January 16, 2007
It didn’t rain much today like the weather report had forecasted. I stopped at a corner store to get out of the rain and talked to a hunter about my trip. He said wants to drive to Colorado this summer, but his wife hates driving, so he doesn’t know what he’s going to do (but I can guess).
At this point I was out of spare tubes, but luckily Wal-Mart was 3 miles down the road. I bought 4 spares. Thanks Wal-Mart. And thank you Burger King for my unlimited coupons for free Whoppers.
When I passed through Basile, LA I stopped at a gas station to take a break. The cashier was the town mayor and she said “baby” a lot. Such as “Your parents think you’re crazy, don’t they, baby?” and “It’s gonna be cold tonight, baby, you’re gonna freeze.” She gave me a free cup of hot chocolate. Yum.
One crazy thing I saw today was a huge flock of black birds flying in formation. There must have been at least 300 of them, making all kinds of patterns and waves in the sky, like perfect choreography. Then I remembered seeing the same thing on the news, except it was about California. The tag line said “SIGNS OF BIRD FLU?”
I camped in an empty lot behind a burned down house. Wrote lots of postcards, and since the post office was a block up the road, I mailed them the next morning.
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