The Hitchhiker'sGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker Hostel LbNA #: 44822
| Placed by: Kelsung (Contact the Placer) | |
| Placement date: Dec 5 2008 | |
| State: California | |
| County: Orange | | | Nearest city: Fullerton |
| Number of boxes: 1 |
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In the late 1970s, Douglas Adams wrote a radio series satirizing science-fiction for the BBC. Each of the twelve half-hour episodes had to always end with a cliff-hanger, but Adams disliked this in stories, because you could always guess how the hero would escape. In trying to create impossible-to-escape situations, he always had to create even more preposterous solutions. This led to aliens who wrote poetry so bad it was fatal, and a spaceship that arrived at it's destination by first calculating how improbable it would be for it to get there.
We also learned that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is, in fact, 42.
Throughout it's long and popular history, the story was added to, subtracted from, and greatly rearranged in different incarnations as a television mini-series, record albums, PC game, books (a trilogy with five volumes) and finally a feature length film in 2005. In fact, it was a Google search for information on this film (using terms like "hitchhiker" and "England") that made me stumble upon this strange hobby called letterboxing in the first place.
Up until now I've planted 41 letterboxes and hitchhikers, so it seemed fitting that my P 42 be in honor of these stories. If you're unfamiliar with a Hitchhiker Hostel, the idea is that it will always contain at least one hitchhiker. You may stamp these into your logbook, but only stamp into their logbooks if you are removing them from the hostel. However, you can only remove one if you leave another hitchhiker in place for each you take. You can also leave any hitchhiker that you may have been unable to otherwise pass on, but don't have to take one.
I repeat: ONLY REMOVE A HITCHHIKER IF YOU ADD ANOTHER ONE TO THE HOSTEL. That way at least one will always be there for the next finder.
The story begins when ordinary Earthman Arthur Dent is surprised one Thursday morning to learn that his friend Ford Prefect is an alien doing research for a book called "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" and not an out-of-work actor as he'd previously believed. He's even more surprised when Ford rescues him from certain death as the Vogons demolish the Earth to make way for a hyper-space bypass. He wanders the galaxy with Ford, with nothing but a bathrobe, a towel and no tea.
Ford Park is in Fullerton, on Chapman between Euclid and Harbor. Starting at home-plate, where you may have arrived by sofa, proceed past the smell of the porta-potty (which is S.E.P.) and start counting parking spaces. Follow the hedge past 4 to a black gate, step behind the hedge and proceed 2 more, crouch down and reach into the middle of the hedge.
The box has two logbooks (one for personal stamps, one for hitchhikers) and a stamp carved by my boxing buddy Naughty Zoot. When you add a hitchhiker to the hostel, be sure to log it into the hostel logbook, and to log the hostel stamp into the hitchhiker. When you're finished, make sure both logbooks, the inkpad and the stamp are all in a bag. I also left a couple extra empty baggies in case you have a hitchhiker in need of maintenance. All of this and all the hitchhikers, in their individual bags, should be placed in the larger freezer bag to make sure everything stays completely dry and safe. Replace it in the hedge with extra care and keep an eye out for people in both the park and the apartments across the fence.
Now that you've finished, put on your Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, crank up some Disaster Area on the stereo, lie back on a living mattress named Zem from Squornshellous Zeta, wash down some Perfectly Normal Beast with a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, and wave goodbye to the dolphins as you await The Coming Of The Great White Handkerchief.
G A D L O D A I W D A H D N M / U / T U P / W E / / / |
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Before you set out, please read the
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Please be sure to reseal baggies and boxes carefully so that they stay dry
and rehide boxes in their original location, completely hidden from view. |
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