Log Book # 1 - Hitchhiker Graffiti

Log Book #1
(Log Dates: August 10, 1992 - August 22, 1996)

essay - clovis man

Pass the chicken

Log Date: 8/10/92

I-15S, Las Vegas @ SR 146 (Lake Mead Dr; Henderson cutoff) on ramp:

Fuck it
Welcome to hell
Rick Hughes
Juggler

Have fun. Got dope but no hope.
Mike Edwards was here.
Revisited this pole on 4/16/95:

Greg
from
Hon
Hi   2/7/95
Revisited this pole again on 2/9/97:

Wild Willy 12-9-95
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SR 146E, Las Vegas (Lake Mead Dr; Henderson cutoff) at I-15/Las Vegas Blvd:

Marco 11-18-91/ Reno to Laughlin
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Log Date: 8/23/92

I-15N, Las Vegas,NV @ Sahara Ave on-ramp:

Here today a hitchhiker said
no to a ride to the end of town
Ron

Larry & George
Calgary (Canada) to La Paz (Mexico) and back again
Good Luck Traveller!
Viva Las Vegas
(drawing of Canadian flag)

Nevada people stink
(can't be any worse than California)

I love you all
Mike Otters(t)rom
Stay high
Cary Smith trucking home
Windsor, Conn
29 May 78

J & M to Antarctica
Lord it's hot
110° 6/4/77
Dennis Hawthorne stuck here 9 hours
on Friday the 13

Need a ride
Need plenty of money
Need a soft bed
Need plenty of food

Rock & Bruce
Long Beach to Wis.
Dec. 25 1974
Fucked up Christmas in Las Vegas
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I-15S Las Vegas @ Sahara Ave on-ramp:

Geronimo
22 hrs
fucked ramp
(Sign on the pole says
"DANGER CONTAMINATED WATER")
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I-15S Las Vegas @ Charleston Ave/Martin Luther King Blvd on-ramp:

David was here December 16th 1988
+
December 19th, 1988
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Log Date: 8/30/92

I-15S, Las Vegas @ Cheyenne Rd on-ramp:

Just trippin, truckin, & fuckin
LSD speed peyote mushrooms
get high if you can you lucky man
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Log Date: 9/6/92

I-15S, Sloan NV on-ramp:

Welcome to the ZONE
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Log Date: 10/3/92
I-15S, Las Vegas @ Blue Diamond Rd on- ramp:

One pole:

Eddie was here
Still love ya lady
G
LOVE
D      OL PUPP 92 Kentucky bound

Lise N Kevin
Chuck Klinpucino the Armogosa Kid!
William Murphy was here in September 15, 91
Went back to Vegas

Dave was here Dec 17, 1988

I'd ride naked on the hood of an
in tow Volkswagen 5/1/92

Need a ride
go ask across the street (at the 76 truck stop)
Bob Wallace
Dec. 3 `91
4:00
5:00

Tom H. Crema
Lost my money but not my mind
To Texas 2-7-84

Shorty 6/28/92
H.D. 92
HELP
Betty -n- Mikey 10/85
Dirty Red
NY to CALI. 89
Paul & Lynn stood hear [sic]
May 16th 1987 Time 5:59

Another pole, same on-ramp:

LA bound
find a fag a rob him!
Sagitarius rules

D LEE MC 12-23-85

Revisit on 1/19/97 to far pole on on ramp:

Gray Fox

Marco 11-18-91 Laughlin

Gov Brayon
Brain washes
Telepathic radio waves with
with lasar camera
You lost
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I-15N, Las Vegas at Blue Diamond Road on-ramp:

Limit Politicians to 2 terms

BK ALBQ 8-92
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Log Date: 10/3/92

I-15S, Las Vegas, NV at Sunset Rd on-ramp:

Fuck this town
FLA - LA `79
White Wolf

Vegas is far out
had a good time!
Vegas is fucked
Going back to Calif.
Jack

John M. From Minnesota to San Diego
Dec 20, 1981

If I had it to do over I'd do
it all over Vegas

BH White LA 8-17-(90? 79?)

Another pole (from destination sign post):

Phil Babbit here and think this place stink
1971
Doc Dunnon Worcester Mass
Nov 20 1970

John Larson
Michigan 1971

Lynn Larson
Muskegon Michigan
Aug 3 1971

George, Tommy, Melinda (illegible message) 4-4-78

Shahab 8-15-8(4?)
hiking to LA

Craig & Ron
Rolling Stones forever
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Log Date: 10/4/92

US-95S, Henderson/Boulder City, NV (to Searchlight NV/Needles CA) at the US-93 interchange:

Spock - Beam my fat ass up! It's too fucking hot!
Frank 6/91

Danny 02-09-91
This is my 3rd time hear [sic]

Anonomoos 9-3-81

KO-NEE-CHEE-WA-SOLO

Phil Fassett - no luck

Cherokee 6-25-89
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US-93S (to Boulder City NV) at the US-95 interchange:

Kerry in search of paradise

Bros Don D. & Jim P.

Love ya where ever you are

Hyway Man 7-6-92 / LV to Virginia

Sue & Cruise May `89

Homeward bound
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Log Date: 8/3/93

I-15S, Baker, CA, (last/southernmost of 3 Baker exits) on-ramp:

Jeff Hamline Feb 15/77
to west...
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Log Date: 8/8/93

I-215N, Perris, CA to Riverside on-ramp:

Ken T. 2-28-74

Lucy Blues from Calif

John Fuertado 10/2/72
travelling to Santa Cruz

Going to Hawaii 5-30-72 (peace sign)
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I-15N, Victorville, CA at 6th St on-ramp:

Keep me safe from the weirdies and warpies

When this pole falls down you'll get a ride

Bill McOvin 1/6/87

Sunshine + Poncho

Going Home
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Log Date: 7/18/94

I-40E/Rt 66, Kingman, AZ, Business loop on-ramp:

LV to Tucson DLM 3-3-94

This place is fucked     10-27-93
24 hrs no ride          10-28-93
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I-40E Flagstaff, AZ at I-17 interchange:

Hiker John Hembue should
you pass thru here
May God Bless You
He does me

Mike DeRouse lost out at love
Mike loves Carol 8-8-89
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I-40E Winslow, AZ, (last/easternmost of three exits) on-ramp:

KC     5/21/83
5/22/83

Sept/7/82
Been heer [sic] 2 fucking days

7/15/82
Ray Balderson came from Las Vegas
made it here, had lots of fun
getting rides
Stayed at the police station last night
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Log Date: 8/13/94

I-15N, Glendale/Moapa, NV @ SR168 on- ramp:

Gold Pan Bill was here 4-10-93
Goin to Overton to find the rodeo grounds

Came broke   made $$$$
leaving the way I came

Matt   Payson AZ to Salt Almost 8-21-85

Dave
+
Shelly
+
Gary
L.A. to Oklahoma 11-1-82 Party on

William Smith
Palm Springs to Kokomo, Ind. 6-6-82

Marc Fast 7-30-79 Virginia

Randy Riddle "79" LA to East Coast

Dave S. & Kevin S. 11-17-80
Nelson BC Canada
going home broke

3 days from Vegas to here so far
(home of Kooteny Green best rot in Canada)

Going down that long lonesome highway
Gonna live life my way

Doug Slaght to Detroit, Mich.
Home of Rock-N-Roll Harleys

[drawing of two interlocking oval rings]
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I-15N Logandale/Overton NV, @ Route 169:

3/20/84
I was here 6½ hours.
Glad I had some dope
Dan

Crazy Dan
12-11-84
I died here
↓
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I-15N, Mesquite, NV @ 1st on-ramp:

Randy Riddle
"79"
Spokane, Wash
Big deal, huh

ER 4/25/94
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Log Gate: 8/12/94

I-15N Mesquite, NV (entrance #122) on-ramp:

Pat Callan From NY took Rt. 80 then
to San Diego   Stayed there 2 days and
left for NY. Here May 8 Mother Day (77)
3 hours and no ride.
Good luck to all you other hitch
hikers. We all stick together

Mike Nestor
1976 March
from Corona Calif to Akron, Ohio
No money & sore. I am hungry

I went backpacking alone
in the Grand Canyon for 35
days, during which time I saw
not one person. Now I have
come back to civilization,
but I am lost. It is the wrong
world. My old friends
don't exist and the face
of reality has changed.
I take this to be a sign.
The world is a hoax and
an illusion, merely a dream.
It is only a training ground
and a test. You must work
on yourself if you wish
to wake up to true reality
when you die. Not all
caterpillars become butterflies.
Do you think this message is for someone
else but you who only will read it before
it fades away?

Bruce Keane Aug. 10, 85
here to ?

Craig Cobb
March 15th 81

Who cares if Nevada and its ilk
recedes into nonexistence
Bill Corbin NY

More Mesquite Exit 122 on-ramp:

Duncan & Charlie
hitched here unsuccessfully for
3 days
Buried due east
R.I.P. 11/6/78

White Buffalo Says to Study
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I-15N, north of St. George, UT, @ Route 9 on-ramp:

Out of order
Like this
whole state is
Roc.K.

Jody Wesland 12-29-85
Far Out
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I-15N Beaver, UT @ UT Rt 21 on-ramp:

Got here at 6PM
Stell [sic] here next day 500 PM
This place sucks. Still 200
miles to go to Salt Lake

Kevin S. 6/7/75
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I-15/I-70E interchange headed east on I-70 in central Utah:

Gator 10-4-86

Grateful Dead   Greek Theater
Berkley CA
May 13, 78

(Most messages covered over by silver paint, presumably by UTAH DOT)
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I-15S, Mesquite, NV(exit 118?) on-ramp:

6 hour's no ride
shit!!!

Rick and T.J.
12-23-83
Good luck sucker
P.S. This Plais...
(happy face drawn)
(a metal band holding up a sign obscured rest of message)

Second Pole:

O' great spirit
Please let me get a ride

Steve Brooks here all
fucking night 6-10-85

Louis Ahrens
4-12-89

Vince 5/31/89

RD
2-17-89
peace sign

Rick 9-1-88

Ron
+
me    8/14/89
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Log Date :10/29/94

I-15S, State Line (Primm), NV on-ramp:

Welcome to No Ride Hill
$2600.00 cash still No Ride Hill!
Pull Bong Hits
(drawn picture of bong with smoke wafting up through message)
They sell cold beer at Whiskey Pete's 50¢
(drawn picture of a beer mug with 50¢ inside and Bud under it with arrow pointing to mug)

other pole:

Freddie Oliver
12-13-89
Going nowhere
Missing Pebbie (Debbie?)

DOC
2-21-94

Wayne
Oklahoma
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I-15 N Baker, CA at Kelbaker Road on-ramp:

WOODY
KC → ?
1-19-90

⊕
Hail
Odin!

LUKE
+
TL
Phoenix
to
Pennsylvania
7-26-90

JRW 9-23-84

Pablo & Diablo 5-6(9?)-85
Louie LA to L Vegas

Rick Jaramillo
From Ontario, CA

Fuck Baker

Will (the Pill) Smith 5/29/83
to Florence Colorado

I wish I had a pill (circled)
Doug H. was here
Happy New Year Thumbers
12-29-83(2?)

Mike the Spike    1-30-84
to LV
Poor Willie
the humble-hitch-hiker
11-18-82   Why here?

Habitual Mitchell

Dave
&
Rich
8-7-82
KC, Mo.
(circled)

The Big D
Bar to Lost Wages
3-17-87

Easter the Pig Sty
Help

ZIG
9/85
SLC
or
bust
[design bracketing ZIG, date]

La Junta Chih

The Toe Family

Dusty
&
St. Jo
to
LV

Richard M.
9-27-73
to
9-19-94
So far?

Roy 10-22-90

Don P. to LV 1-28-90
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I-15S Baker, CA at Kelbaker Road on-ramp:

"Your House Ore Mine"
Geographical in dominations!
Our earth is a womb for souls
More shores to come.

(the word SHORES appears twice more on pole in big letters)

Here at Dawn
To Tired to Yawn
Another day has started

Denny from Penn 8-7-8-83

This place is the pits

1:35PM
7-13-93   106°

6-25-93 110°

This is some real shit
Crazy Dave 2-9-86

FBW 8-23-88

Lajlia (Laylia?) 6-11-86

(large script in white marker with a setting sun in background)

Straned (stranded?) in China Lake
Naval Target Range Death Valley
Man that was.......................
Bev
Jan
(circled in a cloud design with a little star-explosion looking shape at bottom)
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I-15 S, Baker, CA at most southern on-ramp:

Jeff Hamline Feb 15/77
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I-15N, Yermo, CA at Calico Road on-ramp:

RLMP 9/92 [DOT abbreviation for "relamp?]

Bumper Sticker:
HELMET
LAWS
SUCK!
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I-15S, Yermo, CA at Calico Road on-ramp:

RLMP 9/92
[DOT abbreviation for "relamp?]

RLMP 9/92
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Log Date: 10/29/94

I-15 North/South split, Barstow, CA, between Lynwood and Rt 247, on-ramp:

Life is good so party your
ass off when you get a chance

Family 1980 8:30 PM

I got here 11:00 PM 5-15-88
CDB
--
still here 5-16-88

I've been shot at
Picked up by fags
Raped by 3 chicks
Stranded in all sorts of places
and still I'm hitching rides

Joseph A. Clark
11-6-74
Progress report 6.
We stood here for a while but decided
to move to another `on ramp' several
miles distant. Have not left our
past as of yet, but contemplating
the act of doing so. Am leaving now.
Yes, I advise you to move to the
on ramp back towards Las Vegas -
There's more traffic.
Goodbye 11-6-74
Joseph A. Clark

Jerry from Montana 1-84

Jim Bays got here Thursday
6-7-77
From LA to Kentucky

Jeremiah
Tucson to SF July 4-78
Barstow is a bummer

I'm headed nowhere, but everywhere
But someday I might be headed
Somewhere but nowhere
Love to all whites
Maria? 7/7/77
Hoboken NJ to
LA Calif and
then some maybe
(circled)

Mike Moore was here 5-7-88

H
WAS   12-21-80
N
K
HERE still is
R
May god have mercy on you
cause the people won't

Second Pole:

Rednecks are against the laws of God
and mankind. They breed and teach
their innocent children their
redneck ways against the laws of
nature. Teaching them bigotry, prejudice,
hate. Unwilling to let their minds
grow freely and healthy thus fearing
the happiness and freedom of our Gypsy
souls they scorn and pass us by.
Woe unto the rednecks for they shall be
undone!!
By C. Bray, R. Stone (Mass)

Kris Sinnett
VA to Calif to VA
Easter Sunday

Chuck Crofoot
Wis. Jan 6. 1975

Oliver Hall going to Phoenix Ariz.
(circled)

Louis Lagay going to Phoenix Ariz
Rebles MC
Nomads
(circled)

Don Summers here
Oct. 23, 1974
Happy Birthday
Bound for Hartford, Mich.

Aug-1970 Bob Jenkins
Peoria, Illinois

Hugh Turner
On my way to Albuquerque
6/16/69

Gary Heinz
11/16/73
Waukegan, Ill
To Waukegan and Vegas
and back home again
20 cars in 20 hrs
llll llll
llll llll
I missed Turkey day
(drawn picture of a turkey)
I won't miss Christmas, though

Ray Dellinger 11/Thanksgiving Day/78
from Penna. to LA and Las Vegas!
going back home from th(eir) Got
to cold last night. No money,
no food, no dope. gona find
me a mission and save my life!
Good luck everyone elce.
God bless yall!
Oh yea 9:30 toes dropped off (frostbite)
10:30 fingers dropped off
Legs fell off
11:00 Peter dropped off
11:30 Arms dropped off
12:00 Head dropped off
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I-15 N Barstow, CA, at Rt 247 on-ramp:

Babs & Buster
Medford OR
9-30-94
↓
10-17-94
Las Vegas maybe???

Who won Denver
or
Kansas City?
Who won the Super Bowl
1996
1997
1998
1999
2001
Get us out of Calif. Please

I've lost my mind
(drawing of a little man holding a HELP! sign) [black marker]

Bisbee AZ
to
Las Vegas
5 days
Marte W.
F.T.W.
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I-15S, Barstow, CA at Rt247 on-ramp:

Rick Seattle to Vegas
10-3-94
10-4-94
10-5-94
God help me
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I-40E Barstow, CA. at I-15 split:

Sara loves Jeff forever   10-14-94

...(covered over by DOT reflector)
+ ARIES to New Mexico to
get our Old Lady Back
6-14-76

Rick Ponnels (Powers?Pommels?) 10/9/79
Going to Joseph City Arizona
to try and get a job and
marry Linda Pettingrew
my reason for living

Greg and Dave were here
This place is fucked
Spent knight under pass
Good luck
Everyone Pray to the good lord
llll llll llll llll llll
llll llll llll llll llll   This Place
llll llll llll llll llll   Fucking Sucks!!!
llll llll llll llll llll
                  llll llll

Second pole:

Chris Arnold L
Boston, Mass O
Aug. 22-1967 V
8 hrs E
☮

Legalize hitch hiking
Dave Waddell Boston Mass ☮

Ray Macias
Gary, Ind. 8-10-62

Legalize Pot ☮

Andert
Denver
Eugene
Denver     Oct 4 1978

Andy
Going to Terre Haute, Ind
Been here 2 hrs.

Lee Harvey Oswald where are you
now that we need you

Cheryl Boling
`1975
Lawton, OK

Tim Jordon Detroit to Calif
70 hours
9-1-68 Logan LA to Denver

Doug MacDonald
Wichita, Kans

John Ghiloni
8/11/65
To Newark

Ray Ayers
Garden Grove
to
Gary Indiana
8/17/63
9:25

Richard Vinson to Akron OHIO
from Hollywood Calif
5/17/69 7:20 PM

Bob English from Dayton OHIO
Fuck this place "1975"

Howard Pack
Okla City
31 Jan 64

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I-40E Barstow, CA at Montara Rd on ramp:

We are moving our past down
the road so suck off Barstow
Todd, Rich, Ceasel
after 24 hours 8-1-74

LW, JN, DO, JH
Headed for Flagstaff
1:00 AM
2-
3-
4-
5-
6-
7-
8-
9-
10-
11-
12 noon
1:00 pm
2 "
3 "
we may never leave

I'd like to leave you with some
words of wit but I'm not
so good wit words.

Julian Hernandez
to Santa Fe   3•28•72

Lori S. (in a heart)
Kerb, Bill, Faith
Albany Dumpf Tour
(didn't record more)

Don B. Stuck in Barstow
8-28    8-29
NC Bound

Mike Byrne
Keokuk, Iowa
I shall never return

Pat Byrne
KKK IA
11-25-78
11-26-78
Fuck this place

Jay Simms 11/21/82
ELI VENNES
Places to go and things to do!

Dennis Willis to Colorado Springs,
Colorado
↙
10 pm Feb 1, 1967 no traffic, cold, help!
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I-40E, Daggett, CA on-ramp:

Bill, Kerb & Faith
Walked from Barstow
Stuck here for 24 hrs. So far
Shit
We've decided to stay here and live in Daggett until we can afford a car to leave
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Log Date: 10/30/94

I-40E, Needles, CA at J Street on-ramp:

Kilroy was here
(standard picture of Kilroy looking over fence)

Ricky B.
on the Loose
going to P.A.
10/21/91
(drawing of a keystone with "Home" inside)
Sweet
Home
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I-40E, Needles, CA at US-95 on-ramp:

Dennis & Mark to
the Grand Canyon
and anywhere else
we feel like but
especially Chicago and
Indiana

Valerie to St. Louis
to bring my baby girl home
Got here 11:00 2/15/82

Charlie to Nashville to sell
his songs - my guardian
angel Valerie
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I-40W, Needles, CA, at US95 on-ramp:

Frank Perry was here
6/10/78
ITS HELL
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I-40W, Needles, CA, at W. Broadway on-ramp:

Hominy, OKLA
1027 miles →
(circled)

Post of illiterates
(circled - probably based on some racial slurs not logged)

James IOWA
1900 miles
"93"
(circled)

James
&
Kim
(in a heart)

Jim Herbert 93
California

Stoner Steve

¯ 2-14-94
Happy Valentine's!!

Terry was here
Dec 17, 1992

Ben
Skiatook
Oklahoma
April 2, 94

M
Satawake
-n-
DeeAnn Long
7-8-94
from Phx AZ
to there
*************************************

I-15N, State Line (Primm), NV on-ramp:

BRENDA
+
CHARLIE
5-18-94
(in heart)
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Log Date: 8/12/95:

US-395S, Four Corners/Kramers Corners, CA, at Rte 58 intersection:

B
Drifting
Dreamin
(on wood destination sign post)
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Route 58E, at US395 intersection, Four Corners/Kramers Corners, CA:

Barstow 32
Needles 177
Las Vegas   187
ROAN MTN TN 2192
(on destination sign in white spray paint)
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US-395N, Four Corners/Kramers Corners, CA at Route 58 intersection:

[on Ridgecrest/Bishop/Lone Pine destination sign (scratched in white-washed wood post)]

Helter Skelter
Holy Ghost
Mike
and
Sheri
1980

ND 9-81
(N has arrow facing up)

Richie R 3/25/79

Chuck Hammel

JK
Trona
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CA-126 West at I-5 (Saugus to Ventura, Korean War Veterans Road) intersection:

Bilbo Baggins going to Mordor

If your here stop and make love

☮

David Spencer Brumbaugh
11/69
Stockton Calif
Going to Oxnard Calif.

Charles Ramos
82
West Yellowstone to Oxnard

Jim Turlock

Charlene Haf(lax?)
and
Eddie Nunez
from
Bakers   (swastika)
to Oxnard

Kenton Mich(?) to Summerland

Don't Give up God

It's Beaner time
Get prepared
Get out the tortiales
and roll em up
and throw them to the discos!

If Mexicans don't like hippies and all us freaks
why then are they writing on this pole like us freaks do.
If this don't make sense live in Oxnard for a few years.
It's enough to make anyone senseless

Tammies to Oxnard from
Lake Tahoe.
Waiting for a ride at 3 AM
It sucks!

Take that low rider and shove it.
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US-101N, Ventura, CA at Main St on-ramp:

Zephyr to SF 4/20/72

Kathy, Jane and Pam were here
Truckin on the road
Being free
and getting into a lot
of open space

The HitchHiker from Ct
Dom DeWeld 3/9/78

Legalize whores

LARSON
(L-A-R written together in logo style)
Aneheim to Big Sur

A(H?). L. NASH
LA to Frisco

_from here to honilee

Blake * Cox
Phx → Seattle `74
(drawn US101 sign and various doodles of a circle)

go to honilee

Mark Thorsen
from Aneheim

Bertha
y
Nacho
forever

Jeff M.
+
Alta were here 71

New pole, same Ventura 101 on-ramp:

LOSH 2/22/91
Denver to Seattle

FONDA
SOUZA

Big pencil-drawn pot leaf

Reagan is fucked

This sign post dedicated to Ronnie RAGON

He should get a new post
This one must be a monument
☮

Dan Molino
Redlands to SF 5-28-68 12:00 AM

Bob Darrel flipped out with purple lemonade

(drawn Union Jack flag)
1-1-68
The Queen Mary expedition
S.R. Bush, Mike, Georgi, Mark...

Charles LaBarge 9-14-68

Robert to Viet Nam
Ha Ha

Perry Dungan 1989
Have a nice wait

April 23, 1972
Becky Frame

Steve Gilbert
NYC-LA-Big Sur

Joe Stamm
(surrounded by swastikas)

LA to Frisco
Bill Hoting
Charles Bennett
3/17/68 10:30 PM

Doug and Jeanette
Making to Santa Cruz
Good luck to YOUSE

The ravioli I had here was good

I'm stuck. Don't thumb here
It's fucked. Eddie Hansen

Fighting for peace
is like fucking for chastity

Dennis Martz

Rex
Ruth
Richard
"69"

Dakota, Bill, Frank
`94
San Diego to Portland and back
Yes we are stoned

Chanasky
+
John
See ya soon

Bo on the Go

Tom and Rich came separate ways
to San Diego from NY
Onward to Berkeley

Pocco

Robert Leddy to Wash
4-10-74

Rick Artis
Aug. 70

I WAS HERE

Bubba
Austin TX

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Log Date: 8/13/95

I-5 N (at Rt 99 split) on-ramp at Wheeler Ridge/Route 184/Arvin interchange (near Bakersfield, CA):

San Diego
Jerry Martinez
Chula Vista
-77-
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Cal-99N (near Bakersfield, CA) at Route 166/Mettler on-ramp:

Lester and
Randy Jan 13 1982

Irving Mallar
5/9/90
to Washington

Irving Mallar
May/9/90
to Seattle, WA.

Jorge E? B?
LA to Washington 10/13/91

[onions and tomatoes littered on the ground]
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I-5S (near Bakersfield, CA) at Rt 166/Taft Highway on-ramp:

Ike was here 2/5/90
Hope I'm gone when
you read this

David Warren
Here for the
second day 4-26-27-86
*************************************

I-5N (near Bakersfield, CA) at Rt 166/Taft Highway on-ramp:

Jess Garcia
From Van Nuys, CA
Left 11:00
Now 2:45
5/11/82

S
BLACK
B
B
A
T
H

Here I be stuck
agine [sic] F.T.W.

S W P [punctuated w/swastikas]
to Hayward, CA

Why, CALIF
Outlaw 2/12/82
To Redding
Harley's Rule    ϟϟ
FTW

It's fucked
To be stuck
here   R.J.
no shit
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N (near Bakersfield, CA) at Pumpkin Center/Route 119 on-ramp:

Been stuck here twice
Seems like I should know better

Dave Nov 90

Here I sit all broken-hearted.
Tr(y)ed to hi(t)ch a ride but only farted.
What more can I say, what more can I do
except you asshole are stuck here to(o).

R.S
+      7-3-81
S.R.

JL 4-30/85
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N, Bakersfield, CA at Panama Rd on-ramp:

Chip & Curt     8/6/81
still looking for a ride
about to shoot ar selfs
Hope they hurry

God
love
us
all
So all he is asking is to love him

L(?)KB
Atlanta GA 91
*************************************

Cal Rt-99S, Bakersfield, CA at Panama Rd on- ramp:

Ken Bradford was here &
wishes he wasn't 7-1-86

No Shit
Black Widdow

Stuck in Bumfuck
A Deadhead
Two Thrashers
and a rainbow
all on (are) way
to Long Beach

Metallica
meets
Jerry's kids

FTW
(drawn pentagram)
666

Brian
ON-LA-FLA
(drawn smiling sun)

Ted Nugent
is playing in L.A.
July 82

Beautiful girls pass me by
I'm not so ugly, wonder why?
Well here comes one and (cross-out) Hey,
BYE
(Bracketed by wavy lines)

Curtis was here 11-21-77
Don't know about this place
say right now - Hey to the
beautiful girls that read this
Hang on in there lover
life is just like you
"Lovely"!

WAYNE
(Y makes the bottom end of a drawn diamond with a cross in middle)

Aqui' estuvimos nosotros,
que si somos chingones,
venimos desde Oregon de aventon eh
Chudio de Chihuahua
Victor Ortega el 10-23

Los pinches
Gabachos son unos hijos
de su pinche madre culeros

Really               (band in the way)
Rebecca are here
It looks like we'll stay here too!

Lebec snatch

Here just a man with
two hands but just one thumb 1995

WAYNE (Same drawing as above) (on sign, not pole)

I love Dave (inside heart)
and Dave loves me - Baby
7-14-92

H&D
American Breed
American Loved

Another pole, same entrance (across street - Panama Rd.)

MARK (on pole #1957)
*************************************

Route 58E, downtown Bakersfield at Chester Ave on-ramp:

(logged in while elderly Asian "Can Man" parked his shopping cart near me and collected bottles and cans)

MARC FAST
1-4-85
Frisco to New Orleans
to Richmond VA

MARC FAST
2-5-87
Santa Cruz to
Richmond VA
NOT AGAIN!

Philip Colvins
Been here
to Mississippi

This ramp is like total()y untubular

Richard Wootten from Yuba City Ca
to Brenton Arkansas
8-11-83

This exit is not very good
Your better off walking
Gary Pruett 10-9-82

Oct 28 1977
Mike + Lynn
Seattle
to
Miami, Fla

Ron and Brian
From Portland
to Phoenix 5-3-85

HIGH-WAY
LONER
12-12-82
Seattle to Tulsa

Jeanne          Jeanne
+              +
Rick             Rick
11-22-77       Two crazy stoners to Dallas

Merced to Victorville 3/12/91 2:07 am

Ray Alles (Aires?Altes?Attes?Atles?)
3-25-85
From Gt. Falls, MT
to Odessa Texas

4-28-84
Feathers
&
Raven
&
Hoss

JM LV. NEV from Astoria OR
Been here 3 days
Its fucked

Philip + Jeff
to Mississippi
P.S. This place is fucked

Ozzy Osborne was here

Jim Redford
Anchorage, Alaska

Mark Mulcahey
Atwater, CA
to Conway Arkansas
3-29-79 9:00 o'clock PM

THE
REDMAN
(Redman large letters in box with The at top in way of line)

Curt Byrne
just got out of jail
on my way home
to see my gal

J(ack) Wilson
1-10-79
+
many other unhappy times
Happy Trails

Stan and Ed
From Sacto to Texas
*************************************

Route 58E, Weed Patch, CA at Weedpatch Highway on-ramp:

(written on back of freeway entrance sign, not pole it's attached to):

(Korean-style writing)

2-24-95
It's about 3AM
and no traffic
No dead presidents
No dope with so little hope

Jerry T. to St. Joseph MO
4-27-94
4-28-94

Jake Todd to Boston 4/4/84

Take Sadie
Flye too Me
*************************************

Route 58E Tehachapi, CA (at middle of three Tehachapi exits) on-ramp:

Jared
+
Charybdis
Santa Fe

Carl
Carol
-n-
Jennifer

Jessie F.
+
Judy S.
Texas or Bust

Vesley Pistol
From Santa Cruz to
Phoenix Ariz
Nov. 21, 70 and
The wind is blowin
like a mot()er fucker
*************************************

Route 58E, Tehachapi, CA at Monolith on-ramp:

Going home after 15 years
Hope its still there
just as well

Bob Currey
Glendora NJ 1/12/87
*************************************

Route 58E (Mojave Barstow Highway) at California City interchange:

Straycat,
Sausage,
Varmet,
Byron &
Bugs in Spirit
to San Bernadino
Riding America
(circled)
*************************************

I-40E at Barstow (first Barstow entrance off Main(?) Street - was looking for Montara Road on ramp to check previous year logging, but came upon this instead):

Danny & Bruce McGinnis
going to Fla
6-17-83

Holden Missouri
5-13-82
David B. Spent the night in this hole

Flatfoot ______
Jan. 17 NYC →
to Oregon to here
to Dallas Tex

Peace on Earth (circled)

Baltimore Bandit `87

8-Ball was here
11-10-88
11-11-88
going to OK

☯

Dave was here 10-31-85
Going nowhere fast, but what
the hell, the sun is shining
and I feel good

Chris and Mike
to walk across the United States

Bill Carneal
Richmond, VA 9-17-85

Thunderfoot
alias SEF ERICSSON
Left my home around Santa Ana
Headed for the State of Indiana
5-9-80

New York bound
Howie
&
Daniel   1/25/82
I know Howie

Jesus is the Lord

What's wrong with this country
I need a lift

Stuck here for several hours
Running out of water and patience
I gotta take a shit
All for the sake of playing golf in Texas

Mike & Kevin 9-18-81
Fuck Barstow before
Barstow fucks you

Free Pehior (Pettior?Peltior?)

Chris, Pat, Kaye, Julie
was (hear) 1979

Tadd and Terri House
Jerry & Amy Slay
Eagle Nest NM
LA-Hawaii-Samoa-
Tonga-New Zealand-
Fiji-LA-NM
6-3-81

Chief 10-20-86

David E
San Francisco to Bangor Maine 4-8-90
Keep the faith

Ira Simmons was here
8-6-89
on no ride hill

Kilroy occupied these coordinates
(drawn picture of classic Kilroy figure)

Jungle Jim

Yeti
Yaqui'
Jan "83"
to Albuquerque

Do yourself a favor
Start hitchhiking on the interstate
cause this place sucks

Dirty Red the child molestor
(didn't complete the entry - but said something about watching out for your kids because he was coming to town; gave me the creeps, so didn't complete the entry, however, another Dirty Red entry logged in on I-15 at Blue Diamond in LV)

Moon Dog is off to the
home of ELVIS 6-15-89

Listen Bros
Do yourself a favor
Walk over to the liquor store
across the street. Buy a supply of brews and/or some whiskey then sit here
and roll a couple of joints
Wait till it set(s) in then START
WALKING OUTA HERE
That's what I'm going to do.
Now party hard and live long
May the wind always be at your backs.
Forever in the wing
Chris Smith
Mike Smith
To walk the whole US

(KISS art by Tim Searcy 9/14/86
of Peter Criss and Gene Simmons)
I went to LA and hated it - Tim
P.S. Hollywood sucks, too.
If you're going that away, don't.
It's a waste of time
and they will kill you
if you're not careful.
Your friend in Kentucky
Tim Searcy

12-11-79
Me and my buddy here,
Can't wait to get home for Christmas
We've been on the road
for who knows how long!?
Have been standing here
for 4 (2 crossed out) hours.
So far its 13 days before Christmas
and you'd think everybody was your friend.
NOT HERE
They all look and stare at you
like you're some no good bastards --
only they're the ones that are the bastards
Maybe some day we'll get home
Hope the rest of you get good rides.
Your friends
Mike & Dino (from Wisconsin)

one b()urbon
one scotch
one beer

So many things written on this pole.
But the truth is the only thing that...
*************************************

I-15N Daggett, CA on-ramp:

   ACE
&
ANGEL (Stylized lettering)
Now and forever
Victory is only for those who really want it

Victor Leal
Guaymas, Sonora
Mexico

Putos y socios
Dios Los Bendiga

Crazy Ray was here
had a pot of tea & smoked a toke
then walked down the road 7-7-82

Florida Boys
Mike and Jerry 3/25/87

Nevada Dave's back home
12 years down
Going to see my ????(crossed out) 2-11-88

God Bless Debbie Garcia
with love
Bob 1990

Ferret Joe
7-24-84
Headin' home
(not Flagstaff!)
PS. Stay the fuck outta Victorville
that burg sucks
Debe Weisshaar,
I love you
(triangle with lightning bolt fused into/protruding out of it)
(curly-lined circle around it)

Look out for fat man in brown
has van

143PH AJAD
LOSH
8/28/88

Rock-N-Roll Outlaw
Carson City, Nev

Dean killed a cop today
9-5-85 (83?)
Jersey bound
*************************************
Log Date: 12-29-95

I-10W Las Cruces, NM, at US 70 on-ramp:

FDRA own way to
Wilcox AZ
12-18-9

Steve Freeman
12/27/76
Going to Tucson

DOKA SLAK
YUGOSLAVIA
→ CALIFORNIA
APR 1980

David Britton
March `77
North Carolina
to
Nevada

Eric `83

Mike Moody
Amarillo to Tuson [sic]
12-27-76

Mi-T-Fine mission town back there

This town sucks
(about half dozen of permutations of this)
*************************************
Log Date: 12-30-95

I-10W, Deming, NM, at Business-10 (exit 81) on-ramp:

Bill C. Loves Angie R.

  ✝
Love Jesus

Jesus loves you

This place sucks big time
Benny was here 11-10-89

another pole:

MARGARITAVILLE

Steve Sanders was here
July 17, 1988 to May 8, 1990
(circled)

Bugle Boy
Wanted Man
F-I-S-H
The Rose
(Note: all these seemed to be from one person)

FDRA
own way
to Wilcox, AZ
12-95

Steve Hopkins
Tucson Bound
  ↓
Corpus Christi
to here
8 days

Austin was here

Tom
I love you Trish
9-5-95

Good luck to the next one

Jay 3-16-88

M
O M
C E
A E
S K
S S
I
N (Moccasin Meeks)

Kiowa Indian

Rosie Lans

Apache
1989

7/14/89
Louis Villa
*************************************

I-10W, Lordsburg, NM, (exit 20) on-ramp:

ENEE
MEANEE
(check mark with arrow crossing through, point back to a circle it originates from)

Oh Lordy
Stuck in Lordsburg
Yuck

Coyottee
Feb 2 1979

Onward thru the fog if
I can see a car

Fuck this HOL=
(L and E formed by one letter combined)

By setting of sun in various tones
when you arrive here you may find my bones
"Ditto"

(Chinese writings?)
W.E. Steele to Tucson
Been here 2 days cold as hell
18 Dec 1980

Johnny Wadd was here

Charles Smith the 3 piece businessman
San Diego Bound

Louis Ahrens
4/24/81

Bad Spot
Charlie was here long long time
9/17/81
no food or drink
Lot's of cars won't stop

Since your reading these words of wit
you know this town is shit
The Toadstool
3/8/80     (smiling mushroom drawn)

You need something to read
it helps
You going to be here a hell of
a long time. Does this help?

"Shawn" San Diego Bound
This place is the pits
*************************************
Log Date: 7/7/96

Cal Rt-99S, Visalia CA at SR 198 on-ramp:

DR was here 80   good luck

Jerry Garone
July 1, 1983

REO

L.A. woman gonna have to do
(Note: The sun was rising and "Light My Fire" was playing on the radio when I got back in the car!)
************************************

Cal Rt-99S, Farmerville/Exeter, CA on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

Read the back of the `99 South sign right behind you across the street ¯
(Note: I did and did not find any message there)

2-22-74 JE (joined initials JE)

These paranoid mother fuckers
can go to hell for not giving
us rides when we need em

Shannon Black is a slut

Iron Maiden

Jesus
+
Jeremiah
1-2-84
Fidel
Big 'D'
8-3-76

Scott + Greg
to Vegas
(Am) 3/6/77
(Aus) 6/3/78

J
i
m

C
o
l
l
i
n
s (Jim Collins)

Jim from Wash. 5:00 Aug 13 83
May the force be with me

In back of you, the 4th double yellow reflector
has a $1.00 in back of the metal plate
(Note: I checked and found no such dollar--maybe I should have put one there?)

Mike Smith 7-11

Help
no hope
no dope
no ride
we tried
and died
Scott + Greg      3/6/78
(Conn)   (Australia)

While we were waiting here we buried 3 people who died while waiting for a ride

I just watched my toenails grow 3 inches 10/14/72

A porta san went by

Pacifica Calif M.A. Hello Jenny
This place is like waiting to get out of jail ************************************

Cal Rt-99S, Visalia (Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Highway) at Tagus Ranch on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

M. Arberger
Pacifica
Hello Jenny

If your reading this sign then bummer....`cause your in for a long wait

I hear you man
Bakersfield one week
help?

Richard
+
Ann Shirly
6/6/71

Bill C
Chico-LA-Phoenix

I need a joint 78
I have one 84

Dave + Nat 7-2-79
Good rides   nice folks
*************************************

Cal Rt-99S at Delano CA on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

Friday August 28, 1995
Joan, Christi + Chip
Sonoma to LA
We're doing a no no hitch-hiking on
the Freeway!

Crabby + ILWACO (?)
on to Naples Florida
May 9, 89

Bum trip Portland to LA
Jim Ruck(er?) 2-24-74

David Lee Roth
8-13-85
Looking for the rest of the band

Fresno Chuchy

Dee was here 5-12-76
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N, Delano CA, at County Line Road on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

Groovy Bob
4-28-89
Beam me up!

Fuck this hitchikeing
I'm going to catch a train
and I'll be city bound
Bill L.   From Tex to Reno

Elmer from Selmer

Dennis Williams
Nashville Tenn
to Fresno
Out(OCT? AUG?) 16-73

Harold Robinson 6/8/82
This place I died

Rip Van Winkle
Oregon Bound
was here 10-2-81
Wish all of God kids good luck in the
USA today and every day
He loves us always

Hitchhike Bulletin:
This place is fucked
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N Pixley CA, Frontage Rd on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

Tom Morris says

Mother Fuck A
California!!!
8/28/86
Never Never Never
again (crossed out) again

I'm having my SS check sent here

Monte Williams
looks like this is where I'll be spending
Christmas this year 12/24/86
Texas to Oregon

Mike Botwen (Botwin?) 12/20/81

Calvin Clark 4-2-82
*************************************

Cal Rt-99-N, Tipton, CA, Ave 152 (352?) on-ramp:
On Freeway Entrance sign):

David Marsh 7-7-82

SKB 3/4/93                *************************************

Cal Rt-99-N, Tulare, CA at Mefford Field on-ramp:

William Luntz was here
August 1 86(?)
This place is dead
Start walking
(I agree
Adios Ami(e)go!
Don Dotson 3-29-86)

same on ramp, on pedest prohib sign:

No war
No KKK
No facist
USA
EM 2-15-82

JRG 9-9-81

James Holgate 3-4-92
I was here

Rob + Keldog trapped in the place called hell
Good luck ha ha hell.
Cool airplane turns out to be piece of shit
2-4-91
Day 2 still here

(note: airplane right at on-ramp over fence at Mefford Field)
*************************************

Cal Rt-99-N, Tulare CA at Visalia/Lindsay on-ramp:

Highway Loner   Aug 94 to Seattle

Dennis Welch
Steve Perkins
"78" Jan

Gary Russel `73

12-3-89
Mike + Bunny
Vegas to Sole---- Ore

on pedestrian prohibited sign:

Randy to Oregon 77
Randy loves Mickey 3-77

Ed Reul (Reil?)
from Clatskanie Oregon
"March 77"

Steve + Roy

Here today
Whatever date it is    M.T.
*************************************
Log Date: 7/8/96

Cal Rt-99-N, Exit 384 on ramp (between Tulare and Selma, CA):
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

R. Appleton 1 7 77

Tigger 5-15-96
L.A. - Oregon
*************************************

Cal Rt-99-N, at Conejo St (SR201) on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

E.B.
9-4-85
730 pm

KP 2/8/94
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N. Selma, CA at Second Street on- ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

IAN + SUE
15 FEB/86             I love Sue forever
ENGLAND

It's fucking wet here

Hit hike
Belmont

Scammer +
Spike "English" Davis
11/11/86

IAN HYDE
party all the time
2-15-86
3-15 pm

Austin was here
10/12/90
Tampa, Fla
to
San Francisco

KR 94
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N, Reedley/San Joaquin, CA on-ramp:

Donna White
+            8 hours
Jerry White
`70

Chaz*E
John Zolas

Stay out of Reedley
************************************

Cal Rt-99-N at Clovis CA on-ramp:
(CHP Cop stops and asks what I'm doing; see "Clovis Man" essay)

On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

FB-LH `89

The eyes through which
we see God are the same
eyes through which
God sees us
(drawing of an eye)

God
bless the young and restless!!!!
the
City
of
L. Angels
666

Matt goes to California 1985 - ???

(Drawing of a grave stone with RIP in it and long arrows angling down)
METALLICA
Who made you God to say, to take my
life from me, Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die

Love is all that is
REAL
The rest is illusion
  ↓
(temporary)
Seek (see)(be) only God (love)
(stylized symbol drawn)

Who wrote this shit?!

John, Tonya + Boby
were here 11•23•91
*************************************

Cal Rt-99-S, Selma, CA at SR-43:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

W
O
L
F
(WOLF in block, stylized letters)
Derailed in Fresno
Fucked here

The Road Ranger
Been everywhere and still going
California sucks donkey ____(?)

Oregon to Key West Florida

Cecil
12-5-89
12-6-89
12-7-89
Brawley Calif

Alex Mexico D.F

Philip Bailey was here

Tim 3/87 no ride yet

Donnie
&
Carol
8-15-88
LA

Brian D
1-20-92
no smoke
no dope
no hope

Bo Dog

Sammy Bear
+
Sugar Bear

Huron
Robert
was here *************************************

Cal Rt-99-S, Central Selma on-ramp :
(Same CHP cop waves to me as he drive by on the on-ramp)
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

Don't get stuck here
This ramp sucks
(made P to B in sign - Brohibitied)

It's better than Fresno
Bill Aran____(?)
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N, Goshen CA on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

Nitai
Gourango *************************************

Cal Rt-99S Goshen CA on-ramp:
On "pedestrians prohibited" sign:

8-11-92
Richard Angel
going home
New Mexico

I was here 2-9-96 Terry W

Kilroy seen here
*************************************
Log Date: 7/12/96:

SR-152 East at I-5 (Santa Nella, CA) interchange:

Bruce Martin
Modesto CA
All my way home
first time in 6 years
Coming from Bamberg, West Germany

The Too Loose Gang
Here on 3/4/82
Time 8:30 pm
*************************************

I-5 N at SR-152 Santa Nella on-ramp:

Bill
Wrangell AK
Grants Pass Or
Ft Wayne IA
Austin TX
Grants Pass Or
Wrangell AK
11-28-95

Ray & Monica Wolf
were here - Sept. 7, 1978
By the time we got a ride
we had two litters of cubs!!!

Bill Briggles was here too!
4/20/80 1:00

Dear Dad
No Mon
No Fun
Dear Son
To Bad
So Sad
Your Dad

Ricky May was here
for 3 days
and nothing happened
4/12/79

Jim Ullman
Seattle 11/74

Pato & Chano
was here

Howard Nuckolls
April 82
Oregon Bound

Pig Sigler 3/24/76
Its a cold fucker here
Newberg Oregon

J.A.Z. just creeping along
30-7-84

Kurt Hall 12-14-73
Tucson Arizona
I'm going back as fast as I can

Robert
+
Kevin

July 6, 1975
Albuquerque NM
to
Spokane Wa
Pajarito Banditos
Caption: We're out of the
Mother fuckin Southern California
☮
(above a pot leaf)
   Let it grow

Mick Jagger
7/10/69

I think this is the best fuckin on ramp
in North America
And I love the president

C.J. Mack
Freeport Texas

Chuck Wilson was here
7-30-84
Oroville Washington

Its freezing

Aqualung was here

Dennis Ribble
Judy Helden
12/25/73 X-mas Day

Dave Calvinus arrived
last night Still here
3-10-73

Allen Hewett
July 11/1975
Got here 6:40

From Miami to Frisco
is a long way to go
just 8 dollars and a ½ pint to go

Sharie
+
Kat + Buddy Ford
Cookin in the sun
who says hitchin
aint lots of fun
See you at the gathering
5-29-87
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N, Fresno, CA at Olive Ave on- ramp:
On Freeway entrance sign:

Krazy Hitchhiker was here
Bognofer
Reding Ca
5/28/90

Would like ride to Oregon

On pedestrians prohibited sign:

John Crowden
Chags the
↙
Jim Crow 12-3-91

Whites eat shit

Wes 86
Wes Terberg 2-25-87

Travelin Matt

on pole:

Roger the Dodger
2/23/92
Jesus loves you
Love Jesus
"Red" from Grants Pass Ore
Burn a big one (pencil)

Eugene
from
Eugene
wuz
here

Hear I set
Broken harted
Tried to shit or ride
and only farted
4/16/89
17
18
19
20 Fuck

Jim the "SAC" 12/88

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
and sold it all
(and went to Hawaii)

(Note: there was other nursery rhyme variations by one different "author," but they were really inane and not worth copying)

(U2 + U38) + B = UB40

Hi
I'm a light pole!
actually I'm a big cobra headin' up
Shoot me quick!
*************************************

Cal Rt-99S, Fresno, CA at Olive Ave on-ramp:

Jim + Eegar
Outta Berkeley and the east coast `76
Dec. 6

Fresno - San Cristobal
Jan. 1976
(bicentennially speaking)

Boston
Short
Dog (circled)

Oregon
to
Alabama
Calif aint no place

Lee Patten
5-20-75 (pencil)

Michael D. Tate
3-15-80

McDope Oct 86

Pete the Bull

Sally Elam spent the night here
Karen Elam too

Karl got stuck here
3-10-78
*************************************

Cal Rt-99S, Fresno at Clinton Street on-ramp:

O.K. Rides not too good
So there is plenty of time to write
a little grafitti.[sic] Chin up!
Always there is something to enjoy
even in times of desperation.
If nothing else there is a huge variety
of facts, scientific, religious, social, etc.
to occupy ones mind until understanding
of some sort is achieved. Enough, enough.
(maybe I should try to teach as a profession
Marvin (?) from Annapolis

This place is the pits.
Hope you get a ride soon
D. Shaw So Calif

You s(ea)d it Bud
It is the pits George Ame(?) Jr.

Fuck this ramp! I have been here for two days three
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N, Fresno at Clinton Street on-ramp:

Lonnie Goodrich
9-13-195(8?)

AZ. HAMMER
SKINHEAD
White Power

Willie here (note: "i's" have Xs instead of dots)
7-19-92

Various drawings of penises with:
Repent your wicked ways sinner
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N Fresno at Ashlan Ave on-ramp:
On pedestrian prohibited sign:

Crash
On my way to Reno - 10-91
The only problem I have
is trying to get out of this fucked up state
town
Bud
Seids
Barnard

Bob 92
Long ways from
nowhere

$ Gangsterz
/ \

Drawn Footprint
with B.F. inside
(Note: could it stand for Big Foot?)

on pole:

Modesto
Andi. W's

Shredd'r
over 100 miles
no
Ofelya

fatty
Teddy Roll(aets?) [Kollek?]
Jerusalem

Close all lanes
UCLA police
Captain Dwight
Chief Williams
Dwight Williams
*************************************

Cal Rt-99S Herndon CA on-ramp:

3 April 79
Paul J. Wickham
in rout to Trimmer Calif
(drawn a detailed map of Fresno, Sanger, Trimmer area)
Fresno - Trimmer
56 miles

Pack Rat 2-9-86

Jr. Hysinger 9/1/78
Austin Tx.
Panama City Florida
Happy Camp Cal.

Dale Shuster 12/23/87
Seattle
Miami Fla

BLU
BUL
12-6-84
12-7-84
Roseberg Ore
to
Phoenix, AZ

From Portland Ore
to Long Beach CA
Bob Nooner

7-10-"79"

S. Smith San Jose
11-1-74
Could hell be worse than here?

Wings
(drawn set of wings)

Pack Rat 2-9-86
San Jose to Barstow to Las Vegas
This place sucks

Don Wade
Bellflower Calif

Long Island NY

Acid Mark Johnson
Paramount CA

LSD
Donald Wade
Bellflower Calif

(on Freeway Entrance sign:)

The Drifter

Boston
to
Long Island NY
Jackson, Miss
to Seattle, Wash
3 days
87 Porch
Fort Worth, Tex

Tami and ISA (?)
were here
3/16/86
Still here 3/17/88 St. Patricks Day
From San Diego and
we don't like this town
*************************************

Cal Rt-99N at Herndon (, CA on-ramp:
On Freeway Entrance sign:

John + Meg 4-93
Wolf Creek Ore
Homeward bound from Riverside, Ca

Hooter

Last Trip Totaly dead 91

Bridge
(drawn circle with letter "N" inside and arrows angling up and down from each end protruding out of the circle)

Oregon Outlaw
Alaska Bound

OMAY 3-28-92
to Washington
I'll be back soon

WTDTFM(?)
Rot(c)?
Magdelene
4/29/95
(drawn a religious fish symbol)
*************************************

Cal Rt-99S Bakersfield, CA at SR-65 on-ramp:

Curt Byrne
Sebastopol(?)
*************************************
Log Date: 7/31/96

I-5S at Los Banos/Santa Nella CA (SR152) on- ramp:
(While on business travel, much of the entries through 8/17/96 were collected walking to and from the hotel and riding around at lunchtime and after work while working on a Lockheed Martin proposal for building a facility in Russia to dispose of solid rocket motors under the START Treaty. Thus, at the time I considered myself a migrant firm worker; and living something of a double life).

The world is full of sinners
That's why rides are slow in coming

Billy Red Bud
from Detroit to and from S.D. L.A. S.F. L.A. ARZ
(drawing of a marijuana leaf with
Billy
Red Bud   (Lightning bolt drawn) Zap
"77"

Can you read this
↓
(scrawl)
If you can your(e) in better shape than I am

Got stuck here too!
and it was just as fucked
signed (Big) Hobo
*************************************
Log Date: 8/3/96

US-101S (Bayshore Freeway) Sunnyvale, CA at Mathilda St (northbound) on-ramp:

Aqua Lung
Ocean View Dr.
----shville 76543

Dave Morgan
West VA to LA
With dope there's hope
with booze you lose

Don Harbaugh was here on 3-18-75
we're all hobos aren't we!
we were all fucked up

Chuck Roast
316 Farmer John Ave
Knots Berry Farm
222-2222

Art $ Rich were here 6/18/75

Ramon 4/28/86

Whites for sale number 234-5678

Get high friends

Other pole (many messages obscured by highway 101 sign bands):

Eskimo Joe

Eddie Espinoza
Sunnyvale asshole of the Bay
slept here two days to San Jose

DEC. "69"
In my opinion ___________
1,000 ___________ by this place gives me the chills
I mean it's fucked
Scott Benson San Jose

Do not hitch here if you want a ride

He who writes on hiway poles
Stuffs his shit rite up his nose

Have no fear
I've got a ride on the way for you
Jesus Christ

You can prevent bad karma
Ray A.

Marcus
W. Falls Texas Dec 71

Jerre Kay
Seattle to LA 1968

Lisa & Lester Aug. 27 1973

Don't let all that writting put you down
You will get a ride sooner or later
Nobody die here Love

Marco & David
Sometime in April of `77

1-13-75
AxLxMxSx

San Jose to San Diego to San Fernando Valley to Yosemite to Sonora to Berkley to Oakland and back to San Jose

Dave McCulloch SF - SJ

Alan an Lowell
Berzerkley

Lowell
and Al
Berzerkley 4/74

Whistle
If all the world were marbles there'd be no room to play or kids to use em.
Aren't you glad the world turned out this way? E Fox `68

D.S. 3-5-83

Alfonso Fred Bill
in our way to LA 27 Nov 1968
(5 rides from SF to here)

Richard
Montreal - Vancouver - San Francisco - New York

Jon + Dave
Boston Ma

"If I had a smile (pencil)
for every mile
I would be laughing
for a long while
Charles Joyner
Dillon, SC

This place __________________
The cops are (nocholent)
They look around and smell for pot

RLB
From Texas to SF to San Diego 2•13•89

Mark & Dan 6-18-69 12:30 AM 58°
Few cars Detroit ➞LA

Some kid just gave me some bubblegum

Randy and Bill Blanchard 9-16-69
to LA and this place is fucked

Hare Krishna

It's cold RA Sunukjian 11/73

Indian Dave to LA from Ore.
Nov 8, 197(2?)

Lester Albright
Jan 1 1968

Lonnie Page 67

Mike Force 11 Bravo

Wandering Dead Head

Jesus Christ is the son of the driving God
(don't read this out loud)

Other pole:

Red Dec 26 1988

Rob 6-23-90

A 8-95

Finally made it to Calf - hurray
*************************************

US-101S (Bayshore Freeway) Sunnyvale, CA at Mathilda St (southbound) on-ramp:

David to LB (Los Banos?) April 1974

Melody mix loves you I love you 2/9/8(?)

Smoke it!

Keep the faith and the faith will keep you

May the force be with you always P.H. 8-26-78
*************************************
Log Date: 8/4/96:

SR-237W/N (Alviso-Mtn View Freeway), Sunnyvale, CA at Mathilda St on-ramp:

There must be good people in this town so why aren't any going north

The Baptist church is the house of Satan

I w(o)ndered thru the forest
till I came upon a fork.
I took the path less traveled
and it has changed my life N.P.R.

10/24/75
Nancy, Cheri + David were here
(oh boy were we)

No hope
No dope
No ride
We died
10 2 `89
(drawing of marijuana leaf)

To all people who will H.H. from here
in 1990 i sat here after coming all the way from england and these are the biggest slags of car drivers ive ever seen.
Nathan P. Russell

A prayer for those who hike here
May the next ride buy you a beer
and if you have no luck standing here
have a seat and think of a beer.

1995 Charity and Groovy Venus was here

Karen Smith was here from Oregon
on her way home

Amy and Melanie were here Oct 12, 73 and
were chased by pigs and lost their ride to SF Boo hoo!

Tim Harnett 1/11/72
Cold people just passing

Just out of SJ jail April 21, 73
A lot of cold people in this place
Don Phillips

Lots of real cold people in fact Mother Fuckers won't even think of being nice and giving us a ride
Charlotte Songer, Bill Songer and Steve Bruno

Bruce Caldwell was here

Andy Vega was here

I have been in USA 4 14 days
Hitchhiked from NY
I English
This place sucks cock

Louis Colin was here and hope I ______

I came from a house
not a home
where parents is a name
I want not fortune or fame
but a little kindness and a little love

If you are going to hell go no further

I came all the way from New York and this is the most shitty spot

5 days out of LA
This is the worst spot yet
Larry Ward
*************************************
Log Date: 8-7-96:

US101N, Sunnyvale, CA at Mathilda St on-ramp:

Loren Smith
Cazadero

11/29/69
Peter Kow
Cucamonga to Berkley
(drawn circle with a 4ish looking symbol)

Andrew Freeman May 15, 1971

Kilroy was her

Glen
LA to Wichita Kansas
June 70
☮ 69

Nov. 29,1969 Paul

Sept. 12 1972
I live here and am trying to get out

Stuck in this hole 4 days
haven't eaten in 10 days Jerry of Ohio 5-23-7?

Kangaroo Man (pencil)

Doreen
Niki
Sally
-----
3-22-74

Mitch Fleck
to ZZ top

Father forgive them
for they know not
what they do

Berk Snow
4/17/73

Len 11-8-81
Way to Frisco

Farrell from Ohio
stuck in this hole for 4 days
along with Jerry from Ohio

Ron was here in `74'

Tom Morningstar
1-24-79 to Washington

Spider + Bob was here 21-7-74

2/11/77
Zolli Saratoga to Medford Ore

Rick Bob + Ralph to Spokane *************************************

US-101N, Sunnyvale, CA Fair Oaks Ave on-ramp:

Torch was here 5-8-82

Little John 10-84 Berkly
Someone threw a pack of
cigarettes out just now

Mau____ Outlaw
was here going to San Mat(a)o
to work from Tampa Florida
6 weeks to get (hear)
This place sucks out the ass
PS Live on Fly high easy

I'm a cone head
(drawn picture of a cone head) *************************************

US-101S, Sunnyvale CA at Fair Oaks Avenue on-ramp:

If you read this you are a queer

_____ + Rich
Feb 77 to LA

Chuck Rauf
3-18-88
Neah Bay Washington

(23) Eddie
+
(3) Musky
??/72

Tom Car(d?) 1974 April 30

Dee Dee + Karen were here
5/26/72
On their way to San Jose

NESCO

All states of consciousness
are available now
(drawn a large eye with a sun as the pupil and the words ENLIGHTENMENT on top, ENERGY below, and UNIVERSAL inside below the sun)
*************************************
Log Date: 8/11/96:

US-101S Sunnyvale, CA at Lawrence Expressway on-ramp:

Bud + Ron coming and going to a party

Stranded 6-29-71 Mike and Guy

Don Krieg
from ILL
11-20-71

Richard Robyn
Los Alamos, NM to Monterey 9-26-70
It's been fun

Jeff
  ✡
Jewish Power
Mala and Jimi

Dink
SJ to LA
2-27-70

Leon to San Jose 10-15-70

Cowboy Redneck

Tony
San Jose
Check plants

Jeff + Tom to Salinas 9/1/72 (pencil)

Faith is the strongest force man has at his command (pencil)

Jeff + Mala were here 4-27-__

I give up!
9-14-71
To Gilroy Love Lori
965-0382
I hate the ones
that smile as they go by
and wave "peace" too!

Morning life breeds softness
into daylight agony

Alan Miller 73

Roy Redneck kills

No dope
No hope
No ride
I died
Pringer to LA Sept 1(?) 1974

Eugene from Eugene

June 18, 1970
Shari Jimenez

Harry
Jane
Rodney
Cape May NJ to San Diego
Why does love have to be so bad?

Mike RAYA

Other pole:

Great expectations
Great dis(s)ap()ointments
Little expectations
Little dis(s)ap()ointments
No expectations
No dis(s)ap()ointments
Anonomous

Right something and live
The Pencil

I am a Christian hippie
Billy Briggles
Guitar in hand and Jesus
   11/7/77(?)

Pete Mass
Haverill

Eugene from Eugene '87
World tour
God is real - Just ask, you'll see

Ralph Kenneson to LA I guess

Don Cody
SF to Tucson 2/16/84

Frank Rios Frisco to LA 12-24-73

El Monte
Flores Rifa

Mitch Fleck and Mike Jacobs
going to Yosemiti April 77

Pat + Mack
Starved to death here 7/24/87

Ron Sorensen
was here on the way to Sur

People keep saying stay
How can I when I got no place
to lay my tired head
Sorry I might be dead
get a ride instead
Nirvana

March 5th
Do you know the way
from San Jose
I'm going south so far
I need a car to ride the way...
It's just too fucking far to walk
Brazo from Ventura

I was born down south
on a chicken farm near
Nashville Tenn
Wern't nobody there, but a sky
full of air 17 billion chickens and me.
Then one day I said hey, hey, hey,
Think I'll drop some LSD.
It helped(?) my mind
I got real kind and set all my chickens free.
There were chickens in the fields,
chickens in the barn,
chickens in the cauliflower,
chickens in the corn,
chickens driving caddallacs to Washington when I set my chickens free
Tom Martin

Mark Johnson departed from this fucked up death trap of a valley on November 12th 1974. Good luck thumbing this fucked up place

Ron + (Patty?) on way to Big Sur 6/17/74
Hope you have better luck
Pencil down here
(arrow drawn down the pole to where they apparently left a pencil)

Mike Murray Loves Billy Sennett
Must be fagits

New York in Central Park on Sunday is beautiful

Mitch + Rick to Yosemiti
Jan 27, 1978(6?)

Mitch + Rick 2-19-77

Ron Smith 1-19-76

Slick to Riverside 5-1-81

Flash:
Emperor Nixon gone totaly berserk
on 1,000 mikes of LSD slipped to him by Outlaw David Eisenhower.
Latest report says Dick is now climbing the Empire State Building in his underwear

Tom Martin
Memorial Day 74

Curt Hudkins
was here May 74

7 church buses have gone by
Bummer

Left one gram hash
7-7-77

Banana Nirvana
(drawn picture of a banana with an electric glow around it)
************************************

US-101N Sunnyvale, CA at Lawrence Expressway on-ramp:

Tobias to see the dead then
back to Hawaii (93 Aug)
(drawn Zia Sun Symbol)

The Blade was here
(bracketed by drawn stylized stilettos)
Going to Frisco to see the dead

☯ + ☮ = ∞
Jay Hayes

Aqui estubo el angel que
hiba para San Francisco

Gil Antonucci was here
7/15(?)/75 to Tahoe via Beserkly

Just married
Farrell(?) and Joyce Breezley
78 Going to Idaho

Night Stalker + Moonshine
LA to SF 77

"The Toad" was here
on June 2nd 1983

Ronnie Austin from Arkansas to Portland Ore Oct 11, 76

Marco 3-23-96 ☮
to the "City" from Coeur d'Alene, Ida ************************************

US-101N Sunnyvale, CA at Moffet Field (North Gate) on-ramp:

Help!
Been here 1 acid trip
Still no ride
Please pick up what is left
   ↖
Burned out acid freak

X Marine
Ben Clark
got blowed in this base

78 Died trying to get a ride
4/18/70 1/17/7

Henry Kissinger
Shuttle Diplomacy
9/1(2?3?)/75

Ron Wollen Weber (Wollenweber?)
was here and still is

Tom Biggs here in 73
Still here
86 This is a fucked ramp

Kevin Palmer 6-15-73

Debbie_________
Jene Folkert

Bob Dylan

Michael West 6-16-73

Patience is a virtue exceeded only by ignorance

Whether tis nobler to suffer the slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune
or to wait?

Saint Mark (Mary?)
(partly obscured message by band)
to Canada to save souls
3/31/72
But first we must get out
of the fucken Bay area

Cute girls hardly ever give out anything
11-7-73

Phil Goode
OKC to SF
Free spirit moving

(US Navy sticker)
************************************
Log Date: 8-20-96:

US-101S Santa Clara, CA at San Tomas Freeway on-ramp:
On pedestrians prohibited sign:

2-15-95
(Same Korean-style writing as on Rt 58/Bakersfield/Weed Patch Hwy logged 8/13/95)

Got my walkman and smokes rip(p)ed
So I stand here
no smokes
no music

My name is poverty and my home
is a grave

Frank and Jackie Nov-90

Nomad "86"

on pole:

Brian C. Henderson
9-21-84
Praise the Lord

Abel
Fresno, Calif 8-14-84
************************************

US-101N Santa Clara at De La Cruz Blvd on-ramp:

Scott
(drawn circle with "A" superimposed over "V")
3-9-84

Travelling Frank Nov 1 1980
Saint Mary
The Star of the Sea in
San Pedro will feed ya.
Too many bums in Long Beach Mission
But a bed feels good
Food there too
Wilmington Mission is OK too.
But partying there is ro(w)dy. For me anyway
But you gotta hear aseman

(drawn picture of a smiling sun with a
Here comes the SUN! or SYN!(?))
************************************

I-880N, Santa Clara CA at First Street (eastbound) on-ramp:

Snail
Houston Texas

Jerry Shine

Jere + Sauce
to the 2/1/76 Mardi Gras!

U=2
SR=71

Howard Johnshine
Jerry Paulshine

Barbara Ann is Bush

Sauce + Jere
2/1/76   Mardi Gras or Bust

Mama told me not to com

Pick a colour and liberate

We need rides to LA
Sat June 23, 1973 1:30 PM
************************************

I-880N, Santa Clara at First Street (westbound) on-ramp:

The Hitchhiking Institute assigns
a grade of DOA
to this location

Ray Exter `73   ☮

D. Grosse Jax Fla

Hendrix lives

Carol I love you more than life itself Micheal

Goose to NY Hope to make it by....

Freak
Freely ☮

Susie Pedan

Fat Albert was here

Karen Pfifer and Dave Doty were here
   July 1976

Geoffrey Todd Lake
Tony (Tom) Ballard
Jeff Pector 1971

Mike McKay 5-27-72

Dave Batey to San Berdo
10-13-74
************************************

I-880S, Santa Clara at First Street (eastbound) on-ramp:

Unkle Bob and Dumb Steven
came this way

A. Jackson 10-2-69 1:39

Ray Exter 1973 ☮

Ron Williamson Big Sur Calif.

Muris and Marcie Madueno

I left 7th St for this?

Rick Early here Aug `70
Slept in bushes
Far out

Yosh sat here Jan 27, 1971

(drawn 2 faces talking:
1) Will we ever leave here;
2) I doubt it

Just out of Co. jail and can't get any further than this
D. Samche

David Swim 6-11-73
Had to crash in tree

So what
Hicthing is paticen (hitching is patience)

Rose and Moesle
were here Oct 11, 69

Tom Kelley and Jon Speak
Hitched a ride from here to
Los Gatos 5-20-72

Robin Oliviera

Bill Cullum

This is a fucked
This is a fucked
This is a fucked
This is a fucked place to hich hike
Maynard ➞ Hessilber(g?) to Santa Cruz March-70
We can't get a ride so we're going to get stoned.
************************************
Log Date: 8/22/96:

I-280N, (Junipero Serra Freeway) Santa Clara, CA at Lawrence Expressway on-ramp:

Sean the Piper wuz here
Aug 1980
On The Great Pointless All-American Tour
LA to New Orleans to W. Virginia to Boulder(?) to Sta Cruz to Berkeley to...
Love Peace and Sinsemilla

Hurry up tow truck
The tire store is going to close

Susan and Matt were here 12/9/75
(drawn a hand with thumb in hitchhiking position)

Jack Bruce area

Pat MaGlone
on way to Oregon Jan 15, 1973
************************************

I-280N Cupertino, CA at Wolfe Rd on-ramp:

Bryan Neff was here

Officer O'Rilley was here

Do you think that I'm invis(a)ble

Led Zepplin 6/14/73

Though times get tough
Keep on truckin

Manard G was here
************************************

US101S Mountain View, CA at Moffet Ave on-ramp:

Hitch-hiking?
(drawn picture of steer skull)
You'll be sorry

This place is growing on me
not unlike brain cancer

This place is so plastic it bounces
Love to all brothers and sisters

San Fran to San Diego
Bum Trip

Ronald Reagan
Grade B Movie Star Governor

Rose Moon `96

On your journey take some love

Joi Bangla

Grateful Dead `66

Time is short
coming soon
Love someone now

Don't travel stoned
I'm freaking out
Right on

Carol + Woody 8/9/72
Boston to San Francisco in 63 hours
from this spot to LA (almost as long?)

This spot isn't such a bad spot
After a couple of hours you'll start to feel at home

It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't so ugly

Stormy

Snorton Horton

What's happened to us as a nation
Too afraid to pick someone up?
Love one another Take a chance

Find another place to hitch
Bad vibes - - - been here too long ☮

Ogre agrees

All of these people got rides - you will also-
Just think about all the times you've been
sittin around the homestead and how you wish you could be travelin
Appreciate what you've got more
Take care Don't give up
Smile ツ
FK II

Don Ca'l
NJ-Seattle-LA

Fornicate this ramp

Fang was here with Little Joe
from Frisco

This town reads too much Readers Digest

From Dallas to LA to SF to LA
8/24?/70
MAC
DEB
JON
************************************

log book #2

hitching home

Log Book #1 (Log Dates: August 10, 1992 - August 22, 1996)

Log Book #1
(Log Dates: August 10, 1992 - August 22, 1996)