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Published: March 23rd 2008
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Let the Fun begin!
Sarah, myself and the Aho's finishing a meal and drinking a brew! At the only microbrewery in Pocatello! Now compared to my last years spring break (see the following entries
here,
here,
here, and
here). This one was fairly mild in terms of mileage, but not in terms of excitement. Before we embark on this tale of mischief, debauchery, prophecy, and danger I would like to say it wasn't quite the same without my travel companion Mr. Andy Bouwman and that I know I gave the grand canyon a bad rap last year, but
Michael Sulock has really gave it a good shake and shown why the canyon really is grand!
So let's begin. Friday March 7th, I finished up with class and hopped in Betty the truck (who has just been recently been sold to a good owner) and started a nice leisurely drive through southwestern Montana into Pocatello, Idaho where I supped with Dr. Ken Aho, his lovely wife Jessica, and my friend Sarah Kaiser at the ONLY microbrewery in Pocatello. Now this struck me as weird, a city with about 100,000 people with only one microbrewery. As the story goes the people who owned the brewery were elected to city council shortly after opening the brewery and I guess passed some laws making it virtually impossible
The Walsh family.
Steve, Meg, and Sarah Grace, oh and I am in the reflection. to open up another microbrewery. Now that is a mom and pop monopoly if I have ever heard of one. After parting ways with the Aho's, Sarah and I decided to go to a "Mardi Gras" themed party hosted by some people in her running club. Before going to this party she mentioned that this couple was into swinging (for those of you not in the know, this means partner swapping and I'm not talking contra dance style). I had no problems with this as this was just a harmless "Mardi Gras" party. Upon entering the residence, it was apparent something was afoot! There were about four or five older couples hanging out on one side of the room and a group of younger couples on the other side. It appeared almost like there were two different parties going on! Being the oblivious fool I am think nothing of this and end up mingling with both groups and find out that the younger crew is moving the party to someone else's house and that we will just trickle out and make our way there. Somewhere between formulating and executing the plan to trickle, I get into this intriguing conversation with
Shave and a Haircut
Just so you all know, I'm shaving with a straight razor now! Scary huh? some German woman dressed as a cow girl and we talk for what appears to be a half hour or so about the differences between German and American toilets and her research in Erotiphobia and Erotiphillia. When I finally make eye contact with Sarah, I realized we had stayed way past our intended trickle time and we graciously exited as more couples trickled into the party. I have a very strange and strong feeling that this event was about to go from "Mardi Gras" to "Menage Trois".
The following morning I woke up and started my new shaving regime. Earlier this month I bought myself a strop, brush, soap and a
Shumate straight razor as old as my grandfather. I had some practice over the last few weeks and was seeing how travel friendly my new shaving gear was, come to find out it is fairly transportable. Now straight razor shaving is not for everybody it has a steep learning curve and you have to pay in blood for the first week or two, but eventually your hand figures out how to use the blade without ripping up your face. I still have to practice often as the chin
Fun with Moebius Strips
If you cut a Moebius Strip Laterally four times you get eight interconnected Moebius Strips than you can put your arms and legs through them like Susan Parsons and myself! is really a pain in the ass to shave. If anyone is interested I would love to have some victims...err, customers, to practice my shaving on! After shaving, I walked upstairs and had a delicious pancake breakfast thanks to Miss Sarah Kaiser.
At breakfast (and I'm not sure how the subject came up) we started talking about and playing with a
Moebius Strip (for those of you not in the know it is a really neat mathematical object)! There is a real fascinating phenomenon you can do with a Moebius Strip where you cut it in half (length wise) multiple times and the more you cut it the more Moebius Strips you get that are interlocked! After doing this four times we had eight interlocked Moebius Strips! Good times had by all! Than we had snake appreciation hour with Susan Parsons awesome snakes. Later that night, after having a blast hanging out with Miss. Parsons all day, I hopped in the truck and made the long drive up to the Tri-cities of Washington (Richland, Pasco, and Kenniwick).
I stayed in the Tri-cities for a couple of days, relaxing, resting, and visiting with some old friends. My friend Steve and
LouLou and Me
Nice picture of Lou Lou the seven foot boa! Ain't she pretty! his wife Megan have a brand new baby girl, Sarah Grace so I got to play with the baby for a couple of days! I got to hang out with my good friend Melissa McNickle and had an awesome dinner with a very old friend of mine from high school, Angie (Lord) Valdez, her husband and two of her three children (Rob and her also had a beautiful baby girl, Dalia earlier this year). There was a lot of strolling down memory lane in the Tri-cities and the weather was wonderful, it was in the sixties every day! I ended my stay in Washington with a visit to Terra Blanca vineyard and bought myself and a good friend a couple of bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon and than headed back east to Montana.
Oh before I forget, I should tell you about a man we met at the Richland Safeway while Steve and I were on a late night stroll chit chatting. On our way out the door of Safeway we run into this friendly guy who starts telling us about how he found a computer grade puzzle in the book of Matthew and how humans are about to evolve
The Valdez Family
Angie, baby Dalia, and Robbie! and how he has taken on the mantle of the last prophet of Israel (his webpage is
here) to guide humanity through end times. It was rather bizarre concoction of conspiracy theory, science, and time travel all wrapped into one and you can read his manifesto on his website. If you are curious the seven ingredients to human evolution are the following: Cannabis, Diabetes, ADD, (Attention Deficit Disorder), OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder),
Hand Tool, Scrypnosis, and
Remote Viewing.
The drive back to Montana involved driving over a handful of mountain passes and with each mountain pass comes its own weather system. The Fourth of July Pass was no problem, but Lookout Pass was insane (both of these in Idaho on Interstate 90). The weather was all fine and nice going up the mountain, but on the other side the mountain has captured a crazy winter storm system and the wind was blowing and the snow was howling and the roads were icing. I seriously could not believe that I had been in the Great Basin desert not eight hours earlier. Slow and steady I made my way through the pass and into Missoula to take a short break and visit with
McNickle and I
Melissa McNickle and I visiting it up! my friend Hilary. After having some tea and popcorn I finished the drive back to Bozeman and had a fairly chill rest of the week taking care of my friend Glenna's dog.
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Angela
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I LOVE the blog (since I am in it...). But, I especially love the pic of you and Steve as a couple. Glad i could feed your skinny butt, and it was nice to see you!