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Thoughts Before Bed

Last year I started making a very specific plan to start the Oregon Trail trip.

Phase 1: Get the car fixed and overhauled.
Phase 2: Save up for the trip.
Phase 3: DO THE TRIP.

I didn't get through any of it because I took a huge paycut as well as got several medical bills that wiped out my paycheck. But as of today, Phase 1 is mostly done! If I was to do the trip TODAY, I'd feel safe doing it in Click, but, a few sensors and a door repair still need to be done.

I think I can safely say I'm in Phase .75? The real question is now becoming, when to do Phase 3? Doing some quick calculation, the trip from Seattle to Independence, MO is four days of straight driving via freeways (I've actually checked this one). The trip from there back would likely be seven to 10 days. This would be exactly two weeks. If I'm on my break from Nintendo, easily done. If I'm at a permanent job, this is cutting it TIGHT inside a two week vacation period.

This is why I gave myself two deadlines for Independence Rock. 2020 if I'm still a contractor, or 2021 if I'm permanent. Whereever that may be.

Fingers crossed that this happens.

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Things have finally settled down after the two month layoff, so ours time to get back to business of comicking, writing and streaming. Not to mention getting back on the diet, saving for the Oregon Trail roadtrip and basically making a fresh start moving forward.

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Stupid things I've done on a roadtrip:

Drive through Rocky Mountain Colorado in winter on a rural county road.

Drive though Colorado a SECOND time in winter, with a winter snowstorm on my trail for three days.

Drive non-stop from Salt Lake City to Seattle, non-stop, using only my fake manual gear shifter for braking.

Decided on a detour that added five hours to a roadtrip that was already twelve hours long, causing me to pull over three miles from home to sleep for an hour.

Drive through Arizona during summer.

Drive through Arizona as a Mexican.

Put 9000 miles on Click in two months.