..the Man must Burn!! :D

..phew.. here we go.. so I spent an incredible nice evening with John, Celias neighbour, waiting for her to arrive. John plays the guitar and was very inspiring to play together.. in fact, yesterday, there was a "free mic" evening at a cafe and I arrived just in time, to join them in their last song (I guess, if there would have been any minute of waiting time, I would have gotten nervouse, but there was just no time ;) hehe :) ..so yeah.. was really graet to play and people enjoyed. I'd like to pick a turn to show some didge, juice harp and simple guitar songs ;) maybe when I come back..

so we used the next day for preparing the week-end.. Celia is incredible! she makes a lot of tasty food and got a lot of stuff, that makes camping convenient ;) hehe :) ..so we had our big shelter and met a lot of people, that were passing by..
the drive was about 6 hours.. considerately short, thinking on the 22 hours to Burning Man ;) hehe :) but whatever it takes.. I will be there!!!!

the party was incredible!! very small for the line up.. Space Tribe gave a 3 hour set and I know, all my Goa friends would be jalous ;) hehe ;) ..I guess, there were around 300 people camping out on a mountain, in a mystical forest on a beautiful river.. we had the best campsite EVER!! just on the river, with personal bathroom and beercooler ;) close to the main floor.. so you could just dance over to the tent and grab some fruits or home made granola bars! :D isn't that totally awesome!! :D haha :) ..so there was a lot of good music and at least 10 nations present.. we had Israel, Iran, Japan, Austria, USA, England, Austria, Africa, Russia and Swiss next to Canadians :) that was a blast! :) made a lot of friends and as usual on these special kind of parties.. tons of good energies.. lovely people.. inspiring encounters and an incredible ammount of fun!! :)

so after two days we drove back and arrived somewhen in the morning, after a longer nap along the way :-P ..here we are preparing now for Burning Man..
I will have a bycicle (need one in a built up city of 50 000 people in the desert) and I found the most awesome rideshare for the last part! (touching wood)
because Celia picks somebody up for the last part, I was urged to find out how to make it.. bus seems very complicated, but I thought, hitchhiking might be an option. so this morning I extended my wish to the universe and sent some emails to people, that offered a ride share.. and Ka-Boom! after 30 minutes I got the perfect ride share! somebody has an early entry ticket and I get in with the people, that build up there theme camp.. the BARBIE DEATH CAMP! :D
..so and now comes best.. my friends from Anchorage told me, that they will camp out with the Barbie Death Camp guys.. so it's true: Everything is connected within this universe! :D ;)

my lovely little dragon will now sit for some while here, while I'm on foot ;) I bought some spare parts today and gonna change them tomorrow.. Oil, Oil- and Airfilter, rear Tyre (first time :) then check the bike and store it for some weeks.. I actually might hang out in California for a while, once I'm there ;) never know, what happens after Burning Man.. muhahaa ;)
there is a BMW dealership close to here, so once I get back, I will let check the breaks at their place.. otherwise.. this bike is totally cool! seems to be pretty reliable and runs smoooooothly! :)

I got goggles (for the sand storms at Burning Man) and went through the 'survival-checklist'. I will be so totally fine, being together with people, that have done this before.. it's exactly the way I wanted to have it. ..hmm.. just make it happen!! once you learn about your true powers in life (and that's no fancy flying through the air ;) you can create yourself everyday anew and with yourself, you create your reality.. pretty amazing stuff ;)
basically: love first! ..then comes respect, honesty, sharing and caring.. simple: just listen to yourself and ask, what higher being you could become.. and you make it happen! :)

..my latest project here is a soft rope dart.. I have to sew (brrrrr) some fabric and might have it ready tonight.. that's a dogdoy (soft ball) in a long cone of elastic fabric.. so it's real fun! :D haha :) you do this kinda kung-fu monk stuff and wrap the rope (fabric) around you, while twisting around, unwrapping it and shooting it away, holding the other end of the fabric, so you pull it in again and make some other twists.. :) ..and it's so soft, that you can pounch people, without harming them.. it's a real amazing thing! :)

..oh.. and about amazing things.. I started with spooning.. that are two spoons, bent and put together with duct tape.. in a way they tap on each other when you hit them against your hand or leg. so it's a simply rythmic tool, that can be quite tranceful :) the sound changes with the shape of your hand and I've heard that playing with some electronic music and it just rocks!!! :D just gonna take me a while until I get there ;) hehe :) the guy does it since he was eight.. :)
but yeah.. spoon on.. and then I will give free spoon lessions to people :)

so.. you will (eventually ;) hear from me again.. that's all for now ;)

have a great time and I gonna try to make a picture album of Burning Man.. that's what I would call my "Mekka" :)

my blessings to all of you and take care!

..old McDonald has a farm.. :)

..after I lost my last entry, I just make here a second part.. what's published is published ;)

So I spent the last days on this farm.. had very nice company! a guy from England and a girl from Norway and it was just totally fun toghether!! :D we cooked (even I cooked and found even pleasure doing it ;) and we had great conversations, drunk port wine, played risk and had a totally fulfilling time together!
maybe I also have to mention the Israeli girl, that brought me to the place.. that was a challenge!! I have never experienced somebody like her and I've met quite a lot of people and have been in some relations.. but I had never so much drama, shouting, escalations even getting beaten up.. ah.. you couldn't imagine and it doesn't matter that much. showed me a lot about people and showed me, that I can stay calm and in harmony in very extreme situations ;) ..it's probably a mix of past experiences, cultural background and 2 years in the military, that messed this girl so much up.. but yes.. glad we run into each other, because otherwise I wouldn't have been on the farm, wouldn't have experienced all this and the resulting wounds are minor.. a bruise that it's about to go away and when I get needle and thread, I can fix my pullover as well ;)

so we fixed IKEA beds and moved them around, got hay for the animals.. they have horses, donkeys, cats and a dog. We dug some holes for posts and painted a fence.. was fun to work as well. Friday evening we wanted to go out and I managed to drive the old Ford pickup on the empty tank (who would know, that they have 2 tanks ;) to run out of gasoline and had to tow it.. because diesel enginges are a bit more complicate to get running again, once out of gas ;)
I learned quite a lot about diesel technology :) so was adventurous.. and we had many helping hands, when we were out in nowhere at night :)
I was hiking on Sunday on a hill and had a nice session with my flutes, didgeridoo and shakers up there.. just by myself and that nobody could hear me ;) haha :D that was FUN!! see the pictures of the lake and the place where we stayed in my Picasa-Album.
met dozens of nice people!! GREAT people should I say!! it's so fantastic, what happens, if you just travel, if you just talk to people.. if you respect them, if you are interested what they do (because we can always learn from it) and how they do it. ..everybody is a human being, everybody has the right to do things the way he does and everybody wants to be loved.. pretty simple, isn't it ;) hehe :)

so I drove yesterday from Gray Creek to Vernon, so we can pack today all we need for the festival at the week-end (Juhuii!! :o) ..my plans from here are: go to the Psy-Trance party in a green valley, come back, do some stuff and get ready for burning man, drive down to burning man (it looks, as these would be 5000km :P and hang out some time down and then get back and continue somehow the motorbike trip ;) hehe :)
yesterday was quite a strange day of driving.. probably because my mind was still full of the experiences of the last days and then I wasn't used to drive anymore that much. It's different, if you drive 6 days in a row from morning to evening.. then I was somehow more into it (but got a sore ass of it ;) so I enjoy having a good mix between driving and staying in a place.. for the next 3 weeks it looks, as my bike would stay here and I gonna make a trip by myself ;)

hmm... yes, that's it.. catched pretty much up.. I'm here in Vernon at Celias place. I met her on Shambhala and she's doing what I am doing.. following the festivals and having fun! :D so yes.. I guess we might getting to know each other pretty well in the next weeks :) she speaks also french and her children (some seem pretty grown up on the pictures hanging on the fridge ;) are with their dad.. so I actually gonna find out in a few moments, what is going to happen the next days :) when we're having breakfast together..

have a great one and may the sun tender your skin! :)

HAPPY SHAMBHALA!! :D

..so yes.. we were floating down the river for hours and there was even a wicked rope swing to jump out in the water! :) ..it took me quite a while, until I dared to climb up that tree, but it was totally cool swinging out and I even landed free of pain ;)




..oh dude.. this is how it gets messed up with my blog. the last entry disappeared in data heaven despite auto saving :( ..hmm.. anyway.. seems, I have to post it shortened again :P




so I was on Shambhala and it was just sooooooo incredible beautiful, inspiring, touching and full of love!! :D oh yeah.. made a lot of friends (what happens, if you travel by yourself ;)
it's a totally awesome place with forest and a river flowing across and the weather was just perfect! :D ..I was pretty excited the evening before, if everything would work out fine and then it came way better than I could have ever expected it ;) I just passed the cars that were lined up and left out the parking overflow zone.. talked to a man with a hat on a ATV and got my ticket very quickly (motorbike rulez!! :) I went to the main gate, waited 10 minutes and was the first motor driven vehicle of the normal guests that entered the area :D
I could leave it then at the drop off place under some trees (just works with motorbikes and talking nice to people ;) and walked in. ..the first person I met (and talked to) showed me a beautiful and shady place in the forest, where I could pitch my tent.. totally nice neighbours and a great spot, as I figured out later (compared to the car camping.. hot and dusty most of the time ;) ..so yes.. was from the beginning a wonderful weekend! lot's of lovely people with their awesome costumes (you should check some pictures on www.shambhalamusicfestival.com). That's a big deal here.. to have fancy costumes :D ..but me, I'm anyway always in my indian/hippie look, so matches perfectly ;) hehe :)
words couldn't tell, what happened there, but be assured, it was a totally beautiful time and it made me so much richer!! :)
only the end was a little bit abrupt.. they played music until 9.00 in the morning and at 12.00 the people were supposed to leave.. no chance to camp out another day, what would have been really necessairy after 4 days of party.. :-/ but made it back pretty quickly (passing all the cars lined up and trying to leave the area ;)

I spend another day at my friends place, but for some reasons, she wasn't very much at ease any more (I just felt SOOOO good after this festival!! :D ..so I decided to leave the next morning and went on to Gray Creek (that's close to Crowford Bay). It was a very rainy day and I got soaked (for once ;) and was glad, when I finally arrived at the place. Passed Nelson, that's supposed to be a very nice little town, but it was to wet to check the place out :P
the place in Gray Creek was an organic farm and I was doing some WWOOF-work (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), where you get food and a place to stay for 5hrs working every day. it's a pretty fair deal for people who want to travel like that..

..before the storm.. :)

Hi there :D



I just had a totally awesome week and it's not about to stop! :D haha ;)



so.. I changed my tyre in Prince George.. had some help, because I didn't always know, if I'm doing the right thing :P but now I did it for the first time and I'm able to do it on my own :D

I travelled on to a beautiful rest place on the river and camped out there. I had two beautiful dragonflies, that hunted the nasty mosquitos around me! :) oh, I just love those insects!! they are cruising through the air and eating their prey on the fly :) (too bad they were filled after half an hour and it got really bad with those bloody blood-sucking suckers ;)



I drove into the Rocky Mountains and stopped 30km before Jasper (a very, very, super touristy spot, I don't wanna be ;). I had no food that night, but run into the right people and we had great discussions and they kept me alive ;) had even a fantastic breakfast the next day and continued to Jasper.

it was actually cloudy that day and a few drops of rain fell.. so I hoped the next day would be better and hell he was! :) a bright day, blue sky and perfect visibility for driving through the Rocky Mountains! ..and believe me, this is one of this very super cool things you do: fly to the other side of the world, pick up a motorbike and just drive along the most beautiful strips.. these roads are totally EPIC!!! :D

there will be a picture of two of that amazing day of riding! :)



I left out various hot springs, because I didn't feel to stop there (camping next to them is generally not possible and there are a lot of tourists around :-/ but camped then at a lake in the mountains in Golden (yes, that's the towns name :)

was also an interesting evening, as I made friends with all the people camping out there ;) got compliments for playing the guitar are for fire juggling :D (oh, I just love doing that stuff!! ;)



the next day I drove to Revelstoke and then down to the ferry to cross the Arrow Lake. They are having several forest fires here (long dry periode), but it might be rainy the coming weekend (even if I hope not too much on Shambhala ;)
this was also a very beautiful ride.. a lot of motorbike riders on the road, because it's narrow and very curvy, therefore fun to ride! :D stopped at a river to jump into the water and cool down a little bit (it's really hot here.. but still prefere it to the cold ;)
I met then my random stranger host here in Castleguard ;) a friend in Dawson City gave me her contact and it has been really a fulfilling time here so far! :)
I helped her out at her fruit stand (entertained the customers with guitar and magic tricks ;) and then the evening we went camping out on a river.. sleeping in our hammocks to the calming sound of flowing waters :)
the next morning we went having super delicious organic breakfast and then for a horseback ride.. I LOVE IT!! :D ..then noon we hooked up with a lot of friends to float down the river. I got my own P.F.D. (personal floating device)

..to be continued.. (battery is low ;) :P