18 October 1997

Today Wende and I had major big fun at the Westheimer Street Festival, a semi-annual gathering of booths, street performers, bands and crowds of people dressed to be noticed.

Wende and I went on skates, of course. The crowd is too thick to do much people surfing, so I did a bit of car surfing down on one end where traffic is all slow and crunchy where they have to exuse themselves off Westheimer.

The coolest things I saw:

• A group of three youth, including Andrew L who used to attend the youth group at my church, drumming excellently like mad on hand drums. They drummed for like 20 minutes, with enough excellence and variety to hold a stable crowd the entire time.
• Two people from Zendik Farm a tribal community on 300 acres near Austin. (When I embark on my roadtrip, I will definitely spend some time there.)

There was no "skater thing." Last time the Urban Animals had a joust, and the time before that a group sponsored a street course of ramps and rails and stuff on which good skaters could compete.

I still had fun car surfing a bit.

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