Sometime after sister Jan moved to California, she flew back to Iowa to gather up her left-behind Dodge Dart. I then flew to join her to help drive the thing back in about August 1976. Before we learned that the car’s gas gauge was faulty, we ran out of gas (OOG) on the road several miles from Las Vegas. Here we document the wait, around sunset, for roadside assistance.
Francis and some of his cattle:
Made me think about Ivi’s 2010 participation in “happy camp” at Portland University.
Ivi video-calls from her housesitting/dogsitting venue in Seattle, Nik drops in for food and TV and conversation, and yes … a good time was had by all.
Despite dense fog from Cabbage Hill* on, we charged forward for a meetup on Sunday at the Walla Walla Regional Airport with Ivi, who was driving the D-van from Seattle. With a few hours to kill before her return flight that evening, we struck out for the nearby Bennington Lake Recreation Area for hiking and (really?) picniking. Despite Dense Fog and intermittent rain, a surprising number of people were out, also walking their dogs. We probably saw only a small portion of the lake but are eager to see how it compares under normal atmospheric and lighting conditions. After an hour or two, we went for dessert and coffee, then returned to the dry and warmth of the airline terminal for rest and conversation. Our return convoy was successful, despite continued Dense Fog — even denser and more nerve-racking and down to 20mph going back up toward the aptly-named Deadman’s Pass — as well as rainy night time conditions and a gas tank empty warning, needle on “E” and glowing icon, for the final 17 miles.
* see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T0aJLxZKvQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHsmeXdOsEw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1u5ZQzSEUk (and there are even more Cabbage Hill/Deadman Pass videos on YouTube)
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Three different walking stints today: downtown in the morning to the doctor, downtown to the Library and to Arts Center East gallery (for the “Innate Heroine” all-woman show) in the afternoon, and the inevitable dusk-time Charlie-dog ramble.
Rained early this morning, so Kim did our customary Tuesday shopping instead of walking Charlie immediately. Returning with the groceries as I was arising from bed, we then both accompanied the Horrendous Hound to Pioneer and Gangloff Parks (the latter is one of my favorites) as the rain pretty much stopped for awhile for our mid-morning outing.
More rain in the early afternoon, but we headed for our Tuesday round of the Library and the adjacent Farmers Market between showers, only to encounter more rain while the Market was in session.
Today Kim and I make our usually-weekly visit to the Library, then drop by Tuesday’s Farmers Market.
And, of course, I can’t resist converting (to something closer that I saw mentally in the first place) …
