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VERACRUZ-CENTRAL AMERICA-POLITICOS-

JUNGLES,(and eventually the gold)

We came to Veracruz with no preconceived ideas of what to expect,

all we knew was that we smelled of kerosene and were ready for another adventure ! ha ha ha .

Veracruz isn't anything today like it was in the 60's . Then it was a free booting beach town with plenty of European tourists and locales trying to sell everything from splinters of the "TRUE CROSS" , to maps of "The Fountain of Youth" drawn by PONCE DE LEON.

To Joel , it meant a new and varied feeding ground for his perusal of snacks to put on his plate . (remember that Joel had JUST lost his virginity a few months ago and at this point he thought that the world was nothing more then a woman with her legs spread..)

For me ? The beach was all that I really wanted , it seems strange that even then , the sea was calling to my soul .........

I would hang out by the fishermens beaches and watched how after a day of fishing and clearing their nets ......... I just sat there on the beaches and absorbed all that I saw....

If there was work to be done and I could help , I would offer ......at first I was treated with some suspicion , but after a while of seeing my earnestness and the questions I asked AND not asking for pay . (they thought I was a retard or dumb ! ), they finally accepted me with benevolent mirth and gratitude .

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((In 1963 when I first ran away from ......home (?) I ran to the waters of the sea to Balboa Peninsula on the Southern California Coast where I managed to sleep under a MERRY -GO - ROUND by The Pavilion until I could find a CHEAP room with the money that I had squirrelled away form my mother while working my jobs after school .

You want to hear of a horror story to challenge "MOMMY DEAREST"?

Hang on ! ............)

(Remember that I had said earlier that my mother had gone WACKO?

At times she pushed it over the edge before the movie came out !

Liver was cheap from the butcher shop back in the day , to the extent that it turned out to be a staple at the table.(I HATE LIVER!!!! either smothered in onions , or covered in threats of a beatings with a coat hanger !). As a kid of 13 , before step-dad #3 , I would be told not to get up from the table until I cleaned up my plate , and do it fast so I could go to bed and mother could go out ................

My revulsion to Liver was so pronounced that even with threats I wouldn't eat IT !

I remember only that it was late one evening and I was so sleepy that I fell asleep with my face in the plate.

I was awakened to the strident voice of a terrifying Harpie behind and above me beating my back with a wire coat hanger screaming , "How dare you for not eating your food that I sacrificed to bring to this table for you ! and all you do is is leave it to spoil ! there are children in China starving for lack of food , and here you sit with ungratefulness ! "

I ate ..she stopped beating me ...I got up in tears from the table...I took 3 steps towards her and threw up on her going out party dress !!!!!!!!! , or the time that I got a job selling violets on street corners for 35 cents a bunch from 8am to 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays only to come home to have my money taken from me by her and told that it was going into the bank , (I never saw a bank book !), or the Most awakening moment when I had a job at, " KRESSGY'S 5 and Dime Store" with their counter cafe. I was a dishwasher there after school for money to buy dumb things , like shoes I wanted , or books that I wanted , or paper and pencils I wanted for school that I needed .

At the end of the week we would all get paid in cash and leave Thur the employees door to go our separate ways ..... one nite my mother was standing out there dressed to kill , the guys later said that she was a knock-out and even though she was beautiful ( think RITA MORENO in West Side Story and you would see Her twin !) , felt sorry for me for what she did .!

I saw her there and was proud for having such a stunning and beautiful mother and walked up to her and beam where upon without so much as a , "hello", she tells me to give her my pay envelop ! I said "no , I need paper and drafting erasers of my drafting class.", she then proceeded to slap the shit out of me and said "don't you EVER talk back to me !"

she rocked me back on my heels , my face was a pallet of colors, my eyes watered , I didn't drop a tear .the other guys were standing around and in back of her , they didn't know what to think , I didn't give a shit . I gave her the pay envelop and walked away ..................

At that moment , she ceased to exist both in my mind and my heart as she was destined to 10 years in the future along with her future husband and my 2 brothers and 2 sisters............

hit head on , on X-MAS EVE by a happy fucking drunk doing over a hundred MPH on the Santa Monica Freeway !

Suffice it to say that the next morning I skipped class to see the manager to ask him to doctor my pay slips in the future so that he had his REAL records but in my envelop to have it say $10 less each and every time . (apparently he had heard what had happened the night before , news travels fast in small communities of a store work force...... ) , he was understanding and said ,

"ok , kid. " ))

Sorry folks , I kinda got side tracked into the juvenile pit of hell ......

When I did find a place to stay in BALBOA , I then managed to get not 1 but 2 part time jobs , one at a cafe on the peninsula washing dishes and all I could eat of the leftovers at the end of the night , and the other at a liquor store to hide a six-pack of beer a week for excitement. ha ha ha AND an apartment on the island and since school was starting in a couple of weeks managed to enroll myself in CORONA DEL MAR High School by forging parental signatures .Even in a runaway situation I managed to maintain a 3.4 average.

While attending classes I became friends with Neal Darling , and as it turned out He and his father lived in the bay on a 70' Yawl sailboat. I was fascinated by all the stories that I heard from his father and the magical mysteries of the boat and the sea itself !! :)

I do believe that that was the time , no the Moment that set the corner stone of my love for the sea.

ESD

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FROM THE BEACHES TO THE JUNGLES

(and getting closer to the GOLD )

Medically speaking.......... ha ha ha ha ha ........WE HAD LOADED DICE !!!!!!!

Keeping that in mind..........that this was he age of SIMPLE afflictions....

As we traveled we had few encounters with scorpions or snakes , other then what we killed for food , or insects.

Our MAJOR encounters with the frailties of humans were those of the HUMAN kind . ha ha ha

TO WIT : CRABS AND GONORRHEA.(sp).

As I said ,Joel HAD to stop at each and every Bordello in EACH and every village , town or city ! ha ha ha ha ha . (remember that FRANKENSTEIN SCHLONG? )R O T F

Editors note : at this point in time the Mexicans were NOT known for their personal hygiene , that's not meaning to say that they were a disgusting people , but Thur lack of education or availability, they just didn't bath . (go figure .), but at times the package was better looking then the contense !

And I was one to eat with my eyes as well !

This which follows may sound or be rather disgusting to you Gentile readers , so you MAY wish to close your eyes at what comes next !

Being as how Joel and I were rather frequent guests to houses of ill repute .......(ha ha ha ha ha ha ......) , we MANAGED to ACQUIRE gifts of ......gifts.

to wit : CRABS BY THE TRUCK LOADS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

When you are 17 , urban legends abound ! and fortunately , some really worked !

It seemed at times like this one of our biggest expenses were new CLEAN underwear, pants and supplies of kerosene in plastic containers ! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA .

Once past the mountain range and south east of Cordoba about 15 or 20 kilometers we came across a small village called ,"Carne Viejos" ! HONEST ! THAT WAS THE NAME !!!!!!!!! oops , it means "old meat " ha ha ha ha ha ha ...........

Can you imagine , in a prophetic sense for the future? (who would have thunk? ).

A village populate by OLD MEN !!!!!!!!!! And the ONLY reason why it had YOUNG WOMEN there was .....was ............ beats the fuck outta me ! ...........

To this day I have NO idea! but that was REALITY at THAT time .. go figure !..........

but the young women were there ! ALOT of YOUNG WOMEN !! To Joel and I it ment?.........

BOOTY CALL !!!!!!!!!!!! :)

At THIS moment inject, "the Mormon tabernacle choir " singing , to the accompaniment of THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA...

(with EVERY aspect of DRAMATIC PATHOS!)

(sing this to the BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC )

"Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the BOOTY :

he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of HOOCH are stored:

he hath loosed the belts of faithfuls, who's pants are a bulging...........

OUR HORMONES MARCH , (march? like hell! we were running like bats outta hell!with grins! ), ON.............

GLORY! , GLORY! for our youngness!

GLORY ! GLORY ! FOR OUR HORMONES!

GLORY! GLORY! FOR our innocents!

OUR ERECTIONS MARCHED US ON..........

tra-la ,tra-la

2 weeks later , and 12 to 18 lbs lighter.............................:)

:)

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We NOW had cause to use THE KEROSENE !!!!!!!!

It has to be said here that Kerosene does not feel good when poured on the genitals .........

but boy it sure does kill crabs !!!!!!!!

We had set up a campsite close to a small river and had food caught and cooked before we started to self medicate............... ha ha ha ...

We had an idea that what came next wouldn't be fun , but we had NO idea how NOT fun it would be!!

We stood next to the river , just in case ........... who knew.................

we stripped down , grabbed the bottles of kerosene and poured !!!!!!!!!!!!!!..................

( even though Joel and I had acquired our post pubescent voices, anyone looking at us would have thought that they were seeing 2 mutant little boys who had growth hormones in overdrive and thies 2 giant little boys were jumping around SCREAMING like little girls trying to keep our hands off our genitals while the kerosene did its work !!!!!!!!!)

This went on for 3 days , we DRENCHED our pants , underwear , sox and blankets in kerosene , when

they sun dried we would then RINSE them in the river to try and get the smell out of them .

In the future , it would be a boon to me , a bane to Joel! ha ha ha ha .

We FINALLY got to VERACRUZ !!!!!!!!!!!!

OK , so I'm gonna try to get Thur this as fast as I can , I'm sure your bored with the hormonal adventures? ha ha ha ha

ESD

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ON THE ROAD ...AGAIN ?

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HA HA HA HA HA .............

On our way to Veracruz , Joel PROVED His worth with the sling! ha ha aha ha ha ha .

From that point on , We didn't want for lack of food, and perty much we hunted at night unless we wanted a change in diet . (fish was a nice change after hunting at night , the Javolinas cleaned and dressed ready for the fires , ) Javelinas are nocturnal and Joel REALLY impressed the hell outta me with his ability not only at hunting and stalking but bagging game on the hoof ,so at sunrise , Joel and I would sit by the streams or rivers at sunrise , lite up a joint and just fish until we caught something. Amazing how patient one can be when your stoned...... ha ha ha ha ......

And by the time the fish were cleaned and some prairie hen eggs were set cooking along with the Javolinas ? , We were fat cats sitting on Alien Territories Heaven , Dreaming about our futures .

Joel would dream of being a GREAT artist , living somewhere in EUROPE , selling His paintings to the richest of the rich of world residents , Me ?

Me? ...........I was only thinking about worlds beyond worlds...............what makes this one tick ............

whats over that hill?.................what more is there out there for me to learn?......... who will I meet .................what will I do in this world ..........good ? bad?..............will I be a doctor ? a mathematician a research scientist .....................will I be an author,will I be an explorer................... will I know love ............

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((Imagine if you can . the landscape of MARS, at night , DIFFERENT YES? HA HA HA ...)

(thank you JOHN CARTER!) EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS may your soul and memory be blessed !))

During the days that followed , there were times that we bagged and smoked enough food so as not to worry about food for a day or two and could afford not to have to hunt .

Now We both had time to basically have fun and explore and just goof off, (as if we weren't doing that all along! ha ha ah ah ).

AGAIN, think of that Mars (VASOOM), night land scape only in a south Mexican Desert at ..........? midnight ?

We came to the mountain range between us and the sea . We found new game to hunt and bag , we found new cliffs to climb , ( more on that in the future when I am in Israel ! ha ha ha ) ,

BUT above all , we met new people and ways of life .

We came/drove into a village so small one would just call it a bunch of huts with dogs (future food ), chickens(ditto) , small scrawny fields of corn , beans , a clean well , and a shitload of kids !

I guess that's what happens when there's no "JAY LENO" on late nite TV., go figure .................

(and the catholic church fostered this reprehensible way of life !!!!!!!!!!!!!)--(GO OUT AND POPULATE THE WORLD WITH SOLDIERS OF GAWD! DON'T WORRY ! WE WILL LEAD THEM , but NOT feed them !!!!!!!!! that's YOUR responsibility!).those pompous fucks !

NOW I will get on this little soap box .

It seemed that almost each and every small town or pueblo that we came to had some sort of church or in some of the bigger towns , Cathedrals . AND EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM HAD THE WEALTH OF THEIR FLOCKS ENCRUSTED ON THE WALLS IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER !!!!!!!

Be it GOLD Platted Statues , Jewel studded Crucifixes , Golden Chalices , OUTLANDISHLY ORNATE ALTERS fit for KINGS , MONARCHS !

And the whole time their parishioner peasants were going hungry !

( at that time in history BIRTH CONTROL for Latin American countries was a SACRILEGIOUS CONCEPT! Pope Pious XII (?) And ANYONE who practiced it would be DAMNED TO HELL! )

In one large town , Joel and I saw little kids go to the back door of their churches and beg for milk , which they dutifully took home to their fathers who in turn went to bakers and SOLD the milk for money AND THEN went to the local Cantina to buy drinks for the day !!!!

THIES kids would walk the streets for the day begging from tourists for more money which they would bring home that night to turn over to their fathers again!!!!!! We found things out like this from other kids like us who came to hang out with us at our camp fires on the outskirts of said towns , it seemed that kids(guys) our age thought that Joel and I were GREAT ADVENTURES OF THE WORLD !!!

Thies kids would tell us of horror stories of their drunken fathers and how they would come home after a hard day of drinking and pull the blanket separating the main room from the rest of the family and commence to rape their mothers as the older ones would attempt to shield the little ones with stories of Mexican Fairy tales as their mothers cried behind the "room " partition. I mean , after all , this action was sanctioned by the CHURCH . They were bringing more soldiers of GAWD into the world.........(even if 3 out of 5 babies died before the age of 5 ! )

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Maybe at the time we were some of the first freedom riders planting seeds of change.......

( do your best to change it ! ..if you can't ? . leave it (as we did ) , and start over again with a better life !!!.......Use your minds to free yourselves !!!!!!!!!!! )

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A little known FACT ! THE CATHOLIC CHURCH -- IS -- THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC WEALTH HOLDER -----------

IN THE WORLD !!!!!!

(GOOGLE it folks ! )

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THE NEXT DAY.................

HA HA HA HA .......no really , I'm better now....................HA HA HA HA HA AAAAAA.......

the day started like any other day , EXCEPT that when Joel woke up? , I started LAUGHING MY ASS OFF AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA .............

He had a knot on His head the size of a goose egg! HA HA HA AH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..............I knew it was not the thing to do , but hey! we were 17!!!!!!!!!

and it was cool to laugh at your buddy!!!!!

Finally, I got my act together , I managed to go check Him out , aside from His hurt ego and my aching sides , and His BUMP , (!) , HA HA HA HA .........He was OK .

That morning , Joel woke up with a Head ache , me ? with a malicious grin, ha ha ha .

He , Joel , actually laughed with me . We went on ..

As events turned out , Joel REALLY became good with the SLING (!)

In the next few days Joel REALLY SHOWED OFF His STUFF!

in the beginning , I may HIT 3 , He hit 1 , as time progressed ? it went 3:2, then 3:3 , AND IF GAWD WEREN'T MY WITNESS ? Joel RAMMED UP TO 3:5 . or the other way around . 5(him ) : 3 (me ) . what ever.

At this point in time Joel and I had fun competing for the best bag ! ha ha ha ha ....

He .....WE , .....REALLY had fun getting food , and as goofy as it may sound? We felt as we had an Angle , (ZAPATA ) , looking over us ...... (GO FIGURE !) ha ha ha .....

By this time we were north of Tlaxcala on our way to Veracruz , it was almost a strait shot east to the sea !

( YEAH BABY ! ).......

AND THEN THERE WERE JOELS' BORDELLOS

You were expecting me to RAT on a brother? ha ha ha ......................

not today ................ suffice it to say He created His own "FRANKENSTEIN-SCHLONG" ! ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA ..........(a good JEWISH BOY GONE BAD ? where have I heard THAT before ? ) ROTF-HMS-LMAO ! ( R O T F =rolling on the floor , H M S = holding my sides , L M A O = laughing my ass off )

I wish I could share the energy of this mirth with you .! It would be enough to POWER MANHATTAN for a night !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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............BETTER NOW............

ROTF-HMS-LMAO , ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

OK , OK , I really have it together now....................HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ..

ha ha ah ahahah aha ha ahaha ha ha ha ah a...........................i'll- ha ha ha ha- be back later- ha ha ha ha .................OUT COLD........ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA ..........

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BE WARNED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I told you to go pee before you read this entry !!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA .........OK

OK , so I said earlier that I was perty good, HELL NO ! I was GREAT with my WHAMO SLINGSHOT! ha ha ha . And I was the food gather-er. and how I loved to rub it in to Joel .

OK , OK , OK ................(the ONLY IMPRESSION I DO -JOE PESSICE- ) ha ha ha ha . So as we are going South but East of Zacatecas , to be close but not IN any big cities , ( the small towns were just fine for us. ), and Joel STILL had the opportunity to VISIT bordellos . (HA HA HA HA HA .....Joel had CREATED HIS OWN MONSTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) , and WE STILL HAD plenty OF MOTA ! AND WE DID LISTEN TO "EL ZAPATA's " injunction about NOT going into ANY city with this GREAT shit!

Did you know that there are some REALLY BEAUTIFUL forest areas in South Eastern portions of Mexico? anyway , ........... ha ha ha ha ...........OK ,so NOW think about the LAST EPISODE of

"STAR WARS", with the little furry teddy bears ? The FOREST PLANET ? ha ha ha ha ...

think about it ! IT WILL BE COMING UP A BIT LATER ! ha ha ha ha ha ...................

OK , Joel and I are going on our merry way and to go North of Mexico City , but South of San Luis Potosi . really between the 2 .

So as Joel and I are riding thru the combination of deserts and lush forest we begin to see more Game and Joel decides to become a DAVID to the GOLIATH of GAME , and starts practicing on a "SLING" that He made so at least He can say that He brings in food now! ..........ha ha ha ha ha ha ................sorry , but it get a whole lot better as it goes along .................

As the days go on , Joel starts to practice with his sling, when I go off to get some meat and tubers, there are times that I had a good day and bagged meat easily, and came back to the camp to see Joel practicing on cacti . I gotta give Joel credit for stick-to-it-ness. He REALLY tried hard at mastering the SLING ! and if push comes to shove , outta 10 shots? at least 1 hit close to the cactus ! ha ha ha ha.......(IT GETS BETTER !) ......ha ha ha ha ha ...........in time He did get better to the N'th degree ! ( BUT NOT YET !!!!) ROTF - HMS - LMAO !

So now We are in the territory of , or close to the town of , Teocelo on our way to Veracruz,

and for the most part we had what I come to think was normal passage . We met many nice people of /from surrounding villages. Many of whom were envious and some but not few were glad that they were not wanderers and seemed to be happy to have their own land.

One couldn't look down at them , one could only look at them with awe and respect.

OK , so Joe and I are South of Jalapa on our way to Veracruz , We wanted to go to the sea for fun and girls ! ha ha ha ha ........So as we are on our way and still in the desert Joel wants to impress me by showing off His skills with the sling...............ha ha ha ha ha ha ..................................... ( here it comes folks ! )....... OK , so we are in litely treed woods and He says, " lets go hunting! " , I say, "what the fuck. ok.", He takes the lead and we come across a herd (?) , of JAVOLINAS .

editors note :

Peccary, also javelina, common name for a small, nocturnal wild pig, confined to the southwestern United States south to central Argentina. It is 0.8 to 1.1 m (2.6 to 3.6 ft) long, 44 to 69 cm (17 to 27 in) high at the shoulder, weighs about 14 to 40 kg (31 to 88 lb), and has grizzled gray-black or brown-black hair. Three species are known. The collared peccary, with a white neck band, is wide-ranging; it roams in groups of 2 to 50 animals, feeding on insects, roots, fruit, and reptiles. The white-lipped peccary is a less common, slightly larger forest dweller that runs in herds of up to several hundred individuals. The Chacoan peccary, with longer legs, ears, and snout, was originally described from subfossil remains, and was thought to have become extinct some 11,000 years ago. A live animal was subsequently discovered in Argentina, and was first reported in scientific literature in 1975.

OK , enough of that , so we come across a small heard of Javolinas and we start approaching them , ha ha ha ha ha ..... and now Joel reaches in his pocket for a smooth stone from a river bed we had passed and seats it in the pouch , ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ........ (sorry folks, but I know whats coming up ! ) , ..ha ha ha ha ...........OK , so picture a classic GREEK statue of a GREEK JAVELIN THROWER and you are seeing Joel , up and twirling the stone in His sling around His head, ha ha ha ha ha ha aha .....................with His arm pointing out in front of him pointing at the Javolinas.

the animals He intends to hit ! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ..........(GO PEE NOW FOLKS ! )............ha ha ha ha ha ..........So there Joel is standing up twirling the sling above His head , ha ha ha ha ha ha ha , and it catches on His out stretched hand and drops down in the level of the swing and ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and starts to rap around His arm and neck , ha ha ha ha ha like that little EWOK from STAR WARS , (remember Him ? ) HA HA HA HA

and like in the movie it wraps around his neck and arm with rapidity in ever shortening circles at the same time gathering speed until it slaps Him up along side the head and knocked Him cold ! ROTF-HMS-LMAO , HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ....................................

I couldn't help myself .I fell down on the ground LAUGHING SO HARD rolling in the dirt like "PIG PEN " FROM THE comic strip PEANUTS , tears STREAMING HA HA HA HA HA DOWN MY FACE , HA HA HA HA , AND i HADN'T peed YET BEFORE wE WENT OUT ON THE ha ha ha ha THE HUNT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA H A..........and I peed my pants , HA HA HA HA HA , and didn't care !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ........

I should have been concerned with Joels' health and well being , BUT I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!!!HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAA...........(tears now even come to my eyes!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. ), i couldn't stoppppppp...................

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................. THE GIFTS ................

We woke up the next morning ,bright eyed and bushy tailed. ( NO PUN !)., and

as we set about stoking the embers of last nights fire and ready-ing coffee, I started to relate to Joel what I thought could have been a dream and just needed feed back on the weirdness of it .

Joel perty much co-oburated all that I thought , it being a WEIRD DREAM , and we both started laughing !!!!!!

Joel said He was going to the bikes for something and a moment later I heard Him call me over in kind of a panic!

IT WASN'T A DREAM !!

From Joel's handlebars were hanging 4 cleaned and dress rabbits , from mine were both our helmets with one full of prairie hen eggs and in the other a KILO of REEFER in it !!!!!!! WHOA !!!

YEAH BABY !!!!

Without saying a word Joel got 2 of the rabbits , took them back to the camp fire and cooked them and the eggs , we ate and didn't say a word until we had digested both the food and our thoughts.

By this time it was about 10 am , ( really late for the desert ), Joel looks over at me and asked,

" so what do ya think about it all ? "

I replied , " If all that went down last night was for real , then the way I see it , we have CARTE BLANCH as far as our travel goes. at least as long as we choose to stay in the country of Mexico. But hey , there's more to the world then Mexico! ha ha ha (you see we had more balls then brains ! remember we are 17 !)"

So we cleaned up camp and hit the road again but just before we did I stopped , bent over and picked up desert sand and faced to the North and threw up some sand , then I turned to the West and did the same as I did to the South and East. Joel asked me what the hell I was doing , and I told him , "I'm saying THANK YOU TO MOTHER EARTH FOR OUR BOUNTY .".

The funny thing was that Joel didn't laugh but did the same thing.

We headed south of Saltillo going perty much down the center of the Mexico corridor with no particular time schedule in mind.

Along the way we had some REALLY super nite rides !

ASSUMPTION on THE EDITORS' PART :

" Have you ever danced with the devil in the cold moonlight? , Or soared to the silvery moon on ethereal , (than you Lindy ) wings of gossamer thoughts and returned to the earth and chased Bats as they flew though the night winds chasing their nocturnal foods only to scare the shit out of them ,wondering " what the hell was that?!"? all the while doing 50 MPH on a desert highway with no headlights at 2am , and the moon shining down with the blue brightness of the SUN ?with nothing before or behind you for MILES and MILES? "

LET ME DIGRESS......... :)

Remember that I had said / thought/wondered , if the MOTA, was laced with ground PEYOTE?

Well , Joel and I ,because of our GIFT, now had the pleasure of sharing "joints" during the days rides , and subsequently had a fucking ball (!) riding thru the desert at night !

Sometimes we even did 14MPH at a stretch...................... :)

Time at this point was liken to sand that you emptied out of your shoe while sitting down after walking on the beach ..........

Hunger was liken to a Very distant relative knocking on the door 5 houses down the road.......................

Worry was like something that had been flushed down the toilet , yesterday.................

The future was like a brand new NEW YORK STYLE CHEESECAKE and a PITCHER of ICE COLD MILK beside it just WAITING TO BE EATEN !!!!!!!

Think of the clearest night you have EVER encountered outside under the canopy of Gawds cloak. The BRIGHTEST night that you EVER thought you saw was a black room compared to the skies of a DESERT , hundreds of miles from civilization and neon lights ! You could sit , or RIDE (HA HA HA HA ) and see the Majesty of THE HEAVENS and all the balls on the celestial pool table as they all banked off the rails OF THE UNIVERSE !!!!!!!!!!!

WOWSER !!!!!!!!!!

We would plan our days so that we were rested enough to settle at a campsite at sunset and eat a bit so that we could "burn" a "J" and then RIDE THE HIGHWAYS AT NIGHT with NO HEADLIGHTS ON ! And with NO sound on other then our WELL TUNED BIKES!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A FUCKING RUSH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Imagine riding on the surface of the MOON , or MARS !!!!!!!! ( THANK YOU John Carter for letting me and my buddy ride on your canals of VASOOM !!!!!!! :) PS. I love your diaries ! )

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