Monday, August 3, 2009

Some Road Trip Observations

Hey look! Jeff has already had time to blog about a couple things!
Thanks Jeff! Well, I'm in Olympia and have a couple observations about my road trip over here yesterday:

- A couple weeks ago I was complaining about having to pay $400 to get the air conditioning in my car fixed. Disregard that. It was a well-spent $400. The temperature gauge in my car said 104 degrees when I was going over the bridge at Vantage.

- I have NEVER seen so many broken-down cars on the side of the road. I counted well over thirty, and only started counting around Ellensburg. Seemed like there were a lot of people with blown tires. I'm not sure if that's a side-effect of the heat, but all I know is that there were a lot of hot-looking people walking down the side of the interstate to get help.

- A friend and I were out until about 11:30 last night in downtown Olympia and even at that time of night there were still a ton of people on bikes riding around, and bikes locked to every available bike rack, tree, and newspaper box.
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