061703

 

Odessa, TX to Roswell, NM

Tuesday June 17, 2003

     8:00am  Okay, I'm not sure what today is, but it's the next day. I woke up in Trey's truck. He let me crash out on the top bunk. I went to bed around 2:30am, so I got a good five hours of sleep. Right now I'm in the truckstop taking a shit in the bathroom. Everything's cool, man. This guy Trey is awesome. He let me crash! Now I can stay up all day and ask truckers for rides. Awesome. Oh yeah. He smoked a blunt with me andhooked me up with some traveling weed. It doesn't get much better than this. To the victor go the spoils, hehe.

                   Whoa, I just saw a truck pull up hauling eightcars. I thought it would be really cool if I got a ride from someone hauling eight cars, like I did last time. This big black dude climbed down from the truck and I asked him if he was heading West. He told me he was, but that he already had a passenger. I smiled and told him thanks anyway.

     9:04am  Jennifer is hooking me up with some breakfast here at the Subway inside the truckstop.

     9:35am  Man, I'm telling everybody my scripts. All the truckers. They're all impressed too.

     10:54am  Dude, I just secured my ride to Roswell, New Mexico. Badass. This guy Benito is hauling liquid nitrogen. When I asked him he said, "Well, it's against company policy, but what the hell."

     11:05am  I am now on my way to Roswell, New Mexico.

     11:15am  Umm, have we crossed the time-zone?

     11:41am  Benito told me I need to go to Durango up in the Four Corners. He said there's a lot of hippies there. Cool.

     12:03pm  We are turning onto Highway 385. That's the one that goes right to Odessa. Alright, Seminole city limits.

     12:25pm  We're in Denver City, still in Texas.

     12:38pm  Benito told me I have to hit Interstate 40, which is the busiest highway in the United States. I'll get a ride, no problem.

     12:39pm  We are in Plains city limits. Population: 1,450. West 82/380.

     12:45pm  We stopped to get some water and I had to piss. Next stop is Tatum. We're taking off.

     12:51pm  Benito was generous enough to let me have the other half of his Subway sandwich. Man, it hit the spot.

     12:58pm  We are in New Mexico now. 76 miles to Roswell.

     2:05pm  We are just now entering Roswell.

                   Okay, Benito dropped me off at some gas station. I thanked him for all his generosity and told him to drive carefully. Let me walk around and make some friends now.

     2:35pm  Okay, I'm walking down 2nd street. Somebody told me it's like four miles to the Salvation Army. Cool.

     2:39pm  I'm walking down the Hondo River Recreational Trail. It's not that big.

     2:44pm  I'm back on 2nd. Heading for the Salvation Army.

     I'm at 2nd and Main.

     3:05pm  Tiffany hooked me up with a coffee at the coffee shop.

     3:09pm  I got my coffee. I'm going to step outside and smoke a cigarette to it(and a little weed). I was thinking maybe I shouldn't tell the people in this town my ideas. I just told the girl at the coffee shop and her face didn't change at all when I mentioned marijuana. She said sin was the worst problem of all time. She's obviously religious. So maybe I might keep it turned down in this town.

     3:44pm  I'm out here talking to Heather at ABC Teaching Tools. I asked her if she knew anywhere that sold microcassettes in this town. I told her my story.

     4:00pm  Judy over at Arby's is being very generous and helping me out, for the cause. Thanks Judy.

     4:33pm  I just finished telling Donna Emers my story.

     4:38pm  I turned around on College street.

     4:50pm  I am now passing the New Mexico Military Institute.

     5:30pm  I walked into Big Lots and they don't have microcassettes.

     5:35pm  I stopped in at Target and they want $6.49 for a six pack of 60-minute microcassettes. Screw that.

     6:18pm  I just found me a cool little hangout. It's in these trees next to the road, like right before the mall. It's seems like homeless people come here. There are these couch cushions with some milk crates behind it, serving as a perfect recliner. Cool. I'm going to smoke.

     6:32pm  Okay, I'm leaving this little haven.

     6:37pm  I'm in the mall now.

     6:48pm  I came to the Radio Shack and told the guy working my story. It seems he likes marijuana too, because he's hooking me up with a 60-minute microcassette. Score! Oh yeah, if I set the tape speed to ½ speed, I can fit twice as much shit on it. Hmm, it's too late to go find the Salvation Army, so I guess I'll crash out at that place I found earlier. Wow, what a good day. Sweet. I got a blank tape. Umm, I guess I should let this side run out, since it's about to and I don't want to lose anything thinking it's recording when it's not. Hehe, how was that for a run-on sentence. Any minute now. Ahh, fuck it. I'm just going to put the tape away and load a fresh one into it.

                  Whoa, I just realized that I've only been recording on side A. Turns out I have a whole side B to fill up. And, I still have a new sixty minute tape that the guy at Radio Shack gave me. How awesome. Let me get his name.

                   The guy's name at Radioshack is Scott. Great Scott, hehe.

     7:00pm  I'm sitting here talking to John at the Movie Theaters 4 at Roswell Mall.

     7:04pm  Dude, I just scored me a free movie! Oh yeah, I forgot to set my watch back, so it's really 6:04pm.

                   Cool, there's a GNC right there. Let me go try and make friends with the employee and see if she'll hook me up with some Muscle Blast 2000. Hopefully it's a chick.

     7:09pm  I totally blew the girl's mind at GNC. I asked her if she could hook me up with the Muscle Blast and she told me to come back tomorrow at 10am and that she would hook it up. Cool. I'm going to have some traveling food! So now, I'm going to go smoke a free cigarette and afterwards go watch a free movie.

                   The movie I saw was called "Bruce Almighty". It was a Jim Carrey movie. It sucked so hardcore. I almost walked out. It sure as hell wasn't no Pet Detective. It was just plain stupid. If dumb stuff like that makes people laugh, what's this world coming to?

                   Things are bad enough in this world. Why do they have to make them worse?

     9:10pm  After the movie I went over to the GNC. Rheanna was closing up and I got her attention and she came and opened the door. I asked her if she wanted to hit my peace pipe. She said sure, but that she wanted to smoke some of hers, because my stuff was traveling-weed. She told me to wait like five or ten minutes for me outside the mall. I went outside and smoked a cigarette. 9:20pm came around and I got paranoid she had left already. Maybe when I went back inside to use the restroom she came out and didn't see me.
                    In the end she finally came out. She told me that my mission meant a lot to her and that she wanted to help. Rheanna is 26, married and has three kids(I think). She said her husband wasn't going to be home for a while and invited me over to smoke. She told me her husband was a really jealous type and he just wouldn't understand. I asked her, "Well, couldn't you brief him on me?" She said she could, but it wouldn't make much of a difference. What he doesn't know won't hurt him. Rheanna didn't have any ulterior motive besides sharing some peace with me. She said that if I had talked to her husband before her that he would agree with me and it would be him inviting me to smoke.
                    Anyway, Rheanna took me to her house. She had a swing outside and told me to just chill out while she went and picked up her three year old son. It was a nice night and the swing was comfortable. After like fifteen minutes or so, she returned with her son. We went inside her house and hit her bong. She even gave me some meal-replacement bars from GNC that she had. I thanked her for everything and when it was time to go, she said she would take me to some church. It was already late and I doubted anyone would be there, but I thought maybe I could crash under an eave, or something.

                    Okay, I typed that all up from memory. Here is some more stuff I had recorded:

     10:55pm  I'm playing with, what's your name? Rheanna's son. He's got this really cool monster that you squeeze and his brains come out. It's rad. Wish I had a toy like that when I was small.

     11:15pm  Rheanna drove me around. On the way to that church, we passed this cool building by the railroad tracks. People lived there and the lights were on. They had a huge fenced in garden and they looked like hippies. Rheanna told me I should make it a point to come talk to them about my ideas. Therefore, I have. They live on Railroad Street. I can remember that. Tomorrow hopefully. I have to meet Rheanna at ten tomorrow too to get my Muscle Blast 2000.

                     Cool, and Rheanna had hooked me up with three of these 2.75 ounce high protein meal-replacement bars. S'mores flavor. They're damn good. I'm at the Denny's right now and I ate one. I should've conserved it, but I'll probably be walking all night anyway. Maybe I'll stay up all night at Denny's and go sleep in a park in the morning.

     11:42pm  I'm leaving Denny's. I'm going to go walk around.

 

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