As a “tramp printer,” Linda Kerth traveled the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. She worked on big city dailies, country weeklies, and job shops. She set type for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Chicago Sun Times. She proofread legal cases for a commercial shop in San Francisco, set phone numbers for a telephone publisher in Oakland, did page make-up at the Santa Fe New Mexican and typeset ads at the Sacramento Bee. She worked as a tramp printer for about three years and home-guarded for another eight-nine years in the Bay Area. Of her experiences, she said, “It was one hell of a ride.”