Yet another day off. I know it seems like I’ve had more days off than on lately, and it’s true, I have. But that’s a very important part of traveling, I think.

However, much of yesterday was spent mapping out my upcoming route through Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. I leave on Friday. My stops will be:

Jackson, WY
Mountain Home, ID
Baker City, OR
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA

I’ll be camping in Jackson and Mountain Home, staying in a motel in Baker City, with Ashley in Portland and with Jeff, Ryan and Jaime in Seattle.

The route looks like a good one and I’m really excited to ride it.

I am a little worried about the back breaks. The folks at Scooter Lounge couldn’t find any in time (Vespa seems to be out of a lot of rather important parts). So I’m hoping that my next stop – Big People Scooters in Seattle – can be as helpful. I emailed them yesterday and it seems doubtful, but I hope that they can fit me in.

Like I said yesterday, The Scooter Lounge in Orem, UT was great, especially for fitting me in with such late notice. If every scooter shop could be run like that, scootering would be a much better thing, and it’s already pretty amazing.

Oh, and about eating. We ate at Addicted Cafe, which is a mostly Vegan (all vegetarian) cafe in SLC. I ate there last year and it was delightful. This year, it was every bit as good. I got an Italian Sub. Hooray for Addicted!

For those wondering, Sarah made it safely back to the desolate lands of central Pennsylvania. She seemed to have a good enough time, PT Cruiser considered. Thanks, Sarah!

The PT Cruiser was returned. Thank god. I won’t rant on about how much I hated the evil that it was, but I’m glad to be rid of it. Fox Rent a Car, the folks from whence it came, seem to only have HUGE cars. I don’t get it. People who rent usually want small, economic cars, not portly gas guzzlers. It’s sad the the PT Cruiser seems to get the best mileage out of their SLC fleet. Lame, Fox, I’ll never use you again!

I should have taken some pictures today. But no, I did not. Mostly I hung out with Earl and talked about music. Earl is an electronic musician and produces some pretty cool stuff. We were up late watching videos on YouTube. Like this:

Enjoy!

A few days ago, I promised to upload some of the new stuff.

First, here are the Monks with “Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy”

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And how about some Mrs. Miller doing “These Boots Were Made for Walking” – Mrs. Miller was born in the Route 66 town of Joplin, Missouri!

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And about the Song-Poems, here’s “Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush?” Listen to the amazing lyrics.

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I’ll definitely be posting some of the song-poems again, but I thought I’d post a song by Flight of the Conchords. Lyrically, they seem to be really influenced by people who have no business writing lyrics. Here’s “I’m Not Crying,” one of the finest examples of such things.

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I’ll put up more from each of these soon.