MoRoadtrip is an Artist Cooperative that promotes community, cooperation and self expression through Living Art on the Road.
In the mid-twentieth century, amidst the doldrums of suburbia, a few bold people decided to hit the road. Kesey took a school bus, Kerouac took a car, and Thompson, well, he just took drugs. Now many of us just sit on our asses and dream about life on the road -- free, alive, badass. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have decided to realize that dream. Starting in 2008, MoRoadtrip proudly proclaimed the next chapter in American road trip history. This August 18th, we're on the road with our sixty-foot articulated MoBus, the longest bus on the highway for our 2011 MoRoadtrip: The MoDream’n Tour.
"We're building our own Space Camp!" -A wide-eyed Mogorko
| MOROADTRIP: A DREAM GIVEN FORM
On the Origins of a MoBus - 2008 The bus was majestic, sitting atop Howard's Hill, facing west at sundown, begging for adventure. The 1981 La Mirage had been ignored. But DonJon and Phunky were there to rescue her.
, Yes, that DonJon, King of Mo, Eccentric Publisher of Moloch the Plutocracy, Pope of Dope, and self-proclaimed Artist of the Generation. DonJon had a vision ... a blurred, tinted, and, well, rather convoluted vision. Actually, DonJon takes the credit, but it was Phunky Harayz, MoFunky in moparlance, that put the steam in the first MoBus.
Their vision: create Living Art On the Road. One Last Great American Roadtrip. To pass on double-yellows the icons of the road that challenged generations, disturbed slumbering towns, pissed off confounded cops, and scattered general mayhem.
It was a bold expedition. 21 Artists and 21 Days across America, rolling up to the infamous Chelsea Hotel, demanding 15 minutes of fame at the Andy Warhol Museum, crashing the 2008 Democratic Convention and roof surfing into Black Rock City. Finally, the Mobus returned amid obnoxiously high hopes for the future.
In Pursuit of a MoBus - 2009
DonJon, swollen with self-gratification, determined to repeat the adventure, did not own the old La Mirage. Despite its impressive revival as a work of art, the owner, not a fan of Bulbism, refused to sell. "I'm no fucking hippie!" Donjon belted ... to hear him tell it. Actually, he wept. The others got him a bus-shaped pillow, and he sleeps with it every. single. night.
You see, DonJon's attic is a bit dusty, and he'd been deluded into believing he'd traveled in that bus "extra-dimensionally" with a "Merry Band of Molochsters." The other Artists on the MoBus were mildly amused. A proud Phunky returned to his native country of Malaysia. DonJon hopped on his bicycle in search of his next port-of-call and a new MoBus, settling in Austin, Texas, eyeing a converted 1988 Prevost H5-60, the largest highway bus on the American road.
"It's the most over-compensating vehicle ever built! Sixty feet of flexing steel, sleep on it." - awestruck Don Floriani
A Beg and a Dream - 2010 Enter Don "Big Tone” Floriani, a New Jersey boy with big dreams and an itch for adventure. Big Tone turned up the heat, organizing the next MoRoadtrip tour, while DonJon pursued the new MoBus with his bohemian wiles. Mad pact in place, the two fearlessly acquired the massive converted Prevost H5-60. Under the watchful eye of a skeptically permissive Almighty, the two delivered the bus to Austin and departed twelve hours later with a new band of bacchanal highwaymen. Nearly broke, rolling on the fumes of Four Loko and dreams, the boys dubbed it the Mobeg'n Tour. They departed from the weird city of Austin to courageously pursue their chapter in road lore. More a coming-of-age than the mad dash of before, the imposing MoBus lumbered impressively to the cheer and song of the merry band. Another wild-eyed dream come true, the new MoBus, manic crew intact, returned to Austin, hot, weary, and proud. After well-deserved fanfare, the MoBus now rests at the six-acre residential community, Motropolis, under the doting love of MoRoadtrip veteran Jorge "The Ambassador" Gamboa.
Now Announcing The MoDream'n Tour 2011 They are at it again ... lucky fools.
"We own the greatest machine ever to grace America's highways, and we are wise in the ways of the road," states Don Floriani.
"Yeah, we're fucking gods," replies DonJon.
Dubbed the MoDream'n Tour, 21 Artists will travel 21 Days in a study of dreams as Art, an awakening of dream manifestation, and a search for the Universal Dream of Humanity.
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