Ah, youth!

They appear without fanfare grandson and girlfriend out of contact for many months now "hi grandma!" here they are stopping by on their way from here to there traveling by thumb, hitchhiking this grandson who's never heard of Jack Kerouac arriving for favors, which we give them, meals, showers, clean laundry, and something special, a surprise gift, a small tent and better sleeping bags than theirs to send them off in style in a matter of hours spending the night elsewhere before they head north all thumbs and spirit too young to be vagrants on their hitchhiking adventure and watching them go I remember my own travels by thumb at 19 from Berkeley to Louisville for Derby Day, 1959 and I want to thank them for bringing this memory to life after so long but nothing happens quickly at my age and by the time I think of this they are gone back on the road, all thumbs and spirit, with no time for an old man's war stories.