This Just in....

DreamFirstBorn, Jew has been in Arkansas for the past 4 days and is heading west towards Oaklahoma on his continuing effort to walk from NY to CA. We are expecting to hear from him sometime today or first thing in the morning. We last herd from him via facebook in which he stated that he has been without a phone signal for the past 4 days. We looked up his location somewhere outside of Batesville, Ar and it shows that it is a very rual area. We look forward to hearing from him soon. Since the last thread has been closed, we here at The DownLoad Society will continue with his journey here.

stay tuned for more info....


-HRH Gregory Alive,
within this loveletter

This just in....

A message from DreamFirstBorn, Jew sent to us yesterday.


"So i have been in Arkansas for the past week now. I have been staying with a family, The Smiths, for the past few days and i was going to hit the road today but they wouldn't let me leave until i had my weekly deposit on my account. so i ended up staying an extra day. This is one of the most amazing family's i have ever met. I can't wait to tell you about them... Lots of photos.

i will contact you as soon as i am on the road again.

DreamFirstBorn, Jew"


-HRH Gregory Alive
within this loveletter

loveletter said:

HOPE YOU ARE GOOD!! IM ROOTIN FOR YOU!!!!!
Call a brutha!

TEXAS here you come!!

This just in...

we have herd from DreamFirstBorn, Jew and he will be entering Texas today sometime. He has been in the state of Arkansas and was due to head west to Oaklahoma City but had a change of route and is entering Texas through Texarkana. He says that he is fine, well and has met up with some really cool and interesting people in Arkansas. He says one of the high lights of Arkansas was opening day for dear season. we have just recieved some of the photos and videos and we are waiting for him to send us the clearence to post them.

there will be a parental advisory for some of the content.

prepare for the download.

Stay tuned...


-HRH Gregory Alive,
within this loveletter

Hi everyone... i just got to texas and i have a few moments on a computer. Its been awhile since i had a chance to log in and tell you what i have been up to.
I got into Arkansas leaving Branson, Mo walking south. I got to Harrison and then got in touch with an old friend of mines from California who now lives in Arkansas with his family. I then back tracked about 200 miles to meet up with him from Harrison to Sulfer Rock, just outside of Batesville, Ar. I had an amazing time there and it was really good to see friends whom i consider family. I have alot of history with them as we go way back.

Here are some photos of the Family....


Shannon the Boy


Shannon the Girl


Tammy and her friend Jamie (Peace signs)


Shannon (the 3rd)


Sherrie


Grant


Lance


Skyla


Leslie


Meleah


Ashe Lynn ( I help deliver her when she was born)


Noah

and Baby



My time is now up on this dream machine so i will write of my adventures in Arkansas during my "Journey of a Life Time" experience.


p.s. Here is the second painting in the PaperCrayons "A Journey of a Life Time" series 2009




stay tuned.....


-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a life time

Oh my god you are having the time of your life man. Wish I could have been part of the set!

This just in from DreamFirstBorn, Jew....


these are some of the videos that were taken while he was in Arkansas.
look for photos...

p.s. The Deer Slaughter video comes with at Parental Advisory Notice

anna


arriving at a high school football game.


Leslie


Shannon and Tammy


Tammy


more videos to come...

-HRH Gregory Alive @ The DownLoad Society
within this loveletter

Ok here is the video of the Deer slaughter, followed by a cooking video by Tammy in Arkansas.


reminder Parental Advisory





this video was captured during opening day of Deer Season in Arkansas and the video is a documentation of what the process is for preparing a deer for consumption. there is a photo essay of the process on DreamFirstBorn, Jew facebook page that goes more into detail documenting from the time it is killed to the time it makes it to the plate for supper.

and this video is a cooking video of Creamy Mac & Cheese as prepared by Tammy.




download while u are still free

-HRH Gregory Alive @ The DownLoad Society
within this loveletter.


p.s. DreamFirstBorn, Jew will be on prince.org tonight to catch up on his journal so if you have questions now is the best time to ask.

Hi All...

so lets see where should i start. well for starters i am just outside Dallas. I have met up with Yomama, who is a fellow orger here. He is the second prince.orger i have met face to face since i have been on this trip. I must say there are some really incredible orgers here. Jason Dodson was the first and he and his family were just the best host ever. I can't even say enough great things about Yomama. He is the hardest working person i have ever met. He is kinda and generous and i feel very lucky to have met him face to face. I am generally very greatful when i meet up with my various host, for the most part its because they welcome me into there homes and treat me with such kindness. Its very eye opening to how many truely caring people there are in this country and not just the people who host me while i am in there town or city. There have been so many people i have met that have helped me out along the way. Even the little things like conversation. There are times when i am walking for 6-8 hours and not have any human interaction at all. You would believe how great it is when you come across someone and they just want to talk to you. I mean i know i am in a very "special" circumstance, but when i met someone who is just generally interested in talking to me and finding out a little bit about me its very comforting. It makes me feel very human and its a good feeling.

I met this guy awhile back who had just broken up with his girlfriend. He had moved from Chicago, IL to Hope, Ar to be with her and his daughter. He had been with them for about 2 months and then out of the blue she told him that she didn't want to be with him any more and he had to move out just like that. I had met him while on a rest break. He said he had been walking around for a couple of days in a daze and didn't know what to do and where to go. He didn't have any money so i have him the 2 dollars i had and some cigarettes and we just talked for about an hour or so.

He told me he was a writer and he was writing a book about the laws of attraction and what it ment to him. It was very interesting and it made me think how we had been lead together for that little time we spent talking. He was really sad and at one point he started to cry a little because he said it had been a very long time since he had spoken to someone who understood where he was coming from. I did understand his ideas, i understood his heart ache, and i understood his confusion, not knowing what to do or where to go. He asked me what i would do if i was in his position... i told him i would go and sit on the lawn at Paisley Park and have a conversation with God. He asked me why there? and i told him that for me it was a place where it was the most silent to me, a place with the least distractions and it was a place where i could hear Gods voice the best. then he asked me where Paisley Park was... i told him. Chanhassen, but he didn't have to go there because that place was inside everyone all he had to do is sit in silence and listen for directions. He asked me if i had been there recently. I told him it had been awhile since i sat on the lawn, but i have been walking the grounds of Paisley Park for a couple of months now and as soon as i said that to him... I had a realization... The world is Paisley Park and no matter where i was i was walking along the trails of Paisley Park. Its, the park, is hugh and its quite beautiful, stunning, vibrant. The view of the sun rises are Extrodinary and the sunsets are out of this world and there are many people who reside here. People who are kind, loving, beautiful, of every raise and breed and the people of Paisley Park are all children of the most high, and we are all family, and we do what we can to make every experience we have an experience that is of God, our father.

i have come to notice that we all have love inside of us and the thing we want most is to share that love and have others share there love with us, because wit h love all things are possible. There is nothing we can not accomplish. There are no rules because love is the only way and when you realize that you become love and love shines inside of you, and outside of you and all around you. Others will see it and become apart of it and you grow into this... i can't even find the words to translate the feeling, being, existance of love.

when i think of Prince singing about being Around the world in a day it makes me think of this journey and walking across America for me and how it is just 5 seconds of time in a life time that will last forever and ever and ever.

I have been thinking of how this experience is "changing" me into someone new and for while i was kinda afraid that the person i was changing into might not like the person whom i was before, but then i had this thought.. and that thought was what if this person that i am becoming, loves the person that i was so much that the two become one... kinda like a marriage. hmmmm. i have no regrets because in the whole moment of it ALL, all being life, It was, is, and will be Beautiful.... is that God?

writing this just now opened up a question to me...

when does the son become the father? when does the creation become the creator
in the circle of life.

hmmmmm.

i know some part of you may feel what i am saying, and those of you who do know what it means when it is said that Paisley Park is in your heart.

Put the world in your heart and love your neighbor and see just how beautiful God's plan really is...

oh well... more pictures and videos coming soon.

I love u in me.

-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a life time
[Edited 11/17/09 19:50pm]

special thanks to Butterfli25


-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a lifetime

these are two of my favorite pictures taken here in Texas.

this is Jayden and he just got his name on the wall for donating a dollar to the fireman's fund.



this is Shai and she is showing me her favorite jelly



I have stayed with several families so far during this experience and i must say i love spending time with children.

In New York i never really get to be around kids. None of my friends have kids and i just don't live the life style that has kids around. I'm up late, hang out in bars and clubs. You know the things that kids just are not apart of. So when i get to spend time with kids its an experience i really enjoy. They are just so honest, not jaded, they don't judge, and they are just so fully of life and energy and they don't make me feel like there is something wrong with me.

-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a life time.
[Edited 11/18/09 20:01pm]

dreamfirstborn said:

SHE IS SO CUTE with the Jelly!!

dreamfirstborn said:

Awwwww! Thats so sweet! Glad you're getting to experience this

thanks PaisleyPark4 and ThreadCula for taking the time to read up and comment on this Journey of a life time... it gives me all the more reason to keep writing about the experience.

as for writing here is a snippet of an article i am writing in regards to my couch surfing experience. i hope it gives you and insight on what its like to couch surf.

"One of the best part of this journey so far is meeting the different people I couch surf with. I really don’t get to spend much time with people while I am walking. Most of the time my interaction with people is really short, asking for directions, and talking for a minute or two with the cashier at various stores or gas stations. When I couch surf it gives me a chance to have some real interaction with people who lives have a different routine than mine.

My first couch surfing experience was spent with Genvieve and Michael in Allentown, Pa. They were a life saver. By the time I had reached them I had been walking for about 7 or 8 days and to be honest I was walked out. My legs were aching and I had blisters on the bottom of my both feet the size of silver dollars. I met Michael first because he was at home during the day while Genvieve was working. Michael welcomed me into their apartment and made me feel at home right away. He let me take a shower and sort out my dirty cloths. He was busy doing his thing and didn’t smother me with too much attention, which was really good because I needed some time to get situated. By the time I Genvieve got home I was cleaned up, fed, and lying down in bed resting my legs. I realized I that I really like her when she crawled into the bed next to me and just started talking to me like we had known each other for years. It made me feel at home and though I had only been on the road for a week or so, the distance I had walked made me feel far from home.

Michael is from Riverside, He and Gevieve had traveled from there to Allentown and had surfed a few couches along the way, so they understood what it was like for me to have been on the road and just needed a place to regroup. It was great to have my first host from the same place as I was. I felt like I was on the right path. I had only planned on staying for one night but I ended up staying for two. I spend the time there just relaxing and giving my legs a break. They are really warm and caring people. They helped me plan out the next leg of my journey and gave me some things that I might need along the way. They were a great way to break into my couch surfing experiences to come.

My next couch surfing experience was in Altoona, Pa. I met up with Darren at the library which was just down the street from were he lived. I got to Altoona at about 10 am and he had already gone to work. So I hung out at the library during the day catching up on blogging and uploading pictures from my camera. When Darren got off work he came and picked me up. The cool thing about it was he was only 4 or 5 blocks from where I was. Darren is in his early 30’s and such a great person. We got to his apartment and it was the coolest place. It is the kind of apartment I would like to have. Darren is an artist so we had lots in common. The first night we hung out on the rooftop drinking beers and just getting to know each other. I loved talking with him. Everything he had to say was so interesting. He made dinner that night. We had burrito and they were the best homemade burritos I have ever had. That night we just talked and talked and talked. I enjoyed his company and realized that we would be life long friend that night. The next day he went to work and let he me stay at the house and again I went out to explore the area. When he got home we continued our conversation on music, art, New York City and anything else that came up. The best part of that night he pulled out his guitar and sang a song called “Eli the barrow boy” by the Decemberist. To this day that is my favorite rendition of that song and as I walk along the highway I can still hear him singing that song. Darren has done so many different things, from making binding books by hand, doing graphic art for CD’s and posters for bands to playing music, to painting and writing. Everything piece of artwork he showed me that he created was just amazing. He is probably once of the most talented and creative person I have ever met. Later that night his girlfriend came over and he introduced me to her. Her name is Amanada and she is very pretty and extremely intelligent and nice on top of that. She and I really didn’t get a chance to have one on one time right away, the way Darren and I did, but the morning of the day I left, she and I sat out on the roof top before she went to work and we talked about God. That was our bonding moment and the moment we understood each other. She was so passionate about her convictions and I found that to be the most beautiful part about her. We became friends then. While Darren was at work he gave me access to his art studio and the cool thing about it was that he used the exact same tools that I used for painting, which was a surprise since I don’t paint with “paint” but with pressing ink. I felt at home the most while staying at Darren’s and I will say this… Altoona was the hardest place for me to leave so far on my journey. I really felt a strong connection with them, but I had to continue onwards.

My next couch surfing experience was with Scott in Harrisburg, Pa. I had been walking for days and was closing in on Harrisburg. I didn’t make a request with him on the website at first, but he did leave his number available so I figured I would call him as I got closer to Harrisburg. I had gotten just outside the city limits and was walked out, I just couldn’t walk any further. I found myself at this old abandon restaurant, with my legs refusing to go any further. It was getting dark and the clouds were moving in. It was about to rain and rain hard it was going to do. I called Scott up and introduced myself to him and told him where I was, not really expecting anything but hoping to at least talk to someone in the area who could tell me where I could go. He was in class at the time and he told me he would come out and get me as soon as he was out. So I waited and waited and waited. About 2 hours later he called me up and told me he was near by. It had gotten dark by then and it was hard to find me because of the location I was in. So I told him I would stand by the road with my flashlight waving in the air so he would know where I was. I was amazed that he would come out of his way to make sure I was ok. Almost to the moment he arrived it started rain and it was the biggest down pour thus far on my journey. Sitting in his car all I kept thinking about was how good he smelt and how dirty I felt. I was really embarrassed about my appearance, but he totally understood and didn’t make me feel bad in anyway. We went got to his house and he let me take a shower and afterwards we sat up late talking about our various experiences in hitch hiking and backpacking. Scott is 22 years old and was in his final year of college. He is young but is very wise for his age. He was shy which I found surprising considering how good looking he is and how mature he is and well adjusted to adulthood he was. He was kind of quite at first so I did my best to entertain him with some of my various Prince stories. He was a great listener. I swear his couch was so comfortable I slept like a baby. The next morning he made me breakfast, then went to school. I hung out in his neighborhood exploring. When he finished with school he came back home and then took me downtown and showed me around a bit. We had these amazing burritos and then said our goodbyes. I continued onwards and he went to an Alice Cooper concert. What I like most about Scott was his concern for other hitch hikers who were out on the road. There was this one guy who we had seen on the road and Scott asked me if he should stop and pick him up. We didn’t because he was going in the opposite direction in which we were traveling. Scott had a very kind heart.

From Harrisburg I headed towards Pittsburgh, Pa. It was there my next couch surfing experience was with Bruce. Bruce was an incredible host. He gave me great directions to his house even though I got a little lost. It was a long long, long walk to get there once I got to the Pittsburgh area. Finally as I was getting close to where he lived he met me about ½ mile away from his house and walked with me back to it. Bruce was extremely friendly. He had hosted many people before me and was at the top of the list of hosts in Pittsburgh. By the time I arrived at his house I was as sore as I could be. He introduced me to his friend who was there watching the game and he began to feed me right away. I had the best salad there. We sat around talking about different experiences hiking. Bruce is an expert at it and He has hiking down to a science. He knew what to do in every situation. He had me empty out my backpack to see what I was carrying and he told me what was good to have and what was just extra weight. He gave me all kinds of things. Things like freeze-dried food, iodine tables for water just incase I needed to purify some water from stream or lake. He gave me some rope, water resistant pants and even an inflatable pad to sleep on, but I didn’t take it because it wouldn’t fit into my backpack. The next night, Bruce and I sat up talking about dancing, football, and the various sport teams that he refereed at the local high school. Bruce had great stories of his younger days and he had such great enthusiasm when talking about him. His eyes lit up with every word. It was such a great feeling to watch him talk about all his journeys. It was also very generous of him to share his knowledge of hiking and backpacking with me, because I this was the first time at my attempt at doing something like this and his guidance was extremely helpful in my survival. I would not have been able to have made it as far has I have without his help."



stay tuned as there is much more to come.

-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a life time.

dreamfirstborn said:

you are welcome, keep in touch and stay safe.

wow....!

Autumn was the first person I met when i got to Illinois. I was walking down the side of the highway and I was getting these strang feelings. Something the air just wasn’t computing. Then out of nowhere this car pulls over and I look inside and there is this beautiful girl smiling at me. I said hi. She asked me if I wanted a ride. I told her that I wasn’t sure if I should get with her. I have this thing about getting into to cars with women alone I was a bit skeptical to get in the car. I told her I was just going to Lawerence and she said that is where she lived and it was just up the road. She told me it was ok and not to worry. So I did. It was just a ride of about 3 miles so there was no harm in it. She told me that she had passed me awhile back and something had told her to go back and give me a ride. So she did. She said I reminded her of someone she knew. She asked me if I had food and told me she knew of this place that gave away food to people who were in need of it and she offered to take me there so that I can stock up on some food for the road.

Lawerence was just down the road and was a much smaller town than I had expected. We pulled up to the place that gave away the food and went inside. We talked to the ladies at the desk. They weren’t that friendly at all to me, they wouldn’t even look at me. They said that they were not open yet and that I had to come back. Funny thing is there other people there and they were being assisted. I really didn’t want to be bothered so I told her it was ok that I didn’t need the food. She said ok and we went back to the car. I went to grab my backpack and head on from there but she said that I should come over to her house and she would cook me lunch. She was so generous and so caring and BEAUTIFUL. She told me she was 19 years old and worked at a nursery in the town over. She said that she worked 7 days a week, but on that day she only wanted to work half a day. She convinced me to go over to her house and when we pulled up she told me she wanted to me to meet her boyfriend. That’s when I thought to myself, hmmmm. I don’t know it sounds like there could be some possible trouble ahead and I asked her are you sure its ok. She kept insisting that everything was fine and her boyfriend was cool. WHERE I HAVE HERD THAT BEFORE I thought to myself. I kept saying to her, look I am just passing through and I am not out looking for trouble. Again she said everything was fine and that I would really like her boyfriend. He was 30 years old and was really laid back. We got inside of her house and she called out to him and there was no answer. She looked around and couldn’t find him. She showed me around the house. It was actually a pretty cool house and pretty big in comparison to most places I lived in, in New York City. She lived there with her mother, who was away off visiting her boyfriend who was in jail for a crime Autumn wouldn’t tell me, and her boyfriend. When we got to her mothers room the first thing she said to me before we entered was that her mother had a thing for Marilyn Monroe and that she had this huge poster of herself posing naked. Sure enough her mother’s room was decorated with all kinds of Marilyn artifact, pictures and yes in the corner of the room a gigantic poster of her mother with her breast all out. It was a really sexy picture but not in a trashy way. I liked it a lot but I didn’t tell Autumn. We then went back into the kitchen and Autumn opened up the refrigerator and said that she had a really good macaroni casserole and asked me if I wanted some to eat. I told her she didn’t have to go through any trouble, but she said that it wasn’t and fix me a big plate of it and tossed it in the microwave. I noticed all of these old Aunt Jemima salt and pepper shakers, cookie jars, and silver ware holders. I asked her if she collected them and she said it was her mother’s hobby. I told her that a lot of people like to collect them and that some of them could be worth a lot of money. She didn’t seem interested in that little bit of information and simply said “really” and I left it at that. We sat down at the kitchen table, which was cluttered with bags of tobacco, rolling papers, crackers and cookies, a cake, and nutter butters, all my favorite junk foods along with other things I can’t remember right now, and we talked, while she watched me eat the casserole. It was tasty. Macaronni with ground beef and smothered with cheese. I asked her how she met her boyfriend and she told me that she for a short time she was heavily into meth and that is how she met her boyfriend. They both decided to get clean together and have been off the “monster” for some time now. She began to wonder where her boy friend was and went outside looking to see if she could find him. I followed behind her because I didn’t want some dude walking in and finding this dude sitting at his kitchen table eating his food. She told me to relax and everything was cool reminding again that he was a really good guy and he wouldn’t mind me being there. While we outside she noticed that the lawnmower was out in the yard and the gas cap was on top of it. She told me he must have gone out and gotten some gas. She then decided to call him on his cell phone to find out where he was. When he answered he told her he had just gotten some gas and was now at the corner getting him self a hair cut. She was right.

We walked down the street to this little tiny building that looked like a little house and went inside. Sure enough there he was sitting in the chair getting a cut. The place had 7 people sitting around waiting for there turn. It was full. We went in and she introduced me to her boyfriend. His name was Anthony. Then she introduced me to everyone else telling them how I was walking from New York to California. The look on there face’s was classic. It went from who is this guy and what is he doing here with her with there guards up, to faces full of smiles and of excitement. The reason being was because they were just actually talking about a trip to New York City they had all had taken for a group vacation. It was turning out to be a really cool encounter with them. They were all very pleasant. They all had lots of questions regarding my experience and just over joy being able to talk with someone who actually lived in New York City. It was cool to see them get so happy bring up certain things about New York City and I knew exactly what they were talking about. It was as if I were from a foreign country they had visited and they had learned the language and me being there with them allowed them to practiced what they had learned. They had been cultured. They were all happy to oblige when I asked if I could take some photos of them. As soon as Anthony was finished with getting his hair cut we left and headed back to the house. They asked me where I was going to sleep for the night and I told them that I had found a campsite on my map that I was aiming for and it was were I had planned on being for the night. They told me it was about 5 miles from where I was and said they would drive me there. I told them that it wasn’t that far and I didn’t want them to go out of there way but they said that it was to far to walk and they would have nothing of it. They were going to take me there rather I wanted it or not. I would be offending them if I turned them down.

It wasn’t that far away at all. When we got to the state park, there was this maze of roads we had to travel in order to find the camping attendant so I could pay for the night. When we finally found her she told me that she didn’t take debit cards that it was cash only. Guess what. I had no cash. Just my debit card. Autumn and Anthony without even thinking said we lets go back to town and find an ATM and then we will drive you back. I just felt really bad because they were going so far out of their way but they didn’t seem to mind at all. So back into town we went in search of an ATM. On our way back Anthony said to me that he though it would be cool to walk with me and I told him well come on man, join me. His eyes lit up and he looked over at Autumn and said hey babe what do you think? Lets do it. I really wasn’t taking them serious. I didn’t think they could be that spontaneous, not until he pulled out his cell phone and said lets check our horoscope. To my disbelief every one of their horoscopes said it was the perfect time for a new adventure. For the first time I though wow someone is actually going to walk with me. Then Autumn started thinking about all of her responsibilities and didn’t seem to sure she wanted to walk, but Anthony was all excited about it. He had decided that he would walk with me to the next big city and then Autumn would come and get him. I thought cool. This could be fun. We got back into town found an ATM and then headed back to the campground. We stopped off at a gas station to get something to drink and I offered to get some gas for them and they flat out said no. I told them that it was the least I could do considering they had gone out of their way. Anthony said the fact that I offered was good enough for him. We both compromised and I got them each a soda pop. When we got back to the campground we paid the lady and drove around the lake and found my campsite. I was the only one camping in the area. They hung out with me until I got my tent erected and they said that they were going back into town to get some things for Anthony and they would be back later on that night. I waited for them until about 10 o’clock. They never came back and I went to sleep.

There was no way I could have made it to the camp site and got set up before night if it wasn’t for there help I would have gotten lost. Later on further into Illinois I met up with someone and told them about the strange feelings I was having when I entered the state and he told me that part of the state was notorious for having a lot of very violent hate crimes and had a history of “klan” rallies there. He said that he was surprised that I actually was able to walk through there without any problems. He said that I must have many angels with me. And I though about what Autumn had told me how something told her to stop and pick me up after she passed me.

Nothing happens without reason, or does it?


-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a life time

Wow that was intense, It just sounded so strange. Glad you told us though, we were getting worried.
Keep going, the end is in sight

Today i had one of the best personal moments so far on this journey. Last night i was staying at Kelly's house and everyone one had gone to bed. I was sleeping on the couch and was very tired. We had spent the whole day at the park playing with his kids. It was family day at the McClains and it was an honor to be apart of something that i felt was very special. anyhow last night i was lying down on the couch and decided to give facebook one last look before going to sleep. Thats when i came across Sheila E's post. With out thinking twice i just wrote what i was thinking and pressed send then shortly after fell asleep. all through out the night i kept getting notification alerts on my cell phone but didn't pay much attention to them in my half wake, half sleep state of being. then this morning when i went to check my message i read through them and i came across one that took me by surprise. it was a response to my post from Sheila E. and it said..

"WOW Jew that is amazing. Please be careful on your journey. be blessed."

i wanted to scream at the top of my lungs but didn't because i didn't want to wake the house. It was hard to compose myself but i did.

i don't know if you can understand, but that ment so much to me. for some of you who have witness any part of my time here on prince.org may know, in part, that some of my reasons for being here on the org., in a nutshell, may have been just to have my heros recognize me for having done something "amazing" and to have Sheila E. say that, almost makes this trip worth it all. its not the defining moment of this journey but it is a high point and for just a moment i got to know what the feeling of recognition tasted like. I must say that tastes really good. Sometimes small bits have the most flavor and are the most satisfying.

I start walking again tomorrow and onward west i continue. I honestly don't have an idea what to expect from the last 3 states of this journey, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before entering California, but i am well rested, rejuvenated and eager to finish my journey of a life time.

4 my fellow orger here and in HONOR of Sheila E. one of my heros i give you this...

Special thank you to Sheila E.

-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a lifetime


p.s. i will be back on the road tomorrow so look forward to some updates from
HRH Gregory Alive @ The DownLoad Society.

wow that's great. This journey is impacting all of our lives in ways no one could imagine. Stay safe and call me if you need me bro!

peace and blessings
buttah

this just in... DreamFirstBorn, Jew left his location just outside of Dallas and will be arriving soon in the town of Denton, Tx.

thanks to all who have taken part in this experience and have either left comments or sent org notes. He really appreciates them.

stay tuned...

-HRH Gregory Alive
within this loveletter

Hi All,

So I am in Decatur Texas. I have passed through Denton and i am now headed west and let me tell ya. there isn't anything in between these two cities/towns. Just a straight walk. I started off early this morning and got to Decatur at about 3:30. I wanted to walk futher but after this town there is nothing for the next 15-20 miles. So while getting something to eat i decided to make this my stop for the night. I figured that if i were to keep walking i wouldn't find any place to lay my head down before dark and this isn't the kinda place i want to walk after dark. Not saying its ghetto or anything but there is NOTHING along the road execpt land. No horses, cows, sheep let alone people. Its crazy because my road is straight and i can see the harizon and in between is again NOTHING.

My legs held up pretty good today no real ache or pains. Just a little sore but nothing serious. I found a little motel off the side of the road and for what it is it is comfortable for the night. I plan on getting lots of sleep and start walking at about 8 am tomorrow morning. I did see the largest Kingdom Hall along the way about 20 miles back. It was hugh.

When i left Denton i didn't stop off and buy any water or food because i just figured i would find a gas station along the way and pick something up then. You know keep the weight down on the pack. WRONG move... again NOTHING. The messed up part about it all was i could have sworn that i had a 32 oz bottle of water in my pack and i figured it would last me until i came to the next town. After walking for about 4 hours my mouth started getting dry and my stomach was getting empty. The warning light start flashing in my head and i stop off in front of the Kingdom Hall to catch a drink. I go digging through my pack and guess what. NO WATER!!! i left it on the table at the motel. DAMN IT! i didn't stay there long and it was way to far to walk up to the Hall to ask if i could get a drink, besides it looked pretty empty. No cars in the parking lot. So i threw my pack back on my back and continued to walk. after a bit my mouth was so dry and i started to get a head ache. I said out loud LORD Please help me i am so thirsty and not thinking much about i just continued to walk.

About 5 minutes later this truck pulls up and these 3 dudes were sitting in it. I thought... i really hope this isn't trouble because i really don't have any extra strenght to run or anything else. One of the guys got out of the truck and started walking towards me. we were on the side of the road and there was alot of traffic going alone. so i wasn't worried about my safty. The guy come up to me and says He man were are you headed. I tell him Decatur and he says its just a short distance up the road and asked if i wanted a ride. I took him up on the offer. I threw my pack in the bed of the truck and jumped in right behind it. I said thank you to the guy and he said that it wasn't a problem. I noticed that one of the guys in the truck was a young dude who was probably about 12 or 13. I thought well, there is a kid in the car. No Worries. a little ways up the road turned out to be about 8 - 10 miles. Let me tell ya something. I was so glad because i was so thirsty and starting to get really hungry 8 - 10 miles would have been horrific. When you stop sweating because there is no more fluids in your body your running on empty and you have to refuel as soon as possible. The guy said to me hey man you better take of your hat because its gonna get windy. Nope not the kid, the hat stayed and We rode on.

This part of Texas is just a straight road. no rolling hills, no mountains, no nothing. its beautiful for about 5 minutes then it gets really boring. And since i lost my IPOD i have no music to keep me company. NO PRINCE!!!! and its driving me insane. lol. today all that kept going through my mind music wise was... "is it worth it let me work it flip it upside down and reverse it" and Dory from Finding Nemo saying "just keep swiming just keep swimming."

AHHHHHrrrggg!!!

i thought about my mother alot today to and no matter how hard i tried to shake the though she just kept popping up. I try not to think about her.

guess who is meeting me in California!! i am so excited.


anyhow ya! its going to be getting dark soon and i want to check out Decatur some to find something beautiful. Hope all is well.

I am going to write about the time i spend with Yommama aka Kelly from here on the org. next time i find a library. I was going to do it today. but i know the suppence is killing him. :O)

aahhh nooo guess who just call.
goto go.

-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a life time

Be careful in Texas.

New Mexico and Arizona will be similar to what you are experiencing now- there will be long stretches of nothing- I mean NADA.

I'm glad to hear that you are still doing well. Thanks for the love on the post above, you are always welcome here! You have Angels all around you.

Love Always,
Jason and Kari

Hi Everyone!

So i have made it to Big Springs, TX and i have just made it to the end of Texas. I hope to make it to El Paso with in the next few days or at least by the end of the week. Since i was last on the org i was staying in Lewisville, Tx at Yomamma's place for my break. It was an amazing time. I got to hang out with his family. As you can see from the pictures of his kids they are incredible. They are very smart, WELL BEHAVED, and fun to be around. I got to hang out with Yomamma for a great deal of time and the first thing i noticed about him is HE WORKS TO MUCH! ) he mananages to work anywhere from 12 - 18 hour days. Which in my book is unbelievable. He is very caring, dedicated, giving and most of just a really nice guy. On the other side he is pretty simple in a very complicated kind of way. There is alot going on inside of him. alot of things grabbing for his attention and i must admit i did feel bad about spending so much time with him. Time in my book could have been spend more with his wife and kids. But since i was staying with them it kinda worked out to where he got to spend more time with them. I think he is one incrediblely gifted person who is sharing his talents with so many.

When i met up with him he kinda took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting him to be as he was. He is very laid back, very incontrol of the situation at hand, and always thinking ahead. With me i am very much about whats going on right now. you know stop and look around and see the beauty that is right before you. I hope a little bit of me rubbed of on him. He has alot of beautiful things around him and i hope he gets to appreciate it and no work so much.

Yamomma is one of the coolest most interesting persons i have met in a long time and i am glad that we had the chance to finally get to meet and know each other in person.

We did do a small interview which he is currently editing for The DownLoad Society and i hope to see his final version soon. He as also been working on a website for me regarding this experience so i hope to see it launched soon.

what most people don't know is that he is the one who planted the seed in my mind about regarding this Journey of a life time.

If any of ya'll (i am still in texas) get a chance send him an org note and say hi. The Dude has some pretty interesting storiest to tell. Ask him about the Bull.

So from there i headed north for a bit onto Denton, then west to Decature, then further west to Graham, then Breckenridge, where i met this guy who picked me up on the road because i was heading to a 100 mile strech of NOTHING! and when i say nothing i mean abosulutely nothing. I have some video of him... his name is Gayland Ewing and is one of the orginal Ewings in TEXAS. JR doesn't have anything on him. ;O) from there i went on south to Abiliene,then west to SweetWater, then over to Colorado City and then onto Big Springs which is where i am now.
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I will be staying at a shelter tonight to avoid the freezing tempatures tonight and from what i have herd there is a snow storm heading my way now. It is expected to drop about 7 inches of snow on us tomorrow. What a great Birthday present.. I am hoping to catch a ride through it because walking through it would just be insane. I am crazy but not that crazy.

I had a dream the other night that was pretty surprising and since this being prince.org i will tell about it.

In the dream i was in new york and there was a radio announcement that said that Prince was in a secret location and his fans were sent on a hunt to find him. People had gather up in the west village and were looking for him all around. I was in over by west 4th and 6th ave and there were all these fans looking for him. The Announcer said that he would be in the most obivious place. So people started looking for him in these small clubs.

Well in went into this one small club and just as i went inside this guy came up to me and said "you are going to find him in there but you won't reconize him he appear differently than what you expect. I said hmmmm, ok and went inside there were all these fans grouped together talking about different places to spread out and look. They were planning out there stragity. I went past them into this one small room and right when i entered i saw her. It was Denise. I said to her Denise what are you doing here and she had this great big beautiful smile on her face and she said waiting for you. I told her she looked beautiful and then i told her that Prince was here and i asked her if she wanted to see him and she said to me I am here to release him.

I asked her what did she mean and she smile and said you will understand. I then said that she should come out and meet up with all the other fans outside and at first she said no because it had been a long time and i said they would be so happy to see her. She hesitated a second but she really wanted to go out and see them. So I took her by the hand and lead her out to were everyone was. and when she came out they went hysterical and she was so happy to see everyone.
I said to everyone Look you guys Look who i found. They just went wild except this one girl who looked like denise and said who is she and i said This is Denise she use to be Vanity. Denise turned to her to see her and when she did. I woke Up.

what do you think this dream ment?

sorry if this is all seems like babble but i have just a few moments on the computer in the library and i am just getting everything out as fast as i can. I am trying to upload some pictures and videos but its a slow connection here. we will see what i can do.

i am really excited about almost finishing Texas. 2 more states to go afterwards... New Mexico and Nevada.

its seems so strange that it feels like i am about to finish this trip in the next few weeks. Having come so far and doing something that just seem so undo able it is just freaking me out a bit. i will try and put it in a way you can understand.

i know i still have along way to go. but i have come so far. not only on the road but inside as well.

-DreamFirstBorn, Jew
while on a journey of a lifetime

Happy Birthday DreamFirstBorn, Jew

we wish you all the best and can't wait for the return from your Journey of A Life Time....

from all of Us here @ The DownLoad Society.


-HRH Gregory Alive
within this loveletter


p.s. Angelon Lone has something 4 U. Be on the look out

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