Indianapolis TO Denver

Getting out of Bloomington, Indiana was like the mountains which I have had to climb...LOL!!! One step at a time & a steady will to top-it-off! Watching for both the figurative grizzlies lumbering through the underbrush, AND listening for tell-tale rattles...A dear musical friend suggested a mutual (retired) friend would help by storing some books in boxes...my cartoon project books are saved thereby, plus various computer coding volumes...none-the-less, I ended up trashing things I would have liked to save...may they re-appear only when ready for completion...too many "windows" open leads to a very drafty headspace, with paperwork "blowing" chaotically about...LOL!!!

Up to the last moment, I derived no small amount of pleasure for giving certain items - even unread books - to deserving friends...the negativity that can build up, locked into self-hatred over missed opportunities and buying faster than one can ever learn to use or play with all the "toys" can sap a lot of creative energy needed to manifest new developments...happily, acting as a conduit for these things becoming the possessions of those you give them to is an elegant solution to the too-much-STUFF- to-pack-store-ship syndrome...

The local Yellow Cab service provides a ride from Bloomington, IN to the Indianapolis Amtrak Station/Bus Depot twice daily, so I got to Indy in plenty of time to board the Greyhound wesbound for Saint Louis and Denver THROUGH Kansas...I took the maximum weight allowance of 50 pounds each stuffed into 2 large luggage pieces, including a tent and ground cloth that is a veteran of two music events in 2005 and one - Strange Creek, outside Greenfield, Massachusetts - in 2006.

There was one unscheduled transfer of buses in Topeka, KS, since the "second section" from ST. Loo was "cut out" there...it was daylight by the time we could experience the spreading edge of modern yuppification eastward from Denver proper about the same time the front range of the Rockies came into view. Seeing those mountains crop up again, for the umpteenth time was only slightly LESS dramatic than the first time!

Denver to Kalispell, Montana