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              Six months in Mexico

these notes will one day be expanded  -  ¡Mañana!

The longest trip away I ever did was with Nelly, first to Paris in the summer of 1970,  then to the USA and Mexico.

Got to NY Oct 26th 1970, by December we were in Palo Alto.

Birthday in February 1971 @ Room 295 International Hotel  848 Kearny St  San Francisco Calif.   Selling jewellery.

We made all this stuff ourselves fuzzy photo - rings in the box I made for display...

  January 19th 1972 Nelly and I leave Bolinas.

nelly grinning.jpg (9893 bytes)Jan 27th Big Sur Jan 30th San Diego 

Palo Alto; Santa Cruz; Santa Barbara; total lunar eclipse 2.30am Jan 30th San Diego; Ocotillo; Yuma; Tucson; Canon del Rio; Rodeo Las Cruces; El Paso;  March-May 72 Austin      

Into Mexico with only a little money and a lot of talent and hope, crossing at  Nuevo Laredo.     

that ancient rucksack did my lower back in! Click to see Nelly a little closer up...
I really WAS wearing something, I swear....Mazatlan Beach Nelly with pulque and phrasebook......

April? Torreon Durango Mazatlan Copala Magdalena Amatitlan Guadalajara Zamora Moralia Toluca Mexico City La Marquesa Tenango Mexicalcingo Capulhuac Cuernavaca Taxco Cuernavaca Tepoztlan Coatla Tula Matamoros Oaxaca San Bartolo Coyotopec Mitla Veracruz Mexico City Nuevo Laredo     

 Aug/Sept? Austin St Louis Oxford Ohio New York (by 31st August we were in NY at Andy Holiner's - having been ripped off by a bucket shop airline)--- eventually back to Europe.

Shortly after I got back to London, after two years away - I saw amagiccircus.jpg (26574 bytes) group which changed all my future plans. Le Grand Magic Circus at the Roundhouse. I gate-crashed their gig on New Year's Eve, and got invited onto the stage - got so excited that I thought it would last....

 

What happened next?