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 Paonia to Eagle to Avon to Vail to Denver, CO

Friday June 23, 2006

     2:46pm  I am already used to not logging my stuff anymore at the farm. I've been working full days lately. Like sixty hour weeks. Carol just got a hair up her ass to send me off to Boulder to get her son, Kent. Then we can hitch all the way back to the farm. Kent won't hitchhike by himself. So Marty just gave me a ride to his house in Paonia. Carol hooked me up with some weed. Marty is going to chill here for about half an hour. It was cool. I just grabbed my bags and took off.

     7:49pm  I just got dropped off in Eagle. I got a ride from Marty. I'm on my way to Boulder. I wonder if I can score some food anywhere. I'm going to call Carol. I brought her cellphone.

     8:30pm  Holy shit. I got picked up real quick in Eagle by this Mexican dude named Ernesto. He just dropped me off in Avon. I lost Carol's cellphone. I must've left it in Ernesto's car. I hope Carol calls it.

     8:47pm  I have an idea. I'm going to go to the police station and ask for a courtesy ride, hehe. Avon is hardcore Babylon. Let's see what they tell me here. I'll tell them my story. This is Avon. It could be suicide. Wait, there's city transit. Maybe I can get a free ride on the bus.

     8:55pm  I gave up hitchhiking out of Avon. Nobody is going to stop. I walked in the Denny's and asked where a bus stop was. Marisa is being nice enough to escort me all the way to the bus stop. I appreciate it, Marisa.

                   Dude, I'm telling her my story and she even volunteered me a five dollar bill! Hell yeah.

     8:58pm  I am getting Marisa's email. mae347M@yahoo.com

     9:07pm  I'm waiting to get a courtesy ride. Oh wait, I don't have to get a courtesy ride. That girl gave me a five dollar bill just for talking to her. At the bus stop, I had a little time to kill. Hey, let me tell this pretty girl my story. Alicia was nice enough to give me a cigarette.

     9:25pm  Greg, the nice driver is giving me a ride to Vail. I appreciate it, Greg. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     9:28pm  I have to make an entry. The bus to Vail came. Man, it was awesome how that girl gave me five bucks.

     9:32pm  When I was on the bus I realized I had left my water bottle back at the transit center. I told the nice driver and he called the bus coming from the other direction and dropped me at his next stop. I cross the street, the bus comes and I ride it back to Avon Center. Got my water bottle back. The bus to Vail isn't running anymore. I'm going to try and find a payphone. I'll go back to the Denny's and use their phone.

     9:46pm  Oh yeah, I went back to the Denny's and my friends Marisa and this other girl from Bronson, CO, they're helping me out. They're calling the cops for me! They told me the police there would give me a bus ticket all the way to Denver!

     9:54pm  Officer Arndt is showing me all this hospitality in Avon.

     9:58pm  They couldn't find the bus ticket at the police station. They lost it. I tried telling Officer Arndt my story and he agreed to listen. Right when I said my first mission objective, world peace, he got a call on his radio. He told me, "Hang on. I want to listen to your story. Do you think I like doing this every day? I don't think you're crazy." He's calling Vail to see about bus fare to Denver. www.avonpolice.org

     10:25pm  Man, what a great welcome to Avon I've had. I am getting hooked up left and right. This is awesome. Just look at the chain of events that occurred. I got hooked up with a ride to Eagle by Marty. Right when I got dropped off in Eagle this Mexican dude picks me up. Ernest dropped me off in Avon, which wasn't that far away. I left the cellphone in his car. I tried to hitchhike a little, but nobody picked me up. I said screw it and decided to walk into town. Then I got the idea to go to the police station. Remember I had said I was going to go to the police station and ask for a ride? Then I see the Denny's and thought, "Oh shit, Denny's always hooks me up." I wasn't going to ask for food. I wasn't really that hungry. I went in there and asked the girl, "Do you know where the city bus stop is?" This beautiful girl named Marisa, she was on a break right then and she walked me all the way over to the transfer center. She even looked at the schedule and told me what time the bus came, at nine thirty. I had like a whole half hour to kill. I saw this pretty girl sitting down and I told her my story. This Green Eyed Goddess girl. She gave me her card. Then the bus came and the driver gave me a courtesy ride. I wasn't that far, like a mile away when I notice I had forgotten my water bottle. I remembered I had set it down on the ashtray at the Avon Center while I was telling that green eyed girl my story. Then I walked back to the Denny's to call Carol and tell her I lost her phone. Marisa asked me, "Hey, did you miss your bus?" I told her how I had left my water bottle at the bus stop. Then this other girl said, "Call the police. They help people out with bus fare all the time. They don't like homeless people around here." She called the police for me. The cop showed up. He was the nicest guy in the world. He couldn't find bus tickets in Avon, so he called Vail. He told me they were real dicks there. Vail told him that they would not let me crash at the transit center there. He eventually found me a bus ticket. He even gave me a meal-voucher for Denny's. I got the biggest burger they had, a double cheeseburger. See how I have friends everywhere? The cops are going to come back in an hour and show me a place I can camp. And in the morning they're going to take me to Vail so I can catch the bus.

     11:49pm  I am still waiting for the cops in front of the Denny's.

                     I even got a salad and dessert, apple pie. I got treated like royalty in Avon.

     12:34am  I just had a badass conversation with this trucker. He just offered me a ride to Denver!

     12:40am  Zane, the truck driver I was talking to, he's going to give me a ride to Denver! I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks. Zane is talking to me about the two kinds of generosity.

                     Zane: "There's unsolicited generosity, where someone voluntarily does something nice for you, just because that's who they are. Then there is forced generosity, where peer-pressure or whatever makes someone act the way they act."
                     Victor: "But is that true generosity?"
                     Zane: "No, not truly, but still they made some kind of effort to do it."
                     Victor: "Yeah, it's better than being a dick."

     3:32am  I just got dropped off all the way in Denver.

     3:39am  Damnit, I lost my hoodie. Ugh, I left it in Zane's truck.

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