Uncle One Feather

I was fortunate enough to have a friend, Brooke, that was married in Santa Barbara on July 16. Five high school friends and I attended. The only bad part was that it took me 15 hours to get there, which was a crazy mess. It started out bad as soon as I arrived at XNA around 5am. Any time you hear the check-in clerk say, "That's funny...I wonder why the computer won't check your bag through to Santa Barbara?" you know you're in trouble. Turns out my flight from Denver to LAX was cancelled before I even got on the first plane. Long story short, I decided to go to Denver and get on standby to LAX. When I got there, I learned that there was a hail storm that damaged 20 aircraft in Denver the night before. You can probably guess how long the customer service line in Denver was. There were 72 people on standby and only 15 got on the plane. I was number 10! But that only got me to LAX. I then waited on standby to Santa Barbara and didn't make it. Turns out that my hero and friend Susannah just happened to be at LAX and was renting a car at the airport at that very moment! So I ended up hitching a ride with them in a convertible Camaro on the weekend of "Carmeggedon" and driving up the PCH, which was beautiful and amazing. So it all turned out better than okay.

Brooke & Porter

The wedding was at a rose farm. A rose farm is exactly what it sound like: rows and rows of roses. The weather was nice and cool the whole time we were there. Fifties at night and 60s during the day. Santa Barbara would be a great spot for a family vacation. The hotels are just across the street from the beach. The beach is all public and it's a huge park. You can rent bikes and ride all along the bike paths, play beach volleyball, or just lay around. Along the beach is where we met this fella...

Sarah, Missy, One Feather & Me

He calls himself One Feather and you absolutely MUST enlarge this picture and look at all the baubles, curios, knickknacks, and trinkets he has on his van: Princess Leia, the Enterprise, Smurfs, and every McDonald's toy ever made. He says he "Lives on Love" (and tips, of course) and only pulls his van out of storage three months out of the year. Apparently he travels Europe at least part of the other nine months.