Last week I was able to scratch something off my bucket list. Yes I have a lengthy bucket list and I finally took something off of it. I took a trip to see the Twilight spots. FYI, going up to Washington to see the Twilight sites wasn't the reason I went up there, but it was the deciding factor on whether to go or not. Anyways I will post the highlights from the trip on another post.
This post is about the many things I learned on this amazing adventure.
1. Road construction exist EVERYWHERE!!! I thought Utah was bad, but the construction in Portland drove me crazy! The story is that we had reservation at a certain restaurant in Port Angeles and we could not figure out how to get out of Portland. Every highway to get out was packed with cars because there was only one lane. So essentially there were only two lanes that actually got you out of Portland instead of the normal eight. It was frustrating.
2. EVERYONE, I mean everyone actually drives the speed limit in Oregon and Washington. Of course I wouldn't mind going the speed limit on the highway, if the speed limit was above 60 mph. I felt like a grandma driving on these roads. The speed limit in Utah is 65 mph and in some cases 75 mph, but every one views those as more of a suggestion than an actually law. I am usually doing 75 to 80 mph on a Utah highway just to keep up with the flow of traffic. In Oregon...not so much. People don't go the speed limit or the 10 mph over the speed limit, they go the actually speed and 10 under. Who drives slower than the speed limit? Really? I will admit though, I did feel a little like a race car driver. :)
3. Make sure you go to the bathroom before venturing on the I-5 highway. Chell and I finally decided that the only way out of the city was to just bit the bullet and deal with the construction. The only problem was that we both had had a few Dr. Peppers and Mt. Dews along with at least two bottles of water. Oh and the only Salt intake I had were from the sunflower seeds I was spitting. Totally not enough to compensate for the amount of liquids I drank. So as we are sitting in the car all of the sudden I realize that I can not hold it any longer and the tight pants I was wearing were not helping the situation. Apparently Oregon doesn't have like Wal-Marts every half mile or Targets like the rest of the world does, and my friend refuses to go to the bathroom at a gas stations, which after a few we had seen I understood. So we got off the highway in search of any super center that we could go to the bathroom in. After a painful half hour we finally find a Walgreens. We go rushing into the walgreens, where I am doing the pee-pee dance mind you, and ask where the bathrooms are. She directs us to the back of the store. I am like flying through that store trying to get to the bathroom before I turn into a three year old who wets their pants. We finally get to the back when we realize that the bathrooms have a code of them and a store associate has to open it. At this point I am cursing the Dr. Pepper Gods for making that drink so irresistible that I had to down two bottles in less than 30 minutes. After another 10 or so minutes we finally get some one to open the dang door for us, and at that moment I think I got a glimpse of what heaven is going to feel like because I have never felt so great in my whole life than I did at that moment. Well actually that may be a slight exaggeration but you get what I am saying.
4. It is again the law to pump your own gas in the state of Oregon. We got a pretty mean speech from someone the first time we tried to pump our gas in the state. The guy started yelling at us about how we were taking his job away and how people from out of state don't understand and so on. He even pointed his finger at me. I haven't had some one yell at me and point a finger since Dixie. It was a little hard not to laugh. I also learned that tipping the person who pumped your gas isn't expected like we thought. I could have saved ten bucks. Oh well. Those people needed it more than me. The unibrow and jacked up teeth were enough to make me give them a small tip. They probably laughed while we drove away and then ran to tell their friends how two good looking chics from out of state actually tipped them. I would laugh at us. Thinking Sucker!!
5. Now this is probably the most important thing I learned on the trip. I learned that you should fill up every chance you get because you may find yourself at night throwing your car into neutral every time you go down a mountain so that you don't use your gas. Twice this happened to us. Once on the way to Oregon and once on the way through Idaho. We didn't realize how low the gas was or how much of the gas we used while trying to go up a mountain. Annoyingly enough I was always the one driving. So we rolled up all the windows since myth busters explained the drag air has on a car when the windows are rolled down. We turned the air off, and every time we came down a mountain I put the car into neutral. Nothing sucks more than when all the cars you have been trying to pass in the last hour all pass you because you can't go faster than 55 mph. SUCKS!!! Plus it was alway at night in an area where a Jason like figure can easily come after you and throw your body in the field across the street. So anyways, here chell and I are, looking at the GPS tell us 2o miles to the next town and we have no clue how many miles we can go on reserve in this crap car. Naturally Chell gets on her new Iphone and tries to find the nearest gas station, but of course there is no signal out in the middle of BFE. So I check on the gps and it tells me that the closest gas station is behind us...behind us as in the top of a mountain. There is no way we would make it up the mountain but I can't tell on the gps which gas station that are listed are in front of us or behind. We decided that either way we are screwed and that we should do our best to conserve the gas and hope we come to one in enough time. Lucky for us and I really mean Lucky for us, we manage to find a gas station in time. Freaked us out both times but we always made it.
6. This is probably the dumbest thing I learned, but I am glad I know it. There are no life size cut outs of Rosalie or Esme. They haven't made them yet. Now Esme may never happen but after Breaking Dawn, maybe there will be a Rosalie. The only reason I care so much about Rose is that of all the characters I could dress up for, which I probably never will, Rose is probably the one I could get away with the most. Lets face it...I am not small enough to pull of Alice. I don't have a square enough jaw to be Esme and my chest is way too big to be Bella. Plus the depressed look doesn't look good on me. Oh and I can never get my hair red enough to be Victoria and still look good. So I am left with Rose. Plus she gets Emmett and we all know how he is my favorite! Thats the cherry on top. That is why I will envy Rosalie. I just thought it was shocking that there was no Rosalie or Esme cut out but when I turned the corner of the store I saw a Damon and Stefen Salvatore cut out. (Vampire Diary characters)
7. Port Angeles is probably my new favorite place. I so did not want to leave that place...even for Forks. Well I wanted to leave to see Forks, but I wanted to come right back to Port Angeles when we were done.
Now my bed time has come and it sounds like there is a wicked awesome storm brewing out my window. Man how I miss Texas storms.
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