the san juan islands is a unique place. instead of hanging american flags they fly flags of a simple globe, and instead of a north western american town complete with popeyes and starbucks they have only organic bakeries, grocery stores and coffee shops that have carpet on the floors and are usually an extension of someone's home. they wave to each person as they drive by on the street, and no one owns a car made after 1992. there's this guy that lives in the san juan islands on orcus island and his name is brett. when i was down there visiting jordan and alex this summer i met brett, he had his van parked in alex's front yard and was living there for a few weeks with his crazy f*cking hippy girlfriend and their two dogs that looked like wishbone. one night the americans, brett and i sat down around the fire and he told us all these stories about how he usually just disappears to hawaii for months at a time and sleeps in the sand and has the most far out time where no one gives a f*ck. better described he called it an "eire" (pronounced "eye-ree") situation. he told us all about the meaning of eire and how living a simple, spontaneous lifestyle surfing the eire vibe was the path to true and absolute enlightenment. he started to talk about drugs and all the shi*t he's done and he said "hey little lady, have you ever played naked twister with a bottle of oil and some far out physcadelics?" 

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