He crossed paths with and connected to other human beings in ways not imagined possible: the driver expecting angels non-teaching teachers prostitutes beach combers grave diggers jet pilots college professor dropouts Callie's letter never delivered the Hells Angel Old Lady the jade picker the pink-clogged British Professor of literature striding a remote Mexican beach the stitch-giving Carmel Bar cocktail waitress the death defying Mexican bus drivers a single testicle artist an escaped prisoner fleeing Mexican Federales the Los Angeles gay couple the Canadian youths asked to take a horse in trade for sex with their women a Humboldt County logger-drug dealer spinning and dancing into the wet Eureka night forehead sweating and many more not listed here.