Thursday, June 11, 1987
Hobo trio saved
by knights of road
TRAINS from Page 12
border. Nowhere near North Platte.
Another funny coincidence, this train
doesn't slow down much in Beatrice.
A quick check of the Backpack of
Necessities reveals a quart of Yukon
Jack, ajacket, a Donald Duck storybook,
and a cigarette lighter. And a knife.
("What the hell's that for?" "Uh,
protection. I guess we can maybe kill a
rabbit for food or something.") Seeing
no rabbits on our car, the "or some
thing" isn't even contemplated.
Some trains later (still dark, but
barely), the train seems to slow going
around a curve. ("Now it turns west.")
Two things to remember here; one, try
rolling when you hit the ground, and
two, be careful of bottles in your
backpack.
There seems to be a city a couple of
miles south of us. Do we go there, or do
we take our chances going back north.
After trying each about three times for
a couple hundred yards or so, we amble
North. I keep remembering some song
about "North to Nebraska, the gold
rush is on," but I'm not sure that was
eve really a song.
Soon it becomes light enough to see
that there is a highway less than a mile
to our left. It turns out to be Highway
77. Kansas Highway 77. (Some where in
Kansas with no travelers checks. What
will you do?)
At this point we decide that calling
our friend in North Platte is out. We
also decide calling anyone at all is
probably not a good idea. At daybreak
Sunday morning, any of our friends
getting a call from Kansas would prob
ably just laugh and tell everyone before
we got back. At least that's what I'd do.
Parents, from nowhere near Kansas by
the way, probably wouldn't laugh, but,
well, you know.
Truck drivers have long had a reputa
tion for being quick to come to the
rescue of their fellow travelers in dis
tress. They are sometimes called the
knights of the road and not without
good reason.
The truck driver who picks us up is
wearing a blue shirt that says "Ned" on
it. "I don't usually pick up hitchhikers,
not since that guy with the knife, but
you two look too stupid to do any real
damage," says Ned. "Thanks," we reply.
Ned is a pretty friendly sort of guy
. once you get to know him, and he tells
us all kinds of things. Ned tells us
about his ex-wife, he tells us we're in
Manhattan, Kan., he tells us about how
happy he was to get out of prison, he
tells us about the gun he carries, he
i tells us some grisly tales about what
happened to a couple hitchhikers he
knew of, ("but don't say anything to
anybody. The drivers were friends of
mine,") and many other fascinating
tales of the road, our coramon bond.
' Anyway, we had to part company
' with Ned at Marysville. Ned tells us at a
coffee shop that he's going to follow the
border on west. Something about
cheaper gas tax or something.
However, our luck is with us. The
same luck we'd been having. A nice
traveling salesman named Ken offers to
give us a ride, since he's going to
Omaha anyway, and Lincoln's right on
the way. He must have overheard us.
Anyway, our journey ends with Ken
dropping us off at the U-Stop on 10th
street. It wasn't quite the wild bar
chase through North Platte that we'd
hoped for, but we did save a bundle on
gas money, and nobody's car was
damaged.
It could have been worse.
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