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Touch-a-Truck – Friday Harbor Elementary – WA
My friend Jason from Island Rec invited Edna and I to participate in an Event called Touch-a-Truck. Every year Island Rec brings all sorts of fire trucks, police cars, dump trucks, ambulances, and other cool vehicles to my old elementary … Continue reading
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Tagged Friday Harbor Elementary, Island Rec, police, San Juan Island, San Juan Islands, serving tea, tea party, WA
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Sh’Bang Festival – Lookout Arts Quarry – Bellingham, WA
What I like most about the Lookout Arts Center (AKA The Quarry) is that it’s an amazing gypsy camp of old buses, trailers, tents, and RVs. It is a constantly shifting community of nomads, performers, and tinkerers. Some people … Continue reading
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Tagged Bellingham, circus, Common Vision, Fruit Tree Tour, gyspy, Lookout Arts Quarry, serving tea, Sh'Bang, vaudeville, WA, WVO
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Colorado – First Trip off the West Coast
I think it’s safe to say the Edna’s first voyage off of the west coast was due to love. I fell in love with a woman 6 years ago, and re-fell in love with her over a year ago. She … Continue reading
Posted in Bus Building, Journeys, Mechanical, News, On the Street
Tagged biodiesel, Bishops Castle, Boulder, bus building, CA, Chadwick Stokes, CO, Denver, Elephant Revival, junkyard, KS, Lyons, mechanical, My-Tea Kind, Nevada City, North American Tea Tour, OK, OR, Pearl St., Salt Lake City, serving tea, Sub Terra, tea party, UT, WA, Wagon Circle, WVO
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25 Hours at Occupy Oakland
Bridget and I rolled around the block looking for a place to park Edna Lu and serve tea at Oscar Grant Plaza – the heart of Occupy Oakland. Only one side of the plaza is open to the street and … Continue reading
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Tagged CA, crackhead, diversity, General Strike, kids, Lightfoot, Oakland, Occupy, Occupy Oakland, police, serving tea, tea blending, tea party
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Rootstalk Festival 2011 – Salem, OR
Cultivate Revolution! For so long I have been guided by an idea that my father taught me: If you really want something to get done, you have to do it yourself. I live this when building and fixing my bus. … Continue reading
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Tagged community, DIY, Eugene, festival, Free Tea Pavilion, Kelly Kettle, Lightfoot, Mountain Rose Herbs, OR, Rootstalk, Salem, serving tea, solar hot water, sun tea, tea party, Turbo Kettle
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Rootstalk 2011 Photos
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Tagged community, festival, Mountain Rose Herbs, OR, Rootstalk, Salem, serving tea, solar hot water, tea party
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On the Road to the Oregon Country Fair – CA, OR
I left Northern California with so much joy to give and tea to share with people. I arrived Ashland and served tea all afternoon in the park after getting some tea donations from Eco Teas and Adelante! Gallery and Tea … Continue reading
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Tagged Addelante, Ashland, bum, CA, Eco Teas, Elephant Revival, festival, hitch-hike, hobo, hobo code, nomads, Northern CA, OR, Oregon Country Fair, permit, serving tea, tramp
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcata, Bay Area, Berkeley, CA, CO, Common Vision, Edna, Elephant Revival, Free Peoples, Ivan Dured, Lavender Tea, Santa Cruz, Sebastopol, serving tea, tea party, Telluride, The Steeping Leaf
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Springtime Tea Party with Common Vision
On Sunday March 20th, the third anniversary of when I first bought Edna, it had just been the longest I’d been apart from her since we met. I know it seems kind of funny for me to make such a … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday, CA, Common Vision, community, Edna, freedom, Fruit Tree Tour, serving tea, tea party, WVO
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