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This character, Monk or Mule, had been walking up and down the California coast seasonally for over 30 years. He delivers his proposal for a public walking, bicycling and equestrian path spanning the length of California to government buildings and city hall buildings along the way. He is likely...

Downtown Los Angeles at 11pm is a wild and wonderful place for a traveling bum. You can meet some very crazy homebums, get your hands on some good booze, score some good drugs and meet some cool people! When we arrived though, only one of these things happened. As the bus drove away I scanned...

After many long hours, (around 20) riding on the big steel beast Squirt was beginning to lose his fun-loving attitude. His eyes were starting to look droopy. Sweat began coming off of his forehead, and about as suddenly as his bad feelings rolled in, the train began to slow down. The train had...

The older I get the more I can see what I've lost. The more I think about I the opportunities I didnt take advantage of. When I look back on my life, (which, mind you is not a very long time) there are faces of those that I loved that now I can hardly picture in my mind's eye. Lovers and friends...

With a spectacularly loud crash the train began it's slow, steady movement toward Los Angeles. We laid low though the remainder of Bakersfield. Eventually the landscape changed into a somewhat hilly and barren countryside. Squirt said it was time to pull out the sleeping bags and crash. He was...

Our first order of business was to get some supplies, or at least I thought so. Squirt was in no hurry to do much of anything. When I mentioned I played harmonica he got pretty excited though. Squirt carried around a guitar with no strap and no case which he balanced on his shoulder while he...

Slag and I had a lot of good times. I miss him terribly. Ozzy is a Latin dude with a Mohawk and his knuckles say "Ozzy Slag". He could talk anybody's ear off about life and love and metaphysical reality and drugs, whatever. I'm sure he's still in the LA\Venice\Santa Monica area. I would go back...

After attempting to walk to the furthest east edge of Bakersfield from downtown, about a ten mile walk, I awoke the next morning in an undeveloped lot. The previous night was cold but I was certainly warm between my fluffy dog and heavy, zero degree sleeping bag. The morning sun woke me, an...

Been working in Montana for the winter so I could get some new gear. Finally the time came to go out gear hunting! We all know how rad it is to slip into a brand new sleeping bag or sling on a shiny new pack, but it feels even better when we get a good deal, right? In a pawn shop in Hamilton...