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                                                             Sacramento to Iron Point to Cameron Park, CA

Monday May 11, 2009

     7:03am  I just woke up again.

     7:43am  I am gathering up all my stuff and am doing a final pack. Oh yeah, last night I noticed my digital camera was missing and I was frantically searching for it. I checked in the van and it was on the driver's side. It seems the belt loop on the case wore through and it came off. I totally lucked out in getting it back. That camera is really mission-critical. Until I get a new case it's going to go in a cargo pocket inside it's broken case.

     7:52am  I am going to leave today. I'm pretty sure. I'll talk more about it later on. I am finalizing my pack here.

     9:04am  I am all packed up and ready to go. I am in the van waiting for Rene. He's going to take me to get some ice at the Valero first and then he'll take me to the light rail station. Oh yeah, I decided I'm going to Cameron Park today, only because I told this girl on MySpace that I would. I told her I guaranteed it. I have to follow the signs. That MySpace girl is the reason I came to Sacramento to begin with.

     9:34am  Rene dropped me off at the light rail. I am on the train going downtown right now. I'll be damned if I pay train fare today.

     10:00am  I just got off downtown with no incident. Fuck the system! Rene gave me ten bucks for traveling funds.

     10:32am  I am on the Folsom bound train.

     10:39am  Nice Transit Officer Higuera is letting it slide. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

                     Ha, I got hooked up. When the inspector asked me for my ticket I told him how my full-time job didn't pay me money and that I worked for free. He asked me where I was getting off and I told him all the way to Folsom, that I was skipping town. I told him how I was a journalist and have been all over the country and he said since I was leaving he said he wasn't going to give me a ticket. I am collecting tickets, actually, hehe.

     11:08am  I got off on Zinfandel where the Walmart is. I'm going to go buy another compass for my walking stick. Then I'll come back and get on the next train to Folsom, without paying again.

     11:58am  I got off and went inside the Walmart and bought another compass. I sat outside and ShoeGooed it. There's this girl out here selling candy bars for a transitional housing program. She let me have the hair tie she had around her wrist and I used that to protect the compass. I'm walking to the lightrail right now so I can fuck the system some more.

     12:25pm  I just got off the train at Folsom. I asked this driver how to get to Cameron Park and he told me I had to ride the train back a couple more stops and get off on Iron Point and he told me they had a transit bus that went out to CP.

     12:38pm  I got off on Iron Point in front of this big outlet mall. I have to wait two hours for the bus to Cameron Park.

     1:13pm  I am wandering around the outlet mall here. I'm going to sit down on this bench in the shade and smoke.

     2:10pm  The coolest shit. As I was walking around the outlet mall stoned looking for people to tell my story to, I spotted these three kids Avery, Addison and Emily sitting on a bench. I approached them with my website and asked if I could tell them what I was doing. All three of them just listened to my whole odyssey right now. At the end I asked them, "Do you guys know if there's anything cool in Cameron Park?" They go, "Oh, that's where we're from." I asked them if I could get a ride so I won't have to pay bus fare and they said sure! They're going to do some shopping first.

     2:32pm  These kids that I talked to are giving me a ride. They're giving me a ride to Cameron Park. Thanks for mobilizing me, guys.

     2:50pm  I just got off at the library. I'm going to check my email and MySpace that girl who lives here. I'll tell her, guess where I am.

     3:35pm  I just left the El Dorado County Library. I emailed that girl. Makena is her name.

     4:07pm  I walked County Club Drive. I am coming up on Rustic Road. I stopped in the shade by a tree and smoked a cigarette and some weed. I'm all stoned. I'll walk through the town all high.

     4:20pm  I just found a Tootsie Roll on the ground!

                   Lizard

     4:28pm  Leaving from my four-twenty break.

                   This guy just pulled over to talk to me right now. He asked me, "Hey, are you a traveler?" I gave him my site and he drove off. He told me, "Good luck to you." Everybody wishes me good luck.

                   Coming up on Cameron Park Drive. I see highway with gas stations and restaurant signs.

                   I went in the Safeway. I wanted to know how much those summer sausages were.

     5:25pm  I came to the Safeway. The sausage was like nine bucks, so forget it. I only have five dollars. I saw a taco place nearby. I'm going to go hit them up for free food.

                    I just looked at a map and have decided I'm going to go up Highway 49 to Auburn and hit all these little small towns. I'll hit Yuba City and from there I don't know where north. I have decided that I am not going to go to Santa Rosa. I have done the 101 enough. Time to check out the middle-northern part of California now.

                    My penis is still a little sore from all the sex I had with Peg. Every time my crotch itches I get paranoid. I might have something. I don't know. I need to get checked. I only used a condom one time with Peg, the first time. I lasted so much longer with Peg. I can't wait to have sex again now. Maybe from now on I will last longer.

                    I am walking to the Round Table Pizza. There are tons of restaurants here. I know I'm going to eat.

     5:37pm  Hmm, Jimboy's Tacos. I don't think I'm going to score at a place with a name like that. Let me roll the dice.

     5:40pm  Rosa, en Jimboy's Tacos me va a dar comida. Te lo agradesco, señora. Todo el mundo recibe credito. Muchisimas gracias.

     6:19pm  I took a small smokebreak right in front of the Shell station in the grass in the shade. Oh yeah, I gave this pretty girl my website. I'm going to ask her how far it is to Placerville. I'm skipping town. Sorry, Makena. She didn't answer when I called her. I'm going to go ask around where the bus to Placerville stops.

     6:31pm  I hope it's not too late for the bus. I am at the bus stop in front of the Safeway.

                   That Rosa girl was beautuful. She was smiling at me the whole time. Even after I hit her up she just stood there staring and smiling at me. At first I thought she didn't understand me, but she did. As if she knew who I was. She knew I was the liberator.

     7:04pm  The coolest thing. I was walking to the gas station to ask the cashier if I could ask for rides. It turns out the last bus to Placerville passes at six and I missed it. I went to the Shell station and this brother Allen saw me and asked me, "Hey, brother. What's going on?" He called me over. He said he had seen me walking down Country Club earlier. He invited me over for dinner tonight, awesome. I've got a good story for him.

     8:34pm  Man, the coolest shit. I've got a place to crash for the night. We drove over to his sister's house and I automatically offered any labor help he needed. I told him I would help him a lot, on a volunteer basis. Allen is a hill-billy prospector. A gold miner. He lives with his sister and she's got a house full of junk. I've got a headquarters already, sweet, in Cameron Park, this rich snotty place. Allen says this is the most crooked county in California, El Dorado.

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