Is living in the city getting you down? Do you long to head out to wide-open spaces, where you can leave civilization behind? Are you annoyed by 21st-century ephemera like streets...electricity...cell-phone signals?

Then come out to this week's hash.

It's the Donner Summer Party Hash, starting this Saturday, May 15, at 4 pm from the boat ramp parking lot in the Crooked Creek Recreation Area in Brown County. Your hare will be White Lightning, and the shiggified trail will include water, mud, brambles, hills, spiderwebs, rocks, snakes, poison ivy, ticks...and beer. The cost will be a mere $5 per experienced hasher, or free for first-time hashers and the Dalai Lama. There will also be orange food, margaritas and pina coladas for survivors.

To get to the Crooked Creek Recreation Area:
Take Third Street/46 east out of Bloomington. Go precisely several miles to Belmont, and turn right onto TC Steele Road. (There'll be a sign for the TC Steele Historic Site -- follow the sign.) Take TC Steele Road south past the TC Steele State Memorial, and past Gilmore (Girls) Ridge Road, and past Davis Creek Road...heck, just keep driving straight on TC Steele Road. Eventually, you'll see a boat ramp parking lot on your right -- park and hash. I'll mark the road with flour, you can't miss it. Well, unless you're sexting while driving or something. So quit it already.

Here's a link to a map to the start: link. If you get lost, call 812-219-6566, and hope I can get a signal. (Notice that the start place is a long way away. Don't leave the house at 4 and think you'll get to the start on time. Especially if you're sexting along the way. That's a time waster for sure. Not that I'd know or anything.)

The on-after will be at Nick's, 'cause it's summer session on campus and we can park again!

ON ON to the Donner Summer Party Hash!
WL

PS: Hey, the mugs worked pretty well for the last hash -- bring your mug back so we don't have to use so many paper cups for the down-downs. And if you didn't get a mug, we have more.