Log Book #2, Log Dates: 8/23/96 - 7/17/97
Log Date: 8-23-96
I-280S Cupertino, CA at Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd on-ramp:
I was shit on a rock and hachit [sic]
lay in the sun
sworn to fun
love to none
Duke Wayne Ellsworth 12-12-82
No, dope
No, hope
Go back home
➘
Bill Spelman 8-20-79
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Log Date: 8/24/96
I-580E, Livermore CA No. Livermore St on ramp:
KY from Kentucky
Jon Warwick
Pamela Warwick
Caldwell Idaho
How many were there
Whitch [sic]way did they go
I must find them
I'm theyr [sic] leader
This place is fucked for geting a ride
Peter Savard
Nowhereland is right here
Flap-Hap
To Esther the Aussie
I love the thought of you
Someday together
Flap
Tim Hawkins 7-27-94
This is nowhere for hitchen
All is one
Everything is God
You are God
Know he is with you ¬ How true
Help me God
Help me God
Rescue me
Two days from San Francisco
Mantra Sara was here
Hare Krishna
hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
hare hare
hare Rama
Rama Rama
hare hare
(written inside a drawn scroll)
No dope
No hope
No ride
We died
Highway Loner 12·26·79
To Tulsa Okla + Castro Valley
Stay high + fly
Sgt. Karma was here for a few
Desolation Row
5/9-5/11
77
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I-580E, Livermore, CA First St. on-ramp:
There's nothing like a Greatful [sic] Dead Concert
except a Van Halen concert
Mon. Mar 7/77
Steve White Toronto Ont. Canada
This is the begining of what I hope to be a short stay. However by the poor reports left below by others desperate to get to LA I think I may be able to leave on this pole a few words of wisdom that probably will do nothing for you but pass the time as you wait for that all important flashing of brake lights that will take you down the road to even a worse spot than this
Dave + Eric 2-29-75
Dave + Eric 11-25-75
Mike + ?
Carl 9/6/80 England
LSD is hitch hikers asprin
Well here we are Steve and Greg
on the way to Canada `81
I'm going home W.VA.
Dave 1-27-79
LOBO
LOUES
SANDRA
SUS(AN?)
7-6-84 to FLA(?)
Here after Grateful Dead Winterland Feb 24
We were too
Shay and Road Hog 6-6-81 St. P.
BU here after a Grateful Dead concert
William W. Pope
Goldendale Wash. to Tucson Ariz
3-24-91 This place sucks a big one
Perhaps the next one will be the yin of this yang
Rick Hawkes and Rick Ward had the unfortunate experience of being here on 10/1/73
Written around the pole 7 times:
In the course of human events it becomes necessary for means of transportation to stick out ones thumb and yell "ho" to the passing purple pig boats. One must consider the element of (time to it). It's not a matter of going from point A to point B but consider it is from A to Z. In order to get from A to Z you must pass thru B,C,D...XYZ. This involves time multiplied by B,C,D...X,Y,Z and you get lots of hours. Enough to write a story or two.
Signed Dave + Eric
Passing through Point H.
I just got here but I do (no) this is going to be a long seat so here I am smoking a joint of Red Bad to get rede [sic] for it
Karl Miller 10-21-80
See the Very Great Fuldead Oct 6+7
Corperal Stoner
If you hitch here after 6 pm make camp
Wes and Deanne here 5-3-84 This place
I was here in June sit can't have been too long
The Blue Wit
Let's start a union!
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I-5N, W.E. Brownie Brown Freeway at Cal Rt 132 (to Modesto) on-ramp:
Rob from NJ to Oregon 12-4-72
I've been here 2 fucking days
Chris Martin was here and so are you sucker
I know that your following
Pig Fuckers Lightfeet
on ped pro sign:
Viet Nam Vet
69-70 2 YEARS 71-72
Michael Ferrel Marvel
Born 5 NOV 1951
Dieing [sic] of prostate cancer
Lord what does it take to get a ride
Been here all day May 11 1989
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Cal Rt-99N, Modesto CA, at Rt132 on-ramp:
Jeanie 8/25/75 Going to Denver ---- home
7-17-75
Bob
a
Alvin 11:PM
other pole:
I finily [sic] got rid of Dave the Head
on my own again Thank you Bill D 5/23/82
Found 2 joints in bushes
God is alive but doesn't want to get involved
Skin
✠
Head
Jesus is the way
May a great (thumb?) come out of the sky
and squash you basteds [sic] passing me by
G. (Greene?)
Peyote:
To all you stoners there is hope for a ride
Just smoke another joint and hope for that one Ride from the sky
Stay stoned from Peyote the 1+only
(I wish he'd get me a ride north)
Yosemite to Chico
Get lost (in?) America
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Cal Rt-99N Keyes/Turlock CA at Taylor Rd on-ramp:
L. Rhodes
to
Sacramento from LA 8-31-76
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99S Keyes/Turlock. CA at Taylor Rd on-ramp:
SNAFU
4-11-96
4-12-96
Stuck here over nite
(drawn a wincing face)
Help
Pops
to
Vegas
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock CA at Monte Vista Ave on-ramp:
I think I am going to fuckin' die. No ride in 3½ hours. Have not eaten anything in over 2 days. I have 2000 miles to go. No money. No weed. People around here are fuckin' blind 9/8/79
Better keep on truckin'.
People here eat shit
Stan K and Ed B 4-12-84
From Sacto to Tex
Good luck to you all
PS. This place sucks
(drawn face with glasses)
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Cal Rt-99S, Modesto CA, at H St on-ramp:
Price of admission
YOUR MIND
Hippy Larry + Crazy Wayne
to S. Padre Island 1 July 74
Trying to make it by the 4th
Keep on trucking
Don't you know that LSD consumes 47 times its weight in excess reality
Clutch
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Cal Rt-99N, Turlock, CA, at Fulkerth Rd on-ramp:
(drawing of the Enterprise and the earth with a Scotty, Beam me up now in the thought bubble connecting the two, inside; and Good Luck you'll need it, outside)
MH 48'
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock CA at Fulkerth Rd on-ramp:
Will somebody please give me a decent burial
I'm layin' over there ➞ in the fuckin' gully
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Cal Rt-99N, Turlock CA at Central Ave on-ramp:
Cowboy La to Sac
3-14-80 3 days
STP
Little
Jack
(Written inside a Zia symbol)
6-18-77
Dark:30 pm
Hoping to get home from
Looks like we'll make it
How free are you?
Creeping Bill 9/12/84
Reana Ann 10/7/77
to New York (Buffalo)
Good luck everybody
Thanks
(Drawn a circle with an equilateral triangle inside with equilateral triangles at left and right points, each of which are split into right triangles)
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock CA at Central Ave on-ramp:
Chris Broctons 4 hrs Aug 29, 88
I'm back and it still sux the high hard one
Rocks in hell!
10-27-88
Calif back to Macon GA
Markus "75"
2/26/78 Chris Joe Donna
to Florida and back
Trafton Brown 10/27/78 8pm
from LI NY
Been down so long it's beginning to feel like up
Fast Eddie `73
There isn't much positive thinking going on around here
Well, what do you expect with all the cow brains driving around here?
West Side Jim Myrtle Point Oregon
G & P goin to Mexico 5/1/96
Here I stand broken hearted
Without love because I'm too open hearted
Love the Lord Allen Powers
Frenchi Ceezarnie till my dick hits the dirt!
Tony DeLa Torr Just got out of jail 4/6/85
Danny Moreno
Yakima Wash to Texas
SS (angled like Gestapo) ϟϟ 1999
Pat and Rosie going to Texas
Quincy Calif
Trafton needs a chick to r(un?) with bad
ride to Bisbee AZ then El Paso
10,27,78
SAC
1985
RAE
Texas 3/9/85
Groovy Bob Everett Washington 7-14-88
Fuck this I'm walking
I'm bored of this spot
Death Valley
You can have what the crows don't eat
The Man with the Golden Thumb
Hitchhiking from hell yet again
New Yorkers make better lovers like Billy Joel, Lenny Bruce, John Travolta and many more
Skip Diamond going to FLA
Wal, ahm just driftin!
Paul Freeman Fremont CA,
Oct 18, 1975
I'm having a good mutherfuckin time doing it, too
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Cal Rt-99N, Turlock CA at Landers Ave on-ramp:
Chowchila Mike and Danny was here
but now they're gone
they left th(ere) names to carry on.
Those who knew them knew them well
those who didn't can go to hell
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock at Landers Ave on-ramp:
Groovy Bob 7-14-88
Kelly
Ennis, Montana to Merced
almost there
New Years Eve 86-87
El Oscar from Varrin Sherman Sur San Diego #13
Charles Clayton leaveing [sic] here
go to KC and find some work 5/19/82
Charley Jones
Iraan Texas
Forest 8-22-85
Alaska to LA Be good to yourself
Yes we were here
We got all the good ramps
Jim + Alan 4-77
Beam me up Scotty
4-12-84 Stan K. and Ed. B. from Sacto to Tex
Good luck to all
Raza Rifa (Rica?)
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Cal Rt-99S, Merced, CA, Downtown/R St on-ramp:
Jesus Christ died for our sins.
Repent now before it's too late
Itchy was here
Still movin' pretty good
The Wizard 7-13-80
Kelly Long live freedom 31
Cap't Jack going there and back
John & Ted FLA to Portland + now to Indiana
Don't ever go to Sacramento.
Spent 24½ hours on 16th St ramp.
Fucked up Get high
Don 11-21-74
Come of Washington to Forsno am gat [sic] here at 1,25
it is 20°
Bob Cain and Foster Harrison to Georgia
2-18-79
Terry (Henry?) L. Bennett 2-23-77
Fredd
Herb and Red Wine Tour 82 *
Cap't Jack will get you high tonight
El Oscar Sherman Sur San Diego 1#3
Rick (Rich?) + Donna
Santa Rosa to Tucson Arizona
Truckin + fuckin 6-5-82
Higuera
Mt. Whitney or die 12-16-85
Igor Redding California to Los Angeles 12/85
This place sucks
When you read it I hope I'm not still waiting for a ride
Zippo
look like we're going to sleep here tonite again 7-83
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I-5S, Santa Nella, CA on-ramp:
7-27-96
Wozniak
✞♥ (Cross with and heart inside)
God be with you
D.E. San Francisco to Bangor Maine "Keep the Faith"
Eugene from Eugene 87 world tour
B. Best 7-14-81
BAD
WORLD TOUR
Y
Z `93
RDM
JHA 11/11/93
Two Deadheads
six hours later
Still 2 Dead Heads
Tour `85
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I-5N, Santa Nella, CA on ramp:
H
I
T
C
H '
N
POST
(written in 1" thick letters)
Don T. from ATL GA to Sacto Cal
Lookin to be money cookin
(Drawn pentagram with 666 in middle)
Motlee Crue Shout at the Devil
FTW
(drawn inverted cross with a 6 6 6 at the ends)
The Scarecrow strikes again from Orlando Florida to Eugene Oregon 3-5-84
Eugene from Eugene home from Yucatan 12-87
(inside a drawn heart)
For
Keith B. Paul(?)
Skuper Steve
will never hurt you again
Dad XANCE(?)
6-5(25?)-92
FxTxWx
From LA to Sacto
卐 ϟϟ
Michael Dodge
3-29-83
SxWxPx
Johnny B. Sept 2-1993
5 days
Waco Texas to Medford Oregon
HIPPIE
3/4/88
L☮VE
(drawn like a sun on the horizon, Hippie as rays, date in sun, love below horizon
Wayne Vorseth 7-12-89
Bullhead City, Nav to Portland Ore
one week and steel 800 m to go
The Road Bandit strikes again 3-5-84
Hiway Chile
John Colbert SD-Port Burn One!
Keep a bong along
(drawn triangle with 333 inside)
9/26/85 Harry Literal
The Phoenix
+
The Blond Raven
`89
Chanasky + John were here on the way
See ya there 94
Tony
5/2?/8?
To settle (Seattle?) - New York
John Degenan 3/27(9?)/83
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Log Date: 8/25/96
I-280N, Cupertino/Mountain View, CA, at Grant Road on ramp:
The Shadow knows! 10-14-72 L.A.C.
Hey Ma - (I'm ________)
We're stuck in Mountain View
with the SF blues again
Don't worry Ma, I'll be home
for Christmas if room ________
KC 10/1(4?)/
Wayne C. Feb 3, 1973 2:30 pm
Tell mom I'm going to the store C.H.
"Fig"
(Drawn Rolling Stones lips-tongue logo)
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I-280N, Los Altos CA at Magdelena St on ramp:
(Drawn big orange swastika ~3 in.)
Pacifica to [sic] hot to hitchhike M. Arnberger, Linda Mar
A traveler for 2 years on the streets
Still realing and dealing and cruzing
What a fucked way to live Hell
Not so hot a place
BOF ROXON
(Drawn an X with stars drawn in the spaces)
J.G. "79"
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I-280S, Los Altos CA at Magdelena St on- ramp:
S
M
◓
( ^
◓
T
(SMOOT written sideways with eyes made out of the O O; looking sideways/upwards with nose and smile
other pole:
If you get stuck here go back the way you came or you'll never go anywhere again
Randy and Ray
Thank you for telling me
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Log Date: 8/27/96
I-280N, Los Altos Hills CA at El Monte Road on-ramp:
Me and my dog on acid
Tennessee Jed
The Galilee Hitchiker [sic]
Gay is a gas. Don't fight it do it. Don't bite it chew it and there's money in it too.
I hope to get a ride soon. You shouldn't keep the customer waiting I've heard
Bye Ferdina 1$75.
Was stuck Make a sign saying
"Anywhere but here!" It works Try it
Dave Barb(our?)
Bus drivers are better lovers
Somebody should put a telephone here so I can call my mom
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I-280N, Palo Alto CA, at Page Mill Road on- ramp:
I lost a brown wallet somewhere around here
Justin Walker, Ray Riva on the road to riches
4/13/93 Santa Cruz - Marin
Could say that hitching hell is fucked but then that's no good to you
You're already stuck here
on and on the world moves...on and on the world moves...on and on the world moves...
(connecting around the pole)
Ni卐on
Where lies the eyes
that see the butterfly
and capture all his color?
That thread the sunlight through his wings
Improvising with the wind?
The eyes that pin his pattern spectrum
mounted on the sky
that starch his spirit and fix his frame
sealed in symatry [sic]
Where the eyes as fibers in the thread
weave through ultraviolet
Where the eyes compainted(?) in starch and glue
Diffuse the fading parchment
there are eyes that lie beyond the reflections
there are eyes that be amidst refractions
Where lies the eyes that see the butterfly?
- CG(N?)
Memories... to far to look back on
too near to resume life
Lissa Pospisil
J. Scott Batsford 2/15/81
Broke as hell!
Too much cocaine
Santa Cruz -- Anchorage Alaska
Have Patience
Budda
↓
Zoroaster
↓
Rama
↓
Krishna
↓
Gautama
↓
Jesus
↓
Mohamed
↓
Miher Baba are full of light
Love every person
love everyone for no reason
It's all in fun
Love your mother, sister, brother, lover, father, one another
We're together; not just people
Love animals and vegetables
Gulls, bulls, squirrels, camels, owls, devils, angels, and cannibals
All love, love, love
Eric Snapping
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Log Date: 8/29/96
US-101N, Mountain View CA, at Shoreline Road (southbound) on-ramp:
My name is Groovy Venus
My travels are far
Where may I rest, where
But lord is always near Groovy Venus
(scratched into new silver paint)
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US-101S, Mountain View CA, at Shoreline Road (northbound) on-ramp:
Thor 2 days SF to Tucson
(on wood post of "Pedestrians Prohibited" sign)
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US-101N Mountain View CA, at Amphitheater Parkway on-ramp:
REO (stylized E and O with star in it)
Robert Hand
Kelly Beardslee
11-7-84
Bill Bellingham Wash 11-8-84
This place is dead. Try walking
Jim Couitt
Rhode Island 4-7-87
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US-101S, San Jose CA/Santa Clara County, at Hellyer Road on-ramp:
(on ped proh sign)
Tom Bishop Hermosa Beach 7-5-90
JONE-SIN-FER
JEEEEERY (Jonesing for Jerry?
(drawn series of faces, seven going from happy to sad, then a lit joint, then one last happy face and a peace sign)
Swanger 11-15-95 11:am ϟϟ
Stood here in just my pantie [sic] for over an hour and still couldn't get a ride
34-22-36 Crystal Taylor
(I suspect this above was written by a male)
I'da rode ya Lady!
(drawn happy face with tongue sticking out)
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US-101S San Jose/Santa Clara County at Blossom Hill Road on-ramp:
Eugene from Eugene 9-88
Son of love
Son of light
Son of man
Son of might
Son of faith
Son of sight
Son of truth
Son of right
Son of God
Son of Holy Knight
Jesus
Was here before with Tri alone but only in spirit Tri journey of love 105th day
The beginning date 52695
Time 4:03 pm
Our everlasting love
PHX bound
Tino and Katharina Ponce
(drawn heart with "TNT and beyond no jive" inside)
Tumbleweed 10-28-95 Berkeley Ca to Eastland TX
Bob I've been here 3 days 6-26-89
Gods always here
HELLS ANGELSS
-MC
on sound deflector wall:
The Begining of beginings [sic]
in the name ©f Christ
L♡RD of truth justice Tri and
I self everlasting peace Amen
Journey of Love on the threshold of a dream
Moody Blues
Good luck brothers and sisters
don't forget to pray in Christ
(drawn heart with "TNT 95 and beyond no jive" inside)
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Log Date: 8/30/96
US-101N, Los Altos CA, at San Antonio Road on-ramp:
8 was here 6-30-73
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US-101S Los Altos CA, at Oregon Expressway on-ramp:
Cars can eat runny dog poop
Mulvaney 12/80
The Bull 7-20-75
James Dickenson to LA
Be content under all circumstances
George Cree was stuck here on the way home to Monterey
from Bob Dylan/Grateful Dead concert
Oakland Collesium July 24, 1987
(P.S. the show was worth everything)
Hey now, a great place for nothing
Anyone have a smoke? 11/10/91 ☮ onward
Don Side Kick Mumbies (Mumbles?)
The Flying Freakin' Fairy and his faithful companion Bi-Dyke were here May/13/72
P.A's (Palo Alto) got its head up its ass
Pee Wee says: Boogie
Mike of Baltimore
Buster Venice Calif Aug 23 1971
Chet + Hanes(?)
were here to see the Wizard be he wasn't home 7/11/81
Think positively
6-3-75
Pee Wee + Fonzie
to San Jose from Oregon
Perry Dungan
`3 little man
Return to Santa Barbara from San Fran
(had skin problems)
Shannon Mifflin 11/18---
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Log Date: 9/3/96
US-101S East Palo Alto CA, at University Avenue (northbound) on-ramp:
I love this world of life. Let me take you on the road St. John
Marty was here from Pasadena Calif 3-26-70
Love Peace Dope Jack Weir 1970
Ronn Durr headed back to Fla 1972
Homer Seattle to Mexico
Boz were here 8-17-70 Things are a little slow today
Also 9-2-70 going to LA
Cactus is stuck here again
Eddie Martinez knows whats happing [sic]
San Francisco the promised land
will promise yo(u)
Yesterday is faded
Tomorrow is opaque
Today is luminescent
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Cal Rt-85N (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (westbound) on-ramp:
Kimmy Lee Jennings stoned good 2-20-81
Got some weed 2-20-81 9pm 2-21-81
Friday night full bright moon
But I think I may as well crash out
cause this ramp surely does suck
☮
(Drawn peace sign over a pot leaf with stay stoned across it)
Blow Job Bob was here 2-2-82
May as well start jacking off KLJ 2-20-91
Pitch your tent KLJ `81
Here I am again
Sho Duff
Shorty was here
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Cal Rt-85S (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (westbound) on-ramp:
A wise man investigates what a fool takes for granted
ΛΣΔ
(Alpha Sigma Delta symbols)
This is the most fucked place in the whole fucking world
-You must be kinda fucked up
-This isn't too bad of a place
Ray Exter 1973
The word for the day is LE(G?)S
The thought for the day is smoke dope
(Drawn cartoonish picture of a mouse riding on a skateboard giving the finger, smoking something)
(Tic-tac-toe game)
Un(a?)ll Grunt!!
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Cal Rt-85S (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (eastbound) on-ramp:
one pole:
Ray Exter 1973
other pole:
Jedediah
Flinders 28 Apr 75 8:00 How bout a ride
on freeway sign:
Stylized letter:
international kill Nazi's DⒶy's
Germ
95
Sublast
Non
Vileant
Skam
Punx
(N in circle with arrow protruding NE and cross protruding SW)
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Cal Rt 85N (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (eastbound) on-ramp:
(Drawn happy face circle with direction-like points at NESW)
Smile
∞
California to South Dakota This place really (sucks)
John The Monkey Deamon & Sleepy Carl 9/24/69
(Editor's Note:
Monkey Demon is a character in 1966 Richard Farina book, Been Down So Long it looks Like Up to Me)
Ken + Pat were here 6/75
Ken O'brien + Lyn Alhorn
Dan and Barry was here on Christmas Eve 1976
for a while gettin stoned
Oregon or busted
✡
Don't look back
Dave + Maynard
8/5/68 Minneapolis Minn.
The pot got me high ← doesn't this guy
The reds got me loaded have a fun life
And the booze fucked me up
Whoever reads this (stay high)
no thanks,
not that high
ANDY CARU (CARLI? CAR71?)
All power to the people who love their brothers and sisters and fight the real enemy
Shoot to win!
Mike tried here
Mike cried here
Mike died here
(Drawn cartoony picture of Mike)
♉
Miles Rader was here
Love is great as long as there are no riots or muggings and robbery.
Stick to shoplifting
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Log Date: 9/4/96
US-101N, Mountain View, CA, at Embarcadero Rd (westbound) on-ramp:
Love is the only freedom
If you read polles [sic] and you need a smoke or 5¢ look on the first branch of the tree right in frunt [sic]of you. Comp. of Rus__ (metal sign strap in way)
Peace brothers ☮
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US-101N, Mountain View, Ca, at Embarcadero Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Android Mantisray was here
MZ Florida to Calif
Michael Stone
☮tis Stone
P.H.E. 5-75 ☮ Maha
If you need a smoke, 5¢ or matches
read the polle [sic] on the other ramp
Peace brother Rusty
Victor Grilli 9-16-73
Robert Munoz
Robert Anderson
Dennis Anderson
Tahoe bound 7/24/70
"Rose Lotus"
Phil Wright LA to Oregon
Cody Brewer 9/27/79(4?)
Headed for Laramie, Wyo
Joe + Tony stopped by and got high
Northbound
Paul De Groat
White Earth Minnesota
Good pakalolo to share with a ride
Derk Boss was here 11/5/73
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US-101S, Mountain View, CA, at Embarcadero Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Mad John to LA
Gary Evans 21Mar69 8:10pm
Ed Cook to Hollywood Mar 8 70
Mr. Goodbar was here to fucking long 3 hrs
Terry Morgan, Long Beach CA (12?2?3?)/22/75
Paul Letchuk Montreal Quebec Canada
☮ to LA USA
Christ didn't die on the cross
He died hitchhiking
Such a nice place to see great turd hearted people
Marty and Steve were here
10/22/70(76?)
We've hitched all over
Started in Tucson Ariz
Brock & Anneli were here Jan 1973
other pole:
Brian + Jim Fairbanks to Reno 12/9/81
L
GOD
V
E
Steve D. Hayes
Eureka CA 28May(88?)
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Cal Rt-85N (Stevens Creek Freeway) Cupertino/Los Altos, CA at Homestead Rd on-ramp:
Talk about Hit hiking spots. This is it!
This is the middle of the world and it stinks
If you stay here long enough you may get a ride some day Walk ni**er!
Ed Morrison was here It was fucked
Jim Schlotter was here 12/12/70
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Log Date: 9/8/96
US-101S, Burlingame, CA at Broadway on- ramp:
Jim Ongley Jun 94
Ben Stennet Goin' home
Floyd 9/14/76
Charlie Graves died waiting
Jim Walker from Center Point Alabama
jumped bond in San Fran + is headed for Mexico
Oh, you'll love Mex jails
You dumb ass!
"Shot Gun"
Jan. 25 1973
Richard (Quager?Oniger?Quiz?Oriz?)erstein 2 hrs
Love is a bag of heroin or cocain or MDA
Diana Martinez 5-20-76(96?)
Charlie Graves for an LA Woman
Jessie Tomes Maeno
Born 1965
Died waiting for a ride
Charlie Graves 2/12/82
(Drawn Kilroy was here)
Gene October 1979 SF sucks
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US-101S, Burlingame, CA, at Poplar Ave on- ramp:
Nomad was here
B.S.G.D. 2000
on freeway sign:
BACK TO LA
NALINI + ROB
(stylized letters and symbols above and below)
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Cal Rt-92E, San Mateo, CA, at Delaware Ave on-ramp (US-101/Harold "Bizz" Johnson Interchange):
Clan "78"
(drawn lookd like a lit match)
In memory of ___anson (metal strap in way)
Died in hotel fire in 1977
Hitched here once to get loaded
Here we sat
Here we sit
The drivers in Cal
J. Passaniar(Passamar?) (W.W.? N.W.?) Va.
Otis 74
"Spike"
+
"Ginger"
+
"Brain" were here 7/11/82
← Go west
(Drawn profile of a skull )
SEEP was here
July 10, 196_
The West Coast Kid
82 June
(Written inside an outline of California)
Sheila + Ken
Grangeville, Idaho to Long Beach Calecch!
Just Married
(Sheila's handwriting)
We balled and had 3 kids
before a fucking car stopped
P.S. and now our kids have kids
(Ken's handwriting)
Gina + Gary 7/29/72
It's not wise to hitch here sucker
This ramp has nothing but chumps for drivers
Jesus wants to see you in heaven
He really loves you (I know) SG
Robert Negrones was here 3/26/72
Koco + Sunshine
Boy E.
DC
Steve Goodman (Friscos fucked)
to LA then Mardi Gras 2/11/74
then to Indiana
We came here to thumb home
2-21-75
Didn't get a ride until
10 Years After
This place sucks
David Carty
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US-101S, Redwood City, CA at Whipple Ave on-ramp:
Kimmy Lee Jennings 2-22-81 ☮
N.Y. Angel sat here waiting from Frisco going to Carmel Valley. Came to Frisco from Hollywood Got there from New York
Flagstaff AZ to Guymes Mexico to Eugene Oregon to Phoenix AZ June 12, 1975
Bill Cook + Dug Dyno
Patches + Breezy March 75 SF
Mike MaHern + Chuck Thorpe
Minneapolis to Mexico
Mar 16, 71
What's in a name? Kerry Waddell
T.P.S. Day 1
Mushroom
(Drawn picture of a mushroom)
Wrightsville Beach, NC
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US-101N, Redwood City, CA at Marsh Ave on-ramp:
Mike Anderson from Elmwood Jail
POST E PRE
WAP `89
Entre resadio
Fags won't even stop to give a ride
How's that for a good buddy
The Kid
Cheryl + Mike (inside a heart)
True love my ass
The Kid
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US-101N, Redwood City, CA at Cal Rt-84/Woodside Rd. on-ramp:
This ramp sucks the big time
James Roberts 6/9/84
SF Ca and the guy that drop(p)ed me off said it was a good ramp
PS Bull Shit
Eat shit and bark at the moon!
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US-101N, San Mateo, CA at Holley Ave. on-ramp:
I been living out on the road for a long time
it another lonely night No one to love
I know that God love me.
Probably sleep right here tonight knowing that he will wacht [sic]
Black Sabbath
Going to San Fransico
coming from Lost Angelous!
Joan Jett
Pretenders
Cops harrased me on Freeway
Made me come here Joseph
David stoned in`77' going to SF
I was here I think
Bat of Jersey City Long live opiates
Bombay, India Fidel De Dios 1-9-77
Viva Sativa 06479
Newport Beach Phyco
Jesus loves you
Peace be with you
have a beautiful journey
Couldn't get a ride at the other pole so we came here.
Are we still in San Mateo?
To Brazil 12-7-72(70?)
Ox Cart rolls thru
(9?)/27/71
Janis Joplin
Heavy Metal
4/28/(78?88?)
(Drawn half a peace sign and a heart with a line down the middle and a 3 in the center)
Dennis Totten from Fla
卐
Berdoo
White Power
ϟϟ
1?4?/27/72 Cheryl, Carol, & Debbie
Trying to get to the city to see Traffic.
It's windy + cold but not really bad.
i hope the tickets aren't sold out.
Debby the Kid 1-7-75
Frank Beech
-con-
Debbie Parodi
(in a heart)
Lee Brown
-con-
Patty Baker
(in a heart)
Lee Brown
Pee Wee Machere
and Frank Beech
Burger
4/5/74
The Pinoys from Florida in 5 days
Sniff glue in 72
LSD in 73
Let's get some more in 74
Smoke the sticks in`76
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Cal Rt-92E, San Mateo, CA at Delaware Ave/US-101 interchange (Harold "Bizz" Johnson Interchange) on-ramp:
Cars
300
400
500
600
700
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US-101S, Redwood City, CA at Marine World Parkway on-ramp:
on freeway sign:
Do you know the way to San Jose
4-12-91 Phil
on Pole:
Watch sprinkler system when you crash
(arrow pointing to shrubbed area)
Wet Clark
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US-101S, Redwood City, CA at Holly St on-ramp:
Roman
✡ Jews
Rule
Rich Sesma -76 - trippen getting high
The pain of my experience of feeling is exposed through the act of hichikeing
The indifference of my fellow human beings (ect) [sic]
Abilene here we come
Kimmy Lee Jennings
3-11-82 Anywhere!
Sure wish I had some dope! ☮
Forget it You'll never get a ride
been here 12 hrs
13 "
14 "
15 "
16 "
17 "
Oh fuck it give up
Dana
Dixon Abilene, Tex
-n-
Joe Aellano Oct 27 "73"
Kathy + Colleen April Fools Day 1976
Only maggots that don't know how to get a ride write on these poles
Calif sucks mule dick
From Bellingham Wa Oct 27 73
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US-101S, Woodside, CA at Woodside Rd on-ramp::
I'm a fuckin statue Bob 10-15-92
Don Cook 11-10-89
John Dey (Day?)
FLA
1980
↘
Dawn
(in a heart)
other pole:
☮ 1980 Mike
OOD🔀IB
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US-101S, San Mateo, CA at Marsh Road on-ramp:
Monk was here 5-18-83
Kelly Beardslee 10-24-84, 11-7-84, 11-8-84
Redwood City to Santa Cruz
Don Seattle to Santa Barbara 8/30/85
Robert Hand 7-31-84, 10-24-84, 11-7-84, 11-8-84
Redwood City to Santa Cruz
Billy + friends
to Santa Barbara + beyond 6-15-83
Jim & Brian Fairbanks to Reno
12/8/81
Rich + Lisa SF to NY
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US-101S, San Mateo, CA at Willow St on-ramp:
J. White Anchorage to Santa Clara
I should walk I'm so close but too lazy 7-23-85
M. Hayes walked out of SF 3 days ago
This is day 4 8/22/96
Good food all the way
Little or no pot M. loves Trudi(?)
Jim & Brian Fairbanks to Reno 12/9/81
John Thomas The WC Kid
June 82
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Log Date: 9/9/96
US-101N, San Mateo, CA at Willow St on-ramp:
Steve Ortez 12/5/71
Steve McGowan Half Moon Bay
Give me plenty of pussy, pot and pavement
Follow the yellow brick road
Darryl needs a ride
I hate everyone
KLJ
2-18-81
Wish I had a porpise [sic] here
HIV virus
look out So______ (metal band in way)
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Log Date: 9/14/96
I-280N, Menlo Park, CA at Sandhill Rd on-ramp:
Old volvos are nice friendly looking cars
Mike Shaughnessy Roch NY 5-73
The Farm
The Goddess is alive and wants her children
Colorado or bust
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I-280S, Palo Alto, CA at Alpine Rd on-ramp:
James McGuire March 17, 74
needs a break Saint Pats Day
Joe Valle 12/21/87
For a good lid of marijuana call 327-42--
ask for Steve Jacobsen
Make love not war
Smoke joints not war
Other pole:
Electric gardens of growing sound
passing through your head
Follow it off up and down
and you will never leave the __?
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Log Date: 9/15/96
US101S, Morgan Hill, CA at Cochrane Rd/Sig Sanchez Freeway on-ramp:
Tumbleweed 10-28-95
Berkley CA to Eastland TX
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US101S Morgan Hill, CA at Tennant Ave on-ramp:
Makah Indian Reservation
Neah Bay, WASH 98357
Heather
Anywhere USA
11/15/87
Johnny Winterhawk
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US-101S, Morgan Hill, CA at San Martin Ave on-ramp:
Fast Alex stranded 3 hours at this stinking spot
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US-101N, Gilroy, CA at Rt 152/Leavesly Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
The Phoenix -86-
The Grateful Dead
Heavy Metal
666
Ozzy Osborne
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Loudness
Twisted Sister
Motley Crue
You can't kill rock & roll
other pole:
Love lost at such a cost
Down and out
There's a lot of it about
J McComas San Jose Calif
The Spirit of the Road
Marijuana Mucho UU ≡ no savor
10 pm Nov 1 1975 Jim from Monterrey to San Jose
10 cars so far in ½ hour
Plant your seeds at highway on ramps
You won't get high but someone else will
Robin D + Rick F
TLA (Letters running together)
Rick F is a fox
Edith + Jamie
Smoke pot and have retarded kids
Pot does not make a person have retarded kids
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US-101N, Gilroy, CA at Cal Rt152/Pacheco Pass Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Take the promises of God for example. Let a man feed on the promises of God for a month and you will not here them going about complaining about how poor they are. You here them say. "Oh my leaness how (can) I am "It is not their leaness, it's their laziness."
If you would only read from Genesis to rev. and see all the promises made to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to the Jews to the Gentiles and to all his people everywhere. If you would spend a month feeding on the promises of God you won't be going about complaining of how poor you are. You would lift up your head and proclaim the riches of his grace because you couldn't help doing it!
Dwight Moody
The only complaint I have is when one judges me, saying that I was complaining when I didn't until you produced it when I read your complaint theory
(Author's Note: This entry was logged on 9/15/96 soon before sundown on the second day of Rosh Hashanna)
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US-101S, Gilroy, CA at Cal Rt-152/Pacheco Pass Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Lennys kid brother was here
Death is an honor and privillage [sic]
Tex Watson an child mulestar [sic]
Skid Row Slashers
All freedom fighters for homeless people
unite in Barstow Jan (Feb?) 1st 1993
Ask and seek out Doc + Geri
Hobos help each other
Mike + Geri
`92 Fight 4 Freedom for homeless people
Be good Be free Fight for our collition
F.F.F.H.P.
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US-101S, Gilroy, CA at Monterey Rd on-ramp:
(newly silver-painted pole)
Well they think new paint curse [sic] all.
Well they are wrong. High I'm Swanger
Spellt [sic] S.W. Anger ϟϟ ←trademark
11-15-95
(something derogatory about CalTrans, but couldn't decipher it)
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US-101N, Gilroy, CA at Monterey Rd on-ramp:
Hell hole #16 Al & Dave from FLA to SF
This is a hick town
If you want to be free, go to Lake Alpine, California. It is near Jackson
Bill from Winslow
Here I am stoned and grumpy
This is where that fucker dumped me
Priest + Leigh
Hollywood to San Francisco
Going to Yosemite Nat'l Park if we can get the fuck out of this hick place
8/24/76
Had to walk out of here and give this place back to the buzzards. Living proof that Gilroy was fucked by Midland Tex
Dave + Al Fla to SF (maybe)
Living proof that Midland Tex + San Antonio Tex mated and produced Gilroy
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Log Date: 9/17/96
I-880S, Santa Clara, CA at Coleman Ave (southbound) on-ramp:
Bear was here T.K.O.
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Cal Rt-17, Santa Clara (to Santa Cruz) at I-880/Stevens Creek Blvd on-ramp:
I shot an arrow and it stuck
P.S. Help fight air pollution so I can git my arrow back
Tramp 2-9-84 This place sucks
It is here, really here
All the beautiful things God made for us to admire of him is it love, really love.
Then why do even think of someone above
God is love
Dave Reefer to Santa Cruz Oct 24, 1975
And no Ritz Crackers
Steve the Freak was here on his birthday
4-11-76 Big Sur from Joshua Tree
Jeuse was here and his wife Gwen
(drawn heart)
LA - San Fran there and back again
Richard and Mike This place is full of redneck assholes 2-81
Back to LA
Hope this ramp is luckyer [sic] than the one across the street
Myke 2-81
PS It's not Shit!!
Cold Shoulders
Toke was here
Ron seeking pussy
Vince Gore to Santa Cruz
Patience brings prosperity
Tatoo Don 2-89
Steve Johnson rules the road
Dale Basye was here to Santa Cruz 7/30/72
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I-880N, Santa Clara, CA, at Bascom Rd on-ramp:
Aaron the Red Baron Love and happy trails
9/19/76(70?)
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Log Date: 9/18/96
Cal Rt-17S, Campbell, CA at Hamilton Ave on-ramp:
Winnie + Scooter 1/21/85
Mark Mueller Sept 3/86
Dolfie 5-8-83 to Santa Cruz
to see my post mistress and my mistress's posterior
The Jazzman 8-13-91 Tahoe to the Cruz
Jim West was here 82 July 29
Buzzed out of my brain
Hopie Farfan 4/5/81
Cop done good 8/14/91
Here I stand in need of a ride
My backpack by my side
Wising I had one to roast
Cause I'm bound for the east coast
Drew 2/24/8(8?)
(Drawn what looks like AAB in a circle)
Muleskinner was here in the RAW
11/12/81
5 years of being a road rat and some punk just flipped me off
Silvette + Jennys gone with the wind
Pat loves you Sandy Boyd
Help! Did you feel invisable [sic]. The wait here
III times the continent Boom `87
Somebody + others wuz here
☮Ⓐ
South to beach
I love Mary Passamika
Love Ben Pleske
Maple Valley, Washington 98038
(heart with BP + MP inside) *************************************
Cal Rt-17, Los Gatos/Campbell, CA, at Camden Ave on-ramp:
Twice removed from yesterday
Lee + Chuckles Hayward to Tucson
Paul Smith
May every path you travel be righteous
Flinders Santa Cruz
Phillip Watts
I'm wet and I'm cold but thank God I'm not old
Robert Hand and Scott Staves to Santa Cruz
I bet this pole has been everywhere
(referring to the fact that it has been written on so extensively)
Darrick Williams + Chuck Benesh 7/21/76
Private Date Box
Layman Nickel Newkirk
2-2-74 2-2-74 2-11-74
2-9-74 2-9-74
2-11-74 2-11-74
Going to Santa Cruz
Hope we make it Charlotte Songer
Helene Huston Bill Songer
Barbara Anderson, Veronica McHerney (McNerney?)
Danny Codingham (Cedingham?)
to Santa Cruz 7/25/73
The Rollen [sic] Stones stood here 6/18/73
John Flynn, Doug West & Todd Muir wherever he is
Ray Exter 1973
Arvana Georgette Williams
Mt View to Santa Cruz 3/15/73
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Cal Rt-17N, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (westbound crossroad) on- ramp:
Don't change dicks in the middle of a screw
Vote for Nixon in 72 Pat Nixon
I must be too dirty for the seat covers
Big Sur Road Trip 91
Rabbitt Christy & Dave
The No Nos
No rides No nukes No cutbacks
Pig Nixon you're better off dead
You get no peace of mind
You're bound to fall
`Cause you'll never get us all
And lord we're gonna hang you high
Mojo Navigator
Capitol [sic] itself is not evil
When used wisely it can serve as a catalyst for better things
However capitol is the outward ___________(metal strap in way)
and freezes the _______ and numbs the soul
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Cal Rt-17S, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (westbound crossroad) on-ramp:
Jean Letellier de Montreal is going back to Santa Cruz. There's no place like it.
Visit "The Farm" at Drakes Lane in Summertown Tennessee U.S.A.
Hoo Bible by Art Kleps.
(a series of letters and symbols - like ranch brands - written as if in a code)
Ed One's Not Enough But Two Is Too Many Ford
+
Gregg A Chuckles As Good As A Laugh Ford
were here
Doug Malone needs something
Jon Visage
Nixon's thru in `72
David Swim 6-11-73
No hope
No dope
No ride
We cried
Ram `87
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Cal Rt-17S, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (eastbound crossroad) on-ramp:
As humus bean does organic matter?
Gay pride day June 25, 1978 All unite
Boz 5-20-70 Howdy Podnah
Numpty 7-24-70 wuz here
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Cal Rt-17N, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (eastbound crossroad) on-ramp:
Timothy Leary for Governor
Ben Stennet to Fremont 10/15/73
Star Fucker 7-2-75
(circle with star in it)
Apple Jack
LOVE
IS
GOD
Commander Kodie Lives
May all your ups and downs be in bed
Bruce Shell Hollister Cal 1-16-71
Robert Sanchez March 27, 1973
other pole:
Manuel Urango was here from Aptos
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Cal Rt-17N, Campbell, CA at Hamilton Ave on-ramp:
(Author's Note: Chased away by a cop before I could check for graffiti.)
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Log Date: 12/27/96
I-35N, Denton, TX at Exit 469 on-ramp:
(Author's Note: south side of pole weathered and messages illegible)
Extinct Breed Hitcher of Amer
Fuck Texas
Don Veilleux Spokane Wash
Heavan [sic] hath no fury like a (lost) lover in paradise 4-13-79
Guitar Tim 3/3/94
(Drawn picture of two interlocking loops)
Rat to Colorado
Jim Lucas 4th July <79
To Spokane Wash
Ricky Mendez Crystal City Tex
to Moorhead Minn
Bryon Wood Portland Oregon 4-13-81
Audy Harris going to OKC from Pasadena Texas 4/11/76
Fuck Jesus Freaks
L-Paso Dog 10 April 1994
Alan Tinker All State Drifter
Fuck all tramps
Chuck was here
That's no lie
I've been here
since July
The hiway is my home
Joe Mangella (Manzella?) Jun 28,76
See ya in Chicago 1,080 miles to go
What's the point of life?
All we do is die anyway
Juergen Daniel and Mark Brown
waited here too damn long!
Everyone who passes by better fucking throw a rod
for they can just suck our dong
From Venice, CA
Tom & Snake Port Aransas
"Tess" from Quebec Canada
Fuck around U.S.A. 1/15/82
Lance McMahan, Boston, Mass
Keep ata Tennessee
David Todd + Lee Tinsley
Ocala Fla to Oregon July 3, 73 Thumbs up
Burrito Bob 4-17-76 going to LA
Polo (Rolo?) 6-21-83 Summer Solstace
Going to Rainbow UP Mich
Ron Thompson 2-22-82
Going home to KC MO after 6 mos in Corpus Christi
God Speed Brother
Prince Diamond Star
2nd time I was here
Rab of 83
The Highway Tramp
Enid Okla
Moto! Murcumbo
☠
(Drawn angry skull and stick-figure crossbones)
A curse upon all who mock hitch-hikers as they pass
Spent New Years Eve here
11:00 - 2:00 Bummer
Charlie (Gandy?) Corpus - Denver
Dec 31, 1979
Jeff D 10,000 miles later and going home
5/26/7(0?) Yahoo
S.R. Smith "The Poet"
Emporia, Kan (last ride in a Cadillac)
400 miles to go Approx 20 hours to Wichita
Fred Scharff and Kirk Vaalhies (Vaathies?) split for Phoenix
(two-headed arrow drawn between above entry and poem below, but not totally sure they are from the same head or of the same mind)
↕
Totally (Totalic? Totality?) the barbiturate
Sleeps death
Downer, Downer
Sleep speed for breath
Acid crawls for
Fish or flesh
Hashish lulls all
Bangladesh
O cocaine lushes
or crystal hushes
O spend your dimes
for dime-bag rushes
Pop top bottles of TNT
I'd sooner cross the DMZ
or spill my guts for Viet Cong
Than have you know
that I am wrong
I lie to well
for you to see
My gums (guns?) are lined
with STP
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I-35W South, at Ft. Worth-Dallas Split
S.
J "82"
Corpes Christy bond [sic]
(Corpus Christi bound)
other pole:
a collection of symbols that appear to be mathematic or engineering related by cannot decipher, something like:
┼ ≠ 3 -ℸ∠∠∆√3∦
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Log Date: 12/31/96
I-25S, Belen, NM at Exit 191 on-ramp:
Henry going to Texas
Hope you doing better then me
6½ hrs
all dam [sic]day
next day
no help in town
I ♡
(✞) Have faith
other pole:
If you read this be sure to have water and weed
Apache'
Houston for Xmas
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Log Date: 1/1/97
I-25N, Belen, NM at Exit 195 on-ramp:
Irish was here Oct 23, 1989 with Dog Trouble
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I-25S, Albuquerque, NM, at Stadium Rd on-ramp:
Rod + Pete Farrier
11-11 to 11-12-79
Morenci Arizona then to Florida
Heaven help you if you get stuck here
Nick Candelaria Jan `74
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I-25S, Albuquerque at Airport exit on ramp:
Rancho 1993 Gacho Hwy #1
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I-40W, Grants, NM, at exit 81B on-ramp:
(Autor's Note: I only checked the last two westbound on-ramps in Grants)
K.C. + R.B
Got a green stamp from + Smokie that I
seen on my daddy grave
Looked like Barney on Andy Griffin Show + we have to pay $10.00
Fuck him he can pay for both of us
KC RB
This place really sucks big dick
5 hrs in one spot BW 2/9/84
Ramon Savando (Sarando?) 8-13-88
Albuquerque NM
Rodney Marcum 6-21-79
JR L│O DEE
┼
V│E
4-8-86
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I-40W, Grants, NM at Milan/Exit 79 on-ramp:
Fool on a hill
(Drawn circle with 4 small semicircles inside at 90, 180, 270, and 360° with two dots inside each semicircle appearing like 4 beings looking down a hole)
Tiger
Elk City Okla
Anthony 5-10-95
Zac S. Wilson St. Joe Mo.
God bless all hitchhikers
and to hell with all those
that pass them by
in their tin chariots of
exploding dinosaur shit
Felix -n- Johanna were here
6/12/90 9:30 AM Phoenix bound
Crazy Wolf 11-10-75 to Cal.
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I-40W, Gallup, NM at Rt 666 on-ramp:
(This is the only exit checked in Gallup; found a dead dog here on Rt 666!):
Danny Moonette(?)
Oct 12-87
Ft Smith Ark bound for Woodland Calif
Groovy Bob 3-27-89
Miami to Seattle
Doin' life without a __de (ride?)
Maria Joe Rhonda Williams was fucken here drunk 11/13/91
Ants 10-4-96
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I-40W, Sanders, AZ on-ramp:
Steve and Dray(?) Hammeck
May 83
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Log Date: 1/19/97
I-15N, Las Vegas, NV at SRt-160 (Blue Diamond Hwy) underpass (on pillar):
Erik H. was here Aug. 11, 1984
LA Olympics West Covina, CA
Quincy Brown was here in 1989
10-21-89
MRI was here in 1971
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I-15S, Pahrump/Blue Diamond Hwy (SRt 160) underpass (Log Date 1/19/97, but earlier visits were 10/3/92 and 11/29/96):
Gray Fox
Marco 11-18-91 Laughlin
Gov Brayon [sic]
Brain bashes
Telepathic radio waves with
Lasar [sic] camera
You lost
on bridge support:
Striders Last Stride 7/12/82
on ceiling of underpass:
Jim -n- Jackie slept here 11-8-82
(Author's Note: Also found pair of dice from Aladdin Hotel. Also on side of bridge footing there was a pot/hash pipe with the letters DRI on the stem. I was tempted to pick it up as a memento and stash it in my pocket along with the dice, but since I was already illegally on the roadway, I wasn't interested in getting stopped by Metro or NHP, searched, and then trying to explain what I was doing with that thing.
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Log Date: 2/9/97
I-15S, Jean, NV I-15, southbound underpass:
(Author's Note: I picked up a hitchhiking marathon runner)
Steve March 1996
and still goin' strong as ever
BFFB
Kevin (Kit) Carson
9/3/88
FTW
Gigi slept here
Shy slept here 7/17/86
Push up (written on ceiling)
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I-15S Underpass at SRT 146, Las Vegas, NV:
I will be back soon
gone to get water
GY 7-22-79
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I-15S, Primm, NV, Underpass Rd, underpass:
D.K.J. "The Kid" 9-21-96
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Log Date: 6/30/97
I-30E, Texarkana, TX at State Line Rd on-ramp:
(Author's Note: Water tower overlooking this on-ramp claimed "Texarkana - Twice as Nice," in reference to the fact that the town was that much the better because it combines the best of these two great states. Siamese twin relationship of these two states joined at the "A": texArkana. Has anyone else ever noticed that they just took all the esses out from Texas and Arkansas to make the name?And that it can be said that they share an A or commingle at the A. Is this the "fuckin' A" I've always heard so much about?)
Tim and Randy to Ohio from fucked up Houston
John Sebastian 1/26/77 to Georgia
Coyote 4/77
Green 5/11/88
Frost from Illinois 4/11/76
Fuckhole skeletoids stop flairn your nose assholes or your in a fist fight with me martians
Billy the greatest show on earth on route to Brandenton Florida
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Log Date: 7/12/97
I-15N, Barstow, CA at N/S split, on-ramp at Cal-58:
on direction sign pole:
T.J. + Rick 12/24/83 good luck
JDS 3/18/85
Ellison Boys 12-6-90
Relamp 3394 1/VHO/FIX
(Author's Note: This might be the highway maintenance message for when they fixed a burned out lamp)
on freeway entrance sign (on I-15S) fork:
See you at the end of the rainbow
(drawn arching lines of a rainbow)
Spirit Caller
10:30
Ashley St. Pete to L.A.
Fla
11-1-------11-5
Fla ↗ ↖here "89"
Have faith
Seattle to North Carolina
Albatron 10-4-90
Jeff the C.R. Iowa from Tehachapi ☮
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I-15S, Bartsow, CA at Main Street on-ramp:
On ramp Pedestrians Prohibited sign:
The Luckster Del Mar Fair 6-11-97
C-Hawk 10-13-92 9:30 AM
Don Holt to Fontana So Cal
Bobby Olson Good luck Cal---Florida
12° 84°
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I-15N Barstow, Main Street underpass:
(in view of where the McDonalds where 12 year old girl died in a robbery crossfire a couple of weeks earlier)
John Branconnier(?) was here 6-16-97 Trust in "God"; he's your best friend! The way things are going in this country He May be your only friend...God bless and good luck all
Harley Long Soldier 6-27-86 Sioux
LA to Utah powwow
Star Child 11-29-94 ✧
Florida June 21-97 Happy trails
What the Fuck Chuck
I see you you take a shit
now put it back
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I-40W, Barstow, CA at Montara Rd on ramp-on:
On pedestrian prohibited sign:
Alaskan Warrior
Pittsburg Kid 76
Jeff Clark 12-8-81
IND to LA
Dave Carter from Bristol Conn to
Wash, Ore and Barstow 1-30-77
8:25 pm
1:00 this place is fucked
CHAZ from Pittsburgh
sometime in November 81
Pole, Bill Luce 3-3-80
Pole up on highway:
Glen Ginter Okla City Okla 10-16-70
Baldy - Sea Dog
Albuq New Mexico 1-18-69
Anne Orig. N La
now Hermosa Ca just now back from Ill
7-26-76
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I-15N, Victorville, CA at Roy Rogers Dr on-ramp:
(Drawn clouds with lightning bolts)
Ray Stagger Lee
R
S
L
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I-15S, at Cal 138, Wrightswood, CA (Cajon Pass area) on-ramp:
David R. Soto Redlands CA 7-13-79
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I-10E, Loma Linda CA at Anderson Ave on-ramp:
on pole:
Tim to Dallas Tex 1-25-84
Alan J. and Patches the Pit 5-24-91
8-95 Tweetie + Ben
on Pedestrians Prohibited sign:
Simon Jaywalker 3-7-82
Got to be an outlaw just to be free
Snake Good luck all
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I-10E, Loma Linda/San Bernadino at Waterman Ave (Redlands Blvd) on-ramp:
on pole:
Still driftin' dancin' and dreaming of Jamie
Zoe 3-18-95
The path of peace is exceedingly vast reflecting the grand design of the hidden and ma(_itest) words(?).
Awama(?) is a living shine of the divine
One who serves that grand purpose
Great spot 77 81 86 90
Alpha Omega Runners 5-18-88
7-1-97
Baker to M(I)X
UxSx No trespassing
Dave and Janice 8-24-91 M.B to Phx
Satin [sic] sucks his own dick I saw him
Protestant U.K.
(same bizarre scribble seen elsewhere)
Landy 1-1-92 Phenix AZ
Czarnie 1/93
Big Jim New York New York 7/89
on freeway entrance sign:
Gary from Boston to Cal to Boston to Florida to Cal now back to Florida maybe home maybe Alaska. Good luck to all and may the force be with you ___-83
4/3/82 Dallas Texas
Ranemaker Litzenburg
J.W. Outlaw Texas Bound
L.V. (L.U.?) Biscuit 5/97 to Texarkana TX
FTW 666
2-17-87
Cotton B'ham AL.
Happy Jack of the world got stuck here
Marc Fast
1-15-84 Virginia bound
other entrance (from west):
In sumer when the shawes be sheyne and
leves be large and longe yt ys ful merrie
in faire foreste to here the fowlys songe
to see the deere drawe to the dale and
leve the hilles bee and shadowe (hem? kem?)
in the leves grene under the grene wode tre
LSD consumes 47 times its weight in excess reality
Daniel was here in 87
↗ back again in 91
Eric Bakken going back home
Phoenix Ariz 5/11/84
Jimmy Alanis Roswell NM 12-24-84
Almost Home
Guppy to Palm Springs from Newport Beach
LeRoy Ivey 4/5/92
Gone to Pensacola Fla I loved these Mexican dicks
Marina from Italy
Larry going back to Miami from Hawaii
Sept 72
Bill Lemmons
Linda Zobel
+ true love
Joann Bunch
(inside a heart)
other pole:
It's a long way to good old PA
PB ✪ 1/79
2 joints and 6 beers and 4 hours
we are still here
6 bowls and 4 quarts and still no ride
Marty + Jeri
Some dude split in a car with my beer
K.R. 8-14-82
FLY TWA
You don't have to be crazy to hitch but it helps
Here I stand here I died Diver NJ #1
Frank martin 6-10-81 from Rhode Island
Jay + Brian Lynn Mass Sept 3 75
Scott Rose Hillsdale Michigan Nov 29 1973
At least the cops here are cool
Nita + Dawn 2/9/74
going to New Orleans
My thumb is numb
My arm is heavy
Here for hours
Still here hours later
May be here forever
Dion C. Power 12-28-84 Washington
5 bags and no matches
Ed Laux
Detroit Michigan
Guy Ingham
Melbourne Florida
5 min
10 min
15 min
20 min
30 min
1 hr
2 hr
Fuck me
My only hope was to hike X country to reafim my faith in human kind.
But (today?) you can't even do that in todays world JD 1/81
Flog me some more
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I-215N, San Bernadino at University Parkway on ramp:
(Pedestrians Prohibited sign):
SNAFU 2-1-96 (marker)
BCS Popeye
Ray (Roy?) Gonzales was here 4-1-90
Reuben 2-3-93 Seek Jesus first
Stefan + Timon from Germany
10/9/90
(____?) we stuck it out for one more day
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I-15N (Mojave Freeway), Victorville, CA at Bear Valley on-ramp:
on Pedestrians Prohibited sign:
Breezer (4-way arrow)
Grand Canyon bound 94 G.O.T.V.
Brenda
+
Charlie
1994
(drawn in heart)
Missouri Dog 10-14-93
Stupid Tramp 3-13-94 Super Tramp
Disconnect
(drawn above is a set of eyes with scowling eyebrows)
My wife 3 child spent nite here
This place sux. On to Colo
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I-280S Cupertino, CA at Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd on-ramp:
I was shit on a rock and hachit [sic]
lay in the sun
sworn to fun
love to none
Duke Wayne Ellsworth 12-12-82
No, dope
No, hope
Go back home
➘
Bill Spelman 8-20-79
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Log Date: 8/24/96
I-580E, Livermore CA No. Livermore St on ramp:
KY from Kentucky
Jon Warwick
Pamela Warwick
Caldwell Idaho
How many were there
Whitch [sic]way did they go
I must find them
I'm theyr [sic] leader
This place is fucked for geting a ride
Peter Savard
Nowhereland is right here
Flap-Hap
To Esther the Aussie
I love the thought of you
Someday together
Flap
Tim Hawkins 7-27-94
This is nowhere for hitchen
All is one
Everything is God
You are God
Know he is with you ¬ How true
Help me God
Help me God
Rescue me
Two days from San Francisco
Mantra Sara was here
Hare Krishna
hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
hare hare
hare Rama
Rama Rama
hare hare
(written inside a drawn scroll)
No dope
No hope
No ride
We died
Highway Loner 12·26·79
To Tulsa Okla + Castro Valley
Stay high + fly
Sgt. Karma was here for a few
Desolation Row
5/9-5/11
77
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I-580E, Livermore, CA First St. on-ramp:
There's nothing like a Greatful [sic] Dead Concert
except a Van Halen concert
Mon. Mar 7/77
Steve White Toronto Ont. Canada
This is the begining of what I hope to be a short stay. However by the poor reports left below by others desperate to get to LA I think I may be able to leave on this pole a few words of wisdom that probably will do nothing for you but pass the time as you wait for that all important flashing of brake lights that will take you down the road to even a worse spot than this
Dave + Eric 2-29-75
Dave + Eric 11-25-75
Mike + ?
Carl 9/6/80 England
LSD is hitch hikers asprin
Well here we are Steve and Greg
on the way to Canada `81
I'm going home W.VA.
Dave 1-27-79
LOBO
LOUES
SANDRA
SUS(AN?)
7-6-84 to FLA(?)
Here after Grateful Dead Winterland Feb 24
We were too
Shay and Road Hog 6-6-81 St. P.
BU here after a Grateful Dead concert
William W. Pope
Goldendale Wash. to Tucson Ariz
3-24-91 This place sucks a big one
Perhaps the next one will be the yin of this yang
Rick Hawkes and Rick Ward had the unfortunate experience of being here on 10/1/73
Written around the pole 7 times:
In the course of human events it becomes necessary for means of transportation to stick out ones thumb and yell "ho" to the passing purple pig boats. One must consider the element of (time to it). It's not a matter of going from point A to point B but consider it is from A to Z. In order to get from A to Z you must pass thru B,C,D...XYZ. This involves time multiplied by B,C,D...X,Y,Z and you get lots of hours. Enough to write a story or two.
Signed Dave + Eric
Passing through Point H.
I just got here but I do (no) this is going to be a long seat so here I am smoking a joint of Red Bad to get rede [sic] for it
Karl Miller 10-21-80
See the Very Great Fuldead Oct 6+7
Corperal Stoner
If you hitch here after 6 pm make camp
Wes and Deanne here 5-3-84 This place
I was here in June sit can't have been too long
The Blue Wit
Let's start a union!
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I-5N, W.E. Brownie Brown Freeway at Cal Rt 132 (to Modesto) on-ramp:
Rob from NJ to Oregon 12-4-72
I've been here 2 fucking days
Chris Martin was here and so are you sucker
I know that your following
Pig Fuckers Lightfeet
on ped pro sign:
Viet Nam Vet
69-70 2 YEARS 71-72
Michael Ferrel Marvel
Born 5 NOV 1951
Dieing [sic] of prostate cancer
Lord what does it take to get a ride
Been here all day May 11 1989
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Cal Rt-99N, Modesto CA, at Rt132 on-ramp:
Jeanie 8/25/75 Going to Denver ---- home
7-17-75
Bob
a
Alvin 11:PM
other pole:
I finily [sic] got rid of Dave the Head
on my own again Thank you Bill D 5/23/82
Found 2 joints in bushes
God is alive but doesn't want to get involved
Skin
✠
Head
Jesus is the way
May a great (thumb?) come out of the sky
and squash you basteds [sic] passing me by
G. (Greene?)
Peyote:
To all you stoners there is hope for a ride
Just smoke another joint and hope for that one Ride from the sky
Stay stoned from Peyote the 1+only
(I wish he'd get me a ride north)
Yosemite to Chico
Get lost (in?) America
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Cal Rt-99N Keyes/Turlock CA at Taylor Rd on-ramp:
L. Rhodes
to
Sacramento from LA 8-31-76
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99S Keyes/Turlock. CA at Taylor Rd on-ramp:
SNAFU
4-11-96
4-12-96
Stuck here over nite
(drawn a wincing face)
Help
Pops
to
Vegas
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock CA at Monte Vista Ave on-ramp:
I think I am going to fuckin' die. No ride in 3½ hours. Have not eaten anything in over 2 days. I have 2000 miles to go. No money. No weed. People around here are fuckin' blind 9/8/79
Better keep on truckin'.
People here eat shit
Stan K and Ed B 4-12-84
From Sacto to Tex
Good luck to you all
PS. This place sucks
(drawn face with glasses)
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Cal Rt-99S, Modesto CA, at H St on-ramp:
Price of admission
YOUR MIND
Hippy Larry + Crazy Wayne
to S. Padre Island 1 July 74
Trying to make it by the 4th
Keep on trucking
Don't you know that LSD consumes 47 times its weight in excess reality
Clutch
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Cal Rt-99N, Turlock, CA, at Fulkerth Rd on-ramp:
(drawing of the Enterprise and the earth with a Scotty, Beam me up now in the thought bubble connecting the two, inside; and Good Luck you'll need it, outside)
MH 48'
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock CA at Fulkerth Rd on-ramp:
Will somebody please give me a decent burial
I'm layin' over there ➞ in the fuckin' gully
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Cal Rt-99N, Turlock CA at Central Ave on-ramp:
Cowboy La to Sac
3-14-80 3 days
STP
Little
Jack
(Written inside a Zia symbol)
6-18-77
Dark:30 pm
Hoping to get home from
Looks like we'll make it
How free are you?
Creeping Bill 9/12/84
Reana Ann 10/7/77
to New York (Buffalo)
Good luck everybody
Thanks
(Drawn a circle with an equilateral triangle inside with equilateral triangles at left and right points, each of which are split into right triangles)
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock CA at Central Ave on-ramp:
Chris Broctons 4 hrs Aug 29, 88
I'm back and it still sux the high hard one
Rocks in hell!
10-27-88
Calif back to Macon GA
Markus "75"
2/26/78 Chris Joe Donna
to Florida and back
Trafton Brown 10/27/78 8pm
from LI NY
Been down so long it's beginning to feel like up
Fast Eddie `73
There isn't much positive thinking going on around here
Well, what do you expect with all the cow brains driving around here?
West Side Jim Myrtle Point Oregon
G & P goin to Mexico 5/1/96
Here I stand broken hearted
Without love because I'm too open hearted
Love the Lord Allen Powers
Frenchi Ceezarnie till my dick hits the dirt!
Tony DeLa Torr Just got out of jail 4/6/85
Danny Moreno
Yakima Wash to Texas
SS (angled like Gestapo) ϟϟ 1999
Pat and Rosie going to Texas
Quincy Calif
Trafton needs a chick to r(un?) with bad
ride to Bisbee AZ then El Paso
10,27,78
SAC
1985
RAE
Texas 3/9/85
Groovy Bob Everett Washington 7-14-88
Fuck this I'm walking
I'm bored of this spot
Death Valley
You can have what the crows don't eat
The Man with the Golden Thumb
Hitchhiking from hell yet again
New Yorkers make better lovers like Billy Joel, Lenny Bruce, John Travolta and many more
Skip Diamond going to FLA
Wal, ahm just driftin!
Paul Freeman Fremont CA,
Oct 18, 1975
I'm having a good mutherfuckin time doing it, too
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Cal Rt-99N, Turlock CA at Landers Ave on-ramp:
Chowchila Mike and Danny was here
but now they're gone
they left th(ere) names to carry on.
Those who knew them knew them well
those who didn't can go to hell
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Cal Rt-99S, Turlock at Landers Ave on-ramp:
Groovy Bob 7-14-88
Kelly
Ennis, Montana to Merced
almost there
New Years Eve 86-87
El Oscar from Varrin Sherman Sur San Diego #13
Charles Clayton leaveing [sic] here
go to KC and find some work 5/19/82
Charley Jones
Iraan Texas
Forest 8-22-85
Alaska to LA Be good to yourself
Yes we were here
We got all the good ramps
Jim + Alan 4-77
Beam me up Scotty
4-12-84 Stan K. and Ed. B. from Sacto to Tex
Good luck to all
Raza Rifa (Rica?)
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Cal Rt-99S, Merced, CA, Downtown/R St on-ramp:
Jesus Christ died for our sins.
Repent now before it's too late
Itchy was here
Still movin' pretty good
The Wizard 7-13-80
Kelly Long live freedom 31
Cap't Jack going there and back
John & Ted FLA to Portland + now to Indiana
Don't ever go to Sacramento.
Spent 24½ hours on 16th St ramp.
Fucked up Get high
Don 11-21-74
Come of Washington to Forsno am gat [sic] here at 1,25
it is 20°
Bob Cain and Foster Harrison to Georgia
2-18-79
Terry (Henry?) L. Bennett 2-23-77
Fredd
Herb and Red Wine Tour 82 *
Cap't Jack will get you high tonight
El Oscar Sherman Sur San Diego 1#3
Rick (Rich?) + Donna
Santa Rosa to Tucson Arizona
Truckin + fuckin 6-5-82
Higuera
Mt. Whitney or die 12-16-85
Igor Redding California to Los Angeles 12/85
This place sucks
When you read it I hope I'm not still waiting for a ride
Zippo
look like we're going to sleep here tonite again 7-83
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I-5S, Santa Nella, CA on-ramp:
7-27-96
Wozniak
✞♥ (Cross with and heart inside)
God be with you
D.E. San Francisco to Bangor Maine "Keep the Faith"
Eugene from Eugene 87 world tour
B. Best 7-14-81
BAD
WORLD TOUR
Y
Z `93
RDM
JHA 11/11/93
Two Deadheads
six hours later
Still 2 Dead Heads
Tour `85
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I-5N, Santa Nella, CA on ramp:
H
I
T
C
H '
N
POST
(written in 1" thick letters)
Don T. from ATL GA to Sacto Cal
Lookin to be money cookin
(Drawn pentagram with 666 in middle)
Motlee Crue Shout at the Devil
FTW
(drawn inverted cross with a 6 6 6 at the ends)
The Scarecrow strikes again from Orlando Florida to Eugene Oregon 3-5-84
Eugene from Eugene home from Yucatan 12-87
(inside a drawn heart)
For
Keith B. Paul(?)
Skuper Steve
will never hurt you again
Dad XANCE(?)
6-5(25?)-92
FxTxWx
From LA to Sacto
卐 ϟϟ
Michael Dodge
3-29-83
SxWxPx
Johnny B. Sept 2-1993
5 days
Waco Texas to Medford Oregon
HIPPIE
3/4/88
L☮VE
(drawn like a sun on the horizon, Hippie as rays, date in sun, love below horizon
Wayne Vorseth 7-12-89
Bullhead City, Nav to Portland Ore
one week and steel 800 m to go
The Road Bandit strikes again 3-5-84
Hiway Chile
John Colbert SD-Port Burn One!
Keep a bong along
(drawn triangle with 333 inside)
9/26/85 Harry Literal
The Phoenix
+
The Blond Raven
`89
Chanasky + John were here on the way
See ya there 94
Tony
5/2?/8?
To settle (Seattle?) - New York
John Degenan 3/27(9?)/83
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Log Date: 8/25/96
I-280N, Cupertino/Mountain View, CA, at Grant Road on ramp:
The Shadow knows! 10-14-72 L.A.C.
Hey Ma - (I'm ________)
We're stuck in Mountain View
with the SF blues again
Don't worry Ma, I'll be home
for Christmas if room ________
KC 10/1(4?)/
Wayne C. Feb 3, 1973 2:30 pm
Tell mom I'm going to the store C.H.
"Fig"
(Drawn Rolling Stones lips-tongue logo)
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I-280N, Los Altos CA at Magdelena St on ramp:
(Drawn big orange swastika ~3 in.)
Pacifica to [sic] hot to hitchhike M. Arnberger, Linda Mar
A traveler for 2 years on the streets
Still realing and dealing and cruzing
What a fucked way to live Hell
Not so hot a place
BOF ROXON
(Drawn an X with stars drawn in the spaces)
J.G. "79"
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I-280S, Los Altos CA at Magdelena St on- ramp:
S
M
◓
( ^
◓
T
(SMOOT written sideways with eyes made out of the O O; looking sideways/upwards with nose and smile
other pole:
If you get stuck here go back the way you came or you'll never go anywhere again
Randy and Ray
Thank you for telling me
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Log Date: 8/27/96
I-280N, Los Altos Hills CA at El Monte Road on-ramp:
Me and my dog on acid
Tennessee Jed
The Galilee Hitchiker [sic]
Gay is a gas. Don't fight it do it. Don't bite it chew it and there's money in it too.
I hope to get a ride soon. You shouldn't keep the customer waiting I've heard
Bye Ferdina 1$75.
Was stuck Make a sign saying
"Anywhere but here!" It works Try it
Dave Barb(our?)
Bus drivers are better lovers
Somebody should put a telephone here so I can call my mom
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I-280N, Palo Alto CA, at Page Mill Road on- ramp:
I lost a brown wallet somewhere around here
Justin Walker, Ray Riva on the road to riches
4/13/93 Santa Cruz - Marin
Could say that hitching hell is fucked but then that's no good to you
You're already stuck here
on and on the world moves...on and on the world moves...on and on the world moves...
(connecting around the pole)
Ni卐on
Where lies the eyes
that see the butterfly
and capture all his color?
That thread the sunlight through his wings
Improvising with the wind?
The eyes that pin his pattern spectrum
mounted on the sky
that starch his spirit and fix his frame
sealed in symatry [sic]
Where the eyes as fibers in the thread
weave through ultraviolet
Where the eyes compainted(?) in starch and glue
Diffuse the fading parchment
there are eyes that lie beyond the reflections
there are eyes that be amidst refractions
Where lies the eyes that see the butterfly?
- CG(N?)
Memories... to far to look back on
too near to resume life
Lissa Pospisil
J. Scott Batsford 2/15/81
Broke as hell!
Too much cocaine
Santa Cruz -- Anchorage Alaska
Have Patience
Budda
↓
Zoroaster
↓
Rama
↓
Krishna
↓
Gautama
↓
Jesus
↓
Mohamed
↓
Miher Baba are full of light
Love every person
love everyone for no reason
It's all in fun
Love your mother, sister, brother, lover, father, one another
We're together; not just people
Love animals and vegetables
Gulls, bulls, squirrels, camels, owls, devils, angels, and cannibals
All love, love, love
Eric Snapping
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Log Date: 8/29/96
US-101N, Mountain View CA, at Shoreline Road (southbound) on-ramp:
My name is Groovy Venus
My travels are far
Where may I rest, where
But lord is always near Groovy Venus
(scratched into new silver paint)
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US-101S, Mountain View CA, at Shoreline Road (northbound) on-ramp:
Thor 2 days SF to Tucson
(on wood post of "Pedestrians Prohibited" sign)
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US-101N Mountain View CA, at Amphitheater Parkway on-ramp:
REO (stylized E and O with star in it)
Robert Hand
Kelly Beardslee
11-7-84
Bill Bellingham Wash 11-8-84
This place is dead. Try walking
Jim Couitt
Rhode Island 4-7-87
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US-101S, San Jose CA/Santa Clara County, at Hellyer Road on-ramp:
(on ped proh sign)
Tom Bishop Hermosa Beach 7-5-90
JONE-SIN-FER
JEEEEERY (Jonesing for Jerry?
(drawn series of faces, seven going from happy to sad, then a lit joint, then one last happy face and a peace sign)
Swanger 11-15-95 11:am ϟϟ
Stood here in just my pantie [sic] for over an hour and still couldn't get a ride
34-22-36 Crystal Taylor
(I suspect this above was written by a male)
I'da rode ya Lady!
(drawn happy face with tongue sticking out)
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US-101S San Jose/Santa Clara County at Blossom Hill Road on-ramp:
Eugene from Eugene 9-88
Son of love
Son of light
Son of man
Son of might
Son of faith
Son of sight
Son of truth
Son of right
Son of God
Son of Holy Knight
Jesus
Was here before with Tri alone but only in spirit Tri journey of love 105th day
The beginning date 52695
Time 4:03 pm
Our everlasting love
PHX bound
Tino and Katharina Ponce
(drawn heart with "TNT and beyond no jive" inside)
Tumbleweed 10-28-95 Berkeley Ca to Eastland TX
Bob I've been here 3 days 6-26-89
Gods always here
HELLS ANGELSS
-MC
on sound deflector wall:
The Begining of beginings [sic]
in the name ©f Christ
L♡RD of truth justice Tri and
I self everlasting peace Amen
Journey of Love on the threshold of a dream
Moody Blues
Good luck brothers and sisters
don't forget to pray in Christ
(drawn heart with "TNT 95 and beyond no jive" inside)
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Log Date: 8/30/96
US-101N, Los Altos CA, at San Antonio Road on-ramp:
8 was here 6-30-73
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US-101S Los Altos CA, at Oregon Expressway on-ramp:
Cars can eat runny dog poop
Mulvaney 12/80
The Bull 7-20-75
James Dickenson to LA
Be content under all circumstances
George Cree was stuck here on the way home to Monterey
from Bob Dylan/Grateful Dead concert
Oakland Collesium July 24, 1987
(P.S. the show was worth everything)
Hey now, a great place for nothing
Anyone have a smoke? 11/10/91 ☮ onward
Don Side Kick Mumbies (Mumbles?)
The Flying Freakin' Fairy and his faithful companion Bi-Dyke were here May/13/72
P.A's (Palo Alto) got its head up its ass
Pee Wee says: Boogie
Mike of Baltimore
Buster Venice Calif Aug 23 1971
Chet + Hanes(?)
were here to see the Wizard be he wasn't home 7/11/81
Think positively
6-3-75
Pee Wee + Fonzie
to San Jose from Oregon
Perry Dungan
`3 little man
Return to Santa Barbara from San Fran
(had skin problems)
Shannon Mifflin 11/18---
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Log Date: 9/3/96
US-101S East Palo Alto CA, at University Avenue (northbound) on-ramp:
I love this world of life. Let me take you on the road St. John
Marty was here from Pasadena Calif 3-26-70
Love Peace Dope Jack Weir 1970
Ronn Durr headed back to Fla 1972
Homer Seattle to Mexico
Boz were here 8-17-70 Things are a little slow today
Also 9-2-70 going to LA
Cactus is stuck here again
Eddie Martinez knows whats happing [sic]
San Francisco the promised land
will promise yo(u)
Yesterday is faded
Tomorrow is opaque
Today is luminescent
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Cal Rt-85N (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (westbound) on-ramp:
Kimmy Lee Jennings stoned good 2-20-81
Got some weed 2-20-81 9pm 2-21-81
Friday night full bright moon
But I think I may as well crash out
cause this ramp surely does suck
☮
(Drawn peace sign over a pot leaf with stay stoned across it)
Blow Job Bob was here 2-2-82
May as well start jacking off KLJ 2-20-91
Pitch your tent KLJ `81
Here I am again
Sho Duff
Shorty was here
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Cal Rt-85S (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (westbound) on-ramp:
A wise man investigates what a fool takes for granted
ΛΣΔ
(Alpha Sigma Delta symbols)
This is the most fucked place in the whole fucking world
-You must be kinda fucked up
-This isn't too bad of a place
Ray Exter 1973
The word for the day is LE(G?)S
The thought for the day is smoke dope
(Drawn cartoonish picture of a mouse riding on a skateboard giving the finger, smoking something)
(Tic-tac-toe game)
Un(a?)ll Grunt!!
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Cal Rt-85S (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (eastbound) on-ramp:
one pole:
Ray Exter 1973
other pole:
Jedediah
Flinders 28 Apr 75 8:00 How bout a ride
on freeway sign:
Stylized letter:
international kill Nazi's DⒶy's
Germ
95
Sublast
Non
Vileant
Skam
Punx
(N in circle with arrow protruding NE and cross protruding SW)
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Cal Rt 85N (Stevens Creek Freeway), Sunnyvale CA, at Rt 82 (El Camino Real) (eastbound) on-ramp:
(Drawn happy face circle with direction-like points at NESW)
Smile
∞
California to South Dakota This place really (sucks)
John The Monkey Deamon & Sleepy Carl 9/24/69
(Editor's Note:
Monkey Demon is a character in 1966 Richard Farina book, Been Down So Long it looks Like Up to Me)
Ken + Pat were here 6/75
Ken O'brien + Lyn Alhorn
Dan and Barry was here on Christmas Eve 1976
for a while gettin stoned
Oregon or busted
✡
Don't look back
Dave + Maynard
8/5/68 Minneapolis Minn.
The pot got me high ← doesn't this guy
The reds got me loaded have a fun life
And the booze fucked me up
Whoever reads this (stay high)
no thanks,
not that high
ANDY CARU (CARLI? CAR71?)
All power to the people who love their brothers and sisters and fight the real enemy
Shoot to win!
Mike tried here
Mike cried here
Mike died here
(Drawn cartoony picture of Mike)
♉
Miles Rader was here
Love is great as long as there are no riots or muggings and robbery.
Stick to shoplifting
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Log Date: 9/4/96
US-101N, Mountain View, CA, at Embarcadero Rd (westbound) on-ramp:
Love is the only freedom
If you read polles [sic] and you need a smoke or 5¢ look on the first branch of the tree right in frunt [sic]of you. Comp. of Rus__ (metal sign strap in way)
Peace brothers ☮
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US-101N, Mountain View, Ca, at Embarcadero Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Android Mantisray was here
MZ Florida to Calif
Michael Stone
☮tis Stone
P.H.E. 5-75 ☮ Maha
If you need a smoke, 5¢ or matches
read the polle [sic] on the other ramp
Peace brother Rusty
Victor Grilli 9-16-73
Robert Munoz
Robert Anderson
Dennis Anderson
Tahoe bound 7/24/70
"Rose Lotus"
Phil Wright LA to Oregon
Cody Brewer 9/27/79(4?)
Headed for Laramie, Wyo
Joe + Tony stopped by and got high
Northbound
Paul De Groat
White Earth Minnesota
Good pakalolo to share with a ride
Derk Boss was here 11/5/73
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US-101S, Mountain View, CA, at Embarcadero Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Mad John to LA
Gary Evans 21Mar69 8:10pm
Ed Cook to Hollywood Mar 8 70
Mr. Goodbar was here to fucking long 3 hrs
Terry Morgan, Long Beach CA (12?2?3?)/22/75
Paul Letchuk Montreal Quebec Canada
☮ to LA USA
Christ didn't die on the cross
He died hitchhiking
Such a nice place to see great turd hearted people
Marty and Steve were here
10/22/70(76?)
We've hitched all over
Started in Tucson Ariz
Brock & Anneli were here Jan 1973
other pole:
Brian + Jim Fairbanks to Reno 12/9/81
L
GOD
V
E
Steve D. Hayes
Eureka CA 28May(88?)
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Cal Rt-85N (Stevens Creek Freeway) Cupertino/Los Altos, CA at Homestead Rd on-ramp:
Talk about Hit hiking spots. This is it!
This is the middle of the world and it stinks
If you stay here long enough you may get a ride some day Walk ni**er!
Ed Morrison was here It was fucked
Jim Schlotter was here 12/12/70
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Log Date: 9/8/96
US-101S, Burlingame, CA at Broadway on- ramp:
Jim Ongley Jun 94
Ben Stennet Goin' home
Floyd 9/14/76
Charlie Graves died waiting
Jim Walker from Center Point Alabama
jumped bond in San Fran + is headed for Mexico
Oh, you'll love Mex jails
You dumb ass!
"Shot Gun"
Jan. 25 1973
Richard (Quager?Oniger?Quiz?Oriz?)erstein 2 hrs
Love is a bag of heroin or cocain or MDA
Diana Martinez 5-20-76(96?)
Charlie Graves for an LA Woman
Jessie Tomes Maeno
Born 1965
Died waiting for a ride
Charlie Graves 2/12/82
(Drawn Kilroy was here)
Gene October 1979 SF sucks
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US-101S, Burlingame, CA, at Poplar Ave on- ramp:
Nomad was here
B.S.G.D. 2000
on freeway sign:
BACK TO LA
NALINI + ROB
(stylized letters and symbols above and below)
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Cal Rt-92E, San Mateo, CA, at Delaware Ave on-ramp (US-101/Harold "Bizz" Johnson Interchange):
Clan "78"
(drawn lookd like a lit match)
In memory of ___anson (metal strap in way)
Died in hotel fire in 1977
Hitched here once to get loaded
Here we sat
Here we sit
The drivers in Cal
J. Passaniar(Passamar?) (W.W.? N.W.?) Va.
Otis 74
"Spike"
+
"Ginger"
+
"Brain" were here 7/11/82
← Go west
(Drawn profile of a skull )
SEEP was here
July 10, 196_
The West Coast Kid
82 June
(Written inside an outline of California)
Sheila + Ken
Grangeville, Idaho to Long Beach Calecch!
Just Married
(Sheila's handwriting)
We balled and had 3 kids
before a fucking car stopped
P.S. and now our kids have kids
(Ken's handwriting)
Gina + Gary 7/29/72
It's not wise to hitch here sucker
This ramp has nothing but chumps for drivers
Jesus wants to see you in heaven
He really loves you (I know) SG
Robert Negrones was here 3/26/72
Koco + Sunshine
Boy E.
DC
Steve Goodman (Friscos fucked)
to LA then Mardi Gras 2/11/74
then to Indiana
We came here to thumb home
2-21-75
Didn't get a ride until
10 Years After
This place sucks
David Carty
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US-101S, Redwood City, CA at Whipple Ave on-ramp:
Kimmy Lee Jennings 2-22-81 ☮
N.Y. Angel sat here waiting from Frisco going to Carmel Valley. Came to Frisco from Hollywood Got there from New York
Flagstaff AZ to Guymes Mexico to Eugene Oregon to Phoenix AZ June 12, 1975
Bill Cook + Dug Dyno
Patches + Breezy March 75 SF
Mike MaHern + Chuck Thorpe
Minneapolis to Mexico
Mar 16, 71
What's in a name? Kerry Waddell
T.P.S. Day 1
Mushroom
(Drawn picture of a mushroom)
Wrightsville Beach, NC
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US-101N, Redwood City, CA at Marsh Ave on-ramp:
Mike Anderson from Elmwood Jail
POST E PRE
WAP `89
Entre resadio
Fags won't even stop to give a ride
How's that for a good buddy
The Kid
Cheryl + Mike (inside a heart)
True love my ass
The Kid
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US-101N, Redwood City, CA at Cal Rt-84/Woodside Rd. on-ramp:
This ramp sucks the big time
James Roberts 6/9/84
SF Ca and the guy that drop(p)ed me off said it was a good ramp
PS Bull Shit
Eat shit and bark at the moon!
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US-101N, San Mateo, CA at Holley Ave. on-ramp:
I been living out on the road for a long time
it another lonely night No one to love
I know that God love me.
Probably sleep right here tonight knowing that he will wacht [sic]
Black Sabbath
Going to San Fransico
coming from Lost Angelous!
Joan Jett
Pretenders
Cops harrased me on Freeway
Made me come here Joseph
David stoned in`77' going to SF
I was here I think
Bat of Jersey City Long live opiates
Bombay, India Fidel De Dios 1-9-77
Viva Sativa 06479
Newport Beach Phyco
Jesus loves you
Peace be with you
have a beautiful journey
Couldn't get a ride at the other pole so we came here.
Are we still in San Mateo?
To Brazil 12-7-72(70?)
Ox Cart rolls thru
(9?)/27/71
Janis Joplin
Heavy Metal
4/28/(78?88?)
(Drawn half a peace sign and a heart with a line down the middle and a 3 in the center)
Dennis Totten from Fla
卐
Berdoo
White Power
ϟϟ
1?4?/27/72 Cheryl, Carol, & Debbie
Trying to get to the city to see Traffic.
It's windy + cold but not really bad.
i hope the tickets aren't sold out.
Debby the Kid 1-7-75
Frank Beech
-con-
Debbie Parodi
(in a heart)
Lee Brown
-con-
Patty Baker
(in a heart)
Lee Brown
Pee Wee Machere
and Frank Beech
Burger
4/5/74
The Pinoys from Florida in 5 days
Sniff glue in 72
LSD in 73
Let's get some more in 74
Smoke the sticks in`76
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Cal Rt-92E, San Mateo, CA at Delaware Ave/US-101 interchange (Harold "Bizz" Johnson Interchange) on-ramp:
Cars
300
400
500
600
700
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US-101S, Redwood City, CA at Marine World Parkway on-ramp:
on freeway sign:
Do you know the way to San Jose
4-12-91 Phil
on Pole:
Watch sprinkler system when you crash
(arrow pointing to shrubbed area)
Wet Clark
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US-101S, Redwood City, CA at Holly St on-ramp:
Roman
✡ Jews
Rule
Rich Sesma -76 - trippen getting high
The pain of my experience of feeling is exposed through the act of hichikeing
The indifference of my fellow human beings (ect) [sic]
Abilene here we come
Kimmy Lee Jennings
3-11-82 Anywhere!
Sure wish I had some dope! ☮
Forget it You'll never get a ride
been here 12 hrs
13 "
14 "
15 "
16 "
17 "
Oh fuck it give up
Dana
Dixon Abilene, Tex
-n-
Joe Aellano Oct 27 "73"
Kathy + Colleen April Fools Day 1976
Only maggots that don't know how to get a ride write on these poles
Calif sucks mule dick
From Bellingham Wa Oct 27 73
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US-101S, Woodside, CA at Woodside Rd on-ramp::
I'm a fuckin statue Bob 10-15-92
Don Cook 11-10-89
John Dey (Day?)
FLA
1980
↘
Dawn
(in a heart)
other pole:
☮ 1980 Mike
OOD🔀IB
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US-101S, San Mateo, CA at Marsh Road on-ramp:
Monk was here 5-18-83
Kelly Beardslee 10-24-84, 11-7-84, 11-8-84
Redwood City to Santa Cruz
Don Seattle to Santa Barbara 8/30/85
Robert Hand 7-31-84, 10-24-84, 11-7-84, 11-8-84
Redwood City to Santa Cruz
Billy + friends
to Santa Barbara + beyond 6-15-83
Jim & Brian Fairbanks to Reno
12/8/81
Rich + Lisa SF to NY
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US-101S, San Mateo, CA at Willow St on-ramp:
J. White Anchorage to Santa Clara
I should walk I'm so close but too lazy 7-23-85
M. Hayes walked out of SF 3 days ago
This is day 4 8/22/96
Good food all the way
Little or no pot M. loves Trudi(?)
Jim & Brian Fairbanks to Reno 12/9/81
John Thomas The WC Kid
June 82
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Log Date: 9/9/96
US-101N, San Mateo, CA at Willow St on-ramp:
Steve Ortez 12/5/71
Steve McGowan Half Moon Bay
Give me plenty of pussy, pot and pavement
Follow the yellow brick road
Darryl needs a ride
I hate everyone
KLJ
2-18-81
Wish I had a porpise [sic] here
HIV virus
look out So______ (metal band in way)
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Log Date: 9/14/96
I-280N, Menlo Park, CA at Sandhill Rd on-ramp:
Old volvos are nice friendly looking cars
Mike Shaughnessy Roch NY 5-73
The Farm
The Goddess is alive and wants her children
Colorado or bust
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I-280S, Palo Alto, CA at Alpine Rd on-ramp:
James McGuire March 17, 74
needs a break Saint Pats Day
Joe Valle 12/21/87
For a good lid of marijuana call 327-42--
ask for Steve Jacobsen
Make love not war
Smoke joints not war
Other pole:
Electric gardens of growing sound
passing through your head
Follow it off up and down
and you will never leave the __?
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Log Date: 9/15/96
US101S, Morgan Hill, CA at Cochrane Rd/Sig Sanchez Freeway on-ramp:
Tumbleweed 10-28-95
Berkley CA to Eastland TX
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US101S Morgan Hill, CA at Tennant Ave on-ramp:
Makah Indian Reservation
Neah Bay, WASH 98357
Heather
Anywhere USA
11/15/87
Johnny Winterhawk
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US-101S, Morgan Hill, CA at San Martin Ave on-ramp:
Fast Alex stranded 3 hours at this stinking spot
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US-101N, Gilroy, CA at Rt 152/Leavesly Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
The Phoenix -86-
The Grateful Dead
Heavy Metal
666
Ozzy Osborne
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Loudness
Twisted Sister
Motley Crue
You can't kill rock & roll
other pole:
Love lost at such a cost
Down and out
There's a lot of it about
J McComas San Jose Calif
The Spirit of the Road
Marijuana Mucho UU ≡ no savor
10 pm Nov 1 1975 Jim from Monterrey to San Jose
10 cars so far in ½ hour
Plant your seeds at highway on ramps
You won't get high but someone else will
Robin D + Rick F
TLA (Letters running together)
Rick F is a fox
Edith + Jamie
Smoke pot and have retarded kids
Pot does not make a person have retarded kids
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US-101N, Gilroy, CA at Cal Rt152/Pacheco Pass Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Take the promises of God for example. Let a man feed on the promises of God for a month and you will not here them going about complaining about how poor they are. You here them say. "Oh my leaness how (can) I am "It is not their leaness, it's their laziness."
If you would only read from Genesis to rev. and see all the promises made to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to the Jews to the Gentiles and to all his people everywhere. If you would spend a month feeding on the promises of God you won't be going about complaining of how poor you are. You would lift up your head and proclaim the riches of his grace because you couldn't help doing it!
Dwight Moody
The only complaint I have is when one judges me, saying that I was complaining when I didn't until you produced it when I read your complaint theory
(Author's Note: This entry was logged on 9/15/96 soon before sundown on the second day of Rosh Hashanna)
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US-101S, Gilroy, CA at Cal Rt-152/Pacheco Pass Rd (eastbound) on-ramp:
Lennys kid brother was here
Death is an honor and privillage [sic]
Tex Watson an child mulestar [sic]
Skid Row Slashers
All freedom fighters for homeless people
unite in Barstow Jan (Feb?) 1st 1993
Ask and seek out Doc + Geri
Hobos help each other
Mike + Geri
`92 Fight 4 Freedom for homeless people
Be good Be free Fight for our collition
F.F.F.H.P.
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US-101S, Gilroy, CA at Monterey Rd on-ramp:
(newly silver-painted pole)
Well they think new paint curse [sic] all.
Well they are wrong. High I'm Swanger
Spellt [sic] S.W. Anger ϟϟ ←trademark
11-15-95
(something derogatory about CalTrans, but couldn't decipher it)
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US-101N, Gilroy, CA at Monterey Rd on-ramp:
Hell hole #16 Al & Dave from FLA to SF
This is a hick town
If you want to be free, go to Lake Alpine, California. It is near Jackson
Bill from Winslow
Here I am stoned and grumpy
This is where that fucker dumped me
Priest + Leigh
Hollywood to San Francisco
Going to Yosemite Nat'l Park if we can get the fuck out of this hick place
8/24/76
Had to walk out of here and give this place back to the buzzards. Living proof that Gilroy was fucked by Midland Tex
Dave + Al Fla to SF (maybe)
Living proof that Midland Tex + San Antonio Tex mated and produced Gilroy
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Log Date: 9/17/96
I-880S, Santa Clara, CA at Coleman Ave (southbound) on-ramp:
Bear was here T.K.O.
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Cal Rt-17, Santa Clara (to Santa Cruz) at I-880/Stevens Creek Blvd on-ramp:
I shot an arrow and it stuck
P.S. Help fight air pollution so I can git my arrow back
Tramp 2-9-84 This place sucks
It is here, really here
All the beautiful things God made for us to admire of him is it love, really love.
Then why do even think of someone above
God is love
Dave Reefer to Santa Cruz Oct 24, 1975
And no Ritz Crackers
Steve the Freak was here on his birthday
4-11-76 Big Sur from Joshua Tree
Jeuse was here and his wife Gwen
(drawn heart)
LA - San Fran there and back again
Richard and Mike This place is full of redneck assholes 2-81
Back to LA
Hope this ramp is luckyer [sic] than the one across the street
Myke 2-81
PS It's not Shit!!
Cold Shoulders
Toke was here
Ron seeking pussy
Vince Gore to Santa Cruz
Patience brings prosperity
Tatoo Don 2-89
Steve Johnson rules the road
Dale Basye was here to Santa Cruz 7/30/72
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I-880N, Santa Clara, CA, at Bascom Rd on-ramp:
Aaron the Red Baron Love and happy trails
9/19/76(70?)
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Log Date: 9/18/96
Cal Rt-17S, Campbell, CA at Hamilton Ave on-ramp:
Winnie + Scooter 1/21/85
Mark Mueller Sept 3/86
Dolfie 5-8-83 to Santa Cruz
to see my post mistress and my mistress's posterior
The Jazzman 8-13-91 Tahoe to the Cruz
Jim West was here 82 July 29
Buzzed out of my brain
Hopie Farfan 4/5/81
Cop done good 8/14/91
Here I stand in need of a ride
My backpack by my side
Wising I had one to roast
Cause I'm bound for the east coast
Drew 2/24/8(8?)
(Drawn what looks like AAB in a circle)
Muleskinner was here in the RAW
11/12/81
5 years of being a road rat and some punk just flipped me off
Silvette + Jennys gone with the wind
Pat loves you Sandy Boyd
Help! Did you feel invisable [sic]. The wait here
III times the continent Boom `87
Somebody + others wuz here
☮Ⓐ
South to beach
I love Mary Passamika
Love Ben Pleske
Maple Valley, Washington 98038
(heart with BP + MP inside) *************************************
Cal Rt-17, Los Gatos/Campbell, CA, at Camden Ave on-ramp:
Twice removed from yesterday
Lee + Chuckles Hayward to Tucson
Paul Smith
May every path you travel be righteous
Flinders Santa Cruz
Phillip Watts
I'm wet and I'm cold but thank God I'm not old
Robert Hand and Scott Staves to Santa Cruz
I bet this pole has been everywhere
(referring to the fact that it has been written on so extensively)
Darrick Williams + Chuck Benesh 7/21/76
Private Date Box
Layman Nickel Newkirk
2-2-74 2-2-74 2-11-74
2-9-74 2-9-74
2-11-74 2-11-74
Going to Santa Cruz
Hope we make it Charlotte Songer
Helene Huston Bill Songer
Barbara Anderson, Veronica McHerney (McNerney?)
Danny Codingham (Cedingham?)
to Santa Cruz 7/25/73
The Rollen [sic] Stones stood here 6/18/73
John Flynn, Doug West & Todd Muir wherever he is
Ray Exter 1973
Arvana Georgette Williams
Mt View to Santa Cruz 3/15/73
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Cal Rt-17N, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (westbound crossroad) on- ramp:
Don't change dicks in the middle of a screw
Vote for Nixon in 72 Pat Nixon
I must be too dirty for the seat covers
Big Sur Road Trip 91
Rabbitt Christy & Dave
The No Nos
No rides No nukes No cutbacks
Pig Nixon you're better off dead
You get no peace of mind
You're bound to fall
`Cause you'll never get us all
And lord we're gonna hang you high
Mojo Navigator
Capitol [sic] itself is not evil
When used wisely it can serve as a catalyst for better things
However capitol is the outward ___________(metal strap in way)
and freezes the _______ and numbs the soul
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Cal Rt-17S, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (westbound crossroad) on-ramp:
Jean Letellier de Montreal is going back to Santa Cruz. There's no place like it.
Visit "The Farm" at Drakes Lane in Summertown Tennessee U.S.A.
Hoo Bible by Art Kleps.
(a series of letters and symbols - like ranch brands - written as if in a code)
Ed One's Not Enough But Two Is Too Many Ford
+
Gregg A Chuckles As Good As A Laugh Ford
were here
Doug Malone needs something
Jon Visage
Nixon's thru in `72
David Swim 6-11-73
No hope
No dope
No ride
We cried
Ram `87
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Cal Rt-17S, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (eastbound crossroad) on-ramp:
As humus bean does organic matter?
Gay pride day June 25, 1978 All unite
Boz 5-20-70 Howdy Podnah
Numpty 7-24-70 wuz here
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Cal Rt-17N, Los Gatos, CA at Monte Serra/Downtown (eastbound crossroad) on-ramp:
Timothy Leary for Governor
Ben Stennet to Fremont 10/15/73
Star Fucker 7-2-75
(circle with star in it)
Apple Jack
LOVE
IS
GOD
Commander Kodie Lives
May all your ups and downs be in bed
Bruce Shell Hollister Cal 1-16-71
Robert Sanchez March 27, 1973
other pole:
Manuel Urango was here from Aptos
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Cal Rt-17N, Campbell, CA at Hamilton Ave on-ramp:
(Author's Note: Chased away by a cop before I could check for graffiti.)
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Log Date: 12/27/96
I-35N, Denton, TX at Exit 469 on-ramp:
(Author's Note: south side of pole weathered and messages illegible)
Extinct Breed Hitcher of Amer
Fuck Texas
Don Veilleux Spokane Wash
Heavan [sic] hath no fury like a (lost) lover in paradise 4-13-79
Guitar Tim 3/3/94
(Drawn picture of two interlocking loops)
Rat to Colorado
Jim Lucas 4th July <79
To Spokane Wash
Ricky Mendez Crystal City Tex
to Moorhead Minn
Bryon Wood Portland Oregon 4-13-81
Audy Harris going to OKC from Pasadena Texas 4/11/76
Fuck Jesus Freaks
L-Paso Dog 10 April 1994
Alan Tinker All State Drifter
Fuck all tramps
Chuck was here
That's no lie
I've been here
since July
The hiway is my home
Joe Mangella (Manzella?) Jun 28,76
See ya in Chicago 1,080 miles to go
What's the point of life?
All we do is die anyway
Juergen Daniel and Mark Brown
waited here too damn long!
Everyone who passes by better fucking throw a rod
for they can just suck our dong
From Venice, CA
Tom & Snake Port Aransas
"Tess" from Quebec Canada
Fuck around U.S.A. 1/15/82
Lance McMahan, Boston, Mass
Keep ata Tennessee
David Todd + Lee Tinsley
Ocala Fla to Oregon July 3, 73 Thumbs up
Burrito Bob 4-17-76 going to LA
Polo (Rolo?) 6-21-83 Summer Solstace
Going to Rainbow UP Mich
Ron Thompson 2-22-82
Going home to KC MO after 6 mos in Corpus Christi
God Speed Brother
Prince Diamond Star
2nd time I was here
Rab of 83
The Highway Tramp
Enid Okla
Moto! Murcumbo
☠
(Drawn angry skull and stick-figure crossbones)
A curse upon all who mock hitch-hikers as they pass
Spent New Years Eve here
11:00 - 2:00 Bummer
Charlie (Gandy?) Corpus - Denver
Dec 31, 1979
Jeff D 10,000 miles later and going home
5/26/7(0?) Yahoo
S.R. Smith "The Poet"
Emporia, Kan (last ride in a Cadillac)
400 miles to go Approx 20 hours to Wichita
Fred Scharff and Kirk Vaalhies (Vaathies?) split for Phoenix
(two-headed arrow drawn between above entry and poem below, but not totally sure they are from the same head or of the same mind)
↕
Totally (Totalic? Totality?) the barbiturate
Sleeps death
Downer, Downer
Sleep speed for breath
Acid crawls for
Fish or flesh
Hashish lulls all
Bangladesh
O cocaine lushes
or crystal hushes
O spend your dimes
for dime-bag rushes
Pop top bottles of TNT
I'd sooner cross the DMZ
or spill my guts for Viet Cong
Than have you know
that I am wrong
I lie to well
for you to see
My gums (guns?) are lined
with STP
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I-35W South, at Ft. Worth-Dallas Split
S.
J "82"
Corpes Christy bond [sic]
(Corpus Christi bound)
other pole:
a collection of symbols that appear to be mathematic or engineering related by cannot decipher, something like:
┼ ≠ 3 -ℸ∠∠∆√3∦
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Log Date: 12/31/96
I-25S, Belen, NM at Exit 191 on-ramp:
Henry going to Texas
Hope you doing better then me
6½ hrs
all dam [sic]day
next day
no help in town
I ♡
(✞) Have faith
other pole:
If you read this be sure to have water and weed
Apache'
Houston for Xmas
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Log Date: 1/1/97
I-25N, Belen, NM at Exit 195 on-ramp:
Irish was here Oct 23, 1989 with Dog Trouble
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I-25S, Albuquerque, NM, at Stadium Rd on-ramp:
Rod + Pete Farrier
11-11 to 11-12-79
Morenci Arizona then to Florida
Heaven help you if you get stuck here
Nick Candelaria Jan `74
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I-25S, Albuquerque at Airport exit on ramp:
Rancho 1993 Gacho Hwy #1
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I-40W, Grants, NM, at exit 81B on-ramp:
(Autor's Note: I only checked the last two westbound on-ramps in Grants)
K.C. + R.B
Got a green stamp from + Smokie that I
seen on my daddy grave
Looked like Barney on Andy Griffin Show + we have to pay $10.00
Fuck him he can pay for both of us
KC RB
This place really sucks big dick
5 hrs in one spot BW 2/9/84
Ramon Savando (Sarando?) 8-13-88
Albuquerque NM
Rodney Marcum 6-21-79
JR L│O DEE
┼
V│E
4-8-86
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I-40W, Grants, NM at Milan/Exit 79 on-ramp:
Fool on a hill
(Drawn circle with 4 small semicircles inside at 90, 180, 270, and 360° with two dots inside each semicircle appearing like 4 beings looking down a hole)
Tiger
Elk City Okla
Anthony 5-10-95
Zac S. Wilson St. Joe Mo.
God bless all hitchhikers
and to hell with all those
that pass them by
in their tin chariots of
exploding dinosaur shit
Felix -n- Johanna were here
6/12/90 9:30 AM Phoenix bound
Crazy Wolf 11-10-75 to Cal.
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I-40W, Gallup, NM at Rt 666 on-ramp:
(This is the only exit checked in Gallup; found a dead dog here on Rt 666!):
Danny Moonette(?)
Oct 12-87
Ft Smith Ark bound for Woodland Calif
Groovy Bob 3-27-89
Miami to Seattle
Doin' life without a __de (ride?)
Maria Joe Rhonda Williams was fucken here drunk 11/13/91
Ants 10-4-96
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I-40W, Sanders, AZ on-ramp:
Steve and Dray(?) Hammeck
May 83
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Log Date: 1/19/97
I-15N, Las Vegas, NV at SRt-160 (Blue Diamond Hwy) underpass (on pillar):
Erik H. was here Aug. 11, 1984
LA Olympics West Covina, CA
Quincy Brown was here in 1989
10-21-89
MRI was here in 1971
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I-15S, Pahrump/Blue Diamond Hwy (SRt 160) underpass (Log Date 1/19/97, but earlier visits were 10/3/92 and 11/29/96):
Gray Fox
Marco 11-18-91 Laughlin
Gov Brayon [sic]
Brain bashes
Telepathic radio waves with
Lasar [sic] camera
You lost
on bridge support:
Striders Last Stride 7/12/82
on ceiling of underpass:
Jim -n- Jackie slept here 11-8-82
(Author's Note: Also found pair of dice from Aladdin Hotel. Also on side of bridge footing there was a pot/hash pipe with the letters DRI on the stem. I was tempted to pick it up as a memento and stash it in my pocket along with the dice, but since I was already illegally on the roadway, I wasn't interested in getting stopped by Metro or NHP, searched, and then trying to explain what I was doing with that thing.
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Log Date: 2/9/97
I-15S, Jean, NV I-15, southbound underpass:
(Author's Note: I picked up a hitchhiking marathon runner)
Steve March 1996
and still goin' strong as ever
BFFB
Kevin (Kit) Carson
9/3/88
FTW
Gigi slept here
Shy slept here 7/17/86
Push up (written on ceiling)
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I-15S Underpass at SRT 146, Las Vegas, NV:
I will be back soon
gone to get water
GY 7-22-79
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I-15S, Primm, NV, Underpass Rd, underpass:
D.K.J. "The Kid" 9-21-96
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Log Date: 6/30/97
I-30E, Texarkana, TX at State Line Rd on-ramp:
(Author's Note: Water tower overlooking this on-ramp claimed "Texarkana - Twice as Nice," in reference to the fact that the town was that much the better because it combines the best of these two great states. Siamese twin relationship of these two states joined at the "A": texArkana. Has anyone else ever noticed that they just took all the esses out from Texas and Arkansas to make the name?And that it can be said that they share an A or commingle at the A. Is this the "fuckin' A" I've always heard so much about?)
Tim and Randy to Ohio from fucked up Houston
John Sebastian 1/26/77 to Georgia
Coyote 4/77
Green 5/11/88
Frost from Illinois 4/11/76
Fuckhole skeletoids stop flairn your nose assholes or your in a fist fight with me martians
Billy the greatest show on earth on route to Brandenton Florida
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Log Date: 7/12/97
I-15N, Barstow, CA at N/S split, on-ramp at Cal-58:
on direction sign pole:
T.J. + Rick 12/24/83 good luck
JDS 3/18/85
Ellison Boys 12-6-90
Relamp 3394 1/VHO/FIX
(Author's Note: This might be the highway maintenance message for when they fixed a burned out lamp)
on freeway entrance sign (on I-15S) fork:
See you at the end of the rainbow
(drawn arching lines of a rainbow)
Spirit Caller
10:30
Ashley St. Pete to L.A.
Fla
11-1-------11-5
Fla ↗ ↖here "89"
Have faith
Seattle to North Carolina
Albatron 10-4-90
Jeff the C.R. Iowa from Tehachapi ☮
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I-15S, Bartsow, CA at Main Street on-ramp:
On ramp Pedestrians Prohibited sign:
The Luckster Del Mar Fair 6-11-97
C-Hawk 10-13-92 9:30 AM
Don Holt to Fontana So Cal
Bobby Olson Good luck Cal---Florida
12° 84°
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I-15N Barstow, Main Street underpass:
(in view of where the McDonalds where 12 year old girl died in a robbery crossfire a couple of weeks earlier)
John Branconnier(?) was here 6-16-97 Trust in "God"; he's your best friend! The way things are going in this country He May be your only friend...God bless and good luck all
Harley Long Soldier 6-27-86 Sioux
LA to Utah powwow
Star Child 11-29-94 ✧
Florida June 21-97 Happy trails
What the Fuck Chuck
I see you you take a shit
now put it back
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I-40W, Barstow, CA at Montara Rd on ramp-on:
On pedestrian prohibited sign:
Alaskan Warrior
Pittsburg Kid 76
Jeff Clark 12-8-81
IND to LA
Dave Carter from Bristol Conn to
Wash, Ore and Barstow 1-30-77
8:25 pm
1:00 this place is fucked
CHAZ from Pittsburgh
sometime in November 81
Pole, Bill Luce 3-3-80
Pole up on highway:
Glen Ginter Okla City Okla 10-16-70
Baldy - Sea Dog
Albuq New Mexico 1-18-69
Anne Orig. N La
now Hermosa Ca just now back from Ill
7-26-76
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I-15N, Victorville, CA at Roy Rogers Dr on-ramp:
(Drawn clouds with lightning bolts)
Ray Stagger Lee
R
S
L
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I-15S, at Cal 138, Wrightswood, CA (Cajon Pass area) on-ramp:
David R. Soto Redlands CA 7-13-79
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I-10E, Loma Linda CA at Anderson Ave on-ramp:
on pole:
Tim to Dallas Tex 1-25-84
Alan J. and Patches the Pit 5-24-91
8-95 Tweetie + Ben
on Pedestrians Prohibited sign:
Simon Jaywalker 3-7-82
Got to be an outlaw just to be free
Snake Good luck all
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I-10E, Loma Linda/San Bernadino at Waterman Ave (Redlands Blvd) on-ramp:
on pole:
Still driftin' dancin' and dreaming of Jamie
Zoe 3-18-95
The path of peace is exceedingly vast reflecting the grand design of the hidden and ma(_itest) words(?).
Awama(?) is a living shine of the divine
One who serves that grand purpose
Great spot 77 81 86 90
Alpha Omega Runners 5-18-88
7-1-97
Baker to M(I)X
UxSx No trespassing
Dave and Janice 8-24-91 M.B to Phx
Satin [sic] sucks his own dick I saw him
Protestant U.K.
(same bizarre scribble seen elsewhere)
Landy 1-1-92 Phenix AZ
Czarnie 1/93
Big Jim New York New York 7/89
on freeway entrance sign:
Gary from Boston to Cal to Boston to Florida to Cal now back to Florida maybe home maybe Alaska. Good luck to all and may the force be with you ___-83
4/3/82 Dallas Texas
Ranemaker Litzenburg
J.W. Outlaw Texas Bound
L.V. (L.U.?) Biscuit 5/97 to Texarkana TX
FTW 666
2-17-87
Cotton B'ham AL.
Happy Jack of the world got stuck here
Marc Fast
1-15-84 Virginia bound
other entrance (from west):
In sumer when the shawes be sheyne and
leves be large and longe yt ys ful merrie
in faire foreste to here the fowlys songe
to see the deere drawe to the dale and
leve the hilles bee and shadowe (hem? kem?)
in the leves grene under the grene wode tre
LSD consumes 47 times its weight in excess reality
Daniel was here in 87
↗ back again in 91
Eric Bakken going back home
Phoenix Ariz 5/11/84
Jimmy Alanis Roswell NM 12-24-84
Almost Home
Guppy to Palm Springs from Newport Beach
LeRoy Ivey 4/5/92
Gone to Pensacola Fla I loved these Mexican dicks
Marina from Italy
Larry going back to Miami from Hawaii
Sept 72
Bill Lemmons
Linda Zobel
+ true love
Joann Bunch
(inside a heart)
other pole:
It's a long way to good old PA
PB ✪ 1/79
2 joints and 6 beers and 4 hours
we are still here
6 bowls and 4 quarts and still no ride
Marty + Jeri
Some dude split in a car with my beer
K.R. 8-14-82
FLY TWA
You don't have to be crazy to hitch but it helps
Here I stand here I died Diver NJ #1
Frank martin 6-10-81 from Rhode Island
Jay + Brian Lynn Mass Sept 3 75
Scott Rose Hillsdale Michigan Nov 29 1973
At least the cops here are cool
Nita + Dawn 2/9/74
going to New Orleans
My thumb is numb
My arm is heavy
Here for hours
Still here hours later
May be here forever
Dion C. Power 12-28-84 Washington
5 bags and no matches
Ed Laux
Detroit Michigan
Guy Ingham
Melbourne Florida
5 min
10 min
15 min
20 min
30 min
1 hr
2 hr
Fuck me
My only hope was to hike X country to reafim my faith in human kind.
But (today?) you can't even do that in todays world JD 1/81
Flog me some more
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I-215N, San Bernadino at University Parkway on ramp:
(Pedestrians Prohibited sign):
SNAFU 2-1-96 (marker)
BCS Popeye
Ray (Roy?) Gonzales was here 4-1-90
Reuben 2-3-93 Seek Jesus first
Stefan + Timon from Germany
10/9/90
(____?) we stuck it out for one more day
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I-15N (Mojave Freeway), Victorville, CA at Bear Valley on-ramp:
on Pedestrians Prohibited sign:
Breezer (4-way arrow)
Grand Canyon bound 94 G.O.T.V.
Brenda
+
Charlie
1994
(drawn in heart)
Missouri Dog 10-14-93
Stupid Tramp 3-13-94 Super Tramp
Disconnect
(drawn above is a set of eyes with scowling eyebrows)
My wife 3 child spent nite here
This place sux. On to Colo
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