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"Vegas Baby, Part II"

Even when you're on vacation life goes on! Thank god something has happened back home that grounds Chloe into her own reality. A baby! Not just any baby... a GRAND baby. It doesn't seem possible for us all to now be old enough to be grandparents. It really is weird to watch yourself grow older. One day you're footloose and fancy free, runnin' the streets, partying like it's 1999, and not really giving much thought to what it, you, will be like "someday". Then you happen to be watching tv and you run across a news cast on Farrah Fawcett or you see Joan Rivers yappin' about who's wearing what and you can't believe that's really them!! OMG!! So you grab a mirror, take a deep breath, and look closely at the face staring back at you. Who is she? Is that really me? When did the wrinkles start happening? Is that a gray hair?

Whoa!!! Let me get back on track. Not only did I get to blabbing, I was depressing myself. Chloe really is way excited for Rosie and Betty. She's more excited for you to get to know them and all of her friends. This trip to Vegas is a much needed vacation and one she wanted to share but there's no place like home...there's no place like home...she won't say it three times and tap her ruby red slippers. She has none, it would ruin her tomboy image and besides she loves the open road and crossing the Kansas state line on her bike!

Vegas Baby!

Once a year Chloe and her friends who don't live close meet up somewhere for a few days of quality time. Life is so hectic and it's real easy to lose track of what is most important, so they vowed to never let that happen to their friendships. As you will see in the coming weeks while viewing the slices of Chloe's life family and friends are at the top of her list. Yep they rank right up there, just above great foods and drinks. Oh, and cigars too! If we are on this planet only once she intends to live it to the max!

Pareidolia

Sorry for the delay of getting this strip on our blog! Life has been busy and blah blah blah. Really there is no good excuse but we do want to let our viewing audience know that we have made an executive decision to create our comic strip bi-weekly instead of once a week as originally intended. At least for now. Hey, we are women and therefore can changed our minds as often as we like!

OK- all that said let's talk about the subject that we all show up for. Chloe has continued her travels down the highway and happens upon a homemade biscuits and gravy stand in the middle of nowhere. There are many of us who just sighed and said "yummy" out loud. All she wants is to soak up the remainder of the tequila in her stomach from last night, get a little nutrition flowing through her bloodstream so she can arrive at her destination (to be revealed in the next strip-ya have to come back :O)....) feeling good and ready for what awaits! She is now sure that after this encounter with this old lady not a single friend or family member is ever going to believe her when she starts telling stories of her trip. But in her defense who could make this stuff up!! After all, she only wanted an enlightening vacation, to experience the solitude of the desert at night, see if peyote really would heighten that experience, and travel on down the road at a peaceful pace. You know at this point Chloe is questioning her own sanity. Is this old woman a residual from last night? How could she possibly know about the snake? And if she knows about the snake, does she know about the woman? Yikes!! She's just gotta eat and get the hell out of there!!

What the ...?

I think I can safely say many of us have had a morning like Chloe's. Ya wake up one hurting unit, wishin' you hadn't drank sooooo much and looking for the hair of the dog that bit ya!! Personally I have never done an hallucinogenic drug ,so I have never had visions such as Chloe's. I have , however, had visions of loveliness after way too much to drink and have woken up to that vision only to want to get the hell out of the situation as soon as possible. As a side note, I must say the majority of those visions truly were lovely. Yikes!! Am I ever glad those wild nights are way back in the day! Anyways, we now find Chloe after an orgasmic interlude with a cactus and a spiritual encounter with a talking, card playing sage of a snake, shaking her head in the middle of the desert trying to make sense of it all. The one thing I am most proud of Chloe for is the fact that not sharing the apple totally shifted the power of a story that has put the blame of many a thing on women throughout the ages, You go girl!!

God said duh

How interesting that Chloe is no longer questioning what she is seeing. She's so into the experience and she loves a good chat. If you were to meet "the" superior being, god, or just a talking snake who knew it all, what would you ask? They say no question is stupid, however, in a situation like this there would, no doubt, be plenty of stupid questions. After testing the water, so to speak, Chloe jumped right in with a big one, only for it to remain unanswered. Why do you think people are so screwed up about God? Or is there a God?

Reality is just a collective hunch?

Chloe finds herself in a curious spot. The middle of the desert, it's night, unfamiliar territory, and strange sounds. The mixture of peyote and tequila have some of her senses on overload. She didn't really know what to expect and she questions what she is seeing. Or thinks she sees. But of course she decides to go with it!! There is only a very thin line between that which is spiritual and that which is sexual. How many times have you heard "oh god"!! Either way she's along for the ride, and looking forward to where that ride might take her.