How I got paid to travel home on Thanksgiving

ITS STORY TIME!!! Wanna hear about how I got paid to travel home on Thanksgiving? HAHAHA!! I hitchhiked from Asheville to Pittsburgh in just a little over 24 hours, back in time 4 family dinner, and made 25 bucks along the way! Here's how it happened: I left around 2pm yesterday, hiked about 3 miles with 3 heavy bags straight onto the highway. About 20 min later the cops came and kicked me off the road, after running my ID for warrants. I went back and hitched the on ramp, and got a couple short quick rides, the last of which dropped me off back on the main highway in a terrible spot with barely any shoulder. Just as the sun was setting and I was sort of losing hope, and after some deep prayer, this old ass big brown van pulls up for me. Turns out after alot of convo that this rad couple was at Standing Rock the same time I was there! They rode me for hundreds of miles all the way to Maryland! I had to sleep in my hammock in the freezing cold overnight (didnt really sleep much), but when I woke up, it was like I was reborn and angels had descended from heaven to guide me home.

I woke up saying "today is the best day ever!", and it really has been. I picked up 2 quick rides after they dropped me off, the 1st guy took me to the store and bought me water and gave me 25 bucks. The 2nd one was this awesome black dude named Justin. He looked exactly like Mos Def. Ive been hoping for 6 years to get picked up by a black person, and it finally happened! (It gets old only getting picked up by white guys) He was bumping some house dance music really hardcore ... I knew I wasn't in Kansas anymore. He handed me a vaporizer and then it got pretty psychedelic :) We put on a hip hop beat and I freestyled about my trip so far, and he loved it! Later he tried to drop me off on the turnpike but there wasn't an on-ramp anywhere around, so I got left in the middle of nowhere on this back road in bumfuck south central PA by this pizza shop called 'The Best Way' .... hmmm ... By the looks of it, with barely any cars driving by, I could have gave up hope right there and called someone for a ride being only 2-3 hours away, but I knew I had to continue having faith and that everything was perfectly aligned. I waited a little longer than the other rides, but it was well worth it! This couple pulled up in a big new truck and asked me where I was going, I replied "Pittsburgh" ... they asked "where at in Pittsburgh" ... right then I knew this was golden. Turns out they were driving all the way to Cranberry!! I met their parents in North Versailles, it was a wild scene. They were pretty old but still spunky, the ladies Dad called me a sexy hitchhiker ... I was flattered.. Their house was like a museum, random skulls, marble floors, wooden flamingos, paintings of their mom lookin like Marilyn Monroe .. trippy stuff. The mom just had cataract surgery and could only look down, so she was feeling me like a blind person with these big Stevie Wonder glasses on ... I was just rolling with it. They face timed their one daughter in Iraq, they said "meet Parker!" .. she was like 'whose this guy?' ... loooool ... shit was like str8 out of a movie cut up. We left to go pick up the ladies daughter in Carnegie, things started to get hella trippy. She got in the car and I introduced myself, and she couldnt fathom my existence. I explained Im a hitchhiker, and her mom confused her even more by saying i was her blind date from craigslist. We were all laughing really hard, but she wasnt .... It took her about a half hour to fully grasp that they picked up a hitchhiker and I was in the car, she had to check to make sure I had a facebook profile to verify I was a real person and not a figment of her imagination. She was hardcore mind-fucked ... I was lovin every minute of it. Btw, Her name was Alex, turned out she went to school with Mike Gogno and Mario Quinn, my 2 homeboys. Anyways they finally drove me to the Cranberry Walmart where my sister was already magically 2 minutes away. Got picked up by sis and taken to my Aunts for the Thanksgiving meal I so desperatly needed. I fasted the whole day, so needless to say I went IN! Mmmm .... feeling satisfied and successful. Thanks Aunt Beth! I just wanna say that I love you all! Thanks for all your prayers! What I learned/remembered: Faith and Trust are the keys to remaining one with the Universal Will. We create our realities with our beliefs. I choose to believe and constantly affirm that people want to pick me up and I get the perfect ride at the perfect time, and it always happens!! Where theres a will, theres a way!! Yes, I am trying to encourage you to be brave and consider hitchhiking instead of automatically driving/busing/flying - because it is the most life-rejuvenating exhilarating thing in the world. Nothing better than surrendering into the unknown! I feel soooo alive!!! Soooo happy!! SOOOO Thank-full on this Thanks-giving for the 7 rides I got, all in 24 hours, and all the mind-blowing synchronicities along the way. MMMM gratitude is a powerful state of being.

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