“I was an outsider before I was a traveler; I was a traveler before I was a writer; I think one led to the other.”
Sober Kerouac and the Tea Muses: A Vancouver Diary
I tell Peggy I’m drinking the hell out of pu’erh these days. It connects me to the earth. And Tang Dynasty sages. I imagine living as a hermit 1000 years ago in some remote cave somewhere, uninhibited by tech workers, Virtual Reality sycophants, people on the bulletproof coffee bandwagon, or any of the usual bullshit in Silicon Valley.