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Thornton to Denver to TA truck stop, CO

Monday December 26, 2005

     7:22am  I woke up at six thirty. It got cold last night. I didn't get too much good sleep. I was shivering all night. I need a sleeping bag! Now I'm over at the 92 stop at 112th/Colorado Ave. I can see the Church of Christ I crashed behind last night. I'm waiting for the bus.

     7:30am  The bus that came says it's going to Westminster, where Carol's evil sister lives. The driver told me he would let me know where to transfer.

     8:05am  I am waiting for the 6 at Pecos and 88th. Oh yeah, last night that kid Josh gave me a 256mb USB Lexar Jump Drive.

     8:34pm  Shit, shit, shit. The bus came and I got on it. I sat down to make an entry. My pocket calendar wasn't in my back pocket where it usually is. Yikes, it was missing. I panicked and got off the bus. I walked the couple blocks back to the stop I was at, in front of Water World. I was freaked. I thought I had lost Josh's email. Anyways, I looked in my mission bag and there it was. Whew. That would have really sucked. I would have lost all my loggings since I left yesterday.

     8:45am  The bus came going in the other direction. I stepped on and grabbed a schedule. I have a whole hour to wait for the next one.

     9:26am  I was bored waiting, so I walked the bus route a couple blocks to a panaderia. I bought two pineapple cakes. I grabbed a couple snipes at the gas station next door. I sat down and emptied the tobacco out of my snipe. I loaded it with some weed and was able to get some THC in my lungs. Ahhhhh.

                   I'm downtown.

     10:32am  I bummed a cigarette off some kid. I was asking everybody if they had a pipe. Nobody did, so I loaded another snipe. Oh yeah, I'm on the westbound 44 now. I caught it at Larimer and 15th, where I met Josh last night.

     11:13pm  Oh yeah, the 38 came and I'm on it. We just passed a food bank. I might come back to it.

     11:27pm  Just got off the bus at I70 next to a Walmart. I'm going to walk to the underpass and stand at the onramp.

     12:56pm  At the Walmart I saw this dude who lived in the parking lot in his RV. Like a lot of other people. Walmart is notorious for letting RVs crash in their lots. I walked by the RV and asked the guy if he was heading West anytime soon. His name is George. He offered me some granola bars. I tried to tell him my story, but he didn't let me. Then I walked to that underpass and stood on the onramp with my thumb out. I realized I didn't have my Nalgene. I left it in George's RV. All of a sudden this lady pulls up and hands me a pizza box! I walked back to George's RV and retrieved my bottle. Next to it, this kid asked me if I was going to Rainbow, that it was going to be in Colorado. I told him he should see me there. Oh yeah, I came back to the onramp. There's this spanger flying a sign. I pointed to my pizza box and called him over. I gave him a slice. Then he volunteered me three dollars! He told me about a truckstop two miles away. I'll stand here a little longer then I'll start walking to the truckstop.

     1:46pm  I'm at the truckstop. I already asked permission to ask for rides. Granted. Oh yeah, right when I left, the spanger got me a cigarette from somebody in a car. Then he offered me even more money! I have eighteen dollars total.

     1:57pm  A trucker just told me that they closed down a tunnel going West. That there was an accident. I guess I should ask for rides South.

     3:10pm  No ride at the TA. I met another hitchhiker named Casey.  

     5:37pm  I walked back and saw Casey again. We hit it off good and have been hanging out since. I already smoked all my weed. Casey is forty three and has been at the truck stop for three days. I've just been hanging out with her. I let her borrow my poncho.

     6:37pm  Terry gave me a beer at the bar we came to. Volunteered it. Thanks.

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