Monday, January 7, 2008

If you want to have a good time check craigslist

So one thing I left out about my trip home from Portland Yesterday was the fact I did a rideshare. For those of you who don't know what this means is I checked Craigslist.org for people who wanted to leave Portland on the same day I did and who wanted to go to Oly. Well I found a person.

It was really nice, I had someone to talk to the way back to Oly and she chipped in on gas (the real reason I did this). All in all it was good, we discussed dogs, cats, shitty roommates, and bad movies. I hope that it will work out in a similar fashion next time.

I'm kinda in love with craigslist at this point. For one I found my current job and two, I got a cool traveling companion outta it.

Oh yeah, so the whole reason I wrote the above is that the person who drove back with me talked about doing a travel log. She talked about driving across the States and writing a book about it. I'm thinking about riding my bike from Oly to Pasadena soon. I thought it could be cool to write about it and maybe try and get it published (as she suggested I do), or just write about it here. We'll see.

For now I'm thinking I'll just ride my happy ass down to Portland in the summer. It's only about 100 miles, which I did no problem last summer. The only thing is last summer I had ridden all year and really didn't take any time off from riding. This year (school year is what I guess I mean) has been more then a little different. So if I want to ride to P-town I need to really start riding more and riding longer. It's just hard to find time what with work and school and tons of homework. Oh well I'll work something out.

2 comments:

Cassie the Great said...

craigslist is actually where we found our bitchin' apartment.

I need to start riding (or something) too. It's so freeking cold though, and I haven't managed to find time yet. Ah, so many excuses....

veganaron said...

Craigslist is the shit, as they say. Yeah last winter I really only rode to and from work. I never did anything else. But still that was four miles a day, four days a week. Now I'm lucky if I get eight miles in four days.