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A TRUE STORY, Instigated and chronicled by Sabeth Ireland
In the spring of 1988, in the name of -I don't know what- we
decided to send June, a mannequin who had been a fixture at our
office in San Francisco, to the temperate and tolerant state of
Florida for Spring Break. We got her up in her best Suzie Wong
dress and her Blanche duBois mules, and put her on the side of
the freeway just like any other hitchhiker, with a destination
sign and a small suitcase. In the suitcase was a letter of
introduction and a handful of self-addressed, stamped
postcards.......
.......... by the time we received the next three cards it was
clear we had become part of something truly wild and, well, far
out. Judge for yourself. Here is the precise (unedited,
uncorrected) content of June's cards. Click on the images for
full-size repros of the postcards from June.
My name is rob and I have hitchiked all over the u.s and
canada in the last 10 years;
The first 3 1/2 were because there weren't any jobs in my
hometown;
The last 3 1/2 were basically spent going to rock concerts and
horse races and otherlarge events.
I had a "real job" for 3 years in between...
The mission behind this guide is to hip you to the easiest way to
get from point "A" to point "b" for under 14
dollars a day without getting raped, murdered, arrested or
annoyed beyond the limits of your patience;
With the hitch-hiker's road as the laboratory, The Proof and
Technique of Human Energy Transfer, The Quantum Theory of
Fleeting Encounters, Non-electronic Information Highways, The
Suppressed Significance of Godel's Theorem, Perfect Recall and
Creativity, and dozens of Peoples' Wisdoms fuse into a Science Of
Living.
Martin Seagal
The rush of hot, gritty air increased as we gathered speed,
passing silvery rice fields bordering the Sacramento River. A few
minutes earlier we had run hard through the train yard, thrown
our packs ahead, and hauled ourselves onto the flatcar. The
freight was headed east from Roseville, California. Our near-term
goal was Utah, with little idea of when or where we’d stop.
Shaded by a "piggy-back" truck trailer, we searched for
a more comfortable place.
Will Benson.
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