Goin' Up the Country
Posted by Tolchinsky , Friday, April 30, 2010 6:52 PM
So, tomorrow morning I'm packing my bags and moving to Yosemite. I have the nebulous position of "Evening Activities Coordinator" at a lodge. I am expecting my job will entail lots of s'more making, ping pong tournaments, family-friendly movies, night hikes, and camp songs. My hours are from around sundown to midnight, and I get two days off every week. That leaves me free to swim and hike and bike and explore Yosemite, and I could not be more excited.
Books I'm bringing, many of which I should have read YEARS ago:
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test- Tom Wolfe
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
Naked Lunch- William S. Burroughs
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
Logicomix- Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer
American Splendor Anthology- Harvey Pekar
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
A Brief History of Time- Steven Hawking
Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead
The Hobbit and The LOTR Trilogy- J.R.R. Tolkien
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq- Thomas E. Ricks
The Complete Stories- Flannery O'Connor
A Journal of Ramblings Through The High Sierra of California- Joseph Le Conte
Collected Stories- Carson McCullers
and many many more that I think I'll have shipped to me since I am only packing one bag. I'm an idiot for packing this library, but I'm not going to have a stitch of cell reception, I'm an hour from the closest "town," and I have no car. So, books it is.
I made this blog partly so that I can keep in touch with people who have few ways of contacting me or knowing what's going on in my life, but mostly because I want to keep a log of what this "strange trip" in my life will be like. Expect lots of descriptions of the High Sierra, secret hikes, pictures of dilapidated cabins, funny guest stories, and writing about the Strawberry Music Festival.
Lodgingly,
ET
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