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02 October 2007

Clever Coons and Raging Winds

It's cold and rainy and windy outside so we're hanging out in the library in Newport, so another quick update:
We rode to Lincoln City yesterday and set up camp at a state park. The three of us cuddled up in a tent and played cards til it was too dark to see. Sometime in the middle of the night, some racoons broke into our food stash! They stole most of it...all six whole wheat bagels, the good seed bread, the last of the Poppycock, the Snickers, the sesame sticks and wasabe peas, the hot cocoa...imagining them running around mischieviously jacked up on sugar makes me feel okay about it...and at least they left the avocado and apple and nori strips.
We left a note respectfully thanking the state of Oregon for their understanding and letting us stay at their park despite our lack of funds. We made it to Newport today and it's so cold and rainy and windy and blustery out, I don't think we're leaving today. We are biking sloooow...up long hills for miles into a wind that seems in a hurry to get north!
Also, Lilia got her first flat tire today since starting in May and the waves are amazing...
Love,
Kaite

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

im afraid the raccoons will always have the upper hand in this situation. they are far more clever and cute than us evolved apes and we must learn to speak their language if we are to continue relations with these beasts. i recommend a book titled Living With the Eight Fingered Beasts: a Raccoon and Evolved Ape Communication Primer by the late, great Cameronius L. Thautonius. check it, scums.