On the road with the highway child tribe...canada

A NEW THREAD for a new highway!

its been two and a half years since the highway child 8 returned to canada. the new bus ( below) is theh ighway child 9

fitted with a woodstove full kitchen bathroom fold up bunks hamoks, hardwood floors, decent stereo shag cielings......the pimpest of any of the tribe buses,

the highway child 9 is one of many buses in the highway child community.

in othre threads we have posted blogs about where we are what we are doing and what has happened in order to create build gather and leave on buses...

the rulles

no hoarding
everyone pitches in a donation among boarding the bus, on this highway..its 400
we have an elected treasurer, in this case tom, he has no power over the cash he holds it and is accountable for recording expendatures,
we all make 3 pieces of hemp or an equal cash earning a day
money you have of your own stays in your account on the bus we live off of what we make as a tribe

we have counsels to vote on destinations new tribe removing tribe and dailyt crap

no violence between tribe

we dont encourage inter tribe dating but we understand and value love happens....

I am drew, the founder of the tribe. I have been on most of the highway child buses, and captained several.

on this trip....im only on for the first week. Ive circled the continenet many times, Ive past the point where ....

Ive moved on!!!!

none the less Iam still active in the organisational rolles in the community.

I am encouraging the thc9 to post here often update where they are what is going on and share our adventures ...

if you want aboard. contact me and I will interview and then pass my opinion to tribe...they do what they want though, my say means less and less these days....FINALLY!!!

the tribe on thc 9 as of today

ME acting captain, gypsy, pirate drunk, con artsist filanderer...scoundral, philospher poet mystic, sell out whop lives in a house, wanderer, peace maker, trouble maker...
dreamer and wannabe revoloutionary!!

angie, young dreamer big fan of jack karouak, apart of the online community here for many years and has followed tribe for as long. her first trip.

tom, american, quiet yet bitchy, dreamer music lover analitcal and passive, treasurer of the tribe

joe, well hes my buddy wolfs brother who wolf recomended.....I dont know alot about him, but wolf has been a friend of the tribe for many years spent 9'11 with me tripping on shrooms in my 62 bus....well see

shelly
gypsy, wanderer, traveler, anarchist, peacemake and problem solver



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DEFINE YOUR OWN PATH!!!!!!
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oh yeah no drugs to be carried on the bus, smoke what you want off the bus but we do not under any circomstance ride dirty!!!!

peace love and happy motherfuckin highway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LONG LIVE THE HIGHWAY CHILD!!!!!@!!


can you tell im stoked about getting this bus on the road after 2 years of crap????


hahaha

peace

 

oh yeah enroute to the quebec rainbow gathering in 18 hrs....

 

in nappanee ont hme town to avril lavine....
haha, weve made a crap load of ash in the lastfew ays and weve needed it, blew a brake ine, and a power assist line...fixed the brake line pahed the power assist, but need to find an open shop for a high pressure coupling....

shold be in the rainbow n tw days...lin and the kids are aravaning behind the bus.....they shoudl be cought up in a fw hrs...

peace

 

so I left the gathering wed with linz and the kids, and Im back home now, the bus left last night and arrived back in deableau mistassini ( 81 km down the logging rd from the gathering) this morn. I guess joe left and gota ride back to hamilton I wasnt there when that happned and not sure why....he was a really good guy I didnt expect him to bail so soon.

angela and tom, are running it now, desperately needing some more tribe asap.

we got to the middle of nowhere on low funds, so they have to build fuel for the 7 hr drive back to trois rivers an hour north of montreal...theres not much in bettween...cept la touke..hahahah or in english "the hat"

I have faith in these kids, the time I spent on the bus they accomplished tons, and I didnt see any reason to doubt them on the road.

I left the bus in their hands......and I am thinking capable hands indeed.

so they will post here as they travel and grow, me.....Ill beback in highwaychild canada, building thc 10

peace

 

Left Mistassini thursday afternoon, just made it to Montreal. Going to Tamtams in the morning, then to Thunder Bay then BC as planned.......

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

Are you picking kids up in Thunder Bay, or just for a visit... what's going on there of all places? Good luck, Ang and Company. Bus looks nice.

 

well angie bailed in montreal, tom is alone trying desperatley to get fuel and get out of quebec, from what angela told me last night over the phone it was just too hard .........


so she left tom by himself to figure shit out......

not cool in my eyes, though I wasnt there.


people before you board a bus realise its not easy!!!!!!!
its fun but definatley not easy

 

lol, i see things are goin great as usual huh blinkin? gotta love how soft folks have become..

everyone thinks they know but in reality have no clue..

 

.........I left because you said you wanted the bus back. Why the hell would I work my ass off to get a bus OFF the road and back in your driveway? Doesn't make much sense to me...

Anyway, if you change your mind about letting us have the bus let me know.

peace

 

oh...... the plot thickens.. same shit different bus.. lol

ill just sit back an watch now..

 

angela.....

you left tom stranded in montreal, you were talking about leaving days before you did, I have a message on my machine with you and tom bickering and that was mentioned....

the day before you left I had to talk you out of leaving the bus in your own words....its too hard to get people and its too hard to get anything done with only two people , and I dont know if we can come up with insurance money , I think Im gonna get off and craigslist it to bc and couch surf.....


by the time our phone call ended you were going to stay on, head to chicago and go on phish tour, when I woke the next day I texted tom and asked where he was, in both your words the night before you told me you would drive threw the night and make it back to pick up the permanent insurance papers and book it to hit phish in chicago...

....still kinda confused on how you wree gonna do that financially???? tom said the night before you guys had money....now notta?????

but no instead....
you guys hit a canada post truck while the bus is insured in my name...
....freakin AWSOME!!@!!!!!!!

why were you in montreal at all??? I told you, warned you and tom it was difficult to drive threw those tiny ass streets, next to impossible to make any money.....not to mention the fact its filled with THE FRENCH!!!!!!!

but oh yeah, instead of taking my advise and taking the 200 bucks I had budgeted on my credit card to get out of mistassini you started your mouth, so I got up and left got into lindsays van and drove home. next I hear joe leaves, then you in montreal and my bus is in a bender...

I spoke to tom and though I am extremely displeased that my rates will go up, that Ive lost confidence in his driving skills......and the fact that there is only one kid on the freakin bus......

I gave him a week to get things together he said he has tribe lined up ( although three americans seems as if canadians cant get there heads out of their routine) ...so do I enroute to my land now, he has a plan and I gave him the opportunity to make it happen....

the same opportunity I gave you.

I was left once on a bus in new orleans, I had to figure shit out, build a hemp supply build tribe and keep going....I did it

tom wanted to give it a go....

I am all for kids making things happen.

as for you angela, ...after I was left stranded I made it a rule that people who would do that shit, are not can not be tribe, since they obviously care only about there own ass.

your not welcome on any of the tribe buses.

you could have at least helped him fill the tank before leaving him alone....

toms a dedicated kid. so far the only faith lost in him is in his driving skills, apart from that hes risen to every task Ive given him to get the bus going, he took over for you doing the treasury, and every cent was accounted for, at the gathering evrytime I turned around he was helping kitchens or helping kids build shelters....he flies a can like a mad man, listens before he squaks off...

yeah although I may have been upset when he called me telling me he hit a government truck.....

could be worse....could have beed a civi.......


good luck in your travells angela, like your hero said, '
I dont know where your goin, but you gotta get there fast!!!!!

 

hillbilly....
I was actually impressed at first in how these kids were doing, they were making bank money and really working together, they started to stand up to me instead of blindely following my orders they voted and made decisions as a group....
they were ready as I could make em in a week....so I left confident they would be ok...

soft....yeah, but with definate potential, I mean we all had too start somewhere man!!!

and this tom guy, yeah I was right ready to pull the bus off the road, but he wouldnt take no for an answer, kept wanting to make it work.....with nothing not even speaking the same language as others in quebec
folks like that who will do what it takes to keep it going and make shit work...man I cant speak highly enough of!!!

ive said since the get go on this bus, that no one has to listen too me....its smart if they take my advise in consideration....but nothing wrong with some righteous back talking!!!!! I like to encourage that shit....unless its excuses....I hate those.

dude took full responsibility, didnt appologise just stood up and spoke to me as he shoulda.



as for the same shit different bus....

hell its only the second week!!!!


hey we get a film crew out here again??????????????????


peace

 

what ever happened to that documentary anyway?? did it ever get made? is there somewhere i can see it?

 

Ive gotten three sample trailers, Ive been told often that its almost done, and Im bieng sent a disk 75% done

havnt gotten that disk yet.....
I know the guys busy...but 3 years man???????

I could probally get you a link for the trailers though...but not from this computer, Im working nights and my company put me up in a hotel...hehehe with free internet...but limited access....

ill get back to ya on that one

 

I filled 40 bucks worth of gas before i left. I said i would meet up with him on the way because i didn't want to go back to wainfleet to your place, you made clear enough how much i annoy you. You don't have the full story and that's fine...i have nothing to prove to you although i do think i have a place on any of the buses, i haven't done anything wrong.

anyway, whatever i'll talk to tom later today

peace

 

AND i filled the bus with a shit load of food..........

You're making this look like a huge episode. It was nothing like you're describing, you weren't there.....We're still both in montreal and i do plan on getting back on as long as you can stop trying to control what goes on on the bus...you're not on!! No offense...let us walk our own path with this bus.....you're creating drama!!

love ya...........you know it
enough of this crap

 

............the drama does attract people though doesn't it......
we need a shot of the back of the bus....
come ride!!!
LOL

 

Also you're making it seem like there's all this drama between Tom and I.........

There's actually none of it!! I've spoken to him multiple times since yesterday making sure all is well, just to chat, for updates... we get along fine........i didn't leave him stranded stop that bullshit!!

 

I only know what Ive been told......
4 postes with excuses....crap??

I only know what I am told. I know my bus has been involved in a bender and my rates have gone up.

ive said it about the bus with the last crew, you dont want to take my direction thats fine, you dont want to take my direction and it ends up costing ME money ....then pay me for what I put into the bus,
im out in insurance rates alone 5100 over the next 3 years, I made it very clear that if you guys were in an accident the trip was over before you guys left!!!!!

im not pulling the bus, you do annoy me, and you have caused me problems that you will never know. though I dont think you have ever done anything purpously, ....
and Ive told you that.

arguing with me at the rainbow about going to montreal....

if you had listend to me, the bus would have been past thunderbay by now......and I wouldnt be out over 5 grand.

the bus does need to come back to wainfleet no matter what we NEED to change insurance and chnage the regestration. I am not giving up my bus,that would be retarded , I am allowing kids to travel and make there dreams a reality but we do have to set it up so that if you guys fuck up AGAIN that it will not fuck up my life I have built here.

people need to learn lessons for themselves, I agree and understand that and to a large degree I encourage it. but I cant allow you guys to learn your lessons at my expense....I AM NOT THAT NICE OF A GUY and do not try to come accross like I am.

the bus NEEDS to be maintained, the bus needs to stay accident free.
apart from just tom, there are others in later times that will ride this bus, and its not fair that it gets fucked because you kids need to learn a lesson.

and its not fair if I get fucked letting you.


you dont want myhands in what goes on, then pay me 3 grand for my share and do what you will.

this is similar to the issues some kids had with me the last tour....

but WTF does anyone expect I am not buddah, I have bills I have responsibilities, Im not fan of babylon, but IM stuck living in it now.

Im not making fuck at all on highwaychild, it costs me has cost me EVERYTHING
yet I still put buses on the road andI still give kids a chance to make there dreams real....


so bitch away ride or dont ....I can say no matter what that kids who ride the highway child even if they hate my ass, their lives are better because of it....


toms call if your welcome on the bus, your right I dont know the entire situation....I was too distracted bythe fact THAT IM OUT 5100$ to ask about why you left....it all seemed perfectly clear why from what Ive previously posted.

 

at the end of the day,. toms running the bus alone in montreal.

If you cared at all about the bus or its future you would have gotten off after tom was ready to roll.

now your talking about skipping in all the work, sitting at your moms, eating big meals and lounging on the couch...while toms busting his nuts.....

and you want to get back on without doing shit???

thats not the way things work...we all suffer together work together and eat together....

enjoy your couch and your jack kiarouak novels