After what seemed like weeks (actually a day or so in Corvallis, then nearly a week in Portland), Ivi drives in at about 8:30pm. She arrives with Trader Joe bounty and regales us (minor abridged version) with tales of her adventures, deferring major regaling until tomorrow. And she reminds us that this could be a watershed event, as it is the first time that she has made an almost all-day road trip completely solo where she alone could make the decisions about where and when to take rest stops.
Today we visit the post office, accompany Kim to view flowers and other plants at the local Bi-Mart nursery, and drop by the library. At the library, I stumble upon and quickly read a piece in the 5/31/15 New York Times Magazine entitled “What We Don’t See” (clickable urls to follow as a value-added service):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/magazine/what-we-dont-see.html
as well as spot (and make a mental note for future reference) the Marc Goodman book, “Future Crimes” that I blogged about a few months ago at:
http://www.eoni.com/news/marc-goodman-and-future-crimes/
But the big treat of the day was to share traffic with one of Stuttgart’s finest, albeit nearly 30 years old, a rather rare “S” variant of the 944 (more detail on my P-blog):