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Announcing West Coast Tour – Spring Update – Alabama Hills, CA
Yes, y’all, you hear correctly! Edna and I will be spending this year serving free tea from San Diego, CA to the San Juan Islands, WA. Our kick off was Edna’s 10-year anniversary in Ocean Beach on the first day … Continue reading
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Tagged AZ, Big Oak Canyon, Blythe, Buccaneer Beach Park, CA, community, Coos Bay, Double-Decker Bus, Dr. Bronner's, Earth Day, EarthRoots Field School, Eugene, Friday Night Festival, Harbor City, Hollywood, Hollywood Blvd., Humboldt, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Monrovia, Nevada City, New York Times, Oceanside, Olympia, OR, Orange County, Palos Verdes, Portland, Quartzsite, Relationship-Based Economy, relationships, Road Trip, Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, Salvation Mountain, San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Islands, Santa Monica, Seattle, Seven, Seven Wanders the World, Silverado Canyon, Skooliepalooza, Slab City, solar, Sonoma, Sprinter Van, Standing Rock, Tea Bus Factory Service Manual, The Brewery, The Ecology Center, Truk, WA, West Coast, Windansea, WVO, Yoga on the Bluff
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Autumn Update – Square Pond, ME
Ah, another season is upon us. I can feel the Fall in the air, and I think I’m ready for it. Our summer has been interesting and fun. After arriving New England for the International Herb Symposium in June, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemy, alternator, apothacary, Appalachian Trail, AR, artwalk, Atlantic Ocean, batteries, bed, Belfast, Blue Hill, Blue Hill Inn, Cape Cod, Chewonki, Common Ground Country Fair, Common Ground Fair, Deer Isle, Down East Maine, Elephant Revival, First Friday Artwalk, GA, Great Norther Sound Society, Homegrown Herb & Tea, Hostel in the Forest, hot springs, Liberty, Liberty Tool, Loose Cannon Jug Band, MA, ME, Mid-Coast Maine, Mountain Rose Herbs, NH, Parsonsfield, Portland, Provincetown, screens, solar, solar batteries, Square Pond, Sugarloaf, The Camp, Tinder Hearth Bakery, transmission, Two Toad Farm, Unity, Willowbrook, window screens, WishGarden Herbs
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Village Building Convergence – Portland, OR
In 1996 – ten whole years before I started serving free tea out of my pickup truck on Hollywood Boulevard – Mark Lakeman and other folks at City Repair, were formulating and putting into action a mobile free teahouse called … Continue reading
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Tagged City Repair, Common Vision, community, Dalai Lama, free tea, Fruit Tree Tour, Hollywood, Hollywood Blvd., Last Thursday, Los Angeles, Mark Lakeman, OR, Planet Repair Institute, Portland, Portland Fire, Rootstalk Festival, Sh'Bang, Shook Twins, T-Horse, Village Building Convergence
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Portland Fire Department – Portland, OR
My buddy Owen is a fresh-to-the-team firefighter here in Portland. I guess he’d been talking the bus up around the station quite a bit, so they invited me to come by and have dinner with them. It was great to … Continue reading
Hello Portland! – Portland, OR
Yes! It was a BIG step for our 2+ North American Tea Tour to get here. The one big string that was still attached that hampered our no-itinerary/go-wherever-we-want,-whenever-we-want modus operandi was Freddie the horse trailer (mobile shop/storage unit). I’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged City Repair, First Thursday, Freddie, North American Tour, OR, Portland, Reddit, shop, Tea Tour, Village Building Convergence, WA
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Reaching Escape Velocity – San Juan Islands, WA
Although I haven’t read his book, my newfound friend Steven Roberts wrote a book called Reaching Escape Velocity: Launching gonzo engineering projects with sponsors, media, volunteers, and other potent forces. The title (and idea of the book) have stuck with … Continue reading
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Tagged Anacortes, Anacortes Art Walk, Center for Happiness, Doe Bay, FEAST, Golden Tree Hostel, horse trailer, Island Hoppin' Brewery, Lopez Island, Navigator Stove, Orcas Island, Oregon Country Fair, Portland, Rootstalk, salvaged, San Juan Islands, WA, Woodman Hall
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Traveling with Tea and Lightfoot – WA to CA
It was a hectic last couple weeks at the shop on Orcas. I was packing up all my tools, building materials, doing some repairs on my horse trailer, welding, cutting, grinding, drilling, and on top of that my good nomadic … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts Alive!, Bay Area, Bicycle, break in, Broadway, CA, Capitol Hill, Eugene, Florence, Gift and Take Jar, Hawthorne, homeless, horse trailer, letter writing, Lightfoot, Lightfoot Box, Lily, Mountain Rose Herbs, OR, Portland, San Francisco, San Juan Islands, Seattle, serving tea, Slow Movement, tea party, WA
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