by aaron | Aug 6, 2015 | Travels
This is gonna feel a lot like being on an airplane when the pilot comes over the PA and says, Folks, we’re about to experience some turbulence, please return to your seats and buckle your safety belts. My throat dries and dread pools in the depths of my stomach....
by aaron | Jul 22, 2015 | Travels
Readers who’ve been following this journey will remember that in my last post I was driving along an unmarked, unpaved, under-populated road somewhere in the middle of Nowhere, OR, USA, when my car began alerting me to all the oil it was leaking. The timing of...
by aaron | Jul 16, 2015 | Travels
In the town of Dayville, OR, there is a Wendy’s. I was returning to my car in the parking lot of that very Wendy’s when a man called out to me, Hey look, it’s a study in Jettas!! He was pointing at my car, a Jetta (borrowed), and his car, also a...
by aaron | Jul 12, 2015 | Travels
Dedicated readers will recall that in my last post I was in Biggs Junction, OR, getting gas and talking with the station attendant about that famous collection of rocks in China: Stonehenge. Fast-forward approximately four minutes: the tank is full and I run into the...
by aaron | Jul 7, 2015 | Travels
A couple weeks back I decided to go for a drive and ended up at Stonehenge. I know what you’re thinking—Aaron, what nonsense is this?! You live in Seattle and that’s simply not physically possible! (Unless your lifelong dream of owning Herbie the Love Bug...
by aaron | Jul 2, 2015 | Travels
This scene opens in a public restroom in a park in Seattle. (What can I say?—I had to pee. Everyone pees. And sometimes that has to happen in a public restroom. It’s a weird fact that I feel compelled to note that I was just peeing and not up to any shenanigans...