home yet?

damnit i want to be home. i can hear the desert calling me.and my dog.
the road has been fantatic this summer.90 days of blissful wanderings,strange people and hard, gut busting laughing spazms.but still in all this,im exhausted and really miss my home,even being with family in buffalo is not quite like home although i did grow up here,it seems more like a distant shadow of a memory.always nice to the see the family though,they love me and i them.but only for a few days....then memories from H.S come back and other stupid childhood moments and i want to disappear back to my desert solitare.which i am doing in a few days. if the hitchhiking from green river goes as well as the last times i should arrive with the red rocks glowing off my face by wed.afternoon. and sink into the sand with a smile,my face soaking it up in that hard desert earth,and my dog frantically licking my face,nipping my beard and im sure a bout of not listening for my punishment of leaving her for so long. oh and beer and wine with my friends of course.
one more road trip left on this adventure and im done. leave for toronto with mike tonight,going to meet cs'r dani and faye,and i think tina from croatia will be there too. one last cs hoorah to close out this summers travels.ive met some of the most incredible friends from this last adventure.most surfers are good people and not the type to burn you with their cigs at night while you sleep.and these good people,im sure will be in my life till i take my last breath.
thanks to all of you who kept my smile on fire.and my heart and belly full. ill be back next year and we can do it all over again.