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Rainbow Gathering in Utah

Friday July 4, 2003

     5:00am  I just woke up because we stopped somewhere. We are somewhere between here and there, hehe. That is where we happen to be.

     6:35am  We are in Evanston, Wyoming. I just woke up. I got plenty of sleep. I'm going to go to the bathroom and take a shit.

     6:48am  We pulled up to the Pilot gas station in Evanston. When I was in the bathroom inside I heard someone calling me so I thought I was going to miss my bus. Then I remembered Evanston was the end of the line. I came outside and saw Blue talking to some guy. I thought to myself, "Okay, we're going to get a ride any minute now." Sure enough, Brent is hooking us up with a ride closer to the site. That's very generous of you, brother.

     7:10am  We are at the Walmart here in Evanston. Cami had found us a ride right off the bat, but the guy didn't have enough room for all of our shit. Maybe the next guy.

     7:55am  Time for an update. We're outside the Walmart. We lost that one ride because we couldn't fit our stuff in. We were looking for Blue and all of a sudden, Blue pulls up in some car with some guy. She scored us a ride. Surprise, surprise. What was your name, brother? Billy is being generous enough to give us a lift to the Gathering.

     8:40am  We just pulled up to the twelve mile dirt road that goes to the Gathering. It's a really pretty drive through the mountains. We pulled over because the girls needed to take a piss(cop a squat). Blue took a bumper-squat and Cami is out in the woods. She needs privacy. Me and this dude who gave us a ride are smoking a bowl.

                   Okay, the next tape broke at the Gathering so I lost the whole beginning, which was some really good stuff. It really sucked.

                   Some pictures.

No Soap!

                   Please keep in mind that most of these pictures were taken in the morning so it wasn't that crowded.

Cami  

Me  

Cars  

Field  

Blue at gathering  

Inventory  

Paralyzed girl  

Paralyzed girl again  

Grassy field  

Main Meadow  

People holding Hands  

Kite  

Crowded Main Meadow  

Big peace sign  

Rumor control  

Random shot  

More people holding hands  

                   Okay, guess what happened. That cassette I was recording the beginning of Rainbow all day today split. It doesn't work anymore. I lost some history. It sucks. It's dead. Hope some really good stuff happens to me now that I'm recording. Man, I hope I can remember the details of it when I type it up. Cool. I still took pictures. I still got those.

     10:10pm  I'm here at Residential Hill at the Rainbow Gathering. Biscuit just hooked me up with two cigarettes. How very generous of you Biscuit.

     11:30pm  I'm just walking around in the dark. I want to go to a fire and tell people, "Hey, will you listen to me." I just did and these two girls told me, "Yeah, Ok." I started telling them my shit and they started laughing and giggling and stuff. They stopped and told me, "Oh, we're sorry. We're drunk. We can't do this right now." I told them, "Alright, you shouldn't have told me you'd listen to me. " Stupid alcohol. Wait a minute. It's the Rainbow Gathering. There's not supposed to be any alcohol here. Cheaters.

                    This sucks. I don't seem to be having too much fun at the Rainbow Gathering. I don't know anybody. I spent all day walking around trying to get people to listen to me. I should've stuck with Cami and Blue.

     11:33pm  I was just walking around in the dark not looking for anything and I ran into Helga. She graciously fed me. Made my belly happy. Thank you, Helga.

     11:47pm  I was just walking around and saw a little light.

                     Amethyst just gave me an American Spirit menthol. It'll come back to you.

                     ossdwyer@yahoo.com
 

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