Breakfast stop at the Copper Kitchen Cafe in La Junta, Colorado: Grandad told Mom a hobo story. The memory was triggered by seeing a man enter the restaurant wearing a backpack and using a tall walking stick. Earlier this week, he said, two men came into the station where he had stopped for a cup of coffee and to read his morning paper. The older man headed straight for the restroom. The younger, still a youth, told Grandad that they were headed for Denver. Grandad said to Mom,
The boy was upbeat -- excited. It was an adventure. The old man was negative -- complaining about everything.
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