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The car lives on.
The car was finished at the mechanic’s Friday morning. $904 to replace a $30 thermostat. That was why the dash warning light was on. And I learned a few things while talking to the mechanic when ...
Life is not that complicated?
I had my little space put back together in an hour or so after we got back Friday. Mom piddled and fussed and fidgeted all day Saturday and Sunday. I went out first thing Saturday morning and fi...
Day 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20.
Before we left Bend we found a Columbia Sportswear outlet having a clearance sale in a big tent outside the store. We dove into the racks. Mom found a real nice pink fleece jacket for $20. I foun...
Day fifteen.
We turned right at Newport, OR. Highway 20 led east across the state. We drove across I-5. We drove across the Willamette river. We drove over the Cascades. We drove across the Pacific Crest Trai...
Day fourteen.
The drive up Highway 101 from Crescent City to Newport was beautiful and just as I remember from the first time I traveled that road forty-five years ago. After we checked into another La Quinta...
Day twelve and thirteen.
We were packed up and on the road at 7:15am. We were hoping to beat the rush hour traffic. We headed north on 280 and then 19th street through downtown San Francisco which then turned into Highwa...
Day ten and eleven.
I had planned on Highway 1 from Morro Bay to Monterey but it was closed to thru traffic until sometime in September. The only option to see it was to drive up to the closure, backtrack back down ...
Day eight and nine.
We checked out of the motel in Thousand Oaks/Newbury at 10am. A pleasant four hour drive brought us to the next motel in Morro Bay. Emma Pennyworth (the GPS) only got lost once, in Lompoc. We wer...
Day seven.
We were checked out and on the road by 7am. We were headed to the aquarium in Longbeach. We arrived at about 9:30am. The first part of that adventure was finding a place to park in a parking gara...
Day four, five and six.
Day four: I had to get out of the room. I decided to take a walk. I googled for stores, thinking snacks. It seems this motel is in a food desert. The closet big stores were nearly four miles away...
Day three.
It was a cloudy windy day with intermittent rain. Not a good day for our planned excursion to the zoo. We had to get out anyway. We decided to drive to the beach. It was only fifteen minutes away...
Day two. Terrorist checkpoint!
It was freeway driving. Pretty boring. A huge solar farm. A huge wind farm. Sand dunes. Pretty light traffic. There it was- Highway 94. Interstate 8 veers a little north. Highway 94 veers a litt...
Day one.
I had planned on leaving around 10am. But since I was awake and up by 6:15am and had both my coffee and packing and closing up the house done by a little after 8am, we went ahead and left. It too...
Tomorrow it is.
We ran a few errands this morning. Bonworth’s for some clothes shopping for Mom. Walmart for last minute odds and ends. And then we went to Village Inn for lunch. Why? Because Mom wanted to and i...
One more day.
I didn’t do anything except the usual today. I did manage to dig out the old carry-on from under my bed platform. And I dug out one of two pair of pants I own from the winter duffle. It is the br...
Another DM from OD email.
What did the new guy say, something like 400 to 500 daily users here now? It is sure feeling like a ghost town. I received an email today- “Your reclaimed OD needs some attention…” I have ignored...
Heat is on, again.
When I sat down with my first cup of coffee this morning and turned my on my phone I found a message: “Good morning! I know you’re not going to be awake for…two more hours? But I just wanted to s...
The rest of the story.
Sitting in the early evening warmth on 4th I could plainly see why Edward Abbey called this place home. What did he say? Something about living in a city where all the young women are half naked ...
Pre-roadtrip roadtrip?
A pleasant, unexpected turn of events. That it was. I’ll start at the beginning. I have an email account. I’ve had it for years. Mainly have it to have something to do every time I get online, wh...
Back to 'normal'.
Well yeah, a ‘normal’ day. A day without interruption in routine. Coffee this morning. Finished reading “Alan Turing: The Enigma” by Andrew Hodges. I’d been reading that one for quite awhile. I k...
Ten days . . .
Monday I took the car in for servicing. And some issues were found. CV boots were blown and serpentine belt needed to be replaced. And the right front tire was worn down a bit. Not bad for a thir...
My first dirt storm!
We found the dermatologist office in a strip mall. Not next to the place we were told, but behind it. And that required driving back out at the light and then back in at the next light. I went i...
100 degrees. Already.
No. The dermatologist appointment is tomorrow. It wasn’t today. Confirmed by looking at the calendar on the frig. Maybe Mom has it written in the right square. Sometimes, mostly, she gets it righ...
Granny nanny errands, cont.
Saturday I took Mom to her appointment at Nationwide. She had her eye exam. She had ‘help’ picking out new frames. One for the bifocals and one for the trifocals. I stayed far away. But I was clo...
Five days, unplugged.
Last Sunday the internet went down. No internet on any device. It’s a common occurrence and usually resolves itself in a day or two. Not this time. So yesterday I used the smartphone to find an 8...
