Monday
Got up early and hit the road @ 4:50 am
& reached the Peace Arch border 5:40 am.
2 car line took less than 3 minutes.
Asked for my ID (passport),
Destination (Mexico),
Why I was travelling to Mexico (to learn to Surf)
and my occupation (Photographer).
I said it was my mid life crisis.
The guard looked me over, checked my passport and replied
"You're not even forty, Welcome to the USA."
Total time 1 minute.
Growing up on Vancouver Island I used to listen to Seattle radio, so I tuned into KISW for some morning banter to wake me up. It wasn't Howard Stern but close. Topics ranged from The mighty Seahawks, Martin Luther King day and some guy who died from a perforated colon.
King county was renamed 20 years ago to honour Martin Luther King Jr., stripping the honour from U.S. Vice President William Rufus Devane King for which it was originally named. He was VP when Washington became a state in 1852. Apparently he owned slaves. It is my understanding that Washington did as well. Maybe they should rename the state, too? The debate was over spending $600,000 to change the county logo from a Crown to a likeness of MLK Jr.
The dead guy died painfully from internal bleeding after paying cash to allow a horse to have sex with him.
The horse is fine and available on match.com.
(KISW's joke not mine)
Enough american culture, besides Seattle radio was fading out so I fired up a MP3 disc with 104 songs and put my right foot down.
Willow got comfortable
And we got to Eugene by 11:45 am and hit the Best Buy.
Got a 30gig Video Ipod for US$299 plus no tax.
I'll review my favourite new technotoy later,
suffice to say it rocks!
Checked into a motel across from the University
of Oregon with a Mexican restaurant next door.
Drive time 7 hours. Distance 660kms. Dinner Tacos Asado.
Walked the dog along the Willamette river and she chased a raccoon into the water. The wet little guy was pissed and hissing up a storm, clinging to some branches on the riverbank. Sorry.
Willow thought that was fun.
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