Who’s Your City?
“You can buy some hemp-sown wear, if you like,” says Guy No. 3, prettily.
The Arcata Plaza, 6 p.m. A man on a bench plinks a mandolin. Suddenly a string quartet and an accordionist march to the center of the plaza to play. In the layabout pod closest to the bars, leaning against his backpack which has a cell phone hooked to it as well as a yellow Pub Ale can with a big daisy poking out, is 37-year-old traveler Yediy. He’s got silky long strawberry blonde hair and a red beard. A couple of his companions have dreads. Another eats peanut butter out of the jar. Yediy says he’s just passing through. And that not everything is as it seems.
“Usually I live in a bus and drive up and down the coast,” he says. “This time I flew out from Phoenix and took a bus from Medford. I own several properties in Arizona. I like to travel. Everybody thinks that everybody out here is a drug addict, that they’re down on their luck. But a lot of people are out here by choice.”
“Yeah,” says the young woman in the group. She’s wearing fishnet knicker stockings and multi-colored knee-high tights. “It really is the life. All your food’s free, you don’t have to work for The Man.”
“Oh yeah,” says Yediy. “People will leave leftovers on top of the garbage can for us.”
“There’s a million different ways to eat for free,” says the woman.
“The community here is receptive to us,” says Yediy. “They don’t shun us. A lot of storeowners like us — they know we keep an eye on their stuff. If somebody tried to steal from a store, we’d catch ’em.”
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