I’m back from my road trip, though simply writing the word “back” after 11.5 hours in a car seat makes me wince. (Last night’s walk from the car to the house looked like a timelapse version of the Ascent of Man.)
I’ll poke around the images from my afternoon small stream trip to see if any other pictures float to the surface, though there’s no shortage of work (and rental house renovation) tasks on the to-do list.
Fortunately, the only real excitement on the drive was watching an 18-wheeler’s tire explode just in front of us; black rubber was flying everywhere, like a pipe bomb had gone off under the trailer.
We were 100 feet back but the noise still rocked the car; if I was in the car next to the trailer (like that white Ford), I’d have to get off at the next exit to scrape the car seat.
More to come from the Underground, Tom Chandler.
p.s. — My Val Atkinson interview on the CalTrout site drove the single highest traffic spike the CalTrout’s experienced. Thanks to the Undergrounders for reading it.
Glad yer back,now get a paintbrush and get to the rental! Just kidding….but…what happened to the blogroll that was on the right side of page? I have to go to Barton’s to find some of the places I like and that crazy dog chases me…….
JP2(Quote)
I pulled the blogroll once before, and though I restored it, decided it was more trouble than it was worth.
Cleaning out the inactive blogs leads to nasty emails from their owners, and then there are the emails from from people who want on, which is another pain.
Once it reaches a certain length it seems kinda pointless anyway.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Aha….a little simplifying of life…no problem, I’ll just have to watch out for that heeler….
JP2(Quote)
Hey Tom,
Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, my daughter was driving her white Toyota Matrix with a Yakama Rocket Box on I-5, headed south from Portland towards your neighborhood, and saw and heard a similar semi tire explosion. What is the chance it was the same truck? Weird.
A. Wannabe Travelwriter(Quote)
We saw the blowup on Thursday. First one I’ve ever seen, though I once did see one of those great big cardboard barrels roll off a flatbed and under the front of my little pickup, raising the front wheels off the freeway and making steering pretty much impossible.
Tom Chandler(Quote)