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August 06, 2004
Day 4: Waldport
Haven't had phone or internet in 2 days, so I have been unable to update. Since we are taking all our pictures with Kasei's new camera, I am leaving up to him to post pictures for now. I encourage you to keep checking his blog here for his updates.
We rolled into Arcata around midnight. Greg was really tired and went to bed, while Zack, Brian (zack's roommate) and I walked into town for some drinks. Zack and I had a long talk about life and finally retired at around 3am. The next morning we walked around the town and checked out the organic co-op grocer where Zack works.
We left Arcata at around 1pm and kept heading along the coast, now on the 101. The coast of Oregon is even more beautiful than the California coast. We had some good discussions on some things I just wrote about yesterday, but will wait to post til tomorrow. We're still taking an insane amount of pictures. At one point we saw a Tsunami Zone Warning sign.
We arrived in Waldport where we are staying with a friend of Greg's family, Doug. He took us and his friend Bob out for Fish and Chips at this tiny restaurant that was literally floating on the Alsea River on wooden docks. We had some really great discussions about traveling abroad. Out of the blue, they recommended to me I move to Europe and try and get a job there. It had crossed my mind, but I still feel like thats not likely to happen, but I'll play it by ear. Both of them had traveled around the world a number of times, living abroad more than once. Later we got into a long historical technology discussion. These two had been involved in computers since the early sixty's and had stories that would probably only be interesting to geeks like us. It was still fascinating. Now it is late and I must retired.
The plan tomorrow is to get up at a reasonable our and continue north on the 101. We might go a little out of our way to check out Tillamook, but we're definitely headed to Mcminville to see the Spruce Goose. Then its off to Portland to meet with Anders. I am very excited to meet this fabled Anders who I only know from our exchanged online. Obigabu introduced us though I don't remember how Obigabu met him in the first place. Maybe he can shed some light on the matter.
Posted by wonko at August 6, 2004 12:40 AM
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