{"id":8582,"date":"2016-05-21T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8582"},"modified":"2016-05-21T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:02:04","slug":"chicken-kingman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8582","title":{"rendered":"Being Chicken in Kingman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been in this shitty motel before on some other lost weekend.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve made my way down here on some \u201cpublic conveyance\u201d from which I was ejected a couple hours ago, fifty miles down the road.<\/p>\n

My crime?\u00a0 Drinking on the conveyance, which would amuse a lot of people , including the person responsible for me being on the road.\u00a0 I also made a fuss because someone stole my Nikon.\u00a0 So there will be relatively few fotos from this leg of the \u00a0trip.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m farther east than I planned, as I am currently on a sabbatical\/walkabout, and planned to enter Mexico somewhere in Cali.\u00a0 No matter, Arizona is just as good.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic, on my last great bus hobo trip, I felt that an awful lot of the passengers had just gotten out of some hospital or institution and really had nowhere to go.\u00a0 Now people look at me like I\u2019m that person.<\/p>\n

I think I\u2019m too old for these kind of changes.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, you\u2019re only as old as you feel, well, fuck, I feel 120 after the last couple weeks.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mind Kingman, it\u2019s a shadow of its former self, (me, too) \u00a0but is a stop on old Route 66, and there\u2019s a lot of interesting retro architecture and some restaurants that date back to the day.\u00a0 I had hoped to visit one of those restaurants, but I \u2018m in too pissy a mood, so I walked down the street, got some Popeye\u2019s to eat in the room.<\/p>\n

I saw a documentary recently about a guy who tried to \u201clive\u201d off Craigslist for 30 days.\u00a0 He\u2019d get around by using ride share ads, meet people to crash on their couches and so on.\u00a0 That seems really cool, plus he got to meet a dominatrix!\u00a0 The last time I went hobo-ing around the country, I tried to live on $10 a day.\u00a0 The whole craig\u2019s list angle might make it easier.<\/p>\n

But the trip overall will be harder, as last time, I knew that whatever hardships I endured, there was a nice home and loving family waiting for me at the end.<\/p>\n

Not this time.<\/p>\n

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Popeyes Chicken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been in this shitty motel before on some other lost weekend.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve made my way down here on some \u201cpublic conveyance\u201d from which I was ejected a couple hours ago, fifty miles down the road. My crime?\u00a0 Drinking on the conveyance, which would amuse a lot of people , including the person responsible… Continue reading Being Chicken in Kingman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}