blog of Intrepid Wanderer

2004-09-03-2107Z

What a night it turned out to be. I had fallen asleep for a while at the ranger station and when I woke up it was getting dark and cold. So I headed on down the road; two more rides, one from a German guy named Erik and another from Jade Bob who also gave me $20! I walked the rest of the night towards the beach, after spending my daily $3 on food at the Food-4-Less where Bob had dropped me off, and arrived at Avila Beach by 10. Bathed and slept and ate.

Now to decide how to proceed; route 1 has apparently ended and 101 is still a freeway.

2004-09-03-0039Z

W00H00! Saved $5.25 in bus fares by striking out early. Headed down route 1 even though it's a freeway. They can't just make every north-south road into a goddamn freeway and expect compliance. I can't fucking walk on water for christsakes.

Well anyway, just over the Monterey county line it becomes an ordinary road. Yay! And not long afterwards a young dude named Kevin, who operates a contract food service (from what I could gather, what those in south Florida lovingly refer to as a roach coach) in Santa Cruz, gave me a lift all the way to Big Sur. Plus a roast beef sandwich and a Foster's! What a guy!

Once I dug out the fig, I just finished the whole thing off. It was too delicious to be inedible. Now it looks as though I'll stay at the ranger station tonight unless I get another offer of a ride.

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