Hitchhiking in the Rain: Carson City to Owosso, MI.
Erin, photographer & fashion Guru.
Hitchhiking in the rain is actually the best time to do so. The temperature is cool and people are way more apt to pick you up.
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Kevin measures the amount of chemicals in soil, near gas stations.
He picked me up near St. Johns, Michigan, on his way to dropping off a washing machine at a friend’s. We talked about the state of America today.
He doesn’t think we are headed towards Socialism, but he doesn’t like the government owning the largest automotive company (General Motors) and maybe our health care system soon. He is concerned.
He drops me off in Ovid, Michigan about 12 miles from my destination of Owosso. I am meeting up with Erin, a photographer whom I met on the Couchsurfing website. We are planning to shoot some photographs at the International Train Festival in town this weekend.
It is raining. The type of rain that looks like it will not stop.
I plant myself right past the stoplight with a styrofoam cup full of cheap coffee and half and half. The people look like they feel guilty as they drive past me. Eventually, Tom pulls up in his large blue truck.
He chews Timberwolf tobacco and is home because his day of work was cancelled due to the steady rain. Tom is an Iron Worker and has built many buildings around the state.
“Pretty much wherever I go, I have built something.”
I ask him to be in the documentary I am making (coming soon!) and he does and gives me his email address.
“F-S-C-A-B-B-Y-R-A-T@…”
What does “scabby rat” mean? I ask.
“That is what we call the non-unioned workers that undercut us.”
He goes a bit out of his way to drop me off at the Meijer’s in Owosso. Erin lives close by.
Create Our World,
Ben.
“Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain for it’s colors to appear.” – Unknown
Categories: Hitchin Stories.
