Grant is the one on the left of the photo attached to this episode—(substack post)

I’ve been working on this episode for a while. Originally, I was doing like a “memorial” episode, but instead I am just focusing on the only thing I can anyway, my experience with Grant. So, this is more of maybe an ode to him and the connection we shared than it is an attempt to memorialize his entire life. I was incredibly close with Grant for the 3 years that I spent most of traveling with him. Losing him was incredibly difficult. This episode has memories as well as writings and some poems I wrote shortly after I got off the road, when I was still processing the loss and in a lot of pain.

I tried to include just moments with him, snapshots of what it looked like for us on the road, as well as a couple stories. This episode does jump around, you can think of parts of this episode as a kind of collage more than any chronological recounting of our time on the road, though I do cover meeting him of course and losing him. One of the main reasons I’ve been reluctant to share about my own experience of homelessness and moving around is because I felt like I needed to make this episode first, because Grant was the context for my travels, when I met him after the first five months or so of my traveling. I attempt to explain my unique connection to him from life on the road, and it feels as if it all falls a little short, but I tried my best.

I end it on the story of us getting arrested and split up in Mexico. Thanks to all who listen.

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MUSIC: Poison, by Stick and Poke (attempted cover done by me)

Luke Otwell

Guitar instrumental under poem: Rolling skies by Ollie_Elmes -- https://freesound.org/s/749660/

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