new hose and got back on the road at about 11 as soon as wee got back into the redwoods i felt better back to the savage chaos of the wilderness back home to fractal infinity we ran into some fest style traffic but soon realised that we actualy diddnt have to wait in the line so we forged on and finaly made it to the ranch i had been wondering about what our camp would be like and honestly i dont think it could have been better we ended camping right on the river next to a large patch of trees with a large rock island right infront of us it was incredibly trippy sceanery far away from the mind fuck overload of the festy itself the next few hours where nothing but unbacking, swiming, sleeping, saying hello to the others camping, and drinking there was alot of drinking... but in the late afternoon we finaly got to go over to the festival. blaring chaos and random ness acoress nonstop as soon as you cross the river untill you get to the show and untill you come back and cross back in the lot i aquired 6 hits of "acid" wich actualy turned out to be DOB , ab 8th of mushrooms and an 8th os some fine grape ape i took the 8th at 9 i was up for a random trip no expectations just toatal chaos because i knew that even if i had to run ther bleeding naked and on crack i could get back to my private santuary across the river and around the bend we entered we being me dump and my freinds A and R coming up in the crazy carnival was all but smooth but as soon as we started to leval out we all started enjoying the crazyness pizza bread, JUNIOR REID, lots of blunts random shops and vendors god how i ran that night i was in my in my earthy mode that i love so much so in tune with every vibration, every patern, every peice of energy and matter moving through the endless maze of people, it was reminisent of blood moving through veins, move with the crowed and just go numb i kept thinking its time to embrase the chaos
the patterns once again
glowsticks, so many fucking glowsticks! :mr.t: the show this night seemed weired i dunno if it was the shrooms or what but alot of the music was so easily disected , i know its reggae, but this shit sounded like exactly the same again i know its reggae but still soon i grew tiered of having my ego smeared across a red gold and green carnival of light and smoke the walk back is like a come down in itself. we wandered throught yet anouther maze of people this time in there camps all along the river, more damn glow sticks now here comes the hard part wading through a river while on shrooms the cool water crawled across my legs the water was indeed alive at this point i i loose dump and A and me and R wander together in the darkness through a feild in circles for 20 min untill we find the rv wich is parked above the camp. there we find dump and A more blunts, bubblers, bongs, dump puliing a move he has many times decides he wants to slee his shrooms of so we leave him in the rv and head back to the camp A and R went to the tents i decided to take a little dolo walk to enjoy my peak my god fractal overload, i remember saying "i like trees" at one point, while i was wondering around the beach and the river bank the words seemed to echo forever and it was true i love trees they are soothing trip partners :hippy:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! N2O TIME! i gt back to my tent and get all the fixins cracker baloon and wipits and i go out to go chill with the rest of the campers that are stilla awake heres where the shit hit the fan in my opinion as soon as i took a hit of the n2o i reaised somthing the auditory hulisinations began effecting what i was hearing all i could here was the echos of the savage fest a half mile away rumbaling throught the spiraling life force of the mountains. and i loved it it seemed like a mystical spell floating throught the hills sprinkaling vibrations onto every plant (yes every plant ) growing in the forest. i took a few baloons and went for a walk into the river realizing the deadly mixture of n2o and fast moving river water i only waded in and sat down i took a double hit and i melted into the river and out into the rippiling net of this world all that was left was a floatig white dot located directly between my eyes although there where no eyes there to proove it i was cooked at this point and i was coming down i needed rest this was an overload if i had ever seen one i lay in my tent alone and got into my sleeping bag and tryed to shake of the colors flashing befor my eyes and endless echos outside its 3:30 and im asleep
-next episode- the electric river and a bromo journy ill try too make this next one sooner
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4572253 - 08/23/05 07:33 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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oh come the fuck on that took my stoned ass like 2 hours to type
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4572872 - 08/23/05 09:31 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Great read. Sounds like a good time so far! Can't wait for more.
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#4572923 - 08/23/05 09:41 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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i was a little worried people wouldnt be able to read it thanks kc i may start day 3 in a few if the spirit moves me
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4575504 - 08/24/05 04:13 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Day three please...
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#4575550 - 08/24/05 04:28 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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damn i wanted to go to ROTR so bad.. did you go to sierra nevada?
but yes, more more!
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: king_cobra]
#4576693 - 08/24/05 09:18 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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nope it was sierra of rotr i think i made the right choice next year for sure though ill do day 3 in a bit as soon as i get good and baked
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4577259 - 08/24/05 11:27 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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ok dudes and non dudes DAY THE THIRD!
-aug 7 2005- i wake up to the intense heat of my tent at around 11 once the sun goes up it get brutely hot all day long and the thents do nothing but act like ovens once i stood up i realised somthing... MY FEET HURT! they where all slashed up and blistered and covered in mud from my tree shroomtasic marathone throught the forest i was cimbing lots of trees bare foot and pretty mush just went numb that coupled with the shity sandals i brought wich tore holes in the top of my feet i was a bleeding mess so i went down the river to wash up i instently felt better, the river is so warm and clear . better than any shower after my morning dip and smoke i got dressed and grabed my walking stick(incedently this stick will come up again ) and walked up to the rv, had to wake dump up to get my foods, sorry dump i decided that today i was going to drop one of the hits i bought in the lot. at 2:30 i droped ate one hit, and decided to gauge the effects befor taking more. imediatly i noticed somthing, the blotter had a taste to it, this was new to me, but i have heard of acid having a some what mettalic taste some times because of the inc so i was not worried. i never told most of the people i was camping with i was on acid, only A R and dump knew. took a while to come up. about 2 hours, but when it kicked in i was more than pleased the whole river was shineing withh every imaginable color and looked to be a viscus entity of some sort time to go swiming! during the day you pretty much need to chill in the river most of the time if you dont want to fry. by now about 5 other campers, freinds of mine, there had taken there mushrooms and we all decided to chill on the river in our chairs and trip out all afternoon and what an afternoon moving through the current of the water is so unbelivably trippy there where hella rasta dudes walking around with there dongs flopping around....just a side note Ok just a reminder so that every one knows i was not on acid this entire time i was on DOB apperently, but the effects are actualy surprisingly simmiler exept for i noticed a definet stroger body high with DOB. where as on acid my boddy feels normal. but regardless i had fun on this drug and plan on taking the rest of it some time in the future. after spending the late afternoon smoking pot on the river we all go and have dinner it was family reunion party mind you and im still tripping the light fantastic all the other buys have long since come off there shrooms and are fine. but surprisingly i was fine i jusg back and stared of into space and ate my food my freinds uncle who owns the ranch is a hard core christian and does not aprove of most anyone at rotr but hes still a good guy but still i had to maintain after dinner A and R went over to the show and me and everyone else who was camping with us whee gonna go meet them it was quite the parade about 10 of us moving as a groupe but by the time we got across the river and into the show i was feeling kinda off i just wasnot down for hanging out with a big group as soon as we got in i just wandered off i decided now would be a great time to do all my shopping i wandered around alll the vendors for a lng time, bubble rin hand just looking for stuff to buy i got -new hemp necklace -strobe light hacky sack -earrings for my mom (her birthday was aug 6) everything was so encredibly bright everything bleeding in fractal patterns to the vibrations of the music i sat up on hill watched the show and smoked pot for a long time watched all of buju bantons show (fucking ruled buju is the man ) then realised i was out of pot back out to the lot i go to go shopping ithere is such a fucking selection of kind ass bud in the lot i decided to get some fluffy ass sativa strand bredd by a coll guy i met in the lot he called it "toms aota" any way it was super chronic i got so high i wanted nothing more than to go back and go to bed, unfortunatly i was still emersed in a swirling fortex of shimering patterns in the darkness its extremly hard to see everything in covered by patterns this made the walk across the river even harder not to mention some drunk as hippy chick basicly fell made me drag her across the river back to her camp once i got to the rv to find that no one was there i decided to smoke some more of my fine ass bud and go back to the show, the marley's where playing as we speak, i could here them through that devine echo i had grow to love once i got out of the rv i ran into C who is A's brother it was nice to finnay have somone to talk to he had been drinking mushroom and passion flower tea for about an hour andwas riding his bike around while i ran behind him trying to keep up but i soon bid him fare well and went back to the show the next our or so is a blur once i got into the show i was so fucking melted i could not even remember what was going on more smoking here i only remember dancing around like a mad man at full speed with my bubbler in my mouth. and staring at the how from up on the hill feeling like i was a million miles high, wich i was, kinda as the show ended i left and walked back home across the river, it was about 2 now i was coming down still very very awake though i met up with dump and A who gretted me with a hug they where so glad to see i had made it back alive because i never really told anyone where i was going but we all got back together and smoked a few bowls before dump went bed in the rv and the rest of us headed back to the camp at this time i made a horrible discovery i somehow lost the weed i had gotten in the time lapse a few hours back but i wa sin to much of a peaceful state of mind i couldent even begin to care n2o time once again the n2o seemd to take on more of a wild and crazy vibe not the gentel lull tof phychadelic glee when it is taken more on mushrooms mor elike a savage ripp through space time where you just are apraling infenitly. soo the beach was quite and i saw i was the las tone awake time for bed once again i got in my sleeping bag and was greeted by the omnipresent echo that would ease my tired mind
-nest episode- day 4 lazy day crayz night dont miss it
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4581940 - 08/25/05 10:10 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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bump it like you mean it
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4582182 - 08/25/05 10:51 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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DOB =
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Edited by pantsboy (08/25/05 11:29 PM)
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: pantsboy]
#4582456 - 08/25/05 11:39 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Can't wait to read the next part - Great stuff Pillow
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: TheDudeAbides]
#4996325 - 11/29/05 09:11 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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BUMPED LIKE A BITCH!
i just realised i never finished this trip reprt ill give you guys a bit to catch up befor i cap it of with day 4
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Re: Reggae on the river! a 4 day trip report for the ages [Re: notapillow]
#4996379 - 11/29/05 09:23 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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damn reading this is a trip its like im right back up there in the mountains little flashes of clarity keep coming back to me damn what a fucking great time i realy need to do that 4th day
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#4996388 - 11/29/05 09:25 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't do it.
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