frank082608

 

RE: Life

victor gruber

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Tue 8/26/2008 12:23 PM

Frank,
     Sorry it took me so long to answer.  I rarely check my hotmail account anymore.  I have been terribly busy doing my thing.  Around the beginning of the year I walked around Loop 410 here in San Antonio, twice.  Bandera to Bandera.  Both directions.  49 miles each time.  I documented every step and took pictures too.  Do you remember Loop 410?  How about Loop 1604, the outer loop of town?  Well, last week I walked Loop 1604 too.  Bandera to Bandera again.  I did it in three and a half days.  1604 is 94.4 miles long.  All for world peace through marijuana.  It was such a blessed walk.  I'll walk it again eventually, in the other direction like I did 410.  I have to stay consistent. 
     Also, before I left last February to head to the East Coast, I was sure to spraypaint a fence nearby with OLD TEZEL NEEDS A SIDEWALK.  I had been planning this for years.  It really does need one.  They raped the woods I grew up in to build a new neighborhood on that corner.  So I had beef with that hood anyway.  I had absolutely no problem defacing that fence.  There's TONS of sidewalk in the neighborhood.
     I had always wanted to spraypaint the fence before I took off on one of my trips.  I thought I would need a getaway car.  Last February my friend agreed to drive for me, but stood me up and never answered his phone that night.  Well, the next day I was determined to take off traveling.  But, I still wanted to spraypaint the fence.  So around noon I mustered up some balls, walked all my bags the half mile to corner I wanted to tag and around noon in broad daylight with cars everywhere I spraypainted that fence.  Then I walked over to my bags and straight to the bus stop. 
     I stood there wondering what would get there first, the police or the bus.   I'm sure people called the cops when they saw me spraying the fence.  Lo and behold, ten minutes later I see the bus pull up.  I skipped town that day.  I've got current pictures of the sidewalk on my MySpace, http://www.myspace.com/victortheliberator    Click on Pics. 

     The fence spraying was even on the local news.  Check it out: http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6385273b-12ca-4a63-b8c7-8f6174db8c61
 
     I hit Houston, New Orleans, Pensacola, Panama City, Tallahassee, Lake City, Gainesville, Ocala, Tampa, St. Pete, Gulfport, Miami, Key West, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, back to Gulfport, Mathews, VA on the Chesepeake Bay, Little Washington, VA, Morgantown, WV, Charleston, Huntington, Portsmouth, OH, Cincinnati and Celina.  I documented it all.  I even went to jail for three days.  Read up on me if you have the time. 
    In Celina I called my mom and she told me, "Victor, are you sitting down?  They're building your sidewalk."  Woohoo!  My name ain't Victor for nothing.  I had to come home for my sidewalk.  Ada volunteered me the bus fare and I caught the Greyhound home.
     It's been great back in San Antonio.  There is no place like home.  I'm totally famous around here.  A regular hero.  I get recognized everywhere I go in town.  I am still spreading my word and having great presentations with people daily.  I'm giving everyone a big heaping helping of hope and it's spreading like wildfire.  You can always track my progress by checking my website.  It's fairly current and I just added a new section with my San Antonio Loop walks.  You should check it out.  Pictures and everything:

http://www.havethisbook.com/journal/loopwalker.htm

I'm on the right track and I have photographic evidence.

Hope things are going productive for you too. 

Praise Love!

- Victor Antonio