13 thoughts on “I’m not looking that far ahead”

  1. but…but…you haven’t even been to Tucson Meet Yourself yet. And the weather is just now getting good. And…and…the Tour is coming. Wait until you see February. You can’t go.

  2. I’m glad my donation went to advocating Denver. I’ve never been there, but when I lived in Santa Cruz, all anyone talked about was how we should all move to Denver. Don’t they have a special college for hippies?

  3. Being from Denver I can say we always referred to CU Boulder as Berkley East, I think that is as close as you get to a Hippy school there. I miss Denver before it became the land of Urban Sprawl.

    Now in Washington… Evergreen State college is still 100% hippy school. They have to flush the campus forests every year to get all the student to go home for the summer. Many of them just move into trees for the year.

  4. The word “goats” always makes me think of a great ‘revamp’ of breakfast cereals someone once posted. “Honey Bunches of Oats” had become “Honey Bunches of Goats.” I have no idea why this still makes me roar.

    You can’t leave Tucson now. You must survive in the Wild West. I will send you a gun and two outlaws with mangy horses. You can do it.

  5. Yeah! Denver! We could use some more hipsters. (Not hippies, plenty of those in Boulder, but they’re all in their 50s and retired to the hills after making their money in tech stocks).

    But I agree with Dianne and Valerie that you should give Tucson a fair shake.

  6. Oh, wait! The special college for hippies that Molly mentions isn’t CU, it’s The Naropa Institute! Used to be called the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics but they changed their name when they switched their focus from Beat poetry to transcendental meditation. ;)

  7. I’m learning a lot about Colorado this morning. I could’ve sworn, though, that my friends from Colorado asserted that Boulder was the one cool town. And these aren’t hippies saying this, these are the same friends who gave me a hard time when “hella” managed to slip into my vocabulary when I moved to California.

  8. You’re right, I think that’s where the Naropa Institute is.

  9. Obviously I’m biased, but I need to throw in my Colorado experience here. Do you know in CO, if your family has lived in the state for something like, 5 generations you can get a PIONEER vanity plate for your car? I lived there for a year before coming to Tucson. Granted, not in Denver or Boulder, and was surprised and struck by the conservatism and the feeling of being an outsider. Many of my neighbors were openly hostile to anyone not like them. And then there were the ice storms and blizzards. The camping and hiking was great, though. Nice place to visit.

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