June 15

9:23 Just looked on Google Maps. The newer West Wing of Peppermill Hotel in Reno is next to a busy street. Though residential, a lot of the utility vehicles pass through. Even a small car like ours can be heard from inside while passing, if you get a room with windows at that street. The noise was louder than at Comfort Inn Motel in Yreka which was next to high 5 (we booked first at Baymont by Windham, which was... under construction work, with debris on the hallways and even on the door knobs).

But it all differs. If they choose to send those at 6 AM like they did yesterday then there's no way you can sleep anymore. How the others did. I believe there was no one in the whole building that night except for us and the guy next door who did not come there to sleep.

Who are they. In this case, the mob that control all of Reno (I'll talk about later, here's an example). Why. Because of my bad review last time when i slept in the tower and all AC vents and pipes were clogged with dust and nazi gas room symbols on the walls. The reason i chose the newer West Wing.

But there's one more thing. They gave us a room that connected with another through an inner door. Actually there's two doors with a dead bolt on each side. That is if you lock yours there is no way someone could get inside. But i believe the guy in the other room had it opened on his side and at 5 AM he started coughing. I'll talk about later.

Also they gave us a notice saying they will start the next day at 9 a "seasonal window cleaning" and there will be some "minimal noise" between 5 and 9. So i realized i might not be able to get anymore sleep during the day or the following nights and days (we booked for 3 nights), especially with the smell in the air that continued in the morning and was keeping me not necessarily high but alert.

So i just checked out thinking (after two suspiciously bad nights) i could get closer to home with those 4 hours of sleep and took the Susanville route which is one hundred miles shorter with much less traffic. However i was able to drive all the way home which is also weird, probably again connected with the smell in the air in the whole city.

Yes i regret the more southern sun and the beauty of the outer architecture of the city and the noisy and flashy games and also the 1200 miles i drove for that nothing. But i'm also happy because right now i'm not on a hospital bed with hands and legs on pulleys. After all that happened on the road. About that, later.

Yeah i know. All hotel industry today is leading the losses on Wall Street. I guess they knew what i was about to write today.

BTW there is something up today and that is T-mobile. (smells like fried teen spirit). The corporation that together with the others kill people with their cell towers and subsidized give away phones. But people don't believe me, they believe in Dracula and Jekyl and Hyde and all the s... they they were Fed for a hundred years in media and before that who knows how which is good cause it keeps the market and the inflation high for them.

11:00 Finally figured. The reason the Peppermill hotel which is about 52 years old (built 71) is Italian themed, with Tuscany tower and Florence suites. There are also numerous statues and other decorations, the whole thing is pleasant to see and nice for a vacation however i could not understand this statue.

11:45 What law? What Police? Local Police belongs to the mayor. FBI?

1:07 Susanville, a small town east of Sierra Nevada Mountains, some 86 miles north of Reno. Some would say there is no life east of the Sierras and then Cascade Mountains at the North, but there is some, with cities like Reno, Susanville, Bend, Madras, Warm Springs which i all crossed yesterday. Susanville is a deep valley and if you want to go further North you have to climb some 1200 ft until you reach the high desert (Northern California, Southern Oregon) with elevations between 4000 and 7000 ft. I know cause i turned to the gps page that showed the altitude.

Close to the end of the steep climb north of Wilsonville on 139. Close to where the picture was taken from. Too bad that was a day with smoke and the camera on the google car is way up high and can't show exactly what happened. I was alone on the road and was following the rail and from the low height of the car i wasn't seeing the curve was continuing to the left.

Especially because from the right was coming a truck or SUV that distracted me. Or maybe it saved our lives. In the last tenth of a second i saw the continuous yellow line going left otherwise i would have jumped in the deep chasm ahead. I think they should put some of those arrows signaling a left curve there.

5:52 Last night before 10 i had 20 more miles to go and was really low on fuel. I was telling the attendant at the 76 gas station in Boring, i've done 450 miles (Susanville) with 11.3 gallons. Then i had this vision at the car's window with planet Venus and i told him that it looks really weird because it's currently on the third or waning phase. When you look at it you can't really see the shape and it feels like your eyes are blurred.

Then the other attendant came, a woman with a blazer with a 76 (planets) sign on the back and she pulled a phone and showed me an app that uses phone's positioning sensor and when the phone is pointed at a certain area of the sky it shows the stars and planets and stuff, named, etc.. She was red headed, tall and thin.

She came and showed me the phone with the app in my face and told me there should also be Mars in the vicinity of it and that was visible on the app, but not in the sky. I think she was right, i just could not see it cause i was tired and it wasn't dark enough (about one hour after sunset and city light pollution). In this video it is not shown the phase of Venus, only of the Moon which was not up at that hour, and also Mars which is one sixth the diameter of Venus which is similar in size with Earth.

I did not realize until later who she was. Last time i saw her was again at a gas station in Florence, Oregon.

June 20

Last night we left Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville Oregon at 2 AM. I said to Angela i will try to drive as much as i can to get closer to Reno and stop somewhere. That somewhere turned out to be Ashland still in Oregon i guess. First i looked at a Holiday Inn, but scared by the shape of the ACs at the windows. Best Western was sold out. There was an Ashland Hills accross the street but there was a VIP bus iddling its engine in the parking lot and usually where there's such a but there's also a VIP or more. So i passed and stopped in the first rest area and tried to sleep there. Slept 4 hours in the car and wokeup in a big noise from a van. Biggest trouble falling asleep was from the smoke from Casino coming out of our clothes (Second night with only 4 hours, first was at the apartment after i came in contact with an irritating substance that created pains all over my body). Tried to move the car and saw a warning light on the dashboard. It was the left rear brake signal, in plain English. I didn't know that car was that smart. I took it part. It was oxide in bulb's terminal, bulb was in a good shape.

The car was stinking like dog s... big time. Drove the most part of the 500 miles from Canyonville to here with windows a bit lowered but still. BTW this Elantra handles much better than the old one at high speed. (Angela just made some noodles soup and that one stinks also because they absorbed the smell from the apartment. Grabbed the last poop from outside the door just before i left)

All the way from there to here a number of big trucks and SUV approached at high speed from behind and had to pull literally out of the way. For a while Angela drove and it happened to her too once. She got to save my life this way also.

Angela wanted to make a stop at Win River Casino in Redding which we did. While driving on 20 close to 49 gas yellow warning light came on. I didn't know i was so low on gas. Was lucky enough to make it to the first Chevron on 80. But there, trouble. The pump grabbed my card and had to go inside. The man (i think Iranian) came outside, pressed the clear button and then the machine released my card. But i done that myself earlier and it didn't work. He then grabbed my card t and asked me how much gas i wanted. Fill i said, but he kept asking how much and i know the car has a capacity of 13 gallons and i said @12 and took it inside and said to start pumping which i did. T'hen i went inside and he showed me my card on the counter in hard to reach place and had to extend my hand under the plastic protective window to grab it. Then i gave it to him and i payed for... 12 gallons. When i asked him, he said it was a fill-up which the needle was showing it. When i calculated the mileage, it was 34. Never made with this car so low on highways only. But i figured i was on top of the mountains and mileage would have recovered while going down.

A traffic jam on 80 right after and i followed Google Maps and Google maps sent me in a loop and got back exactly where i exited, in the same jam, only one hour later.

For the whole trip our phones were crazy. First think i'm doing when i get back to Portland is i get rid of Hello Mobile by T Mobile (25 dollars a month). Will try now with Mint (15 dollars a month)

I knew from past experiences. When getting close to Reno the craziness begins. This time with too many cars tailgating. Too many cars touching the line between lanes. A guy in a huge truck waiting on the "dead space" between lanes then and then exiting suddenly just when i wanted to exit at exit... 32 in Reno. Had to go on shoulder to avoid it. On Moana and... Virginia avenues. a Panske van was following.

At hotel. Didn't want to park on the main multi-floor parking. Last time when i did so i got to step in some silica absorbent material in the only spot i could find. So i parked in front of the casino (Peppermill). But there is a long way from that parking to the hotel check in. Got there and they were one hour long lines. But they were these machines where you could check in for yourself. Which i did however from the 30 dollars mail offer i started with for a queen now i got without knowing until i got in in a 2 king.

Hotel here has an Italian theme and towers are named Toscany, Milan, etc.. Got my mistake in the Milan tower were a woman with a kid was waiting for her husband in front of her room. Being both so tired, i was sitting in a chair by the elvator, Angela asked her and she of course didn't have a clue. But she still wanted to see the receipt. And the she said she doesn't have a clue. While i was watching the scene, on both screens at hallway entrance scenes with food were unfolding. But what's on the receipt? Nothing except the room number which we finally found in an area of the hotel with rooms for conferences and stuff (VIP i guess). Dialed 0 on the phone and tried to ask the woman then and she passed me to the check in which was busier than usual. Now i'm way too tired with all that driving and no sleeeping so i'm just going to wait to see the final invoice.

June 18

7:33 AM PDT I'm in Reno, Nevada, after a 700 miles (1125 km) drive in a bit more than 24 hours, with a one night stay in Medford, Oregon. Many things happened on the road, but i have other priorities now.

8:50 Nu am știut că date meteorologice ca de exemplu presiunea atmosferică să varieze atât de mult de la site la site. Presiunea curentă pentru Focșani, Vrancea, așa cum este afișată de Institutul Meteorologic este mică și nu am nici o idee cum va fi mâine sau zilele următoare. Mai caut. În cazul zonei seismice Los Angeles există date de la un site oficial, NOAA. Mai caut.

10:16 PM California Grrrl

I uploaded the picture at full resolution. Anyone can right click, open in a new tab and zoom on it. She is much younger. Alexa Crush does not exist. She herself stated in a video, she rarely comes out (of the mockup apartment in a studio in Japan). I didn't know i caught her in the frame. Later during the trip some well wishers let me figure it out (when i was staying on the same bench with her, though several people apart.

At some point a guy on a lower deck was yelling a rap, for about a minute. "I'm the craziest dad!" and things like that. Then i moved on a different bench. When i got out the guy with the two girls, most likely under 20, came after me at the restroom.

A whole team of Japanese actors however were present on the boat. Some are in the same picture. Note how only her shows her face and a guy too far away from my 100 dollars Kodak.

Those are responsible with taking my picture and hers. Could have been in the same frame, i never looked at her or recognized her during the 2 hours trip. A helicopter passed by just before the boat started. When we left, the Japanese, all dressed in dark clothes, were walking in front of me. One of them was featuring a black backpack (the turtle Earth) with a red Sun on it (red Sun on black is the ninja flag).

About 100 drivers, most Asian (as far as i could see), more than half with dark tinted windows followed me on my way back to Reno. My suspicion is when i show up somewhere, none of the locals wishes to appear so they push their own actors with cars with local LPN and all kinda a symbolism, including brands, colors and loads. Me and Angela planned this for months. It doesn't matter it came out this way. It would have been something else if not this theme.

10:56 On a second thought. It could have been her. Michi Nishi.

And i think for a while now she is appearing at the apartment too, as a black woman, color that is removed on live videos...

Of course Ariana here is trying to tell the whole story, what else...

11:30 Nici una din predicțiile cu presiunea barometrică pentru Vrancea astăzi nu se adeveresc. 1013 este mică.

11:37 Am deschis știrile și am văzut primul meme...

Yeah Peppermill is a good hotel. This room at least does not have central AC. Casino is also the best in Reno, far above second. I did not sleep enough during last nights, and after all this driving my hands were shaking when trying to pull the ridiculously tiny card with pictures from the phone. Done some with camera some with the phone. I have to get some sleep now.

January 25

3:50 Which pocket do you keep your phone in?

4:30 Went to the truck to see if i don't have a ticket (no parking on visitor's spots) and they were ready with a woman that showed out of nowhere (blonde, top knot) who was passing slowly to maximize the time of the scene and turned her  head after she passed to see if i'm not attacking her. They wouldn't let waste any of my moves.

5:56 Circulă o știre cu un copchil bubos din Phoenix Arizona care are un Lamborghini. Pe pagina lui de fb scrie că a fost la Harvard, dar lista de prieteni nu o confirmă. Mai scrie că a lucrat la aer condiționat/încălzire (instalator) și la o firmă de construcții. Putea să facă banii dacă stă la părinți, poate nu chiar pentru una nouă.

Un Lamborghini nou se cumpără cu 200000 iar asigurarea (obligatorie) costă între o mie și 2500 pe lună. Orice reparație și întreținere costă pe măsură.

În Phoenix, la fel ca și în Portland, sunt foarte mulți români (pocăiți în general) (cu miile) care au afaceri (business) de babe (după jargonul local). Adică. Își iau cu un împrumut în bancă o casă mare cu 7 camere din care în 5 țin bătrâni, majoritatea cu Alzheimer (adică nu mai știu de ei, stau acolo toată ziua într-o cameră). Îi spală și îi hrănesc pentru sume deloc neglijabile. Își mai aduc o rudă din România care face toată treaba 6 zile pe săptămână, zi lumină timp de 6 luni după care aduc pe altcineva.

Mulți visează la Amarica crezând că e măcar ca Europa de vest sau Dubai unde supermașini de un milion de euro sunt uneori abandonate pe străzi.

Deși SUA are cele mai numeroase și lungi autostrăzi din lume (peste 70000 mile sau 100000 km), iar în orașe bulevarde largi perpendiculare cu 4 benzi și bandă la mijloc destul de aerisite (libere de trafic) dar cu multe semafoare, în general ne-sincronizate, pe ele ai să vezi foarte puține supermașini. Lumea preferă mașinile ieftine și confortabile sub 50000, cele mai în vogă fiind SUV-urile gigantice care uneori pot merge până la 100000, în principal din motive de siguranță în caz de accident, pentru care ai nevoie de o scăriță să te urci și un periscop să vezi în fața mașinii în parcare.

Marea majoritate a americanilor trăiesc în case din panouri care costă cât una din Europa din cărămidă sau beton, luate din împrumuturi cu mașini din împrumuturi, de la un salariu la altul.

O mașină joasă și foarte joasă cum sunt supermașinile, uneori fabricate din materiale compozite pentru a fi ușoare, nu e nici confortabilă (îți trebuie o macara să te ridice din ea, dacă nu ai 25 de ani), suspensia e destul de rigidă, pentru că nu este prea mult loc de mișcare a arcurilor, iar despre siguranță, se urcă ăla cu SUV-ul cu suspensia modificată (supraînălțată, așa cum le place) peste tine fără să rămână cu o singură urmă pe el.

Chestia e foarte nașpa și cu viteza, te ia poliția de nu te vezi. Acum mai sunt și camere de viteză. Deci nu ai ce să faci cu mașini rapide, în afară de demarajul la semafor, ca să ajungi primul la următorul fără să depășești limita legală.

De aceea sunt foarte rare pe străzi. Eu numai în ultimul an am condus aproximativ 40000 km și nu îmi amintesc să fi văzut vreuna, nici măcar în parcare la Ilani, cel mai mare cazino la nord de Reno (10000 locuri max). Am fost și la San Francisco, Reno, Las Vegas și Los Angeles și nu îmi amintesc să fi văzut vreuna. Poate în total de când sunt în SUA (din 1995) am văzut vreo 10?

Cazul meu e particular. Am aflat recent (în ultimii ani) că în toate job-urile în care am lucrat am avut colegi doar actori, bineînțeles până la urmă unguri, iar totul a fost un show, probabil filmat.

9:45 Why Romania doesn't have enough freeways/motorways. Too many contestations to auctions solved by a state authority led by... a Hungarian ballerina?

10:06 România, adusă în centrul atenției prin așa zisul refuz al Austriei, într-o procedură a UE inventată special pentru acest caz, pentru țări care nu știu că sunt în Schengen, un prilej pentru guvernanți de a se hârjoni de-a plagiatul în timp ce câini imaginari omoară persoane imaginare care n-au făcut fitness în viața lor (Se vede pe schilodenia corpului ei firav. Aia dacă aleargă un metru mai mult decât dimensiunea podiumului de modelat leșină).

2:25 I slept while the guys were finishing painting the building.

Ce e asta, sper că nu autostradă.

În SUA mai au aproape încă o bandă pe stânga și pe dreapta pe lângă cele de circulație pe sens pentru vehicule de urgențe în caz de accident urmat de blocaj, cu striații pentru a trezi șoferul adormit, clic în centrul imaginii după ce ați deschis link-ul, chiar, și așa puteți vedea ce fel de mașini circulă sau sunt parcate în SUA, pe orice stradă, în orice localitate, doar faceți clic pe săgeata din stânga sus pentru a schimba zona, unele mașini apar alungite din cauza diferenței de viteze, asta nu înseamnă că sunt limuzine care de fapt sunt mașini sau SUV-uri tăiate în două și alungite în ateliere de tăblărie.

Parcarea cazinoului și hotelului Peppermill din Reno, Nevada (cel mai mare mic oraș din lume), cel mai mișto cazino din SUA. Puteți trage și roti imaginea, la fel înainta, etc.. Din păcate, toate au fost construite în anii 70, cu aer conditionat central, unde aerul de la toate camerele este recirculat și se amestecă, iar conductele de aer sunt pline de praf. Da bine lumea bună vine acolo cu avionul, mașinile din parcare sunt ale localnicilor și nebunilor care vin din Oregon cu mașina (dar ce priveliști).

Ok dacă tot am ajuns până aici... Hollywood Blvd. în Los Angeles (da, ăla cu stele pe trotuar, într-o zi cu fum de vegetație cred) și The Strip în Vegas.

June 21

June 21. Summer solstice. Longest day of the year. Official beginning of summer. Woke up after midnight after 4 hours of sleep (i decided to count those hours for yesterday and make 8 in total), turned the AC off and Angela wanted to go "a little" on the floor downstairs then she fell back alseep and i wanted to go and search something to eat and go on the floor and woke her up.

First time i really warmed up in the car and had to briefly use the AC but that was close to Reno. At 1 AM my blood sugar is really low, close to normal (and my feet almost white again). Or it has something to do again with the environment in the apartment. Two days ago at Seven Feathers for some reason i was craving burgers and ate 3 and a half double cheeseburgers at the Burger King nearby (All that beef must have done it ?).

This room is bigger than our apartment with bathroom bigger than our bedroom and a restroom of its own with door. Brand new carpet, i think room has been recently refurbished, it doesn't smell like anything expect ourselves.

An acute weird feeling of missing time fuel. This car does constantly 42 on the freeway (on dashboard) but there was only one occasion where i parked after i filled in only one place (Little Creek, Washington) and the mileage at the pump was 40 (miles divided per gallons). Rest of the time is 35. Yesterday the only place where it could have happened was at Win River in Redding. Where i only spent about one hour and tried to sleep in the car and in the end went after Angela inside but she came at the car in the same time. It was a ten minutes window of opportunity. For someone to siphon a gallon or two of my gas. Not for the gas but for the mileage. The guy in the red t-shirt in the car next to me was smoking all the time and the smoke came inside. Now that i looked at the news thought his face was familiar.

Second thing after getting rid of T-mobile when i get back home would be washing the carpet with my wet vacuum, like i did last year, twice. But that is not going to help much. If they leave only one poop at the door the place is going to be contaminated again in 24 hours. The stuff is ...evolutionary. 

Mary Travis

    

9:37 Reno. Mother and child waiting on hotel hallway. Summer solstice, heating up in car etc.. Kalama.  Polution. Stefania Moldovan. Abject failure. Severely severed donuts.

3:51 Templars

Went at Eldoraro on the small floor. In the parking lot some were pressure washing, blocking lower floors, had to climb higher, had trouble finding a spot and when i did i found one next to a big transformer, probably a 6kV right close to the building (probably breaking some codes). First i thought it was an abandoned wooden pole, but when i got out of the car i saw what it was and moved the car into the next spot. Inside a bunch of older people were practicing line of site game, everywhere i was sitting or standing there was someone right in my front. We were constantly loosing and finally left. Went to the liquor store across the street from the hotel to buy some brandy. The seller now was the same guy who was acting as a customer and almost got into a fight with last year. He had to come and unlock the brandy for me but at the counter was waiting a black woman so sad she was looking like she sold her baby. Climbed with the elevator on the North entrance, walked on the long hallway. AC was off for the most part which means the hotel is mostly empty.

St. Hubertus. It was a trap, saw it today on a Nevada type of LP in a place where i went to buy food and remembered that i posted about years ago but for a different reason. (Hubertus name starts with Hu and the stag is in the main legend about the creation of Hungarian state). Whoever posted that clip knew. 

8:40 Relaxed, smiling, maybe Ukrainian speaking guys were waiting for me at the hotel North entrance. Not the aggressive type. But who knows. While driving back here (got really sick at Atlantis, almost agonizing there, that place indeed smells bad) something came to mind. Straight from hRdaya sUtra. Then i looked into a dictionary and found more. Yeah i know, everybody thought, including myself that is a Spanish word (The song, for God's sake). But where that word came from in Spanish because the Spanish word for birth is nacimento.

Arizona too cause it's got the root aria or arya which we all know what it means in Sanskrit. Could be Arya sama or something like this.

June 20

12:30 Last night i decided to take Angela's advice and watch another movie or two on Netflix. Was browsing the titles, with Expanse in mind, when i saw a title, something about UFOs and clicked on it just to see what it was. It's a new documentary about professional UFO hunters, (non)disclosures, interviews with abductees and implantees, things i heard (On Coast to Coast) but haven't seen before.

Guys like the owner of a big aerospace company that believe in UFOs and spent large amounts of money on the subject. The hypothesis of crashes and reverse engineering (where do we got all the chip technology from).

But there was one thing that caught my eye (better said ear) during the interviews. Someone said that CIA was created because of the Russ, well, incident. Can't find anything right now with searches to confirm. However the chronology seems right. CIA was created in September, 3 months after Roswell which occurred in July 1947. But there's more. CIA seal.

12:54 My internet is taking a break right now.

12:56 Back online. Edelweiss. Reno Arch. Nevada, Area 51.

Sia. Reno flooded with meth. I am awake.


Isten. Szia.

Sciantology Cross.

4:02 The fridge was empty, i only had one bag with frozen battered fish and some potatoes. Perfect, i said to myself. Fish and chips. I took the deep frier in the balcony, i poured half pound of oil i keep in a jar for frying fish in the pan. When i went to fry the chips the German Shepard which looks like a retired Police dog that supervises the area between buildings from the height of the upstairs balcony was barking all the time. Fried two loads of chips and came inside for the fis.

When i started to eat, kids came and started to yell at the balcony of the one level building. Was about done but sill eating, i went outside to bring first the chair i was sitting and the one dressed in bright red jacket ran. One minute later i went to pick the frier, the other one ran too.

Selected Pictures From The Road Trip

I'm not too tired. Just pissed. I came on a Saturday before they closed the street parking lot for repairs and don't have a space for my truck so i left it at the hospital across the street. Wondering if i'm gonna see that piece of junk again there tomorrow or i'll have to pay towing to retrieve it, more than its value.

Like i was when i took this picture. It was one hour north of Susanville, on route 395 i guess. Tomorrow i'm gonna add a map and maybe timestamps on the pictures. Mostly no cars on the road. After i've been passed by a State Police car, that was following me for about ten miles and i almost missed a left curve on the street with no marking line on the side of the cliff while staring at the rear mirror. Then he passed me though i did not change speed (60).

The pilot car came and the flagger asked me to follow. At least one mile of dust. Didn't see any work. When i looked back the 3 guys i saw looked like they were finishing the job for the day or going to lunch or something. Angela turned the fan too early after that and some dust came inside despite the cabin filter.

Sierras at Susanville.

Top of the armoire at Atlantis hotel in Reno. Had much trouble finding a hotel, in a parking lot with the laptop hooked to high speed internet. First i tried Paper Mill and the receptionist could not guarantee the room will not be a duplex (with a door in the wall to another room). Though hotels where at less than half the capacities.

And  the towell i kept washing until i got most of that dust.

Peppermill seen at night from Atlantis. The escalators smelled like sewage gas from basement.

I was not suppose to go this street. My phone with google maps could not connect to car's bluetooth and i missed a turn while searching for Lowes where i went to buy an UV lamp. Almost got into this.

Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? They were dust buns inside AC vent. Sewage gas from a leak was coming with conditioned air. No windows on those high raise hotels, obviously. Had to let the door open for hours, then i bought a portable UV lamp from Lowers. That give me about 5 hours of sleep the second night.

Sierras seen from near Atlantis in Reno.

A guy looking and acting like a drunk Mexican. First i honked till he stopped inches from my car. Then he backed up while i was taking the picture. Then he followed me on foot and asked me to go inside the Casino. Could he had a gun in his left hand? I called 911, operator asked me if i was on a private property like it was the biggest problem, while  he was leaving. About an hour later i figured  he might have been Tom Cruise.

Back to Eureka, the night before. Filter from the AC/heater in the room at Super 8 Motel in Eureka. After it took it off to wash it i saw the thermostat looked like it might have been damaged. Out of 5 nights spent on the road, i could sleep all night only in 2 rooms, the other where not acceptable.

Vending machine in the same motel in Eureka.

The lumberjack and the blue bull on the side of 101 where i came back because of a landslide that delayed us about 3 hours. Later i saw next to it a Russian speaking family next to wooden life size bear. The man was simulating military step in the parking lot. BTW everywhere in Northern California i saw tucks with logs that looked harvested from burnt areas. Probably no need for permits or fight activists or anything.

Road block due to a landslide, a few miles north of that place.

Got in line, next to a empty school bus that was putting much diesel exhaust. I turned around and got in line one more time.

Area with the landslide. They were already working and had one lane closed on that road for at least one week, judging by the number of utility vehicles.

From there all the way to Lincoln city i saw many places with warning sign for "grooved pavement" which means bad worned out road. That highway needs urgent repair.

KGB, everywhere (i go). Here in the parking lot at the Mill casino in Coos Bay. Earlier i saw two Japanese guys disguised as Americans, on Harleys. Everywhere i've been in this trip all people i saw and spoke with, all cars with their brands and LPN, all logos, everything seemed part of a planned show.

After the episode with the "Mexican Guy" at Blue Lake Casino, i could not upload anything except one or two pictures until i got home.

Adventures on the Road

Between Susanville and Reno and beyond. BTW Angela went to pick some fried chicken at Walmart in Susanville which is the last building in town. I been there in the lot for about half hour parked under a tree (for shadow)  and one young woman with a big Ford pickup came right next to the car and we could not eat there because of her exhaust.

So we left and as soon as i put my first bite in my mouth they started to come from behind, threatening.

But my car, after i did the recent maintenance is in a better shape than ever. A wind hauling big SUV having 500 HP at 70 mph cannot accelerate as fast as my 150 hp much lighter low drag car. So i just put it in sequential mode, accelerated and left them behind cause they were several of them during the whole trip (maybe more than ten).

Many others were driving in front, under speed limits in no passing areas, riding the shoulder to raise dust.

Again last picture came first. From the hotel window, Tuscany tower 14 (out of 19) floor.

Closest to Reno. This guy, i think a Japanese with a glued curly hair and beard came way too close and too fast from behind. Got hout his way, let him pass, he switched lanes etc..

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Correctional (penitentiary vehicle). Was doing more than 80, had to pull fast out of his way.

Riding shoulders, all of them in all directions. Like it was a conspiracy of ninja drivers on the road or something.

This guy was driving for miles and miles with 60 in a 65 area raising dust with his wide rear and smoking. Could not pass it in areas withe interrupting yellow lines because they were two close together.

That airbag warning light is comming on when temperature is high inside the car. That is a meat cooking thermometer i stuck in an AC vent.

The car has a coolant circuit with a weak spring clamp and leaks a bit of coolant. I added a collar type of clamp next to it and when it gets loose, the mpg goes low. Very hard to reach in the maze underhood.

So after i tightened that one in the second part of the trip , the mpg (and power) went up. I believe tiny bubbles of air get in the coolant fooling a sensor. Total for the trip of 38.5 but could have been much better if i did tight it right in Canyonville, but had to do it one more time.  

This guy came at the intersection between 89 and... and i almost passed it but accelerated downhill and a car was coming dangerously from the opposite so i just drove for the next 30 minutes behind the behemoth with 30 mph going uphill leaving much exhaust for us to breath. It could have stopped right after that intersection, and let me pass but no, that was not his intent and purpose.

Never knew what those cisterns were and what were their intent and purpose but thought they were funny, every time i passed them and took a picture. A place called Truck something on I5 just before 89. 

Mount Shasta with almost no snow in September.