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Ridin' these desert highways...Sonoran to the Mohave...One of my favorite drives. 

My shadow dances better than me.

the grocery bag

After having a good meal, my comrade and I are walking outside towards the car when we spot a man walking while a white plastic grocery bag blows in the wind alongside him...as if purposely following and annoying the man. We chuckle over this and continue towards the car until we notice that the bag is still drifting with the man. Suddenly the man kicks at the bag and misses it. We crackle up with laughter and watch as the wind blows the bag up into the air. Comrade says "That bag was like fuck this I'm out of here." By this time we've been in the parking lot at least ten minutes watching the bag expecting it to come down but it only goes higher and higher into the sky. Comrade notices a plane and asks me if it's flying straight up into the air instead of sideways. The ridiculousness of that question added to my already uncontrollable laughter over the bag. By then, almost an hour had passed and we were still watching the bag which was now almost out of view from being blown so high up into the sky. It was a crazy, I'd never seen a plastic grocery bag do such a thing. That bag was impressive. I don't believe the man that the bag followed ever even realized what the bag did after harassing him. If it had come back down I would have kept it forever but instead it kept elevating higher and higher until out of view like a balloon.

After live music in downtown Phoenix I'm standing by the stage slightly listening to a group of beat boxers and drummers gathered on a porch making music. The beats stop and shortly after one of the guys turns around and asks me if I know a girl named Sabrina. I answer "Yes, I know her pretty well actually". He then tells me that he recognized me from a description that she'd given of me a while ago. I was like whoa that's cool.

A tad later that evening I'm standing in the line for the bathroom when the dude in front of me turns around and asks "Is your name Belanger?" I recognize him [Shane] right after he asks. We'd been friends on facebook for a few months but had never met in person.