Monday, September 10, 2007
9/9: Portland OR to Ogden UT
I've been slacking- I didn't post that we got the DL650 back about 10 days ago. That means it took over 6 weeks to arrive- and we spent a medium-size fortune for it. Ouch.
Our house in Seattle has sold, too. That's a relief for us, given the rough market and amount of time it was on the market. We are settled in to our downtown Portland apartment- it's right on the park blocks, very close to Safeway. Pretty cool.
I'm in Ogden, Utah, headed east. I'm staying in a Motel 6, with a temple just down the street, but it's still a rough area of town. I ate at a Mexican restaurant/grocery store. Most signs were only in Spanish, got to speak Spanish with the cook- it wasn't really designed for english-only gringos, so it worked out well.
I turned on the TV and the following commercial came on shortly after: "from the .. that brought you .. Return with Honor". I wonder if I'm in a slightly homogeneous market. Of course, there was another commerical, I thought it was one of the mormon commercials but it was actually for thewaytohappiness.org, which is L Ron Hubbard. Scientology in Utah? I suppose.
The ride over was decent. There is an electrical issue, likely with the power cord, to my radar detector. It kept resetting every 10 seconds or so, which means I gave up on it before even getting out of Portland.
I also froze my ass off. The temperatures were supposed to range from 40 to about 85, but I was only comfortable or warm for maybe an hour. Before leaving I couldn't find my electric jacket, so I grabbed Tamara's old electric vest. It never got warm, I don't know why. (what the deuce, everything is going wrong!)
Other than checking in to the Iron Butt Motel for about 50 minutes, I rode straight through. I covered 732 miles. Tomorrow will be about 650, then about 450 on Tuesday.
I'm posting this to this blog because it is still somewhat part of the 'wandering' ride. It'll make sense after I get to the destination, I promise!
Our house in Seattle has sold, too. That's a relief for us, given the rough market and amount of time it was on the market. We are settled in to our downtown Portland apartment- it's right on the park blocks, very close to Safeway. Pretty cool.
I'm in Ogden, Utah, headed east. I'm staying in a Motel 6, with a temple just down the street, but it's still a rough area of town. I ate at a Mexican restaurant/grocery store. Most signs were only in Spanish, got to speak Spanish with the cook- it wasn't really designed for english-only gringos, so it worked out well.
I turned on the TV and the following commercial came on shortly after: "from the .. that brought you .. Return with Honor". I wonder if I'm in a slightly homogeneous market. Of course, there was another commerical, I thought it was one of the mormon commercials but it was actually for thewaytohappiness.org, which is L Ron Hubbard. Scientology in Utah? I suppose.
The ride over was decent. There is an electrical issue, likely with the power cord, to my radar detector. It kept resetting every 10 seconds or so, which means I gave up on it before even getting out of Portland.
I also froze my ass off. The temperatures were supposed to range from 40 to about 85, but I was only comfortable or warm for maybe an hour. Before leaving I couldn't find my electric jacket, so I grabbed Tamara's old electric vest. It never got warm, I don't know why. (what the deuce, everything is going wrong!)Other than checking in to the Iron Butt Motel for about 50 minutes, I rode straight through. I covered 732 miles. Tomorrow will be about 650, then about 450 on Tuesday.
I'm posting this to this blog because it is still somewhat part of the 'wandering' ride. It'll make sense after I get to the destination, I promise!
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