this is a long drive

i'm at the sacred grounds cafe in glenwood springs, colorado - a little west of vail. sacred grounds has promising appearances but bad follow through. the coffee is generic, the music is generic, the clienetele is generic, and worst of all, their internet connection is broken. negative one stars.

the mountains here are ridiculous. maybe someone else can put better words to how and why. i can't. just west of denver things start to get crazy, and it gets more and more fairy tale every mile further west on route 70. i am scared for the car.

today i will get to fruita, my first stop, i don't know how things will work exactly, but i envision mountain biking, and that will be enough :)

the song of the day is levon helm's wide river to cross from his new cd, dirt farmer.



listen to it

i thought a little more about the whole regret what you don't do more than what you yadda yadda yadda, and i think another way to put it with essentially the same meaning, is: don't be a scaredy cat.

for those that have been wondering, yes the plant is real - it's a jade tree, it's in a box full of packing peanuts so that all the stopping and starting of the going across of the country doesn't wreck it. it seems to be holding up great!