Location: Gold Beach, southern Oregon coast
That’s right! We are NOT in Corvallis, Oregon. And yes, you guessed it, that means the Krisco Kid has been healed! To tell you the truth, the choice wasn’t so hard to make. There were so many words of encouragement from all of you to keep going, and how could we let go of such a good friend as the Kid. Better yet, we swear the Kid runs smoother than it did before – half of a brand new engine will do that. The bill for a rebuilt head, new piston, and new gaskets wasn’t cheap, but the mechanics pleasantly surprised us with a bill that lets us continue this voyage.
We’ll we didn’t really take the time to get fast food jobs in Corvallis during the last week, but we didn’t sit on our butts drinking beer either…wait a minute, yes we did. Actually, Aaron Crowell and Phil Graeve were a part of history in the making last week. Now we add “World Record Holder” to our resumes. That’s right, we joined in Oregon State University’s largest pillow fight ever on the planet. You can look it up in the Guiness Book of World Records in the next edition. Phil and Aaron fought hard – now we won’t be speaking to each other for a week. Seriously, this is no “prairie dog” type event.
Other recent records: today the Krisco Kid just passed its 9th vehicle of the trip. This significantly improves our PASSER to PASSEE ratio (now at 1 to 268). Incidently, for those of you who know BOTH Phil and Aaron, you’ll recognize that this is the exact same ratio of words it takes Phil and then Aaron to describe the same thing. The former is a reticent moron and the latter is a verbose idiot. You can only imagine the conversations in the truck.
Since we have now spent nearly three weeks in the Northwest, we are racing for the Oregon/California border. We’d like to see the Redwoods and San Fran before the Kid suprises us with another “challenge.”
So three cheers for a Veggie Voyage that won’t be stopped!
The Krisco Kids