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Hitching Home
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Firstride
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  • Let the Cowboys Ride
  • Afterward
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  • Clovis Man
  • Under Turlock and Keyes
  • Chain-Link Reaction
  • Freedom and Expressions
  • Los Gatos en La Cuna (Cats in the Cradle)
  • Doggone
  • Marathon man
  • LOST AND FOUND
  • Alaskan, Alex can, Al askin’
  • CHARIOT OF FIRE
Highwaymen and the Poets of the Road
  • Highwaymen and the Poets of the Road
  • Highwayman
  • On the Way–On God and Being On-guard
  • On Highways and the Airways
  • Wicked Women and Waylaying Ways
  • Robbing Robin and Other Rhymes of Place and Times
  • Carmelized and Marked for Signs of Life
  • Roadside Physics and Physical Risks
  • Actual Hitchhiker Poems from the Roadside
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  • Numerical
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  • Bizarre/Disturbing
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  • Analog and Electronic Logs
  • Log Book # 1
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  • Log Book # 3
  • Log Book # 4
  • Log #5
  • Log #6; Las Vegas to Las Vegas and Back
  • Log #7
Hitch Haiku
  • Hitch Haiku
  • Sign and the Time
  • Roll of the Wheels and the Dice
  • Accidental Adventurer
  • Sweet Hitch Haiku
  • Anatomy of a Hitchhike
  • Ball and Hitch
  • Hitch hooking
  • Ulterior Automotives
  • Free to Go
  • Road Glares
  • Fisherman's Hitch

Log # 7

Some random interchanges around Southern Nevada, Flagstaff, AZ  and Barstow, CA (I-15 and I-40)

11/2015-11/2016

Log Date 11/11/2015


I-15N Glendale/Moapa, NV, at SR 168 on ramp (first visited on 8/13/94)



NOMAD


Bugsy


Cressey


Marc Fast

7-30-79

Virginia







11-17-80

Dave S.

+

Kevin S.

Nelson BC

Going home broke

3 days to home from vegas so far

Home of Kooteney Green

Best pot in Canada


Going down that long lonesome highway

Gonna live life my way


To Spokane

1 day to long

So far

So good

So what

Count these Jap cars




(Drawn flag with cross with swastika at crux)




Buzz Pierce

From St. George

Waited in this fucking spot

For 6 hours


Doug Slaght

To Detroit, Mich

Home of rock-n-roll Harleys


Lenny S----

Feb. 3, 1979

Dawson City

BC Canada

Going home to Canada

Good luck


John

I was here

Bruce


Bert

Fag town

Berkeley to LA

LA to here


(drawn swastika in dark rectangle with White Pride across and down)


Truckers can lick

The shady side of

My sack






Matt

Payson AZ

To Salt Almost

8-21-85







I got

Left (black grease pencil)

 

Bill Peterson

3/95







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Log Date: 11/23/15


I-40E, Williams, AZ @ AZ64 (Exit 165) on ramp (revisit from 8/1/99):


(Drawn cloud with lightning bolt leading down to:)

Rainy to

Tucson Arz


Might as well start walkin


Perry Dungan

once again   4/8/81

Cañon bound (drawn footprint)













I-40E, Flagstaff, AZ, @ Butler Ave on ramp (revisit from 8/1/99):


Paver Pat

10-29-12


Smokey “IN”

On way to KY

10-14-15


Monkee IL

On way to KY


Leo

7/26/13


Travis W.

10-6-13 (peace sign drawn) 


The End is At Hand black marker

Repent

Party

(Worried eyes drawn)

(Arrow drawn)

(Cross drawn inside)

Jesus is Lord  Quit spreading hate

Turn or burn Hail Satan


Bob Ferretti/Summer of 2015

A.K.A. Dutch




For instant ride

Push button

10-9-92





















































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Log Date: 11/25/15

I-40W, Flagstaff, AZ, @ Butler Ave on ramp:


Free 

Bird 

4 

Life (black marker)


I-40/I-17 Split @ West McConnell Dr.


Ron Lucero

6/2/15 black marker


*A. Chavez

4/3/07 pencil

PHX

























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Log Date: 11/11/16 


I-40E Barstow, CA at Montara Rd/Exit 1 on-ramp (revisit from 10/29/94):


Gayhen Rowher + Larry Starrett

8-1-73? 83?


Gene Ferguson and George Ewart


Dave London

Tom Byrd

To New York

March 23, 1964


Richard Kimble

(The Fugitive)

Santa Barbara

To Indy, Indiana

1/13/65


I could go for some food

A nice stake would do


Jerry (Terry?) Adkins

Toledo Ohio 1:00 PM

October, 3, 1965


Really this is hell

Everbody just pretends to be happy


Phillip Ross?

12/29/81

Peace on Earth

Good will towards men


Drawn star inside a star


Sheppard

8/1/74 [scratched in]


Gary Crane

1/15?


Al Dodge

Santa Barbara


Greg Thomas 

2AM


Clay and Richerd Allison

Muskogee, Oklahoma

Apr. 7, 1979 (cross drawn)


Joe and Pete

Frisco to Pittsburgh

No bread

Most desolate


Long Island New York

Shape 2/85

Oregon to Florida

Staying stoned


Mike Byrne

   Keokuk, Iowa

I shall never return   [pencil]


Pat Byrne

KKK IA

11-25-78

11-26-78

Fuck this place   




I-40E Barstow, CA at Main St/National Trails/Marine Corps Logistics Base Exit 2 on-ramp:


DH 12/29/84

2 Days in Barstow

Gotta find my Jersey girl


Rog (Roq?) Hettinger (Nettinger?)

New Jersey

2 days

Conserve fuel pick up hitchhikers [on metal band]


Mike was here

Lonely riding on 

Love to OK?


Other pole down ramp:


Colorado is a beautiful state

What the fuck is wrong with California


Larry was here three times

This years (?)

One

Days are worst

And I’ve

____ out 5 mls

What’s wrong with fucking people

 

















I-40-E, Daggett,, CA, Exit 7 on-ramp:


Moe Bair MP2K white marjker




I-15S Baker, CA at Kelbaker Road/Rt. 127 on ramp (first visitied on 10/29/94):

[Repeat of ealier graffiti]

Harsh 81



















I-15S, Harvard Rd, Exit 206 on ramp:

MWS.PMA D2R

JelPeer [yellow marker]

9939-42













I-40W, Barstow, Ca, E Main St, Exit 1 On-ramp:


Goodbye Barstow

1-30-97


Bill Luce 3-30-80


Carl Yoder


Kathren and Danny


GWAZ [scratched in]


E.T. wuz here [scratched in]

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