Before touring performing my music, long before iphones, and apparently before I had any common sense; I hitchhiked from UConn (Connecticut) to Santa Monica, California where I waitressed at The Great American Food & Beverage Company on Wilshire Blvd. They hired me even though I was under age because I could sing. You had to deliver food & sing to get the gig! I crashed in Venice Beach. Saved up tip $ then hitched up the coast to Canada then across the Trans Canadian Highway, (one day I was dropped at an intersection of mustard fields as far as you can see somewhere in Saskatchawan where I gazed up at the Aurora Borealis til curling up in my sleeping bag) then on to Buffalo, NY and back to CT. That I lived to tell you this is pretty much a miracle or the work of an Army of Guardian Angels. A waiter from the GAF&B Co took these pics of me at 18 years old.