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This is the story of Harrod Blank's West Coast Caravan to Houston. Though I wrote it just after returning home in April of 1995, the sensations and spirit, the characters and magical moments of that journey remain so vibrant in my otherwise cloudy memory that it could have been yesterday. |
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JUICE Magazine out of Berkeley had promised me $500 for the story, but failed to ever publish it. On its first draft, it totaled 40 pages of mad road ramblings. Crunched down several times since for several different media, the story got shorter and more stilted with every editing and never did see publication. Well, hooray for the Web. This is the tale as it was meant to be told, the whole truth, all versions thereof, with plenty of style and imagination mixed in. |
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More than your average roadtrip, the 1995 West Coast Caravan will, I believe, go down in history as the best, the first of its kind, the most magical and anecdotal of caravans in what will no doubt become a blending trend in the heretofore separate worlds of art and the automobile. The players, the cars, the melding of minds, the filming, the weather, the wonder, and in the case of my then-topless ride, the wind. (I've since built a roof.) |
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As a final introductory note, the 1995 Caravan came at a strange time for me. I was deeply into the work of my first novel PRIVATE, spending ten or twelve hours a day in a fictional world of my creation. This, together with my novel's use of parallel world theory, undoubtedly lent my experience of the caravan a special other-worldly glow, like I was never very sure that any of it was real! And if it was, did the so-called normal world still exist outside our Art Car realm? With all that in mind, I encourage you to read the ensuing tale not as yesterday's news but as something very real and alive and quite possibly happening right now in some parallel Art Car world, circa 1995. Enjoy! |
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