Long time takem is the Indian name Erin, Brad's girlfriend, gave him, he lived up to it this morning. He complained the only reason I was up so early was that I'd had to take a piss. It maybe true but I just wanted to hurry up and get to Portland. The estimated 8 to 10 day first leg had taken 14.
The ride into town was fast, it was mostly down hill and we had a tail wind. Hwy 6 went from two-lane road to divided four lane highway when it combined with Hwy 26, traffic increased proportionally.
We cut across a median and I got a flat tire. It was kind of like that scene in A Christmas Story where the dad almost looks forward to a blowout to see how quickly he can change it. We got it turned around in good time and were back on the road.
They were doing shoulder work on Hwy 26 outside of town and we got off to find surface streets to take us into town. We ended up going up past the zoo then dropping down through the park, through downtown and across the river to Chris's apartment.
It was good to see Chris, it's kind of like old times. We talked for a while and got unpacked. Erin had sent Brad a care package c/o Chris. Importantly she sent cookies, Brad gave me one and wow, that was a damn fine cookie.
Chris had some friends that were going to make dinner for us but the got stoned before the gave us so we ended up walking 40 (small) blocks before we called them. Not really wanting to take a bus back we went to a movie instead.
Yeah for the Laurelhurst movie theater, they serve pizza and beer. You get to take them right into the theater with you. I'd really love one in Reno, $3 to get in and $8 pitchers of good beer. We saw Amores Perros and enjoyed their pizza, tea and India Pale Ale.
I don't know if I'll do emails for the next two days while we're in Portland. If I do they'll probably go out Monday, so don't wait for them. The next two days will probably be spend eating, drinking, hanging out and doing bicycle maintenance.
andrew
Statistics
Days: 14
Bags of Sunflower Seeds: 3
Loafs of Bread consumed:10
Motel nights 1
Paid camping nights 2
Nights staying with friends 1
Showers: 3
Flat tires: 2
Payphones used to check PocketMail: 22
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