This year's Walt Whitman gathering starts on Friday, 26 May 2006 and ends on Monday, 29 May 2006.

As usual you should bring all the stuff of camping at Destiny: tent, warm clothes, drinking water (5 gal jug if you can), bug spray, instruments, a willingness to help out when you can, and a dream to plant.

We're in the midst of trying to get Destiny built this year, so bring your enthusiasm for hot showers, a new kitchen and improved tent sites.

Come help us celebrate another season on the land as we take on more of the vision and spirit of Whitman's comerados:

O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
O a word to clear one's path ahead endlessly!
O something ecstatic and undemostrable! O music wild!
O now I triumph - and you shall also;
O hand in hand - O wholesome pleasure - O one more desire and lover!
O to haste firm holding - to haste, haste on with me
- Walt Whitman - from Starting from Paumanok

Come to Desting as we form a ring, a circle to celebrate another season of gatherings.