Moonlight Chronicles

Chronicle Boxes!

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M.C. Boxed Set - $279 (or BOX ONLY $99).

A Chronicle collectors dream. Issues 1-50 enclosed in a hand-made, hand-painted wooden box by artist d.price. Perfect for your coffee table or bookshelf. Numbered and made to order. Each one uniquely different.

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Moonlight Chronicles on etsy

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Hey, moonlight chronicles are now available on etsy. This is the next easiest way to get your hands on one of these beauties, besides writing the ol' hobo a letter.

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Okee, dokee readers. That is it for issue #68. You will find this issue in it's entirety on my home page, but i will no longer be posting online pages of future M.C.'s. Stay in touch with my web page to order new stories and follow the hobos path. Thanks for watching! dp

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Shilo's website: www.baybeegee.com

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Feast your eyes folks as this will be the last on-line Chronicle. Will not be able to continue to give it away free. Will be going back to the paper MC only on March first. This issue will stay up on the web site as an example of my stuff, however. Sorry about that. HOBO

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Enjoyed a wonderful dinner out with John and his family last night on the eve of my birthday. They are directing me towards a piece of land in Fiji where i hear a person can really hone their surfing skills! Stay tuned. HOBO

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A rare sight indeed. Nice gal living in a van who surfs! San Onofre Beach.

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I was only home for just over one week so did not get to snowboard, but was able to get this painting completed. On the road now doing MC 67, the last SImple affiliated issue. TImes are tough. It is affecting everything and everybody. HOBO

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Hello readers! I will begin issue 68 now and soon #67 will be put away so you will have to order a hard copy from www.moonlightchronicles.com if you want to read it. Happy trails! HOBO

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And so our little hobo returns from the balmy 20 degree latitudes to the cold 45th. At first it was weird. Then it was kind of cool. Weird because i had to go from shorts and sandals to full on winter gear, Gloves, hat, the works. But i got in the sauna and had a good round with the spirits that reside there. They welcomed me back. I thanked them for their protection while i was on the road. We sat in silence. This is a good home. I recharge when here. And the gloomy weather will not bum me out. See, i already feel the spring coming on and made a sunny painting of the hobbit hole. The deer were all around today and were not afraid. I ran up the river looking for Mr. Owl. But he was away. Tonight i will crawl in my burrow and sleep soundly. The air here is crisp. The water icy cold. Two things that help one to breathe deep and welcome the night time coming. HOBO

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Made it back home and found this much snow on the sweat lodge and other structures. Dug it all out and then the next day it melted away!

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Okay, okay. So that last surf painting was NOT a true representation of what the Hobos been riding. Sheesh. A guy can dream can't he?! This one is way more what it's like here on the west coast of Maui. Thigh to waist high rollers coming quietly in. Such mellow waves that you sometimes have to holler out to sea, "Hey, waves. Wake up and start coming to shore again so we can ride you!" That's the tiny island of Lanai right across the water. The sun is usually up real high and baking your noggin. I now surf with my Simple cap on to keep from getting too much ultra violet on the brain. No wet suit or rash guard shirt, cause the water is like your bathtub. Long scraggly hobo shorts to keep the board from scrapping when you sit up while waiting and watching for stinger jelly fish. Waterlogged long board that works pretty but not very good. The beach is right there at the bottom of the painting because yesterday i was literally riding all the way in and stepping off on the sand! A few shells, but not many. Lots of black rocks that roll around in the surf and sound like a big bag of marbles. Ok. So i have come clean. No more fibbing. Thats my new years resolution for 2009. What's yours? HOBO

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No waves in Lahaina today. Guess I'll make some art.

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The monster board i am learning to surf on.

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I am truly on vacation now till the end of the year. No camera work. No drawing of my days. Just enjoying the balmy temperatures here in Lahiana, Maui..... and spending my last ten days in paradise learning how to surf! As you may know this activity has been a long time obsession. At every attempt i seemed to be foiled by different obstacles. No waves. Waves too big. Living inland for months where waves don't exist. Broken ribs from a surfing fall. Etc. But south of Lahaina there lives a tiny baby wave that rolls in all day. Just big enough for a longboard to slide along on. A wave happy to see you, not out to smash your soul and grind you into the sand. The water temperatures are warm enough that wet suits are not used. Sharks only come by once in awhile. Other surfers are mostly like you, just learning, or life timers gracious enough to allow room in the lineup for a fumbling hobo who after a few days actually started getting rides and slowly picked up tips on how it all works. Casey lets me use an old beater board. I carry it on a bike, teetering from North Lahaina early each morning, all the way down Front Street to Puamana Park, being extra careful to not hit cars or tourists along the way. At 8AM i am usually sitting on the rocky shore in shorts and a cap, praying for waves and watching the sun rise on nearby Lanai. Yesterday it was just me and one other dude on a paddle board. I strap a long cord on to my ankle that is attached to the board. This keeps the board near you when you fall off, instead of careening towards other unsuspecting participants. You paddle with both arms like an old river boat and are soon about 30 yards from shore. The water is clear enough that you can see the bottom. Chunks of coral and the occasional fish glide by. You turn your board parallel to the beach and begin your search. You are looking for a slight rolling motion out to sea. After several days you can sense when a wave is worth going after or is too small to carry you towards shore. When a large enough swell comes along you quickly turn your board and begin paddling hard. When you feel the board tip forward you give two last hard double arm strokes and then do a push up like maneuver on the board with your arms. This gets your head up and readies you for the leap to your feet and the glide down the face of the wave. This is the point i have now progressed to. Riding wave after wave as far as it will carry me, walking around on the board, turning it ever so slightly left and right. I don't fall off very much. Yesterday i only fell off once. I have yet to see any sharks. This activity goes on for hours and hours until my thin arms will barely rise to bring a bagel to my lips during lunch, my chest sore from scrapping on the waxy board. Casey says it's now time to learn how to turn at the bottom of the wave and go back up it's face to ride on the curl. I say, just bring on a big enough wave and I'm there. So, finally, after all these years, i guess i am learning from the bottom up, how to surf. I've never been so happy. Will let you know when i reach the next level. Have 7 days left. Then it's home to those unmoving waves of snow and the already mastered art of snowboarding. HOBO

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Here's the last painting i will do before going to Lanai, one of the smaller islands near Maui. At first i thought this one was going to be way too busy, but i labored through it because i wanted to show the other side of Hawaii where some locals have lots of stuff around their houses. Paradise is not all sunsets and palms,

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You'll notice that this one has brown lines, which makes the image as a whole much mellower.

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Now that MC 67 is all filled up i will spend the remainder of my time here doing some paintings, like i did when in Mexico last time. HOBO

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This is the last page for issue 67. It will be printed when i return home in a few weeks so you can purchase it at www.moonlightchronicles.com then. Please switch over to my flickr site, flickr.com/photos/hoboartist to watch for photos from the remainder of this trip. thanks, dp

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Sorry about the delay, my camera broke that i use to upload these pages.

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Saw this scene painted on a wall in Lihue and just had to draw and paint it for myself. Once in awhile i will see art that is what i am trying so hard to do.

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Heading off for the west side of the island. Pray for the rains to stop and for internet connections out that way! HOBO

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Hey readers. I am heading to Kauai tomorrow and have no idea if they even have computers over there. May just have to join in with the natives and use smoke signals! Buddy James says to just chill out and post stuff when i can. Slow it down. It's all part of being here!