Day 14 - Weiser, Idaho

So after visiting U of Oregon, I took a detour to the west to see the ocean. For the most part, I was rather underwhelmed; it was like a blue version of Kansas, with no interesting features to speak of. Then I went up a little farther to Washington, and visited a friend at Washington State. It was a lot of fun, and I got to sleep on the floor and take a real shower, so I'm pretty refreshed for the next leg of my journey. As it turns out, Idaho has some really nice mountains up north, and a beautiful river flowing through them. I left those behind, but I'm on my way to Yellowstone, so I should be seeing some nice scenery soon.

Day 11 - Eugene, Oregon

So Sunday morning I went hiking in the Siskiyou National Forest, passing Mount Shasta on the way up there. Near the Oregon-California border is the Bigfoot trap, which was built in the 70s and baited with deer carcasses to try to catch Sasquatch. It didn't work, and it had the door bolted open so it wouldn't catch unsuspecting tourists.





Today I visited the campus of U of Oregon. I went to the Wesley house, because they were having a pancake breakfast for finals week (they don't start until October). The campus was pretty cool, and the professor I'm looking at working with seemed nice too. He even had a recruiter talk to me, and had a couple of his students (girls, no less) take me out to lunch. Then I checked out a couple of Christian houses. One of them was really nice, with a reasonable rent, but like all the other similar houses I've seen, it included all meals during the week. It seems all the houses of this sort are set up more for freshmen/sophomores just starting to live on their own than for more mature people who know how to feed themselves without getting scurvy.

Now it's just about time for me to start heading back East.