kat dumped us out on 101 south of santa cruz this was scare crow reggie and myselves,hitchhiking with our musicical tools and ultimatly ridiculous regards,giddy with the fear of our real situation, thumbing ensemble to new orleans,that is a long haul, any way you look at it I ten is no piece of cake reality hit with sunrise finding us 299 miles n. of l.a.that was a windy hawkish day and our rythym man was begining to wither, the black throat of the road made short work of our stamina but fate found us east of lalalala land sane? and safe, the mutterings of desent tumbled around my ears from the lewis half of the lewis and the miles Music circus my job became to fortifie my cohorts and keep reggie from tears, three oclock found activly discussed plans of abbandonment by the two of the principal actors in this little field trip, one was going to make an important phonecall to the leader of the jesuits for aid, the other was off to the nearest truckstop to play his fiddle for a steaming cuppa joe, me i just hung out one of my thumbs witch was two feet long from years of hitching down the highway and as the winds of I ten have done for me in the hardest of times i flagged down a ride,on the wildest lookin hippie bus ever seen driven by the sun the wind the moon and the stars themselves in the form of a human, destination the Quartzite gem and mineral show soon to be the lewis and the miles music circus'savior and prooving ground 50,000 people just milling around with out even a balloon clown, haw , you talk about gwyn on up t'hebn?ten days later found our heros fat and sassy pockets bursting with sou, driving , you got it buddy a BRAND NEW CAR pointed east to new orleans, that was 1980 jan,