031707

 O'Brien to Eugene, OR

Saturday March 17, 2007

     9:28am  What a magical day yesterday was. On the drive up here right after we left the rest area I tried telling Sara my story while she was driving. Right after I got the mission-objectives out Sara turns to Travis and says, "This is something I really need to hear. Can you drive?" Travis drove us all the way over to Nanish Shontie, this place close to Eugene. Like five hundred miles away. This is a place Travis is going to live at. Some community out here. I actually got to sleep in a bed last night. This badass travel trailer. Sara crashed in her truck with her dogs. Now we are leaving Nanish Shontie. We're going to go get breakfast. I said bye to Travis and gave him a hug. He was a good traveling partner. Let's see what happens today.

     10:07am  We just got pulled over. Sara was speeding. It's Oregon. They don't like people speeding here. They go real slow. I don't know what's going to happen. I will let you know.

                     Lane County Sherrif.

     10:48am  Well, Sara got pulled over and they are impounding her truck. Her Dodge SLT. She called a cab and we're going to go get a rental car. We have all our shit loaded in the cab. Whoa cool, we're going to Vegas, awesome. Just like that, hehe. Never been to Vegas before, awesome.

                     Art West of Lane County Sheriff's Department, I told him my story! I got my mission objectives out right when the tow truck pulled up. Before when he came up to the window I had told him I was a journalist and I gave him my website. He told me, "Oh, you write?" I told him, "No, I live." I told him, "The topic is world peace through marijuana. They didn't call them peace pipes for nothing." He smiled and said, "That's right." Hmm, I don't know how much of Sara's stuff we're going to be able to fit in the trunk of the cab.

                     I don't know if I told you about Sara, but she's a nude dancer. She's a traveling dancer. That's awesome. She travels around and strips when she needs money. She is so free. Right when we got pulled over Sara looked at me and said, "We might need some money. We're going to Las Vegas. You don't have to come if you don't want to, but I'm going."

     12:19pm  Oh man, what a great time I'm having in Eugene with my good friend Sara. We came to the Red Carpet Motel where they accept checks. We got a motel room. We're going to go eat right now. We're going to go walk the dogs and eat. Man, Sara is just beautiful.

     5:41pm  Man, what a glorious time I am having with Sara. She just went to work. She just called up some stripclub and asked 'em, "Hey, can I come in for an audition?" She's hot. Sara is so hot. She's a beautiful dancer. Man, what a great blessing that has been bestowed unto me. She's going to take me all the way back to San Antonio! We're still going to hang out here. Man, she is being all chummy with me. I'm living it up. She'll be back around three in the morning or something. So I have all night here to myself. It's still daylight. Wow, I'm in Eugene, Oregon again. I'm back in Eugene. I'm going to go out and do my laundry. She even gave me twenty dollars. I'm going to go to laundry. This is so awesome.

     6:42pm  I walked up to the laundromat. The BIG Y Laundromat. I got my laundry started. I'm going to go eat at this Asian American Buffet right across the parking lot from the laundromat.

                     I changed my mind. I'm not going to eat there. I passed a Jack in the Box on the walk up here. I'll go there.

                     Oh shit, I totally forgot. I walked by the Salvation Army thriftstore. I'm going to see if they have any shoes. I've got twenty bucks.

                     It's closed. That sucks. It opens at nine thirty in the morning. It's closed tomorrow too. That sucks. Okay, time to walk to the Jack in the Box. I have to be back at the laundromat at seven.

     6:56pm  I came to the Jack in the Box. I was going to get me a combo but I changed my mind. I just wanted a sandwich by itself, because I have my water bottle. Right after she took the money and gave me change I thought maybe I should've gotten the combo. This cute little girl told me, "I just made some fries. I'll give you some." Hell yeah! I got hooked up with free curly fries!

     7:43pm Oregon plate SDL443, this guy Jeff who just pulled up to the laundromat, I had a badass presentation with him. He wrote down my webpage and everything. When he had been inside I saw him and he looked pretty cool. I had my one-hitter loaded. When he came outside I held it out and said, "Hey man, do you want a drag off my special cigarette?" He said, "Oh man, I wish." He was on probation or something. He gets urinalysis's. I told him that was a curse. I hit him up for my story and he said, "Yeah, sure." He was a great listener. It was awesome.

     7:54pm  I am finished up at the laundromat. I'm going to walk back to the motel.

                    Right after my laundry finished I got ready to take off walking back. All of a sudden Jeff comes back to switch out his clothes and he's giving me a ride back to Red Carpet Motel.

     8:09pm  I am back home. Back at the motel room.

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