2004-05-09-1731Z


Well, as I mentioned on Friday I was going to start walking towards City4 of the Sun. So after my morning sleep, I sampled the black mulberries there in the park on Spruce and 8th, then went to McDonald's for breakfast, and on over to the library to check my email; and finally headed South on highway 11.

On the way I ate some cactus and, a few miles into the journey, decided to try a stalk of yucca (specifically, Spanish Bayonet). It tasted pretty good, though slightly bitter. I just peeled and ate the whole 2 feet or so of raw stalk. I can't remember if this was before or after I got the ride; a black guy with a nose ring gave me a lift from about mile marker 30 to mile marker 14; saved me half the journey. I was walking into the town of Columbus, where I would have been disappointed to find everything closed, but then Willie and Jim, two musicians, the former of whom had invited me to the party, drove by and gave me a lift into City of the Sun, whose entrance I had inadvertently passed in the dark.

I chatted with Willie and his lady Fran for a while, then hit the sack in the back of their VW microbus which unfolded into a guest bed. But sleep was not in the cards for me that night... (to be continued)

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