Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Washington/Oregon





Back into the US and straight to Mt Rainier which still had a fair amount of snow at 6000 ft.  Visited Mt St Helens and the Cascade river gorge.  Then down to Newberry Crater and Crater Lake in Oregon.  They still have the silly rule in Oregon where you can't pump your own gas.  A law left over from the 50's when one person lit them-self on fire and the populace thought they were doing gas pumpers a favor by creating a career for them.  Now everyone sits around for a long time waiting for one teenager to run around trying to service a dozen cars.  You almost want to drive straight for the California border and pay the extra 30 cents a gallon just to live the dream of swipe, pump and leave.

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