ninety two

GETTING INTO THE MOOD

Now and then I need a roof over my head, a bath, a bed, electric outlets, and a TV. I budget myself to thirty bucks per day or less, that includes motel rooms. This makes me ride by some tempting motels at the end of long days. 

I must be creative and find cheap if not free places to camp. I search for safe places to camp like backyards, church pavilions, pastures, baseball dugouts, cemeteries and even police station impound lots. Once I slept in a portable toilet during a rain storm for most of a night. If I find a little mom and pop place without a view by a grocery store, I'm in heaven. 

I get cleaned up, catch up on the news, charge my phone batteries and clean my clothes. Sometimes the motel has a laundry and if you ask nicely they may allow you to use the motel washing machine and dryer. I have one load of laundry so stopping along the way works too.

I once found an empty laundry and thought I could wash all of my clothes. In only my bathing suit and extreme farmer tan, I put the last shirt in the washer. Five minutes later there were four mini vans and fifty kids asking their moms about the half naked man, somethings never fail.