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Missed my bus from West Palm beach to Lakeland...Had to hitch a ride with a car full of "kind" folks that were going to the Lakeland show... thank you KIND folks.... d

Caravaning out of Gainesville, FL- Our ride drove by Funtley/I- we walked to I-75, it being Summer I took off my shirt- and thumbed a ride 1st car ridin by- Talked the kid into going to the show (he was heading home to Lakeland, Fl) I know unbelievable- walk into the show during Greatest Story and run into the gang that was part off the pass by earlier. Great show- Kid loved it- crashed at his folks house in Lakeland and drove us back to Gainesville next Day- Couldn't talk him into driving to Palm Beach- Oh well

7th show overall but a new mode of transportation - hitching. 4 of us split into 2 groups of 2. Leaving N.C. out of Asheville and after a day and night of traveling vastly different routes, we meet up at Waffle House in Jackson. Allen and Jim turned around after a night under a bridge and realizing once they got to Jacksonville they were headed north. Grey and I zigzagging from 75 to 95 w/ one of our rides courtesy of Silver Eagle - corpsman under Dick Bong's flying squadron of the WWII ace pilot of whom I did my 9th grade biography report. We agreed to bale on the W. Palm show and bussed to Lakeland where a day early we got to interact w/ O'jays fans and Jehovah Witnesses in town for a convention. Received lots of non-christian charity from them and the Baptist Deacon who chased us out of the washroom the preacher invited us to use. Half clean and surreally tired the boys bring us back to life.