[freebeard]

It's like another planet, when it's dry in August and September. The rest of the year it has brine creeks running through it.. I don't understand how Model Ts can have been there every year for a half century.

I have family in the hills above Willamina, and I was a some friend's house and saw the local news. They had a story about the tribal folk in Grand Rond reclaiming the old paper mill on the river to turn it into a tourist trap.

Maybe I can get up that way. For that long a trip [in the Metro] I'd air down the tires and take the gas mileage hit to save my posterior.