ALASTAIR GEE:

Quinn was a guy that I met outside San Francisco's Homeward Bound office in the summer. He's a young guy, 27 years old, originally from Indianapolis. And he had been homeless just through a series of what I would of what I took to be just unlucky circumstances. He had an early drug conviction that derailed his plans of going into the military which had been his dream. And so he had ended up several years later and homeless in several western towns feuding San Francisco and so he was hoping to go back to his hometown of Indianapolis just because he had been exhausted and tired from homeless life in San Francisco and I saw him he looked physically tired. And so I saw him off at the bus station and then a couple of weeks later I spoke to him on the phone and things weren't going so well in Indianapolis. And then almost about a month later after he left. I spoke to him and he said I'm on a bus back to San Francisco. Things didn't work out in Indianapolis. My friend entered a drug addiction program the friend that I was staying with and I just have no wife to say I was homeless again there and so today Quinn's situation is is almost exactly the same as it was before he took the bus. He's dragging around the suitcase on broken wheels. He's trying to find poles for a tent that he found to sleep in and he's living back in San Francisco in almost exactly the same location as he was before he took the ticket.