June 1 Bee-Bopping Around Oregon

I probably shouldn’t write blog entries when I’m tired, like yesterday. Well, anyway, I went to bed early last night after figuring out that I was not going to connect to the campground WiFi and got up early and then locked my keys in the truck. It’s been a while since I’ve pulled that one! :) So then I had to hang around for an hour, waiting for the office to open, (phone was in the truck too) and then for another 45 minutes or so before the Pop-A-Lock guy came and pretty much instantaneously got me back into my truck. I had a chance to flip through Eugene’s phone book while I was waiting. Mountain Rose Herbs is located in Pleasant Hill, OR, just 10 minutes south. I got to David and Abigail’s house about 1 and they fed me! I got The David-and-Abigail Lunch!!!! And you probably could too, if you went all the way to Corvallis. :) A slice of cheese on top of beans and veggies on top of a couple of eggs. Yum yum. Then we went to David’s office, still in the process of build-out. He thinks that he’ll be open next month. Afterwards, I drove north towards Portland, and stopped to let rush hour die down a bit, in one of the best rest areas I have ever been in. It’s huge, curves all around. Baldock, I think the name is. Something strange happened while I was there. There were a few vehicles spaced out in the rear section that I was in. I was there for about an hour, parked parallel to the sidewalk. One guy in a white Toyota 4Runner in the center section, who had been parked there when I arrived, backed his truck up right in front of me, so that his rear bumper was at the sidewalk. I mean, the passenger side of his truck was within a couple of feet from the front bumper of my truck. It was really weird! I wondered if he meant something by it, like he was trying to get a rise out of me so he could get ballistic, and/or if he was drinking. Anyway, I just calmly waited until I was ready to go (about 20 minutes later) and then backed up a few feet and drove around him. Then on through Portland. I got off the freeway and went to my old college, University of Portland. Wow has it changed in 32 years! :) No more open lawn areas! Then back on the freeway to Shelton, WA (just a wee bit northwest of Olympia) to boondock at the Wal-Mart there. The picture of the drawbridge is on the I-5 bridge across the Columbia River, Portland, OR on the south and Vancouver, WA on the north.