February 19

11:00 Didn't write about the deer yesterday and today came with a coyote. Last night after we went to Grocery Outlet at Lincoln City we again went to Roads End to drink a glass of wine. Ok after two glasses of wine and a guy came with a dog on a leash, too close to our car so i got pissed (there was a whole beach there) just started and left. After a few seconds, at the first "street" from the right, after the main parking lot, a deer came from the right. Didn't stop though it had the time which means something bigger was scarying it from the dark behind it. Hit the brakes, substantially, to avoid it and it passed safely through the headlights.

Tonight, i was half hour into my drive towards Spirit Mountain. A Jeep or other American red kinda old vehicle was pissing me off (i was telling Angela, what's the point of driving a 5 liter 20 old years vehicle that pisses everybody on the street with exhaust smoke, my truck is old but 2.2 liter and has a catalytic).

Then it slowed down and took a left. So i was left behind from the other red SUV in front of me and wasn't very willing to get closer since it also smelled like exhaust. On the opposite side, a number of cars (that just passed a Police car with flashing lights on the shoulder). First was a military style amphibious like off road vehicle, with lots of bright blinding lights.

I was doing 60 (100 kmh). Didn't see a thing while staring at the red SUV when Angela said: "look!" and i hit the brakes, on a hunch. Only to see the mature full size alpha male coyote passing back on the right side of the street, after being in front of that blinding vehicle and then mine, on a death trip that it survived. The moment i saw it with my subconscious mind must have hit the brakes real hard, but i only saw it when it was back in the safe zone already.

Angela  told me later that she first thought she saw a shadow passing from right to left, when she said that. We both saw it fully only after safely passing through our headlights back on the right.

Rolling thunders from upstairs at every phrase or re-editing. The man doesn't want to let me write these days. He's been up and running here since Tuesday afternoon.