Rich kids went to Palm Springs and Newport beach for Spring Break. We ordinary riff raff went to the Colorado River. Katherine's Landing, Needles, Bullhead City. The only time I had to defend my life as a Hippy, 1971 was in Needles. I was told by a Sheriff's Deputy that I was "Like the people who killed Sharon Tate". Swear to God. About two years later we were camping at Kingman and an incredible dust storm struck with the most incredible winds that blew our whole camp in to the Colorado. One of my friends got arrested for open container and another was taken home with a head injury to a Deputy's house because EMS was swamped. Man, do I have stories about the Colorado River. From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sammie smith Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:00 PM To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] trip report 8 Left San Simeon, went to Go Westy who hosted a breakfast for us. Never seen so many Vanagons in my life. They must have 100+ vanagons on their lot in various stages from ready to go to needing major surgery. Saw four Synchros, two of which were the crew cab PU. Left there and did a stint on Pismo beach then to Solvang for lunch. Made Ventura about 6:00 PT. Show tomorrow. Going I 40 home and going to try to make it to Kingman AZ tomorrow night. I'm tired.