Roadtrip to Portland equation:
Me+MySis+Bug+BudgetRentalTruck+Mini[on a trailer behind the truck] = Recipe for disaster?
Well, it actually [thankfully] was not a complete disaster.
We had a couple minor hiccups here and there,
but we made it, & that's what counts, right?
It was pretty awful though.
It all started with the traffic in LA.
Then the construction-traffic in the grapvine.
& due to a burned-up transmission,
this is exactly how fast we had to go through ALL the mountain passes:
Yep, you are seeing that correctly, 25MPH!
I guess the truck was preparing me for the slow Oregon drivers...
Really though, F U Budget Rental Trucks!
I will never use them EVER again!
What a hunk of crap that truck was!
& what an ugly drive...
But we got to see plenty of CA agriculture!
& we tried to keep our spirits high...
Even at DAWN
After an hour of sleep!!
[see our smiles?]
[see our smiles?]
Bug mostly held it together too!
Until the Benedryl we gave him made him hallucinate :(
Poor Beetle-Bug! He was so scared & wacked out!
He even let Jess hold him while I drove:
Doesn't he look pathetic?
Jesse kept track of us the whole way on Google Latitude
& helped entertain ourself with the town names along the way,
Finally, approximately 20 hours after we left Menifee, CA,
we made it to the Oregon border!
What a beautiful drive from there on out!
Too bad it was SO stressful since we were driving on the shoulder
at 25MPH uphill & downhill!
Yay 5 North in Oregon!
25 hours [about 8 hours too long] after leaving
sunny Southern California,
we finally arrived in Happy Valley, OR.
A cute little suburb about 20 minutes outside of Portland.
My new roomies R&S were more than welcoming with
a delicious homemade meal and plenty of wine waiting for us!
A life-saving meal, let me tell you!
Let me just say that I am happy it is over.
& now I am an Oregonian [weird!!].
xoxo
