March 22,23,24,1991
Albany
Went up with Jan (pronounced Yan, it's a dude)& camped on the Hudson even though we had no tickets. I had a grate(~): ) time anyway.  First we found somewhere cool
to set up camp, which was a state park on the river across from Renssalear. It was a mob scene, lots of people & fun.  Bought some mushrooms in the bathroom from a girl named Robin from Oregon for $7.  Made my stay up there interesting. Gave Jan some & we went in different directions. As I tripped, I met a guy named Jeff who had an orange blanket that smelled like my Uncle John's house in Beach Haven. He had a nice warm car too &
puffed many nugs with me.  He was with a few of his friends & one of them, who was tripping on some acid, thought he swallowed glass because his beer bottle was chipped.  So, I was back out in the cold, only to be followed around by some dork for hours.  I finally found Jan in the nice & heated bathrooms, eating a can of peaches with a little sugar
mag.  I went back to our tent & it transformed itself into a UFO, lights & aliens & everything!  After coming back to earth, I opened the hatch& found myself getting out of the tent.  I had a lot of pent up energy & found myself on a swing, with some guy right in front of me who kept saying, "please let me dose you!"  I didn't need any more hallucinatory
candy, as I was tripping balls from the shrooms, so I kindly declined the acid & smoked his pot!  When Jan returned to the tent, there was someone behind us with a nitrous tank & we
lined up for one. The guy gave us a massive huffer for free, after all we were neighbors, & I
kept the balloon for later use.  As the night wore on,  found myself wandering around.  I finally settled in & hung out close to the tent.  There was another guyselling balloons & his last call was; "The person with the biggest balloon gets the last one for tonite!"  I dug
into my pockets & pulled out my big yellow balloon & said "here it is!"  The guy filled it up, for free!!!  The thing was massive & as I worked my way back to the tent, I turned on as many people on as I could & still had a nice helping to myself when I arrived at our site. 
I don't remember where I slept or if I did at all, but the next morning brought Jeff & his warm car back to me.  We talked for hours & smoked more pot, I felt bad that Jan was missing out & when I saw him I called him over.  Jan hung around for a while & then Jeff wanted to sleep.  I said good-bye & went about my business.  I went to the Econo-Lodge & went up to the front desk & asked if my friend with the last name Weed, was checked in.  This was a funny scene, "hi is there a Weed here?"  The guy thought I was joking at first & was very cross with me.  He replied, "No weed here!"  Then some guy in the lobby said,
"You've got that wrong Mister!"  After about a billion jokes about looking for weed, I wandered off towards the heart of town with my blue quilt wrapped around me.  I wound up talking to one of Albany's finest & he gave me his calling card to call "home".  I called my friend Derek instead, to wish him a happy birthday & tell him of all the fun that could be had up here.  I returned the calling card & the cop gave me $5 & told me to get some
breakfast. Now I call that a bargain!  I got myself a bagel & some hot chocolate & bustled
back to the tent.  I hung out until 6:30 & made my way over to the Knick.  Some guy gave me & Jan fake tickets & said to try to get in.  I watched as Jan went up to the doors & was
turned away.  I waited a while & went up & just as the guy was ripping the ticket, some head honcho guard said, "That's a fake one!"  The guard just shrugged at me & said that he would've let me in.  I just scampered back down the steps & Jan & I went up into the parking garage & found some fun for that night.  That night went by quickly & I finally needed sleep, so I went back to the tent & found that someone took our food.  I shrugged it off & napped for a while.  When I woke up, it was raining, sleeting & snowing.  The show had just finished & the party began again.  After getting my moccasins completely soaked, I headed back to the heated bathroom & dried off for a while.  I went back to the tent & everything was cold & wet.  I slept in the car that night & was awakened by state troopers in the parking lot screaming for people to leave.  Jan was nowhere to be found.  I looked in the bathroom & there he was.  We went back to the tent & there was a girl who was complaining to her boyfriend that she had no dry clothes.  I traded her a pair of tie dyed pants I made for some food & a necklace.  The state troopers were freaking out & wanted people to leave the park, so we gathered up our stuff & packed up the car.  We followed the caravan back to the Thruway & headed home.  Now that I was dry & sitting, I looked at the bottoms of my feet & saw that they were bruised terribly.  We smoked some fatties
on the ride home.  It took a week for me to walk again, but I wouldn't have traded it for anything.