Met Ken Kesey once and drew on his bus 'Further', then took acid with his merry pranksters .... but that's a story for another time.
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Met Ken Kesey once and drew on his bus 'Further', then took acid with his merry pranksters .... but that's a story for another time.
Hem's gone to charter the great fishing boat in the sky.
Elvis, however, did not die - he just went home
I've seen seen Hem's and Elvis' places and done Beale Street.
Met Ken Kesey once and drew on his bus 'Further', then took acid with his merry pranksters .... but that's a story for another time.
I want to hear that story mate.
Shame though, that acid curtailed Kesey's writing career. Cuckoo's Nest was one of the great novels of the 60's imo, but after that (and Sometimes a Great Notion) he didn't do much - few articles for Rolling Stone. A pity because he had real style and imagination.
Hoping to enjoy a relaxing summer break in South West France ... was due to go end of July last year for a 3 week break ... two weeks before we were due to go I was undergoing an operation to insert a stent in an artery when, during the procedure, they found the more extensive 'problems' ... instead of going to France two weeks later I was having the heart by-pass. So this year is all about making up for last time hopefully
Was looking at holidays yesterday, fancy going to Portugal or Tenerife and getting a nice villa, all depends how much work gets cranked up this summer, if I'm too busy I'll end up sending wifey, baby and mother in law away to Marbella where they have loads of friends and some family.
Looking at which sites will be 'handed over' when and seeing if I can fit 10 days break in. I'll probably end up being that bloke on his phone all day by the pool. Defeats the object really.
Gonna take my daughter away for weekends around the UK though for sure.
Looking at which sites will be 'handed over' when and seeing if I can fit 10 days break in. I'll probably end up being that bloke on his phone all day by the pool. Defeats the object really.
Gonna take my daughter away for weekends around the UK though for sure.
After last year cost us a bloody fortune just hoping to do a couple of cheapie weeks away. Looking at Croatia in June and maybe Barbados end of year.
Looking to move before the end of the year but staying in the village.
And changing my car in a few months. Got an SLK I hardly use. Need something more practical.
Looking to move before the end of the year but staying in the village.
And changing my car in a few months. Got an SLK I hardly use. Need something more practical.
I've been to a few places in the US. New York is nothing like Tulsa, Oklahoma bruv and even Florida isn't much like San Diego.I probably would differ with you there, don't see the appeal of the US myself, short term maybe, but long term nah. I've travelled much of the states over many years. It's much the same where ever you go, the EU 50 years from now if people didn't stop it.
'Have a nice day' Fooooook off.
One currency, they don't even know how to add tax into that currency until you get to the tillstipping is not much better, the biggest pain in the arse ever. But you know what i hate about it, where ever you go it's much and much the same along with the language. Ask for a black coffee and someone will get offended. Simplicity and stupidity at it's finest and damn bloody boring. It's the place where they worshipped the Marlboro man until he died, then they got all precious about life, forgetting the fact that most of them are obese and have a bigger medical problem than a cig could ever give them with the all you can eat. Then they have Disney, the magical land of fantasy, about sums America up in a nutshell with fantasists like Trump in charge, a walking talking live Mickey Mouse. The big American cars have gone, apart from being rust buckets, the world turned eco friendly and flooded them with Japanese instead, you know that place they dropped the atom bomb on. Go to places like Virginia they want to talk about history, what fooking history? They love our Royal Family and think Diana is still alive (ok, i lied on that bit). They get some nice hot sunshine that's a positive, on the East coast, hot but expect a tropical storm at any moment, on the West coast also hot without the tropical bit but don't expect to drink any water there's a shortage. New York i hear someone shout.....oh pleeeease, the city that never sleeps, says it all really. Los Angeles the dustman deliver. Then the great south west....remember what i told you about that black coffee.
It's alright for a few weeks with a nice Villa and the kids, other than that forget it...'have a nice day.'
Going to New York in May, Greece in July, that's probably us done for the year as the giro cheques only stretch so far.
I fancy doing Croatia sometime. Not this year but maybe sometime in the future.
I didn't mind San Diego travelled down the West coastline, took fooking ages but worth the extra time over the long boring drag of highways.
Camping in Dorset, Blisscamp and Wilderness festival wth nipper.
Ibiza, Houghton, Shambala and Love festival in Croatia with pals.
Want to buy a flat for little un and start making film about Leningrad that we've been planning to do for ages
Ibiza, Houghton, Shambala and Love festival in Croatia with pals.
Want to buy a flat for little un and start making film about Leningrad that we've been planning to do for ages
Erm no!!! Looking for a small quiet boutique hotel, no noise, no hoi-polloi, no **** food, no riffraff, no arguing over beds around the pool, no germans, yanks, russians, french, spanish or brits or anyone else speaking english, no **** entertainment, no babies, kids or teenagers.
Think I've got it covered.
Was here in Cornwall during the solar eclipse in 1999. Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters were touring the U.K. doing a production of some Arthurian play.
They were at the Minack theatre, which is an open air theatre built into the cliffs and me and a few mates saw something happening in a field, lots of vans, music, hippies etc and didn’t know what was going on, but decided to get involved.
Saw the old school bus ‘’Further’ which they’d shipped over from the US and hopped on board. Met Kesey and spoke with him about life on the road, acid, the beat lifestyle etc over a spliff. He invited me to draw something on his bus, so I did.
Later on I got offered some liquid acid, so naturally said yes. I remember having 5 or 6 drops put on the back of my hand and thinking ‘that’s a lot, I’m going to be flying’.
Had a party on the beach later in the evening, full sound system amazing vibe, beautiful clear stary night. And the best thing of all was that there was a luminescent plankton bloom, so the water was glowing and sparkling and it wasn’t just from the acid. Loads of girls stripping off and frolicking in the sea, so I had to join them. It was a like being in a dream. Incredible time really.
Nobody is going to read that mate. Come on.