{"id":18857,"date":"2011-02-26T01:51:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T06:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18857\/tour-djoko\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T01:51:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T06:51:41","slug":"tour-djoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18857\/tour-djoko\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Tour d’Joko"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll say first off that I am posting this blog for my own personal archiving.\u00a0 Since MySpace doesn’t let one search for blogs anymore, I kinda have to re-create some stuff I want to save.\u00a0 Starting with this series, the very first Tour d’Joko, a car tip I took back in May of 2007.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m also posting these videos as a symptom of my continuing grief over the loss of my car.\u00a0 I know grief is a process, and I have hopefully entered the “acceptance” stage of that process.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 That happened tonight with an original Tour d’Joko video, so I thought that by celebrating that adventure one last time,<\/em> I can put it to bed in my mind.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It started off by getting ready to go to a poker part with online friends…
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I have an admission to make.\u00a0 I say in the video above that my car’s taillight “got smashed in the parking lot”.\u00a0 That was part of a lie I had told people online.\u00a0 I told people my car got randomly hit in the parking lot of my apartment complex.\u00a0 Um… No.\u00a0 This was back in my active alcoholic days.\u00a0 I was the one who was smashed.\u00a0 I backed my car into a pole and then lied about it to my friends.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Part Two included\u00a0 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?\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 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…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The next morning, I was very hungover, but still had fun<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHere is a POEM introducing the trip…
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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is my father telling a story about early computers, when he first started dating my mother, and a humorous misinterpretation…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I think 7 videos per blog is about as many as makes sense, even if I am just archiving here. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR THE NEXT SEVEN VIDS..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll say first off that I am posting this blog for my own personal archiving.\u00a0 Since MySpace doesn’t let one search for blogs anymore, I kinda have to re-create some stuff I want to save.\u00a0 Starting with this series, the very first Tour d’Joko, a car tip I took back in May of 2007. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[2084,81,2083],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","tag-first-edition","tag-joko","tag-tour-djoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}