Day 19
Brookings, OR - Richardsons Grove State Park, CA
To Do List: Purchase satellite phone, get a pop-up feature installed on the Element, send postcards, find a moose
Reasons to love Washington State Part 2: poison ivy doesn’t grow there, Dunkin Donuts doesn’t exist there, there are as many recycling bins as trash bins and even the pit toilet huts don’t smell. Did I mention that I didn’t sweat once the whole time I was there? Well, actually I haven’t sweat since Wyoming. I have a feeling that is about to change drastically starting tomorrow!
You might be in Oregon if...you don’t notice the light turned green and no one honks at you to hurry up.
You might be in Oregon if...someone nearly runs you down with a grocery cart and then gives you an apology instead of a dirty look.
You might be in Oregon if...you receive unsolicited advice about the best place in town to purchase windshield wipers and the ones you have in your hand are crap and won’t fit anyway.
You might be in Oregon if...there are more people riding bicycles than driving cars.
You might be in Oregon if...hitchhikers expect to get picked up and look for an explanation if you aren’t stopping for them.
You might be in Oregon if...you are eating breakfast at McDonalds and a crazy old man with caterpillar eyebrows sits down beside you and loudly complains about the milk being 1% instead of 2%. He doesn’t know why they had to change it...he liked the 2%. His attention was only diverted when someone in the parking lot, parked beside his vehicle which started an entirely new rant.
Number of people who have commented on the “slide to unlock” magnet stuck to my car door: 6...three of them actually asked me if it works to unlock the car
Number of restaurants I have seen that have signs that simply say restaurant: 4
By the way, if you’re coming to northern California be sure to buy gas before you get here. $4.09/gallon is the cheapest I could find for over an hour.
Funny thing...when you drive from Oregon into California they have a checkpoint set up that looks like a country to country border crossing. I was asked if I was carrying any produce into the state. I admitted to my one banana hoping the vegetable sniffing dog wasn’t around the corner. She said one banana would be okay and offered me a map of the California State Parks. It felt a little like what I imagine the twilight zone is like.
Northern California is full of amazing Redwoods. Everyone should walk in a grove of Redwoods at least once in their lifetime. Photos cannot do them justice. I met a man and his son from Kentucky there. The father filled me in his sons interests, college choices and current grad school studies then offered me map of Kentucky in case I end up there on my way home. I also met Jackie Rave. Jackie is a nut. I know more about her than I know about the majority of my friends. I could not lose her. She talked about her children, nieces, taking photos, her first camera, her first digital camera, her current camera, shooting weddings, facebook pages I should check out and much, much more. I must look like I want to meet people. I’ll work on that. ;-)
Big driving day tomorrow. Hoping to make it to the Yosemite area.
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