Brownfield, breaks, burritos & binoculars

Rising Tide have been doing their thing in Austin for the last couple of weeks .. After many a long conference call the tour crew met in person for the first time. Everyone was so different to what I expected! Our beautiful roadshow bus developed major break issues already (hey, who need breaks) and has been in the shop 'till tomorrow' for a week now.. so we've been camped out on 'the brownfield' a reclaimed piece of land near the river that the Rhizome Collective have spent the last 2 years rescuing form being an illegal dump.

The Rhizome Collective run a space which as well as a home, sustainable living in action is also a base for many of the radical projects in Austin..





Including..

Austin Food Not Bombs ,









Inside Books

Bikes across Borders




Austin Indymedia


Somewhere along the line it was thought having the roadshow planning sessions, a big national meet up of all Rising Tide North America and the Earth First! organisers conference all over about a week in the same place would be a good use of time.

hmm.

The reality was a crazy whirl of meetings that I'm sure will be giving RT a bad name as meeting dorks.. the one that started around me still snoozing in my sleeping bag, which I ended up facilitating without getting up was when I realised it had all gone a bit far.. however great things were achieved.. the main thing sorted is less need for lots of RT meetings - yay!

So to the roadshow.. We have done our first two shows.. one at the fab Monkey Wrench Books




...and the other at the Radical Encuentro

Things got off to a good start, but it will be an ever evolving thing so watch this space..

Random adventure of the week: We really, really wanted to get clean... so a few of us went skinny-dipping to wash in the nearby, only slightly skanky, Colorado River ankle deep in mud with dubious items floating past in the water... only to see some creepy guy dog walking watching us through binoculars.. urg.

And.. I never want to eat another burritos. No offence to burritos.. but there can be to much of good thing.

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(Roadshow Geek)