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to Monterey to Big Sur to Pismo Beach to Santa Barbara to Oxnard, CA

Monday October 30, 2007
                  
     4:06am  Today's the day before Halloween. I woke up this morning at like three. I had to take a shit real bad. I'm not that tired, I got enough rest. I want to wake Carol up and tell her let's go already. She can sleep in the car. She'd probably start bitching. She's in the bathroom now.

                   Oh yeah, my tape recorder is messed up now. The door broke on it. I'm not sure how much longer it will last me.

                   Last night we crashed at some county park. I woke up like at three. I wasn't tired so we drove to Monterey and crashed again in this parking lot in front of this old folk's home. I went to take a shit at the gas station this morning and I wrote Victor the Liberator on the floor with my marker. Then we came to this Valero on Webster and Munras Avenue, where I've been last time I was in Monterey years ago, where I had tagged Victor the Liberator with a white paint marker on the paper towel dispenser. I don't think it was a Valero then. Carol had gone in there first and when she came out she went, "Oh man, you're names tagged in there." Holy shit! I thought she had done it herself, but when I went in there I freaked. It's still there from when I had come here last time, like three years ago(10-19-04-6:00pm). Somebody wrote The Dumbass after it. I scratched that out with my black marker and tagged havethisbook.com on the top of it. Updated. I can't believe that was still there after all this time.

                   We're getting lots of gas. People are hooking us up here.

     7:38am  We just scored free continental breakfast at the Best Western here in Monterey.

     10:02am  We stopped at this gas station on Highway 1. It was around the same place where Seymour picked me up in 2004. It's really cool how I am reliving all this stuff.

     10:22am  I didn't mention that road was Highway 1 and Rio Road. I got the idea when we pass Esalen(10-20-04-700pm) I want to stop at the gatekeeper and tell them to give Seymour a message with my website.

                   We just passed Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park where I went hiking last time(10-20-04-9:42am).

     10:47am  We just stopped at Esalen. He wasn't there, but I left him a note with my webpage on it.

     1:12pm  We dove by Harmony, California and I wanted to stop and tell my story and hand out my webpage. Just because of the name of the town. Carol told me no.

     2:15pm  Luke hooked me up with a cigarette in Pismo Beach.

                   Look up Confederacy of the Dunces.

     2:53pm  We're over here on the pier in Pismo Beach. The Oceano Pier. When I came out of the bathroom Carol was already handing out my little papers with my URL on them. Carol: "These guys came up to us and said they liked our costumes, because it's almost Halloween. I said what costumes. They said to themselves, "Oh, those aren't costumes. They're real hippies." We traded them this necklace for this cool weed container. This girl gave Carol five bucks for a tie-dye shirt. Then these other two kids walked by and I hit them up for my story. I didn't tell them the whole thing, but they have the webpage. One was this white rapper dude.

                   Hell yeah, we're going to go to Santa Barbara and buy some marijuana.

                   We're still out here at Pismo Beach. We're heading to Santa Barbara to get some marijuana.

     3:14pm  Carol: "Uh, at the light in front of JJ's Deli and Market in Pismo Beach there's a scarecrow outside for Halloween. Victor was all, "Look, there's a panhandler! He needs a sign!" We pulled over and Victor put his havethisbook.com sign in his hands. Now the scarecrow is flying it on the corner. Right off the 101.

     6:20pm  I just wanted to mention that we are all high now on some OG Kush we scored at the store in Santa Barbara. I really wish I could go inside the store, but I don't have my medical card. Carol's gave them my website. Carol: "You have to have your medical card. If you go in and buy medicine and you don't they could get shut down.
                   I think we need to mention something about what we were just talking about. He's talking about getting the truth out there and making it happen. Change people's minds and stuff. Earlier we were talking about cars. We were in this traffic jam on the freeway in Santa Barbara. It's like right after work at six thirty and it's bumper-to-bumper going towards Ventura. We're in it and we're sitting here talking about how driving puts you in a trance. Then we realize that people sit at computer screens all day long in a trance and then they get in their car and drive home and they're in a trance. They turn on the TV and they're in a trance. They spend all of their lives in a trance. That's why everybody is numb and apathetic. I wanted to point that out and I think we should put that on the website. That's a very important thing to make people aware of. You literally have to pull them out of their trance and put it right in their face's. I mean, have you ever been talking to someone and they're watching TV and they don't hear you and you have to literally go stand in front of them and break their concentration and go, "Hello?" They're all, "What? Are you talking to me? I'm sorry," and then they have a conversation with you." We need to break people out of their trance and put it right in front of their face.
                   Don't you agree that when you're driving you are in a trance? Everybody knows that it puts you in that way. So does the TV. It's common-knowledge. Our whole lives we have known that. It's not something new. I am sure that the whole middle class would agree to that fact. All over the world every time I open a paper I see another country rioting and fighting for their rights. We don't do that. We just hand our rights over. We were tricked with the Patriot Act. We were tricked by nine eleven in fear. This is so 1984. It's so much like the book. We're being pumped full of fear by what the television tells us and their news is all we see. So we're afraid in this trance-like state. We're not going to stand up. We're not going to say, "Hey, whoa."
                   Remember that bus driver we met in Boulder that stood up to the police? Apparently he saw a cop at an intersection and this guy made a right turn in front of the bus and the cop didn't do anything. He just sat right there and watched it happen. The bus driver apparently had to slam on his brakes and he almost crashed and injured people on the bus. He was really upset that the cop didn't do anything. So, when the cop pulled out he moved his bus the block the police officer. The officer got out of his car and told the driver, "What the hell is wrong with you? and started screaming and yelling at the bus driver walking towards him. Because he had pinned his car with the bus. He said that the cop started screaming and yelling at him to get out of the bus. He got in the cops' face! He didn't back down, he got in the cops face and told the cop off. He told the cop, "Listen, you messed with the wrong person today." The bus driver used to study law. He liked Victor a lot, so he might've been gay. Not that has anything to do with anything, but he just wouldn't back down. The bus driver had something like that previously happen to him where he won a lawsuit against the county. When they found out who he was they apologized and let him go. It turned out to be this big deal and like five cops showed up, which is the normal thing. He was really irate. He would say to the cop, "Hey, you're wasting the taxpayer's money. You are out here harassing me when you were the one who failed to do your job." He just got in his face and told him what was up. He stood up to him.
                   People don't do that. People are so scared to do that. There's no way anybody would do that because they are so afraid. When you get pulled over by a cop you are all yes sir no sir, only because you don't want to go to jail. These days they would take it as an assault. You're a terrorist. You're threatening them. It's that bad now. It's really that bad. You can't stand up and tell them how you feel because they're going to say, "Are you arguing with me?" Yeah, I'm arguing with you. I'm telling you how I feel. To them that's called interfering with something. They got a law for it and they'll arrest you for it. You have to go to court and you get put on summary probation and they watch you for three years. Welcome to California. That's all I gotta say. Oh yeah, Victor wants to go to jail. Go to Boulder. That's the only place to go to jail, because you don't want to go to jail here, trust me. Boulder is a picnic. Victor's wondering what crime he could commit that would only land him like a week in jail. Hmm, for that ticket you got in Ventura, see if you can do a day of jail. For your ticket you have to go to court. Go to court, because if you don't pay it and you don't go to court there will be a warrant out for your arrest. So, welcome to California. You would have to do something to get pulled over. You know what I'm saying? That's also not a good idea, that's stupid. You don't want to go ask a cop, "Hey, will you run a warrant on me?" Well, then go do that, Victor. That's what you should do then. There's your answer. Go walk down Main Street Ventura and you'll see a cop and ask him. You should just look at the court date and go to the court and appear and tell them that you don't have any money, your indigent and you want to go to jail.
                   We just looked at the ticket and I just realized that Victor's name is not on it anywhere. It's just a parking ticket for the car. The car's not registered in Victor's name. It is registered in the past owner's name. We're not planning on registering it in our names and we don't have registration from California. I'd tell the oinker that we just bought the car and we're driving it back up to Oregon. It doesn't matter. The car is not even going to be in this state. It's got Oregon license plates and it's going back up to Oregon. Wherever we go. The car's not staying in California so it doesn't really matter. It's not even registered to Victor and they don't even have his name associated with the ticket. Victor wants to keep the ticket and put it in like his archives and reference it. It's a joke. Fuck the system.                   
                   There's nothing they can do. I mean, we're not part of the system. At no time or place do either one of us plan on ever registering this car. We're just borrowing it for a minute, you know to stay out of the rain. It hasn't rained yet, so it's really kind of unnecessary. Victor pointed out that we could just tell the cops we're borrowing the car from a buddy in Oregon. I guess that's all we'd really have to tell the cop. Then they would probably ask for your buddy's phone number. I wonder if they have the right to ask that. I'm going to ask a lawyer and find out.
                   Hey Victor, we had an awesome day today. We woke up this morning in the most awesome place. This campground. Last night I was driving around like crazy through Santa Cruz. I couldn't find the way out. Santa Cruz is nuts. I found this beach that everybody kept telling me about, but we couldn't camp there. I went down this road and drove miles into we didn't know. I turned the wrong way and we went back into town, probably not too far from the freeway at that point. I didn't know where I was. We accidentally went back into town again because of the exit. I was trying to find the next state park. The exits were all screwed up and they were really weird and I couldn't remember if I had passed it. It was shorter to just go West and check. So I did and I couldn't find it. I finally found it and we went and it was beautiful, man. There were these pine trees and stuff and it was right on the ocean. You could hear the waves at night crashing on the shore. It was so relaxing. It's such a beautiful area, beautiful campground. Victor was asleep in the car the whole time I was lost. When I got to the campground I started a fire and made our bed on the ground. I woke him up and he was all happy. There was like a fire going and a bed already made. He was all, "Right on!" So we went to sleep. I slept really good, so did Victor, I think. It was warm and everything.
                   So like Victor wakes up at like three o' clock in the morning because he has to go to the bathroom. He was all, "I'm up. It's time to start the day." He told me we had to go because he had a bad feeling. I didn't have a bad feeling, but if he did then maybe there's a reason. It was the reason of getting hooked up, which we did by leaving at that time. We ended up being in the right place at the right time all day long. He said that his weird feeling wasn't necessarily a bad feeling. He said it was a weird feeling and he emphasized that. That's what the feeling was. Time to go. So we packed up and we left. Actually before we left and I went to the bathroom I walked out to the water. I kind of liked it with the moonlight. It was really neat, early in the morning. We got in the car and we went to the next city which was Monterey and we slept in the parking lot of a doctor's office. At about eight 'o clock in the morning people started showing up. We woke up and Victor went to the bathroom there. It was an old folk's home. Then we asked some guy where the gas station was and he told us. At the gas station we asked permission and the clerk let us spange. We got hooked up at the gas station. People were giving us gas and change.
                   I went in the bathroom and Victor the Liberator was on the paper towel dispenser all the way from 2004. I sat down and I was looking at it thinking, "Uh-uh. I can't wait to tell him!" We got air in the tires. We asked the guy at the gas station where the Best Western was. We went to the Best Western and I walked into the dining room, "Oh my, did we miss breakfast? We just woke up." I run out to the car and yell at Victor, "It's not too late, come on!" He gets out of the car and we just go in and chow down. We took lots of donuts and stuff with us. Cereal and milk like we always do. We ate there too. It was so great. We should've checked our emails at the business center, but we didn't. We just left after having a really good free breakfast. Again!
                   We were going to drive down the 1. We realized that it was really far to the next place for gas. We didn't have enough. Yay! We're here! We just crossed the Ventura County Line. Go to a different jail. It is six forty one. This is the day before Halloween, I believe. We're stoned out of our minds right now. Where was I? So we went to this other gas station and we got a full tank of gas. We drove down Highway 1 with these spectacular scenic views. All the way through Carmel. Then we stopped in Pismo and walked on the pier and told Victor's story and handed out little papers with his website. We talked to a whole bunch of different people. It was really cool. Then we drove to Santa Barbara while Victor read 1984. We had Big Macs for a dollar, which was totally disgusting. They were only a dollar and we ganked some ice and lemonade and we got to go to the bathroom. Then we went to Santa Barbara and to the Acme Collective to buy some weed. Some guy that was sitting in there asked me if I had just gotten back from the mountains. Stop interrupting me! Stop interrupting me, Victor! It's really irritating. I'm trying to record. I'm trying to tell you about this guy. Anyway, it was really beautiful.
                   I forgot the best part of the day. We pulled over and had raging-good sex on the side of the road somewhere past Santa Maria. It was great.

     9:20pm  Carol: "We came to the hottub at the Casa Sirena in Oxnard again. Now we're going to smoke some weed.
 

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