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ANYWAY - he mentioned Glacier National Park which BAM - stirred some memories of when I hitch hiked out to Glacier. Does anybody hitch any more??
I had never hitched in my life until I decided to hitch out west. I put my thumb out and for 12 hours - nothing - zip. Was I doing it wrong??? I ended up camping overnight exactly where I had started. The next day I decided to start walking and a cop pulled over and gave me a lift to the next exit. It was a Sunday morning and a family coming from church picked me up and I got a ride to Beloit.
In Beloit a couple of dudes picked me up and said they were going to California to sell drugs! SWEET - this will be interesting!!! But first they had to rob their sisters house in Illinois to get more money. So after THAT was over we were on the road and about 10:00 at night they whipped out these big sticks of incense and started inhaling . . . . .WHAT??? incense?? Really? I'm sitting in the back seat and the guys in charge are getting off in incense??
I lived through the night and decided I wanted to get a different ride. I "loaned" them $5 for gas (I guess they did not get away with much cash) and stuck my thumb out.
A guy comes to a SCREECHING HALT! Seems he was AWOL from the Military and speeding across country for some reason. I hopped in and BAM - we were cruising 90mph until a cop pulls him over. Next thing I know we are down at the jail house and he is giving me a big box of k-rations and wishing me luck.
So many stories from that trip. The woman who wanted me to move to Alaska with her, the elderly gay guy that wanted to be "friends" and my hand never left my large knife I had on my leg. The neighbor that stopped and said "Rod?? is that you?" "Mrs Petrie"??? Bears mauling campers in Glacier the day before I get there. Being chased by hotel personnel for camping on their lawn. Pitching my tent at night on a field of cactus. Hiding under boxes so the Yogi Bear Campground would not charge me for camping.
Man I wish I had a blog back then.
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AMYWAY - I had a Columbus Economic Development meeting at Hydro Street Brewery yesterday. I've been helping them get ready as I have 30 feet of their wall under my jurisdiction for my images. We were meet and greeting people and a guy comes up and says "So you're Rod Melotte" and as normal this could be good or bad. I say "yes I am" and he says "I'm Daniel Meister". The named ringed a bell but so many people know me but I don't know them I just pretended I knew who he was.
Wait . . . he starts talking about how it's good that people have opposing views and then it hits me. HE'S THE CHIEF OF POLICE!!! OH NO!!!!!!
As some of you may know, on Facebook the Chief and I don't always see eye to eye on some things and I do ever so much like to throw gas in any fire I see (right or wrong - I love flames). And here he is shaking my hand and sizing me up!
It all went well (as far as I know) and we agreed to disagree and he said there are some posts he has to delete which made me feel better since he never deleted MY posts so I can't be the worst! So all of you that thought I was facebooking from jail last night I was not.
Back to Hydro - soft opening is scheduled for Tuesday if all goes well.
Once the beer pipeline is in full production they will have 10 taps, plus bottled craft beer, local wine and local distilled liqueur. A full grill (12 foot, 700 lb range hood) with deep fryers and all food made will be from local producers including a hydroponic garden in the front windows for herbs. Brewery is next the the grill because they need venting for the flames. 1 barrel system brewing twice a day. Mug club and a couple other clubs such as an experimental beer club. Almost everything was made by hand including tables and if not DIY it was purchased from Good Will or garage sales.
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And finally!
There is nothing better then a rainy day for taking photos. I was coming back from anti-malwaring DJs dad's computer (Vista Malware 2010 virus problem) and Market Street Diner had zero cars parked in front of it! SO - I stopped and took a few shots!
Have a great week - - - - wait - - I never talked about Walker. Did you know that 29,000 children no loner have health care because of him? Congratulations on getting 500,000 Recall votes on our way to 750,000.
Rod
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