One Last Ramble
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Page under construction: will feature the Calidocious® Inc. annual shareholders meeting, plus supplementary products of Calidocious® Co. that are intended to develop ties to other outlying Dutch-speaking countries, in particular South Africa and Suriname. After the business part of the page is completed, the page will feature a final highlight of the California Bay area- the hippie culture that reached its zenith in the 1960s.
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Further Bus in Better Days- 'A Garden of Earthly Delights' |
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Cinnamon, Ginger, Peppermint, and more... |
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| The Calidocous® Inc. supplementary enterprises are modeled on the historical Dutch East-India Company. The imported products include tea with Rooibos flavoring and spiced candy. Calidocious® Rooibos, or 'Redbush', tea is imported from the Dutch/Afrikaans-speaking area of South Africa. Afrikaans is a form of Dutch similar to several of the dialects spoken in Flanders in the 18th century.
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Calidocious Inc. also offers peppermints for sale and plans to add traditional Dutch candies shortly. A primary source of ingredients for the candies will be Suriname in South America and the Dutch-Carribean islands. The dialects of Dutch spoken in the Carribean and South America are patois, or mixtures of Dutch and indigenous languages.
Boxes of 10 packets of Calidocious® Tea are $12.99 and a 1/2 lb of Calidocious Peppermint Candies is $15.99. Shipping is included in each price.
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Spiced Tea with Rooibos- 10 Packets for $12.99- (U.S. Shipping Incl.) |
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Peppermints- $15.99 (U.S. Shipping Incl.) |
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| Please allow two weeks for shipping, and send checks or money orders to:
Calidocious Inc.
333 Cobalt Drive Suite 107 Sunnyvale, CA 94085
For questions please contact:
Zeelands@sbcglobal.net.
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Further Bus 2004 -"It seldom turns out the way it does in the song." |
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| The artwork of the Flemish artist Hieronymous Bosch, particularly his 'Garden of Earthly Delights', can be considered a sort of blueprint for the "Further" bus journeys of Ken Keasey and the Band of Merry Pranksters- the apgoee of Hippie culture.
Author Tom Wolf described the Merry Pranksters' adventures in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".
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Nothing symbolizes a "ride" to the wild, uncharted side of existence better than the paintings of Bosch and the Further bus. The subtitles are lines of the song 'Scarlet Begonias' by the Grateful Dead, who also participated in the Electric Kool-Aid tests.
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"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right." |
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Reprise- Modern Copy of the Original Bus- The Wind in the Willows played Tea for Two, The Sky was Yellow and the Sun was Blue." |
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| Unfortunately, the bus ended up in a swamp for many years, and is still in need of repair. Calidocious® Inc. hopes to help with ongoing efforts to restore the bus. Perhaps someday the bus, or a replica of it, will "pass by--pass by." the home of Hieronymous Bosch in Flanders while on a road trip to Burgundy.
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Interestingly, "The Garden of Earthly Delights" was painted just before Columbus discovered America and transformed the European view of the universe. It is a sort of snapshot of a European world-view where everything that could ever be known had been discovered.
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"Rings on her Fingers and Bells on her Toes" |
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1960's- Woodstock Bound "Scarlet Begonias and a Touch of the Blues" |
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