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 Yucaipa to Hemet to Beaumont, CA

Monday September 25, 2023

4:30am  Let's see, last night.  I am already up at the Fast Strip.  

              Last night I got tired of waiting so I walked not that far I found a little parking lot that had a building where I could sleep in the shade behind it.  I woke up at like three thirty or so.  I went to sleep around eleven so I got about four and a half hours of sleep.  I am out here trying to get some spare change for a coffee refill.  

5:47am  I just made my way to the other side of the highway.  I just realized there was an eastbound side with it's own gas station.  It's really weird how there is a fine line between Calimesa and Yucaipa.

  They are like right next to each other.  I am all bummed out that I have no beanie to wear.  It's cold.  To keep my head warm I have to have the hood from my jacket on, which fucks with my peripheral vision.  I came and was allowed to use the restroom at the gas station here.  I let them know they were out of handsoap in the men's restroom.  It's still a couple of hours until the sun comes up.  I am going to try and thumb it on the onramp and get to Texas already.

6:28am  The sun is up.  I am a little chilly because I don't have a beanie.  I can't have my magic shirt exposed if I have me jacket and hoody on.  Umm, I need to get money together for a marker so I can make a sign that says TX.

7:57am  See, I was going to ask where the nearest thrift store was in town, but finding one would probably suck me into Yucaipa some more.  I came to the onramp and in no time Sherry pulled over for me!  She asked me where I was going and I told her the next Walmart so my mom could transfer me money.  I can get supplies.  Thanks for the help, Sherri.  Everybody gets credit, thanks for not ignoring me.  Sherri is a child psychologist.

10:31am

9:51am  I am at the Walmart in Hemet and plot thickens.  There was a closer Walmart but Sherri wanted to keep hearing my story.  I need a valid ID to get money.  So I can't get any money from my mom.  Screw it.  That's not such a huge hurdle to jump.  I have been doing without my mom's money for decades.  I'll go fly my sign somewhere.  





11:02am  I didn't walk that far, but in the Walmart parking lot there is a US Bank!  My bank in Modesto.  I didn't know what I was going to do, maybe go fly my sign somewhere.  I walked by the bank and thought, hell, it's worth a shot.  I walked in and told a girl at a desk my situation.  I told her I have an account with about $160 dollars in there, but I had left my ATM card and my SSI money with my wife, and that I had an expired ID.  She first asked me how expired is it, and that they might be able to verify me with a security question.  I was logged into the ap on my phone, so I'm sure that helped too.  They let me!  I got eighty bucks!  I left forty in there for my wife.  Sweet!  I'm going back to Walmart and I am going to buy a sleeping bag!  

1:28pm  I got on the 44 bus, I think.  I am going to transfer somewhere to go to Beaumont and get back in I10.  I went in the thrift store and bought me a wig and a beanie.  

I got a mummy sleeping bag at Walmart for $46.  

2:15pm  We just got to the transfer point and the nice driver is giving me a courtesy ride to Beaumont.  I appreciate it.  Everybody gets credit, thanks.

3:14pm  I am in Beaumont!  

8:34pm  I just had this crazy good presentation with Yvette!  This random girl.  I don't knwo what street I am on.  I am in Beaumont and this girl just out getting exercise and "praying."  The sun came down and I was exhausted walking for miles down this street with all these country clubs, hoping to end up in some woods somewhere.  I had been hanging out at the light close to the Carl's Jr, flying my sign and passing out my blog.  When the sun came down I started walking in random directions and ended up on this long street with country clubs.  Lot's of bushes with sprinklers I coulnd't camp in.  I sat down in the grass under a light to rest and this girl walks by and I give her my usual line, can I tell you a really interesting story?  She stopped and actually listened to me!  I remained sitting in the grass and she stood and listened.  I have never told my story like that before.  She seemed really interested and I was happy to talk to her.  I told her a lot.  I should've told her the note from the rich.  She got my blog.  I still don't know where I am going to crash.  I am walking down this endless road of country clubs.     

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