Rainbow Revisited

A few months ago, I blogged about an annual gathering in a nation forest called Rainbow Gathering. In the aforementioned post, I glorified it. I was recently thinking about it because I have two friends that plan on spending the greater part of their summer at this place. At first, it seemed really cool. You know, hippie's wet dream. But, after a little speculation and thought, I realized the heavy amount of risk involved. First, lets review the pros:

1) Living self-sufficiently (kinda, not quite sure how far exactly how far they take it, but refer to the last post.)

2) Inappropriate bonding (I guess this could be pro, con, or what the hell)

3) Living with hippies, who tend to be some of the kindest people on the planet

4) Living in nature, which is pretty damn cool

5) It's free. No money involved here, just bring what you got and trade it for stuff.


While that covers most of the bases, let's look at the cons:

1) You could get injured, and although they probably have free health care, it probably sucks. In fact, a guy died because the health care was so bad

2) As a result of your injured foot becoming infected due to lack of antibiotics, it will have to amputated. Bummer, man.

3) A friend of mine said one of his friends went to rainbow gathering. When he came back, he was crazy. There are crazy amounts of powerful drugs at rainbow, and if you don't have any kind of mental meter as to what to do and what not to do you could be S.O.L.

I could probably keep going, but you get the point: It's not all happy, and it's not all fun 'n' games. People die, people get beaten.

Be safe.