Hood River

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Yeah, actually, and the...

I think the German Kite Masters is infinitely bigger than Hood River, though.

Yeah, because it's open to the public, where Hood River is actually a trade-only event.

It's open.

They do kind of let you in at the end of it, but it's bypass only.

The man from Bend talks of rushing rivers and copper-hued pines, his enthusiasm for the homeland unalloyed by reference to summer dusts.

The orchard owner of Hood River or Wenatchee has his heaven lined with ruddy apples, and discourses amazing figures concerning ever-increasing world market for the product of his acres.

He who hails from the coast cities, whose all-pervading passion is optimism, weaves convincing prophecies of the golden future.

And so it goes.

The blond Scandinavian to his logged-off lands, the Basque to his sheep herding, the man from Iowa dairies, and the Carolinian, who never before saw alfalfa, sets about raising it.

The Connecticut Yankee, with an unconscionable instinct for wooden nutmegs, sells real estate.

The college man with poor eyes or a damaged liver, as the case may be, becomes an orchardist at Hood River or Medford.

Somehow, someplace, there is room for each and every one, and the big Westland smiles and receives them all, the strong to prosper and the weak to fail according to the inexorable way of life.

So I try to just get back out there at some point.

Yeah, and I know you've talked a lot about the Hood River Fruit Loop and this season of harvest and all the great vegetables and fruits that are coming into season.

There's such a great culinary season as well to think about all the things you can cook and eat and soups you can make.

I love a nice warm soup in the fall.

So I'm, I'm collecting ideas for this fall, which officially in my mind starts, I would say tomorrow.

Cause tomorrow at the time that we're filming, it is.

august 31st so i'm starting to really really like dig into my fall i've been like planning my halloween costume i'm already looking online it's like ordering different pieces i'm planning what day i want to go to the pumpkin patch all of this stuff but i think like the top things that i really want to try to do this year like if i am creating my ideal fall bucket list is i really really want to try to hit like the hood river fruit loop i feel like you've sold me on that so much at this point like i just have not had the chance to go out the past couple of years and i really really want to go out there and like experience that like beautiful scenic drive and picking all these fresh vegetables and supporting all the local farmers.

I feel like I'm in that stage in my life where that just sounds like so much fun for me.

Fabulous Killjoy, I'm gonna toss you the keys to the bunny blimp.

Everyone climb on board this beautiful floating air machine as Fabulous Killjoy floats us out of Dead Rabbit Radio Command all the way out to Hood River, Oregon.

[laughs] Hood River, Oregon, that's where I live.

That's where I'm at.

Welcome to my town.

But this is my library.

[laughs] My hands are horribly scalded, and the phone is hard to hold, so I put it back in my pocket.

I'm showing you all around Hood River.

But basically, I had spent a lot of time with the Plains people in South Dakota earlier, about 10 years before.

And when I moved to Oregon and started living along the river in, in Hood- in the town of Hood River, I just became aware of how parallel the history of fishing rights on the Columbia was to the struggles of Lakota people to retain and, and also to revive their relationship to the buffalo.

That was a connection for me that was very meaningful, and so I started to get involved in the fishing rights struggles along that part of the river.

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