Log Book # 4

Log Dates: July 24, 2006 to December 9, 2012
Log Date: 7/24/06

I-25S Lone Tree, CO, @ Exit 192 on-ramp:

Rosa Castro
       y
Pancho Sierra
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Log Date: 7/26/06

I-70W, Denver, CO @ Federal Blvd, Exit 272 on-ramp:

Gordon Gray
From L.A.  

JASPER (written inside railroad track-like grid) 

Lexine
-n-
Ryan
From Oregon

Jill “79”
Eddie “79”
Seattle bound
 
Crack Kills
     卐
 Kill all the blacks
(stylized swastika drawn)

on other pole:

(Bumper sticker)
Supreme love is red
Surrender free will now
Misinformed Citizens Bureau, POB 3B GLOMA 01930
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I-70E, Denver, CO @ Lowell Blvd, exit 271B on-ramp:

Cher n Bob 

 (Two stickers of triangles in triangles with other symbols)

I-70W, Denver CO @ Pecos St on-ramp:

Duke + T
'06 KCMO – CHI

Things to do in Denver when you are dead:  Leave!!
Tex & Thud
May something `05
Check the Safeway dumpster
Good stuff.

Rick
6Jan85  1:04pm
Hastings, Neb to Boise ID
P.S. good luck to you!

6-9-04
(Drawn peace sign with 
J D C 04 in each segment)
To the Dead Rocks

Sometime in May
I passed this way
Hurray hurray
                 J.
5-17 or 18-77

1/1/78
Don’t be late
Dohn
Coast to coast

Be safe
Live free 

Josh hitched from here

Willie Nelson
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I-70, Denver, CO @ Harlan(?) St, exit 270 on-ramp:

`88 Bunkie
Ba__le Losiana
Around the world in 08 days
Pro Hiker

F.L. Flynn
On the road again

US Traveler
Strikes again
7-28-81(?)
 
For a good time in Denver call Katay(?) Kathy(?)
372-8001
87-21-36

Naucy (Nancy?) was here
For a good time
Calif SF  I’m 16 yr  37-19-34

Keep on smoken (drawn lit joint)
 
My love Ramona '88
 ↓

Bazile
in C, Bazile
Memo I love ya!!
Binkie Loisiana [sic]

Ken M.
3-15-77

San Pedro, Calif
AG?J?B
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I-70E, Denver, CO @ Pecos St on-ramp:

(Drawn Have Faith in Cross)
         ✞
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I-25S, Colorado Springs, CO @ exit 141 on-ramp (to Pikes Peak):

We done begin a thinking here
______ too marks(?)
Already said by my companions
Muffled gravity(?) I decided  meant si
was the response
“Went to eat a (full course) over at the Holiday Inn;
And stay the duration say I”?
Muffled grunts was the response
Si is Spanish for yes.

And then it snowed

(Drawn leafless tree)
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Log Date: 7/15/07

I-40W, Holbrook, AZ @ Navajo Blvd, exit 285/286? on-ramp:

Allec love Meja

The Scrounge
headed for Seattle  June 1st 1981
God loves you ✟
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Log Date: 7/21/07

I-5S, San Clemente, CA @ Ave Pico, Exit 76? on-ramp:

California is exactly the way you idiots love it
Peace!
`82
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I-5S, San Clemente, CA @ Ave Palizada, Exit 75 on-ramp:

Shelly
I love you with all my heart
Kerry forever  1?11/29/94

Marco?Marcy? -  DIGR?
12-9-98
“Drugs Deluxe”

Sarazine Jonathan
Is Number One

I love you Lisa
From Mark Garmer?Garner?Jarner?
From Fla to San Diego

Jimbo
Manson, WA  to San Diego
2-9-88

A different kind of tension
?/26/86

Bob “Breeze” Woods
2-8-89 to San Diego
Partying in the Breeze

Don Cook 2-8-89
Mexico

John + Karen
1-17-91
Fuck Suddam Hussein!

Death before ride

Tiler(?) Wallace    93
Te____ British Columbia
To A____ Key? FLA
Then da/to? Antigua Virgin Islands
 
Praise Yahweh

God help you  1-26-91
If you get stuck here
This place sucks
Stuck two days/
Stephen/homeless
 
8-16-87
I fucked Cherl [sic] Tieggs
 
Kidd
Austin, Tx
2/15/89
(inside a drawn box)
 
Jesus loves you
 
Gen A. Gelfing(?)
10-31-84

Ken Peters
Weymouth Mass (good luck)
Oct/29/85

Cristy Brinkly gave me head on this spot but no ride
Tony G  L.B.
 
Cody? Van Halen was here
`79’

Isaac was here Winter `83
III times
 
The Ⓐ
Phoenix -85-

If n******* love white women so much they ought to learn to make their own.

Sue Eckard
I love you   Tom

Mick Jagger
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I-5S, San Clemente, CA @ Cristianites Rd, Exit 72 on-ramp:

(drawn butterfly)
Butterfly of Eternity
 
Chico and Anna(n?)
To SD to party
12-29(?)-81

This rock + Roller needs a ride
 
Low man shall be exhaulted
High man shall be brought low 
(written at base of light pole)
 
Zoro
(drawn sword below)
 
Carny’s to Larado, TX
 
Jesus saves
Praise god

Bortugus to GA
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I-5N, Dana Point/San Clemente, CA, @ Camino de Estrella(?), Exit 78 on-ramp:

Craig with Blue Heaven Salad Dressing  10-29-95
Look for it in your supermarket soon
To Colorado

Canadian Keith
6/5/84  8pm

Jerry Werline
March 14, 1985
From Oklahoma to Florida Gibson
(feminine handwriting)
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Log Date: 8/31/07

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

on Freeway entrance sign:

South bound  9.06
Brillo

Colo. Bound
SunlightBen2@yahoo.com
Hello you all
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I-80E, Fernley, NV, East Fernley, Exit 48 on-ramp:

Liza+ Packy were here + need a ride 
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Log Date: 9/2/07

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

“Boneyard”
4-27-92

Baker
2/11/63
LA to UT
I think I got to go
Good by [sic]

9x5x82

You can’t hug kids
With nuclear arms
(Drawn Zia symbol)  Modoc NM
7-24-8(2?)
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I-80E, Winnemucca, NV @ W. Winnemucca, Exit 173 on-ramp:

pole down ramp:

4-88 It aint changed
Lenny  San Jose to Montana

Hopeless

Mike Leonard
Aug 8, 1990

If you have no water you will die
And if you don’t die from that
You surely will from bugs.
They will eat you alive.

P.E.P.  5-14-79
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Gary rolls to VA

7-29-78
Stu + Angie
Pontiac, Michigan

Dave
Penn 77
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I-80W @ US 95, Winnemucca, NV on-ramp:

Swamp Rat
(Drawn stylized swastika)

Austin to Mt. Shasta 
going to the Rainbow Gathering

Nature
Is back on the road to nowhere
Vegas bound again  4-7-93
Love and peace Bros & Sisters

Joe +(?) Blue
Austin Tex. to Oregon
5-27-78   Rainbow Gathering

Stackie(?) + Geno
5-26-9(1)?
Florida to Frisco
Acid rock your way to rock again(?)
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I-80E, Winnemucca @ US 95 Split, Exit 176 on-ramp:

Smiles
8.1.05
East coast bound
Yay!

Pole down ramp:

Peterbuilt
     +
Buick
Headed east 
Sept 16 1987

Jim Loft(?)
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Log Date: 7/15/08

I-70E, Eagle, CO @ Exit 147 on-ramp:

pole down ramp:

PA bound Oct 13 `82
Gone!

I-70W, Dotsero, CO @ Exit 133 on-ramp:

Safe Journeys(?)
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Log Date: 8/21/08

I-25N, Greeley, CO @ CO Route 34, Exit 257B? on-ramp:

Have Faith in Drawn Cross

Wow!  I been here
Grataffi [sic] 
4,12 00 2am
To Cali, OR, WA, MO, Hawai…ex [sic]
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I-25N, Wellington, CO on-ramp:

Dice  8-18-2008
 
Smiles 2008   I’m back
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Log Date: 8/22/08

I-80W, Laramie, WY @ exit 318 on-ramp;

pole down ramp:
 
Ken + Bob
Here July 30, 71(?)
Boston? To California
From New York City

other pole:

5/24/2004
Rocket Jay Squirrel
Spokane bound
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Log Date: 11/24/08

I-10E, Quartzsite, AZ @ Exit 17 on-ramp:

Dave Morse
3-7+881(?)

Have Faith (drawn in cross)
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I-40W, Needles, CA @ Blythe/US-95 Exit:

Kahliah 06/09 

Digihitch.com
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I-40E Needles, CA @ Blythe/US-95 Exit:

Bandito
Raccoon
& Cat Ⓐ  (scratched in on I-40 sign)
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Log Date: 8/29/09

I-15N @ I-70 Split, Cove Fort, UT, Exit 132:
(second time here)

Ed from Florida
May `76

Steve
SD Calif →  U________
6/76
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I-70 @ I-15 Split, Cove Fort, UT, Exit 132:

(second time here—silver paint had covered it over then in 1994, and does not now)

LEE  7-7-79
L
  U
   K
     E
Key West
     to
Seattle + Back          palm tree drawn

Stinky Felix
4-12-76
 
PHX to Here
8-6-87
Dead Show
C YA

Back to PA
7/76
STUCK
Good Luck
 
other pole:

Mr. Kang from the Shaolin Temple
Stuff waz (t)here

Wayne Earl
Aug 15 82
Stay high   Keep Trucking

Dingo

Nov 1st 1978
PJM was here
LA to Boulder Colo.

Russ Whaley    Late Oct 83
 
Thought for a moment:
This could very well be my last hitchhiking journey
The reason being it definitely sucks at times
Three hours later and it really sucks!
 
Dave S.  3-79
Help Mister Wizard

Bite the Big Apple
Don’t mind the maggots
This town is in tatters
I’m shattered
My brain’s been battered
 
Bob Moroney (Moronoy?)
Steamboat Springs Colorado March 12 1980\
Heading home from California


other pole:

Jesus just left Chicago
Wilderness Campain [sic]
July 91
The Countdown
 
Fuck
Fuck
Fuck
I got
Stuck
Stuck
Stuck
Right
Here
Here
Here
G.U. 6-2-77

Oh the weaving electricity
Of the mind from the
________ry ___path? of?_____ space and time
____ U/R? far beyond
Came(?) that noble ____ bigot? begot
Brigham(?) Young & __________
Mormon puppets with word portraits to ease the mind and c___ the troubled heart.
Hearken ye noble Ogdenites and trogledites ___ and sots, lords, and laymen.
Save your platitudes and spiritual materialism and your sweating greasy assholes
Leave me to my animal magnetism and nature worship
I wish I had a car.

DESOLATION
ALLEY

It’s all getting mixed up!!
ELK-
Corn Dance
Tolstoy Farm, WA
May 2, 1977

J&M (inside drawn hand saw)
Carpenters
Have saw will travel
We lost the saw
But we’ll travel on
8000 miles 3 months
$11.40 (1,140? 440?)
¾ lb weed
And here we are
Nov 3, 1982
In love

Grateful Dead Show
Red Rocks
From PHX
Birthday run
8-6-87
We will survive
Lurch
 
A person could
Run out of things
To do around hear
9-30-80
 
Ⓐ
Bored
San Fran
to Cleveland
On shrooms
(drawn 2 mushrooms)

The Sny__
And Drape
were here
5-20-82
Colo Spgs
To Newport Beach
And back
 
Bruce Woodward
______
LA to Warsaw Indiana
4?11/9/78
 
If you made it this far
Don’t give up hope
 
Bob
Sioux Falls
To LA…
LA to Cortez Co
10-15-82
Good luck
 
Roses are red
Violets are blue
We’ve been here a while
And so might you
 
Mike Byrnes
Seattle to Denver? To?
8/27/80
 
Pretty Country
But Utah and I-70 Sucks
Desolate
 
This is not the worst place I’ve ever been
(drawn map of I-25/I-80 interchange at Cheyenne, WY, with an arrow pointing to I-80 west of Cheyenne)

Valentines Day ‘78
33°
San Diego to Co
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I-70E, Vail, CO @ Vail East on-ramp:

(Drawn skull with octopus tentacles and NOVEL written above it
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Log Date: 8/30/09

I-25S, Pueblo, CO @  Exit 94 on-ramp:

SSI
5-12,13,14 1980
I have been here so long
I grew a beard
If I am here any longer
I will grow roots

Dave
  +
Vick
5-6-85

Dope will get you threw
Times of no money
Better than money will get you threw
Times of no dope!
Captain Fantastic
 
We gave dope
We have hope
We have no ride  Ψ

Time is oblivious
And so are the rides

Warning no rides
Been here 3 days!

Rotten Ralph
I’m just so fucking glad to be here

Lisa
+
Dale was here twenty two days before a ride
11-1-88? 85?

Marshal 9/22/82
Just got here
Stade [sci] 18 hrs 2 ramps up

Hal was here
 
Here’s hoping that those
Of you who pass this
Way after me are having
A much more pleasant
Journey than I have had
10 days from Ren___ (Renton WA?)
to here 8/4/91 SJM
May your God be with you
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I-25S, Pueblo, CO @ Exit 94 on-ramp:

(Drawn cross with “Have Faith” crossing inside) 
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I-25S, Colorado City, CO @ Exit 74 on-ramp:

(drawn cross with “Have Faith” crossing inside on two separate poles)
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I-25S, Walensberg, CO @ Exit 49 on-ramp:

This place is so dead
That I just saw a hurss [sic] (hearse) drive by
Looking for old hitchers
Who never made it out

Jamie + Tim 2009
Den to Santa Fe

Philadelphia    Detroit
↙                      ↘         
Dom        +       Jan 
Denver
1:05 pm
2-12-75
Headed to Mexico

This is the deadest exit in Colo.
Even the moths don’t hang around this pole

2 hrs and I can still count the cars
That went by on one hand

11-12-97
Leaving Colo. for changes in hitches
Jim + Bob
What a long strange trip it’s been

Help I’ve fallen
And can’t get up
 
Tex was here 5-16-83
Jesus is Lord

Becky Joel Matt Erika
300 mi 10-17-92  
 
Monte Williams
10/30/88
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I-25S, Raton, NM, @ Exit 454 or 452 on-ramp:

(Poles very faded with red primer showing through; from photo; lots of old inscriptions but all that could be deciphered was):

Deadman was here
 
Dark Shadow
          +
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I-25S, Raton, NM @ Exit 450 on-ramp:

Always home
Splash ‘09

(some kind of shining sun drawn)

Other pole:

Joe
  + 
Chris

Rick
Sheeks
'85'

Solomon + Jimmy was here
July 17th 1985
 
Redbeard  5/25/91
 
Scooter 8/96
Bee Bad Brown

Dennis
10-6-89
 
on other pole:

Fuck Mexicans
 
on guardrail:

Bobby Yarberry
Yakima Wash
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I-25S, Springer, NM @ Exit 414 on-ramp:

T. Walker
Portland Ore to
Baton Rouge, LA

Boy!
Talk about Lonely!
Aug 25, 1976
1:30 AM
 
It was good to get out of Colorado
Until I got here
March 16 80    

Mark Grigo(?)
Threw amoto seed here
                                 ↘
Fuck you all
This state sucks
A big fucking dick
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I-25S, Wagon Mound, NM @ Exit 387 on-ramp:

Marvin Gaye
Hitchhiking
 
on other pole:

Cosmic Denny
With a silver penny
10/24/91
 
MWW
Phoenix
12-7-83
Fuck its cold!
 
Mama please
 
on other pole:

Herschel
1/18/76
From Spencer ID? IND?
To Tucson Ariz
5 days so far

Steve Baldwin
Left Seattle 7-29-85
Here 8-4-85
Albuquerque 8-85

Jai Ram OAS? OPS? OPR?

Papa Lee was here
9/25/76
Denver to Phoenix

Jim Dandy
Jan 18, 1976
From Bloomington Id
Tucson Ariz
5 fucking days!

Dan Burkett
Bloomington, Ind.
Tucson, Arizona
Lord help the hitchhiker
3 hrs. so far
NM sucks

Mike Gibson
April 6, 1977
Denver to Panama
 
E
L

P
A
S
O
 ← Texas
Me
↙
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I-25S, Las Vegas, NM @ Exit 343 on-ramp:

♫                 ♪
“Take a Dive”
On "I-25”
5-80
Den – San F?

8/13/75
Carl (Carla?)

Been here
And gone
Jan 7, 1977
For the Mexican Border
Tom
 
Dawson Cilan?
George Beasley
Portland, Oregon
7/7/79
 
Remember
That
Its
a
Hard
world
very
very
hard
yes
hard
it
is
hard
 
Dust Walker
4/96
Tucson Bound
 
La Familia
Antonio
Edna Casidy?
Consuelo
 
on other pole:

All
But
Would
You
Give
You
A
Ride
???
 
Other pole:

When
Was
The
Last
Time
You
Did
Anything
For
Anybody
 
(drawn cross with Have Faith written in it)
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Log Date: 8/31/09

I-40W, Gallup, NM @ Exit 22, Montoya or Mineyuva on-ramp:

John Henry  
FLA to Ariz
4/2/98
32˚ and windy

Ma?nathan Begay

on other pole:

Woody
Katy, TX
 
This place sucks
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US-95N at I-40 Split, Kingman, AZ on Beale St:

666
  +
Boston
(drawn interlocking hearts)

Yours
(drawn interlocking hearts)
Mine

(drawn interlocking hearts with “I’m your love” in one and “always mine” in the other)

Lavender

66
Nature Boy

on other pole:

 Rainbow
(Drawn Eye with rainbow coming out from and below each corner of the eye)
Convoy
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US-93N at US-68 Split, Kingman AZ:

You’ll catch a ride quicke [sic]
Thunder
2009 9:15 pm
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Log Date: 6/25/11

I-75S, Georgetown, KY @ Exit 125 on-ramp:

Jesus is Lord
(Drawn cross with three rays above it)

╲ ▕    ╱ 
       
   ✞
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I-64E, Georgetown, KY @ Exit 69/Rt 62 on-ramp:

3-3-11 RS (yellow marker on guardrail)
********************************************Log Date: 6/26/11

I-70W, Greenville/Brookville, OH at SR-49/Exit 24 on-ramp:

Paver Pat 5/24/11 
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Log Date: 7/27/12

I-80W Elko, NV @ Exit 298 on-ramp:

Howard from Montana
 
Zaeem

Ronnie
Reno
From
New Orleans

“Just”
Dan
Aug. 04
IL. To CA
In
“Just”
6 weeks 

“Osage” ___(VAI??) for God
Walk? on?  T___?
Philip Michael Leonard
Sunday  July 21, 1996

Dusty
Jax Florida
      nville
           to
Hillbilly

I was ganged banged here
By three cute cowboys
The all had big cocks too!
                                 ↖
                                  He was a fag

We(He?) bako? Cometh
Underlight jerketh
In strange places
So sayeth
Hill Billy

I fucked
a elk here
And now
They call it Elko

The only dif. from a
Cowboy and a cow
One’s a steer
One’s a queer

Frank
8-24-90
Passing through

The West is the Best  
(Note: from earlier log: Sid Biggs   Ph. To Calif)
2800 miles
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I-80E Elko, NV at Exit 301 on-ramp:
 
Douglas S. Orton (see earlier Elko log on 7/3/99)

Reno + The Kid (see earlier Elko log on 7/3/99)

You are broke,
I’ve got bread
Dope, beer,
Safeway
Is right there
But you got water
Milk, bread, meat
I have a stove?
You’re d___
 
You’re dead meat
I’m stuffed
 
Rocky& Mary (see earlier Elko log)

Bill and –
This place sucks

Lone Wolf

Rick Roberts

Log Date: 7/28/12

I-80E, Battle Mountain, NV @ Exit 231 on-ramp:

Placerville, CA
     to
Denver, Colo
Bob + Ray
7/88

Psalm 91 

Corvallis Oregon
To
Denver
Left 2/26
Here 2/29/92
Joe + his dog Sierra

North Dakota
Or bust
Fido “83”
 
One thing you can say
About Nevada is its friendly
Calif
For sure
 
Wild Willy
9/___
Dayton Ohio
10 PM
Going Home

I am the boy
Who can enjoy
Invisibility
       J. Joyce
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Log Date: 7/29/12

I-80 Elko, NV at Exit 303 (East Elko):

Beau
  +
J.C.    6-22(?)-06
(Jonny Cash)

Mike
Lucky
The guitar guy
Lost my train
Fuck hitchin
Gotta do it

Ruttclip (see earlier Elko log dated 7/3/99)
 
Coupon Joe (see earlier Elko log dated 7/3/99)

Mud Pan
Homeward Bound
Hobo at heart
 
on other pole:

Prostitution is legal
In Nevada
Because here
Everybody gets fucked

Groovy Bob
N.C. Bound
5-8-91
This place sucks
 
(Drawn cross with Have Faith written in)
And ”Righteous” below as of another cross
With 9-10-93 written below

Thief River
14/7/81

I sat for forty days
To think of different ways
To get a ride from this fucking place
These assholes the human race
Mark S.
7/20/89

Well
3 rides today
And even have
Got to
100 miles
3 days and
Not out of Nevada
Fuck I hate here

Weasel
7-9-81
SLC Utah
 
Mike K Cal to Colo 1-25-81
To 1-29-81
So far, fucking snow!

Bob H.
6/97
 
Power of love

R
A
T
F
U
C 
K
49   (Ratfuck 49)
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I-80W, Wells, NV at exit 351 on-ramp:

Anthony
lived
here