{"id":238,"date":"2013-01-05T01:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T01:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=238"},"modified":"2013-01-05T01:14:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T01:14:38","slug":"hitchhike-pt-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/hitchhike-pt-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhike: Stein from Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His name was Stein. Driving a Ford beater, he stops to pick up H. and I just outside Missoula, Montana. &#8220;I pick up every hitchhiker I see or have room for,&#8221; he declares. We trade names. He says, &#8220;I&#8217;m the only Stein from New Jersey who isn&#8217;t Jewish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been driving two days straight, energy courtesy of LSD and whole wheat bread. It&#8217;s the only things he&#8217;ll eat. He&#8217;s cut a rectangular path across the U.S., courtesy of his dad, who&#8217;s paying for gas and repairs. There&#8217;s only one condition: that he return to college in the fall. That&#8217;s when we learn he&#8217;s been &#8220;pretty screwed up on drugs,&#8221; and this is his dad&#8217;s way of keeping him on the academic path. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As he should. After all, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" title=\"Vietnam War - wikipedia\">war going on<\/a>. We&#8217;re both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opposition_to_the_U.S._involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War#The_draft\" title=\"Vietnam War draft\">draft age<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Starting in Jersey, Stein cut his hair and headed to Florida, took a right turn across the South, cruised north at California and is now on the final stretch, headed home by way of the northern tier. He&#8217;s been driving for three weeks. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow,&#8221; I say. &#8220;Did you go to Seattle?&#8221; He nods. &#8220;How did you like it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a terrible place, a real bummer. I wouldn&#8217;t want to live there.&#8221; Later he confesses that he went through Seattle nonstop. On the freeway. At night. <\/p>\n<p>At least Stein has us locked in for most of Montana &#8212; all 500 miles of it. That&#8217;s a good thing. But all good things must end. Soon enough, just after Billings, we&#8217;ll reach a fork in the road. We&#8217;ll have to choose our highway. <\/p>\n<p>Stein is thinking Interstate 94, which takes him north, near the Canadian border. Says he might go see a friend in Minot, North Dakota. Except that &#8220;he&#8217;s not expecting me for another month.&#8221; Says he might head to New Orleans instead. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got the whole summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>H. and I are thinking Interstate 90, a straight shot to Boston, where we&#8217;re headed. But we&#8217;re open to I-94. We&#8217;ve got the whole summer. Open until Stein, apparently feeling comfortable with us, tells us that he really likes to &#8220;ride in the trunk.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ride in the trunk?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, you guys drive and I&#8217;ll ride in the trunk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When we get out of the car, it&#8217;s raining. Stein the Gentile waves goodbye. We take the southern split, headed in the direction of Yellowstone. It feels safer, somehow, than being with Stein on I-94, him riding in the trunk, stoned out of his mind on LSD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get The Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This hitchhiking adventure, and others like it, informed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Huck-Finn-Is-Dead-ebook\/dp\/B00AD7CVUM\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1357347544&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=huck+finn+is+dead\" title=\"Huck Finn is Dead by Leland E. Hale\">Huck Finn is Dead<\/a>,&#8221; the fictional account of the life and times of Carney James. You should read it, &#8220;Huck Finn is Dead,&#8221; I mean. You&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His name was Stein. 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