Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches

After recalling beach camp-outs, rainy days and salmon feasts, Uncle Weed finds out commercial water usage is banned in Tofino and closing down for the tourist operations for the busy weekend ~ thusly he sets out on the trail from Half Moon Bay to Wickaninnish Bay to discover what’s up.

Includes riffs and spiels about local geography, traveler accommodations like zimmers, campgrounds, resorts, park concessionaires, permits, beach access, war memorial plaques, low impact tourism, priorities, RVs, parking tickets, municipal investment, float planes, coffee shops, boat docks and surf breaks, roaming bears, and shipwrecks in Florencia Bay. 

http://https://archive.org/download/RainforestDispatches3Tofino/Rainforest-Dispatches-3-tofino.mp3

Downcast podload: Tofino Dries up – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 3/9 19:44 – 17:27

Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc.

Music Theme: Bex – Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker – excerpts from Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: William Elliott Whitmore – Let the Rain Come in This is Part 3 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed

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Out on a trail, Uncle Weed shares a few lessons learned bearing witness to the blockade lines including thoughts about non-violence and pacifism, importance of respecting others, and the common desire for trees which the ecologists and workers unwittingly share.

Plus discourse on ways to replace economic gains from industrial logging with value-added finished products and alternative sources of pulp and fiber including hemp. 

http://https://archive.org/download/RainforestDispatches2Meditations/Rainforest-Dispatches-2-meditations.mp3

Downcast podload: Meditations from the Blockades – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 2/9 – 17:27

Participate Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc.

Music Theme: Bex – Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker – Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: Geoff Berner – Light Enough to Travel

Background This is Part 2 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices.

More Rainforest Dispatches series – Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56

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Arriving at a campground between the towns of Tofino and Ucluelet, Uncle Weed sets out to explore the west coast’s unique environment and offer discourse on natural resource-based and tourism-based economies starting with recollections from the noted logging protests in the early 1990s with comments about blockade logistics from early morning pick-up trucks rides to posting bail to jangling guitars. 

http://https://archive.org/download/RainforestDispatches1Musings/Rainforest-Dispatches-1-musings.mp3

Downcast podload: Musings from Clayoquot Sound – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 1/9 – 17:04

Music Theme: Bex – Lonesome Traveler Interlude: William Whitmore Elliott – Sometimes our dreams float like anchors Seque: Wm. Lenker – Guitar ramble

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Participate Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc.

Background This is Part 1 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices.

More Rainforest Dispatches series – Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56

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Introducing a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices.

Throughout this 9 part series, he wanders the region and examines the tension between fishing, logging and tourism industries then adds ideas on promoting the economy while protecting the environment along with spiels on clearcuts, salmon, camping espresso, user fees and flak jackets. 

http://https://archive.org/download/RainforestDispatches0Intro/Rainforest-Dispatches-0-Intro.mp3

Downcast podload: Observations and Soliloquies about Ecology and Economy – Rainforest Dispatches, an introduction – 6:55

Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc.

Music Theme: Bex – Lonesome (Lost) Traveler Seque: Wm. Lenker – Heaven Holds a Place Interlude: Geoff Berner – Light Enough to Travel This is Part 0 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed

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More Rainforest Dispatches series – Choogle On with Uncle Weed Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60 Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56

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From a forested pathway along the open Pacific between Tofino and Ucluelet, DaveO reads poetry from Gary Snyder’s Myths + Texts and Rip Rap plus essays about Wobblies, timber-jacks, logging camp culture, and giant trees from Beloved of the Sky then the words Siddhartha the Buddha spoke upon achieving enlightenment.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard60ForestsOceansWithoutEnd/Postcard-60-Forests-Oceans-Without-End.mp3

Strap on your boots for: Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard #60 (128k mp3, 15:07, 14MB)

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Dave O spiels forth about the exploration of rivers and lakes, the impetus for ventures and motivations for trade ~ augmented by autoharp songs by Larry Harper dreaming of floating the Colorado River down Glen Canyon ~ then freeverse – mostly from stumbling around Europa in 1992 – thinking about connectedness, lifespans of mysteries and reasons for peeking into the unknown with Trauben and Funboy providing guitar stylings whilst camping alongside Owl Creek in the British Columbia highlands.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard59OwlCreekLimnologyExploration/Postcard-59-Owl-Creek-Limnology-Exploration.mp3

Pull up a stump for Owl Creek Limnology and Exploration – Postcard #59 (192k mp3, 17:15, 14MB)

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By a campfire on Owl Creek, Dave reads an instructional guide to hitch-hiking about a November trip from South Carolina to Rhode Island with a series of tips including smiling, signs, watches, and going with the flow while Dan Funboy noodles on guitar.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard58ThreeDaysElevenDollarsNov1991/Postcard-58-Three-Days-Eleven-Dollars-Nov-1991.mp3

Stick your thumb out for: Three Days and Eleven Dollars, Nov. 1991 – Postcard #58 (128k mp3, 10:20,10MB)

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While summertime camping alongside Owl Creek and charging the recorder with the rays of the sun, Dave reads a short story written while on the road with ole dead Grandpa called “So the Legends Go” – a portrait of life one morning in Navajo Nation in 1987 – accompanied by adolescent observations and musings. Accompanied by Dan Funboy on guitar and solar-powered vaporizer.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard57ArizonaOleGramps/Postcard-57-Arizona-Ole-Gramps.mp3

Hit the road to Arizona with Ole Gramps – Postcard #57 (128k mp3, 9:40, 9MB)

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From Halfmoon Bay on Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, Dave gives it up for zen poet hero Gary Snyder and recounts beat history from The Old Ways and logging culture from Myths and Texts plus poems about hitchhiking, girls, baths, clear-cuts and the Buddha – then finishes with original freeverse poetry about the transient experience called “Railyards Passing By.”

https://archive.org/download/Postcard56HitchAThousandMilesToSeeAFriend/Postcard-56-Hitch-a-Thousand-Miles-to-See-a-Friend.mp3

Hit the road to Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 (128k mp3, 29:04, 26MB)

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