American Mythology

Wed June 7 Salt Lake City

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Tue June 6 Elko, cowboy Boots & Leia Bell

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Mon June 5 Still Driving

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We Drive most of the Drive and arrive in Elko in time for Dinner with Dave's Parents.

Sun June 4 Driving like Hell

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Driving to Elko...Dave finds Cool records in a Salvation Army in Idaho.

Thur June 1 2-headed animals, the x prize, and a rotating restaurant

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Started at the Ye Old Curiosity Shop full of 2 headed animals. We bought a pressed penny folder and a double headed calf bobble head for the car. Drank the taster at the Pike Brewery and Dave bought a copy of cradle to cradle at a book store in Pike Place Market. Ate at the rotating restaurant at the top of the Space Needle.

Tue May 30 Snoqualmie Falls

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We head to Issaquah Washington in the morning to see Josephine’s old work, a vintage store called DoubleTake. We eat at the 50s style dinner called xxx Root Beer, the same one from the song by Modest Mouse, who also hail from Issaquah. We head East to Snoqualmie where we check out the Snoqualmie Falls and then go downtown to the Snoqualmie Falls Brewery and try their taster.

Sun May 28 Coors Light never tasted so good

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After a restful sleep in the delightfully trashy, painfully over-priced Light House, we finally had a stroke of genus and purchased some of the 20 oz Coors light they were selling at the Gorge to smuggle in the red bag. Total savings: about $27. We even made sure to run up and get the drinking age bands. Never has being surround by Coors cans made one look so affluent. The weather was much, much better

Dave smugly Drinks his smuggled drink.

We think it might be haunted

Where we slept

Dave is in love

Sat May 27 music and the wrath of God!

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After the whole park ranger thing We decide to look for legitimate shelter. This is very difficult and takes most of the morning. All hotels are full. Most campgrounds within an hour of the Gorge are full. Failing, we head up to the show around noon. The weather holds for most of the day, until late afternoon, when it pours hail for about 20 min. We limp back to our car, breakdown and get a hotel, take hot showers and drink some wine.

Fri May 26 sasquatch and sketchy camping

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We spend the morning at Josephine's momÂs house in Mukilteo, WA. It was sure nice to get off the road and enjoy some creature comforts such as sleeping in, taking a dip in the hot tub, and laughing over Jo's high school pictures.

We were late getting to the concert due to us not fully realizing how crazy people get on Memorial Day. But we did get to see a lot of bands that day, including NIN, which was a mix of a light show and a high school flash back. We had initially planned on finding a camp site after the show got out, but once we actually began searching, we realized the error of our ways. I hate Memorial Day weekend. Our last minute shelter options were a parking spot at the gorge for $40 (no water,over used porta-potties), a cement pad in the sketchy, mad max style townie camp for $30, or drive 3 hours back to Mukilteo. This set of options led me to attempt to pitch the tent at 2 AM by the river while Josephine shivers and holds the flashlight. The ranger very humanly waits until 9AM to wake us up and tell us we shouldn't be camping there.

Dave struggles with the tent.

A very pretty place for music

The Drive

Thur May 25 Dinosaurs!!!

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Felipe sleeps in the car as we head up the Oregon Coast to the Prehistoric Gardens outside of Port Orford.

Roadside attractions says: Sheltered in a small valley, mild in climate, drenched with rainfall; a place overrun with giant ferns, drippy mosses, and black muck soil that's not good for much else. Sculptor E.V. Nelson settled here and was inspired to build dinosaurs. He didn't stop for over 40 years, eventually incorporating his sculptures into a tourist attraction he called Prehistoric Gardens.E.V. often boasted that his life-size replicas were "scientifically correct," but his sense of color is what will impress you most.His two-dozen creations look like pop-art refugees from the Land That Earth Tones Forgot. And their authentic jungle setting wraps everything in green and shadow, ready to swallow anyone who might stray off the trail to get a better shot. We asked crusty old E.V. for his advice to others who might want to build their own dinosaur attractions. His reply was, "Don't."

Caption "I am defenseless!"

Josephine shows us the Jurassic

Twins!

Dave's B.F.F.

sleepy bunny

Burger joints love mythology

Wed Night May 24 Burritos and wine

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Last night we drove into Gold Beach and ate a frozen food feast lovingly prepared in our in-room micriwave. Our room was pretty cheap and it overlooked the the ocean. they told us that it had wireless, but that was a lie. A theme that will continue throughout our journey.

Wed May 24 Bigfoot, Drive-thru tree, & Starfish

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Today we woke up in an empty room formally occupied by my friend Aviv. Even though she had moved away more than a week prior to our arrival, her roommates let us "camp" in her old room. The weather was misty and wet, which we both agreed was perfect for our search for Bigfoot. Stocking our car with a bevy of sandwich fixings we set out inland toward willow creek, which we heard was the location of the 'world famous' Bigfoot museum.

From there we took a large detour through the Redwood National Forrest, an Indian reservation, and then back to the 101 just in time to see the Trees of Mystery shut it's gates. Who wants to see mysterious trees anyways? We were much more interested in the giant statues of Paul and Babe, and in the not quite as mysterious, but still mandatory, attraction known as the drive-thru tree.

Leaving California, we managed to get one more stop in at Crescent City Oregon, where we visited exotic 'Ocean World' where we were treated to a private tour (with uniformed tour guide and everything!) throughout the wondrous world of Oregon sea life. The real draw for us was the music choreographed sea lion show (again with Jo and I being the only audience), and of course the chance to reach in and pet starfish and sharks.

Beautiful Oregon Coast (Indians massacred here)

Josephine watches the sea lions

Sting rays (not in the pettable portion of the tour)

Pettin Starfish

We pet the shark

A cruel reminder of the difference between sea and ocean world

Thank you helpful Texan for taking our picture

hott

If you look closely you can see our sandwiches

B.F.F

Don't be afraid!