Four Days In Oregon

Seventeen hours and thirty-seven minutes.

That's how long it takes to drive from Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Grants Pass, Oregon, United States. 

It's a short amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Less than one day, and you can still include a couple hours sleep to boot. But when you have only a hundred and forty-four hours in the span of a month to use at your leisure, giving seventeen and a half of them over to one project requires that project to have a certain level of significance. To give double that time in order to make it back home, and thus leaving yourself only four days out of sixty-five to do with as you please, well, that makes the project a flat-out priority.

And so it was that I spent four days in Oregon in April of 2019.

I checked off my 'to-do' list within the first twelve hours. Only two people knew I was coming at all, and with social media as it is, it is difficult to keep your presence a secret in a place the size of Grants Pass so I needed to get things done before word got out that I was in town. With that covered and a huge weight off my shoulders, I set out to visit and relax and explore, and to enjoy my brief time in the place I've grown to feel I belong.

 And on the way home, a Stop The Car moment in a little place called Sandpoint, Idaho.

  

And finally, the British Columbia/Alberta border, making just enough time to stop in at home for a suitcase switchover and continue on my way north and back to real life.