This Quiet City
So we've been in Eugene a full two weeks now.
I've started work. Krystan has been trying to keep busy waiting for school to start. The drive was amazing every part of the way.
Just after we left the Midwest it seems the whole damn place has flooded.
I'm waiting for a taxi right now. I'm about to get on the train to Portland. It's a two and a half hour ride. I hear there talking about putting a speed rail from here to Portland and then Seattle. That'd be swell.
I went to a party last night, one of my co-workers is celebrating his graduation. I rode my bike home in pitch black and as I crested the hill at 23 (about the same size as Sugar Loaf for you FL people) I had a great view of the city. To my right a small downtown, lit up and moving well into the night, on my left the first sign of civil service I've seen since I got here. A lonely fire truck wailing off in the distance. I realized then, that I hadn't heard any sirens here. Even when that kid got hit by the car down the street from my shop. Only flashers for that one. There was no traffic in the way. There weren't a couple hundred thousand people trying to push there way through the street to get home on their evening commute. Just a couple of cars that were rerouted around the block. They closed that main street for the whole night. I miss my friends, but I really like it here.
Darren
I've started work. Krystan has been trying to keep busy waiting for school to start. The drive was amazing every part of the way.
Just after we left the Midwest it seems the whole damn place has flooded.
I'm waiting for a taxi right now. I'm about to get on the train to Portland. It's a two and a half hour ride. I hear there talking about putting a speed rail from here to Portland and then Seattle. That'd be swell.
I went to a party last night, one of my co-workers is celebrating his graduation. I rode my bike home in pitch black and as I crested the hill at 23 (about the same size as Sugar Loaf for you FL people) I had a great view of the city. To my right a small downtown, lit up and moving well into the night, on my left the first sign of civil service I've seen since I got here. A lonely fire truck wailing off in the distance. I realized then, that I hadn't heard any sirens here. Even when that kid got hit by the car down the street from my shop. Only flashers for that one. There was no traffic in the way. There weren't a couple hundred thousand people trying to push there way through the street to get home on their evening commute. Just a couple of cars that were rerouted around the block. They closed that main street for the whole night. I miss my friends, but I really like it here.
Darren