Koyaanisqatsi II -- A Road Trip page 26 We found and experienced some special things along the way and they don't want to be forgotten. Of course, music was an important travelling companion and often was the glue that held us together. Other times it had the answer to why we were at a certain place. A lot of the time it was just there doing its job, being music. Most of the lyrics scattered around these pages was somehow relevant to something at the time, and so will remain tied to these places and times whenever we hear it. We had just about all the specific tunes with us that we found needs for  except for Lennon's "Mind Games" and "#9 Dream", and there was an urgent but unexplained need for Donovan's "Little Tin Soldier." On the other hand, we were lucky to hear no Rolling Stones or Santana the whole time. Sometimes things really do work out the way they're supposed to. We were also more than lucky to have good friends, good vibes, a good kid, a good car, and loads of good stuff to see and do on our trip. You know a lot of our thoughts and feelings as well as the details of the journey, and maybe next time you'll be going somewhere and will share it with us. Or take us along with you. Even as you're reading this now, someone is standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon and wondering how it could be real. Someone else is driving through the salt flats of Utah and wishing they weren't; someone else is dropping quarters into a Vegas slot machine. And the stone giants are still keeping their vigil over Monument Valley. It's easy to file away vacation memories as something once done and now over, but it's all still out there and everywhere else, waiting to be noticed. You're probably wondering why this book was put together and why it's such a big deal. It started out as a scrapbook/photo album because there was a lot of uniqueness that we felt should be recorded before it merged in with all the other memories in storage and lost a bit of its shine. Hopefully some of that shine is preserved here. Even if we're the only ones who ever read it, we'll be able to go right back there and relive it. How many pieces of your life have you already forgotten about? Admitted, this project got out of hand and turned into something much larger and more detailed than it was supposed to. The descriptions get longer and longer for each day's worth of travel. There's no way to explain this, except that it must be how it's supposed to be. That's the way things were on this trip, and we learned not to question it. Vibes and vibes alone. Even completing this project became a sort of a mission that couldn't be ignored or simplified. It just had to be done and now it is. This trip was inspired largely by the film Koyaanisqatsi, which should be viewed regularly to remind us all what our priorities should be. We reversed the sequence of the film by starting out in Las Vegas and ending at Monument Valley, but maybe we did that intentionally without realizing it. Either way, we still ended up in the Bay Area. So don't wait around for this book to be made into a movie -- it's already been done. There may be a companion soundtrack release sometime, although it's already been summed up in one song. None of the three intrepid travellers are completely sure why they decided to take a vacation in desert heat in late July, only that there was an undeniable reason compelling them to do so. So they did. Three thousand miles don't help like I thought it would Do you believe in magic?   Tell a friend about this site with a free virtual road trip postcard © 1990-2006 neonpages.com