Tues­day, July 27th, AKA Day One..

Today I did 352.9 miles, after a late start (11:30 a.m.) I had to take care of a few per­sonal task before I left. It wasn’t easy doing these last minute task, as it finally hit me what I’m doing. Got no job, no house, not much of a plan for the future and on the down­side of 38. I’m lucky that the last few months I’ve been too busy to real­ize this. Once I was on the road, the shock wore off.

On to the ride — I left Seat­tle head­ing down I-90. Just after the Colum­bia river is Hwy 26, which goes through Oth­ello. In Oth­ello, I had a great lunch — a plate size bur­rito — for $5. Spent a lit­tle bit of time chat­ting with the owner about his busi­ness. A really nice guy who was work­ing his back­side off to make his restau­rant work. Wish I had got­ten his name or the name of the business.

After lunch I con­tin­ued down to 195 which will take you Lewis­ton, then Clark­ston where I spend the night. The entire trip was hazy, from I assume the var­i­ous fires going on in Wash­ing­ton State. Too bad, since there was a lot of beau­ti­ful coun­try to see, and I would have liked to photograph.