Tag: Arcata

  • Summer Update – Arcata, CA

    Well, our West Coast Tour has been shaken up a bit. After receiving news of a family emergency, Edna and I cruised on up to Arcata to be with family. This means that we probably wont be making it to the Bay Area/Sonoma/Mendocino this time around (sorry folks! It makes us sad too.). But hey,…

  • Thankful in Floyd, VA

    Every now and then I stumble into a place that I know no one, but get absorbed rather quickly. What I find in there is more community, more sharing, and more genuine human connections than I could hope for. Most places are not like this. Floyd, VA, however, is… Almost a year ago, a couple…

  • Autumn Update – Arcata, CA

    When you have no strict itinerary, there’s a lot of wiggle room. And I like it! I left Portland and headed straight to my Wilderness First Responder course (see blog entry here)  knowing only that I was going to see my new nephew in Arcata afterwards (see Summer Update). I thought I might come right back…

  • Summer Update – 3 months of Tour – Arcata, CA

    It’s been an interesting one, folks. Three months ago Edna (the teabus) and I started a 2+ North American Tour with no itinerary. The plan has been to have no plans, allowing us to roam the country with no obligations and the freedom to go and stay where we find the most appealing. However, this ‘no…

  • Bay Area – Spring!

    It had been way too long since Edna and I had spent much time in the Bay Area. Other than one day at Occupy Oakland, it had been over a year, and even then it was a short visit. So many friends live in the Bay that in order to see as many as we…

  • 10,000 Cups of Free Tea

    A year and a half ago I hosted a tea party that I talked up as the party where I’d serve my 5,000th cuppa free tea. It was a grand celebration, with many folks in attendance, most of whom were aware that they might get that mighty number. For the 10,000th cup, I decided that…

  • Steeped Leaves and Elephants – Northern CA Coast

    This past week, Edna Lu the tea bus caravaned with Ivan Dured, the late great space-shuttle/tour-bus of the Colorado-based band, Elephant Revival. For six days we traveled from show to show, down the coast, over hills, and over bridges. On any given night their instruments would sing inside the venue and the kettle would sing…

  • Five Years of Free Tea – Eureka, CA

    Can it be that long already? Oh how (tea)time flies. As I sat in the bus while prepping to serve tea in Arcata on New Years Eve, I reflected on the past five years while writing in the 2010 guest book. I had time to think real good. I also perused the pages of the…

  • 5000th Cuppa Free Tea – Arcata, CA

    People often ask me how I count my cups of tea. I do have to admit that it is an estimation, not an exact science. Basically, I estimate that there are 20 cups of tea in a gallon of water, which equates to 6.4 ounces per cuppa tea (128 ounces in a gallon). I think…

  • Anarchist Book Fair – Manila, CA

      This was the beginning of a 16 hour, 3 event tea serving day. Whew, exhausting… I was actually surprised at how few people at this fair came to drank tea. I thought that of all people, it would be anarchists that understood best what I am doing – bottom up, grassroots, no permission from…