Road Trip Juicy - Part 2

A little later in July, the Road Trip juiciness continued ... (see previous blog for part 1)

Friends of ours made a documentary about the kind of spiritual journeys Ted and I used to lead down to Teotihuacan, Mexico. (Did you know we did that? ... a long, unconventional story ...) The movie was premiered at the Topanga Film Festival last month, and since Lee (friend and filmmaker) and his family (our adopted Hanai* girls) were going to be coming there from Nashville, we bee-lined it down to Topanga. A Trip to Topanga wouldn't be complete without the running narrative of our friend Frank, who hopped in the back seat as we left Santa Rosa, and entertained us with story after story all the way down.

The film got a lot of interest and great feedback. If ya wanna see the trailer go to:   http://www.dreamingheaventhemovie.com/
And if you want to check out one of the other films we just LOVED, check out Jonas Elrod's journey into other-worldliness ... it's true y'all ...  http://wakeupthefilm.com/

So here we are outside of the theatre ... Above, left to right: Frank (he's a leader in the film), cousin Shelley (aDORE her), Peggy, Gini (she's a leader in the film too), good friend Colleen (she was in the film) and Tylor (Mee's nephew, our Hanai* nephew, and no he's not in the film) walking in the background.

Above: Lee narrating the morning films.

Above: Mee with Mister-Swims-With-Dolphins, and friend. 

This is Topanga after all ...

Above: Mee aka Princess Know It All.

If you haven't already checked out her blog, do it here ... http://princessknowitall.com/

The trip was quick, but the best hit of oxytocin ever! (Oxytocin = a chemical in the brain connected to feelings of love. Science is amazing isn't it?). We got to "love up" lots of people we knew (thank you Rita, Ed, Gae and David), put our toes in the Southern Cali Pacific ocean, and soothe our periodic yearnings for our Hanai* family, great friends, and that wonderful, anything-goes L.A. attitude. Yeh, Randy Newman had it right, "We love L.A.!"


(Oh and hey ... yes, I'm red-faced ... and I'm sure this is not necessary, well I hope it's not, but I feel compelled to apologize to so many of you down there that we would have loved to have seen. We slipped in and out like the stealth bomber, and trust you understand about the limited timeframe around a specific event.) 


*And hey again ... if you wanna know who and what our Hanai family is, check out our last year's blog entry: http://bubbatbone.blogspot.com/2010/11/hanai-halloween.html)


Oh, and stay tuned. There is a final Part 3 of our July journeys, comin' up ... xoxo