You might have seen the video of the late Dennis Weaver's (Gunsmoke) "earth ship" house in Colorado. Tires stacked like bricks, filled with compressed dirt as they go, and plastered over. I saw the video in '92 and then a few months later, through a series of coincidences, I was standing a couple hundred feet from it.

I'd gone to Colorado for the Rainbow Gathering outside of Paonia, met a lady in the town, and lived with her for a few months afterwards. She found a TP for sale in Ridgeway, I think -- we went to get it and the seller was a camel and llama breeder who just happened to be Weaver's neighbor and business partner. Real cowboy looking good ol' boy who'd gradually discovered there was serious money to be made in breeding the double humped camels.

Gave us each a bag of carrots and we went out to feed one of them, who ran over to the fence like a big puppy.

The earthship was a trip. Built on a south facing hillside with a maximum eye to passive solar heat.

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