Day 75 Mile 1237-1251

Douglas to Orin Rest Stop
Walked along the freeway today, listening to Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. Got to my rest stop for the night and stopped in at the truck stop convenience store to get some juice, tea, cambell’s Tomato Soup, a sandwich and some chips and dip. While I was scouting out my tent site, up road another traveller on his Harley and we chatted it up for nearly 3 hours till it was after dark. Mike is from Phoenix and he works nine months of the year as a handy man and then goes on the road for the summer. His father had passed last february and he talked about him some. His dad had a lot of money but it didn’t define him or his family... it was the joy of doing business and meeting with people. His dad ran a big commercial electrical outfit but retired early and would buy and sell cars, boats, trucks, bikes, anything really. He would fixem and move and quick. Mike has a son too and just became a grandparent. He looks around him and just doesn’t get how people are suppose to live these days. People should give more of themselves and be selfless. He looks at the world and doesn’t see that... He filled me in on what has been going on with the bees. On the day that I started the walk back in April I heard on the Radio that the Honey bees of north America have been disappearing. Well know Mike tells me that reports are coming out that its the cell phone frequency that is disrupting the bees. Without bees a good portion of the worlds food supply does not get pollinated. Anyways, I checked on this later on-line and may scientific reports are coming out linking cell phones to bee disappearance. Mike talks about the big change coming in 2012 and the accuracy of the Mayan Calendar and the predictions of Nostradamus from the 1500’s.