hallo my friends,
hope the winter is treating you all well. you'll be glad to know i, too, have seen a lot snow this winter... well, at least more than i expected to. we drove with some chicago kids we met driving a school bus around amerika across texas from austin, right through a snowstorm and white all around us.... CRAZY!
austin was good to us, a bit of a vacation actually, we got bikes from the rhizome collective and fixed them up to be ridden to mexico and given to some people down there. we stayed at biosquat, which we found quite by accident even tho i had heard about it from geoff before, and loitered there for a coupla weeks, almost. interesting and magical bicycle structures all over the property on the east side of town. we camped in the tree fort and every night watched austin's downtown lights sparkle in the distance. the dumpstering was always fruitful there, unlike NOLA, and we tried to go to as many art openings that we could for the free wine and snacks. if it weren't for whole foods and central market with all their free samples of fruit, cheese, bread, meat, coffee, quiche and crackers we might have actually spent money in this town. austin is a pretty hilly city, after a week of killing ourselves on the steeper hills with huge mountain bikes we finally found the long ways around everything - and FLAT! i finally went swimming! yay! barton springs was beautifully clear and cold on a hot day.... i felt like jackie onasis in my zebra striped bathing suit and sunglasses.
we are in el paso, now, visiting miriam and prepping ourselves for the longer haul in mexico. we're trying to figure out where to go..... where to go......
i have had some ups and downs in the last coupla. trying to keep spirits up by getting up early and having some time to myself. started to wear red lipstick when we ride bikes around and dress up in ridiculous outfits we find in garbage bins. it's so funny, when we ride together as four northerners, the motley crew of us.
well, i gotta go, but i'll write again soon. love y'all, ~d...
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