Last Wednesday, I took a trip to the beautiful reservation in Warm Springs, OR and the Kahneeta Casino and Resort. It was so quiet, and so beautiful, and I got to spend four whole hours there until I had to hit the road back to Portland. I've been through the desert on a horse with no name, but it felt good to be out of the rain. Susan Rice and I enjoyed rocking the Appaloosa Lounge, where they were pretty surprised that two women could both be funny.
This is "the gang" at Headers, the bar Dax Jordan and I performed at in Selma, OR on Saturday night. And when I say "The Gang", I don't mean the regulars- this was an actual motorbike gang. At Pop 1800, the birthplace of American Idol participant Kristy Lee Cook doesn't have a Taco Bell but it does have something called the Raw Claw, pictured in the back left here.
Close-up on some of the contents of the Raw Claw. My favorite was a DVD called "Who's The Bitch Now?" It serves as the town's main gambling opportunity and adult bookstore.I got a tip jar, I got a shot at the Raw Claw, I got a lot of attention from a drunk cryptozoologist who claimed to be a former member of Arizona metal band Surgical Steel. Dr. B, if this was you, drop a line!
In the morning, I used the most picturesque highschool track I had ever seen- the track used by the Grants Pass Cavemen, which is surrounded by white-capped mountains. Nobody here understands how incredible mountains are, or that I left Portland, drove through sun, snow, rain, and sleet in two hours.
