{"id":584,"date":"2013-07-21T23:26:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2013-07-21T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:37:04","slug":"puma-cabra-in-rockies-eyes-like-carnivals-starts-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Eyes Like Carnivals kicks off with interview of realty TV star, before website, before TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ViFEHh8ofs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the mother of all doubt on my only good shoulder, I left Chicago in February to work a year in traveling carnivals coast-to-coast while living on a carny salary.<\/p>\n<p>That meant many of my posts have not been about the five carnivals I&#8217;ve joined from California to Chicago, to New York, to Alaska, they&#8217;ve been about hitchhiking that same route &#8211; about 7,000 miles.<\/p>\n<p>So far.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still no closer to a book deal but EyesLikeCarnivals has been rewarding. <\/p>\n<p>On the train ride from Chicago to San Francisco, the classic route of the Zephyr, I met a fella who called himself Puma Cabra. That fella now has a reality TV series on the Discovery Channel, starting tonight at 10 pm, EST.<\/p>\n<p>I interviewed him with the Colorado Rockies going past us in the background. He mentioned &#8220;Naked and Scared: Naked in Borneo&#8221; is being filmed in two months. <\/p>\n<p>I asked him about one of the themes of Eyes Like Carnivals &#8211; jobs <\/p>\n<p>Another question, I&#8217;m not including in this post, was his memories of the best times in his life. I may show that at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This film reminds me I should be taking more of them. I can&#8217;t on the carnivals so far, because I am incognito. More hitchhiking films are in order when I leave Alaska, after playing Fairbanks in a couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I face every hitchhiking trip with a certain amount of dread, they are difficult, time consuming, weather-beaten ventures mostly rewarding only when I turn my head to look back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the mother of all doubt on my only good shoulder, I left Chicago in February to work a year in traveling carnivals coast-to-coast while living on a carny salary. 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