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The Civilized Leg

Three days in with about 500 km down, I'm starting to get into the road trip mentality; equal parts of extremely tangible logistics (Stop for gas? Left or right? Is it going to rain?) with the extreme intangibles (illogistics?) (I am where I am. Neither "left" nor "right" is better.) These first 3 days have been wonderful; relatively few miles per day, a comfortable place to sleep each night, and a chance to figure out the newness that is long distance scooter travel.

Today, however, the civilized leg of the journey is over. No more comfortable places to stay. No more frequent service stops (which are so handy for my 1.3 gallon gas tank.) No more semi-familiar terrain. Today, I take off on the wilder side. The "plan", as such, has me following the Columbia River east out of Vancouver to the east side of the Cascades before heading south on the back roads of Oregon. I'll eat when I'm hungry and I'll camp when I'm tired. This "wildness" is going to be an adventure. But that's what I in it for, right?

Tuesday April 24 2007

File under: travel, road trip

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on Tue 24th Apr, 2007 08:33 am PDT Sean said:
Come to Iraq! The roads are in pristine condition for Scoot Scoot. But the soda's here are made with "sugar," instead of that sweet sweet high fructose corn syrup. So go with the crab juice.
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on Tue 24th Apr, 2007 05:26 pm PDT Andrew said:
Mountain Dew? ewwwwww!
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