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First post from my new apartment. I am tethered off my T-Mobile Dash right now. Still moving in. Sucks, have to park like 1-2 blocks away and carry stuff, but I am getting there, piano and some smaller things left.

The apartment itself is bigger than I thought, it has like a dining area, living area, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It isn’t the most glamorous place, but I expected that, the location is really good though, tons of things within a few blocks. One thing about Portland, they don’t have screens in the windows 🙂

I am right above the coffee shop (Wired on Burnside) – man, yeah bagels smell good 🙂

I will post up some pics later after I get more situated

First day in Portland, and I decided to go walking. Here is the route and here are some pictures:

http://www.flickr.com:80/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157600300727448/

Last night around 8:30 PST I made it into Portland, so the Journey is over. 1630 or so miles, 1 night layover.

Left on Thursday at 1:15 PM CST, drove from Sartell, MN to Miles City, MT – arrived around 9:30 PM MST.

Left Miles City, MT on Friday at around 6:30 AM MST and drove, drove, drove.

Not to many debacles, which is good. One time driving down the mountains, had to stop quick and a box or two got shifted. In Missoula, some stoner walking around invited me to stay in town and go see the “hot babes” on main street.

One thing I noticed, which is funny, at the gas stations, instead of asking if you want a bag for any groceries, they ask if you want a sack. WTF? 🙂

Right now I am crashing at Emily’s studio until I can get into my apt, later next week. She is working right now, so today I will be bumming around Portland. I am impressed, I found her place with no map, just bumbling around.

Still getting adjusted to the time difference, right now it is 5:52 AM 🙂

 Here are some pics from along the way :

http://www.flickr.com/gp/12286988@N00/5qYvY7

I have been updating Twitter as I drive out to Portland.

http://twitter.com/scaleovenstove

I am in Miles City, MT right now, at a hotel. Will head out early in the morning.

This is how much I have left:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=Miles+City,+MT&daddr=Portland,+OR&sll=45.996962,-112.214355&sspn=9.34247,23.950195&ie=UTF8&ll=46.619261,-114.257812&spn=9.237316,23.950195&z=6&om=1

At work right now, last day. Played a few games of pong, just talking to everyone, saying goodbyes and what not. Going to hit up lunch with Jeff and then hit the trail out to Oregon, should be a good trip.