Oh, I see what you mean now Rosal.
It is indeed a long way to travel for a 3 day event, even when you stretch it out to 6!
It's funny because the reasons that I adored the festival can also be what turns other people off. A girl that I met very briefly at my hotel, and who I had promised to send information to, commented to me in an email that:
"as much as I'm convinced that a chlorophyll/sunlight/plant-based alkaline diet can not only prevent but cure so, so many of our health issues, I have to say the Raw Spirit Festival was a little much for me. I simply could not get into the whole hippy happy atmosphere."But, for me, it was the hippy happy atmosphere that I loved most of all. For me, it was like a 'coming home'.
Sedona is extremely beautiful, but I absolutely hear you on the 'desert thing'. I feel it at an energetic level when I am THAT far away from the ocean, and in fact one day I had to spend hours in a pool to bring myself into 'balance'. I just can't live away from the coast - I get jittery being away from water.
The "Safeway Experience" was probably a couple of things - it was just after the 3 day 'love fest'
and was something of a step into another reality, and also it was big and daunting. I find a lot of things in the US 'big and daunting'. I am rarely in supermarkets here, but when I am it is the same one, and I know the aisles that contain the few things that I buy. So I just got a bit overwhelmed, I suppose.
It didn't bode well that it took me a few attempts at various pronunciations to even have Zack understand what I was saying when I said "batteries". The Australian accent in some cases is difficult for others to understand, especially with regard to vowels.
I excitedly told a few people how I had managed to score 'seconds' on a phenomenal curried coconut soup, and each thought I said I was "sickened". I might need to have elocution lessons before my next trip.
Indeed!.....perhaps we shall see each other next year.
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