The day came that we all got booted out of Valley House. It wasn't a surprise. We stayed till the bitter end.
We went back to the campground we first stayed out when we landed on Kauai. But you couldn't stay for ever. So the next significant occurrence happened in my life. We decided to buy a car!
We had 200 dollars. We said we are going to go buy a car today for 200 dollars. we hitchhiked to the main town, Lihue, and there was an old Filipino man, with a very funky station wagon for sale for 200 dollars. We were so naive we didn't even drive it. We said, ok, we will buy it. In retrospect, that thing was bad. We had travellers checks, and he says no, we have to go to the bank, and cash the checks. God was looking out for us. Because on the way to the bank, we pass this service station, with a much nicer station wagon, for 200 dollars. We talk to the guy, and he tells us that an old lady owned it, and just used it to go to the beauty parlor. He tells us to give it a drive.
This thing was great. It was in perfect condition. We never made it back to the old man. We bought the car on the spot, and went back to the campground a few hours later with our new station wagon!
After that, we started living in the station wagon. We started caravaning around with other people from Valley House. When they made us all leave, there was a whole bunch of us, now living in our cars around the island. What Thomas and I didn't know is that our new station wagon was going to turn into a very popular crash pad for our friends without a car. So soon, all the seats were taken. We would cruise around all day, hanging out on beaches and in parking lots and then all find somewhere to crash at night. Everyone would just camp around the car, and then pile back in in the morning. I never realized how popular it actually was, until one day a friend asked if he could hang out in our car with us. I said that there wasn't any seats, and he actually asked if there was a waiting list he could be put on!!
So that went on for a while, and it was fun. What wasn't fun was the head lice.
Remember my friend who made the marijuana fudge? Well, he decides to go rent a Christian Camp up the only mountain on Kauai. It is 1 dollar a person. He pays one dollar, and tells them it is just for himself. Then he makes it known island wide that he is having a party for the weekend there. So of course, my whole carload go.
We get there, and there are all kinds of cabins. We got there early, so we go and pick a cabin, and make up our beds,with our bedding and head to the party house. Later that night, when it is time for bed, we go to our beds, and there are strange hippies sleeping in our beds! We kick them out and go to sleep.
Well, they must have had head lice, because soon, we all have head lice. That is not good, because we are living in a tropical type place, camping out, with no showers. We are a close knit group, but a couple of us would treat ourselves for it, and then not the others. We kept passing it back and forth between us. It was awful. One time we decided to have this massive delousing party. A bunch of us rented a room at a fancy hotel, strictly just to get rid of the lice. There was around 6 of us. We decided to use kerosene. So we all take off our clothes, so one of the guys could take all our clothes to the laundromat. Then he comes back, and we say, you have to put your bathing suit in the dumpster since you aren't washing that. He wraps himself up in a towel, goes and throws his pants away, and comes back. We do our group treatment, and we want to leave. We are strictly there for the delousing. That is when we realize we have no clothes, to get back to the laundromat with. We are stranded in the hotel, clothes less. So we start looking around for something that can be clothes. We decide pillow cases. Luckily someone had a Swiss Army knife with scissors on it. We made two dresses out of two pillow cases for me and the other woman to go to the laundromat in. It was hilarious!! We went in the pillow case dresses and got all our clothes, and checked out. By the way, we still had head lice in the end. I had them for 10 months. It was awful, especially with my hair. We finally got rid of them by renting an apartment and rinsing our heads with kerosene everyday for a month. That was Thomas and I. But now I am getting ahead of my story.
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