Archive for December, 2007

ORtoMA: Day 6

December 24th, 2007 – 10:04 am
Tagged as: ORtoMA

10:03 - Check out, hit a CVS for supplies, $22 for gas. At the gas station there was a hawk chillin in the spaces out front. I was able to get about 15 feet from it before it swooped over to the pumps. There it stalked a meal under some pallets… Behavior I would have [...]

ORtoMA: Day 5

December 23rd, 2007 – 12:54 pm
Tagged as: ORtoMA

11:45 - My sickness and a noon check out time translated to a late start.
13:38 - Entered Missouri. (you know, the “Show-Me State) I’m feeling much better today (albeit still a little sick). Liz says one if her neck glands us swollen now.
14:40 - Springfield MO for gas: $24. Liz blames her “recent driving anxiety” [...]

ORtoMA: Day 4

December 22nd, 2007 – 4:11 pm
Tagged as: ORtoMA

10:15 - Check out of hotel. Liz states she has $50 left in her bank account. Fuel up in Santa Rosa: $23
Check it out! I guy in a cowboy hat with a big truck!

Shortly after we get on the highway the Check Engine Light comes on and stays on. Liz says not to worry about [...]

ORtoMA: Day 3

December 22nd, 2007 – 12:18 pm
Tagged as: ORtoMA

10:41 – Depart The Plaza Hotel. The motto for the place is “The Way Vegas Used To Be,” which I feel is very fitting. It has a very ’70s feel to everything… it struck as the type of place that is going to be a pile of rubble in the near future. While we were [...]

ORtoMA: Day 2

December 20th, 2007 – 12:45 pm
Tagged as: ORtoMA

(Pictures to be posted later)
9:45 - Depart Sis-q-Inn

11:20 Greeted with more snow chain warning signs. We stop at the only gas station for the next 50 miles. Decided to only put $20 worth in.

Liz points out that we both grab pre-made sandwiches which are the exact same thing we ate yesterday. I had the Ham [...]

ORtoMA: Day 1

December 19th, 2007 – 4:40 pm
Tagged as: ORtoMA

Let me just start off by saying this: Portland is //exactly// how I imagined it.

The day started off around 9am running friends of Liz’s around and getting breakfast.

The resturant has “sex novelys” for sale in the bathroom.

I order the Juevos Rancheros. It sucks. (It comes served with separate tortillas… I look like a fool trying [...]

Oregon to Massachusetts (ORTOMA) Cross Country Trip

December 19th, 2007 – 11:59 am
Tagged as: ORtoMA

Yesterday I spent 12 hours navigating our country’s air transport system to arrive in Portland OR.

Over the next 6 or so days I’ll be driving back to Massachusetts with a good friend (Liz)… Logging as many adventures that I can.
I’ll be updating in real time the best I can, but pictures will have to wait [...]

Annual Ninja Parade

December 12th, 2007 – 2:42 pm
Tagged as: Check this out!

The Onion continues to deliver:
Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again

Holiday Gift Guides, Babies, and Monty Python

December 8th, 2007 – 9:02 am
Tagged as: Observational

From the cover of US Weekly… Funny they should group these two pieces together:

Available at Target… This device allows you to comfortably carry your baby under your arm:

And seen on the side of the road… Perhaps he was dictating?