Fresno and The Man

Fresno, CA – Police #2
After a fantastic evening with my new Fresno friends, I decided to hoof it, not sleep in any hotels, just drive on. It was one in the morning and I thought I could get to my family’s place outside of Sacramento. Only a few hours away, should be easy….

An hour and a half later, blinking red lights in my rear view mirror told me to pull over… a kind officer came to my window and went through the entire routine of getting to know me, asked all the right questions, checked all my right papers.

“I’m a folk-singer, Sir.” and I went on to dress up and describe my folky life in 30 seconds…

He kindly suggested I drive 2 miles up the road to the next rest area and get some sleep, said that he had been following me for the past few miles and that I was all over the road, swerving and weaving. I didn’t remember that, but I took his word for it… and followed his advice… drove with all the windows down to the next exit… and slept til morning…