Yesterday I learned that one of the most colorful and friendly people that I got to know when first venturing out with my poetry, doing so locally and in my 20s, had died. Tim O’Connor was his name. The self proclaimed  ‘hitchhiking poet’. According to the beautiful man himself he was an original Irish American Folksinger / Bluesman. Born in Chicago, grew up in Hollyweird. Son of Hollyweird royalty. Tim spent an eight year period of his life hitchhiking over 300,000 miles in 26 countries before ending up in my home town of Vlaardingen, The Netherlands (of all fucking places!) in 1999 after a solo crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean in his sail boat “Theanna”