I reckon this to be sometime in the fall of 1974. It was during the Barstow to Las Vegas dirt bike race in which my pal Rod Headlee was competing. This was at a gas stop in some desolate desert burg after the race had started. We were on our way to meet the riders at the finish line in Vegas. The handsome dude in shades and hat would be me, the guy in the middle with the wild hair is my brother Greg. The rude guy with his finger extended? A friend of a friend whose name is lost to history. I also have no idea who snapped the photo, but it was with my 110 Instamatic Kodak…
This has a few too many parallels to this:
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“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold…”
Hilarious Von! You have correctly identified the unnamed “friend of a friend” as Hunter S. Thompson. I was so stoned I’d forgotten he was there….