Debris and Detritus
[Laurel's at another library with no Blogger access today, she e-mailed me this update.]
The most common thing on the roadside is trash, unfortunately. And then there's the dead animals. Then there's the rest of the stuff that I keep my eye peeled for. I think there are more shoes on the side of the road than anything else---although there are also a lot of gloves. Most of the shoes come as singles, kids' shoes come in pairs usually. Today I saw a high heeled grey leather pump, and wondered what kind of scene erupted before that shoe got tossed out of a truck window on the outskirts of OMAK Washington. Things like that are keeping my mind busy. We stopped once to inspect a skillet I saw in the ditch, some time after seeing a grill brush, a long knife and a dishpan. We were thinking about the merits of picking up the skillet, because David broke the handle of his skillet while cooking pancakes in Winthrop. I think his ARMY surplus pants snagged the handle and the whole kit and kaboodle landed in a crash. Before we could come to a conclusion, a fella in a pickup pulled off the highway to see if he could help us. People are like that---super friendly, and want to help us if we look at all like we are in distress. Even when we're just looking at a discarded skillet.
We were feeling bad about David and Carmyn's vacation---they are traveling pretty slow, and we wondered how they were filling their time while we were riding in the mountains. We found out last night at dinner EXACTLY what they've been up to! They've been in the casino, and yesterday Carmyn won $240 playing a penny machine!!! We were as excited as they were. We haven't seen them at all today, we're at the Tonasket library, breaking for lunch and internet before climbing the next pass to Wauconda.... They were going back to the casino after breakfast!!! We've got two more mountain passes in the next two days, then maybe we'll take a day off the bike to goof off and see some sights.
The most common thing on the roadside is trash, unfortunately. And then there's the dead animals. Then there's the rest of the stuff that I keep my eye peeled for. I think there are more shoes on the side of the road than anything else---although there are also a lot of gloves. Most of the shoes come as singles, kids' shoes come in pairs usually. Today I saw a high heeled grey leather pump, and wondered what kind of scene erupted before that shoe got tossed out of a truck window on the outskirts of OMAK Washington. Things like that are keeping my mind busy. We stopped once to inspect a skillet I saw in the ditch, some time after seeing a grill brush, a long knife and a dishpan. We were thinking about the merits of picking up the skillet, because David broke the handle of his skillet while cooking pancakes in Winthrop. I think his ARMY surplus pants snagged the handle and the whole kit and kaboodle landed in a crash. Before we could come to a conclusion, a fella in a pickup pulled off the highway to see if he could help us. People are like that---super friendly, and want to help us if we look at all like we are in distress. Even when we're just looking at a discarded skillet.
We were feeling bad about David and Carmyn's vacation---they are traveling pretty slow, and we wondered how they were filling their time while we were riding in the mountains. We found out last night at dinner EXACTLY what they've been up to! They've been in the casino, and yesterday Carmyn won $240 playing a penny machine!!! We were as excited as they were. We haven't seen them at all today, we're at the Tonasket library, breaking for lunch and internet before climbing the next pass to Wauconda.... They were going back to the casino after breakfast!!! We've got two more mountain passes in the next two days, then maybe we'll take a day off the bike to goof off and see some sights.
posted by BarbN @ 5:03 PM
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