Hippie Dave’s Story

Book #1 of 3

The beginning !

Copywritie 10/30/2019

By: Hippie Dave Aka: David Paul, Thurman

A story of life, death and life after death, and the incarnation of an Eternal Light Being incarnating into human flesh, and the liberation of all mankind from slavery!You won’t want to put it down!

Hippie Dave

The Beginning!

It was September of 1957, in the middle of the United States, it was hot, humid, and windy, like every summer day in south west Iowa. There was a young Christian minister and his family of 4, himself, his wife and 2 young children, a 1 year old boy and a 2 year old girl, and they had another little boy on his way, the new baby was due in about 30 days. They were living in a very small midwest town of south west Iowa, there were around 300 people in this little community. The church that he was pastoring was of course a very small congregation, and most of the people didn’t have much themselves in way of money, times were tough, and they could not pay very much in the way of a salary for this young minister and his family. But the members of the church did give them a small home to live in, and a small salary, and the house was not too bad, in the warmer months, but the winters can be very brutal in the midwest. But they were both born and raised in the midwest, and they had endured many harsh winters growing up, but with 2 small children and another one on its way, it was going to be a big struggle for this young pastor and his family, getting food, and clothing, and staying warm, they just had an old wood stove for heat. The stove worked pretty well though, the house was very small, and heated up pretty fast, but in the bone chilling mid western cold winters, it was an unbearably cold, so they had to make sure that they did not run out of firewood. So that meant collecting aged firewood, which was hard to come by in the midwest, so it was more expensive for them, and this was not what was needed with a newborn on its way, and two small children, it was more income that they really needed! The young pastor, being a handyman, and carpenter, did every odd job he could find. He would be out working hard all day, then come home to the family, eat dinner, help put the kids to bed, and then he would study at night to prepare for his Wednesday night and Sunday morning, and evening messages. And on top of that, he had to make time to counsel his flock, and visit the sick and shut ins. It was very hard on them both, most of the time the wife was so tired and hungry, she just cried herself to sleep, and he was so worn out, he would fall asleep in his chair reading!

Well the struggle continued, but they made the best of it, and trusted their god to get them through this challenge. Well it was getting time for the birth of their 3rd child, it was about 2 weeks overdue now, and Halloween was approaching, which they did not celebrate, they called it, “the devils day”, it was about to be there in just a few days to be exact, and the mother and father did not want their child to be born on the” Devils day”, I mean how would that look, a minister’s child born on” the day of the devil”!

Well it was the morning of October 30th the day before Halloween, all hallows eve, and an early morning rain began to fall, it was supposed to get really bad later on that day. Then finally the contractions started, they were coming pretty regularly now, and it looked like it was time for the child to be born! And after about 6 hours of pretty regular contractions, the mother was really struggling, she was having all the contractions, it seemed to be going well, but the baby was not dropping into position, his head was not showing. But, then there it was, the midwife saw a foot, breach, and on top of that the baby was not looking good, his little foot looked bluish in color, and by what she could tell the baby was not doing well at all, so the midwife was suggesting to go to the hospital right away, because the baby and the mother’s lives both were in jeopardy now. So in spite of the incredibly horrible storm that was happening, they decided that it would be the best thing to do. So they got the car all ready to go, and packed mommy and baby up into the car, and they took off into the storm, and trusting in their god to get them there safe. They needed to get to the hospital ASAP. The hospital was about 20 minutes away, but with the heavy storm, it was closer to around 40 minutes, but they took the chance, and although it was hard to get through the storm, they did make it safely.

By the time they got to the hospital, It was about 10 pm, and the baby and mother were not doing well at all, the hospital staff rushed her into the delivery room, and the doctor came in and examined her, and he found that the umbilical cord had wrapped around the baby’s neck, and was choking him, and it seemed that the baby was not alive, he was blue and lifeless, his heart seemed to not be beating. Well somehow after a bit of maneuvering, the doctor managed to get the baby loose of the umbilical cord, and got him turned around for ease of delivery, but it took about three hrs total, but he was successful in delivering the baby, it was very hard on the mother and baby, but she seemed to be handling it ok. But the baby on the other hand, was not doing well at all, and when the doctor finally got him delivered, he was not breathing, and was lifeless. But the doctor decided to go ahead and give the baby the normal swat on the behind, just to see what would happen. So he took the baby’s feet, and hung him upside down, and gave him the normal few swats on the behind, and to all their amazement, and shock, the baby began to whale out a loud cry! He was breathing normally, and at that very moment, the nurse yelled out, it’s alive! It was a very special moment, it was truly a miracle birth!

Oh, One thing more, during all the excitement going on, when they filled out the birth record, when the nurse wrote the day and time down, she got the time right, but the date, she had put October 30th as the day of birth, instead of the 31st, which it was 2:58 am! The nurse just wasn’t thinking clear, a lot had happened, and with all the excitement, no one had noticed the mistake until later, but they all said it was fate, so they left it the 30th, but the mother and father new the truth, they new the beginning of the life of their, so called, “Devil Child”, he was born dead, and then was resurrected, all on the same day. And from that day on he was called the “Devil child”, by his parents!

Now since his birthday was on Halloween, the boy would never get a birthday party growing up. Since as christians they did not celebrate halloween, because to them, it was the day of the dead, the devils day! Well as you could imagine, this had a huge impact on the boy, he would have to watch the other two children in the family having a birthday party, they had their friends over, and a big celebration of their birth. He never got to have that celebration of birth, oh his mother would make a cake, and something special for him, and would give him a gift, but never a party where his friends were invited, and a celebration of his birth. He knew at a very young age he was different, and since his parents treated him differently than the other siblings, he knew he was not loved the same way as them. Well of course he acted out the part, as you can imagine, so then he became known as the black sheep of the family, the rebel. And with that, he became bold, and was not afraid to speak his mind, and he was always asking a lot of questions, and he was always upsetting the apple cart.

He was never satisfied with the answer his father and mother would give him, and when he couldn’t accept what they would tell him, they would say to him, just have faith, just blindly follow and trust in the bible, which he was told that the bible was the infallible word of god, and always trust and believe the word of your parents, and teachers, and all authority figures. He was told, they all have the best intentions for you, and to trust them. But he could not do that, it had to make sense to him, and 90% of what was told to him, just did not make any logical sense at all, he would listen and contemplate what was said, but if it didn’t make sense to him he would just put it in the back of his mind and keep on searching for truth. It was this mind set of having to know the truth that helped him to search for answers, he would study the things that did not make sense to him, he had this internal drive to know the truth, he was going to find the truth out for himself. He could not just accept what was told to him as truth, and more so, when it came to a very illogical thing called religion, which did not make any sense to him at all, and could never accept it. He was taught the bible from day one, his father being a minister. The boy knew the bible like the back of his hand, and he had so many questions about all of the contradictions in it, oh yes, he saw the human element in it right away. When he pointed out all the contradictions he found, to his father, he would tell him, that he was just imagining things, that he should not worry about that. As you can imagine of course, that was just not going to fly for this kid’s mind, no way in hell, he had to know the truth.

And it had been that way from around 5 years old, he started his quest for truth very young, and this would be a lifelong endeavor for him!This led to a lot of hardship for the boy, his parents and teachers and friends all made it hard on him, they would get frustrated with his always questioning them, and when they could not prove to him their point of view using logic, and or science, he would just disregard what was taught to him. He would think, these people really do not know the truth, and they are just acting as if they do. He always thought that the reason why they didn’t understand the truth, was because they were just not willing to put in the work that it takes to find it, and you needed to have an open mind, and look at all sides, and perspectives of things, not limiting yourself to one point of view. He thought it was that they were just so afraid of what would happen, if what they believed could be wrong, and that was just too hard on their egos, and they wouldn’t go there. But to him, it was much more harmful to believe in something that was not true, and to live your life in a false system of beliefs.

He decided to live a life of following nothing but logic and reason, and in doing so, he knew that he would suffer the disapproval of his parents, and most everyone around him. Well of course this made him an outcast in his family, and in just about everything he did in life. He questioned everyone he would come in contact with, he would ask their opinions on things, and what he found out was, that most everyone he knew, was just plain ole clueless when it came to truth. He found that they just blindly followed what was told to them, in their religions, and their politics, and most all things in life. It seemed to him they just lived a life of a sheep, just following the flock, he called them, Sheepel!

He knew without a shadow of a doubt, this was not how he wanted to be, and from a very young age, he knew he was different, it seemed to him, that he was not of this world. He saw how people were, how they lived their lives, they just seemed to be going through the motions, and he knew that he was not going to live his life like that, EVER!So back to the story, there they were in a small midwest town, struggling to just survive, hot summers, cold winters, no money, just barely enough food, and now 3 hungry children, a bad situation, which was getting worse by the day. The winter was coming and they had to collect wood for the stove, they had not been able to collect enough and they knew it, it was going to be a rough, long hard winter, and now a family of 5! California!The boys grandparents on his mothers side had moved to California from Iowa for work a few years before he was born. The grandfather was a railroad guy, and he had gotten a great job in central California, working for the Pacific railroad. Well the grandparents had sent the couple a letter, they told the young couple that if they wanted to move out there, and get out of the midwest weather and poverty, that they could come out and stay with them, until they found a church to minister to! They felt that this was an opportunity they just couldn’t pass up, they thought that it was a message from God!

California

So they made the decision to go, and they loaded all that they could in the car and moved to California! It was the best thing they could have done, it was all in the master plan!Well the move went well, the trip was long, but they made it safely, they got to the grandparents home, and got all settled there in Stockton California. They where very pleased with their decision to move, it was very nice for them there, and the children were able to bond with their grandparents, it was working out very nicely! A few months went by and the young minister had found a small church in Davis, California, which is right in the middle of California, and not too far from the grandparents.

This was a great opportunity for this young pastor and his family, it was a good group of people attending the church, and it was a nice college community, it had good schools for the children, and was mainly a bedroom community. Now their home was provided by the church for them, and many of the men and women helped them with their move. Well they got all moved in and were excited to get started in there new ministry, and new lives there in Davis California, they new this was the right place for them!

So life was going well there in Davis, the children were adapting to the new church family and all the new surroundings. They lived on a cul-de-sac and right next to a big park, it had all the old school play things, a big swing, monkey bars, and these climbing poles with big round things at the top, it was about 16 feet in the air, he used to climb them all, he loved being up high in the air where he could see the whole town, it was amazing for him, he was a dare devil for sure. The boy’s father was into horses, and would borrow one of his friend’s horses, and then bring it to the neighborhood for all the neighborhood children to ride, and that gave the boy a love for horses, he loved it when his father did that. Things were going well for them, they all seemed happy with their lives there in Davis. And as time went on, about a year, the family was about to grow again. They were expecting their fourth child now, time just seemed to be flying by, it was like the world was just on autopilot. The pregnancy went by like time was non-existent.

Well as time was speeding by, the time came for the birth of their 4th child. It was a baby boy, he was born on October the 10th, and this made the mother and father very happy, no more Devil children! When the Baby was born he was very small and weak, they didn’t know if he would make it, he was about 4 weeks early, and had some struggles, but he made it through his difficulties. And so now the family was complete, 3 boys and 1 girl, and it all seemed to be going well, the older children were doing good, and the newborn was doing good, and the parents were settling in nicely with their ministry, all was going good for them, it seemed!Lessons learned!

So the first 5 years were quite a learning experience for the boy, he learned how not to trust what was told to him, he questioned everything, and he new older, did not mean wiser, not at all, and he knew not to trust authority ever, they only have their own selfish interest at hand, and they love to have their ego feed, and to have power over others, he new all this was not a good way of having a society, and amazingly he new all this at the ripe old age of 3. Somehow he knew that he was much older than what his life had been on this planet, he somehow knew he was, what he came to find out, was an” Old Soul”. He was born as an awakened soul, and also knew that he had lived hundreds, if not thousands of different lives on this planet, and as well as other planets, way before he incarnated to this planet. When he would try talking to his parents about it, it really scared them, they would tell him he was crazy, and stupid, and that its the devil that is putting those thoughts in his head. So since they didn’t believe him, and would put him down for talking about it, he would never talk to them again about it, and it would be years before he would even talk to anyone else about it!His parents felt that they had no control over him at all, they felt that the devil had control over him. Of course they tried and tried to control (save) him, they were brainwashing him with bible lessons, and they would punish him relentlessly when he would not comply, they used all the methods of mind control they knew, but they could not beat, or manipulate in any way at all, the compliance to their ways into him, it wasn’t for the lack of trying, that’s for sure. But the boy would not conform to their ways of being and thinking, and this really angered them, so much so that the mother had given up on trying to change him, and she decided that he was never going to comply. He was in a constant state of punishment with her, if anything happened with the kids, it was always his fault. And all this anger and punishment, just for being born on the wrong day, to her he was pure evil, he was “the Devil child”!

But with all that happening, the child somehow knew that he had chosen these parents, and had chosen them before his incarnation into this world. He knew what the reason was, that they would be able to help him learn about the christian religion, and once he knew the truth about the cult, he could help others leave it. And then he could help others understand about the God within, and that they didn’t need to be saved, and that they were an eternal light being, and already had eternal life. How better of a way to learn, than being born into a preacher’s family. Now he had to keep all this to himself, he knew that they would just think he was crazy, because they had said it already for the things he thought, so he knew they would with this forsure.

The shift!

Well in spite of all that, everything seemed to be going great for this young minister’s family there in Davis, but things can change fast. Well one beautiful warm summer day, the older boy and one of his friends found some stick matches, and they went into the tool shed in their back yard to light them, they wanted to see how long they could hold on to them before they burned down to their fingertips, and then they would have to drop them on the ground and stomp them out, not to smart! Well the devil child saw what they were doing and wanted to play, but the older brother said, no, and for him to get out of there, and leave them alone! Well this made the boy very mad, so he climbed up on the roof of the shed, and began throwing dry grass down a hole in the roof at the matches the boys were lighting. He was trying to light the grass on fire when they lit the match, he just wanted to scare the boys. Well the dry grass he was dropping down the hole began to pile up on the ground around the two boys feet, and when they dropped the lite matches on the ground, they thought they had stomped them all out, but they didn’t get them all the way out, and after some time the embers light the grass that had been piling up, and it became a big roaring fire in a matter of seconds. The fire burnt down the shed of course, and part of the fence it was close to, and caught part of the house on fire as well. This made the boys run and hide, well of course they, the cops and firemen, figured out what had hap

when they couldn’t find the boys, they put two and two together, and when they finally did find them, they questioned them, the boys admitted it, and of course the boys blamed the”Devil child”, and of course he was held accountable for the whole thing, he was the “Devil child” you know, who else could have done this!After the fire, it became very difficult on the family, and it came from the people in the church, they were not pleased with the pastor’s children, (child) and said some harsh things to the pastor,( this made the boy see the true nature of the church). So the young pastor decided he needed to look for another church.

Yreka

Well it took awhile but he found one about 5 hrs north in a small town almost to the Oregon border, Yreka California!Yreka!So they said their goodbyes, and moved on to their new ministry in Northern California! It was a cool little town, mountains all around, Mt. Shasta right there to see everyday, it was such a beautiful area, and they would have all four seasons!So it was a new chapter beginning there in Yreka CA., and the parents and the children were happy with the move, they made new friends and went about a somewhat normal and comfortable life there. It was a quiet little mining, lumber and cattle town, and being the 6060th were living in small town America at its best, it truly was a great time in history. P.K. Life! The pastor’s family was always the first ones there to church, and the last ones to leave the church, every sunday morning, and evening services, as well as wednesday night service. They would have to sweep the walkways, or shovel the snow, clean the Sunday school rooms and bathrooms, and the main sanctuary, and pick up the trash outside! When the church building chores were done, the children would sometimes go and play in the back of the church, one reason was because there were horses in the field next to the church, and the boy loved horses, and he would pet them and bring them apples and carrots to feed them. After a while, the boy loved horses so much that he got really brave, and would get on them, and ride them, without any saddle or bridle. The horses would just walk around, they hardly felt him on their back, he was small in stature, and very lite. But he loved riding those horses very much, and he would say, “one day I will have my own horse, you will see”. And of course his brothers and sister would just laugh and make fun of him, but he didn’t care, he knew it would happen some day!Out of body #1Well a year went by and they had made some good friends, and the three older children had started school, things seemed to be going pretty good for them there in Yreka. One Sunday after church, and after doing their chores, they were playing in the junk pile that was in the back of the church. As they were playing, the boy spotted an old pulpit that was in the junk pile, and he decided that he was going to go stand behind it, and going to act like his father preaching, but as he was climbing over all the junk, and was approaching the pulpit, he slipped on something, and then tripped, and he fell head first, right into the sharp, pointed corner of the pulpit. And when he hit, he hit himself right between the eyes, with all of his body weight, it killed him instantly. This was his first out of body experience, he was just 7 years old. So there he was floating up above his body, looking down, he could see all the children standing around his body, it was like looking through a glass window, and he could see and hear everything, it was all transparent, both worlds were visible to him, he tried to tell them that he was ok , but they couldn’t hear him, it was strange because he could see and hear them, but like I said, it was like looking through a looking glass, he could see right through everything, it was strange but it felt very natural to him. When he turned around and looked behind him, he wanted to go up to the sky, where he saw a bright light, it was a very bright light, it was like a bright frosty looking orbe thing. It stopped him from going anywhere, and it was at this point that he knew he had died, but he also somehow knew that it wasn’t his time to leave the earth. Then he heard a voice in his mind say, not now! There were not any sounds at all, other than this tone music, but not music like we know it on earth, but such a soothing and comforting tone, it gave him so much peace, he felt safe and he had no fear of what was taking place at all.Awakened!Then the next thing he saw was his brother’s face, and his brother was asking him, are you ok? He knew then he was back in his human body, he sat up, and he said, yea I am fine. But his head was bleeding a lot, so they all went inside the church, and he went to his mother, she just said to him, that’s what you get for playing in that pile of junk. She just cleaned the wound, and put a band-aid on it, and she said he was going to be just fine. He never told anyone about the out of body experience that he had, and it wasn’t for many years that he would tell anybody, he knew that no one would believe him anyway! This was just the first of many near death, out of body experiences he would be having in this incarnation. It was not strange to him at all, it felt very natural to him, and his understanding of dying after that had been changed forever, he knew death was not the end, but just going somewhere else. This led him to become more daring in life, and he was more intent on speaking his mind, exploring more things, having a more adventurous spirit as well, and now more than ever. Also after that experience, he was having some very realistic vivid dreams, and even at the age of 7, he knew that it was like two separate lives, and he was really enjoying this new dream world, even more than the awake world. He was beginning to control his dreams by the age of 8, and he felt, that the awake world was not the real world, and that the dream world was the real world, and so in his mind he thought that the life that he was living while awake, was nothing but a temporary test of some sorts. So he thought here on the earth, he could live forever, if he would just live in the dream state, he knew that it was the real life, and that we are all just living out our dreams! He kept all this in his mind, he was only 8. It took many years until he felt safe to talk about things like that with other humans, he didn’t trust any of them, he knew he would be ridiculed, and told, it was the Devil, because everything they didn’t have knowledge of, it was the Devil. But he knew it wasn’t, but kept all he experienced and saw and thought to himself!

Camping trip!

Well, the young pastor and his family really liked to go on family camping trips, they had a small camper trailer, and tents, they spent many summers up in the cooler mountains. One year the family traveled to Yellowstone national park, it was going to be a great time.They got there spot, set up camp, had a great day and night, but on the second night while sleeping, the boy was woken up by a big bang, he got up and looked out side with the flashlight, and to his shock, there was a huge Grizzly bear, standing on its hind legs, and he was caring their food chest off into the forest, It was amazing to see, the noise had woken everyone up, and scared them like crazy, all the kids slept in the car that night, along with the parents.

The next morning they followed the food trail and found the food chest broken and ripped apart, food was everywhere, and most everything was gone, and the remains were everywhere, that bear had a feast! That day the kids went on a hike, and on the way back to camp the boy saw that he could run through the woods off trail and in doing so he would beat the others back to camp. They were on a steep trail with switchbacks, it was a long walk down, and so the boy thought passing through the forest in a straight line would be a much faster way down, sure it was steeper, and much more dangerous, yes, but he didn’t care he went for it anyway. About half way down he was going a bit too fast, when he ran straight into a bee hive that was hanging on a tree limb, he hit it straight on with his face.

The bees went crazy, they stung him all over his face and head and any skin that was exposed, he ran as fast as he could straight to the bottom of the hill where there was a small pond, he jumped into it to get rid of the bees, it worked, but after that the pain came, and with all those bees putting that poison in him, it made him pass out with pain. So, when he came to, he was laying in the trailer on the top bunk, his mother had covered his face with a paste of baking soda and rubbing alcohol, and chamomile lotion, but still he was in so much pain, he had to stay inside for the rest of the camping trip, it was very painful and very uncomfortable, he thought that it would be better to just die, the pain was so unbearable. But it started to get better after a day or so, he was healing up.

His mother had no sympathy for him at all, she just told him that he should have stayed on the trail, and none of this would have happened, she said, this is what happens when you don’t follow the rules. She was always trying to make him obey and follow the rules, like everyone else. But he didn’t listen, he knew that rules were made by people that had fear, and made rules up to try and control others into being like them. But her tactics of mind control didn’t work on him, he just kept on being himself and going against the grain! The trip was great for the family, everyone but the “devil child”, he was stuck in the trailer for the rest of the trip, but he made the best of it, he used the time to think, read, and rest. And in doing so he came to some very important conclusions, one was that he realized something that was very hurtful to him, but also very helpful to him.

He knew that he was not loved by his family, he saw that they were happy that he was hurt, and not able to be active, they were happy about his pain, he saw this about his family, and he took note in his mind. And with this new revelation about his family, he decided to never talk to any of them about things he thought about, he did not think they really cared anyway, they just wanted him to shut up, and conform to their ways. But they all knew that he was never going to conform to their ways!When they returned home, the boy made a life path decision, he was going to learn all he could about how to be able to live on his own, and the sooner the better. He made a commitment to himself, as soon as he was able to support himself, he was moving out.

So his first endeavor to accomplish this new way of life, he started a retail candy store, he set up right in front of his house. What he would do, was to buy candy in bulk, in the big boxes at the drugstore, and break down the boxes up into singles, and sell them in front of his house, like a lemonade stand, which he also sold, that and kool aid, all this at the age of 8. He new it was up to himself to make this happen, of course he kept his plan to himself, he didn’t know how long it would take, but he knew he had to start his journey to self reliance, so his education on how to be self sufficient had begun right then and there, at age 8!And so he began his life of seeking for freedom, freedom from the control of his parents, his teachers, religion, and the government and anyone or thing that wanted to control and manipulate him with their made up rules, he could not stand doing something that someone else wanted him to do, it seemed they were just trying to control him and use him for their own selfish agenda. And that was just not acceptable to him, not at all!

As time went on, the boy had met a friend who lived don he street. He had actually met him the first day that they had moved there, but didn’t hang out with him until they started school. Well as they grew up together, he found out that his friend was very much into the boy scouts, his mother was the den mother, and they had the meetings at his house. The boy’s friend asked him if he wanted to join, the boy went and asked his mother and father. They said it was ok, so he joined the boy scouts, he thought it would be a good way to learn about nature and how to survive in the wilderness, if he ever had the need, that is, he enjoyed it at first, very much! But as every organization goes, they had their rules, and ways of doing things, that they were dogmatic about, and this was just not acceptable to the boy, he was just so independent that having anyone, or organization, tell him he had to do something to be accepted, especially things that he did not want to do, it just seemed to be illogical, and against how he believed in being, and or thinking.

Betrayal

And one meeting, the boy had to go to the bathroom, and a leader followed him in, he shut the door and told him he had to teach him something about being a man, he said that he needed to learn to masterbate, he pulled his pants down and held his penis in his hand. The boy said no, ran out and went home and told his father. His father said he was lying that he just didn’t want to do the work and that’s what he used to quit! Well of course this made the boy very angry and since he didn’t believe him the boy never ever confided in his father about anything.He stopped going and just read the book and learned on his own.

So as time went on there in Yreka, the boy had made a few good friends, the boy scout friend was one, he helped him learn how to survive in the wilderness, and he had other friends, ones that taught him about horses, and farming, and ranching, and others about adventure and the love of nature. He had this good friend that was into snakes, they used to go snake hunting in caves up in the mountains behind his friends house, he had a whole room with cages for all his snakes, he had a lot of them!

Encounter

Well one day they were on an adventure of cave exploring, they found this cave that they had gone into before, but only had a short rope at the time, and could only go so far in, but this time they had a much longer rope, so this time they could go back even farther. So they tied the rope at the entrance and began to go down into the cave! The cave was not just straight back, it took many turns and you could not see the light from the entrance, so it was dark in front and behind, you get lost in your mind without the rope to show you which way to get out, you would be just guessing, its quite disorientating. Well they kept going down the cave and came to a Y, they decided to go to the left, they had about maybe 30-50 ft left of rope, so on they went! There was nothing going on in the cave, just some water dripping, and some old cans and stuff, and when they got to the end of the rope, they thought, they would just head back out, but just as they turned to leave, they saw these two lights that were floating in mid air, right in front of them, of course it freaked out the snake collector friend he was with, and the other 2 guys that were there with them. They all turned and ran out of the cave! But the boy had to find out what it was, so he stayed, and just as he started to go towards the lights, everything went dark, no flashlight, nothing, the 2 lights were gone.

The next thing that he knew, he was in his bed at home, and it was the morning. He had just woken up, he sat up, and thought, all that what he had just been through, was it a dream? But it felt so real, he just knew it had to be real, but he just couldn’t say for sure. He really could not remember what had happened after he saw the two floating lights in the cave, and how he got to his bed, this really bothered him. He had to find out if this was all real or a dream. And what happened after the lights went out, all this was on his mind, he had to know!That next day he went to his friends house to see if they really did go to the cave the day before, and man what an eye opener he was in for! His friend was so glad to see him, he said yes for sure they went into the cave, and after they ran out and saw that he did not run out with them, they got scared and were going to go get their parents, but as they were walking down the trail they saw him running home, and they new he was safe, but they still wondered what had happened to him. They all went home and did not tell anyone, they knew if they did they would get in trouble, and would not be able to go out on adventures alone anymore. Well that didn’t help him know what happened in the cave, He still did not have any idea what took place in that cave, he had to know, but it just was not in his memory, he would be in wonder about this for a very long time. It would not be for many years to come would he find out. This will be revealed later!

Well as time went on there in Yreka for the boy and his family, things were going along pretty good, and the boy was learning many new things, one of those things was, carpentry. His fathers good friend that he had met there, had bought a lot, it was just down the street from them, and he was going to build his own house, and build it by himself. It was very fascinating to the boy, he could not wait to see how a house was built from the ground up, this was so exciting to him! He would go over every day to watch the men work, and he would help them if they would let him, he loved it! He was learning so much, and his fathers friend was happy to teach him everything he new. He also taught him how to fish, hunt, and camp, and be self-reliant, this man was a big part of his life, and his education on becoming self-reliant.

Camp!

Now the church that his father was a minister of, would have what they called, boys and girls camp, it was in the summertime, and his father was a big part of this program, and he would be a camp director almost every year, so this meant his children of course had to go and be apart of this program. But the children loved it, they would get to swim, ride horses, play ball, hike, do many crafts and learn about nature, it was something the boy loved to do. It included all the other churches in the district of northern California, it was a very big deal at that time. He met many other people there and was so happy to be learning about nature and how to live in it in harmony, this would be a great influence in his life, and his connection with nature! They would go to camp for about 4-6 weeks, because the father was there the whole time, and even if they were not campers, they were at the camp, working and doing things with whatever age group was there. Most of the time it was just him and his father, his siblings did not like going as much as he did, and they would go home down the mountain, and would just stay with the mother at home. But the boy loved it so much, he would stay in nature as long as he possibly could.

Now because he was there with his father, who was the director of the camp, he was exposed to the behind the scenes goings on. He heard and saw things that were said and done, that most lay people would not have a clue that was taking place, decisions made that in his opinion, were not ethical, and didn’t match what was being preached and taught, and only done in the name of money, he saw the corrupt nature of organized religions, it sickened him, and he vowed then and there, to never be apart of such a corrupt system!

Back down the hill and with camp being over, it was time to get back to a normal life. Well most of the people that attended the church were mostly cattle ranchers, and they had offered to let the minister’s children come and stay on one of the ranches, and that way they could learn about cattle, horse ranching, and how to work hard. So the children would go and stay on one of the family’s ranches, they would work right alongside with the children of the ranching family. The boy loved it, it was just more things to learn, and expand his mind and understanding about how to be on his own, because that was the goal! So he learned about ranching and farming during those summer months, and about nature in the church camps, and he learned how to build a house from the ground up from his fathers friend, he felt he was learning and growing so much, he loved living there and was the most happy he been there in that little cow town, more than any other place they had lived in! He was expanding his mind and his understanding of life, and how it all worked, and mind you now, he was only 5-8 years old during this time, his maturity level was that of a teenager or young adult.

He would be so bored with his friends that were his age, they didn’t like to talk about the things he did, so he just did all the activities, the fun stuff, with them, and he learned how to just get along with others, and play and just have fun. But he would hang out with the older people, he would sit and listen to them, and he would talk with them. His father would have bible studies at the house, and he got to sit in with the adults, and he would learn a lot. He would think to himself, that most of the adults that came to those bible studies, they had no clue about life. They could not even understand the basic things, and this would really frustrate the boy, he would have the answers to things that most of the adults did not. He was becoming enlightened to the fact that most people are just surviving, and not really living, learning, and growing as humans, but they were just existing. To him, this was not the way to live your life, it made him even more determined to seek more and more knowledge!Well time was passing pretty fast there in Yreka, the boy had felt he had learned a lot and was getting closer to becoming independent.

The 60s were making an impact on the world, and Television was new, there wasn’t much to watch, and even to own a T.V. was a special thing. There was a new TV program about space travel called Star Trek. He was fascinated with it, him and the rest of the world! Him and his friends at school would talk about the show all the time, they would even make a mock spaceship in the gravel out on the playground with their feet, and pretend to act out the episode they all had just seen. It was amazing how all the kids knew all the dialogue of the show, they were fascinated by it. It changed the generation, it helped them to have an open mind to strange and different things, it was a new beginning to a new era!

Artesia!

Well when as expected, after about 5 years there, they were going to have to move again! Just as the kids were settling in, it was time to pack up and move again. It was in the summer of 1965, and where they were moving to was not somewhere that any of the kids wanted to go, it was Artesia California, it was back to the big city, it was back to hell as far as the kids were concerned. The boy could not believe his father wanted to leave this wonderful amazing place, and go down to some dirty, crowded horrible place. But his father said that “he was told by god ”, that he was supposed to go help save the souls from hell that were living in the big city. Of course they had no choice but to go, it was so hard to not run away at that time in his life, he wanted so badly, but he stayed with his family, and tried to make the best of it. But the rest of his family, they did not try to make the best of it, they all fought him on it, and made his fathers life hell, the whole time. But the father was set on moving, so that’s what they did, again! So they said their goodbyes and packed up and moved on.

Summer of 1965, Los Angeles California, what a crazy time, so much racial problems, it was like a bomb was just waiting to go off! The boy’s father felt it was his mission from God, to save all these souls from hell, there in the big city, he said he would turn them into soldiers for christ. He had a very rude awakening in that place, they witnessed hate, violence and stealing, in a first hand experiential way.When they finally got all moved in to the new house and all settled in, and when they had been there for a few weeks, one sunday afternoon, after church, they came home to a totally ransacked home, someone had broken in to their house and stole everything of value, it was not much, but it was everything they had. This devastated the family, they all felt so violated, and scared, it was a very hard time for the family. But they got help from the church family, and got most of what was needed to live, and they tried to move on.

The last straw!

But that was not all that had happened to them. After summer had ended, it was time for the children to go back to school. The children were a bit afraid, it was a very big school, and there were lots of different races, and they didn’t know what to expect. And on the very first day of school, the boy was about half way through the day, he had to use the bathroom, he got a hall pass from the teacher. He goes in to the restroom and starts to go pee at a stand up urinal, and then up from behind him, 3 boys walked in as he was going pee, and they started talking to him, they called him names like, country boy, hick, ect… because well to them, he was, he had on bluejeans and a white Tee shirt, and converse sneakers. They had never seen a country boy like him, and thought he was just some dumb, weak, backwoods country white boy. Then to his surprise, one of the boys asked him if he wanted to hear a fish story, about a fish he had caught while fishing with his dad? In his naivety, he said sure, he loved fishing, and he said he wanted to hear the story. So the boy started to tell him the fish story? The boy said that they fished for hours, and never caught anything, until all of a sudden, he caught a big one, and then the boy asked the boy telling the story, how big was the fish? And then the boy stood next to him and held his hands apart about 6 inches or so, and then said no it was about, and then the boy telling the story took his hands, and spread them apart, really fast and hard, and he hit the boy right across the chest, it pushed him back against the urinal, he hit his head, and split it open, and blood was dripping down his neck, and his ears were ringing. The boy was stunned for a second, but he had been in many fights with his older brother, who was much bigger and stronger than all three of those boys put together. And he had been in fights with some of his cowboy friends from Yreka, now those were some tough kids.

Well those three city boys were in for a real surprise, because the boys switch got turned on, he went wild, he just about killed those three boys, they all had to go to the emergency room and get stitches. But the boy, he never told the principal, or anyone, about the cut on the back of his head, that the boy did to him by pushing him up against the urinal, because after he beat up the three boy’s, he just cleaned it off and walked out of the bathroom, and went back to class before anyone found out about what happened. Well about 5 minutes after returning to class, the principal came in and got him, he knew he was in trouble now, but he knew it was not his fault, so he thought it would be ok. When they got to the office, his parents were there, and they did not look happy at all. The principal said to the boy’s parents that the parents of the three boys might be bringing charges against him for assault. They said that the boy beat them up because they were Mexican, that’s what the three boys had told the principal and their parents about what had happened. So they were calling it a race crime, but of course that was not what happened at all.

Well this made the boy very angry, because he new that was not the truth. So the boy stood up while the principal was talking, and he told his side of the story. And after hearing what really happened, the principal went and confronted the three boys. Well they figured out that the three boys were lying, but they still gave him a 4 week suspension, and no charges were filed. He didn’t care though, he was happy not to have to go back to that school, ever! And then about a week later, there was a boy that had died while riding his mini-bike on the 91 freeway that was being built, after he lost control and drove it off a bridge by accident. That was it for everyone in the family, the parents were just done with the place, they knew this place was just not going to work for them, so the father began to look for another church, in a smaller town.

Hemet!

Well after a few months of searching, they found one, a small farming, and retirement community at the time, Hemet California. Yep it was time to move again, but this move everyone was on board with, it was a great move for the family. Well as the Artesia experience was short, they all learned something, they were not big city people! It was another move nonetheless, it was still a lot of work, and the church that the father was to pastor, was going through a building program, they were building a new church! And they had to tear down the old one, this is why the father got the church, he was a carpenter as well, it was a perfect fit for both the congregation and the pastor. And the boy was happy, he got to do more building, more skills to learn!Well they got moved, it was a small 3 bedroom house right next to the church, and with three boys and only one girl, the girl got her own room of course. The three boys, well nothing new to them, they had been sharing a room from the beginning, but they got the master bedroom, it had its own bathroom, it worked out good for everyone. When they moved It was on the Christmas break from school, so the children didn’t have to go to school until after new years. Another new school for them, it meant making new friends, and having new adventures. The boy was very excited to be there, he felt at home there for some reason! He could hardly wait for spring to come so they could start tearing down the old church building, and start building the new one. He knew it was going to be an amazing experience, he just knew it!

Well they got all settled into the house, and the new church. Well of course the children made friends, they were in a big church, and there were a lot of children that went there, so they met many kids before they even went to school. The children got along with just about everyone they met, it was nice to be back in a small town again. School was starting back up now, and it was an old school building, it had that old school smell, and sounds, wood floors, and beautiful woodwork throughout it, just beautiful. It was a new year for them 1967, and a new beginning in a new town, and everyone in the family was excited to be there, it was like back in Yreka, they all felt good about being there!

The boy was in 5th grade now, and was 9 years old, his two brothers were, 7 and 10, and his older sister was 11, she was the oldest. They were starting in the middle of the school year, and since he was suspended from school at his last school, he had not done any of the work that his new school class was doing, so the teacher said he had to do extra work to catch up. He had to take home work home and do it, he was not happy about that. So the next day after she gave him all the homework, he went to talk with the teacher, and asked her if she would just give him the test that they took that he did not take, and if he passed them, he could just forget about doing all the homework she gave him?

Well his teacher was shocked by his offer, but she was intrigued, so she agreed to give him all of the tests he needed to pass to get to where the rest of the class was at. So he sat down and started doing the tests, he finished all of them in about just a few hours, he raised his hand and told the teacher he was finished, she told him to go back over everything and make sure he answered all the questions, and make changes that he might need to. The boy had already done that, but he did it one more time, and raised his hand again, the teacher told him to bring them up to her desk and she would grade them that night and let him know how he did. The next day at school the teacher called him into her room before class, she had the school counselor with her as well. She took out the test and asked him if he had cheated at all on the test? Of course the boy hadn’t, and he was upset and confused about why she was asking him that. She told him it was because he got all the questions right, and he was the only one in her class that had, and she wanted to give him some more tests and see where he was really at, he said ok, but he was very confused about why.

So that day as the class was doing the regular day’s work, the boy was taking more tests in another room. He got finished by lunch time, and was glad it was over, he didn’t like taking tests! When lunch was over the teacher graded the test, then she took the boy to the testing room, and when they got there, the principal and counselor were there as well. They told him that he passed all the test for the year, and he could do what he wanted the rest of the school year, or he could be moved up a grade, but he didn’t want to move up a grade, he was already a year younger than most all of the other kids in his class.

So he decided to stay in his age group, he just had fun and helped the teacher with the other kids, he loved it. School was very easy for the boy, he never worried about it, he felt that it was just a way to be with others, and he loved the arts and sports as well, so he played and did art projects and helped with whatever the teachers needed him to do. He never told his parents, or his friends, he felt they didn’t need to know, and just went to school and kept silent and made the best of school, and didn’t really think about it much.Well that was the first year there in Hemet, everything was going good for him, and his family, everyone seemed to be doing good, it felt like home, but they all knew it was only temporary, but they were all happy where they were, and as always they knew it could all end in a second, so they enjoyed the time they had there!The first year flew on by, and everyone was settling in nicely, and the church building program was on its way! They got the old church torn down and started building the new one, the boy would help as much as he could, and he would watch and study how everything was being done, he loved construction. It was great to see how things were made of smaller things, like the human body, like everything! He didn’t know it, but the physics of life and everything was what he was really interested in, he just didn’t know it yet!

Well the summer came and it was time to explore and go to summer camp. As in Yreka the boy’s father was the camp director, and he would be there most of the summer, and that meant that he would be as well. He didn’t mind, he liked the mountains, he felt at home in them, more energy, more brain power, he felt more alive there than anywhere else. The camp was in Idyllwild and only a short drive up the mountain, and it was owned and operated by a family that went to his fathers church. He loved being there very much, he didn’t want to leave when camp was over, he felt so at home in the mountains!The summer went fast and the camp went well, and now it was time to start back to school, and start baseball. It was little league baseball back then, and in a small town in the 60s, it was very big back then. So the boy went out for it, along with his older brother, but his younger brother was still too young, and he was not really interested in playing anyway, he liked music, singing, and playing the piano, way over playing sports. Baseball was fun for the boy, but he was not a big kid, he was small in stature, but very strong and fast, and he was a student of the game, he would study the way the ball was thrown and caught, and hit. He also knew that the most active position was the pitcher, so he became a pitcher, that was fun to him, and being a pitcher he wouldn’t get bored! He also was the second baseman, but he became able to play all the positions, except catcher, he did not like that one at all, he didn’t like the gear, it made him hot, it was uncomfortable to him, and not fun, and fun is what it was all about to him! His big brother was also into sports, he was much bigger than him, he was the home run king, he was very good, but the boy didn’t care, he just wanted to have fun! From the very beginning his big brother would pic on him, as brothers do, but the boy always thought that he was jealous of him for some reason, he just kept all this to himself, he was a thinker!

The run away!

As a preacher’s child you are expected to go to every service, every Sunday school class, every event the church has. This is very demanding on them, and the boy had had it, he was done with such a busy schedule, because it was church first, everything else came second. And after ten years of this the boy had enough. So one Sunday morning when it was time to go to Sunday school the boy decided not to go to class, he went to the park and played, and went to the main regular church service after Sunday school. But of course the teacher of the class new he wasn’t there, but thought he must be sick or something. After his class he went to the boys father and asked if he was sick? The father said he didn’t think so and was very upset he didn’t go to class. They looked for him and found him walking back from the park which was just across the street from the church.

The father took him in his office and told him how important it was for him and his brothers and sister to be an example to the other children on how to behave as a good Christian boys and girls. And then grounded him for a week. Well this upset the boy to no end, he thought it wasn’t fair to him or his brother’s and sister to have that responsibility put on them, it was the responsibility of the other children’s alone and they shouldn’t have to be the example to anyone, it was their own responsibility, and nobody else’s. So the boy decided that was it for him, he was going to run away and leave this tyrannical family, he was done.

So instead of staying in his room while everyone was at church he packed a bag and took off towards the Ocean. He didn’t know what was going to happen but he new it would be better than staying in such an unfair situation and was happy to leave. Well he got about 2 or so miles out of town when a police car pulled up and stopped in front of him. The police man got out and to his surprise it was his father’s friend who went to his church. And of course he took him back to his house and turned him over to his father. This angered the boy to know end and when he was sitting there listening to the lecture again on how bad of a boy he was and how he had to be the good example and the bad ones, he snapped.

He began to tell his father he couldn’t stand the pressure that his father was putting him under and told him if he kept making him go to all these church functions and services all the time that he would just run away again. This threw his father into a state of panic, he didn’t know what to do with him at that point. But the boy had a compromise, he said no more Sunday school, no more Wednesday night services, and no more Sunday night services and only Sunday morning service, unless the boy decided he wanted to go. His father agreed and that was how it was for him from then on and life became much less stressful for the boy, and really for his parents as well, because he didn’t fight them on everything after that as much.

First Job!

One day the boy was talking with the neighbor kid, who had a newspaper route, and after he came back from delivering his newspapers, the boy had asked him about what it was like delivering them, he asked, was it hard, how much money do you make ect… The neighbor boy told him that it was great and that he loved it, but that his family was moving soon, and he would not be delivering anymore, and then his friend asked him if he wanted to take over his paper route? He didn’t know if he could do it, he said he would have to ask his parents. So he was so excited, he ran home and asked his parents right away. They said yes, they thought it would keep him busy, and out of their hair. So he started training with the neighbor kid the next morning, he wanted to see if he could do it, and if he would even like doing it. Well it turned out he was a natural, he loved getting up early, and didn’t mind the hard work, and it would bring him another step to independence.

He loved it, all but having to collect the money was the hardest part, but he decided to make a game out of it, and he would get the money from his customers every month, it was a challenge for sure, but he would always get it. Well this was one step closer to his goal of independence, and he would save his money, he was saving to move out asap, he was 11 now! He had read that at age 13 he would become a man, so he thought that is when he would be able to move out, get a job and be on his own!

Dream come true!

Challenge accepted, so he got up on the horse, it took some doing though, but he finally got on him, and as expected the horse began to buck, and rare up, the horse did just about everything he could do to get the boy off his back. But the boy hung in there, he rode it out, and the horse began to walk normally, the friend was amazed, he could not believe what he was seeing. And so in keeping with his promise, he offered the boy to buy the horse, he said for $125 he could have the horse and all the tack he would need, and that he could keep the horse there, and he could come out and ride him anytime. Well this was his dream come true, he went home that night and talked to his parents about it. His mom didn’t really care, since it was not going to affect her, and his dad told him it was ok, but that he had to pay for the horse with his own money. The father told the boy that if he bought the horse with his own money, that he would also buy a horse, that way they could ride together. His parents really didn’t think he would follow through with it though, they just forgot about it and went on with life as usual.

Well the challenge was on, and the boy began to save everything he could to pay the friend for the horse, he would pay his friend a little at a time with his paper route money, and from mowing lawns, washing cars, pulling weeds, even cleaning house for an elderly women that lived across the street from them. And finally, to everyone’s surprise, he paid it off, the horse was his. So he went to his father and told him that he had paid off his horse, and it was time for him to buy his now, he had fulfilled his part of the bargain. His father was shocked, but he was a man of god, and honesty was very important to him, so he had to follow through with his promise to the boy. And that he did, he bought another horse, and on top of that, he found a place to put both their horses.

Out of body #2

It was about 6 months later, the boy was out at the ranch they were keeping the horses at, he was with his dad and younger brother, they were fixing a fence, and doing other chores. After they got done, the boy decided to go for a ride out in the field where the horses were kept, about 2 ac. of area. Well he got all saddled up and took off on his horse on a good run, his horse was very fast. Well he was going along at a good steady pace, and then out of nowhere, the horse had stepped into a gopher hole, it caused him to trip, and he went down head first, down onto to his front knees, the horse rolled straight over, head over heels, and landed upside down on his back. Now since the boy was on the horse’s back, and sitting on the saddle, a western saddle, and you guessed it, the horse landed right on top of the boy, with all the horse’s weight.

Now as you may or may not know, a western saddle has a horn that sticks up, it’s meat to wrap a rope around it when you do roping. Well when the horse flipped over, the saddle horn pushed right into the boy’s chest, well with the weight of the horse and the saddle horn crushing his chest, it killed him instantly! Twice now, he had been on the other side of the vail, experiencing death two times in just 12 years of this incarnation.

But this time, he was fully aware of what had happened, and he saw everything that his father and brother were doing, as he was hovering from above them in the sky. And heard the same music, and saw everything as before, like looking through glass. Well after they saw what happened to him, the younger brother ran out to check on the boy, when he got there and checked, he saw the boy was not moving at all, and he looked dead to him, he called to the father, he told him to come and bring the truck. The father got into the truck and went out to the field to see what had happened. Well when he got there, he saw his son lying there, still, he checked to see if he was breathing, he wasn’t, he saw his chest caved in, he knew he was dead, they both were crying. The father picked the boy’s lifeless body up, and put him in the back of the truck. Well the boy was above them watching them do all this, and since he had been through this before, he knew that he had died, and he was totally ok with it, he knew it wasn’t a bad thing. Well when he turned to go away from where he was watching all this take place, he heard the voice in his mind again, it told him it was not time for him to leave the earth yet, and they sent him back!

And when he woke up back in his body, he was in the back of the truck with his father and brother looking down at him, saying his name over and over, and crying. And then he looked into their eyes and said to them; they told me it’s not my time yet, and they sent me back! The father did not know what to say, this did not go along with what he believed about death. As the father was still crying, but tears of joy now, he was shocked, but pleased to see him alive, all he could say was, good! Then the father laughed, and the boy laughed and the brother laughed. The boys chest was crushed when the horse landed on him, by the saddle horn, but when the boy came back to life, it was not crushed at all, just a bit red, the father said that God healed him, the boy said, yea, and he sent me back to earth, and the father just laughed and said, and we are all glad about that! And that was the last time it was ever talked about.

But the boy knew what happened, and his view now of death was very different, he had no fear of death at all, he was enlightened to the fact that there was no death! After that he adopted a way of living of freedom and adventure, he wanted to try everything, he was not afraid of dying now, so it was go for it, do not hesitate, just do it attitude!

Horse stable!

Well after that had happened, the father decided that they needed to get there own place to keep the horses, so he went in partners with a friend and bought a small horse ranch, it had two homes on it, a barn, and tack shed, washing station, arena, stalls, grazing, everything that was need for a great place to have the horses.

It was the perfect place for the boy, he loved it, he was so happy, he could ride and play out there all day, he was in horse heaven! The father saw how much the boy loved it, so he decided to buy more horses and start a horse rental stables, and he put the boy in charge. and after a year or so they had built it up to 10 rental horses, two draft horses to pull a hay wagon, and 5 Shetland ponies for the little kids. The boy was loving life, he had found his love of horses was so fulfilling, and he felt right at home. The rental stables were mainly to help pay for feed, it was not that big of a deal, but to him it was the world, he felt that this could be the ticket to his freedom! So he really dove into the horse rental business, he would go to the ranch every day, he was opened on fridays and saturdays during the school months, and monday thru saturday in the summer months, he did hay rides for groups, and pony rides for the small children, he sent flyers to the schools and churches, it was a lot of work, but he did ok, but not enough to make a living, so he just took the money and keep the horses feed and healthy, and enjoyed them as much as he could. He would practice at gym canter events in the arena, he became pretty good, he entered a few events and won most of the time, or at least placed second or third. He knew though he needed to do more to make more money if he was to be on his own.

Well he was 13 now and in jr. high school, he had met a friend who had moved there from the LA area, and he was more street savvy than the boy, he knew about all sorts of things, and his sister as well, she was into cannabis and LSD, and other drugs. This was not something the boy had ever done or really even heard about, but it was something he wanted to experience, so he asked to try some cannabis, they said ok and bam, he found his medicine, he was always so hyper, and couldn’t sleep good, he just thought it was his normal, and just lived with it. But after the first time he used cannabis, he was melo, calm, and he slept like a baby that night. He woke up thinking wow, how did he sleep in so long, it was like 6 am and he had to get the papers delivered. He said to himself, that was awesome, I think I found my lifelong sleeping pill! This became the introduction to cannabis, he was always open to trying new things, and he knew if he approached this like a science project, he wouldn’t get addicted, and he would only go so far, and then stop! And so, as you will find out, that is exactly what he did!

Well apart from the great sleeping pill, it was also something that he saw he could make some money with, so he found out how to grow it. He became a grower and a dealer, he grew it at the ranch, and on the top of his parents house. And no, he never got caught, nobody knew but him, he knew that if anyone found out he would get busted, so no telling anyone, and it worked. Well by the time he was in high school he was doing very well, he was saving money and having fun, he knew that he was going to be free soon! He stopped delivering newspapers, and concentrated on the cannabis sales.

One night at a party in the orchards, where all the kids went to party, they ran out of beer, so the boy and a friend went to the store, they found a guy to buy them beer, but his friend went in with the guy, and when they were driving back, the friend said, look at this, and he pulled out a bottle of Whisky, the boy said what, where did you get that, he said he had stolen it, he said damn dude you are crazy. Well he said to him, that he does it all the time. Well when they got back to the party, everyone wanted the bottle of whisky, but they only had the one, so they charged a buck a shot, and bam, the booze business was open! He had his friend steal the booze and he would take it to parties and sell it to all the kids, they were making a shit load of money. He knew it was only a matter of time, Freedom!Well everything was going great and nobody, not even his friends knew he was the one supplying the cannabis, they knew about the booze, they didn’t know how he got it, but they sure liked him for supplying it.

Elsinore

Things were going good, but as always the father had been there in the same church now past the 5 year mark, and that’s a long time for him. He felt it was time to move on, he wanted to do a smaller church again and build it up. The church he had built there was a big success, and he was excited to do it again, and so he looked around, and he found one close by, it was in Elsinore Ca. about 45 min from Hemet. The problem was, the oldest girl was in her senior year in high school, and the older brother was a star basketball player and in football as well, and they were not going to move, but the parents wanted to move, and did move, but they let the kids stay in school in Hemet. The kids lived in the house in Hemet during the school week and would go home on the weekends, perfect solution, NOT!So here is the picture, A senior, a Junior, a sophomore and an 8th grader. What could go wrong, they are preachers’ kids, right? All on their own, they had it all worked out, but of course, it was not as smooth as the parents thought. The boy would have friends all the time, smoking pot, drinking, parties, ect, the sister and brothers didn’t say anything because they didn’t want to have to go to Elsinore High. It was going along great, it was only 2 months until the end of school, and then everyone would move to Elsinore, but fate had another idea. One monday morning the boy got up and went to school, but he had not gone on friday, he went to the beach with some friends and went surfing for the weekend and didn’t go to school.

Like normal he would just write a note signifying his fathers name and not think about it. And that’s what he did, but while sitting in his first class, there was a phone call to the teacher, she said that he was needed in the office, So he went.As he was walking to the office he was concerned that maybe something happened to somebody in his family, but when he saw his parents sitting in the hall by the office talking to the dean of students, he knew it was not that. Then he saw his older brother, he knew what was up then, he as well had not been in school on friday and had brought a note as well. Now the two had not talked about this beforehand, and what happened was, they both went to the same window to get their pink slips to get back in class. Well the girl that took the notes, and it was right after each other, about 5 min apart. She told the lady in charge about it, it’s crazy how things just happen like that, they completely change your life! The attendance lady took it to the Dean of students, and when the Dean looked back in their files, he saw that it had been going on all year, he had no choice but to expel them both.

They could go to Elsinore High, where their parents lived if they wanted to, the boy said, sure, he didn’t care at all, but the brother was very upset, but new he had no choice. So the two boys moved to Elsinore full time now and went to Elsinore High school, but the sister stayed with a friend to finish her senior year. She never missed school, she was a goodie two shoes, lol.

Throughout this whole thing everyone forgot about the younger brother, he was just in 8th grade, and since they had to move to Elsinore because the older brothers got caught ditching and had to move, he was going to have too as well, this did not set well with him, he had struggled in school, and had finally found a school he liked, and was doing good in. But the parents took him out of school in Hemet, and made him go to the Elsinore Jr.High school. He went the first day, and ditched, the school called the parents, the police found him walking back to Hemet, they took him home. He refused to go to school there in Elsinore, and he told them he would just keep running away if they made him go, he was so mad at them. They decided to homeschool him for the rest of the year, it was only two months, but when the next school year came, he didn’t want to go again, and he didn’t go, they ended up having to home school him. But the boy and his older brother, they didn’t mind the new school at all, it was much more racially divided, about 70% black, it was the first time the kids had gone to school in a school like that, it was great, so much more real, more like life, all the other schools seemed so plastic, this was great for a change the boys thought. It was good they started school there at the end of the year, they got to meet all the kids that will be going back there the next school year.

But they still had their friends in Hemet, they saw them all the time, it was only a 30 min drive, and they all had cars, except the little brother of course. Well the summer came, and the boy needed money, so he started selling cannabis again there, but he didn’t know that many people, but he did meet a guy at his dad’s church, they hit it off, his dad was a minister as well, and he smoked pot, they had a lot in common. The boy had gotten a job working on a small ranch, they kept some of their horses there, and he would help out with chores on the ranch for payment. The owner was a member of the fathers church, he was the main guy there, he was rich, and he was very cool, open minded, he liked to talk with the boy, they got along great. The guy had a ski boat, and he loved to take the boy and his brothers and friends out on the lake and go skiing, it was a great summer for skiing. We had done it before but after that summer, we got really good at it!

The summer was going great, until, one day the boy and his friend were racing down the hill on their bikes that were in front of his friends house, the house was at the bottom of the hill, they did it all the time. Well this time as they were neck and neck, just flying down the hill, the friend hit a pothole, it broke the front wheel off, the forks dug into the asphalt, the friend went head first over the handlebars, he landed right on his face, he hit so hard it tore the skin right off his face, but crazy as it sounds, the kid got up off the ground, and ran over to where the other bike was lying down, because the boy had stopped to help his friend and laid it on the ground and ran to his friend that was hurt, but his friend got up off the ground, ran over to his bike on the ground, jumped on it and began to ride it down the hill, and was yelling, I am going to win, I am going to beat you! His friend’s face looked like hamburger, he needed to get to the hospital right away! As he road down the hill, the boy was running after him telling him to stop, and he was yelling at the friends mother to get the car started, that they needed to get him to the hospital, and when she saw him, she screamed, and his sister who was there also screamed, the mother ran in the house to get a wet towel, and then she wrapped it around his head, they put him in the car, and drove to the hospital. It was a crazy event, his face was gone, it was completely rubbed off, it was going to be years and a big adjustment for him and his family, before he could have any sort of a normal life again. The boy went to the hospital almost every day to visit his friend, it was sad for him and the family, but his friend was handling it very well, under the circumstances, this was going to be a life changing thing for this boy, he would never be the same, his face would be disfigured for the rest of his life now. The mental side of recovery is the hardest part, the boy felt so bad for his friend, he tried to cheer him up the best he could. There were times when his friend would shut down and not want to see anyone, it had to be horrible for him. They would do skin grafts, it was a long hard process of recovery, it was so hard to watch, let alone have to go through, he felt so much compassion for his friend, he did what he could do!The summer came to an end, and the new school year had begun.

The boy was excited and was glad to be back in school. Now the boys older brother was a big sports guy, Football, Baseball, Basketball, he played them all, and he was good at all them, Basketball being the best of his games, and this being a mostly black school, basketball was the sport for the school, they had a good team, and now with the older brother on it, it would be great, and it was. The boy also played sports, just not to the level of the older brother, but he was good enough to make the team, and he enjoyed playing them, it just was never a priority, he played mostly just for fun!

The Elsinore school was a bit different in their class schedule, the way it worked was too easy for the boy, he found he could show up to class get the assignments do them in a study room and never have homework, and he would always show up on test days, the school part was easy for the boy, it felt like he was in grade school again, all the work was just so easy for him, he never worried about that part of school. School was going good for the boys, they were making new friends, the boy made a new friend that was on his baseball team, he also loved cannabis as much as he did, and the great thing is, that since he grew up there, he new everyone, so knowing him made it easy to sell the cannabis, he was back in business in full swing! The football season was about over and the baseball season was beginning, the boy was too small to play football, but baseball, that was his sport, he was a good pitcher, and second baseman, he was a good hitter, not much power but could place the ball and get on base most of the time. The season was going good, the coach was not really much of a coach, he didn’t know that much, it was Jr. Varsity, so they didn’t care that much, but they had such a good team that it really didn’t matter, the boys won almost every game, they ran the team and did what they wanted to most of the time.

One day on game day, it was a home game, the boy and two of his fellow players, which meant, the first baseman, the second baseman and the shortstop, all piled in his little car and drove up the mountain and went to a swimming hole they new about, so they ditched school, and went up there with some girls, drank beer, smoked pot and swam, had a great time. Well it was time to go, but on the way back down, they ran out of gas, needless to say they were going to miss at least the first two innings of the game. Lucky for them the road was down hill, and at the bottom of the hill was a gas station, so they went into the station, they got the gas they needed, and went to the game.Oh man the coach was freaking out, when they finally showed up he was so mad, he didn’t put them in the game, it was fine for the boys, they were drunk and stoned, and were glad to just sleep on the bench. But after about three more innings went by, and they were losing badly, the coach decided to put his starters in, he knew he had lost control now! The game went as thought, they came back and won the game, and the boys just laughed, this made the coach upset, but also happy to have the win. They won the season with no problem.

It was now time for basketball, this was the sport of the school, they had an amazing team, everyone wanted to be on varsity, but you had to be an amazing player to hang with the starters, the center was 6’9” tall, strong and very good, the other players were also amazing, there were 4 blacks guys, and a white guy, the boys older brother was the white guy, he became the team captain, they all voted on it, he was that good. The players that didn’t make varsity would have to try out for Jr. Varsity, and that’s where the boy ended up, on the J.V., he didn’t mind, he just wanted to play, and he did, it was fun, he wasn’t that great, but good enough to play on the team. The season went great, the Varsity lived up to the hipe, they won every game, the J.V. team also won its season, not every game, but almost. The Varsity went all the way to the CIF finals in Los Angeles where they lost the championship game, so disappointing, but that’s how it happened!Miracle! It was a great year there at Elsinore in spite of the ending.

Close call!

Well the road made a drop down a small hill, and then went up a much steeper hill, and the boy knew the road, he had been on it many times before, so he wasn’t worried about it. He thought they would just coast up the hill to a stop, and then find out what happened to the brakes. Well because of the rain the night before, the road was completely washed out, so when they went straight, the only thing that was there, was a sheer drop off, no more road, it was just broken asphalt and a bunch of ruts, those ruts met with other ruts that came from the railroad track berm that was made for the railroad tracks which was running along side of the dirt road. So when they went straight, the front tires got caught in the ruts and it flipped the truck sideways and up in the air, about 10 feet, it rolled that truck 5 times in the air, as it was headed down the hill, then when it hit the ground, it hit right smack on the passenger side door, it knocked the boys friend over to the drivers side , and it broke the seat loose, and the truck continued to roll 5 more times on the ground, and the only way this is all known, was by the lady that was sitting on her front porch, while she was having her morning coffee at the old farmhouse, she saw the whole thing happen, from beginning to end. Well when the truck finally stopped, it had landed upside down, and the cab was almost completely crushed. It was a mess, the boy was in a ball, in a pocket of space about the size of a small box. And after the dust settled, he realized he was not hurt at all, and all he could think about was to get out of there. And he looked around, and he saw a small bit of light, and saw it was the front windshield, it was sticking out and broken. He knew if he could just kick it out the rest of the way, he could get out. So without thinking much about it, he just kicked his feet, or more like stretched out. To his surprise, it worked, there was just enough space to get out, so that is just what he did, but as he was getting out, he looked over for his friend, and he saw him just laying there, lifeless, hi yield to him, nothing, so he reached over to him and grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him out right behind him.

They were out, the boy was not injured at all, not a scratch, it was amazing, how could he have lived through this, and without anything happening to him, they were bouncing around in that cab like a pinball, and his friend, well he was not dead, but he had broke his neck, and back in three places, and he had other broken bones as well. his friend almost died, he was in a coma for a day, it was bad. The friend did recover ok though, and he did get a big insurance settlement.

But still how the boy escaped without a scratch is amazing, because when the emergency team came, they just helped the other boy, and they asked the boy if he saw what had happened? Because they didn’t think he was in the truck, they thought that there was no possible way that he could have been in that truck and gone through that accident unharmed, no possible way. And when he told them he was the driver, and he was the one that pulled his friend out, they just laughed at him and told him he was making it up, and that there was no way he could have gone through that without getting hurt at all, not even a bump or bruise, nothing, completly un-scaved. And if it would not have been for the fact that the lady that was sitting on the porch, having her morning coffee, and saw the whole thing happen, they would have never believed him. But she came right up to the site of the crash, and told the police and emergency crew exactly what happened, and to their amazement, it was the same as what the boy had told them, they didn’t know what to say, other than he was the luckiest person on earth.

He skated past death again. The boy just kept all this in, and didn’t talk about it to anyone, but he still didn’t know why he was being kept alive, he new he should have died already, since he had already died twice in this lifetime, and came back to life, but he really didn’t understand the why, and since he didn’t have an answer, he just kept it all to himself what had happened to him, and he just went on about his life, like nothing had happened at all! He finished out the school year, his older brother graduated, and it all worked out to be a pretty good move from Hemet to Elsinore for them both.

Costa Mesa!

But after the school year was over, the boys father decided that the Elsinore church just wasn’t big enough, and also there was this other church that was going through a building program, and they needed a new pastor. And with his father having the experience to handle it, he was asked to take the church, and build the new building, and grow the congregation. The church was located in Costa Mesa California, right next to Newport Beach California. So yep, they were moving again, but to the beach this time, and this was a great move for the kids. The two older boys were out of school, the older brother had just graduated, and the boy was out for the summer, and he was going to be a senior the next year, and the younger brother that was being home schooled was going to be a sophomore, and since it was in Costa Mesa, and not Elsinore, the younger brother was willing to go back to school, in the school buildings, instead of homeschooling. It was a win-win for everyone!

Since the boy was going to be moving from the country to the city, he decided that it would be best to sell his horses, and it was time to end that chapter of life for him. It was sad for him, but it was time, he was more into cars and girls anyway!The move went well, it was the mid 70s, Newport Beach Ca, surfing was just becoming a big thing, it was getting to be very big on the pro side of it as well, there was getting to be more money for the winners, it became a very big thing! Well the boy adapted to the surfer lifestyle right away, he and his brother had been surfing now for about 3 years, he wasn’t very good at it yet, but he could do it. And now that he was living at the beach, he had plenty of time to practice. It was his last year of high school, and when he went to register in school, to his surprise, he had enough credits to only have to go to school half day for the full year of school, or go the full day and graduate half way through the year. He thought that he could get a lot of surfing in if he went half day, and he didn’t mind school, it was easy for him, so he chose to just go half day and finish with his class. Well he chose his first class to be PE, he was an early riser, having the ranch and his paper route and all, it was ingrained in him. Well back then in that school, they had this physical endurance test that they would give to all the students at the beginning of the year, and if you finished the top 2 in the class, you didn’t have to show up to class if you didn’t want to all year.

To the boy’s surprise, he got second place, and he only missed first place by one point, so he only had to go to his P.E. class on the days that he wanted to. It was awesome for him, he would get up early, go check the surf out before school, if it was good, he would go out and surf, and if it wasn’t any good, he would just go to school, and he would go to his P.E. class, he loved to run long distances to stay in shape for surfing, and every morning, the class had to run a two mile run, it wasn’t timed, you could take all the whole classes to finish but he used it as a workout for surfing. He would also play tennis with the girls tennis team when he felt like it, they practiced in the mornings, he was quite the ladies man, but even then he didn’t have one girl he would date, he stayed single. He had his fun, and they had theirs, but He would make sure it was understood, they were just dating, and they could date whoever they wanted, it was not exclusive!

The boy was new to the school, and it was his third high school in 3 years, and he was not shy, he made friends fast, he talked to everyone! He also had some old friends from Hemet that moved down there with them, they stayed in their parents garage, so he had some friends from his old town. They all were surfers, and when he and his older brother, who had just graduated from high school, moved to the beach, they all followed him. The boy’s parents let them turn their detached garage into a bedroom, and they could stay there until they got work, and then they had to move out. It was fun for awhile, they all surfed their brains out, and they all really learned what the surf life was like, they all had grown up inland, but all of them had a calling to the ocean. They would all go to the beach together while in High School, so the surfer life was not foreign to them. They became locals pretty fast, and eventually all the boys living in the garage, they all found work, saved their money, and moved out. And then it was just the boy, and his younger brother at home, and the older for a bit, but it wasn’t long before he also moved out. He had moved in with one of his friends, and then it was just him, his little brother, and his older sister.

Now there’s a subject, his older sister, she ended up marrying one of the older brother’s friends, he was, in the boys mind, a jerk, he could be nice, but most of the time he was a jerk. He later became a minister in the boy’s fathers church, but that is for another time. But she moved in with him, and then it was just him and his younger brother at home. Now his younger brother, who at that time seemed to be having a great life there in Costa Mesa, he was going to a great school he really liked, and he had made some pretty good friends, and seemed happy.

Well to the boy, his younger brother was just kind of there, the boy really didn’t pay much attention to him, and his little brother didn’t really pay much attention to him in turn either. But that aside, they got along ok and respected each other, and didn’t have any problems with each other. Well it was an amazing time in history, it was the mid 70s, all the good music was being written and performed, it was like the 60s opened the door, and everyone was invited to a big celebration, it felt like just one big huge party, and it was going on all the time, 24, 7! Surfing, Sex, Drugs, and Rock&Roll, that was just the way that it was, simply put, Amazing!So there he was, just about to end his schooling and start his life out of his parents house. This was the time in his life he was waiting for since he was 8, he was very happy. But he knew that if that was going to happen, he had to make money. Now just so you know, when he knew that he was going to be leaving Elsinore and move to Costa Mesa, he knew one thing for sure, that he was going to be moving out of his parents house soon, he new at least by the time he finished high school he would be out on his own. And he knew that at the most, he only had one more year left under his parents rule.

He knew that he had to find work, get established there in Costa Mesa, so he could move out from his parents house right after graduation, if not before. So when he moved there that summer of 1974, the first thing he did was look around for a job, and of course he found one, almost right away, he found it before he had even started school, which he had to start in September. They moved there in the summer of 1974. So he had the whole summer to play and have fun, and enjoy the beach life. He didn’t want to be tied down by a 9-5 job, but he knew he had to work, so what he chose was a pizza delivering job. He found a small pizza place called, “Pizza Man ” pizza, just around the corner from his parents house in Costa Mesa. He thought it would be a good way to learn the area, and to get to meet more people. He went in and asked them if they needed help, and the owner said that all he had was delivery available, so he took it, and that was at night and it didn’t get in his way of school. It worked out great for both of them, so he started the next day! The owner’s brother worked there as well, and he and the boy hit it off right away. The two pretty much ran the place at night, he delivered the pizza, and helped make the pizza, and the brother of the owners, he ran the restaurant part and the cooking. It had pasta, salads, and other things other than just pizza, there was a lot of cooking to be done, and they also delivered beer and wine, awe the 70s!

He really loved the job, and it really did become a great way to meet more people. It was great, he always knew where the good parties were, they ordered some pizza and beer, he delivered it, and would know where the best parties were, he would then tell all his friends, and then go to them after work,lol, it was awesome!The school year started out ok, but the boys last class of the day was photography, but there was a problem, there was not a teacher for the class, the principal was teaching it until they could find a temp, or a permanent one to teach the class. Well on the first day of the class the principle asked if anyone had had photography before, and the boy had, he had taken it for the last two years, and was very good at it, so he raised his hand, along with one other, she had it 1 year, but she didn’t know much. So the principal asked the boy if he could help him out and be a student teacher in the class and help him until a sub could be found because since he was so advanced he would be able to teach the beginners and the one advanced student, there were only about 15 other students in the class, so he said he would be glad to help out.

It was fun for the boy, it was his first taste of being an instructor, he loved it. The students also loved it, no teacher, just a fellow student to show them how, it worked out great, he had a great time and all the students did too, and the principal didn’t have to hire a new teacher, it was a win win for everyone!Well the year was going great, surfing, school, girls, beach, skateboarding, amazing year for his senior year of high school, it was perfect. To make it even better, he moved out of his parents house and into an apartment with some friends at the beach. He made a deal with his parents that if they let him move out he would finish school, they agreed and so he did. It was an amazing life for a 17 year old kid, living at the beach, no parents, a good job, good friends, man it was great! He did it, a dream realized from 8 years old, 9 years and there he was, out of the house, away from the people that think he is a “Devil Child”, he was very happy!So there he is, on his own, in Newport Beach California, in the 70s, wow what a time in life to be alive. It was a time of transition for society at that time in history. The 60s started the movement of freedom from tyranny, and the end of the reign of old white guys in suits, the 70s brought in the era of, We The People, it was an amazing thing to be apart of.

Well the boy graduated from high school and was staying at his friend’s house in Newport Beach, and had moved out of his parents, his life now was going as planned, the world was his oyster! He just wanted to have it all, experience everything, so he adopted the motto of, JUST DO IT, and sex, drugs, and rock and roll, it was the 70s ya know! It was short lived though and he ended up back at his parents for as bit. Well the entrepreneur he was, he decided that he would start up the drug business again. He had to move out assp. His strategy was, he would sell to small time dealers, and sell it cheaper than everyone else, and make it up in volume. It worked, he had a lot of clients, he treated it like a business. Oh he used the drugs of course, because the bigger dealers would not have let him buy from them if he didn’t use the drugs. He never got addicted to any of them, they were only for recreation and business. His friends could not understand how he could do the drugs and not become addicted to them, but he vowed to himself never to let them take control of his life. He was in control, he didn’t let anything, or anyone take control of him, he fought all his life against tyranny of his parents, he was not going to let his life be controlled by a drug, there was no way! Well the boy was enjoying himself that first summer after he graduated from high school, he was on his own, and he was still only 17. Yes it’s amazing how life can change in a flash. On one of those amazing summer days at the beach, him and a friend of his, who was older by two years, were walking along down by a grocery store, and they found a purse lying on the sidewalk, they looked through it, found some money in the wallet, they took the money, and then they found some credit cards, the boy didn’t really want anything to do with them. But the older friend said it would be easy, they could go to the mall and buy a bunch of stuff, and then throw them away. Well that’s what they started doing, using those credit cards, they filled the gas tank up, bought shoes and clothes, and other things. They did ok for a few stores, but the card company was alerted, they called the police, they set up a sting for them, and then the boy got caught, and the older boy ran, he got away, but eventually he also got caught. Well when the trial came, the boy pleaded guilty, and he went directly to jail after the trial. They gave him 2 years, but since he was going to turn 18 in October, he was in for just 5 months.

But it was a lesson he did not let go to waist. Since he had already graduated out of high school, and when the school year started for all the other kids in jail, he didn’t have to go to school, so they put him to work in the supply warehouse for the jail. They were going to send him to a work camp, but he had some bad teeth, and they kept him in the regular jail. It was a blessing in disguise, because he learned a lot about product distribution, organization, inventory control, ect.. He learned how to run his drug business much more streamlined. Well he got out early because he was turning 18 and they would have had to transfer him to the county jail with the adults, so since he was a model prisoner, they let him out before his birthday.

Well of course he had to move in with his parents for a bit, he had nothing, just out of jail, he needed the help. And they did help him, but they said only until he could get work and save some money and move back out and be on his own.

Back to Elsinore!

Well while he was in jail, he had been writing to an old friend in Elsinore, it was the one that wrecked on his bike and took his face off. The friend asked him if he wanted to move back to Elsinore when he got out of jail, they would get jobs, a place to live and start their lives together as roommates. So when he got out of jail, he moved to Elsinore, but his friend didn’t have any money, or a job, and he was still living at home, plus he still had to finish his last year of high school, he had missed a lot of school because of his accident. So the boy ended up getting a place with some friends that his friend knew, in Elsinore, well he kind of knew them from high school, but really it was his friends, friends more than his. But he thought it would be fine, and only for a short while, until his friend finished high school. But man was he wrong, because little did he know that they were into shooting heroin, and other hard drugs.

Well one night after the boy went to the movies on a double date with his friend and some girls, he came home to a house that looked like someone had robbed the place. The place was a mess, and they had just got finished getting it cleaned up, because It was the end of the month, and rent was due the very next day, and the landlord was going to come over and check out the house, he wanted to make sure that the boys were taking good care of it, and if not they were going to have to move out. So when the boy came home and saw the house totally wrecked up like that, he called out to his room mates, and when the didn’t answer, he began to clean it up and get it ready for the walkthrough by the landlord the next day. While He was at the sink doing dishes, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, someone sucker punched him from behind. They hit him on the side of his head, it knocked him to one side, and up against the cabinets, and his back was facing to whom ever was hitting him. The person kept hitting him, one blow to the head after another, he must have hit him 6 or 7 times. The boy managed to somehow turn and face this person beating him to a pulp, and to his surprise, it was one of his roommates.

The guy was crazy looking, his eyes were all red, his nose flared, he was breathing very fast and hard. The boy said to him, what are you doing, going on?But the guy didn’t even pay any attention to him, he just started to come at him again, it was like he was possessed or something. So the boy thought he had no choice but to fight back, so he lowered his head, and rushed him before he hit him again. As hard as he could, with all he had in him, he went after him, he drove his shoulder into the guy’s stomach, and grabbed the guy around his waist, and with all his strength, he hurled himself and the guy, right over a bar countertop, and then onto a dining table that was on the other side of the counter. It broke the table legs when they landed, and there he was on top of the guy, and all he could think to do was to hit this guy as many times as it took to knock him out. So he began to hit him in the face, over and over, until the guy wasn’t moving. Blood was everywhere, he finally knocked the guy out, then he got off the guy, and ran out of the house, he got in his car and drove off. He went down to the lake bottom and cleaned himself up. His tooth was cracked and sticking out of his lip, it cut right through it, he was bleeding badly. After he got all the bleeding to stop, he went over to his friend’s house to let him know what had happened. His friend’s parents freaked out, they were friends with the boy’s parents, and so of course they called them. The boy’s parents came there that night, and they all had a long talk. They all decided not to press charges, and then he and his father went over to the house that next day, they got all his things, and he moved back to Costa Mesa to go live with his parents, they all agreed it was the best course of action at the time for him.

He took it as a lesson learned, and moved on. His friend tried to move with him to the beach, but his friend wasn’t really a beach kind of guy, and he wasn’t really ready to be on his own yet, so he ended up moving back home to his parents in Elsinore, he had his own life path to follow.Back to the Beach!

Well with that behind him, the boy was back at home, living under his parents roof, this did not settle well with him at all. So it was time to find a job, get some money up, and move out. He went back to work delivering pizza at night part time. But he had to move out of his parents as fast as he could. At the time he was driving a small little Toyota Corolla. But one night while delivering pizzas, he hit a bump and the battery came loose and shorted out the electrical system and caught the car on fire and it burned it up. So he needed to get another car, he couldn’t deliver pizza without a car. His sister let her use her Volkswagen bug until he could find something else, so that he could keep working delivering pizzas. He also found a job at a car rental company across from Disneyland in Anaheim California. He had to take the bus though not having a car. It lasted about 3 months and he just couldn’t stand taking the bus everyday and also working there he felt taking advantage of, so he quit and started looking for another job. But still using his sister’s car at night to deliver pizza. After some searching, he found a job at a small used car lot around the corner from his parents House, but the job at the used car lot only lasted a few weeks, he hated it he quit.

surf van

But during this his older brother had a nice surf van that he had financed, but couldn’t afford the payments, he asked the boy if he wanted to take over the payments on it. Of course he agreed right away he loved that van, and bam there he was he started his van life. He used the van for delivering pizza and looked for another day job.

First exclusive Girlfriend!Still living in the little trailer next his parents, but really sleeping in his van at the beach or friends places more than at his parents. One day, he and another friend of his, were walking down the boardwalk in Newport beach, and what they would do was, pick up random women on the beach, and they would take them to his surf van, and have sex with them, and later would party with them, they were what they called, tourist girls. The boys had a saying back then, “Tourists go home, but leave your daughters”, pretty funny.This was pretty much an everyday thing in the summer months for them. But that day was special, the boy had met this one girl from inland, they called anyone that didn’t live on the coast line more than 5 miles, inlanders.

Well he met this girl, they hit it off amazing, much more than any other girl he had ever met, and the strange thing was, she also was from Hemet. Her mother and father were divorced, her mom still lived in Hemet, and it was crazy how, her mothers new husband and children, were friends of the boys, he knew them from when he lived there as a kid. He had played little league baseball with her step brothers when he was a kid growing up in Hemet. this was even before her mother had married the boy’s friend’s father of course. But her father lived in Orange county, and she had just moved in with him there, it was in Anaheim hills California. The odds are so far out that they would randomly meet in that way, but there it was, they both saw how crazy it was, and both agreed how it just seemed meant to happen. Well they became a steady thing, this was the real first exclusive relationship the boy had ever been in.

They had some great times together, and he really liked her, but she wasn’t pleased with where he lived, she wanted him to have a lot more things than he had, and be living on his own. He was still living in the little trailer next to his parents house. She was the materialistic type, her father had spoiled her, and when the boy couldn’t give her the things like her father could, she broke up with him. This throws him into a deep depression, his first heartbreak.

Well he started doing drugs more and more, he was dealing them as well, and using them much more. He had ran into a old friend from high school when he lived in Hemet. He lived in a small little trailer park in Costa Mesa about a mile from the ocean. And said he could move in with him temporarily. So he did, He lived in the covered patio that was a greenhouse next to the trailer. He was a few years older, his sister’s age. His friend was a plants delivery guy for a local nursery, he was a very good gardener and loved his job. It was a very short lived stay there. He was doing what ever he could to make money, he was on a stucco crew for awhile with a friend who was his sister’s boyfriend’s brother, and other odd jobs. But it just wasn’t a good situation there with his friend so he ended up back at his parents trailer for a bit, at least until he could find somewhere else to live.

Well some of his friends had gotten a job at a new car dealer as lot boys, it was a Jaguar and Buick dealer in Costa Mesa, it paid more, and he would be getting more hours. It was fun for him at first, and he felt he was doing ok there, but a few of his friends had gotten fired, they were stealing cars and taking them out for joy rides late at night, and after a few nights they got caught. Well the dealer didn’t have them arrested, which he could have. But since they always brought them back, he just fired them.Well after all that happened, the owner’s son of the car lot, who was the manager of the back lot, was a complete ass hole to all the other lot boys. The boy just could not keep his mouth shut, and one day he went into the guys office and laid into the guy, and took his shirt off and threw it on his desk, quit his job then and there. The boy knew he had to do something else, that this job just was not for him. Still living at his parents house.He ended up moving in with the friend that had got him into selling and doing heroin, who was also a horticulturist, and a really good one. He offered him a job working at his uncle’s commercial landscape maintenance company, and a place to live.

So they ended up moving into a really nice condo complex in Costa Mesa only a few blocks from his parents house. They were working together as well, they had a three bedroom so the rented out the third room to another friend of there’s. He was happy to be out of his parents trailer. He also let his brother and father move in with him. His dad was a used car dealer and would flip cars with one of his friends. What they would do was buy luxury cars and take them to the auction in Denver Colorado, sell them and buy used trucks at cheap prices drive them back to the beach and sell them there so they were making profit on both. And to get the cars back and forth he would hire his son and all of his friends to drive them for him. It was a lot of fun and we did three or four runs it was a blast.

But it was short lived because his friend decided to get a place with his girlfriend and moved out. And the boy decided he wanted to get a place by himself so he wouldn’t have to worry about anyone else.And he found a small dive trailer park in Costa Mesa closer to his work at the landscape maintenance company. He still had the surf van, but he used to go by this one car lot that had amazing souped up El Camino up on a rack that the boy loved and he really wanted that El Camino. So one day he decided he was going to get it, and he took his van in and traded it for the El Camino. That was it for the van and he was now and El Camino man!Now living in the dive trailer park, in an old 35 foot Airstream travel trailer he was living on his own, he did not care it was just an old trailer, he was living alone, which he liked much better. He began getting back into his drug dealing business, to support himself.

He started doing and dealing cocaine and heroin again, he made the most profit selling them over any other drugs. So he just concentrated more on the drug business to make money, other than the landscape maintenance job, he still did it but made much more dealing cocaine and heroin.San Diego! He was getting into dealing large quantities of cocaine now, and one day his friend the landscaper old roommate, told him that he had this guy that wanted a very large amount of cocaine. This was going to be a lot of money for him, he thought this would be it, he could stop dealing for a few years and just play. So they set up the sale, they were to meet at the friend’s place at 12 noon and complete the deal, the friend had the Cocaine at his place.

Saved by the surf

Well as a habit every morning the boy would get up early in the morning, go down to the beach, look up and down the coast and look at the surf, if it was good, he would go out and surf, if not he would just go get some breakfast. Anyway he went and checked out the surf that morning. It was an epic day, the waves were 6-8 ft and in perfect shape, with off shore winds, a surfers dream wave, so of course he went out. Well he was so into the waves he had lost track of the time, it was noon before he knew it, and the waves were still amazing. Well he just figured that his friend could handle the deal by himself, and he would just keep surfing, and really thought nothing of it.

After the awesome surf session he went to the partners house to see how it went, but when he got there the house was empty, and it was like a bomb went off, the house was a wreck, and his friend was nowhere to be found. And as he was standing there in the middle of the mess, a friend that lived across the way, came over when he saw him there, and told him what had happened. He said that it was a sting, the cops came and arrested his friend, and that they were looking for him, and that if he was smart he should get out of town for a while.

Cardiff by the Sea

And that is exactly what he decided to do, he went right home, he packed up all his things, and told his landlord he was moving. He headed down to San Diego that night. He had a friend he knew there, and thought he would go visit him and lay low for awhile, until it all blew over. He felt very lucky not to be in jail, he knew he had dodged a major bullet there, no doubt.

So he went down to his friends place early in the morning slept in his truck and when his friend got up he knocked on his door and they were glad to see him. And him and his girlfriend asked him to move in with them, and of course that was his plan. He decided that he would get out of the drug business and try to get a regular job, and play it safe for awhile . Well he took a job pumping gas, and doing some construction work with his friend. And since he was down in San Diego county, where there is some amazing surf, he was surfing almost every day.

The year was 1976 and that year was an amazing year for surfing. The waves had gotten bigger and bigger all winter, and by spring it was pumping in at about 10-12ft on average. And then it hit, 20 plus ft waves, no one was going out, only the dolphins were enjoying it.

Out of body #3

Well he and his friend that he was living with, would look everyday at the surf, and they both thought that the waves were so big that if they went out they were going to die. So they decided to wait until it got back down to about 12-15ft, and then they would go out, that was something they had ridden before. Then finally it happened, they got off work one day about 3 pm, and like every day, they went down to look at the surf. And to their surprise, it was a perfect 10-12ft swell, no wind at all, it was time to go out. They both felt that it was safe to go out, they thought for sure they would be able to surf it with no problem. They grabbed their boards out of the back of the truck, and began their paddle out. But after the first wave hit them, they got seperated, and they didn’t see each other again the rest of the day.

He was struggling to get out, the waves were so powerful, and they would just keep pushing him back in, but after a long hard paddle out, he finally made it outside past the breakers, he thought!As he was sitting there outside resting from that grilling paddle out, he saw a big set coming in, it was much further out than he was sitting, so he started to paddle out to the set wave, he needed to make it over that wave. He judged it to be about 15ft, but he thought, that’s cool, I can surf that. But as he barely made it over that wave, he noticed that it was not the main wave in the set, and when he saw the next wave coming, he was amazed, it was at least a 20ft wave, and it was going to break right on top of him. He paddled as hard as he could, he got as close as he could, did the normal duck dive under the wave, and made it past it. He thought that had to be the last wave of the set, but when he came up, he saw another wave coming, and to his surprise he was right in the perfect spot to take it. His heart was pumping out of his chest, he was so excited, and he knew he could make it. He turned around, got into position, and paddled as hard as he could, and there he was at the top of the wave, he was looking down the face of that monster wave, it was the biggest wave he had ever been on. He stood up and dropped down the face of this massive wave, he was focused and ready for the wave of his life.

Well in southern California at that time, the ocean had a lot of kelp beds, and they would cut it for harvest. This practice would make it very hard on the surfers, they would get their boards caught in it, and would make them wipe out, and that’s exactly what happened to him. As he was dropping in on that most amazing wave of his life, his board got caught in the kelp, it ripped the board right out from underneath him. He did a free fall down the face of that 20 ft wave, and landed right in a huge bed of kelp. He was caught in it, he was about 10-15 ft under the surface, it was tangled around him, he tried and tried to get out of its grip, but he was not able to get loose. He knew that it was over for him, he knew he was going to die. His whole life was passing before his eyes, he had to take a breath, his lungs were going to burst, he was counting and relaxing, but he couldn’t get free of the kelp, he finally ran out of time, he had to breathe. Well that was it for him, he just gave up, and he started to breathe underwater, it was time to die he said, and that is exactly what he did. At that instant he was out of his body again, watching himself from up above, and like before, everything was transparent to him, or translucent might be a better way to say it. He could see everything, but he was not scared at all, he knew it would be fine, he was at peace. There was the sound again, that was the most amazing and beautiful sound he had ever heard! And like before, the voice was telling him it wasn’t his time.

And then the next thing he knew, he was back in his body again, still all wrapped up in the kelp, and then in a flash, something had grabbed his legs, and it/ they, pushed him right up through the kelp, and as he broke through the surface of the water, he went shooting up out of the water, like a dolphin would, and was free of the kelp, and breathing normal. He looked over and about 5 or so feet from him, there was his surfboard, right there next to him, he couldn’t believe it, he reached over grabbed it and climbed on, he turned around to paddle out, and as he did he saw the most perfect 12′ wave that he had ever seen in his life. So he paddled out to it, turned his board around, got into position, and paddled as hard as he could, he knew he had to make this wave at all cost. He did, he dropped in, it was amazing, the best wave of his life, it was so perfect and hollow, it was like standing in a big huge green room! He rode that amazing wave like a pro, he was so excited and new that this was his best wave ever! He rode it all the way to shore. He was so pumped, his heart was pumping so fast, he thought it was going to jump out of his chest!

Then as he was sitting on the beach, it came to him, he had just died, and came back from the dead again. He was in shock for sure, he just sat there on the beach staring out at the waves, he was remembering how he was just dead, and what it was like, and he realized it was nothing to be feared, as all the other times, and he was glad to be alive!

He sat there on the beach and waited for his friend to get out, but he didn’t see him anywhere out in the surf. He thought, maybe he was at the truck waiting for him, so he walked up the cliff to where the truck was parked to look, but nothing. So then he went back down to the beach, he walked up and down, no friend to be found. Then he thought, since he died, that maybe his friend had died as well. But he didn’t give up, he waited there on the beach for about 2 hours, he didn’t know what to do now, the fog was rolling in, and it was getting dark, and still nothing. He was freaking out, he didn’t know what he was going to do. Well he decided he was going to just walk home, which was about 10 miles. And as he was getting ready to leave, out of the fog came this figure, it was walking right towards him, there he was, walking up the beach, he was alive!He said that he had lost his board on the very first set, and that he had been swimming around the whole time just trying to survive. He didn’t want to talk about it at all, so they just got into the truck and drove home.

Hitchhiking trip

They didn’t talk at all about it, or say anything, and when they got home they both acted like nothing had happened at all. He kept it to himself about dying out there, but he thought about it everyday!Coastal hitchhikers Well about a week or so went by, and one early morning there was a knock at the door, he went to the door to answer it, and to his surprise, it was an old girlfriend from high school that had come to visit. She knew his friend and his friend’s girlfriend that lived with them. They all went to the same high school together in Hemet, and the two girls were good friends. It was great to see her again, but he was wondering why she showed up at this time in his life. Well as the day went by she got real friendly with him, she was all over him, it was nice for him, and he was happy about it, but he just knew that something was up. They had a great weekend, they had renewed their relationship, it was all going well, then she surprised him with why she really came, she said she had always liked him during high school, but was to shy to say anything, and that she had been planning this trip for a long time, she wanted to hitch hike up and back down the coast of California for the summer, and then she’s going to go back to Hemet to start college in mid september. And she wanted him to go with her because he was the only one she thought would do such a thing, and she really liked him. His first response was no way, it was crazy, he was living in Southern California, the surf was the best he had ever seen, he was not going to miss out on that. He asked her, why don’t you just stay with him there, and enjoy the beach with him, and then go to school? But she said no, she had been planning this for a long time, and she was going to do this with or without him. That made him very worried for her safety, she was a small petite beautiful women, he thought she either would get raped, or murdered or something, he said to her, there is no way you are going by yourself, it is just to dangerous. But she said she didn’t care what he said, she was going in the morning and that was that. He said well it’s your life, and they went to bed. Of course he couldn’t sleep, all he could think about was how she was going to get hurt out there on the road all by herself, he couldn’t let her go, or he had to go with her. Then as he was thinking about all this, he remembered how he just died the other day, and how there had to be a reason he came back, and how it was strange how this woman showed up in his life at this time in his life. Then like a ton of bricks it hit him, he knew, he just had to go on this trip with her, it was his destiny, it was all clear to him. So when she woke up that morning he asked her one more time not to go, but she said she was going and there was nothing he could do to change her mind. So since she was going even if it was a totally crazy thing to do, he told her he was going to go with her. He said there was no way he was going to let her go alone, no way! He cared too much about her to let her put herself in that kind of danger. Well of course this made her very happy, she said she knew he would go, and how great it would be, and it would be a once in a lifetime event. Well little did he know, the girlfriend, and his friend’s girlfriend had been planning this whole thing, it was not an accident. His Two friends he was living with new he needed to do something, he was just kind of stagnant in life, he wasn’t really happy at all, sure the surf was good, but he had no direction in life, and the new girlfriend new it because his friends girlfriend told her, and she wanted to date him for a long time, and she saw a great opportunity and there she was with him, and he was going to go with her on the trip she had planned, it was meant to be! The friend and his girlfriend were very happy too, they had their place back to themselves, and their friend had some direction, and was happy, and the new girlfriend was happy, it was a win, win, win for everyone!He packed all his stuff in his truck, and he and his new amazing adventurous girlfriend drove from San Diego, to his parents house in Orange County California, and dropped off his truck. He left it with his younger brother, he was still in high school, and he was very happy to have a vehicle, and he knew his brother’s truck was awesome, and he was excited to be able to use it, he would be the envy of his high school friends! After they dropped the truck off, they went to a pawn shop by his parents house, and got all the supplies they needed for the road trip, and then they started hitching from Costa Mesa California, heading to northern California, and a great and amazing journey, the adventure had begun!

They had no idea what was going to happen, but that was the point, not knowing the future, that was the thing they were after, to live a life of synchronicities, just to see where life would take them.It took awhile, but they got their first ride, it was in a old car that had no doors, no windows, but the front windshield, it was driven by this young man that was happy to give them a ride, he was going to the San Fernando Valley, he took them through Orange County and LA, it was great, they were on the 210 fwy when he dropped them off, it was a great ride and a wonderful start to the adventure. They were now at an fwy on ramp and standing there with their backpacks on and their thumbs out, and it wasn’t but a short while until they got a ride from a business man heading up the coast to San Francisco via the scenic route, hwy 1. He was happy to have the company, and he was intrigued by two young people doing something so adventurous, he said he wished he had the courage to do something like that when he was their age, and how envious he was of them. He was going a long way, but they did not want to just drive straight to San Francisco.

They wanted to see the coast, and experience it, not just drive through it. So they went as far as he was going that night, and they left him at his hotel, and then they took off and spent the night in a field. It was a magical night, they became much closer that night, and had a renewal of spirit, and dedication to the adventure. That first night was very rewarding for them, and when they got up and started the next day they had the biggest smiles on their faces, they had slept like rocks, and were so elated when they woke up, they were beaming with a sense of satisfaction, and joy, they could hardly stand it, and it was apparent to everyone they met. The man that had given them the ride had already left, but it was ok with them, they wanted to explore the area, that’s why they were there on this journey in the first place. They went to the main road, where there was a small town and found a gas station to use the restroom and clean up a bit. Then they began to walk north along the pacific coast highway, and it wasn’t long until they got picked up, it was a van full of other hitch hikers, the guys that were driving it just wanted to do it, they said they do it all the time, and just got a good feeling and liked helping people. They took them to a small beach front town where they got out and went to the beach, they set up camp there and explored the area, this is what they were after, an awesome and adventurous trip. After a few days there, they decided to get going on up the coast and see more of the beautiful California coast, so they packed up and started to walk again up the PCH. Its funny they didn’t even put their thumbs out to hitch a ride, they were content to just walk and enjoy the scenery, it was a bright sunny day, and they were very happy to just walk. After about an hour or two of walking a truck pulled over in front of them, it was an older man with a beard, he looked like a leprechaun or something to the boy, he looked over at his girlfriend and said strange looking guy, and she agreed. He had a young girl with him as well. He got out and was walking with a limp, he had a bad foot, he asked them if they wanted a ride, they said sure and through their backpacks and themselves in the back, and the man asked them where they were going, they said north or as far as they were going, the man said they were just out for a drive up the coast and had all day, he said they could take them wherever they wanted to go. They told him to just drive them and to let them out whenever they wanted to. They really didn’t have a destination, just a direction, north!

They drove for an hour or so and stopped at a beach called Sand Dollar beach, you had to park and walk down to the beach, it was a beautiful cove, and no one was there but them, it was amazing to them. They decided to stay there for the night, the man and his friend left and said they would be back in a few days, when it would be the weekend, and that they wanted to go further up the coast but had to get back, but if they were still around when they came back that they would give them another ride, and then they left. They had a very relaxing and fun time there at Sand dollar beach, they were happy together, they were in a state of bliss. His girlfriend was glad she did this trip, it was working out as she planned. Well after a few days there they decided to pac up and head north again, and so they got back on the road again and started heading north. After a short time the same man and his young female friend came driving towards them, and they pulled over to pick them up, what great timing that was. They asked them where they were headed, they told them, north up the coast, that they were just on an adventure. They thought that was cool and said they could take them to show them some cool places, and so they climbed into the back of the truck and started up the coast. They stopped at every little spot on the coast that the man new about, he had lived in California all his life, all up and down the west coast, and his job was a propane delivery man, so he knew the area very well. The day went by and nightfall hit, they decided to go to a campground, the man and his friend slept in the truck, and the boy and his girlfriend slept outside, like every night. They got up the next day and drove up the coast a bit more, but the man said he had to get back home, he had to get back to work the next day. They parted their ways, the man was really intrigued with them, he couldn’t believe that they would just pack up and take off like that, with no real plan, just let life happen. He told them he was retiring in a week and he would be back up the coast, and if they were still around he would take them to some out of the way places that only the locals new about. They said their goodbyes and he and his friend left, and the couple was ready to keep on the journey north up the coast. They hardley ever stuck their thumb out but people would pull over and ask them if they wanted a ride, they would say, they were interested to find out who they were and what their story was. And almost every time, the people would say, that they wished they could do what they were doing, just through a pack, on and take off on an adventurer like that, but everyone had an excuse of one thing or another, the boy would always say, maybe someday you will, it’s never too late! Well after a few days the young couple was on the rode just walking, not hitchhiking, just enjoying the morning sun, and all of a sudden the man and his friend pulled up behind them again, they were happy to see them, they said their hellos, got in the back of the truck and they went up the coast to a beach called Seal beach, it was beautiful, and there was no one else there, they had the whole beach to themselves. The man and his friend had brought a picnic lunch, they shared it with the couple, it was a beautiful sunny warm day, it was like something out of a fairy tail, just amazing! The man asked them if they wanted to go to a bonfire that night, up in the mountains, they said of course, sounds fun. So when it got dark they drove up the road to a place way back in the forest, they would have never found it if they hadn’t been with the man and his friend. They pulled up to a big roaring bonfire, there were about 20 people there, guys and girls, they were playing guitars and banjos, ukuleles, and tambourines, and bongo drums, it was awesome! Everyone was singing and dancing around the fire, drinking and smoking pot, and taking LSD, it was a night to remember.

They all spent the night there, and hiked around the next day where the camp was, and then that night they had another big fire and party, it was just their way of life, it was what is known as a commune lifestyle, it was pretty cool to the boy and his girl friend. The man and his young friend said they needed to go back to his place, he had some things to take care of and if they wanted to come they could stay at his place for a few days, so they said ok, and they all got in the truck and left the commune.When they got to the man’s place, they spent the night. In the morning the girlfriend said that she needed to get back to southern california, she was starting school in a few weeks and she needed to get registered for school. So she needed to hitch hike back, and asked the boy if he wanted to go back with her, but the boy said he wanted to stay hitch hiking, so that morning the girl got her backpack all packed up, and they took her to an southbound on ramp, and as the boy and the man watched her from the truck, she got a ride in about 5 minutes, she was very beautiful. So now it was just him, he was with the man and his friend, the man took him back up the coast to Sand Dollar beach and dropped him off, he told him he would be back in about 2 weeks, and if he was there at the beach when he returned he would pick him up and take him with him, he said he was buying a fifth wheel trailer, and he was going to travel all over the country, and he asked the boy if he wanted to be his driver, because he had a bad foot and it would be great to have someone with him to help him drive, and he wouldn’t have to worry about food or anything. The boy said sure, it sounds like a great adventure.

So the plan was to meet back at Sand Dollar beach in 2 weeks and then they would start their traveling adventure.The man left, the boy spent a few days there at Sand beach, but got bored and decided to walk up the highway northbound, he wanted to explore other spots. As he was walking, a car pulled over to pick him up, it was 2 guys heading up to San Francisco. They asked him if he knew of some waterfalls that had pools they could go swim in? He did know of some, so he took them to the parking spot and told them they would have to walk about 5 miles to the spot, they said great and they got their day pack and he had his full pack, and they all three took off on the trail. It was a warm day, and the pools would feel great when they got there, and when they did get there in about and hour of hiking, they all jumped in the natural pool and cooled off, it was awesome. Well after a bit, the boy saw the two men over on some rocks have sex, they were gay, he didn’t know what to do, so he just got his stuff and left them there, and started walking back down the hill, he thought that was crazy, he didn’t judge them he just didn’t want to be around it, and thought it was rude what they did, if they had told him up front he would have said ok that’s cool, but he would have just walked away and told them where to go and not gone with them, but it was what it was and so he just left them there at the pools.

Commune

As he was walking down the trail, he was walking straight into the sunset, on a beautiful tree lined trail, and on the horizon he saw a figure, it was hard to make out because the sun was shining in his eyes, and it was a silhouette figure. The closer he got the more the shape became clearer. It was a woman and she was nude, her body was perfect, she was holding a sun dress in her arms and as she got closer she put it on. She came up to him and said hi, she was so beautiful and soft spoken, she said she was living up there with some friends and if he wanted to join them, he was more than welcome too. Of course he said yes, and they walked off together and she took him to their camp. There were 3 women and two men, they were in their mid 20’s and very friendly, he ended up staying with the women he met on the trail, it was a great time, he spent the rest of the week there, but he had to go get some supplies and said he would be back and left down the mountain. He got down to the main road and got a ride right away, it was a young woman about his age.

She was going to a place called Bodega Bay above San Francisco, he thought that would be cool, she invited him to go and camp with her, so he did. They got there that night after spending the day in San Francisco, they set up the tent and had dinner and then went to bed, they had amazing sex that night, and all the next day, it was so passionate they couldn’t believe how wonderful it was. The girl had to go back home, which was down south in Santa Barbara, he didn’t want to go, he was on an adventure and he wanted to meet the man with the fifth wheel trailer and keep the adventure going. He had two days to get back to Sand Dollar beach to meet him so he left her, she went home, and he stayed there, and said he would get a ride in the morning, she wanted him to go and live with her, but he said no, he wanted to experience much more in life, he was young and not ready to settle down, the vagabond life was what he wanted to live. She was sad but said ok, and said when he was ready to come and look her up, she gave him her address and phone number and drove away, that was the last time he saw her.

Fate

The next day he packed up and started back down the coast. He needed to get to the meeting place to hook up with his friend that wanted to travel around the country in his fifth wheel, and have him as a driver and helper. He got to the road and started walking, and about an hour into his journey, a nice older couple picked him up, they were headed to big sur, right where he was headed, they also wanted to spend the day in San Francisco, so he went with them, they had never been, he showed them all the sites, they were very happy they picked him up. After there touring around frisco, they headed to big sur, they got to the inn late that night, the couple went in to their room and he went down the road to find a nice spot to camp, but it started to rain, so he sat under a big tree that was on a turnout on PCH just down from the big Sur Inn, it was on an “S” turn, and there was a light to light the turn. He sat up against the rail, got comfortable, and decided to sit there and smoke a joint, and watch the cars try and make the “S ” turn, and enjoy the nice rain. After a bit a corvette came screaming around the corner, it barely made the turn, but it did, and went speeding off into the dark. About 10 seconds later a big purple van that looked like the scooby doo van, came screeching around the turn, it stopped in the middle of the turn, and out jumped a guy, he was only wearing a pair of cut off jeans, he had flaming red hair, it was like an afro, he was yelling at the guy in the vet that just speed by, and then all of a sudden he turned and looked at him, he yelled to him, so don’t you want a ride? He thought to himself, how did he even see him, he was in the shadows of the tree, and it was raining? But he thought, well better than sitting in this cold rain, so he got up and went over to the van, threw his pac in and got in the front seat.

He had no idea that this act would change everything that he had been planning.The red headed driver started talking, and he told him his whole live story. The boy was just sitting there, and listening to him talk, and the guy asked him where he was going, he just told him to drive and he would tell him when he wanted to get out. The guy asked him if he was hungry, he said to go in the back and help himself to anything he wanted to eat. He did just that, so as the guy was telling him his life story, he sat there and eat, and when he was full, he ended up falling asleep while the guy was talking.

Back to Orange county!

When he woke up, to his surprise, they were in Santa Monica Ca., he was very upset, he was way to far to meet the man with the fifth wheel, he thought, oh well it must just not be meant to be, so he had the red headed guy take him to his parents house in Costa Mesa, he decided to go get his car and just start over again there in Newport Beach. While they were driving there to the boy’s parents house, the guys van broke down, the drive shaft universal joint broke and needed to be fixed before he could move on, so he went and bought the parts and fixed the problem while at the boy’s parents house. The red headed guy said his uncle worked at disneyland, and before he left to Arizona he wanted to go and see him there, so he called him and made the arrangements, and they both went to disneyland, it was very cool, the uncle took them behind the scenes, they got to go underground and see how it all worked, it was fascinating. Then the red headed guy took off after the disneyland trip to Arizona, he was going to go live with his sister.

Back to Newport

Well it was time for the boy to start his life again there in Newport Beach Ca., He was 21 and ready for a new exciting life there. He often wondered what would have happened if he had met the man at Sand dollar beach and gone traveling around the country with him? It just wasn’t meant to be!There he was back at the little trailer next to his parents house again, but he knew it wasn’t for long.Starting over!

Photo lab

The job was going well for him, he worked hard and did everything they asked of him, and more. And then one day after he had been working there a few months, he was sitting there having his lunch, when the owner of the lab came up to him, and he asked him if he could help out in the lab that day, because the regular guy that was developing the slide film was sick and had to go home for the day. Of course he said yes, he had helped the guy out when he had time in between his deliveries, and he thought it would be fun. So he got all the slide jobs for that day developed and mounted, and then finished up his afternoon pickups and deliveries and went home. The next day the owner came to him and asked if he could help out again, because the guy was still sick, well of course he said yes, he had fun doing it the day before. So he did all of the development of the slide film, mounted it all and packed all of it up, and then delivered them, and did his regular pickups and deliveries to the stores as well.

The next day when he came in to work, the owner asked him to come into his office, he wanted to talk with him about something, he thought, oh no this can’t be good, he must have messed up doing the slide film or something. But when he got in the office, the manager and owner both there, and they were telling him that he had done an amazing job with the slide film, and they wanted to ask him if he wanted to stop doing the pick up and deliveries, and work full time in the lab doing the slide developing, he said sure, it sounds good to him. So they hired a new driver and put him in charge of the slide film department, he loved it.

Things were going great for him, he felt he was fitting in the lab quite well. After about a month or so, the owner came to him again, he asked him if he could also do the print film developing, just for the day, because the regular guy that did it was sick? He told him that he just had to do as much as he could so they wouldn’t fall too far behind, and the regular guy would finish what he didn’t get done the next day when he returned to work. He said yes of course, and began to work. He got all his normal slide film done, along with the print film as well, he thought there weren’t that many jobs to be done and it was no problem to get them all completed that day. This floored the owner and manager, because when they came in and saw that he did all his work, and the other guys work, in a faster time, they were very impressed.

They came to him again, they told him that they let the film developing guy go, and were going to have him do both slide and film developing. He thought it was easy and that he would not have a problem doing both jobs. Well that made the owner and the lab manager very pleased. After that they decided they would cross train him in everything that the lab did. He got to spend time with all the other employees and learn their jobs, when he had time of course. After about a month or so, he knew how to do every job in the lab. The owner came to him again. He told him how proud he was, and gave him a raise, and gave him the job of a color printer, film developer, slide maker, slide duplication and copier, he would be doing the job of 4 people, the owner was very pleased with him. He saved up a lot of money to move out, and when he was ready he asked his friends if anyone needed a roommate. The boy was very active and was playing on a tackle football City League in Costa Mesa. And while playing on the league one of the players was a jack in the box manager and he needed a roommate. So of course still living at his parents house he knew this was the best thing for him. He had a good job at the photo lab and could afford it now. So they moved in together in a old apartment complex in Costa Mesa. He was working at the photo lab and things were going great for him.

New love

He was dating the receptionist at the photo lab, but it didn’t work out and she left the lab and they broke up. But living across from him in the same complex, there was a girl that was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen, and he wanted to date her badly. So he went over introduced himself and became friends with her. Come to find out she was a model, she was beautiful, the longest blonde hair he had ever seen on a woman it was fantastic he was stricken to no end. They weren’t really dating they were just friends, and her living across from him that worked out quite well. But one day when he went over to knock on the door she wasn’t home, and he went again that evening, nothing, she wasn’t home again. He didn’t really think much of it at the time he just figured she was gone visiting family or friends or something. Well a week went by and she still wasn’t home, he was getting kind of worried, so he asked around and nobody knew where she was.

He was getting ready to call the police and report a missing person when she showed up in a wheelchair. She had bought a new Porsche from the money she made on a big photo shoot for a popular fashion magazine. Well she drove to a party in it, and on her way home she got into a wreck, she was drunk, she lost control of the car and wrapped her brand new Porsche around a tree. The accident left her paralyzed from the chest down, her modeling career was over. You can imagine what this did to her, it put her in a state of depression that was so debilitating that she was considering suicide. He would go over every day after work and help her out, cooking for her cleaning for her doing whatever she wanted him to do, taking her to the store doing everything he could do to help her out. They became very close friends and eventually they did start dating, to him she was the most amazing woman he had ever met. Well her family lived in Central California in Santa Rosa. They’d all decided that it was best for her to move up there so that they could take care of her and help her out.

So the family came down loaded all of her things up in a moving truck and her and he drove up to Santa Rosa and moved her in to a very nice home that was completely handicapped adopted. It was sad for the boy because he had lost his wonderful girlfriend, he thought. Well at first he was flying back and forth, and she would pick him up in San Francisco and take him to Santa Rosa, which was about a 2-hour drive each way. She repeatedly asked him to move up there with her and they could get married. But he felt that it wasn’t time for him to get married especially to someone that was in a wheelchair because he was very active and he just didn’t feel like it was time for him to settle down and get married and have a family. She was ready now because of the accident and she knew that it was time for her to change her life direction and get married and have a family. So he told her no and stopped going up to see her and let her find someone else that she could marry and start her family with. It wasn’t easy for him but he made the best of it and moved on with his life and so did she.

The apartment that he was living in with his friend the Jack in the box manager, was getting condemned and they had to move out. So he was looking for a new place and asked around if any of his friends might need a roommate.He had this friend that he knew from when he lived in Hemet, his father was also a preacher. They but they lived in Orange county, but they would always see each other at church functions, and himself and his brother became good friends over the years. His brother was moving out of their condo in Costa Mesa they shared, and he asked the boy to move in, it was a great match.

So he moved he moved out of the condemned apartment complex and in with him. He and his old friend became much close friends, and they also started dealing cocaine together, his friend really loved cocaine and was doing a lot of it, and to support his habit dealing was the best way to afford it. They would buy an ounce at a time and add an ounce of cut and each would double their money.They were having the time of there lives, parties every weekend, women galore. They would go down to the beach and pick up tourist girls and neither one had a steady girlfriend. Single again the boy was out in the clubs doing his business almost every night.

Almost married

Well one night while him and his roommate were out on the town, they were sitting at the bar at one of the local night clubs, it was one they would go to most every night, they moved a lot of product there. Well there was this female bartender there, she was the hottest woman in the club, and every guy would hit on her, but to no avail, she did not date customers, and she made it well known to everyone, and on top of that, she already had a boyfriend. Well that night, the boy and his friend were sitting at the bar admiring her, they were a bit drunk and high, and the friend said to him that he would bet the boy that he could get a date with the hot bartender, and get it before the boy could. He said he would bet an ounce of cocaine, since they were both cocaine dealers he knew that would get the boy to bet him. The boy laughed and said there’s no way you’re going to get a date with her in any way. The boy said, I could get a date with her way before you, and so the BET was made. This was going to be a very challenging bet for the boy to accomplish, for one, she was much older than him, by 11 years, and she had a boyfriend, and she made it very clear she didn’t date customers! LoL, but he was up for the challenge!

Now the boy was a Scotch on the rocks drinker, and only drank high end beers, it was just the way he was. Well the hot bartender was always shocked, and impressed, when he ordered one, she had never met a young guy like him that drank Scotch. They started talking, as friends, that was his plan, become a friend and then see what happens. Well after about a month or so, he was talking to her, and becoming close to her, he never asked her out, just became a good friend to her. Well one night she had asked him if he knew someone with a truck, and if they could help her move, because she was breaking up with her boyfriend, and needed to move out that weekend. Well of course he said yes, since he had a truck, he told her he would be happy to help her out. That was it, he knew he had a chance now, and sure enough they hooked up, they had sex that weekend after moving her into her new place, and bam, they became a couple, it was done, he won the bet. He told his friend, he of course was floored, but he was a man of his word and paid up on their bet, they had a big party and the boy shared it with all their friends, it was an amazing party.

One day he got a knock on the door, it was his cousin from Illinois, he had packed up his things a drove out to Southern California, and was ready to start his life at the beach. They gave him a place to stay until he could get work and find a place. He did just that, I totally admired him for that bold move.Well as time went on the boy and this new girlfriend became quit the couple, she asked him to move in with her, he spent most of his time there anyway. so he moved out from his friend’s place and moved in with her. It went fine for about 6 or so months, but she being much older, had a 12 yr old son, and she wanted to get married. But the boy knew it was not time in his life for marriage, or be a father figure, so he told her no, and that really upset her, so she broke it off with him. And she ended up going back to her older boyfriend, and they ended up getting married, their marriage didn’t last but a year. He had to move out of her place of course, and his old roommate already had found a new roommate, so that’s out. But there was a lesbian couple he knew that lived in the same complex, well they were bi-sexual. They lived in a two bedroom and only used one, so they said it would be great if he could move in with them, it worked out good for both of them. Well being Bi-sexual, they would be in his bed more than not, they both wanted a man to be with, but not as a boyfriend or anything, they just wanted a sexual thing. So of course he didn’t mind, he would take care of their needs for them, they took care of him, it was a good arrangement.

But after a few months together the girls decided they were going to move up to the central California coast. And so it was a short lived thing there, and now he had lost his place to live. So again he moved back to the little trailer next to his parents house. But it was short lived, because his cousin that had moved from Illinois, he had moved to the beach with a friend from his work, but that friend moved out and he asked the boy if he wanted to move in. Of course he said yes, it was on Tenth Street in Newport Beach. He was now single and living at the beach, he felt very comfortable and satisfied with his live at this time, he was very pleased!He came full circle he felt, and was excited for his future. What a crazy adventure he had just went through for the last few years, he thought to himself, what a great life he had! And now he was excited for the future, what was going to happen next?

Coming soon!Book #2 Marriage and family!