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Ouray to Ridgway to Telluride, CO

Thursday December 29, 2005

     9:56am  What a crazy night. We crashed at Troy and Helen's motel room. Casey is a damn wingnut. She started massaging Troy, which in my opinion disrespected Helen, who I don't blame for getting mad. I mean hell, I should've been the one getting a massage. Anyway, Troy was overly enjoying it. Anytime Helen got mad, he would bitch her out. I felt really sorry for Helen. About Casey. Hell, I loaded up my stuff and almost left to go sleep in the cold snow. I changed my mind eventually and just crashed. I really feel like I should part from Casey. But, I want to go to Telluride and I might get a ride back to Ridgway if I hang out here.

     10:16am  peeeekat@yahoo.com

     11:38am  Oh yeah, I never told you what happened. Let's see, I volunteered to go check if Casey's laundry was dry. I walked by the gas station at the front of the motel. I stepped inside just to see who was in the store. I saw this really hip looking girl working the cash register. She was on the phone, so I continued to the laundromat. Casey's laundry was still a bit damp, so I put in seventy five cents more and turned it on. I walked out and had a great idea. I went back to that cute girl and approached her with my story. She was loving it and told me to keep going every time I asked, even for the twenty minute Odyssey. I only got to Arcata in my story when her boss came in and I excused myself. She gave me her email address and told me to hit her up and email her. That peeeekat one.

                     Holy shit, guess what happened next. As I was going up the stairs back up to the room, I noticed this guy and a girl driving by slowly. The guy looked like he had a joint in his hand, but it could've been a cigarette. Then I notice a weed-tin. Luckily, he had his window open. I yelled, "Smoke a brother out?" and pointed to my weed necklace. They nodded their heads and I went downstairs. We went for a quick drive and they smoked me out! Do you see how I was rewarded for telling the cashier my story? What a blessing.

     11:51pm  Troy gave us a ride back to the gas station at Ridgway. Katie, who works at the gas station gave me two cigarettes. I really wanted to tell her my story more, but Casey showed up.

                     erinolaface@msn.com

     1:54pm  It was so awesome. Casey started talking to this girl who was also wearing a marijuana necklace and some peace signs. Erin was her name and she offered to smoke us out! We drove to some river and I eventually got to tell my story. Oh yeah, I told Casey that we are parting in Ridgway. She just talks so much and doesn't listen. She asked me if I would go with her to at least Telluride. She's got shit to do there.

     2:31pm  In no time, Jeremy, another guy Casey knows, is giving us a ride to Telluride.

     2:40pm  jyanko@frontier.net

     4:26pm  I never logged when we arrived. Casey showed me her camp. What a glorious place. Then we left to go into town. In like less than five minutes Justin pulled over for us.

     4:42pm  Wow, Telluride is beautiful.

     8:00pm  Casey and I came to town and walked around for a little bit. Then Casey ran into some kid with a nose-ring. We all went to the patio to smoke. When Casey walked off for something, the guy with the nose-ring all tried to warn me about Casey. I told him I was well-aware about how much she talked and didn't listen. I told him I was relieved to finally be in Telluride so we could split up. He let me tell him my whole story. Then I walked by the public library and saw Casey. She was playing with this little girl and yapping her mouth as usual. She said she was going to crash at the little girl's house. I probably could've crashed there too, but I stayed a whole hour on the computer at the library. BJ wrote me, so did Carol. She's out of jail. She got out the day after I left. I spent a long time writing her back. I'll show you the emails. Now I'm going to try and hitchhike to Casey's camp. I've got my pack there.

                   Hold on, I'm typing this up on 12-31 in the library. Casey walked up and is reading this as I type it and she just told me she thinks I'm full of shit. That I am a complete exhibitionist of some sort, and walked off. Hehe.

     8:55pm  I met this other homeless dude named Ed. He asked me if I was sleeping outside tonight. I told him about Casey's camp and he told me he didn't want me to freeze to death. He showed me a warm parking garage I could sleep in. I told him I was still going to try and find the camp and if I didn't I'd walk back into town. I just walked all the way to the Texaco. Oh yeah, Ed asked me how I was doing on money and volunteered me five dollars. I just met Steve who works at the Texaco. He ended up knowing Casey and said she had been by tonight. I'm thinking she might be at the camp.

     12:00am  I finally found the DOT structure that resembles an igloo. Across the street I hiked into the woods like half a mile. I eventually gave up. I thought I would hitch back into town and crash in that warm parking garage Ed showed me. I was hoping there would be dry ground at the DOT so I could layer up some more. There wasn't, so I checked and the doors were unlocked on all these big orange Department of Transportation trucks. I put on my thermals.

Next day..