Niki

May 16

1976 - Niki and JC hitchhike from Tillamook Oregon to Sacramento California where they get a ticket for hitchhiking on the freeway.

1986 - Niki gives birth to a beautiful baby girl

1996 - Niki is married for second time and lives on  a large horse ranch

2006 - Niki is single, daughters are grown up, working on Doctorate degree 

May 4,1976

JC and Niki meet hobos along the way.  Please refer to post of  March 3 under March archives.

May 3, 1976

Niki and JC hop a freight out of the small ski town at 4 a.m. heading west.  With all their belongings and a bicycle too.

 

Kamp Karefree

MAY 1976.  Numerous beautiful hand hewn cabins nestled along the lake.  A great, inexpensive place for the ski bums to live.

May 2006.  All the cabins are gone.  In their place are so many condos squeezed in to the space and squeezing out all of nature.  Where do the ski bums live now?

Photo by  Gary Nski