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                                                                                                       San Antonio, TX

Sunday August 26, 2007
                  
     7:22am  I should make an update already. Today I am going to walk downtown. I just now sat down and cut out one sheet of paper's worth of little papers to write my website on. Sixty five of them. I'm writing them right now. Havethisbook.com's.

     7:31am  Okay, just finished writing them all out. I'm going to put them all in my pocket now. I'm going to eat a big bowl of cereal and take off walking. I don't know. Maybe I'll eat at El Tropiko again.

                   I had a good stretch and I'm off. I'm all out of shape since I took like a whole month off. I should start walking downtown every other day again. I'm wearing my Fuck Bush shirt today. I have to go downtown, it's Saturday. Actually, I have to go back and get my water bottle.

     7:57am  I changed my mind again. I'm going back. I walked a little down the road again but I'm going to go back and put my PEACE THROUGH WEED shirt on. I want to wear that one today.

     8:13am  I was walking almost to Stevenson Middle School and these kids walking saw my shirt and yelled at me and gave me thumbs up. They came over to me and I gave them my webpage. I was able to bum a cigarette off of them. This one girl told me, "I see you all the time. How long have you been doing this?" I told her almost six years straight.

     8:29am  I just finished eating at El Tropiko. I'm going to sit down outside and smoke a cigarette.  El Tropiko is on Guilbeau.  At the top of this hill.  

     8:33am  I am leaving for downtown.

     9:12am  I'm coming up on Eckhert and Bandera.

 

I'm going to turn left on Eckhert. I'm going to go downtown via Fredericksburg this time, not Bandera.

     9:23am  I am passing John Marshall High School.

 

My alma mater. I took a picture.
 
                   Walking down Eckhert.

     9:54am  I just hit Babcock. I took a picture.

     9:58am  I just came out of the Valero on the corner. I took a piss and got some cold water.

                   When I walked Babcock to Medical this guy pulled up in a car at the light and read my shirt. He smiled and I immediately offered him my webpage.
                    
     10:17am  I just walked Babcock to Wurzbach.

 

I took a picture. I'm going to go to hospital where the buses stop and smoke somebody out. Like I did last time.

     10:20am  I just took a picture of the VA Hospital with University Hospital behind it.

 

In the background on the left you have The Wurzbach Tower. In the foreground is Easter Seals.  I went straight on Babcock past Wurzbach. I'm going to walk in front of the Easter Seals building where I went to that bullshit head injury vocational program years ago.

     10:22am  Turning left on Merton 

 Minter.  I'm right next to the UTHSC running track.  

     10:43am  I followed through on that shit. I went to the hospital and smoked some guy out. We walked in front of the VA and hit my special cigarette. I just realized I lost a lot of weed in my pocket. My dugout thing opened up in my pocket. I need to tighten it. It might just be back pocket-content from now on. I'm going to jump on the 91 and tell somebody my story downtown and then I'm going to walk back from downtown.

     10:46am  I changed my mind again. I'm not going to catch the bus. I'm going to walk downtown like I had first planned. I'm going to walk over to that vacant office building with the rainbow in front of it and I'm going to take a picture of it. My future headquarters. Then I'm going to head downtown. I'm going to walk up Louis Pasteur by UTHSC 

and cut through Oak Hills Country Club to Fredericksburg. Then I'll walk Fred all the way downtown. Sweet, I already see a tennis ball in a court. I'm going to score one.

                     Shit, I see some guy walking over to it and picking it up, damn. Oh well.

     10:54am  I just took a picture of 2020 Babcock.

 

                     My future headquarters. Just watch me manifest that shit. There's leasing signs all over it. Now Leasing. Riata - 210-930-4111. I'm going to turn left and walk up Louis Pasteur.

     11:01am  I just took a picture of the Methodist Heart Hospital.  

     11:09am  I am cutting through the country 

club.

 

I just took a random picture.

 

I'll take another one when I get to a pretty part.  

     11:17am  I just popped out on Fredericksburg. I took a picture.

 

                     Turning right.

                     I hopped across the street so I can give cars the peace sign.

     11:21am  I am about to pass Callaghan.

 

                     I took a picture. Man, I'm going to be a shutter-bug with this new camera of mine.

                     Oh yeah, right after I passed Callaghan I saw Katt and her boyfriend 

yell at me. Sweet, I'm going to cross the street and meet up with them. Maybe they'll smoke me out, hehe.

     11:26am  Katt just pulled over to say hi. I got their phone number so I'm going to call about weed. Oh yeah, Vance is in jail for not taking his anti-drinking medication. That's why he hasn't called me back.

     11:36am  I'm coming up on Loop 410. I took a picture.

 

                     Do you see my downtown in the background?

     11:42am  I just passed Hillcrest in front of Crossroads Mall. I stood in the middle of the street to take a picture 

of the downtown skyline. I'm going to keep taking pictures of it as I get closer to it.

     11:52am  I just walked in front of the Santa Fe Place Apartments.

 

I took a picture of the sign.

                     I stopped at the plasma place 

to see if Gabriel was there, my friend. I took a picture of it too.

                     Cool, I just got honked at. Everybody knows me here. This is my  town.

                     Passing Balcones Heights Street. Over by the McDonald's.

                     The men's restroom was out of order at the plasma place and I didn't see Gabe so I'm going to keep walking. I told the girls to tell Gabe I said hi.

     12:38pm  Oh yeah, I'm up from my first break today. I went in the Tink-a-Taco and ordered a taco and came to the building next to it and sat down in the shade and ate and smoked. I filled my liter bottle up with lemonade for a dollar sixty five. So I have a liter of lemonade. I drank some already. I'm going to keep walking.

     12:39pm  I'm walking by the HEB Fredericksburg Road Support Center.  

     12:43pm  I just took a picture of the Goodwill.  

     12:44pm  I just passed Vance Jackson.

     12:56pm  Entering the Deco District of San Antonio. Passing the Deco District HEB.  

     1:11pm  I just took a picture of the skyline over by Louise Street. Over by the Oak Farms Dairy.  

     1:17pm  I just walked underneath I10.

 

I'm coming up on Woodlawn now.  

                    I just realized that every time I've taken a picture of the downtown skyline I have zoomed in for it, which isn't fair. I've been further away than it looks.

                    I forgot which side street I have to take to go tap my tennis ball resource at the McFarlin Tennis Courts(3-18-05-3:10pm, 4-5-05-1:40pm, 5-7-05-11:26am, 5-17-05-3:19pm, 5-18-05-8:43pm, 5-20-05-12:21pm, 5-24-05-9:10am, 7-28-07-1:06pm). I'm going to go fill my bag for my trip.

                    I'm turning left on this West French Street. It goes straight down this alley.

 

I'm going to take a picture of it.

     1:27pm  Holy shit, I was just walking in this overgrown alley. I crossed a couple streets and it got really thick. I almost ran face-first into a huge occupied spider web. I tried to take a picture 

of it but I doubt it will come out. Umm, I'm doubling back now.

     1:29pm  I ended up on Grant Street and W French.

     1:30pm  I am turning left on Ashby. You can see the Jewish temple down there.

 

I'll take a picture of that too.

     1:32pm  I've decided I'm going to stop in at Rocky's Barbacoa, this Mexican Restaurant and ask for a cup of ice for my liter of lemonade. Well, I've drank some already. I'm sure there's a nice little natural park closeby I can go take a smokebreak at with some cold lemonade. Over close to San Pedro. I'm going to smoke some weed, hehe.

     1:39pm  I knew there would be a park nearby.

 

Cool, I see some dude. I'm going to go smoke him out.

     1:54pm  I am up from my break. I took a smokebreak inside this canopy of trees.

 

I took a picture of it. It's right next to this playground. Now I'm going to walk over to the McFarlin Tennis 

Center 

and harvest me some free tennis balls. Last time I walked down there with David(7-28-07-1:06pm) there were like twenty of them up there, man. I only grabbed five that day but I hope they're still all up there. I'm going to grab them all.

     2:00pm  I just walked up to the practice wall.

 

Somebody else got the big harvest last time. I only scored like six or seven today. Maybe four or five. I took pictures so you can see exactly where and how I get them. They're just up there waiting for me to crawl up there and pluck them out.

     2:06pm  I scored me a measly five balls. Oh well. That's a good start. There are other tennis courts to hit up.

     2:14pm  Passing by the bus company headquarters 

on San Pedro. I'll take a picture.

     2:18pm  I just took a picture at Cypress.  

                   Passing the Valero on Euclid. I'm not going to take a picture. It's just a gas station.

                   I'm coming up on downtown. I should take a picture of that. I'm right on the other side of I35. That's the highway I'm going to be taking soon.

     2:26pm  I just walked underneath I35. I took a picture of that cool graffiti on the wall.  

                   I took a picture of the library 

from Quincy Street. It's the red building.

                   I didn't tell you, it started drizzling so I donned my raincoat. I took a picture from Augusta. 

 

 I'm walking down Navarro. I'll get a little closer. I take so many pictures now.

     2:31pm  I just got to Travis Park.

 

I'll take a picture.

                   I'm going to walk down to the Mexican restaurant and get a cup with ice. I still have some lemonade left. then I'll go to the park and smoke a cigarette.

                   Damn, Blanco's Mexican Restaurant is closed. Shit, I thought today was Saturday! I'll get a cup of ice at the Bill Miller's.

                   Bill Miller's is closed too. I have to go to the Greyhound station. I hope I don't get run out, hehe.

     2:50pm  For some strange reason I thought today was Saturday and that the tourists would be all over downtown. It's friggin' Sunday. That sucks! I'm going to catch the bus back home and mop my mom's floors. That's what I was going to do today, before I took off walking downtown. I'm going to go down on The Riverwalk 

and see if I can get me a cup with ice. Stupid Greyhound station tried to charge me two dollars for a cup with ice.

                   I'm down on The Riverwalk already. I forgot to tell you.  

                   Ahh, I'm going back to street level up the Houston and Travis Street stairs.

     4:33pm  I forgot to mention I went to Travis Park and jumped on the 82 bus that goes up Bandera. I am already at the Mainland Walmart about to go home on the 606. Well, about to go to Church's. Let's see if I get hooked up today.

     5:42pm  I forgot to tell you that I got home already. I took a cold-ass shower and changed and took my boots off. Well, not in that order. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I'm thinking about it.

Next day..