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It was time for a modest day trip to escape my burdens: I had two commitments in the East Bay
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Eluding the cops from Richmond to Mojave
There are better places than Richmond to hang out in after midnight. I was reluctantly eyeballing the BNSF yard in
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On Friday night, August 2, 1991, I rode Tri-Met bus #17 to the Southern Pacific yard adjoining the Eastmoreland golf
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I’d been sitting beside the loading dock of some factory and geared upward to a sprint. Determined to catch out
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(This is a continuation of the serial novel: The Charm Offensive. Please read the previous chapter.) I killed one of the
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In his great hobo essay “The Road,” Jack London said that you always get turned away from the mansion on
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I’ve been traveling in an unorthodox manner for 30 years. When vacation comes, I’m apt to jump a freight train
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(This is a continuation of the serial novel: The Charm Offensive. Please read the previous chapter.) Herbert Halethorpe rarely came home
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(This is a continuation of the serial novel: The Charm Offensive. Please read the previous chapter.) I woke with a whole
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(This is a continuation of the serial novel: The Charm Offensive. Please read the previous chapter.) After a particularly restless night,
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