10 August 2008

Why the city.

I live in Oakland with some eleven or so kids in a house on 11th street. The kids I live with are great, all busy with their own lives so I can stay busy with mine. I'm at this point where I'm lookin at the future. I'd like to just make a ton of money (cause i want to buy some land) but alas I can not do that until I really actually settle in Oakland, which looks like it's gonna be after September. Travels til then. I'm traveling in an effort to sort of blur the edge between the country/city transition. It's been pretty hard so far. The city...

I got some cool neighbors, a few good hiding spots amidst the chaos of the Bay, and the incentive to work cause there's not the kind of beauty here that's gonna take up much of my time. Anyway, here's some pictures, taken by Heather, a rad lady we picked up in Portland on the way down the coast on our July adventure. Here's a few...



























And so most of my family lives here in California, so the effort to get to the midwest is less imperitive, but I miss all my friends there a whole lot, so hopefully I'll be making it out that way soon. The schedule looks really full though. I've got too many plans. Overwhelmed.