antibiotics and tipis...

Alright. So I think we are on a five day curse. Or something like that. We just left the Earth Mountain Education Farm, near Trinidad, Colorado. We were supposed to stay a week, but left two days early due to my health... gosh darn these antibiotics and infections. honestly. BUT I will explain below why leaving was the best idea.

The farm in itself was an amazing experience. A big learning opportunity for sure. It is about an hour from civilization at an elevation of 7000+ feet. We got there just after the crew had finished tie dying anything that once was white. I was greeted by a barefoot ragamuffin child named Justice and his mom Joni, who was the creator of this hippie commune in the hills. Joni and her family, Carter (husband) Justice (5 year old sun) and Orion (1 year old son) are an off the grid family living on a community/education farm and creating a co-op in town. They eat all whole foods, cook in an outdoor kitchen on a wood stove and all the water comes from rain catchment system. They have self composting toilets and rain water, solar heated showers. Our "shitter" was a hole in the ground with a toilet seat made from two tires. Needless to say, I haven't showered in 5 days, and I smell like all things foul. The kitchen was over run with flies, and it was very difficult to get my hands clean. It was an eye opening experience, and I would have liked to fall into a rhythm there, but my body wasn't having it.

Some of the tasks we did were putting up a tipi, planting cabbages, cleaning, cooking and we became a part of the family. The other WWOOFers were amazing people, as usual. There was also phenomenal star gazing and a bear sighting or two... oh and lots of puppies! It was a very neat, exciting learning experience.

I learned that my sun AND moon signs are capricorn (which I guess is uncommon) and that my spirit animal for the future is the bat. (yes. thats right) I also learned about teas and why its important to plant your placenta with a tree to watch it grow. It was amazing to see this family flourish and grow in this tight knit community, and I would have appreciated it so much more if my body wasn't so weak from the antibiotics. After not feeling well enough to move and help out, I realized it was best if we left. We were going to be there for there annual snap pea jamboree which was going to be a big party with lots of dancing, hippie swinging and smoking and even more learning about astrology and what my life is destined to be... I'm sure it would have been amazing if I was up to it. But we were invited back next year! So, we are on the road again. Heading to Vegas to camp out for a few days to get me back to my full potential. Good lord, I'd like to be healthy again.

Oh, and I didn't take pictures.. I'm not sure why.. I guess I just fell into the rustic life style and forgot I had such fancy things as "cameras". I think adam took a few pictures, so you can all see what its like eventually. Love to you all!

NATURE!!

I'm going to let the pictures do most of the talking for the last few days, but I will recap a bit for you all. We went to Sand Point, Idaho and stayed with Don, a family friend of Adam's. We went to the top of Schwitzer mountain and Adam got to mountain bike! hurrah. It was beautiful and I bonded with Don's 8 month old puppy. We then headed to Montana. We started in Missoula, where I checked out the University of Montana for grad school. Missoula was an awesome city, there were 3 farmers markets we got to check out, and we walked around the city. After Missoula we headed to Bozeman, and camped there for two nights. It was a neat little town, and we took a nice hike where we saw a black bear munching on some huckleberries and a mama moose with her baby. It was a little terrifying to see the bear, and then I was on edge for the rest of the hike.. just cause that is how I am. You know. heh.

After Bozeman we headed to Yellowstone, which I had never been to, so I was pumped. We camped there for two nights, driving around and checking things out. We also took a nice hike, although I was attacked my mosquitos. We saw the canyon, the geysers, lots of rain/thunder storms.. HURRAH!!! It was a beautiful park, but there were SOOOOO many people. Definitely worth it though. After Yellowstone we headed to Grand Teton National Park, which was BREATHTAKING. All the bison pictures and beautiful mountain pictures were from there. We went over to Jenny Lake and hiked up to Inspiration Point, and saw 4 moose and lots of Pikas. So fun. It is a beautiful world out here.

Now we are in Jackson, WY because I got wicked bug bites and one got infected and now I am laid up in a super 8 hotel... hoping that my infection doesn't spread and hurt my leg. ugh. So this puts our trip back a little back... we are thinking of heading to Colorado in two days. Until then!!