The First Tour d’Joko
I’ll say first off that I am posting this blog for my own personal archiving. Since MySpace doesn’t let one search for blogs anymore, I kinda have to re-create some stuff I want to save. Starting with this series, the very first Tour d’Joko, a car tip I took back in May of 2007.
I’m also posting these videos as a symptom of my continuing grief over the loss of my car. I know grief is a process, and I have hopefully entered the “acceptance” stage of that process. Whenever I post a new video on YouTube, however, invariably I get “related videos” that show up from my past and these remind me of these days of freedom and adventure that I long for to this day. That happened tonight with an original Tour d’Joko video, so I thought that by celebrating that adventure one last time, I can put it to bed in my mind.
It started off by getting ready to go to a poker part with online friends…
I have an admission to make. I say in the video above that my car’s taillight “got smashed in the parking lot”. That was part of a lie I had told people online. I told people my car got randomly hit in the parking lot of my apartment complex. Um… No. This was back in my active alcoholic days. I was the one who was smashed. I backed my car into a pole and then lied about it to my friends.
Part Two included highlights of arriving at the Poker Tournament itself, scenes from the game, me meeting “Damn Girl”, a big time MySpace celebrity back in 2007, and who WON the poker tournament? Yeah. Me. The victory plaque I won at the end of the video, there is another long story as to why I still have that plaque hanging on my wall to this day…
The next morning, I was very hungover, but still had fun
Here is a POEM introducing the trip…
Part #5 of the adventure is one my favorite videos of all time. I drove from Sacramento down to the Santa Cruz Mountains. It features my old (now gone) dog, Sarah, my parents, a story about me and a Sock Monkey… and a monologue from a face on a tree.
Here is my father telling a story about early computers, when he first started dating my mother, and a humorous misinterpretation…
IN PArt 7, I go from Los Gatos to Modesto, visiting the SITE of my old old house, which got destroyed in 1991 to put in a new freeway.
I think 7 videos per blog is about as many as makes sense, even if I am just archiving here.
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