My trip goals, at this moment, in no particular order:
1- Express my dirty hippie nature in a new habitat (do I relate to the Earth better in forests or dessert? I mean desert.)
2- Use the 2 weeks to subject Renata and Priscilla to my music. This could go one of two ways. They become giant Interpol fans, or I get stranded somewhere in Arizona.
3- See a Harris Hawk. These are super chill birds of prey that have a matriarchal society structure and they sit on cacti. They are often seen in TV and Movies because most people don't know the difference between a Harris hawk and like, every other bird of prey in existence.
4- Not fail in my knowledge of nature and prevent horrible circumstances. When I was younger I may have told my cousins that Stinging Nettle was Lambs Ear. Whatever they look really similar alright.
5- Be such a good navigator and commentator that it makes up for my lack of driving skills
6 - Fight a Mountain Lion with my bare hands
7 - Discuss and hopefully find the definitive answer as to who would win between The Animorphs and Saddle Club Girls in a fight.
8- Jackalope.
2 comments:
i already made this pun, but just to save it for posterity...
if priscilla and i get engaged, we can JACKELOPE on the trip!!
lollerskates!
#4: leaves of three, leave it be. leaves of four, eat some more! also i can totally identify stinging nettle. it stings.
also i predict a clear link between #5 and #7.
Jackalope are fairly easy hunting. Postcard form and trophy head mouts (in a myriad of sizes) are readily found--in the appropriate store. The more the store resembles an object ( a place shapped like an arrow, a dinosaur,etc.) the more likely there are to be jackalopes inside.
And Keith, you come from the land of most exquisite gift stores,,,,,the ones inside a redwood tree, or a tree house.....how lucky you are to have kitsch-redwood-jewelry at your beck and call.
I was told lamb's ear was used as bandages in the civil war. Never thought they were to absorbant.
enjoy the trip---if you can add rapid city south dakota----true jackalope land. Wall Drug (out that way) is the ultimate tacky souvenir store.
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