By the Way

It's time to wrap up this road trip.

National Parks we've visited
Sequoia
Yosemite
Redwood
Crater Lake
Mount Rainer

Strange wake-ups

On the parking lot to a deaf school when an airplane roared over the roof. If you're not deaf when starting the school you'll be when the eardrums are blown out.

Early in the morning, on the summit of Crater Lake, when a ranger knocked on the window asking us to "Step out of the car".

In a muddy road, between Portland and Seattle, I wake of yelling from outside. When Hippie stepped out in the morning there was a bear carcass just outside the door.

On the menu
Sushi. (The dead bear night)

Christmas dinner.

Many a "spartan" breakfasts consisting of french toast, pancakes, cereal, muesli, eggs, honey melon, grape fruit and coffee/tea. At once.

In digits
Distance: 2 753.0 miles
Gallons of gasoline: ca 175
Gallons of wine: ?????

One-liners

Too bad we only have one kind of sushi.
- Hippie in the middle of nowhere.

I'm sure Maj did all the work while [Hippie] started on some difficult technical problem that he didn't solve anyway.
- Blackjack's comment about the Christmas dinner. (Someone had started the project of fixing the backseat speakers...)

Sorry.
- Hippie when someone asked if he had some.

Inga konstigheter.
- Hippie

Yo moma said...
- Everyone all the time

If you tell me to go in one direction I should go the opposite way.
- Hippie on my sense of direction

You should get up on time, so that you can get to work on time, so that you can finish on time, so that you can come home on time, so that you can go to bed on time, so that you can get up on time...
- Hippie philosophizing on the newly discovered natural law that none of us ever arrived on time.

When I'm around you, I actually feel normal.
- uttered by both Hippie and me during the trip, aimed at each other.

The stores are closed. We have no food. Don't come over yet.
- Me in a text to Angel, five hours before midnight on New Year's Eve