Oct 27 - Late buses, hitching, a long confusing walk and a horse**

Friday, October 27, 1972 - Page 301
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim

(11:56 AM 10/28/1972 Saturday)
Got up at 9:00 and took a bath. I got the 11:00 A.M. bus and took it to Westcliff Plaza where I got a haircut. I've been needing one for quite awhile. Got the bus at noon and rode to Santa Ana where I got the bus to L.A. and got off at Town and Country Shopping Center. Went to the Eye Catcher to get my glasses fixed (a screw was missing from the right hinge, the frame was so loose the right lens fell out occasionally and the nose pad was gone, among other flaws). I made an appointment for contact lenses Tuesday at 4:00, but I'll have to change it cause I'd need half the price ($200.00 complete charge) when I went for the appointment. So I'll have to wait till I get a hundred bucks.

I waited for the bus, it took so long I stuck out my thumb and got a ride to a place way up Main street where there weren't any cars or phones. So I walked. I came across Orangewood which I knew intersected with Harbor, so I walked along it for a long time (I met a horse -- that's how far out the place was -- and it followed me until a fence stopped it). I bumped into the freeway, followed a train track that went under the freeway, and waited at the bus stop in front of the Holiday Inn. After walking about 5 miles, I wanted to take the bus. It appeared in a half hour, and I got to the Ivanhoe at 3:00.

At work I shampooed rugs till 7:00. I borrowed 5 text books from Mark's evolution class and I'll get him to buy me them all. Great reference material. Mom came to pick me up at the Ivanhoe. Watched T.V., went to sleep.

TOMORROW: Artwork

Aug 19 - Creepy Eerie Vampirella**

Saturday, August 19, 1972 - Page 232
LOCATION: Rapid City & Bethlehem, South Dakota

10:00 AM
I just woke up. Last night I went into Rapid again (it's about half a mile away) to pass the time. It was beginning to get cloudy, though it was still warm. I went into Becker's Drugstore and found -- forsooth -- a Creepy Magazine! Haven't seen one of those in years. I had to buy it of course. Along with Eerie there is another illustrated monster mag -- Vampirella. I bought that too. I also bought the new If that was there.

Creepy Issue 7 -- February 1966

Eerie Issue 81 - February 1977

Vampirella Issue 18 -- August 1972

Wandered around the town some more (one out-of-towner asked me where he could get some acid -- good grief). Got back as the light was fading -- read a few stories, then tried to get to sleep but it was only 9:00. So I wandered around some more. I cut my hands on the broken glass of the door, and I had a hamburger at Snow White's a few blocks away.

As I was walking back the rain started -- since 8:30 lightning had been flashing around, but now it was right above us. It was a good storm for a while -- the streetlights went out, thunder shook the house, rain came down in torrents. It lasted less than a half-hour though. The lightning persisted, but the rain was gone.

I read some more stories in my mags, and finally got to sleep around 12:30. It is now 10:25 A.M. and the skies are clear and warm. Soon I'll start hiking to Beth.

10:10 PM
I started my way to Beth at 11:30 -- I arrived at 2:00. I hitched, and four rides got me here (the last one was a group that was coming to Beth too, so I got the driver all the way up). Of the group that was here before, Bruce, Brad, Tom Shearing, Father Henry, Sr. Sylvester & M.R. are left. There are [end of page: continued in next entry]

TOMORROW: Scrabble plus a new hat & boots