S.S. Vallejo

I went to visit Heide today, to photograph her in the last few days on her houseboat the S.S. Vallejo a decommisioned ferry that used to travel the waters from the Bay to Sacramento way back whenever...
Heide is taking to higher/dryer ground, but I have associated her with that boat since she moved onto it eight years ago and I had to have a good pic or two of her on it. Certainly the photos don't do her or the boat justice but you can see that there's a whole of fun art on it, a chunk of it created by Steven Spear who has is as whacky as they come. There are wonderful imports from Heide and Eric's world travels. It has great ambiance, it's a fabulous party place and should probably be on a historical tour of Sausalito. The boat, after it was moored in Sausalito became the home for collage artist Jean Varda, and later for the sixties' era movers and shakers like Alan Watts, visitors Timothy Leary, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. It has been taken over and refurbished by Eric Gullichsen and a band of dedicated roommates: NASA scientists, programmers, musicians and artists.
It's always fun to arrive in the gravel parking lot near the boat and leave a few hours later with the tide up to your wheel wells.

Here's to Heide and whatever crazywonderful place she finds herself.
I'll go visit.