Journal for the entire trip: a look back
I've been working way to hard. After weeks here and writing report after report, this is the first time i've sat down to write. So many thing have happened,seeing deer killed just outside of cities. The lectures on everything have gotten real old real fast. Iron is the only metal that can be found except for a little aluminum and some other metals like it. Vehicals still have rubber tires, cavities are stil filled with sliver, concrete is still used to a limited degree. People here are way to emotional. I saw a fight between a coulpe in the hallway and it looked like they were going to kill each other and then they broke down in each others arms.This kind of act is not uncommon. Work and play are intermixed. This entire nation seems to be self suffiecient. Natural "time" is more often kept than using a watch. The hotel was okay for awhile then it got boring, a reports co-op down by the water has taken me in, there good people and the've made me feel at home. We talk about a varitey of topics in a comfortable settting. I was talking to a guy and said "doesn't this stable state get borning after a while?". The guy I was talking to is kind of a wander, and hes worked for a bunch of papers all over. Women out here have been a totally different game, its been a couple of day and I still havn't gotten laid yet, these women are so werid. Some rare good news is that no bodycares that i'm an american.

I met at a bar with some opposition guys, they were desparate to get me to get them help from washinton. They at least wanted to improve the economic system. They were also freaked out about war with the US, they know what we did to vietnam and now to brazil, and they really don't want it to happen. They also said that the nukes in NYC and DC might be bluffs. They arn't really "progressives" and they say that the "progressives" are almost as bad as the survivalist. They told me that they were willing to fight, something most ecotopians don't seem ready or able to do. Most of them were productive country club types in there 50's or young, hot head, resentful, and dangerious.

A woman met me at the train station to me to the forest camp, i assumed that she was some pr rep but as it turn out she work in the camp, Shes a great scandinvian girl or so i would guess (her names jenny), exterme curvs, redish brown hair, and she had the bluest eyes ever (a least i think thats what color it is) and a little shorter than me. she said something about this being her home as we walked to the camp that basically a few shacks. The people asked me a bunch of questons including what my favorit tree was i responded red cedar or alder, that sure started something. As they were asking the questons i looked them in the eye and gave a short answer to keep up with all of them. Ecotopians have a rediculuss policy about working in forestry camps when you need wood. They where shocked to learn that i barley stayed with my wife and kids and that my favorit activity was work.