Friday, August 2, 2013

Adventure in Redding land

Started to go crazy nursing a twisted and probably fractured ankle I decided to head off into the mystical land of redding. Redding is sort of a fucked up little meth village with a spiraling unemployment problem. Anyways, it boasts a brand new 18 hole course called edgewater, which is exactly where you'd think it would be....on the edge of water. This is the project of Dan Adams, a local plummer and avid disc golfer. The whole area was kind of a refuse for the homeless, but the kind of homeless that rapes kids and slam meth or any other kind of drug up their arms like its going out of fashion. Needless to say, the course was sorely needed. I was only able to play for a little bit until my ankle swelled back up to the size of a tennis ball. So far, there are dirt tees with real baskets. It plays well with a good variety of distance and use of shots. There is lots of shade the course weaves in and out of a trail by the Sacramento river.(Course is located behind Raleys by the cypress bridge) After playing I decided to hitch hike back up to Shingletown and got a ride from just about the nicest little family I've met on my journeys so far. Took me all the way to my door and they were rewarded with fresh eggs, figs, apples, and some green. You tend to find the real in people anytime your on the road. Its a beautiful thing and makes one wonder if humanity is really hopeless or just in hiding...
10 things I learned from hitchhiking and playing edgewater
1. Edgewater was not made for kids
2. This is a disc golf course, not a motha fuckin' playground- Samuel Jackson
(He was there)
3. Playing on a fracture is like putting your dick and balls through a meatgrinder
(Without all the delicious meat)
4. When girls give you a weird look for hitchhiking its not because they are creeped
out by... you're gimp leg, pube beard, and foul odor. Its because they secretly want to have wrong sex with a hitchhiker.
5. People like to say "Hey Limpy" while your limping
6. I wish I could rewind time and murder the person that said that
7. Driving recklessly onto an onramp shrivel your penis
8. I shrivel your penis
9. I forgot how much fun drinking beer, laughing at people, and getting picked
up by the nicest people in the world is.
10.Life is good, and edgewater was great!