Coasting

Things from Florida on went fairly well. We met a hitchhiker as we headed into Alabama. We're on the opposite side of the country from our home and as we pull over to pick this guy up his first word is, "Keith?" He knew me from the animation festival. So he leads us to a rainbow gathering. From there we visit Eve in Nashville. We get along better than on my last visit, though the first thing she says to me is that I can't be 'wild' in her nice home, and I almost bail right there. An oil change performed in the snow and then we're off to New York City.

New York, as a whole, seems very amused to see two Californians arriving in a VW Bus and we make friends and draw giggles as we try to find my Aunt and Uncle's place in Brooklyn. Uncle Andy finds my almost dreadlocked hair hilarious. He keeps Bryna's wine glass full at all times and is determined to see us married before we head back out.

Next is Boston. We run into Pete, in town with Spike and Mike and we visit Jon who has moved to Boston. Jon gives us back the matress from our bus and we give him the foam egg crates we'd been sleeping on. Monica had lent the bed to him at some point. He whines about not having any where comfy to sleep, but he does have a really nice camera, and no sypmpathy from me. I did have an impressive bowel movement in his bathroom, and I used his camera to record the evidence. I wouldn't be around when he found the footage. Monica and Jean live there too but we're unable to get in touch with them.

It's hard to park in Boston so after seeing Kristin Hersh perform at a record store and laughing at Pete's habit of making color photocopies on sticky paper of bus passes and money, which he then affixes to the sidewalk, we headed up to Portland Maine, where Bryna's childhood pal Rebecca is going to art school. Portland is an awesome little coastal town. We met lots of cool artists and had some great coffee, the thing I was most missing from home. Rebecca and I got along great in bratty, flirty sort of way.

Our next stop would be the highlight of the trip for Bryna; Burlington Vermont, her hometown.

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