Slab city suite.

28 dec.-29
Wake up with sunrise again. such a beautiful gift.
Walk with Anna to salvation Mountain and do Yoga. so peaceful.
on our way back meet the guy that made Anna fly with the Ultralight Aircraft.
He invited me to fly :O hihaaa

so lucky its his last day of doing it!
So I fly wow. so so fuck I cant find a word to describe!
After we cleaned the van.
Huck is leaving :(  going back to winnipeg for school)
Basically we hang out around slab city meeting people. crazy warmth during the day.
so cold at night,
do fire play music.

lots of dogs all around crazy that just yelp all the time.
people drunk. police was around for a while as they were looking for a missing kid...

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30 dec Nate's Birthday!
Nate and Mason are going in town to busk to make money for alcohol for his birthday and new year!
Anna and I went to the Moccasin camp and learn and start our own pair! So excited! super cool and fun
The guys got back with full of beers. had a good time around fire cook and play music.

mason at his very best

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31 dec =)
new yearrrrr!
went to town for provision!
Move our camp to Karens place
an impressive character! ( so sad I dont have photo of her and her small ugly mean dog)
she is this old lady hippy wear tie dye smokin weed talking way to much being super honest haha funny as hell.
Start drinking and hang out with people all day.
music at night at the range+ walk to the tank a little bit farther where there is a big big party! lot of people from all around! music dance fire. crazy. meet a lot of people talk about life. so good.
end up in the hot spring at the sunrise and hardly walk back to the van! Such a long walk after not sleeping! Thanks Bryan we survived!! lol
got to bed.

1 Jan 2012! Putain!!
Wake up super warmth all fucked...
best remedies some weed haha
had breakfast with Karen Bryce and Nate :) and walk to the Moccasin camp to see if they survived!
Phil is sleeping on the sand too drunk for life haha everybody around the fire fuunnny.

Ryan still drinking we said so much shit! laugh so bad!
I do but I dont! We invent the fake id.  inside jokes but haha hilala
finally walk with Bryce to the Canal ( cold water canal coming from the mountain)
at 12 its the Polar bear swim. everybody jump in it..
we miss it but still we walk playing music. so good and the water was so cold coudnt believe it it was so good!
Met Kate filling bottle of water. this poor woman doing everything by herself. really inspiring!
Walk back after drying under the sun
stop by the library

an old place with old books. super beauty and unique. nobody works there its like you borrow and return if you feel like it. stay there for a while came back playing music.
all meet up at the skatepark and jam!
make a fire.

moustache song man. local. super funny guy

Anna and I decided to go cook for everybody. so fuunn. play with my camera.
we had a lovely dinner and talk in the Hammac. supposed to leave tomorrow .. :(

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2 dec
There is a lunch and food give away at the range by this Jesus freak truck.
go there and see everybody!
after
Karen absolutely wanted to make us a tour of around
we all jump in the van and go all around. visit East Jesus
this crAzy place where this guy decided to build art with the trash he found... He is dead now but they keep his things and keep building stuff.

Visit Mad Mod in the middle of nowhere. the ground make funny sound and bubble from the earth. crazy.

Time to say bye and to go back to L.A. for the papers for Anna...:(
Im going to miss this dirty place and all the people here.
I was feeling home .. im scare and a bit nostalgic in front of the Inconnu but so excited in the same time.
Slab city fill my heart with amazing experiences!
will miss the hot spring and the crazy sunsets.

Will be back one day maybe :)

On the road again!

Holidays in Slab City.

24th as we show up go directly to the Range :)
the stage where there is free music like into the wild!
found directly  Mason and Nate.
Mason is the next to play and he wants us to play with him :O
Smoke some and got on the stage!
So but so much fun!
a dream that I realize. playing at the range :O with friends on xmas wow.
Its perfect.
meet people. fire. so fun.

sleep( we park the van at the entrance of the town at Vince place that we met the first time)
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25th1 Its xmas babe!
wake up super excited all together with my traveling family :)
There is a Pot luck at the Oasis( the kinda club in Slab)
Pretty gross but haha whatever!
We sat with old ladies haha they are hilarious talk about life fun to see their point of view and how they got to slab city!
Met Huck <3

Go help to cook for a big dinner at Karma kitchen.
smoke some and start cooking all together so funny. I cant realize its xmas and im in the middle of the desert cooking haha.
the kitchen is super gross and dirty but the feed people for free... I guess
Found a plastic sword....make it my toy for the day/... its what they use to stir the soup/juices haha
We made the salad ( the only thing we ate haha + candy :) ) fun!

Got gift as we volunteer. :) hiha a bottle of water was so stoked! and a bunch of goodies food.
 they try to play games got everybody together. The family feeling is so strong!

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Angel the lady in charge of Karma kitchen is such a sweetheart!




























Really felt at my place :) we all sit a this small table in the shadow chill out !

























Meet the lovely Kelly :) Girl from Ohio that now live in L.A. she is so pretty and awesome we go along so easily! + she is my burping partner!

laugh and make key older with Anna as gift for everybody and to put in our xmas tree.
got to the store at the closest town. got Beers :)
Make a fire at Huck place got drunk haha fun. play music and celebrate.

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feel so shitty hangover sick from my belly still.
Stay in the van and sleep ...
Yoga. feel a bit better. take the day kinda alone. so good.

our xmas tree :)

Make a beauty salad in the van with Bryce and Kelly <3
read and take it easy.
Make our xmas tree decorate it and put it at the salvation mountain!
So grateful to be with all those awesome people. so close to them!
cheese and wine.
go to the Hot springs ( cool spot not too far where everybody goes) so relaxing.so good.

there is a guy with an ultralight aircraft that do tours to everybody! Kelly and Bryce fly todya and Anna too! The guy invite Anna to met him in the morning tmr for a big fly. I wana fly too so much but couldnt handle anything today... !

---- 27 dec

Woke up with sunrise! See Anna fly away!
Play music met Mohat! this old man with his wood stick.
old hippy. start talking to him for a while! Super inspiring with lots of life experience. we talk about death and life and gathering he told me to go to the annual rainbow gathering is the only real good one and I can learn so much from old hippy like him :)
Decided to go for a walk myself to bring coffee to huck.. never found his camp and got distract by meeting a lot of different people. just got back to the van  when the sun comes down.
This Hippy guy that I met on xmas Mate show up and invite me to drink wine at Franks place!
I accept haha got there . so different than what I know.
Creepy people haha but amazing in the same time. all different age. smoke weed drink wine. talk about coma. funny.
keep going on my walk as he was hitting on me too much and made me laugh lol.
walk around like a gipsy play my uke. so good to be alone. in the desert under the sun.
stop to ask water at a place!
Its the Moccasin place! ( they make real beauty Moccasin)I met Phil before brievly. this time I stop and hang out with them for a while!
Met Phil.Ryan. funny friends show us latter how to do Moccasin :)
Bryan lovely traveler had good conversation! Show him to make earring.
Mike this old funny guy that call us his ukulele sista.
really nice people. good spot too
Got back to the van and finally find the camp of Huck haha
Anna flew almost all day! she got a crazy experience and it was so beauty to see her all passionate about her experience! I wish tomorrow I can fly but Im too shy to ask..

On the way to Slab for the second time!

rigth before leaving LA
the guys met back a guy that they start traveling with!
Nate! so he jump in the van with us and we Drive to Palm Spring for the night. sleep on the side of the road!

















When we wake up start cooking breakfast Steven Show up in his pickup. talk to us and invite us if we want to stay at his friends house... an kinda squat... next bloc...we drive there. super dirty and sketchy but happy to have a place :)
Go busk in town.
a guy drive by in moto and gave us 100$ :O Merry Xmas! we cant believe it! so grateful. amazing day!
got back to the house!
cook dinner. Music Jam. so fun. talk til late at night.
in the middle of the night... 3 am 2 guys we've seen before at the house show up and vaccum their car...
super sketchy look like a traffic of drug house... wont tell everything  but sketchy enought that in the morning we peace out :)










Busk again. found a charger for my camera hihaaaaa! :)
suposed to go to the art museum for a free event but... the police are all aroudn the museym... there is a crazy guy with a gun hiding behind the library so they cancel it.. :(
There is a street market at 6 pm so we walk around.
met amazing people. offer us to trade french lesson and help with website for a workshop to make vases ( they are really amazing one!) sweet to see how you can still trade.
got their contact if we got back.
Keep busking around and drink a bit :)
meet the sister! haha



















ANd while we play a song from fleet foxes a drunk guy around 25 show up and start singing with us.. haha super drunk and super high sounds terrible its so funny we keep playing with him and in the middle amnother guy older a bit drunk show upo stay and laugh the whole time... at the end he said... hourra! good job its my son!
The son is so surprise : Dad!!! haha
they were looking for each other lol.
they laugh and walk away together.

father and son

stop at the grocery to got full of goodies for xmas in slab city. thx to Nate and his food stamp ( food stamp is for us citizen only but its amazing. bunch of $$ to spend on grocery)
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Mason and Nate leave us to go to slab city on hitch hicking.
the 24th we busk at the farmers market in Palm spring to make money before going.
so warmth and sunny cant believe it! so good! Met this lady that bless us. so special.
Anna and I feel sick from the belly. terrible pain. but we survive. :)
its xmas eve super excited!
sing xmas song while driving to slab hihhhhaaa!
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Anna monkey face

Mason monkey face

Bashu monkey face

Bryce monkey face

Nate must beauty face haha