My brother John Noel Ciacchi III is coming to visit me here in the Pacific Northwest. J.J. as I affectionately call him, has never been to visit me in my home since I left North Ridgeville,Ohio in 1980. He came to see me graduate from Stephens College Columbia, MO in 1983 when he was 17 and I was 21. All of our visiting has been confined to the few times every two years or so when I return to North Ridgeville for weddings and funerals. I have been hoping to show him the beauty, splendor and freakiness of Cascadia ever since I fell in love with it after moving to Eugene in 1989. So I have put together a travel itinerary designed to immerse him in all the things I love about my life here.
I am sending this out to all my friends and LLR fans to let you know that you are free to join us at any or all of these events. I am especially interested in finding others who wish to stay at the Kalalaloch Lodge on the Olympic Peninsula and hiking the Hoh rainforest with him on Wed March 25th & Thursday March 26th. I would LOVE to make this a bigger group experience and hope to find others whose hiking ability matches J.J.’s better than mine. So come along, let’s enjoy this beautiful amazing place we live and show an Ohio native why we love it here.
Living & Loving in Cascadia Tour March 15-28th
Events throughout Portland, Olympic Peninsula and Seattle
Wed March 18th
George Clinton & Parlament funcadelic at Crystal Ballroom Doors at 8 music at 9pm
http://www.crystalballroompdx.com/events/121198-George-Clinton-Parliament-Funkadelic
Thurs March 19
“Rewilding for Human Flourishing” with Patricia Hasbach
5-8pm Lewis & Clark College, South Chapel, Graduate Campus
https://graduate.lclark.edu/live/events/32567-rewilding-for-human-flourishing
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Rewilding for Human Flourishing Patricia Hasbach, Ph.D. As a species, we came of age in a natural world far wilder than today, and most of that need for wildness still exists within us. This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to reflect on a wild experience in their own lives, and then relate that experience to the concept of rewilding. Attendees will explore how the impact of direct interaction with wild nature can influence the therapeutic process, educational experiences, and conservation initiatives. $30, includes 3 CEUs or PDUs. |
Monday March 23rd
Traveling Historic HWY 30 visiting waterfalls and exploring the Columbia Gorge (Bridge of the Gods, Hood River)
Visit to Windward & Herland Natural Burial Forest
Tuesday March 24th
Olympia, Wa visit Benjamin Pixie: purveyor of honeys, medicines and wildness! Possibly tour local sites and LLR fans, Staying overnight in a farmstead in Shelton, WA
Wed March 25-Friday March 27th
Kalaloch Lodge www.thekalalochlodge.com
Book a room at this amazing lodge (cabins $109-299 per night) and hike for a few days in the Hoh Rainforest or along the beach. Visit the Makah 1st Nations museum at Neah Bay.
Sat March 28th
Take Charles Eisenstein’s new webinar class with us (details in the media stream) and then visit Port Angeles and Port Townsend before ending up in Seattle!
On Saturday or Sunday Alena Braud and Mark Welch who will have traveled with us since Olympia will be headed back to Portland. J.J. and I will then decide if he is going back to Ohio or going to stay a few days with me in Seattle. While in Seattle I will spend time with Brendan, Christina and Avery; Nekole Shapiro and her family and I am open to seeing clients, beloveds and Aphrodite Priestesses who contact me. During the following weekend (April 3-5th) I hope to spend time with Jessa in Bremerton and go on to spend some time with Kathy McKeever in Bellingham. More shall be revealed soon. I trust Aphrodite to guide me to make the right choices.