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                                                              Montgomery to Charleston to Hurricane, WV

Saturday June 28, 2008

 

     9:10am  I woke up not too long ago.  I didn’t set my watch last night.  I don’t know what’s going to happen today.  I’m not going to type my shit up here.  Jamilyn is supposed to come home tonight and give me some money for my t-shirts. 

 

     11:58pm  I am leaving Montgomery.  I have all my stuff packed up.  I’m not going to do my typing here.  I called Jamilyn and she told me she and Nat were going to be in Charleston at some festival they’re having.  So, that’s where I’m going, it’s Saturday.  I’m stupid.  I’m going to go to this festival and be seen.

                  

     2:09pm  The bus comes at two forty five, which means I’ll be in Charleston around four ‘o clock.

 

                   I’ve got two dollars to spend on food.  I’m going to go to the Mexican restaurant and ask them what they will give me for two dollars. 

 

     2:43pm  I never mentioned.  I went to El Jalisco and asked for a two dollar surprise.  They hooked me up with a big plate of beans and rice to make tacos out of.  Even gave me a crispy taco.  I ate it at the bus stop and I am all full.  I called Jamilyn from the house and she told me there was a big party in Charleston.  That’s where I’m going.

 

     3:53pm  I just got off the bus in Downtown Charleston.  There’s a big street fair today.  An art fair.  I hope I can run into Jamilyn. Picture of my gear.

 

     4:24pm  Hell yeah, I’m getting recognized already.  It’s raining hard right now.  I’m standing underneath this cover offering my website as people walk by.  I offered it to this one guy and he told me, “I’ve heard about you.  You talked to my friend Kett.”

 

     4:52pm  About five minutes ago I ran into Nat and Jamilyn!  We’re walking to the mall.  They’re hungry. 

 

                   The party downtown is lame, this festival they’re having. 

 

     5:34pm  Sweet, I just sold a couple shirts to Jamilyn and Nat.  I’ve got forty more bucks now, awesome.       

 

     5:56pm  I was walking around close to the Civic Center and I saw a bum flying a sign on Pennsylvania and Lee Street.  Hmm, I’m going to post up with my shirt and pass out my website to cars.  Let me stash my weed first off. 

 

     6:10pm  This off-duty cop pulled up in his truck all mad at me and told me I’m going to have to move.  Even though there’s this bum with one leg flying a sign right next to where I am.  I seem to have protection.  There’s power in numbers.  Let’s see if that cop comes back.  Then it will be showtime.

 

     6:53pm  Showtime, there’s a cop coming over. 

 

                   I told the cop I was just exercising my freedoms while I waited for the bus.  He told me not to get smart with him, but I assured him that was exactly what I was doing and offered him my website.  I told him I would stop and just wait for the bus.  The bus finally pulled up and I thought I had a good daypass, but when I tried to use it, it turned out being for a different zone.  I asked the driver for a courtesy ride.  “I’ll walk it if I have to.”  He let me on.  That’s the first courtesy ride I’ve gotten in Charleston.

 

                  Girl I told my story to in transit mall.

 

     7:06pm  On the bus, Doug heard me making that last entry and quickly volunteered me some dollars.  I appreciate it, bro.  Everybody gets credit, thanks.

 

     9:33pm  I ended up jumping on the Nitro bus.  I’m going back to Huntington.  I want to go to Ohio next.  I was told to check out St. Albans, so I’m going to. 

 

                   Page 76, the last sentence on the page:  "We must learn to include ourselves in the round of cooperations and conflicts, of symbiosis and preying, which constitutes the balance of nature, for a permanently victorious species destroys, not only itself, but all other life in its environment."

 

     10:27pm  I’m here at the truckstop at the end of the line for the #3 bus.  It’s coming down hard.  It’s really pouring.  There’s not too many dry places to stand.  Let me go try the trucker side. 

 

     10:48pm  I just got dropped off the bus and it was pouring.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do.  Just then Craig and Alex walked in the store wearing Grateful Dead tiedye shirts.  When they came out I asked them, “Hey, can I get a ride anywhere?”  They hooked me up with a ride.  I don’t know where we’re going.  Closer to Huntington.  Everybody gets credit, thanks a lot.

 

     11:12pm  I landed at the TA Travel Center about halfway to Huntington, I was told.  In Hurricane.  I think I’ve been here before.

 

     12:32pm  I’m going to bed.  It stopped raining and I went walking around looking for a concealed place to camp.  In the GoMart truckstop parking lot I found a long flatbed trailer I could lie underneath.  I put down my military rain poncho and made my bed.  Water was still dripping from between the boards of the trailer.  I’m just going to crash out and risk it not raining anymore.  I’ll take pictures in the morning.  I’m all situated underneath the trailer.  I’ll sleep with my poncho over me in case it rains.  Alright, I’m going to go to bed.  Please Love, protect me while I sleep.

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