St. Pat's in Boston. Day One

The adventure started Saturday afternoon with Casey and I taking a relatively short Fung-Wah bus ride from Manhattan to Boston. For those who don't know, this bus will take you from NY chinatown to Boston chinatown in under 4 hours for only $15!!! Amazing...


I met up with my 2 best friends and their wife and girlfriend at the Park street station.(The oldest subway stop in America by the way) After a nice stroll through the richy rich neighborhood of Newbury we settled down for our first round of drinks and some primo burgers from Charlie's.

We decided to take the first night sort of easy and headed back to Leile's neighborhood in Malden to take in some small town bars. Malden has about 6 bars in walking distance of each other and we hit about 4 of them. I always enjoy getting the hell out of NY and coming to stay here. It feels like i'm out in the country or something. Even downtown Boston stays fairly calm and quiet compared to NY. Subways stop running at midnight. Bars close at 2. And some towns can't even sell beer! Ever! Those things may suck but it's also cleaner, nicer and easier to navigate.

The first and best stop had to be "Pearl street station". An old renovated subway stop that's now a bar with pizza and karaoke. Really bad karaoke! Except for the little old chinese man who Leile claims is famous there for being a real over the top showman and walking through the crowd caressing cheeks and making the ladies swoon. It was really fuckin' funny.


After stumbling back to the house things took a turn for the wacky. I was reminded that one of our friends had brought with him a giant bag of salvia divinorum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum

I had heard about this stuff before and watched youtube videos of teenagers getting completely zonked out on it. I didn't imagine it could be that intense seeing as how it's legal and sold online. My friends who had tried it claimed otherwise. Apparently it's the most intense, hallucinogenic high you'll ever experience for about 5 minutes and then you snap right out of it...

I had to find out for myself :)

And holy fuck...words almost cannot describe the vivid and unnatural feeling of being high on salvia. After taking an initial hit I was sure that I had everything under control. I felt lucid but not really fucked up. So what did my smart ass do? Take another giant hit of course! I proceeded to melt into the floor whereupon I was taken on such an unbelievable mental journey that I can't even fully comprehend it to this moment. I was apparently walked out to the porch by Kuau but in my head I was being dragged by some unseen force through walls and what felt like another fuckin' dimension. It felt like everything around me was staged like a play and that I was seeing beyond it into some reality looking into our own. I recall Kuau asking me if I was okay and leading me by the hand until I ended up back on the couch and s-l-o-w-l-y felt myself returning to normal until I was able to snap back and jump into the conversation.

SO CRAZY!! I've done almost every drug there is at least once in my life and i've NEVER felt anything like this. Thank god the peak of it was only 5 or 10 minutes. I couldn't take a second more. I wasn't the only one affected so strongly. Casey said that it was like, "my body was split in half by a razor and my tongue became the center of my whole weight" or as Leile put it.."my legs were made of paper" as he proceeded to tug on his pant legs furiously. Hahaha! Kuau's wife remarked that, "nowhere that you sit is yours, you're just borrowing the space. My body isn't my own."

To take quotes from Wikipedia, I would most accurately say that the effects were like sensations of motion, or being pulled or twisted by forces. And overlapping realities, such as the perception of being in several locations at once. It was the wildest thing i've ever done and I would highly suggest you try it at least once :)

After coming off of that, Casey and I smashed into a freezing cold airbed and tried to rest up for the next day's parade...I don't think any amount of resting could have prepared us for it...

Day two's blog soon to come.