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                                                                                                               Panama City, FL

Saturday February 16, 2008

     6:04am  I woke up at five in the motel room on the floor. Star Motel. Last night I had a great welcome to Panama City, man. They made some barbecue ribs. This hippie dude Chris, I met him and his friend Harry Potter in front of the general store yesterday. He told me to wait for him at the McDonald's and he eventually showed up. He let me crash in his motel room and I had an awesome presentation last night. Whole odyssey and all in front of like four or five people. All his friends he had made at the rescue mission. Umm, I'm going to be here for Spring Break. There's going to be a huge crowd. MTV and shit. So I have to chill here for a little more than a week. Like a week and a half. It'll be the end of the month when it starts. I'm going to have some fun. Anyway, I woke up at five and got 6.05 hours of sleep. I am already walking into town. I don't know where the hell I'm going. Right now I had to rewind and research my tape recorder. I had left it running in my pocket. I did and I'm walking down the street now. Hehe, everybody is telling me I'm going to get laid in this town. Alright. Wish I had some weed.

                   Morning Sky

     6:16am  Choo-choo just hooked me up with a dollar. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit.

     8:09am  I didn't tell you. Let's see, I went over to the rescue mission and hung out there and this dude Nick smoked me out. I put on my show for him and he listened good. He had to walk all the way across town to a Wachovia bank to cash his check, because the one closeby by the McDonald's is closed today. I put my rain poncho down in the grass behind the bank and smoked while I waited.  Right now we stopped at the Texaco on US 231 and Harrison Avenue and I ate a leftover rib from that barbecue last night. It was good.

     9:20am  We went to the bank and Nick got his money and we are heading back now.

                   Pictures of me.

     9:53am  We are so lost. We just got done walking like a whole mile in the wrong direction. We have to double back, it sucks.

     10:13am  What was your name, again? Mr. Holliman was nice enough to give us some water. We got lost in his neighborhood.

     10:40am  I forgot to tell you Nick called a cab and it just came. So we are on our way back to the McDonald's.

     10:55am  The taxi came and we rode it to the McDonald's. Nick gave me five dollars! So I've got ten bucks for weed. I'm going to walk over to all the ghetto people at the rescue mission and try to get some marijuana.

     11:22am  Choo-choo gave me a cigarette over at the rescue mission. I appreciate it.

     11:52am  This black dude was lame. He told me, "Follow me, we're going to get some weed." We walked over to some house, asked me for the five dollars and told me he'd be right back. Well, I saw him coming out of the house and he started walking the other way. I kind of followed him keeping an eye on him through the brush. I was walking a trail parallel to him. I ended up right in front of him and surprised him. "I thought you were coming right back. Give me my five bucks back." He did. Shit, I've been burned way too many times. I'll try and get it somewhere else. I should know better.

     11:56am  Josh just hooked me up with a cigarette and wouldn't take my change. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     12:54pm  Ahh, I got bored and wanted to go for a walk. It's Saturday. There are still no pedestrians out anywhere. I want to go find somebody to tell my story to. I was told about some marina, so I walked all the way down 5th to the water. I'm right where I was at yesterday, right where I got dropped off. By that little smoking spot I had. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I have like one hit of hash left. I got a little for five dollars. Maybe I'll sit down and take another break like I did last time.

     1:05pm  I came to the public marina here and I'm sitting on the bench close to the water. There's all these little sailboats out there. Nobody is out here even though it's Saturday. That sucks.

     1:49pm  I saw this guy walking by and I hit him up for my story. His name is Gill. He told me he had already seen me walking around town. I hit him up for my story, but he said he rather read his book. I'm all rested up so I'm going to walk back now.

     4:08pm  I went and I hung out at Chris' motel room. I lost my one-hitter. That really sucks. It's so mission-critical. I just found out that there's a better side to town. I first thought this was all that Panama City was, but here's a beachside! That's where I'm going. Fuck this crackhead side of town.

     4:43pm  I am walking down Highway 98 already. I'm walking towards the beach. I just passed the fire station with the big Smokey the Bear sign. I stopped underneath this tree and smoked half of this joint I had. I had gone over to Chris' motel room and asked if anyone wanted to smoke a joint. The only two guys who were there were the two that didn't smoke. Chris said he's not smoking until he gets back to Humboldt. Even though he had no trouble smoking my chronic yesterday. Now, I've lost all my weed. Man, I lost my one-hitter, too. That sucks. I hope something really cool happens at the beach. I'm going to start walking. I'm all stoned. I have walked so much today. My magic shirt is going to be all dirty.

     4:52pm  I stopped in at the Domino's and asked for mistakes. They didn't have any.

     5:03pm  I was giving all the cars the peace sign as I walked, like I always do. I was in front of the Big KMart over here. These two kids, a guy and a girl were walking by right in front of me so I offered them my website. They said sure so I hit them up for my story. All of a sudden Hippie Chris and Harry Potter walked up with backpacks. They got kicked out of the motel room because all the crackheads didn't have any money. Now they're going West. The same way I am going right now. We're going to the beach, sweet.

     5:04pm  Lee just hooked Chris up with a cigarette. He appreciates it, bro.

     5:14pm  Just crossed Frankford Avenue.

     5:22pm  Welcome to Historic Saint Andrews. Still on 98. 15th Street/98. I'm walking with my friends.

     6:10pm  We are about to start walking over this huge bridge. It's not that long.

     6:22pm  Just finished walking over that bridge. I was really power-walking going over the uphill part.
                  
                   I cannot believe that all this time there was a cooler side to Panama City. I just couldn't believe this is where MTV was going to come. Then I found the beachside.

     6:35pm  We stopped after the bridge and took a piss-break. Kevin(Harry Potter) and Chris sat down in the sand and got stabbed with all these peyote-button lookin' things.

                   Be sure to look up about the shootings in Ohio just recently.

     6:49pm  We just made it to Thomas Drive.

     7:10pm  Leonel me dio un cigaro en el Chevron en Thomas. Te lo agradezco, señor. Todo el mundo recibe credito, gracias.

     7:46pm  Some magic happened! We walked all the way to the other side. I was tired. We stopped at the Chevron on Thomas and Laird to get some water. Kim came out of the gas station and asked us where we were trying to go. She was going to give us a ride to the beach, so Harry Potter got in the truck and Chris and me rode in the back. All of a sudden Harry Potter tells me out the window that Kim is going to let us crash at her house! How awesome! We really appreciate it. Everybody gets credit, thanks a lot.

                   What's the name of this place? Lynn Haven Apartments.

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