Going through Oregon!

Oh, Hai Portland!

Well, It was 3:30 AM, and we woke up after a very uncomfortable four hour sleep... We were at a Wal-Mart somewhere along the giant strech of city known as Washington State. Luckily for us, it was a Super Centre and because of that it is open 24 hours a day. Still in a groggy sleep-deprived state we decided to go in and check it out. We got out of the car and could see our breath it was so cold, the man working in the store told us that just last week they were experiencing temperatures of 110 degrees ferenheit... After getting some really cheap energy drinks, we hit the road again, this time we were aiming for Oregon. After driving for around an hour and 20 minutes, we hit Portland, and we were floored by the sheer beauty of the city. From what we saw, the city was built on the water and had some really tall buildings going up the hill simalar to how Sa-Hali is built, but with skyscraper-esque buildings. Furthermore, the archatecture of the buildings was just stunning, the whole city was just awesome, almost as cool as Seattle. On the far outskirts of Portland we stopped at a truck stop that had hot showers, our morale was very low at this point, but after we retired to our showers and regrouped 10 minutes later, we were infinately happier. The only drawback to the showers was the fact that they are $10 (all US funds here people) but they come with a clean towel, washcloth, and soap. After leaving the truckstop and not feeling like ass from the lack of showers, we drove onward until we found a Jack-In-The-Box. After breakfast, we took off down the highway were the giant megalopolous started to break apart and turn into farm country. Right now we are driving through Oregon, 163 miles (as im typing this) away from our turnoff onto the 101. Well other than the fact that we just passed a truck going in the opposite direction carrying a FORD GT 40!!! The bonus? It also has the Gulf Oil paintjob!!! Well, that's pretty much it. We are pretty far from any civilization as I am typing this, so It may be a while before this gets uploaded, not that anyone will know that until it is but whatever.


This is a two-part post...



Until we see a '59 Chevrolet S-10...

Here we are still in Oregon, We are 62 miles from our turnoff to highway 99 (Known here as the Redwood Highway, but in Canada, we refer to it as the sea to sky). All that aside, we have been telling each other that we would feel a lot better about the trip if we see a '59 S-10... We then came to the conclusion that they probably don't exist... Well we saw an early '60's "Chevrolet 10". After laughing at it, we determined that would have to do... Again, this is another post coming to you from Oregon... I just wanna see California... Right now as this sentance is being typed, we are sitting in a coffee shop in a place called Grant's Pass (due to a bout of dyslexia, we are just going to call it "Grass Pants"

-mitch

Grants Pass is a cool place. For some reason we kept reading the highway signs as Grass Pants for the longest time.... anyway, we pulled in and up to a 76 which is a gas station that is painted just like the car. The guys working were really nice, and spoke with southern accents. One of them swaggered over and asked...

Man: You guys drove here from Europe?!
Steve: What? Europe- oh no, we're from up-
Man: British Columbia right? Yea Europe.

He thought we were from Europe since we are from British Columbia. Anyway, he was a nice guy. We told him and another our story and they loved it and gave us suggestions and directions and whatnot. I told him how we got hosed by the Department of Homeland Security and he, a man in his mid to late 30's, promptly suggested I tell them to go suck a dick.

But they do have guns.

-Steve