I flew into Sacrament, CA yesterday afternoon after another couple days in airports. I tried looking for a sports bar so I could watch the Vikings game. I decided on Clubhouse ’56. I got stuck watching it on a tiny TV in the corner though. People were hoarding all of the other big TV’s. After […]
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I’ve had a hell of a time these last couple of days. I am over airports for a while. I was on my way back to Fargo for Christmas and I had to do a multi-city trip to keep costs down. I went from Sacramento, CA to Las Vegas, NV to Denver, CO to Fargo, […]
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Today I visited Salem, OR then went over to the coast. Salem and Eugene are kinda crappy cities. There are lots of homeless, this is a trend in Oregon. I walked around the capitol building and downtown before bouncing to the coast. There just wasn’t much around Salem. I got to the coast around 4:30PM […]
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I got all set up in the parking lot last night and today, 9th, I few out to Las Vegas, NV to meet Kiel and Dan w/ family for the weekend. We took it easy that night, since I got in so late. We only played a couple of games then went to bed. We […]
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Today I drove down to Sacramento, CA to get checked into the parking spot where I’m parking the van while I take some flying trips. Before that though, I stopped at the Hard Rock Casino on the North side of town. I took some pics and got a pin. After checking in I went to […]
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I finally got to Redwood National Park today. I stopped at the visitors center at the North end of the park and it was closed for the season already So I went to the park headquarters in Crescent City, OR. I got my park stamp and continued to the park. I first stopped at Trees […]
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Sorry for being so delayed on my posts. Between not having cell signal in the middle of nowhere and going to Vegas I’ve been busy. Over these four days I worked my way down the Oregon coast. The whole drive was beautiful and I could see myself living on the coast side of the mountains […]
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Today I visited the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OR. This is the new home of the Spruce Goose, the largest flying boat ever. They had civilian and military aircraft from WW1 to the modern day. The highlights for me were the Spruce Goose, SR-71, X-15, Atlas II rocket, ME-262, the cold war soviet planes, […]
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I was originally going to go to a museum and a couple game stores then start driving to the coast, but plans changed. I went to the OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) and accidentally walked past the ticket booth into the museum. There wasn’t hardly anything that wasn’t kid related. I walked around […]
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Today is the only day in the next week that it’s supposed to be nice weather so I took the day to explore Portland, OR. I parked up by the race track and took the train into town. I got off at the modacenter, the NBA/NHL stadium. I walked across this old lift bridge and […]
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