Log #5 - Hitchhiker Graffiti

Digital Log from Photo Logs
Log Dates: 12/9/12 - 12/12/14

After years of standing on the highway shoulders and logging down hitchhiker inscriptions by hand in pen in a logbook and then transferring them to digital form, I have since chosen to take digital photos of the graffiti and then reading them later and digitally logging them. While I may miss a few of the more faded or etched messages or those photos I took which are out-of-focus or too shaded or bright, the graffiti are now displayed here visually and documented in the hands of the thumbers (pun intended) who pawed them.

Log Date: 12/9/12

US-95S at US-93, Railroad Pass/Boulder City, NV:

George Hankins 1996

Oklahoma

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Log Date: 12/14/2012

I-70E, Strasburg, CO at Exit 310 on-ramp:

Need

Shelter

job

502(?)

Ohio

Siebert

90 miles

East

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I-70E, Byers, CO at Exit 315 on-ramp:

I did as I wanted

I suggest you do

the same, seek the

fortune, fuck the fame.

Better hay where

Than Byers Colo

Too(?)

Dave

On the way to

FLA

10-__-83

Omar + Peggy

Okla City

?-25?-87?

Anchor Town

To Laffayette LA

Going to Michigan

10/2/86

Joe LINY

Paul Tx

Bellingham Washington

To Penn

9-11-96

Name

W/O date

Going to

Georgia

Don’t ya know (rest faded)

Chuck

‘n’

Ruth

Truckin from

Calif to Florida(?)

10?/4/90

M A KAHUI (KANUI?) KA

BMW

Drawn pot leaf in circle

(Quonset huts/barns in background painted with giant kids’ faces and a tractor)

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I-70E, Agate, CO @ Exit 340 on-ramp:

9-14-80

Lizard (profile of lizard with date inside body)

San Diego to Indianapolis

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I-70E, Siebert, CO @ Exit 405 on-ramp:

Al-Mart Sticker

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I-70E, Stratton CO @ Exit 419 on-ramp:

on guard rail:

2 Much Daze

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I-70E Burlington, CO at Exit 429 on-ramp:

2MuchRemcult Sticker

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I-70W, Limon, CO at Exit 363 on-ramp:

Sticker on No Pedestrian Sign:

Tax the Rich

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Log Date: 12/15/2012

I-25N, Cheyenne, WY at Exit 12, on-ramp:

Have Faith drawn

On two poles

I-70E, Denver @ Colorado St/CO Rt-2, Exit 272 on-ramp:

Danny and Meyer?Megan?

Graham NC

10-3-74

Cleveland Ohio

5-9-89

Tom Smith

LA to Pittsburgh

5-10-81

OHIO

Ear-

To Bahston

Once again

Drawn bell with wings wearing a bowler hat and BB on bell

Denver to Tulsa

Nelly

To Bridgeport, Conn

Aug 91

卐

Just got a ticket

‘Frosty’

Maine-Ariz.-

Ore.-Ariz.-

Here-ME.

12-19-72

Also found lid

Mick

Suzi

Australia to tomorrow!

Now!

Cobbwebs

Marc Fast

8-22-86

Richmond VA

Here Again?

Bill B. ?___P?R?

6/1/75

SF LA

Aspen

Grand Canyon

Bolder

To Kansa?

Jimi H.

Ricky B.

See you in East?

Don’t be ca____

7-1-76

Teddy? Tyrone?

from Chicago

To Austin Tex

S.T.P.

8-27-84

The Bear from

West Palm Beach

Florida

Getting the fuck

Out of Denver

Going back to Florida

Slowest God Damn

Place

Ever!

Mike and Dave

Was here

7-28-86

Hay there

Mark

Jerri

From Boulder

To Saint Louis

To points beyond

Got a ticket

From a smart ass cop

So here we are

Stuck

1974

Terrific

Timothy

Grateful Dead (steal your face) Skull drawn

Above is written:

You Know

Below is written:

Craig

Vicks Vapo Rub

is good for Hemmorhoids

Ken Speer

Cleveland OH

Cleveland Rocks

Going Home

1974

Derwood of Bust

Going to

Elton John

Cinn Ohio

Sam + Walt

New Jersey Bad Boys

Chris Foss

Columbia, Mo

Jesus loves you

12/20/70

Lee Sparks

San Francisco to K

B.W.

On way

Wichita

Jim

Steve Connell(?)

+ Stan Rogers

6/1/73

No luck

Caught myself

One hell of’

a burn

May 23?

G. Farrar

LA to New England

1975

Just trucken

Wolf (drawn paw print)

Looking for brother

Bless Jesus

Jesus says you must have

______Still loving strong?____

Suck Ass

Nixon

Colo sucks

Kathy

Gary

Been here 4?9? hrs

Got 2 tickets

HaHaHaHa

PA to Aspen to PA

Doug_______

Randy to Cleveland

Colder than a MF

Alice Cooper

1973

Denver is hell

Headed to Chicago

Prophets

‘99

Gene

LA to east coast

☯

Boulder to

East Coast

Very Slowly

Dave Morris

Stuart FLA

To Alaska

And back I hope

3,78

_________

___ get a fucken

Ride outa here

Tom & Pat 75

Don’t lettuce

Kill you.

Leaf it alone.

5-31-81

Train Tramp Tim

Butt? Bult? Buh?

Was hear

Pal Pk

_/_/75

I.R.A.

Black Star

2/3/87

To Florida

Leroy

-n-

Tammy

Patrick Lawson

Linda Cordova

Rick_ _

+ Paul

Jenny Crocker

Bill Houser

Ponce

3/25/75

Leroy was here

9-30-90

Here I am

On the road again

There I go again

On the stage

Sinner?Sinkler?Winkler?

To KC

PeeWee

NWK NJ

Bill

Sharon

Gone home to

James Brewer

Denver Sucks

(drawn figure of nude woman)

Wolf

Looking for Brother

Drawn map of Ohio:

Terry Tawney

Newton Falls (arrow drawn to town location)

Doug Jacobs

Sandusky (arrow drawn to town location)

Jack and Bill

To Louisiana

4-19-75

JEA

TOM

DAVIDSON

To CLEVE.

OHIO

9-23-74

Marc Gould

Santa Cruz-

Cleveland Ohio

10/11/71?77?

Ken Speer

Cleveland Ohio

Shaker Ht Ohio

5/9/89

Piggy

Indiana

Find Diana

‘Tat’ (M in circle) ‘Sat’

Jack

Lynn

Dee M.

7-24-79

(inside drawn heart)

I thought people

In Colorado had hearts

Get out of Denver

DAZ Baby Go! Go!

Kennedy sucks dick

7-30-80?

Mike Jennings

☮

Just got a ticket

Berkeley Cal

To Purcellville VA

Dave?Denver? to Redding Conn

_______ Stopping

Did you hear

About the queer electrician?

He went around

Blowing fuses

Flores

David M. from Boulder

To Miami

To mesh?mash? the GOP

(Drawn large paw print) with Wolf

Jean-Michele K. from France

11/16/81

Touring around North America

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Log Date: 5/17/13

Truro, Nova Scotia at the 104E/102S split:

on Destination Sign:

Ron Downey

Amhurst NS

3-11?-???

BIZ 94

Wayne

+ Linda

1986

(inside a heart)

Jim

Joan

Pipi ?

Annette

Paul Ramsey?

was here

Darrell Fraser

Aug 13, 1973

Trenton Nova Scotia

Frank MacGillivray

Mike Conner (Conver?)

Heading west form HFX

June 23?/28?/72

Scott Bush?

Berlin, Conn

USA

Bill Dunne

9-16-74

Hamden

USA

Ian

Dave

May 18

Montreal

Jan

Sex

Sex Pistols

Rule

Drawn picture of the front of a van?

Punk

Ian

To Montreal

Nov 6th 74?

Again

6/76

Henry Casey

Norm

Brown

4/7/79

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Log Date: 07/21/13

I-80E, Fernley, NV, Exit 46 on-ramp:

Fuck You

Pussy

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I-80E, Fernley, NV, Exit 48 on-ramp:

6-30

Old Man

2000

Going Home

The 1060’s (10G0’s?)

Cali – Montana

2013

Fuck Nevada

Chessie

Ever 07-03

(Flower drawn)

Resistance is futile? Furtile? (reptile?)

Persistence is reptile

Brother Stray

Hitching in NV

Sux ass

(with dots around it)

If you’re

Hitching here

You’re

Fucked

No dought! [sic]

Help me

Mr. Wizard

Tom T

Illinois Bound!

Days

I Lost

The game!

These

Hicks

Suck!

Sallie

Loves♡

Ramicelo? Ramicedo? Ramicel?

9-17-99

"Faith

Hope Love

The G____ (Greatest?) of these being Love.”

Other pole:

Pray for a ride

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I-80W, Fernley, NV, Exit 50 on-ramp:

Loser + Williams

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Log Date: 7/22/13

I-80E, Fernley, NV, Exit 50 on-ramp:

Trust

Jesus

Christ

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I-80E, Lovelock, NV, at Exit 105 on-ramp:

2001 AD

I S

(I Samuel? 1 Samuel? Is Samuel? I. Samuel?)

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I-80E, Lovelock, NV, at Exit 106 on-ramp:

Jesus

Have

Faith

Steven

Luanne

To N.H.

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Log Date: 7/23/13

I-80E, Winnemucca, NV at Exit 178 on-ramp:

Lightning

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I-80W, Winnemucca, NV, at Exit 178 on-ramp:

Austin to Mt. Shasta

Going to the Gathering

Joe + Blue

Austin Tex.

To Oregon

?-22-78

Rainbow Gathering

Ray (Roy?) S_____

5/4/84 Rainbow Gathering

Nature

Is back

On the road to

Nowhere

Vegas bound again

4-7-93

Love and Peace

on other pole:

Trust Jesus

Christ

Tom Morris

8/22/86

Steve

And

Allen 9/3/88

Salt Lake to Reno

Dave Little

Was here

Sept ‘77’

Joe + Blue

Austin Tex.

To Oregon

5-22-78

Hans

8-94

Nevada has

No Hart? 6/30/

Ray 7/14/93

David Lillie

Great Falls Montana

To Sacramento CA

April 27th

1996

Jesus is with me

8-20 years for MT man in NV teacher's fatal crash, Wednesday May. 9th, 2012 - 8:39am

LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) -- A 47-year-old Montana man will have to spend at least eight years in prison for the hit-and-run accident that killed a longtime teacher at Pershing County High School in December.

David Lillie of West Yellowstone was sentenced in Churchill County District Court Tuesday to eight to 20 years and ordered to pay nearly $3,000 in fines for the death of 56-year-old Mary Ryan of Lovelock.

Investigators say Lillie was under the influence of drugs when he caused the crash on Interstate 80 about 30 miles east of Fernley.

Trooper Chuck Allen says both drivers were traveling east when Lillie's Ford Windstar clipped the rear of the Ryan's Toyota Tercel, sending her car rolling into the median. He says Lillie tried to flee the scene, but was arrested a half-mile away.

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/8-20_Years_for_MT_Man_in_NV_Teachers_Fatal_Crash_150767355.html

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I-80W, Winnemucca, NV at Exit 176 on-ramp:

Everyone’s

The Guru if

You only know

How to listen

Mike Leonard

July 30, 1990

To San Francis(c)o

6-29

Old man

2000

Reno

Jake

Austin Tex

To Mt Shasta

Cal

Going to the 84

Gathering

Hill Billy

Boston Ky

To Reno NV

Kordon

To LV

Memorial Day

1992

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I-80W, Winnemucca, NV, Exit 173

(been here before, see earlier messages, from 9/2/2007)

Mike Leonard

Aug 8, 1990

I must have been here forever

Again I must ask what was real_______

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I-80E, Winnemucca @ US 95 Split, exit 176:

(been here before, see earlier messages, from 9/2/2007)

Smiles

8.1.05

East coast bound

Yay!

Weed (is a)

Drug

Trust Jesus

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I-80E at Golconda, NV (Exit 194) on ramp:

Frank passing through

8/9(?)0

Wes to Ohio

1988

Steve & Scott

The Ballast Brothers

Frisco to Minneapolis

14th of Sept ‘76

Left Frisco Sunday 2 pm

Here at 7 pm Monday

It’s a long hard road

But keep the faith

It’ll come

8 am Tuesday - still here

930 am “ – still try’n

All we got to say

NEVADA IS FUCKED

Hopeless

Deyoe

10/15/80

Free Bird

Here I sit

Broken hearted

Did the last bong hit

And the rides didn’t start yet

June 16th 1990

Made 97 miles

Today, but want

To get out of Nevada

It sucks

Well dropped(?) wrong? be

Here two days

16 hrs no luck

Need to go get water!!! 17 hrs now

April 24-88

Lanny from San Jose?

To Montana

Fucking cold

Hany? Can’t see

28 -88

Hope you have food and water

June 3 (31?) 1974

San Lorenzo?

To Boston Massachusetts

Ronald Gea___??

14 hours 30 minutes

Pigs got him this spot [Good

San Francisco to Portland Maine

4/28/74

For

7 x x x x hours

I was tied up

In Reno by two

Black chicks. They

Cross dressed me

Like a woman. They

Use butt plugs on me.

Spanked me.

Strapped on

Dildos and took turns

Fucking me in the ass

While one fucked me

I had to eat the other ones

pussy and lick her asshole

Then they had

Two black guys

Fuck me.

Keep me like that

5 days

And took pictures.

Larry Rangel

Fresno Calif. to

North Dakota

7 days so far

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Log Date: 3/16/14

I-40E, Needles, CA at US-95 exit on-ramp:

2/21/11

B.Y.

Vanessa

Baywater

Eureka, CA

Y-NOT

S309

Frank Ferry

Was here to

6/10/78

It’s Hell

On I-40 Freeway Sign:

3-21-08

Cops

Suck

805

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I-40E, Needles, CA at AZ-66/West Broadway/River Rd Exit on-ramp:

Fawna Webb

ZX (2X?)

Holden

(Drawn feather)

Fuck Needles

P________

Welcome to hell

Good fucking

Luck

Sebbi

Sidetback(?)

8/9/11

(Drawn cartoon mouse silhouette)

Flick!!!

L.O.C.K. (?)

(drawn train track)

(Pinhead Babies Followers?)

Tales From Ghost Town

(Sticker on Pedestrians Prohibited sign)

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Log Date: July 25, 2014

I-15N, Mesquite, NV at Exit 122 on-ramp:

(revisit from 8/12/94)

Here I sit on the

Hi-way watching the

Cars as they go

My way

SON

Seattle Wash

Buffalo

Hitchiking the USA

Duncan and Charlie

hitched here unsuccessfully for

3 days

Buried due east

R.I.P. 11/6/78

British

Rule Britannia

Mike

Ojai CA

Pat Daly + ?

Frank Sellers(?)

Hi John

Tarzan

Was here

8/8/86(?)

Steven Tarrell

From Hot Springs South Dakota

Says there is a living God and

That he has a son who died

For your sins but yet Jesus does

Live again in spite of having

died a cruel death so that

You might live forever

and if you think I write this

Message for your sake

Forget it

For you must

Speak the words of Jesus

In public to get to

Heaven and never

Take the Lord's

Name in vain in for

The Bible say(s) out

Of your own mouth

You shall condemn yourself

Fuck your Bible Ass

Jesus is our Father

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I-15N, north of St. George, UT, at Route 9 on-ramp:

(revisit from 8/12/94)

House was here

Oct 81

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I-15N, @I-70 Split, Exit 132;

(revisit from 8/12/94 and 8/29/09 )

Love

Jesus

Loves

You

Hey You!

Yeah you.

Just buried

___ right here

_________

________

_____

Dig here

↓

Signed your friend

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I-70E, Utah, Exit 1 at I-15 Split:

San Fran

To Cleveland

On Shrooms

(drawn 2 mushrooms)

you

are

here

good

luck

going

on down’→

the road

T.W. Earl

Aug. 15, 82

It’s

Going

To be

A long

night

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I-15S, Pocatello, ID at Exit 67 on-ramp:

Eluktoona

3/4/90

Inupiat

Alaska

I was

here

In 1999_-___

10-17-07

Doggin?

Was here

Rock

-n-

Roll

Bro!

☠

Tales from Ghost Town (sticker)

Philip Michael Leonard

February 17, 1996

Love “Wakonda”

Osage Indian for↖God

Philip Michael Leonard

Last Part of July

Love God

(Large Cross Drawn)

Have Faith cross drawn

“Righteous”

9/12

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I-15S, Pocatello, ID, at Exit 69 on-ramp:

Ray M. Torres

(boxy Texas drawn)

Ore

Veges

Ind

Ill

Just Truckin’

WVA

FLA

ALB

TEX

ARIZ

NEV

LEG 10/5/7(8?)7

Ozone

And

Dodie

On your

way down

Live free

Live clean

Ozone+ is

Your friend

Ozoned? Ozongo?

Paver Pat

5-3-14

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I-84W, Heyburn, ID, at Exit 211 on-ramp:

6 K ?

6-20-92

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I-84E, Kimberly, ID at Exit 182 on-ramp:

That street light

Back there

Never came on

Cool man

This one works

Righteous

No weed till

Nebraska

Park City?

7-98

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Log Date: July 26, 2014

I-84W, Mountain Home, ID at Exit 90 on-ramp:

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I-84W, Boise/Nampa, ID Exit 35 on-ramp:

Have Faith

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I-84E, Ontario, OR at Exit 1 on-ramp:

on guardrail:

Seattle Rob 9/27/13

Livin La Homeless Loco

J. Hulsa

6/15/14

Bumper Sticker:

Waste Water Water Hog Get Hotter

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I-84E, Boise, ID, at Exit 53 on-ramp:

Where’s the Romance?

07/2014 ←DjD→

(drawn train tracks on one side road on other)

Face drawn with x’s for eyes

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Log Date: July 27, 2014

I-84E, Mountain Home, ID, at Exit 95 on-ramp:

2 poles

Jim Loveless

Chernofski, Alaska

Trinidad, Colorado 6/20?/86

Ⓐ

I have Life

And I have

The love of Life

And that is what

Makes me lived

Ⓐ

Mike

9/4/81

Garrett

(Mr. So Called America)

May 1995 S.L.C. - AZ - ?

Good Luck

Jake

Brake

Went

The other

way

Jay

6/3/85

I’m going from ramp

One to another

Muhammad

Ali

Was

Not

Here

In body

This moment

So hold

On Rosie

[Drawn smiling sun over a rainbow from a pot of gold with a raining cloud and lightning bolt to a heart]

Sorry I smoked all the pot

Can you

Really

Fit a door knob in that thing?

Victor Dillon

Passed through

Here on

3-29-87?2?

I hope I make it

Out of these Boondocks!!!

Jay Williams

Here Again

Ogden Utah

6/4/65?85?

Jay

Is here

I love me(?)

And you

Dave Carver

5/80

Going from Boise

To Milwaukee

Wisconsin

Keep the Faith

Diamond

Eyed

Jack

Was here

5-25-97

???

The 26th

Already and

He’s freezing

his ass off

Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey

Thanx for the brake job

Oops wrong

Darryl

It was

That other brother

Or was it

your mother

Are you ready for Freddy?

Is it soup yet?

THE

[in coffin-shaped box]

(Words around a drawn ejaculating penis:)

That’ll put your dick in the dirt

Squirt! Squirt!

[drawn 2 semen drops have eyes]

Strait up

I aim

No Hankies

That’s balls

Them fuckers was flying

on other pole:

Star of David

✡

FDRA

Franklin D.

Own way to Den(ver)?

“Jesus Christ son of the living

God Jehovah!”

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Girl? Hitchhiker at Flying J Truck Stop along US-93/I-84, Twin Falls, ID

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Log Date: 7/28/14

Couple Hitchhikers SR766, I-80, Carlin NV Exit 280, Central Carlin exit.

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Log Date: 12/11/14

I-17S, McGuireville/Montezuma Well, AZ at Exit 293 on-ramp:

2MAG (2MIAC?)

(Also some tagging on the guardrail reflector)

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Log Date: 12/12/14

I-19N, Nogales, AZ at Exit 1 on-ramp:

Yolanda

I love you

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I-10E, Tucson, AZ at Kolb Ave, Exit 270 on-ramp:

(revisit from 6/25/05)

“L-Paso Dog “

3-20-2000

Jay J. Armes

eats shit & sucks n******* cock

Country

Eddy 4-23-87 7:20 am

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I-10W, Lordsburg, NM, at Exit 22 on-ramp:

Lindia Carpenter

Dennis Carpenter

1/19/75

Larry Greenn

1/19/75

H2OH

on other pole:

40 Dayz

40 Knites

L~OCssK

Joe Button was hear [sic]

41986

Douglas ☆

Putnam

Was here

Nov 28, 2002

HOK2

☠

The Wages

of Sin

Is(?)

Death

(Drawn profile of man wearing a hat and chewing on a piece of hay)

Mason

South Carolina

a third pole:

Ted C.

was here

10/19/86

12/13?/97

F.D.R.A.

5/16/95

5/3/81

Smitty

Dallas

Dallas to L.A

Only been here1/2 hr. but things

look grim already

“Keep on truckin”

Been here 2 hrs. now I knew

that this place sucked

Fucking-A 4 hrs now

Looks like we ↯

are here for the night talk

at you in the A.M.

Hi there! It’s morning and

things are still looking grim but

it is starting to get warm.

Don’t know if we

can take it but we

gotta make it!

10 AM – 15 hours

Stuart Espuy? Espin? Espun?

Love(s) Rene Espun?

+ Kristian

Stuart

Jabe?

Espun?

was here

Buz + Nancy

If you’are stuck here your[sic]

in big trouble

Buz and Nancy

is love

forever

The world is the field

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I-10W Lordsburg, NM at Exit 20A on-ramp:

(Note: Revisit from 12-30-95; inscriptions recorded here are only those not recorded and/or present then; photos for those ealier-recorded inscriptions are posted with that date's log:

12-06-07

Bad Head

Chuck

Androopa

4-?-01

Hip

(drawn pot leaf)

Nothingy to say

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I-10W, Benson, AZ at Exit 304 on-ramp:

Beam me up Scotty

This planet sucks!!