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Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:52 am

Guys.... it's been 9 months. We can wait a few more days, right?
Patience please.

Elwood, I have no idea where to begin. I'm surprised the thread is still alive somewhere. Must be up to around 25 pages/25,000 hits or something crazy like that.

Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:53 am

Hey Leader, if you're listening, here's a tip for you: Type that thing offline in a word processing program, and then copy and paste it onto Samba. That is a lot of work to risk to an internet connection, especially if it's flakey dial-up. You can save it and walk away if you need to take a break, or don't have a full two hours at one time to sit and type. An added bonus is you can run spell checker on it. Good luck, we're all anxiously awaiting the next chapter!

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:19 pm

--JUST WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT THE FINAL CHAPTER IS COMING VERY SOON. DIDN'T WANT TO KEEP YOU ALL HANGIN' TOO MUCH. AS I SAID IN THE FIRST POST, THE STORY WAS LOST IN THE SUBMISSION. WELL ALL THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON AND THE STORY BEING LOST TURNED OUT TO ACTUALLY BE A REALLY GOOD THING. YOU COULD THINK OF THE STORY THAT WAS LOST AS SORT OF LIKE A LOW-BUDGET COMMERCIAL. BUT............WHAT'S COMING IS MORE LIKE A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! (BUT WITH ACTUALLY GOOD ACTORS, GOOD SCRIPT, AND GOOD CAMERA WORK...) ACTUALLY MAYBE I SHOULDN'T COMPARE IT TO A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE USUALLY PRETTY LAME AND YOU WALK OUT OF THEATRE THINKING "WOW I JUST WASTED TWO HOURS OF MY LIFE ON THIS PLANET. I WOULD HAVE RATHER BEEN AT THE DENTIST OFFICE. AT LEAST THEN I'D HAVE A CHANCE AT GETTING SOME SWEET LAUGHING GAS!" WELL MAYBE YOU ALL DON'T THINK THAT AFTER A LAME-O MOVIE, BUT MY POINT IS THAT THE STORY IS ENTERTAINING AND I THINK YOU'LL LIKE IT. SO THAT'S THAT. SO IT'S ABOUT 1 TO 2 THIRDS DONE RIGHT NOW. PLEASE BEAR WITH US AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE READY THIS WEEKEND. PEACE.

--LEADER

Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:19 pm

we don't wanna upset any users on this site so i've got a quick question before i post this thing. it's really long. are there any rules to the length of a post. i'm figuring that if you doublespaced it in times new roman it would probably be around 10 pages or so...maybe a little longer but not too much. so can i just post it or is there something else i need to do. i was also entertaining the idea of posting it in sections, maybe three because the story breaks up into 3 pretty good sections. thanks for your help.

Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:22 pm

Do it in sections, it'll be easier to deal with that way. People's minds tend to wander, ya know :-)

Actually, to do it right, space the sections by a day or so......build it up right.

Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:58 pm

Whatever works best for you man, im anxious to read it.

Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:09 pm

thenexttownshend wrote: Whatever works best for you man, im anxious to read it.

No kidding, just throw it on here and don't sweat the small stuff......I mean after all, you are hippies.

Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:20 pm

livingbeyondtheveil wrote: ACTUALLY MAYBE I SHOULDN'T COMPARE IT TO A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE USUALLY PRETTY LAME AND YOU WALK OUT OF THEATRE THINKING "WOW I JUST WASTED TWO HOURS OF MY LIFE ON THIS PLANET. I WOULD HAVE RATHER BEEN AT THE DENTIST OFFICE. AT LEAST THEN I'D HAVE A CHANCE AT GETTING SOME SWEET LAUGHING GAS!" --LEADER

AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I can't wait!

Somebody needs to move this to the "Stories" section when it's finished! Chummie award for sure!

Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:20 pm

earthmuffin wrote: No kidding, just throw it on here and don't sweat the small stuff......I mean after all, you are hippies.

True, hippies don't sweat the small stuff.... they just smell like they do! :D

I know this because I am a hippy myself, masquerading by day as a guy whose job involves sitting in a cubicle.

Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:11 pm

Just do it! no matter what!

I'am an old hippie lady and proud of it! I came to The Samba after your saga with Grease and for what ever reason found his post to be so full of truth and wisdom about things that needed to be done on my bus, I felt the vibe that only after searching and finding the old exchange between so many people and staying up all nite reading it with lots of eye drops and extra ritalin (legal perscription) it was apparant ---he is very special and I hope you three give him the credit due. And Shark has helped me in many pm exchanges. He too is a special man.
Don,t know what being called a hippy is in your much younger life,
but to me it,s -treating everyone and every living thing with fairness and love.

Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:31 pm

Elwood! ... I always thought you were a dude!!!!! cool!

Ye haaaa! The journey begines... uh, I mean the journey continues to begin!!

Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:14 pm

Hey Leader, I just posted about 15 pages with no problem, so go for it.

The Odyssey

Book I

THE GODS IN COUNCIL--MIVERVA'S VISIT TO ITHACA--THE CHALLENGE
FROM TELEMACHUS TO THE SUITORS.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and
wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities
did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and
customs he was acquainted...........

Deleted to avoid clogging the thread. Go here: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/dyssy10.txt
if you want to read the the rest of the story.

Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:53 pm

so here it is. if the whole world could enjoy this story only a fraction of how much we all did living it, then this world would be a happy happy place. this is part 1 and i think there will probably be 2 more parts. feedback is more than welcome. enjoy. peace, love, and much light to you all. also

--the one known as Leader

there were once 3 young hippies, full of life, love, and freedom. what follows is the story of how these 3 young hippies managed to transport a green bus from california to illinois. their story is remarkable. some probably won't believe everything. some will laugh, some will cry. all will be touched in some way. to say that this trip was a "trip" would be quite an understatement. it was more like the changing of seasons. like defeat and victory. like black and white. like despair and jubilation. like fear and faith. like hate and love. like life and death. the energy of yin and yang was definitely present in this tale of 3 young hippies. during this tale the events that took place in that place called cali will be recorded to the best our human memories can produce. but be prepared for all the great sidetracks and journeys that a good tale takes. sure there will be facts and dates and concrete data, but there will also be those inexpressible moments of esoteric postulation, mystical mesmerization, and spiritual sojourning. there is definitely something for everybody here, so please...sit back, grab a drink, perhaps some cheesy enchilada hamburger helper...and enjoy this ride.

it has to be said that the greatest storytellers of all time would wring with envy were they to hear the whole tale of the adventurous times of these 3 young hippies and their green bus. Kerouac himself would roll in his grave. for time and space's sake it's just simply not possible to tell of all the insanity that went down last summer. it's just not possible without writing an entire book. so what follows is a severely condensed version. for all of you edumucated folk...think of it like cliff notes. you'll get the overall vibe, the overall feel of the story, but some of the best parts, some of the greatest storylines, it's those little things that sometimes mean so much in hindsight that won't be included in this tale. we'll still hit the highs and the lows, but much of the crazy detail must reluctantly be withheld for now. so with that all said, let us begin our journey into what was once the unknown, but now that it is explored territory to the 3 young hippies, it is only unknown to those who have yet to come into the knowing. may we all enter into the knowing...

let's start at the beginning. so what ever led 3 young hippies to buy a green bus which they had never seen nor driven off of ebay from a total stranger???? even better------these hippies have no mechanical knowledge, no previous v-dub driving experience, and none of them had even ever riden in a v-dub!! some may ask the question what could possibly motivate them to be so foolish?? well this is a fair question, and one that we will tackle at the outset of this tale. see to really understand this whole story you've got to know a little bit about these 3 young hippies. in a lot of ways they are like most hippies their age and even those hippies from generations past who have blazed a trail before us. they really are just 3 young guys hungry for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. i mean that is the american dream right??? we all have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. it really is a beautiful thing! so these 3 young hippies are on a journey. a mystical one really. they're pursuing the answer to all of life's questions. why are we here? what are we supposed to do while we're here? what lies beyond? what's on the other side? like a hippy who retired to the "other side" used to say, "c'mon and break on through to the other side..." (that's jim morrisson for those of you who can't remember the 60's and 70's. haha!!!) these hippies are on a mystical journey to find truth and reality, and this is really what this tale was all about for them. everything has a purpose. we look at creation and it all exists so harmoniously. it's an amazing mystery. where did it all come from?? good question. well this tale, this story served a huge purpose in the lives of many. it changed these 3 young hippies forever. it changed them in so many ways it couldn't possibly be captured in its fulness in mere words. we all know that when it comes to the best things in life, words just fall short. try and explain love in a word. or passion. or true ecstasy. you just can't do it. so once again we are facing the limitations of this material realm. to understand how this trip changed these three young men so much, let us look to creation. take a tree for example. the life of a tree is so much like the life of our own human soul as we all (who are on the journey) press on for enlightenment, peace, and freedom. every year during the fall season a tree loses its leaves, it's color, and it's life. then the winter season closes in and seems to extract every ounce of life from this tree. but winter, my friends, is not the end. springtime comes and with it, new life. leaves once again begin to bud, and life seems to once again infiltrate every inch of that tree. the tree is now even stronger than it was a year ago. its branches are longer, its trunk is wider, it leaves are more plenteous. it's almost like it's not even the same tree. but the truth is the tree never really died. it just passed through death into new life. so it is on our journey. we are constantly, much like this tree, passing from death into life and death into life and death into life until we reach that place of absolute freedom, oneness, nirvana, heaven, God. sure we get glimpses of reality all along the way. they're like pictures, billboards if you will, assuring us that we are indeed on the path of Life. but there is always more, always More to be found, More life to be had. Peace, Love, and Hope are ever-increasing realities. anyone who has ever loved knows this to be true. these life processes simply purge out and remove the hindrances that keep us from experiencing the fulness of all Reality. so this tale was really such a process for these 3 young hippies. it was one of those purging and trying times that wrought a greater glory. the suffering of this present time is never to be compared with the glory and reality that shall be revealed in due time. the point of all this is to say this--------these 3 young hippies truly did die during this tale. and on the other side they came out with more life than ever before. following is the story of their death and their resurrection.

so the answer to the question...why buy this bus. well one day during late august / early september one of the young hippies was driving home from work. while in his car jamming out to great music he suddenly had an impression to get on ebay and that when he did he would find a volkswagen bus with an initial bid for $500 and that he should buy this bus. not to freak any of you out, but when we really embark on the spiritual journey, many times gifts begin to manifest and appear seemingly out of nowhere. these prophetic insights into the future are just that------a spiritual gift. using them for the sake of Light and Truth is what it's all about. so this obedient young hippy happened to be near his two young hippie friends' place and decided to swing through. so Leader walks into Waterboy and Residue's place. just to get a better idea of what these 3 young hippies are like, let me take a moment to explain the living quarters that Waterboy and Residue live in.

they live in the loft of a warehouse that Rez's dad owns which is located behind a Honda car dealership. the loft is pretty much one of the coolest places on the whole earth. the sign on the front door really tells a story in itself. Waterboy and Residue decided to call their place the eagles nest because eagles fly so high and they are so free. they've got that sort of breakin-outta-the box away from the norm type feeling. so Waterboy and Residue go to write THE EAGLE'S NEST in permanent marker on their front door and they spelled it in all caps but they wrote the "L" in EAGLE in lower case so it looks like this EAGlES NEST!! get it? it looks like eagies nest, definitely not eagles nest. the funny thing is that they didn't even know it until a bunch of us came over and asked them why they wrote eagies nest on their front door!! did i mention they have a pet iguana???????????!!!!!!! yeah that's pretty sweet. not many people have a pet iguana. Residue just happened to get it for free. then there's a bunch of guitars, a pair of bongo drums, and enough books to keep you busy for a lifetime. and did i mention a sweeet church-style 70's organ with all different colors---orange, blue, pink, an bright blue leather couch and two bright orange chairs. nuff said. it don't get much phatter than that. i mean they've got a friggin' iguana in their loft. c'mon!

so Leader walks into the loft and tells the other 2 young hippies about the prophetic impression about the $500 v-dub on ebay and how they should all pool their resources and buy it. well, Leader definitely didn't have to twist any arms in this group. faces lit up and excitement filled the atmosphere. so now all there was to do was to get on ebay and see if there really was a bus for $500. so they dialed-up and sure enough the first bus they saw was listed at $500. it was love at first sight. it really was. not only was there a v-dub for $500 but it was a camper!!!! dang!!! a sink, cupboards, and a pop-top!!! the 3 young hippies were so naive in the beginning that they didn't even know if a camper meant they had a pop-top and sink and a sleeper so they had to call the owner and ask them. much to their satisfaction the v-dub camper did indeed have a pop-top and a sink. so the 3 young hippies watched the auction for the next two days and ended up purchasing a 1978 (they think..could be '79) Green Volkswagen Bus-Camper off of ebay that they had never driven and never even seen in person. but they knew that this bus was meant for them. they just knew it. and did i mention that the 3 young hippies lived in Illinois and that their new Green Bus was in California. Well now things get interesting.

****before we go on something must be mentioned. after many counseling sessions among the 3 young hippies, the green bus was given its name. let me tell you how he got his name. imagine 3 young dirty hippies stranded in the hispanic district of L.A., living on the street. they have no money, hardly any food, and they don't know how they are going to make it out of L.A. one would think that conversation would flow to things like how can we get out of here or how can we get some extra cash, but instead it was in these intense and struggling moments that the 3 young hippies would abandon all of these cares and indulge in serious, deep conversation.................like............ what should we name our bus?? these conversations were usually in the beautiful candle-lit nights on the streets of L.A. in our v-dub.
so after much consideration and thought, we would like to announce that the green bus has been given the name Sonset. he will be referred to by such from here on out.*********

so fast forward and the hippies are all of sudden in california. their journey from the airport to pick up the v-dub was incredible in itself, but time and space unfortunately limit us once again. so the hippies finally arrive at the storage lot where Sonset has been abandoned by his owner. the lot is surrounded by chain link fence about 8 feet high. It's almost as if Sonset has been imprisoned and the 3 young hippies are coming to set him free--to end this horrible oppression. as the 3 young hippies approach the lot, through the tattered view of the chain-link fence, their eyes, for the first time, fall upon the one whom their soul has come to love. There he is. Sonset is just sitting there waiting for the 3 young hippies. and the 3 young hippies are awestruck. there really is nothing like first impressions. they last forever. the 3 young hippies were kind of nervous at first and their first conversation with Sonset was a little awkward, much like first encounters can so often be. actually once the 3 young hippies were able to set foot inside the storage lot and approach Sonset, Sonset was so timid he wouldn't even say anything for the longest time. The 3 young hippies tried everything in their power to get Sonset to talk, but he just wouldn't respond. He just sat their with a blank face, no emotion, nothing. at first the hippies were sort of worried. perhaps they had come on too strong, perhaps they should come back later. but they decided to persevere and they did everything. they pushed him, they pulled him, they tried EVERYTHING!! (for those of you who are not down with the parabolic, what i'm trying to say is that our stinkin' v-dub wouldn't start!!!!!!) so the really nice lot owner who felt bad for us because he thought we'd gotten ripped off, let us use one of his car batteries. sure enough Sonset fired right up....uh....well sort of. He didn't really fire up. its kinda more like he needed a push to get started. in other words we pretty much had to push start Sonset.

***for those of you who don't know what it means to push start a bus basically you just push the bus in neutral until you have enough speed to pop the clutch and she fires right up. you just by-pass the ignition. (expert mechanics: if i butchered that, please forgive me.)

so we used the nice lot owner's battery to run to auto zone where we buy a battery, swap out the lot owner's and hit the road. so we're off. it's friday night around 11:00 pm and we've got our v-dub, we're headed to the beach, and life is grand. we all felt so free and alive. the day was so full of battles and hindrances that at this point we just soaked in the live and victory that we had. i mean we're 3 hippies who have a green v-dub camper bus that we're driving for the very first time and we're headed to the beach in California to sleep for the night. could life get any better??

so we traveled that night to some town on the cali coast...it might have been oceanside but i can't remember for sure. that night was amazing. we drove up and down the coast for quite a while before we decided on a place to stay. we parked in a lot right close to the beach and turned in for the night. as we put in for the night we decided we would get up in the morning, hang out at the beach for a few hours and then head into pasadena, CA to get a tuneup and oil change. then we were going to meet up with some friends that night and head out back to IL on Sunday. this was our plan.

so the next day we woke up to one of the most amazing things....the sound of waves, wind, and clean air!! talk about serenity. i remember getting up that morning (or early afternoon) and looking out to the horizon. how can you get a better start to your day than the first thing you see is the horizon. horizon's are so amazing. they speak so many mysteries. the unknown, the impossible, the unchartered, the unexplored. eternity, infinity...horizons just expand your mind so much. some folk think they need drugs or things like that to expand their minds, but all you need is a good horizon, some waves, and clear sky. how much more expansion can you get than that?? the crazy thing is that a horizon is really just an illusion if you really think about. we call a horizon the place where the sky and sea meet, but we all know that they don't really meet. if you went to that place a new horizon would break forth and you would see further. and it just goes on forever. there is always further to go, always more to find. Your destination becomes a new beginning. Creation really does speak so many mysteries. This whole world around us is always speaking, we just need to develop an ear. the question isn't necassarily if anything is speaking, but more so are we listening? ahhh....the art of developing a listening heart, a listening ear...to hear reality.

so the 3 young hippies got up and enjoyed the seemingly endless hole in the ground that is full of water called the ocean. (salt water is extra good for those phat dreadies for those of you who forgot that 2 of the young hippies had dreads.) after a few hours the 3 young hippies toweled off, jumped in the v-dub and headed to pasadena to get a tune-up and oil change for their road trip back to IL. on the way to pasadena a need began to fester and fester until it bacame an all out immediate essential. the trip just could not continue anymore with out this one thing. yes......the 3 young hippies just could not go on without incense. so they stopped at a headshop and found some great incense. the shop was pretty amazing. the craftsmanship of the glass blowing that the shop had on hand was incredible. but these hippies pass on grass, so they grabbed some incense and hit the road.

so off to pasadena and into an encounter that would truly prove to change these 3 young hippies forever. so the 3 hippies arrive in pasadena around 5:00 pm or somewhere around then. they pull up to a stop light right in front of a gas station and hear (they think) a car blaring one of their favorite band's songs!! such a sign. there are always signs that confirm or don't confirm that what we're doing is the right thing. signs are everywhere and everything is speaking, it's just that listening thing. so it would be a little different if the band was the Dead or some super famous group, but this band is just a little folk/acoustic/grassroots band from wisconsin that really knew how to jam and here the 3 young hippies are at a stoplight in the middle of Pasadenca, CA and they hear one of their favorite bands being blasted in the car next to them!! so that got the hippies pretty excited. then they pulled into the gas station and the encounter that would truly prove to change these 3 young hippies forever began to unfold.

the 3 hippies needed some directions for where they were going to meet some friends in pasadena so they stopped at the gas station to get some. as they pulled into the parking lot they tried to park intelligently because at this point Sonset still had to be push-started everytime we fired him up. so we got a good parking spot and all jumped out. well all of a sudden this sweet lookin' orange w/white trim v-dub pulls up next to them. how cool!! the driver of the bus walks up to the 3 young hippies and being their friendly selves, the 3 young hippies strike up a conversation and let the dude know how cool his v-dub looks. the dude tried to shrug it off like "whadaya mean, this old thing???" but the 3 young hippies knew that the dude knew that his orange w/white trim v-dub was pretty sweet. so the 3 young hippies explained to this dude what was goin' down----that they had just bought this bus off of ebay and we're planning on driving it back to IL the next day. the dude was pretty good at holding back what he really thought. he kind of answered with a "oh yeah," but on the inside he's thinkin' "these kids got no clue." so the dude was nice he didn't try to spoil the 3 young hippies lofty ideals, he just played it cool. the dude offered to do a tune-up and take a look over the engine and stuff like that the next day. he asked the 3 young hippies if he could take a look in their engine real quick just to take a glance, and the 3 young hippies were like, "Sure." so the dude popped open the door and almost died. really. i think if the dude was about 20 or 30 years older he definitely could have died of a heart attack. it's kind of like when a parent who loves their child finds their stash for the first time. at first they don't believe it. "No way...not my kid. He would never do this." then they start down the endless thoughts of "How did this happen. Why would he do this crap to himself." Then they get pissed and they're like "That's it...he's grounded all summer long...all summer!!!" this is kind of like how it was when the dude looked at our engine for the first time. i mean the 3 young hippies didn't know much back then. they actually thought the engine looked pretty good. there wasn't too much stuff and it didn't look too complicated. how were they supposed to know that there weren't supposed to be all those wires and all that mess. i mean they're hippies...c'mon!!!! so yeah that's how the dude responded when he saw the 3 hippies' engine. it was kind of like when two guys are in war together and one hears an explosion and then his back gets all warm. a fellow soldier comes along and the guy who was wounded tells the soldier and asks him to take a look at it. he tells the fellow soldier that he heard an explosion and then felt warmth in his back, but that it didn't hurt too much and he doesn't think he got injured too bad. the soldier takes a look at his back and all of his skin from the neck to the waist is burned off down to the vertabrae and he just couldn't feel anything because all of the sensory cells and nerve endings were destroyed. the soldier who sees it kind of freaks out a little, ya know?? okay that's a little grotesque and kinda wierd, but that's kind of how the dude responded. "WHOA!!!" once again the dude really tried to keep his real feelings inside, but really he was thinking, "These guys have a slim chance of making it across town, let alone 2/3 of the way across america!" but the dude was just too nice to shatter the dreams of the hippies. so the dude and the 3 young hippies exchanged phone #'s and they parted ways with a plan of meeting the next day around 10 am or something like that.

the 3 young hippies continued on their way to meet up with some friends in pasadena. so they're going to a venue that starts at 7 pm and it's about 6:30 or so. they decide to stop at a fast food restaurant. i can't really remember if the hippies got anything to eat at that restaurant or not. all i can remember is what happened in the parking lot. this is definitely one of the highlights of the trip!! well somehow the bus stopped running. either we turned it off or it died...the details are rather hazy, but what's not hazy at all is what it took to get the bus running again. remember at this point Sonset is still being push-started. so the young hippies go to push start Sonset and Sonset doesn't seem to be responding so well. fortunately this small parking lot has a small incline on both sides so its sort of like a mini half-pipe. well the 3 young hippies spent about 45 minutes pushing Sonset back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth. nothing. nada. zilch. Sonset just was not cooperating with the efforts of these 3 young hippies. i mean the 3 young hippies are just lovin' on Sonset, showing him all the attention he could ever need, and it just still was not enough to get him to respond. sometimes this is how people are after years of being treated badly. it just takes them a while to respond to love. they almost run from it because it's so threatening. i mean to really recieve love you've got to make yourself vulnerable and open yourself up to them. someone could love you with more love than this world could contain and if we don't open up to that love and surrender to that love we'll never experience it. in those early hours, Sonset just had a really hard time learning how to surrender to the love of those 3 young hippies. But the 3 young hippies were faithful. True love believes all things, it hopes all things, and it bears all things. the 3 young hippies didn't just abandon Sonset when he wouldn't love them back. they persevered and remained steadfast in their faithfulness and devotion. i mean love doesn't seek its self anyway right?? love always seeks the beloved...so the hippies just remained true to Sonset through it all. they never got upset or anything like that. they really never did. they just kept on believing. they just kept believing in the power of faith and visualization. for 45 minutes they just continued to visualize Sonset totally free, rolling down the highway at top hippy speed! then after about 45 minutes of pushing Sonset back and forth in a fast-food parking lot on a main strip in pasadena, CA, Waterboy was divinely inspired to do something no hippie had done before (well at least that we know of). after 45 minutes of trying to coax Sonset to life by push-starting him, Waterboy simply decided to turn the key just to see what would happen. then out of nowhere, amongst the hustle and bustle of a main strip in Pasadena, CA, right there in a fast food restaraunt parking lot, Sonset erupted with LIFE!!!!!!!! yes, Sonset started by simply turning the key for the first time in his relationship with the 3 young hippies!! How about that! he wouldn't start for 2 days, and then after not firing up for 45 minutes as the hippies lovingly pushed and pulled and pushed and pulled, Sonset decided to start right up with the simple twist of the key. so what was it that really made this happen. was it the hippies' faith and vision, or was it Sonset?? Really this writer just thinks it was another step forward in this love relationship between the 3 hippies and their green bus named Sonset. so the 3 young hippies jumped in the bus and headed to their venue.

that night the 3 young hippies met a beautiful hippie girl named AMIE. when we say beautiful we're not talking just physically...AMIE was one of those beautiful people inside and out. you know...there are those people who have so much light and life that when you're time with them is over you really are a better person than before you met them. that's really awesome. i love meeting beautiful people. not to mention she had some phatty all-natural dreads. Hippie chicks with Life, Light, and phat dreads are just so hard to come by....
so AMIE graciously invited the 3 young hippies to stay in her house for the night. Their night with their new friend was full of light and beauty. the night consisted of basic hippy stuff--music, love, peace, and spirituality. the 3 young hippies got to take a shower and sleep in a nice bed and get some killer breakfast the next day. that was just about the last time that would happen for nearly two and a half weeks. but they had no idea. my oh my how naive those young hippies were. they had no inkling what the next 2.5 weeks had in store for them.

so the next day the 3 young hippies woke up, had some kind of breakfast concoction that was pretty stinkin' tasty, and then they hit the road to meet up with the dude from yesterday at the gas station. so after hugs and love, the 3 young hippies were on the road again.

Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:16 am

Dude, dont you think it's just a LITTLE phrophetic that I'm the first person to read this thing after you post it?

Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:18 am

Bottomend wrote: Dude, dont you think it's just a LITTLE phrophetic that I'm the first person to read this thing after you post it?

LOL!

Hey, how'd I end up next?

Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:52 am

Wow, and this is just the beginning! :shock:

My head hurts!

Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:13 am

Lucky us! Leader has talent for spinning a tale and is taking time to share.
Good thing it stopped there, I would have kept reading no matter how long it went on and been late for work. Can't wait for the next chapter!

Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:21 am

Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:28 am

not bad is the original still out there?

Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:23 am

To the one known as "Leader"

Your writting style is captivating. I,m so happy to read your colorfull words about the need for keeping the faith and how important "LOVE" is.
We all here on The Samba have intense feelings for our vehicles and your story and adventure with Sonset is welcomed. Looking forward to the rest and sure to be movie.

xoxo Elwood