We just hung out in Greeley this weekend. Went out to dinner at the Rio one night, stayed home most of the day Sunday. Saw our friend JR who we haven’t seen in a long time.
Britton, Me, and JR
I have also almost finished reading The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson, the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It almost entirely takes place in Puerto Rico, although there is quite a long part about getting drunk and partying in St. Thomas. Apparently, Hunter S. Thompson once lived in Puerto Rico and this is basically a thinly-veiled journal of his time as a writer at the Star. I also just now learned that Johnny Depp is set to yet-again play the lead character in a film-version of the book.
I think Thompson had a love-hate relationship with the island. Throughout various passages you can sense a sort of uneasiness, but there are moments when he relaxes and takes it all in, and it takes his breath away. From the book: “I bought a Times for forty cents and read about a blizzard in New York: ‘Merrit Parkway closed…BMT stalled four hours…snowplows in the streets..everyone late to work…’ I looked out at the bright Caribbean morning, green and lazy and full of sun, then I put the Times away.”
Hunter S. Thompson died in Colorado, February 20, 2005, and The San Juan Star , the primary English-language newspaper on the island closed on August 29, 2008.
And a song of the day (de jour/del dia) from BK:
rusted-root-free-my-soul
BK looks wasted!
My neighbor in LaPorte had the two thumb Hunter S Thompson logo on his Jimmy (no, a GMC): http://www.loonyboi.com/blog/archives/gonzo_bw-thumb.jpg
Hopefully the movie version of that book is better than Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (the movie).
Ha ha.. Uncle B.. Did you have one too many???
I was crying.
I was consoling him -lol.
Larry read the Rum Diary a year ago. He read it because Thompson died last year and there was a lot of publicity and it mentioned PR. Liked your bread and garden pics — our garden got zapped in a 21 degree low when we were in SB a few weeks ago. It’s been warmer since, but winter is coming!!
Sent you my most recent hike photos from this week, did almost 30 miles and am not even sore today. Was absolutely beautiful weather (but chilly in mornings). The hoodoos were near Lake Powell and near Escalante National Monument and the Buckskin Gulch, Wire Pass Slot canyons were near “the wave” a famous slot near there. We met a few European (Chech and Dutch) tourists and one San Francisco professional photographer during the trip.
Annie and Larry
Annie,
I’ll look for your pictures. Sounds like you’re having fun! We’re doing pretty good, getting ready for winter. We’re planning on going back to Puerto Rico this winter, so I’m sure we’ll have some crazy stories, but not like Hunter S. Thompson’s (I hope!).