Just a quick update and dashboard camera for yesterday’s leg of the road trip, 2010-09-05. I’ve left the California coast and traveled inland in preparation for a long day of travel tomorrow over some large open areas. Rather than find myself hunting for lodgings at the end of the day with no data service on my phone, I decided to stop early in ( Read more... )

I’m determined to get caught up on these travel posts, but accommodations (or lack there of) and the quality of “high-speed” internet over every inch of the planet is conspiring against me. All that aside, here is my entry for 2010-09-04 of the trip.

Reinvigorated from my stay at the humble but surprisingly pleasant Quality Inn of Medford, I was ( Read more... )

Yes, I didn’t even make it out of the state, but I have a really good reason. There was a significant detour I wanted to make (and I’m glad I did). Another delayed entry from the road (2010-09-03)

Morning found me fleeing the Worst Western of the previous night. Thankfully, the desk attendant did NOT ask me how my stay was.  All I knew was that I ( Read more... )

My apologies for the delayed posting. I spent Thursday night at a “Best Western”.  Obviously the term “best” has no legally binding connotations, and if it does, I can only imagine that the lawyers of said establishment have had plenty of legal font sized disclaimers to cover themselves from any obligation to even approach the Webster’s definition ( Read more... )

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I left Seattle this morning to spend a few days with family out in Port Angeles before beginning the solo part of my road trip. I figured this would be a good point to test all the techie stuff as well as my vehicle’s performance loaded.

I had no issues with the latter except that I decided to repack once I got to Port Angeles to improve access to ( Read more... )

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