Aneel's trip report.
Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:30:35 -0700
Subject: Progress
The I-5 is super-dull. The 180mi between Portland and
Seattle were
easily the most boring strech of the trip to date. I
had to stop for a
while at a rest area because my butt was falling
asleep from sitting
still for so long. But at least the traffic moved. It
wasn't very windy,
so I could maintain 95mph for long stretches. 15min
across the WA
border, I got a little rain, but, happily, very
little.
I got to Seattle at about two, dropped by my friend
Lauri's work to get
some keys, dropped off my luggage and took my bike to
University Honda.
My drive chain was looking pretty filthy and a bit
rusty. Not terribly
surprising, since I'm supposed to lube it every 500mi
and I've covered
twice that in damp, sandy, salty conditons over the
past four days.
Normally, I would do chain care myself, but, as I
realized in Portland,
I didn't bring the back wheel stand for my bike (it's
larger than my
luggage). Without a stand, the it would be a royal
pain. Much better to
let a shop do it for $35.
I wandered around the area a little, bought a couple
cds at an
industrial music specialty store. I went back to the
shop and looked at
all of the ridiculous bikes that they don't have at
the shops I frequent
in SF. They had the $25k Valkyrie Rune, which has a
really complex front
fork system that I couldn't figure out at all. Also a
Goldwing. I don't
really know why you'd get one of those instead of a
car.
Had Dinner with Laurie and then went to the opening
night of the
production of Getting Out that she was the Assistant
Director for. It
was really well done. The opening party afterwards was
fun too.
-- aneel's phone
Subject: Progress
The I-5 is super-dull. The 180mi between Portland and
Seattle were
easily the most boring strech of the trip to date. I
had to stop for a
while at a rest area because my butt was falling
asleep from sitting
still for so long. But at least the traffic moved. It
wasn't very windy,
so I could maintain 95mph for long stretches. 15min
across the WA
border, I got a little rain, but, happily, very
little.
I got to Seattle at about two, dropped by my friend
Lauri's work to get
some keys, dropped off my luggage and took my bike to
University Honda.
My drive chain was looking pretty filthy and a bit
rusty. Not terribly
surprising, since I'm supposed to lube it every 500mi
and I've covered
twice that in damp, sandy, salty conditons over the
past four days.
Normally, I would do chain care myself, but, as I
realized in Portland,
I didn't bring the back wheel stand for my bike (it's
larger than my
luggage). Without a stand, the it would be a royal
pain. Much better to
let a shop do it for $35.
I wandered around the area a little, bought a couple
cds at an
industrial music specialty store. I went back to the
shop and looked at
all of the ridiculous bikes that they don't have at
the shops I frequent
in SF. They had the $25k Valkyrie Rune, which has a
really complex front
fork system that I couldn't figure out at all. Also a
Goldwing. I don't
really know why you'd get one of those instead of a
car.
Had Dinner with Laurie and then went to the opening
night of the
production of Getting Out that she was the Assistant
Director for. It
was really well done. The opening party afterwards was
fun too.
-- aneel's phone