Eureka to Field's Landing to Scotia, CA
Saturday July 25, 2003
6:52am I just woke up behind this building here. I'm not sure where this place is, but there was a cool little place to sleep. I got a piece of cardboard and laid it next to the wall. I got a full night's sleep. Anyway, I'm going to eat some breakfast now. Cereal.
7:32am Finished eating breakfast. I'm going to see if I can take a shit at the Taco Bell.
8:00am I just came out of the bathroom at Taco Bell. I took a shit, brushed my teeth and got my stuff together in my bag.
8:03am Now passing Bayshore Mall.
8:10am The dickhead driving the Fortuna bus didn't give me a courtesy ride. I told him my whole shpeel and everything. These boots are made for walking, though.
8:15am Joe hooked me up with a cigarette.
9:05am Field's Landing = 3 miles, Ukiah = 154, San Francisco = 263.
9:10am I stopped under a bridge to rest.
9:24am Walking.
9:52am Field's Landing.
10:01am Redd was gracious enough to give me a cigarette.
10:17am I'm in the tiny town of Field's Landing. At the Millers Minimart and Deli. I'm just standing outside seeing if I can maybe score a ride. This other homeless guy went inside and bought some cigarettes. I asked him if he could spare one and he gave me three of them! I told him about that I'm doing and how I plan to legalize marijuana. He smoked me out and gave me a lot of weed! I have enough to last me until San Francisco now. Shweeeet.
10:21am Walking past sign that says, "Pedestrians Prohibited," so I'm just going to stand here and stick my thumb out.
11:57am Miles hooked me up with 50 cents for bus fare. I think I have enough.
12:16pm I'm over here by the bus stop waiting for the bus. I don't even think Fortuna is that far.
12:20pm I just checked the schedule and the bus comes at 12:55pm.
12:39pm The bus just came early! Damnit. The next one doesn't come until 1:52pm. Another half hour. I don't give a shit about the pedestrians prohibited bullshit. I'm going to walk.
1:00pm I'm going to go to The College of the Redwoods. It's the next exit. I'm going to go check my email.
1:21pm I'm walking in the entrance to The College of the Redwoods.
1:25pm Dude, I've been here before, with Tony, last time I came. I remember this place now.
1:31pm Man, I just walked into the library there are tons of terminals. I could be in here all day long and type up all my stuff.
4:10pm I typed up a lot of my stuff and went to the bus stop to wait for the bus to Scotia. The Fortuna bus pulled up and the dickhead bus driver told me the Scotia bus came at 5:28pm, more than an hour later. I'm tired, man.
5:23pm This dude I just met was dumb. He comes to school here. He reminded me of Tony. He was always not letting me finish what I'm saying. He was always trying to show off and talk and shit.
5:30pm Man, I would never come to this college. The people here suck. I walked up to the bus stop and asked this dude if $1.25 was enough to get to Scotia. He told me he didn't think so, that it was $1.70, but he had some bus tickets he could sell me for $1.25. I told him that would be perfect, but he ended up not having them. He said I could just stay at the bus stop and ask people as they drove by. That I would be sure to get a ride like that. I told him, "Umm, look. The parking lot is empty, dude. There are barely any cars coming through here. Wouldn't I have better luck walking to the highway, which is not that far? Doesn't that make more sense than waiting in this empty parking lot?" He told me, "No one is going to give you a ride," got pissed off and walked off. People at this college are stupid.
5:38pm Here comes the bus, finally. I got on and told the drive all I had was $1.25 and he was cool and let me on.
6:35pm I am in Scotia. Dave, the nice driver even gave me the choice of dropping me off on the freeway or downtown. I told him downtown. That I wanted to do it exactly how I had last time. I'm going to sit down at this picnic table and eat. I asked Dave and he told me Stafford Road is only like five miles away. That's cool. I'm going to try and crash at the same RV park I did last time.
Fuck this town. God-damn. I saw this girl with a new pack of cigarettes in her car. I walk up to her and go, "Excuse me, sister." She immediately goes, "I don't have anything!" Greedy bitch.
6:47pm I just finished eating my can of Pork-n-Beans. It was good. Cold, but good. I was thinking, "Man, I wish I had a cigarette now." I stood up to throw away the can and I found me ¾ of an American Spirit cigarette on the ground. Hell yeah! Ha, I didn't need that bitch's cigarette. See, the universe provides. I'm going to take that as a sign and keep walking. Fuck this town.
7:45pm I see a sign that says, "Stafford Road Exit 1 mile." I'm going to take a piss and rest.
7:55pm Leaving.
8:06pm "Camping Stafford RV Park next right."
8:14pm Stafford Road Exit.
8:15pm I've decided I'm not going to go into the RV park just yet. I'm going to wait until it gets dark, so I can sneak in if I have to. I'm just going to stand here on top of this bridge and stick out my thumb for a couple hours. Ahh, I got time to kill.
9:07pm Now I'm going to walk to the RV park. No one picked me up. It would've probably helped if I stuck my thumb out. I was just sitting there.
9:18pm I just walked right into the RV park. Nobody stopped me. Nobody talked to me. I went back to that trailer where I had talked to that kid and his dad last time. I saw some guy inside and he came outside. I asked him, "Do you remember me? From like five months ago?" He said no, so I just assumed it wasn't the same guy and walked back to the same camping shelter I slept in last time. I'm in it right now. I'm just going to lay real quiet in here and hopefully I can crash out until tomorrow. Later on.
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