Planet West County

For those of you not familiar with western Sonoma County where I live, I want to try and paint you a picture of it...for it will be an amusing backdrop when at the end, I tell you what I saw here today.
First of all, if you are in the know, you call it West County. That in itself means something especially when said with a particular attitude. The characters that inhabit this area are...ummmmm...color-full? There's an interesting mix of peeps...which seems to mostly work...well, in the sense that people don't tend to kill each other at least! anyways, on any given day you might find yer spiritual seekers, new age space rangers, arteests, homahsexuals, maryjuana growers and smokers, therapy junkies, red necks, xtreme lefty zealots, aging hippies (the men still sport pony tails and Birkenstocks and the gals long flowey dresses with hairy arm pits), the young hippies wear dreads and don't shower so much, old timey farmers, rich yuppies and then yer assorted wing nuts and whack jobs. So, it did NOT phase me to see an entire family in town today ALL wearing tye dye shirts!!! No joke. However, I did laugh out loud and wonder if they were part of a cult!