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 Ventura to Santa Barbara and back

Monday January 1, 2007

     11:35am  This morning Carol woke me up with a surprise. She released me. She asked me, "Are you going on your solo-trip? The first is coming around." I didn't know how to take that. She told me, "I want you to go. You're right." Badass, I'm going to leave pretty soon! She does want me to go to welfare for her, so she can get some money to pay the rent, which I'm going to do. Right now I am going to go fly my sign at Sanjòn and spread the word some more. That was pretty fun telling my stories in the harbor last night. I need to go back there. Maybe I won't leave Ventura quite yet.

     11:55pm  Travis, I was just walking down the harbor, I was going to walk all the way to Sanjón, right when I got to the harbor I saw this guy with a braid in his hair. When I got close enough I hit him up for my story and he smoked a brother out!

     12:25pm  Hell yeah, I was walking in the harbor and some guy was walking in front of me. I decided I wanted to tell him my story. I hit him up and he sat down and listened to the whole odyssey and everything. He got a phone call after I told him the spirit's part. He ended up hooking me up with a nugget of weed and a ride to Sanjón. Perfect. So here I am. Hook a brother up, smoke a brother out.

     1:15pm  This sucks, I went to go take a piss and when I get back a bum stole my spot. I crossed the street and then all of a sudden this random dude walks up to me with his hand extended and says, "Hello, I have to shake your hand. I saw your website."

     2:13pm  At first I thought I was going to walk to Von's. Carol was supposed to come pick me up at Sanjón in a couple hours. I'm going to walk back to Sanjón and hang around. Maybe I'll tell people my story since that bum stole my spot. I put my thermal on. I walked over to the big Surviving the Surf sign across the street. All of a sudden this guy rides up on his bike. I give him the peace sign and he comes over and talks to me. He listened to me for a long time.

     2:14pm  He talked to me long enough for that bum to leave my spot. I'm going back to it.

     3:17pm  Oh yeah, I didn't tell you. Some heroin guy pulled up to the stoplight. I'm not expecting money at all today. It's all about handing out my website. When people pull up to the stoplight I say, "Hey, will you check out my webpage? It's free." They usually roll down their window and accept it. A lot of people tell me thank you. I tell them, "It's not religious, I promise." They always laugh when I say that. Anyway, he pulled up to the light and I asked him if he would check out my website. He said I had already given him one and pointed to his dashboard. He asked me, "Hey, do you have any samples?" I told him, "Sure, I've got a hit if you want one." He let me in and gave me a ride to the Von's on Seaward and Harbor. Carol wanted to go to Santa Barbara tonight. I'm looking for someone with a cellphone. I have to call Carol to see if she can come pick me up.

     3:44pm  I had to figure out a way to get home today. I was real tired. The buses aren't running today and I tried calling Carol but she wouldn't answer. I thought hey, I'll try and hitchhike home. I went out in front of Von's and stuck my thumb out and all of a sudden Robert pulls over for me! In no time. I appreciate it, Robert. In a nice Mercedes Benz. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     3:47pm  Hell yeah, that was easy. Some rich ass dude driving a Mercedes, Robert. I think he was Mexican. I gave him my webpage and everything. I logged his generosity.

     7:38pm  I never told you. me and Carol and Amy and Si, we all took off to Santa Barbara. I only made like nine bucks today flying my sign. We got some weed. We just stopped at the dollar store out here in Oxnard. Port Hueneme, actually. This is the dollar store we usually go to. Carol's inside buying shit. Probably stealing shit too.

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