I made it up in time for breakfast again, this hostel was doing something weird to me. Also breakfast was less than a two second walk to get to so that probably helped. Some of the guys from the previous day were headed to Tucson, they were all going to different final locations but all passing through Tucson on the same bus. I toyed with that idea for a little bit but decided I'd rather have an almost full day in Flagstaff before I headed overnight to L.A. on the train. When breakfast was going on there was a woman talking about how things happen for a reason and I could see Kim was interested. He asked if I wanted to join them for a walk, they were going to a sound healing shop, I didn't have any plans so I figured why not. We went there and started playing some pretty sounding tongue drums, then Dimichelle (hippy woman) lay on a table while the shop owner (hippy dude) played some strings underneath her, it was a monochord table. Then he started chanting and singing... it was all very entertaining and I think she was enjoying it which was the main thing. Kim and I got a bit bored while Dimichelle was sound healing her liver so we went to get coffee and hot chocolate. We ended up losing Dimichelle so went walking around Flagstaff, it's a really pretty town so it was cool to explore. We also checked out some thrift stores because I was looking for a 50s outfit for the Back To The Future event, by now Andy had raised almost $200. When we got back to the hostel I found I had a response to my rideshare ad, I called the guy but he said he'd already passed through Flagstaff and I'd missed him by about twenty minutes. I looked him up online and discovered he was a former Hollywood stuntman so I'm sure he would have had some interesting stories, Dimichelle don't know shit! Kim wanted to see the sunset from somewhere good but I told him we only had ten minutes. He managed to talk "Jeremy Beadle hand man" into driving us up a hill... but only the east side of the hill was accessible. Sunset fail! I was starving so we acquired John and the Swiss guy and went out for some Mexican fast food, I had some kind of veggie burrito as usual and John kept making me try his extremely spicy pineapple salsa. We all decided to try finding some live music and went to the wonderfully named Cafe Ole... there was a wonky eyed man doing a solo acoustic set and some of his stuff wasn't too bad. He did a couple of very obscure Beatles songs and also attempted to speak German to Kim and Swiss guy, he failed. He got a bit annoying after a while so we moved on to another live music place, the band hadn't started yet so I decided to make my exit. John was very sad to see me go, he gave me a hug and said I'd brought him out of his shell a little bit. I headed to the station with my $118 ticket to L.A. and boarded the packed train. I chatted with a couple of people briefly, it's a small town so they were interested in my travels. It was a very uneventful train ride and I think I got a couple of hours sleep, only one seat to myself though, very disappointing.
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