Archive for August, 2005

and the plan is to…

20th of August MMV

The hunt for a place to sleep on an extended basis is in full swing. It’s exciting; my attitude getting into this sit-e-ation has, I think, lead to my meeting many people who are good for me to meet. Destination NoPo as some say; the neighborhood known as Humboldt. Though there are so many tough decisions to make. Solo, or con-£K¶. Then to decide between all of the wonderful options I’ve uncovered to this point. Basement room in a house of four others vs one in a house with a single mom and her eight y.o. son. A situation with more privacy and a generally higher price-tag or more sociable with a lower expense. Tough decisions because they are qualities, which possess no common denominator… no ultimately clear cipher to cancel like fractions… x/6=2/3; solve for x.

I suppose this is also the beauty of it all. There is no ultimately cut and dry answer. And so the plan is to continue. I have decisions to make and gusses to take and all I can do, is what I feel is best for me here, now given what I’ve learned and what I will experience before I’m done. Wait… what is that? Eh, geesh.

Portland, OR

16th of August MMV

RP-R and I, on a return hike along the coast…Well, I’m in Portland. After leaving Chicago, IL w/Samuel the next stop was Ferndale, CO. Then a get-together with Laura, RP-R and some of their college friends at a parental abode at Willamett river mile 42½. After the adieus, RP-R and I went west. Camping on the coast near Tillamook, OR for a few days. Then Pickathon, where we met several wonderful people, and now, finally, Portland. As I search for my next place of habitation, I dwell in the Silver Bullet.
Thus far, in my week-and-a-half presence I have met or otherwise befriended these Portland, OR/Pacific NW cohabiters:
Rebecca, facuilty of PCC, Daniel, Jeff/the guys of Harmony Event Medicine, Katlin and Moreen & family. And I am starting to feel like one among all these, and I don’t even have a mailing address yet… something like:

Asa Nathannael Hunt
#### N/SW/NE/SE/NW Streetname St./Av./etc.
Portland, OR 972##

…starting to feel a little *sluggish*

Lots-o-driving

9th of August MMV

Twenty-nine hours. I’ve never felt so numb to my activity. In a car, moving from one place to another. Ferndale, Colorado to Portland, Oregon. Sixteen hours had previously been my auto-solitary maximum. Just enough. One whole day. Wake up in a bed, go to sleep in a bed. Samuel and I did Oak Park, Illinois to Ferndale, Colorado straight. The two of us on three hour shifts; easy with Cat napping ability.
I slept about five of that twenty-nine; first three then two hours, later. However, sleeping when you’re destination-occidented… and you don’t share the routine of the great american diesel-fueled nomads, the left-redwing flightless raptors of the road… it is an exhausting endeavor. After sleep I didn’t feel rested but rather simply not about to fall asleep. I now have a new understanding of the term “rest area”. But now I’m in portland. Embarking on a new endeavor. The next chapter, and it has a beautifully exhausted beginning; refreshing in its end and excitement. Twenty-nine hours in the making.